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Founded in 1898, Duckworth is an independent publisher with a general trade and academic list. Duckworth General publishes literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction, including history, biography and memoir. Authors include John Bayley, Beryl Bainbridge, Robert Littell, Joan Bakewell, J J Connolly, Mary Warnock, William Vollmann and Helmut Newton. Recently, it has enjoyed success with Clive Woodall’s One for Sorrow and J J Connolly’s Layer Cake, which reached number one and two respectively on the independent publisher bestseller list. Duckworth Academic features important new scholarly monographs and series in Archaeology, Classics, Ancient History and Ancient Philosophy. Its extensive backlist of both Duckworth and Bristol Classical Press titles includes school and student texts in Latin, Greek, Russian, French, German and Spanish language and literature. Duckworth also has a list of Russian literature in translation published under the Ardis imprint. Duckworth is associated with the Overlook Press in New York. |
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global WarmingAt a time when politicians and the media are stirring up public and political hysteria on the subject of climate change, Lord Lawson has written a timely disquisition urging us to take into account all the facts in order to deal with the threat of global warming.
Love + Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships'Fascinating. It raises important questions about the future of robots, what we might want from them and what our interactions with them might teach us about ourselves' New Scientist Synthesizing cutting-edge research in robotics with the cultural history and psychology of artificial intelligence, Love + Sex with Robots explores this fascination, and its far-reaching implications. Using examples drawn from around the world, David Levy argues that, once we have conditioned ourselves to feel affection for animate creations, the next logical step is physical intimacy
Something I’m Not‘A wonderful read from a brilliant and original talent ... the can’t-put-down read of the year’ Jeremy Vine ‘Any book that begins with that tile is more than usually relevant nowadays when we are taught that anybody can do anything – and break our hearts trying’ Anna Raeburn A sharp, contemporary novel that discusses the way the psychological scars of the past pass through the generations of a family.
Then It Was Destroyed By The Volcano: the ancient world in film and televisionDepictions of the ancient world on the stage and in art have always competed with a scholarly approach to the reconstruction of the past. On American TV, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has incorporated aspects of the classical within the high school horror genre. In art cinema, the films of Theo Angelopoulos seek to reclaim Greek myth from academia and claim its recognition as part of a living modern culture. Then it was Destroyed by the Volcano, by studying the multiple depictions of the ancient world on screen, emphasises its continuing importance for the re-evaluation of the present.
Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis'By far the best informed history of psychoanalysis' Harold Bloom A masterful history of one of the most important movements of our time, Revolution in Mind is a brilliant, engaging, and radically new work – the first ever to fully account for the making of psychoanalysis.
Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800-2000Oxford, the home of lost causes, has always fascinated at a variety of levels. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by Mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the last two hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning, scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the impact of German scholarship. |
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