Southern Imagining
Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature at Oxford, and in this highly original, bold and wide-ranging study she invites readers to flip their perspective…… Read More »
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Fragments from Time and Space
Subtitled ‘Wholes and Parts: Holon Images’, this book consists of composite photographic images arranged in timelapse sequences and showing the gradual changes that occur as…… Read More »
Far Calls – on Omen, Slips and Epiphanies
This is an original take on the hidden meaning of divination, sayings, oracles, prophecy, soothsayers and proverbs. We are pattern-seeking creatures seeking to escape the…… Read More »
How to Make a Home – An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort
This is an intriguing collection of ancient Roman writings about home and decoration, which gives interesting insights into their thinking and way of life, covering…… Read More »
How to be Grateful
Most of the books in this excellent series are from ancient Greece and Rome. This one is an exception, featuring an Aztec writer from the…… Read More »
Fuji – A Mountain in the Making
Mount Fuji has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 2015, but has been an icon of Japanese culture since time immemorial. This erudite book…… Read More »
Together
‘Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks’ – this quote from Plutarch that aptly describes this beautiful book of paintings by Roy…… Read More »
The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear
The author teaches English at Johns Hopkins University and has produced an original reading of King Lear drawing parallels with her own life and 20th…… Read More »
Death – Friend or Enemy, Views from the Other Side
In this instructive and illuminating book, the offer explores many different life paths and journeys within the context of lessons learn and deep understanding of…… Read More »
Seven Heavens – The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
This book gives a unique perspective by connecting afterlife theories and ancient Jewish traditions with modern accounts of the same phenomena drone from the experiences…… Read More »