First published in 1945, this title shows a remarkable experiment with boys. Aged from 8 to 14, these boys were the "throw-outs" of the Evacuation Scheme. Barns was a Hostel-school…

A sweeping narrative introduction to the Donbas, I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraineexplores the fraught histories and complicated present reality of the country's…

A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries

The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous…

This experiment, both analyses and performs questions about the body as an ‘artificial’ construction. It deals with the mechanical (e.g., an artificial leg) in artistic discourse, demonstrating how far supposedly…

Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology…

A collection of pictures from Audrey Hepburn’s key photographers, chronicling her life and career in the 1960s and including reminiscences from friends, photographers, work associates, and designers.

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped…

PROGNOSIS: DISASTER SECOND EDITION is a book about human induced environmental change and disease. Climate change, global warming and deforestation threaten human, animal, and plant populations with diseases more virulent…