Multidiscipline – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

(Dis)Entangling Darwin

Cross-disciplinary Reflections on the Man and His Legacy

Edited By: Jorge Bastos da Silva, Fátima Vieira

£39.99

Driven by a childlike curiosity and an appetite for discovery, Charles Darwin dedicated his life to “disentangling confusions.” His legacy remains as controversial and exhilarating today as it was then, challenging scholars and inspiring new research.

Balkans and Islam

Encounter, Transformation, Discontinuity, Continuity

Edited By: Hamit Er, Ayşe Zişan Furat

£44.99

This multidisciplinary volume offers a special approach to the evolution of Islam in the Balkans. Accessible to students, academics, and the general reader, it provides knowledge of the region’s past and present, with hope for an integrated future.

Baltic Postcolonial Narratives

Literature and Power

By: Almantas Samalavičius

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This book explores postcolonialism's difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

This book explores postcolonialism’s difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

Byron’s Temperament

Essays in Body and Mind

Edited By: Bernard Beatty, Jonathon Shears

£41.99

This edited volume is the first to draw together dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour, using discourses and paradigms drawn from various disciplines, including literary studies, history of medicine, behaviourism, and cultural studies.

Caribbean Without Borders

Literature, Language and Culture

Edited By: Raquel Puig, Dorsía Smith

£34.99

This pioneering collection of essays offers a comprehensive study of the literature, language, and culture of the Caribbean. Exploring prominent scholars and key issues, this volume examines the Caribbean in its complex, rarely addressed reality.

Carver Across the Curriculum

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver

Edited By: Katherine Ashley, Paul Benedict Grant

£34.99

Carver Across the Curriculum presents innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching Raymond Carver’s work. Drawing on international scholars, this collection is a guide and inspiration for instructors, offering new insights into his fiction and poetry.

China Views Nine-Eleven

Essays in Transnational American Studies

Edited By: Mei Renyi, Yan Xunhau

£54.99

In this collection of essays, scholars, mostly from China, address how Nine-Eleven affected the United States globally and at home. They discuss foreign policy, internal politics, and cultural repercussions, viewing the events in a much broader historical context.

Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction

The Shadow of Imagination

By: Lisann Anders

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Exploring urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this book reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in our digital age. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, it highlights how distanced communication triggers an imagination of violence and destruction.

Death Representations in Literature

Forms and Theories

Edited By: Adriana Teodorescu

£57.99

This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.

Disability in Spanish-speaking and U.S. Chicano Contexts

Critical and Artistic Perspectives

Edited By: Dawn Slack

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Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Keith Huneycutt, Claudia Slate

£34.99

This volume includes essays on Florida literature and history. Of special interest are studies of 19th and 21st-century literature, the contributions of African-American figures like Zora Neale Hurston, and suggestions for teaching Florida Studies.

Harry Potter’s World Wide Influence

Edited By: Diana Patterson

£44.99

This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling's work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books' popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.

This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling’s work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books’ popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.

Higher Education, Community Engagement and Entrepreneurship in Southern Africa

Edited By: I. G. Govender

From £33.99

This volume explores entrepreneurship education and development in Southern Africa. Using case studies, it discusses how higher education institutions can empower youth with entrepreneurial skills to improve the economy and drive innovation.

Literary and Cultural Intersections during the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Marianna D’Ezio

£29.99

This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.

Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel

A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives

Edited By: Binne de Haan, Konstantin Mierau

£39.99

This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse

Edited By: Rachid Acim, Mohamed Belamghari, Mounir Sanhaji

£64.99

This multidisciplinary book deconstructs misinformation and power structures to comprehend human interactions. It challenges dominant narratives by explaining the interplay between language and power, humor and laughter, media and culture, and literature and cinema.

Narrating our Healing

Perspectives on Working through Trauma

By: Chris N van der Merwe

From £14.99

This book explores narrative as a way of working through trauma. It offers illuminating perspectives on “narrating our healing”: the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma and the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost.

Probing the Skin

Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone

Edited By: Dirk Vanderbeke, Caroline Rosenthal

£52.99

Across art, literature, and medicine, these essays read the skin—as a sensual surface, a racial marker, and a canvas for tattoos, scars, and memory.

Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd

By: Carmen Dominte

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This volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd by focusing on the character. Using mathematical approaches, it introduces new algebraic and geometric models to analyze dramatic relations. Useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging, or writing a play.

Redefining Literary Semiotics

Edited By: Jørgen Dines Johansen, Christina Ljungberg, Harri Veivo

£39.99

This volume marks a shift in literary semiotics toward methodological pluralism. As the sharp lines of division between dominant approaches dissolve, contributors highlight the communicative functions and representational possibilities of literary texts.