This account of Leviticus presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective, Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding…

First published in 1986 Mary Douglas’ theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent…

The great warship the Mary Rose was built between 1509 and 1511 and served 34 years in Henry VIII’s navy before catastrophically sinking in the Battle of the Solent on…

Considers two important questions: how the construction of gender, race, and class in media are productive of regimes of truth regarding war and military life, and how such constructions may…

Detective Eilert Weiss and his partner Prem Joshi follow the clues, unravelling decades of tragedy to uncover a perverse and obsessive cruelty.

Douglas’ Aunt Mary has a very special rosebush in her garden. Her father planted it with his father. Mary tended it as a young girl, and showed her nephews, Jim…

This fascinating biography is an essential companion to one of the most successful sailing stories ever written, Desperate Voyage by John Caldwell. In Mary’s Voyage, we hear the story of…

An analysis of the Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism, which has led social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation…