9781914420672
300 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$16.95
Cultural Studies
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Demands for exorcism have increased since the mid-twentieth
century. What could be the cause of the recent possession outbreak? Are possessed people actually suffering from mental health problems? Or is the world falling victim to the devil and demons?
In this shocking new book, Grafton Tanner argues that neither sciencenor religion can fully explain the re-emergence of exorcism. Chartingthe history of exorcism in an allegedly secular age — from the brainwashing panic of the postwar period to the cult deprogramming of the 1970s, and from the massive influence of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist to the harmful practice of conversion “therapy” — Purging the Devil is an inquiry
into the nature of belief and a meditation on our
GRAFTON TANNER is a philosopher and writer. His work has appeared in The Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Jacobin.
9781914420818
300 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Memoir
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Miss is the story of one teacher’s journey to transform the lives of her students in London’s toughest schools. But when her passion leads her to break the rules and she risks losing her job, can she find the courage to keep fighting for the change she believes in and the
students she loves?
HOLLY RIGBY is a teacher, writer, and activist. She taught English in inner-city London schoolsfor almost a decade, whilst also writing for The Guardian, The Independent and the TES on education policy.
9781917516037
180 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Cultural Studies
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Empire of Deterrence considers nuclear deterrence as a form of authority, and describes how it follows upon economic laws that have hardened to protect a rapidly automated civilization. Gardiner
brings up questions of local action and the undoing of the old Anglosphere commercial empire, to ask if there are ways of unthinking deterrence's blackmailing of democracies.
MICHAEL GARDINER has written a number of books of cultural history, comparative culture, and fiction, and taught at the University of Warwick.