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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
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Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle
Edited by Steven E. Lindquist
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287908
October 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
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Stages of Life
Indian Theatre Autobiographies
Kathryn Hansen
Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857286604
October 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.
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India and China: Interactions through Buddhism and Diplomacy
A Collection of Essays by Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi
compiled by Bangwei Wang, Tansen Sen
This volume collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956).
Anthem Press
Hardback
9789380601175
October 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956).
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A ‘Short Treatise’ on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1613)
Antonio Serra
Edited by Sophus A. Reinert‘A ‘Short Treatise’ on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations’ presents, for the first time, an English translation of Antonio Serra’s ‘Breve Trattato’ (1613), one of the most famous tracts in the history of political economy.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857289735
July 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00‘A ‘Short Treatise’ on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations’ presents, for the first time, an English translation of Antonio Serra’s ‘Breve Trattato’ (1613), one of the most famous tracts in the history of political economy.
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Changing France
Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire
Anne Green
Focusing on cultural areas such as exhibitions, transport, food, dress and photography, ‘Changing France’ shows how apparently trivial aspects of modern life provided Second Empire writers with a versatile means of thinking about deeper issues.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287779
July 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00Focusing on cultural areas such as exhibitions, transport, food, dress and photography, ‘Changing France’ shows how apparently trivial aspects of modern life provided Second Empire writers with a versatile means of thinking about deeper issues.
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FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Popularity and Neglect
Edited by Adrian Poole, Christine van Ruymbeke, William H. Martin, Sandra Mason
For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald’s ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287816
July 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald’s ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect.
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The Liquidation of Exile
Studies in the Intellectual Emigration of the 1930s
David Kettler
A theoretical overview and six case studies showing that the exile of intellectuals is a difficult, dependent, and fluid condition, whose achievements are dearly bought and whose endings rarely fulfill the missions informing their beginnings.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287939
July 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00A theoretical overview and six case studies showing that the exile of intellectuals is a difficult, dependent, and fluid condition, whose achievements are dearly bought and whose endings rarely fulfill the missions informing their beginnings.
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Outlaw Heroes in Myth and History
Graham Seal
This book provides an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mythology and history of the outlaw hero is traced from the Roman Empire to the present, showing how both real and mythic figures have influenced social, political, economic and cultural outcomes in many times and places.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287922
July 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This book provides an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mythology and history of the outlaw hero is traced from the Roman Empire to the present, showing how both real and mythic figures have influenced social, political, economic and cultural outcomes in many times and places.
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Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
A Famous Poem and Its Influence
Edited by William H. Martin, Sandra Mason
The book examines the text of Edward FitzGerald’s three main versions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and features commentary on the origins, role and influence of the poem.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9780857287700
June 2011
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£17.95 / $17.95The book examines the text of Edward FitzGerald’s three main versions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and features commentary on the origins, role and influence of the poem.
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The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction
Edited by Christopher Linforth
Containing 20 classic short stories by renowned authors, ‘The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction’ has been designed to offer students and instructors both inspiration and guidance when thinking critically about literary texts and their construction.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9780857287694
May 2011
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£22.95 / $22.95Containing 20 classic short stories by renowned authors, ‘The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction’ has been designed to offer students and instructors both inspiration and guidance when thinking critically about literary texts and their construction.
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Minutes to Midnight
History and the Anthropocene Era from 1763
Paul Dukes
The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287793
May 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.
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The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941
Edited by Robert Dixon, Christopher Lee
This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287748
April 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars.
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Aboard the Democracy Train
A Journey through Pakistan's Last Decade of Democracy
Nafisa Hoodbhoy
'Aboard the Democracy Train' is a gripping front-line account of Pakistan's decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era for the nation's leading English language newspaper.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9780857289674
April 2011
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£24.95 / $24.95‘Aboard the Democracy Train’ is a gripping front-line account of Pakistan’s decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era for the nation’s leading English language newspaper.
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The Non-Geometric Lenin
Essays on the Development of the Bolshevik Party 1910-1914
Carter Elwood
This book is a collection of eleven essays dealing with Lenin’s attempt to develop a Bolshevik Party between 1910 and 1914 as well as his curious relations with a tsarist police spy and a female Bolshevik during that period.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287786
April 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This book is a collection of eleven essays dealing with Lenin’s attempt to develop a Bolshevik Party between 1910 and 1914 as well as his curious relations with a tsarist police spy and a female Bolshevik during that period.
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Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
From Improvement to Development
Edited by Carey A. Watt, Michael Mann
This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318644
March 2011
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£99.00 / $99.00This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.
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The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets
Edited by Michael J. Allen
‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318484
February 2011
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£795.00 / $795.00‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.
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George Eliot’s Grammar of Being
Melissa Anne Raines
Drawing on original manuscripts and Victorian psychological theory, this study shows that George Eliot was an author who shaped her sentences as carefully as she wanted her public to read them.
Anthem Press
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9780857289681
February 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00Drawing on original manuscripts and Victorian psychological theory, this study shows that George Eliot was an author who shaped her sentences as carefully as she wanted her public to read them.
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Thinking on Thresholds
The Poetics of Transitive Spaces
Edited by Subha Mukherji
Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.
Anthem Press
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9780857286659
February 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.
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Christian Fiction and Religious Realism in the Novels of Dostoevsky
Wil van den Bercken
This study offers a literary analysis and theological evaluation of the Christian themes in the five great novels of Dostoevsky - 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'The Adolescent', 'The Devils' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857289766
January 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This study offers a literary analysis and theological evaluation of the Christian themes in the five great novels of Dostoevsky – ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘The Idiot’, ‘The Adolescent’, ‘The Devils’ and ‘The Brothers Karamazov’.
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Locating the Anglo-Indian Self in Ruskin Bond
A Postcolonial Review
Debashis Bandyopadhyay
This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9789380601045
January 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.
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Disraeli and the Art of Victorian Politics
Ian St John
This book reviews Benjamin Disraeli's political career in the context of Victorian politics. It also explores Disraeli 'the man' and his motivations and ambitions.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781843318736
November 2010
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£22.95 / $22.95This book reviews Benjamin Disraeli’s political career in the context of Victorian politics. It also explores Disraeli ‘the man’ and his motivations and ambitions.
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Gladstone and the Logic of Victorian Politics
Ian St John
This book analyses the career of William Gladstone, charting the key stages in his political development and the ideas and influences that shaped his conduct.
Anthem Press
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9781843318729
November 2010
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£22.95 / $22.95This book analyses the career of William Gladstone, charting the key stages in his political development and the ideas and influences that shaped his conduct.
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P. S. O’Hegarty (1879-1955)
Sinn Féin Fenian
Keiron Curtis
'P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)' provides an informative and lively biography of the Irish nationalist P.S. O'Hegarty, a major historical figure in the modern separatist movement.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318590
October 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘P. S. O’Hegarty (1879-1955)’ provides an informative and lively biography of the Irish nationalist P.S. O’Hegarty, a major historical figure in the modern separatist movement.
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Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism
Retreat or Resurgence?
Edited by Bryn Jones, Mike O'Donnell
'Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism' explores and re-analyses major events, debates and themes from the radical developments of the nineteen sixties and relates them to contemporary social movements and issues.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318958
August 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism’ explores and re-analyses major events, debates and themes from the radical developments of the nineteen sixties and relates them to contemporary social movements and issues.