The poems in "One Little Room" enter and explore confined spaces in history and personal memory. The spaces prove not to be as small as they seem from the outside: they expand and interconnect to produce new and dazzling perspectives out of the limit...

This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose, apart from explaining the Meaning of Life. In an firework-display of 31-syllable sparkles, probably set off by accident, it lights up any corner of things done, thought, felt, seen, suffered & enjoy...

A sequel to Philip Terry's "Dante's Inferno" (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dante's Island of Purgatory to Mersea Island, in Essex still. Dante's Virgil is substituted with Ted Berrigan as guide....

This tragi-comic, or comi-tragic grief journal blends loss and low vision into poems that issue in startling joy. "Emotional Support Horse" tracks the course of a lived bereavement intensified by sight loss and eco-stress. But wit is not only an elem...

A guide to making movies at home with whatever equipment you have, learning the basics of cinematographic and storytelling techniques. Filmmaking, we are told in the introduction, is the "reverse engineering of dreams... a spell that brings dreams a...

For sale in CIS only! Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores trad...

For sale in CIS only! How Russia's post-Soviet economy, engineered to stagnate, explains its conflict with Ukraine and divisions across Eurasia. "Fortress Russia" evokes a Kremlin standing strong against the West. But Moscow's ceaseless quest for...

For sale in CIS only! Explores Boko Haram's resilience, local support and economic networks, and its roots in a pre-colonial political order among the Kanuri people of Lake Chad. This book presents a nuanced picture of the origins, rise, transforma...

A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history. From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-f...

From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world. Heraclitus wrote that "war is the father of all", and it has formed much of the modern world. Although the fundamental nat...