Bloomsbury

An Alec Blume NovelOn a freezing November night Commissioner Alec Blume is called to the scene of a shooting. The victim is Sofia Fontana, the sole witness to a previous killing. Blume s enquiries lead from a professor with a passion for the art of memory to a hospitalised ex-terrorist whose injuries have left her mind innocently blank; from...

Historically, countering terrorism has been something that security services have carried out on behalf of the state, without community consultation or consent. Since 9/11 however, this tradition has increasingly been questioned and the idea that communities have the potential to defeat al Qaeda - related or influenced terrorism has gained...

Curators, Collections and CollaborationThis edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from...

Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world, bringing together for the first time the very best of their 'Psychogeography' columns for the Independent. The introduction, 'Walking to New York', is both a prelude...

An Interpretive EssayWhat is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century?  The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on...

Englishness, Empire and IdentityGlobalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport - how it developed and spread around the world. The book explores the origins of cricket in the eighteenth century, its establishment as England&'s national game in the nineteenth, the successful (Caribbean) and unsuccessful (American) diffusion of cricket as...