A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyonce.

From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent…

Stretching the idealized, boy-meets-girl genre to the limits, Achilles Tatius’ narrative covers adultery, violence, pederasty, virginity-testing, and, of course, an improbable happy ending. Detailed notes explain obscurities and address complex…

This book addresses the unique moral questions raised by pregnancy and its intimate bodily nature. From assisted reproduction to abortion and ‘vital conflict’ resolution to more everyday concerns of the…

A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of multiple engagement with dance…

This book critically addresses the proliferation of intelligence logics within policing from an array of scholarly perspectives. It offers new insights by exploring dilemmas, legal issues and questions raised by…

Beyond Good and Evil is a philosophical book by Friedrich Nietzsche, in which he draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but with a…