The Player From 'Ponty' is the biography of Glamorgan cricketer Bernard Hedges, the talented sportsman from the valleys of south Wales who played rugby for Pontypridd and Swansea, represented a Great Britain side at football and became a widely respected cricketer with Glamorgan between 1950 and 1967.  Meer

The Tonsons were the pre-eminent literary publishers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is difficult to estimate their contribution to the formation of English literature accurately.  Meer

Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, he is the ‘lost Augustan’.  Meer

A dazzlingly original memoir, Paper Cuts takes us inside the mind of a young Oxford academic devastated by severe mental illness. ‘I have a small line of red dots on the back of my left hand, where the needle goes in.  Meer

This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters.  Meer

This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters.  Meer

Drawing insights from nearly a decade of mixed-method research, Stephen R. Barnard analyzes Twitter’s role in the transformation of American journalism.  Meer

Drawing insights from nearly a decade of mixed-method research, Stephen R. Barnard analyzes Twitter’s role in the transformation of American journalism.  Meer

De klassieke oudheid kende zeven wereldwonderen, de moderne tijd kent er veel meer. Daartoe behoren de skyline van Manhattan en de Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco, de Eiffeltoren en het majestueuze El Escorial, ooit gebouwd op bevel van de Spaanse koning Filips II, maar ook de vervallen bouwwerken van de Maya's en Azteken.  Meer

All Media Are Social offers an introduction to the wide-ranging field of media sociology. Covering political economy, media representation, and media effects, Lindner and Barnard synthesize empirical findings, while explaining with examples and clear prose.  Meer

"Een reis langs schitterende kastelen en paleizen. De 100 spectaculaire bouwwerken met prachtige foto's vertegenwoordigen niet alleen de romantische Europese kastelen met sprookjesachtige allure, maar ook de keizerlijke paleizen van China en Japan, de oude forten van India en de uit rood zand opgetrokken bastions uit het Midden-Oosten.  Meer