Social Sciences

Confessing the International Rights of Children

The Basic Documents with Analysis

By: Farhad Malekian, Kerstin Nordlöf

£44.99

This book brings together all international documents significant to the protection of the rights of children. While children's rights obviously exist, the implementation of those rights is not so easy.

This book brings together all international documents significant to the protection of the rights of children. While children’s rights obviously exist, the implementation of those rights is not so easy.

The Social Problems of Children in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Jerry Hollingsworth

£39.99

In Sub-Saharan Africa, millions of children are AIDS orphans, street children vulnerable to exploitation, or child soldiers. This book identifies the critical problems they face, using an ethnographic approach to understand the plight of children in the world's poorest region.

Imaginary Spaces of Power in Sub-Saharan Literatures and Films

Edited By: Alix Mazuet

£34.99

This unique collection of essays explores the relationships between power and culture in sub-Saharan Africa through its French-language literature and cinema. Its deft analyses move beyond the rhetoric of crisis to present a critical reflection linked to global culture.

Weaving New Perspectives Together

Some Reflections on Literary Studies

Edited By: María Alonso Alonso, Jeannette Bello Mota, Alba de Béjar Muíños

£39.99

This novel, interdisciplinary overview of literary interpretation features contributions from early-career and senior scholars. The compilation is designed to inspire students and guide experts by posing new questions to stimulate future research in the field.

In and Out

Eccentricity in Britain

Edited By: Sophie Aymes-Stokes, Laurent Mellet

£44.99

This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.

Intercultural Horizons

Best Practices in Intercultural Competence Development

Edited By: Lavinia Bracci, Nevin C. Brown, Eliza J. Nash

£39.99

This volume features papers from the Intercultural Horizons conference on “Best Practices in Intercultural Competence Development.” Authors include leaders in the field, researchers, and teachers, providing diverse perspectives on intercultural communication.

Remembering Television

Histories, Technologies, Memories

Edited By: Kate Darian-Smith, Sue Turnbull

£39.99

This path-breaking book explores television's social and cultural impacts, asking how its programming has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Leading scholars examine the intricate connections between history, memory, and television in today’s world.

This path-breaking book explores television’s social and cultural impacts, asking how its programming has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Leading scholars examine the intricate connections between history, memory, and television in today’s world.

On the Move

The Journey of Refugees in New Literatures in English

Edited By: Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Helga Ramsey-Kurz

£39.99

Fleeing their land, the refugee's journey is fraught with danger and despair. They are the “untouchables” of the 21st century, testing our moral duty of hospitality. This collection of essays explores their journey as represented in literature since WWII.

Fleeing their land, the refugee’s journey is fraught with danger and despair. They are the “untouchables” of the 21st century, testing our moral duty of hospitality. This collection of essays explores their journey as represented in literature since WWII.

Governing Diversities

Democracy, Diversity and Human Nature

Edited By: Joanne Paul

£39.99

How should we govern diverse populations? This volume addresses this core political question by engaging with the history of ideas on democracy and diversity, from ancient Greece to modern-day Mexico, with contributions from innovative and leading scholars.

Poems and Verse of Winifred Holtby

Edited By: Antony Webb

From £19.99

Novelist Winifred Holtby (South Riding) was a strong feminist who died aged only 37. This collection presents her mostly unpublished poems, which chart her life, her loves, the war, and her profound friendship with fellow writer Vera Brittain.

New Voices, New Visions

Challenging Australian Identities and Legacies

Edited By: Catriona Elder, Keith Moore

£39.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores Australian identity, nation, and place. Linking old and new stories, it engages with contemporary issues like immigration and climate change through unique and accessible case studies from both historical and modern life.

The Future of Post-Human Transportation

A Preface to a New Theory of Networks and Operations

By: Peter Baofu

£69.99

Is transportation a destructive force or a glorious wonder? This book rejects these extremes, offering a new theory to fundamentally change how we think about transportation, with enormous implications for the human future and its "post-human" fate.

Methodological Developments in Teaching Spanish as a Second and Foreign Language

Edited By: Guadalupe Ruiz-Farjardo

£44.99

This book presents new trends in teaching Spanish, focusing on Interaction and Grammar. It uses Cognitive Linguistics to clarify complex structures like the subjunctive and offers methodologies for dynamic, cooperative classroom interaction.

Literature in Society

Edited By: Regina Rudaitytė

£44.99

Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.

How to Train Language Teacher Trainers

Edited By: Pierangela Diadori

£44.99

This volume is for Language Teacher Trainers (LTTs), lecturers, and experienced teachers aspiring to the role. It offers the main issues, tools, and research for their daily practice and professional development, with suggestions for academic students.

Winckelmann’s “Philosophy of Art”

A Prelude to German Classicism

By: John Harry North

£44.99

This work examines Johann Joachim Winckelmann's pivotal role as a judge of classical sculpture and founder of German art criticism. It explores his philosophy of beauty while revealing how his judgements were often propagandist rather than analytical.

This work examines Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s pivotal role as a judge of classical sculpture and founder of German art criticism. It explores his philosophy of beauty while revealing how his judgements were often propagandist rather than analytical.

From Francis Bacon to William Golding

Utopias and Dystopias of Today and of Yore

Edited By: Minodora Barbul, Ramona Demarcsek, Ligia Tomoiagă

£39.99

Researchers from philology, philosophy, and anthropology come together to complete a 21st century vision on utopia. This interdisciplinary volume contains rigorous academic work alongside more relaxed essays.

The Hamlet Zone

Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures

Edited By: Ruth J. Owen

£39.99

For four hundred years, the myth of Hamlet has crossed Europe’s borders, spawning new, independent works of theatre, ballet, fiction, and film. This book examines how Hamlet, through translation and adaptation, became Europe's common cultural currency.

Applying Language Science to Language Pedagogy

Contributions of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics to Second Language Teaching

Edited By: José Manuel Igoa, Montserrat Sanz

£44.99

This book bridges current research in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics with language pedagogy. It informs debates on teaching by presenting discoveries about grammar, the mind, and learning, allowing L2 teachers to adopt this knowledge for their own classroom.

The Gülen Hizmet Movement

Circumspect Activism in Faith-Based Reform

Edited By: Tamer Balci, Christopher L. Miller

£49.99

This volume covers the origins, development, and ideas of the Gülen Hizmet Movement (GHM), one of the world's largest Islamic movements. It explores Gülen’s educational philosophy, views on Islam and democracy, political engagement, and interfaith dialogue.

This volume covers the origins, development, and ideas of the Gülen Hizmet Movement (GHM), one of the world’s largest Islamic movements. It explores Gülen’s educational philosophy, views on Islam and democracy, political engagement, and interfaith dialogue.

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