A materialist analysis of the links between global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression in PalestineWhy has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler-colonialism within the broader historical arc of imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism in the Middle East....

"An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies" by Robert Knox is a captivating account of the author's experiences during his captivity in Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. Knox, an Englishman, was taken prisoner by the local king and spent nearly two decades on the island. His narrative provides a detailed description of the geography, culture, and customs of Ceylon, offering readers a unique perspective on the island's society during the 17th century. Knox's observations ...

How this Island lyes with respect unto me Neighbouring Countries, I shall not speak at all, that being to be seen in our ordinary Sea-Cards, which describe those Parts; and but little concerning the Maritime parts of it, now under the Jurisdiction of the Dutch: my design being to relate such things onely that are new and unknown unto these Europæan Nations. It is the Inland Countrey therefore I chiefly intend to write of which is yet an hidden Land even to the Dutch themselves that inhabit...

In "An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies," Robert Knox offers a rich tapestry of observations and experiences drawn from his captivity in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) during the mid-17th century. Knox's narrative blends travel writing with ethnographic detail, employing a first-person perspective that captures the island's lush landscapes, vibrant cultures, and complex political dynamics. His meticulous descriptions provide invaluable insights into the customs, trade, a...

In "An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies," Robert Knox offers a meticulously detailed account of his experiences as a captive in Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) during the 17th century. Written in a narrative style that blends travelogue with personal memoir, Knox's work provides readers with an insightful exploration of the island's geography, culture, and the intricate socio-political dynamics of the time. His keen observations and descriptive prowess illuminate t...

Robert Knox's An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies (1681) is a foundational work of English travel writing and early ethnography. Combining captivity narrative, geographic description, natural history, and social observation, it offers a remarkably detailed account of the Kandyan kingdom: its government, religion, agriculture, customs, warfare, and domestic life. Knox's prose is plain, empirical, and observant, reflecting the Royal Society's appetite for reliable ...

Thoreau wrote, "In wildness lies the preservation of the world." In the poems of "Cocktails in the Wild," Robert Knox mixes lyrical reports on the way we live now, praise for civilized values worth preserving, and the occasional rant with an ear for the Thoreauvian thrum at the heart of things, to produce these "Cocktails in the Wild." The poems take us from a balcony in Beirut, a place of beauty, history and danger, to the grim seasons of the American 2016 presidential campaign. We place ...

I realize that anyone sufficiently intrigued by the title so as to open the cover of Golf Balls Are Female has probably already conjured up some ideas as to its contents. To end the suspense, I will tell you that Golf Balls Are Female is simply about the three greatest pleasures in a man's life-drinking, golf, and the OU-Texas football game. Unfortunately, life requires a lot of living in between these most gratifying of pursuits, so Golf Balls Are Female is also about public humiliation, ...

This book represents the first comprehensive reference volume available on subsurface transport and fate processes. The volume is organized into four sections covering the basics of contaminant properties and how they affect transport and fate, the fundamental processes affecting subsurface transport and fate of contaminants, applications of transport and fate information to various contaminant types, and utilization of transport and fate information for predicting contaminant behavior. Sp...

The great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert FaglesA Penguin ClassicDating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in ...

**The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, hailed as “the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English” (Garry Wills, The New Yorker)Now a major motion picture directed by Christopher NolanA Penguin Classic**“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.” So begins Ro...

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and *Oedipus at Colonus—*are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ...