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CYBEREDITIONS publishes quality non-fiction books as ebooks online or as print-on-demand paperbacks available through bookshops or online suppliers, including Barnes&Noble and Amazon. As an independent publisher, we specialise in academic works or new editions of out-of-print works updated with new introductions, supplementary chapters and revised bibliographies. We welcome submissions by authors (more information on that here).

Our book list covers a broad range of disciplines, including literary criticism, social anthropology and biographical analysis, but always provides quality, thought-provoking material.

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LATEST TITLES

What connects stuttering, fatherhood, filicide and homoerotic desire?

Melville's Gay Father and the Knot of Filicidal Desire: On Men and Their Demons is a broad-ranging literary study starting with Herman Melville's Billy Budd, wherein lecturer Myron C. Tuman teases out the bonds between a series of fathers and their mostly inarticulate sons. From Joseph Conrad to Vladimir Nabokov, from Giambattista Vico to Sigmund Freud, Tuman canvasses the knotted tales of innocent children in the hands of a filicidal protector.

What do Star Wars and Lord of the Rings tell us of our mythic past and our attitude to modern technology?

John David Ebert's Celluloid Heroes and Mechanical Dragons, a wide-ranging study of films produced since the late 1960s which consciously embody mythic themes and address the problem of man's relation to modern technology. Ebert gives detailed analyses of seven kinds of cinematic responses to this problem, exhibited in films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Videodrome, The Lord of the Rings, Solaris, Alien, Star Wars, and A.I. In addition he offers a highly original and thought-provoking account of the way such visionary films serve not only to highlight man’s predicament vis-à-vis modern technology, but also to “miniaturize” ancient cosmologies as a way of preserving the past in the form of modern folklore.

Which came first: color prejudice or black slavery?

Peter Frost’s Fair Women, Dark Men, is a provocative study of the phenomenon that anthropologist Pierre L. van den Berghe has called the Snow White Syndrome: the cultural preference in virtually all human societies for fair complexions, especially in women. This apparently existed long before black slavery, European colonialism, and what we now call “color prejudice”. Of special interest is the question of how this earlier sensibility to skin color relates to the later development of prejudice against dark skin.

As Peter Frost puts it, “Which came first, color prejudice or black slavery? Was it slavery that eventually created negative feelings toward dark skin? Or was it the other way around? Perhaps these feelings already existed when black slavery first arose, eventually making it more and more inhuman.” In Fair Women, Dark Men, Dr Frost exposes and explores historical, biological, cultural and psychological facts which might help to answer this question.

Visionary films and mythic themes

A Selection of Earlier Titles

In 2004:

• Understanding Religion by S. A. Grave; an illuminating account of the five great world religions and what makes them unlike anything else in human life
• The Phantom Gringo Boat by Stephanie C. Kane; hailed as a model ethnography, the new edition includes two supplmentary essays and three reviews
• Moral Notions by Julius Kovesi; including three previously unpublished essays
• Reading for the Truth by Jan Sjåvik

In 2003:

• From Alice to Harry Potter: Children’s Fantasy in England by Colin Manlove; a comprehensive and authoritative survey by the author of The Fantasy Literature of England
• The Apes of New York by Lionel Tiger; a sharp, witty collection of columns by this noted Professor of Anthropology
• The Paths of Glory: Social Change in America from the Great War to Vietnam by Brian M. Downing; a timely and penetrating study of America's involvement in wars and its effect on US society
• Return of the Heroes: The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Social Conflict by Hal Colebatch; looking at why tales of heroic fantasy have been so successful in our apparently cynical age
• Hanslick on the Musically Beautiful by Geoffrey Payzant

The full list of CYBEREDITIONS titles now available can be seen here.

An extract from a CYBEREDITIONS book, in PDF format, can be downloaded here. To read this extract, or any of our electronic books, we recommend that you use the latest version of the Adobe Reader, which can be obtained for free here.

If you are the author of an out-of-print book or are are seeking a publisher for an original work, please take a look at our information for authors, and contact our Editorial Director.

Frederick Crews
University of California
Berkeley

Daniel C. Dennett
Tufts University

Denis Dutton
University of Canterbury

William C. Dowling
Rutgers University

Owen Gingerich
Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics

Anthony Grafton
Princeton University

Robert E. Hall
Stanford University

Kathleen M. Higgins
University of Texas

Douglas Hofstadter
Indiana University

John Hollander
Yale University

Richard A. Lanham
UCLA

Elizabeth Loftus
University of California
Irvine

David F Marks
City University, London

Martha C. Nussbaum
University of Chicago

Marjorie Perloff
Stanford University

Steven Pinker
MIT

Mark Turner
Case Western Reserve University

Michael Wood
Princeton University

Executive Director
Peter Hyde

Editorial Director
Vicki Hyde

Technical Director
Nigel Presland