Environmentalism and Social Performance We are pleased to announce the release of Heike Graf’s latest work The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication and the Digital Landscape. This collection of essays focuses on
Do Composers Live in a Bubble? Do composers live in a bubble? I do not think so. Years ago I had a musical conversation with a friend of mine. As a non-specialist, at some point he decided to pick
Art in Times of Conflict As OBP and I get ready to publish Theatre & War: Notes from the Field, my excitement is tempered with a little bit of – what I can only term – hopelessness. Because, you see, I
Enhanced Multi-Media Bilingual Edition of 'Rameau's Nephew': Bringing Education to Life Our award winning book, Denis Diderot ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ – ‘Le Neveu de Rameau’, winner of the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies’ 2015 Prize for Digital Publication, has been re-issued as an enhanced bilingual
Amores Latin Love I chose to focus on Amores(Book I) because Ovid’s text seems particularly suitable for students at that crucial stage when they have learned the basics of Latin and are just starting
Global Citizenship Commission Human Rights: Fit For the 21st Century? We’re thrilled to announce that our latest title The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century: A Living Document in a Changing World [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0091]
OBP Customised Sharing Knowledge Just Got More Personal [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/59/1]OBP is delighted to announce the launch of OBP Customised [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/59/1], a new line of customised editions that lets readers
Catherine Wilson What is Metaethics? Metaethics [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0087] is the study of moral thought and moral language. Rather than addressing questions about what practices are right and wrong, and what our obligations to
August Wilhelm Schlegel Writing the Life of Schlegel My approach to this biography [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0069] of Schlegel came from an unexpected quarter. I had already written a biography of Ludwig Tieck, Schlegel’s old friend, (1985)
Daniel Nettle It's the economy, stupid. (Or is it?) Everyone thinks they know that poor communities harbour more social problems than rich ones. Well, almost everyone; in academic as well as popular literature, you can also find uplifting accounts of how poverty
