David Williams explores works by authors such as Alistair MacLeod, Michael Ondaatje and Timothy Findley, examining the ways in which these writers show how our sense of time and space and our sense of personal and national identities have been altered by changes in modes of communication. He discusses how they have dramatized a series of shifts from the oral clan to the nation of the book (Alistair MacLeod), from print-nationalism to radio-confederacy (Wayne Johnston), and from print-stasis to an electronic space of flows (Michael Ondaatje). Some writers have resisted the threat of filmic...

Intended as a first year text, no prior knowledge of perfumery is assumed, and the authors provide integrated coverage of topics from raw materials to supermarket shelves, from science to creation and through to marketing and business policy.

Williams explores the concept of the monster in the Middle Ages, examining its philosophical and theological roots, and analysing its symbolic function in medieval literature and art.

This is a complete translation, together with a substantial commentary and introduction, of 'The Standpoint of World History and Japan', an important work by leading philosophers of the Kyoto School, long regarded as one of the most notorious 'fascist' texts produced in Japan during the Pacific War.

Part-biography, part-history, 'The First Time We Met The Blues' is packed full of great anecdotes and unique insights into the early British R&B scene, Page's formative years as a musician, the infamous Edith Grove flat, and much more besides.

Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture.

Astronomy is said to be the oldest and noblest of the physical sciences. Thus, the fundamentals of astronomy, which were a matter of daily observation to early astrologers, became a lost art. Most astrological textbooks devote little or no space to this subject, which has long been looked upon as an occult art requiring years of study, a thorough knowledge of higher mathematics, and a deep understanding of fundamental science. Also included in this exceptional volume is an extensive section on the astrological ages, with historical dates and decans; information about eclipses; an explanation...

David Williams shows that images associated with saints are not simply illustrations of written accounts, nor are the gestures, prayers, and liturgical practices of devotees of saints' cults simply derivative of them. Rather, images and enactments expand and complete the text, adding visual and dramatic dimensions. Williams demonstrates his ideas through discussion and case studies of three saints: the biblical figure of Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin; the medieval English martyr Saint Thomas Becket; and Saint Maximillian Mary Kolbe, who gave his life to save that of another in the...