Social Sciences

Implementation of Oil Related Environmental Policies in Nigeria

Government Inertia and Conflict in the Niger Delta

By: Fidelis Allen

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Violent conflict in the Niger Delta stems from government failure to implement environmental policies. Government and oil company activities destroy the environment, and the resulting frustrations of local groups manifest as violence against them.

Review Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 9

Edited By: J. Jeremy Wisnewski

£19.99

This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.

The Globalisation of Modern Architecture

The Impact of Politics, Economics and Social Change on Architecture and Urban Design since 1990

By: Robert Adam

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Since 1990, globalisation has driven shifts in global power. As design follows social, political and economic change, this book casts a new light on recent architecture, exploring the tension between universal iconic buildings and the need for local identity.

Youth Unemployment and Joblessness

Causes, Consequences, Responses

Edited By: Alfredo Sánchez-Castañeda, Francesca Sperotti

£49.99

Youth unemployment is a major global issue. This book analyzes the school-to-work transition, exploring policies for enabling youth access to the labour market. It seeks a better understanding of causes, consequences, and responses through an interdisciplinary approach.

The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia

The Years of Grace, Volume 2, 1863-1910

By: Barbara Kendall-Davies

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Pauline Viardot was a seminal 19th-century opera singer, composer, and teacher whose friends included Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner. Loved by Ivan Turgenev, she was a fascinating woman at the heart of her age. This volume covers her later years.

Reading, Writing, and Digitizing

Understanding Literacy in the Electronic Age

By: Alice Horning

£44.99

Based on psycholinguistics, this book contrasts expert and novice readers and writers. It reveals how experts go beyond the text to create meaning in any medium and offers powerful strategies to support literacy development in others.

Multilingual Processing in Eastern and Southern EU Languages

Low-Resourced Technologies and Translation

Edited By: Cristina Vertan

£49.99

This volume addresses the challenges of multilingual processing for the EU's 'less resourced' languages. It offers specific solutions for translation and information retrieval for languages from south-eastern and central Europe.

This volume addresses the challenges of multilingual processing for the EU’s ‘less resourced’ languages. It offers specific solutions for translation and information retrieval for languages from south-eastern and central Europe.

Review Journal of Political Philosophy Volume 10

Georgia Warnke’s After Identity

Edited By: J. Jeremy Wisnewski

£19.99

This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.

The Coherence of the Inchoate

Children and the Internet

By: Albin Wallace

£39.99

This book compares children's in-school and out-of-school internet use. At home, learning is self-motivated and purposeful, often assisted by peers. As home and school practices diverge, school use may become increasingly irrelevant to children’s lives.

This book compares children’s in-school and out-of-school internet use. At home, learning is self-motivated and purposeful, often assisted by peers. As home and school practices diverge, school use may become increasingly irrelevant to children’s lives.

The Subprime Crisis and Its Impact on Financial and Managerial Environments

An Unequal Repercussion at European Level

Edited By: Elisabeth Paulet

£39.99

Unpacking the 2008 global financial crisis, this book reveals its lasting impacts and argues for a multinational solution to safeguard the international banking system.

Graphic History

Essays on Graphic Novels And/As History

Edited By: Richard Iadonisi

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the unique ways graphic novels shed new light on history. Analyzing writers from Art Spiegelman (Maus) to Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), these essays cover subjects from Jack the Ripper to the Iranian Revolution.

The Design Collective

An Approach to Practice

Edited By: Laetitia Shand

£44.99

This collection explores the potential of the collective as a structure linking creativity, social change, and politics. Bringing together practitioners, historians, and theorists, it examines how design practices like authorship and agency are being re-evaluated.

American Literary-Political Engagements

From Poe to James

By: William M. Etter

£39.99

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era's most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era’s most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

The Wounds of Possibility

Essays on George Steiner

Edited By: Ricardo Gil Soeiro

£54.99

This timely volume offers an in-depth study of George Steiner, one of our most provocative thinkers. Leading scholars reflect on the relation between ethics and literature, philosophy and art, providing the most comprehensive engagement with Steiner’s work to date.

“Who Am I?” Historical Narrative and Subjectivity in Anna Banti’s Camicia bruciata

By: Lucy Delogu

£39.99

This book investigates Anna Banti’s contribution to a female literary canon and the renewal of the Italian historical novel. Focusing on her novel La camicia bruciata, it shows how Banti's personal experience of marriage and motherhood influenced her narrative.

This book investigates Anna Banti’s contribution to a female literary canon and the renewal of the Italian historical novel. Focusing on her novel La camicia bruciata, it shows how Banti’s personal experience of marriage and motherhood influenced her narrative.

Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan

Studies in Contemporary Myth; Estudios sobre un mito contemporáneo

Edited By: Elisa T. Di Biase, Alfonso Muñoz Corcuera

£49.99

He is the boy who will never grow up, yet he is over a century old. A powerful icon, he seems to have been floating in our culture forever. This book is a tribute to this dear, mysterious, and seductive character who is now more alive than ever.

“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”

Towards an Ecology of Learning

By: Paolo Palmieri

£44.99

This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners' genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.

This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners’ genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.

Archaeological Encounters

Building Networks of Spanish and British Archaeologists in the 20th Century

By: Margarita Díaz-Andreu

£54.99

This book examines the relationship between British and Spanish archaeology from the 1920s to the 1970s. Based on the letters of archaeologist Luis Pericot, it explores the personal networks that shaped how knowledge was produced, transmitted, and received.

George Eliot’s Spiritual Quest in Silas Marner

By: J. H. Mazaheri

£39.99

This new approach to G. Eliot’s thought focuses on her profound religious and spiritual quest in Silas Marner. The author shows how Eliot distinguishes religion from superstition and offers a new definition of faith, stressing the qualities of her art.

Building Bridges

Integrating Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation in English Studies

Edited By: Namja Al Zidjaly

£44.99

This book envisions a new, democratic direction for English Studies. By integrating language, literature, and translation, it presents a method that questions norms, equalizes roles between teachers and learners, and empowers both students and translators.

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