Social Sciences

The Forbidden

Edited By: Benito Pérez Galdós

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A wealthy philanderer attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He succeeds with two, but it is the wild and impetuous Camila who resists his temptations and holds our attention. A major work from Spain’s greatest novelist.

“Clearing the Ground”

The Field Day Theatre Company and the Construction of Irish Identities

By: Carmen Szabo

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Was the Field Day Theatre Company the “cultural wing” of Sinn Fein and the IRA, or a new critical voice challenging traditional representations? This study critiques the successes and failures of a company that discussed identity, memory, and history in new ways.

Betwixt and Between

Place and Cultural Translation

Edited By: David Johnston, Stephen Kelly

£39.99

This book examines the fraught relationship between place and cultural translation. Examining translation across multiple contexts and genres, it argues for the fruitful dislocation of translation to challenge the destructive politics of nationalism and cultural homogeneity.

America in the British Imagination

Edited By: Roger Fagge, Tim Lockley

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Scholars explore how Britons have imagined America over 400 years. American life, culture, music and theatre were filtered through a shifting gaze ranging from admiration to outright hostility. Included are essays on Dickens, Orwell, and Radiohead.

Performing Global Networks

Edited By: Karen Fricker, Ronit Lentin

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What cultural, social and political work do global networks accomplish? This path-breaking collection brings together scholars and activists to explore the multiple meanings and performances of global networks.

Great White Sharks Preserved in European Museums

By: Alessandro De Maddalena

£19.99

This encyclopedic account details the great white sharks preserved in European museums. It also covers their evolution, anatomy, and feeding. Enhanced by photographs and drawings, this book brings the extraordinary world of the great white shark to life.

Recovering Memory

Irish Representations of Past and Present

Edited By: Hedda Friberg, Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Lene Yding Pedersen

£39.99

This collection of essays examines representations of memory in Irish literature and culture. It explores public and private memory, the intersection between collective and individual, and the relation between memory, identity, and Ireland's tragic past.

Rebetiko Worlds

By: Dafni Tragaki

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Experience rebetiko music-making in Thessaloniki today. This ethnography explores the human encounters and lived experiences of the rebetiko revival, while also recounting the story of an ethnographer engaged in fieldwork ‘at home’.

Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond

Edited By: Ignacio López-Calvo

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Orientalism is typically associated with Western scholars. This book presents alternative views from regions like Latin America, also affected by colonialism. Rather than constructing the Orient as an inferior other, these essays attempt to understand the Asian within us.

Computing and Philosophy in Asia

Edited By: Soraj Hongladarom

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This collection explores the relationship between computing and philosophy, from AI and ethics to how computers relate to human lives within specific cultures. It breaks new ground by highlighting the cultural dimensions of these issues, particularly in Asia.

“Survivor” – Representations of the “New Irish”

Dúchas Dóchasach

By: Jean Ryan Hakizimana

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This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.

Ghosts, Stories and Histories

Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories

Edited By: Sladja Blazan

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This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison's Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.

This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.

Beyond the World of Titans, and the Remaking of World Order

A Preface to a New Logic of Empire Building

By: Peter Baofu

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. dominance is ending. The world is evolving towards a 'post-post-Cold War era'—a world of titans and new empires remaking world order. This shift reveals the future emergence of a 'union of the unions' on earth and in space.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. dominance is ending. The world is evolving towards a ‘post-post-Cold War era’—a world of titans and new empires remaking world order. This shift reveals the future emergence of a ‘union of the unions’ on earth and in space.

“Revelations of Character”

Ethos, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy in Montaigne

Edited By: Corinne Noirot-Maguire with Valérie M. Dionne

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In the Essais, Montaigne weighs ancient rhetorical and ethical theories as he develops his own paradoxical and dynamic notion of ethos. This collection of essays explores the ramifications of his quest for more human and humane modes of expression.

Brain Development in Learning Environments

Embodied and Perceptual Advancements

Edited By: Claudia Sabatano, Flavia Santoianni

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This volume on bioeducational research forges a dialogue between education, neuroscience, and biology. It analyses biodynamic perspectives on how learning environments shape brain development, embodied cognition, and perceptual knowledge.

Morality of the Past from the Present Perspective

Picture of Morality in Slovakia in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Edited By: Vasil Gluchman

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This monograph explores morality in Slovakia during the first half of the 20th century. Set in its unique socio-political context, it examines the era's key philosophical, ethical, and professional aspects, and the reflection of morality in Slovak literature.

This monograph explores morality in Slovakia during the first half of the 20th century. Set in its unique socio-political context, it examines the era’s key philosophical, ethical, and professional aspects, and the reflection of morality in Slovak literature.

Crash Cinema

Representation in Film

Edited By: Will Godfrey, Jill Good, Mark Goodall

£29.99

Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema's power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.

Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema’s power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.

Language Issues in Canada

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Martin Howard

£34.99

This volume illuminates Canada’s linguistic diversity through innovative studies on language politics, legislation, education, and minority issues. The languages covered include English and French, as well as Aboriginal languages.

Dialogues of Love and Government

a Study of the Erotic Dialogue Form in some Texts from the Courtly Love Tradition

By: Alice Spencer

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This study examines the Boethian dialogue form in Medieval texts on love and government. It links the dialogue to courtly love and Platonic politics, arguing that its irony implies a rejection of absolutist notions of love and government.

The Detective as Historian

Edited By: Ray Browne, Lawrence Kreiser

£39.99

Historical crime fiction serves the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. It brings the past to the present, making characters alive and events interesting. Writers fill in human motivations where records don't exist, recovering the past.

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