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        Fiction
        September 2017

        A Vision of Battlements

        by Anthony Burgess

        by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake

        A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.

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        Biography & True Stories
        September 2024

        Clyde Walcott

        by Peter Mason

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        August 2000

        Ein gemachter Mann

        Roman

        by Simpson, Mona

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        The Arts
        February 2024

        John Ford's America

        by Jeffrey Richards

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        Biography & True Stories
        June 2014

        A Biography of Paul Watzlawick

        The Discovery of the Present Moment

        by Andrea Köhler-Ludescher

        This book, the world's first biography of Paul Watzlawick, written by his great-niece, describes the life of this philosopher, therapist, and best-selling author. Paul Watzlawick had a talent for languages and he led an adventurous life, from his childhood in Villach to studying in Venice after the war, to analyst training under C. G. Jung in Zurich, an attempt at establishing himself in India and then in El Salvador as a therapist, and finally to the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in the United States, headed by Don D. Jackson, a venerable scientist. This marked the beginning of the second half of his life, his amazing career as a communication researcher, a pioneer of systemic therapy, a radical constructivist, and a great thinker regarding the divisions between East and West. With many letters, lectures, interviews, and statements from contemporary witnesses and family members, this book makes Paul Watzlawick accessible as a human being and as a spiritually inspired, leading 20th century thinker. It includes a variety of unpublished material from Watzlawick, and introduces a comprehensive and exciting picture of the scientist and cosmopolitan person, Paul Watzlawick.   Target Group: For people interest in Paul Watzlawick, communication sciences, systemic therapy, and constructivism.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        October 2023

        The Island Book of Records Volume I

        1959-68

        by Neil Storey

        The Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life. A fifteen-year labour of love, the volumes will fully document the analogue era of Island. Offering a comprehensive archive of album cover design and photography, together with the voices of the musicians, designers, photographers, producers, studio engineers and record company personnel that worked on each project, the volumes show in unique depth the workings of the label, covering every LP. Featuring material from recent interviews and from media interviews of the time, and each including a comprehensive discography of 45s, the books are lavishly illustrated with gig adverts (very many at venues which no longer exist), concert tickets, flyers, international LP variants, labels, LP and 45 adverts and other ephemera. These LP-sized editions are a collector's dream, offering a truly unparalleled resource for those interested in music history and a perfect gift for any music lover.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2020

        Knowledge, mediation and empire

        James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs

        by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

        This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.

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        October 2002

        Die geraubte Mona Lisa

        Spektakuläre Kunstdiebstähle von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

        by Manfred Reitz

        Um das geheimnisvolle Lächeln der »Mona Lisa« ranken sich zahlreiche Gerüchte und Legenden. Das Gemälde war Anfang des vergangenen Jahrhunderts einmal gestohlen worden, und seitdem wird immer wieder behauptet, im Louvre würden sich beachtliche Besucherströme um eine Kopie und nicht um das Original versammeln.Die Pferde von San Marco in Venedig gelten noch heute als Diebesgut; und um den Verbleib des Bernsteinzimmers ranken sich noch immer zahlreiche Rätsel.Von solchen und anderen dramatischen und spektakulären Fällen von Kunstraub weiß Manfred Reitz spannend zu berichten.Kunst bereichert nicht nur den Menschen, sondern verkörpert häufig auch einen beträchtlichen finanziellen Wert. Der Kunstdiebstahl ist heute neben dem Rauschgift- und dem Waffenhandel das lukrativste kriminelle Geschäft. Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart wurden deshalb Kunstwerke gestohlen, um die eigene Habgier zu befriedigen, um finanzielle Gewinne zu machen oder um einen Gegner zu demütigen.Manfred Reitz führt den Leser zu den Grabräubern der Antike, zu plündernden Söldnern des Mittelalters und zu den zahlreichen Kunsträubern der jüngeren Vergangenheit. Von Manfred Reitz sind im Insel Verlag außerdem erschienen: Leben jenseits der Lichtjahre. Die Wissenschaften auf der Suche nach außerirdischen Intelligenzen (1996 und it 2186); Große Kunstfälschungen. Falsche Kunst und echte Fälscher (it 1534)

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        December 2001

        Die Formen des Religiösen in der Gegenwart

        by Charles Taylor, Karin Wördemann, Charles Taylor

        Ausgehend von William James' 1902 erschienener Untersuchung "Die Vielfalt religiöser Erfahrung" verfolgt Charles Taylor die Verschiebungen im Verhältnis von Religion, Individuum und Gesellschaft, von Spirituellem und Politischem bis in die Gegenwart. Der Rückzug des religiösen aus der öffentlichen Sphäre hat die Religion nicht ins Private eingeschlossen; vielmehr verbirgt sich hinter diesem Prozeß eine Kulturrevolution: Der moderne »expressive« Individualismus hat eine Vielfalt neuer Religionsformen und -gemeinschaften hervorgebracht, die auf die traditionellen Formen zurückwirkt und die Gesellschaft verändert. Der Ort der Religion muß neu bestimmt werden.

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