Bøger af Andrew Brown

Presents the story of how three men won the Nobel Prize for their research on the humble nematode worm C. elegans. This book shows how their extraordinary discovery led to the sequencing of the human genome; how a global multibillion-dollar industry was born; and how the mysteries of life were revealed in a tiny, brainless worm.

Brown argues that workers in East and Southeast Asia are significant actors in political change. Examining the themes of labour weakness, political exclusion and insignificance of "class factors" he demonstrates that both in the present and past the state has been entangled in processes that determine the forms of their struggles.

'Fishing in Utopia [winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize] is a lament for a lost Eden. But it is more than that. Essentially it is a story of modern rootlessness and the search for something to believe in' Sunday Times

This book is about the spectacles and ceremonies of society in the Low Countries. It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. -- .

In an age in which social mobility and upheaval, particularly in the wake of the Black Death, had profound effects on religious attitudes and practices, Brown demonstrates that our understanding of late medieval religion should be firmly placed within this context of social change.

Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest of all works of Greek literature, and is often the play read first by those beginning to study Greek tragedy. This edition offers the text with facing translation and commentary, and an introduction including an account of the myth, a survey of the main interpretative issues, and a bibliography.