Ventures in Philosophical History

Ventures in Philosophical HistoryThe book provides a series of innovative studies of the treatment of major issues by philosophers ranging from classical antiquity to the present day.

The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti writers see their city and

Riches of the Rylands explores and celebrates the outstanding Special Collections of The University of Manchester Library

fully annotated and explored

75 years later the slow fashion movement is motivating new reductions in clothing consumption

films such as Our Man in Havana

Published under his pseudonym Tom Redcam by the All Jamaica Library

An original and provocative study

A series of data horror stories outlines what can go wrong in managing data

the playwright's place in Scotland

which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of ‘detachment’

Focusing on the films that have had a strong impact on marketing strategies by local tourist boards

arguing that since the early modern period a paradigm shift has taken place in our attitudes to laughter and investigates the role Shakespeare played in this connection