Social Sciences

Irish Music Abroad

Diasporic Sounds in Birmingham

By: Angela Moran

£44.99

This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city's public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.

This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city’s public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.

Exploring Task-Based PBL in Chinese Teaching and Learning

Edited By: Xiangyun Du, Mads Jakob Kirkebæk

£44.99

Bridge traditional and student-centered Chinese teaching with a research-based Task-Based PBL approach. This guide offers proven classroom strategies, teacher insights, and 20 ready-to-use tasks.

The House of Fiction as the House of Life

Representations of the House from Richardson to Woolf

Edited By: Francesca Saggini, Anna Enrichetta Soccio

£39.99

Houses, the silent background to our lives, could many a tale unfold. This collection offers a transdisciplinary look at the paper houses of 18th and 19th century English literature, investigating haunted edifices, gendered spaces, and Gothic fiction.

Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation

Edited By: Mario Brdar, Milena Žic Fuchs, Ida Raffaelli

£54.99

This volume is the first to address the position of Cognitive Linguistics between universality and variability. The state-of-the-art contributions point to innovative avenues for future research, making this volume particularly valuable. – Günter Radden

Arbitration Awards

Generic Features and Textual Realisations

Edited By: Vijay K. Bhatia, Chiara Degano, Giuliana Garzone

£44.99

Is international arbitration being contaminated by litigation, compromising its core principles? This book investigates this hypothesis by analyzing the language of international arbitration awards to identify elements that may provide evidence for this trend.

6th International Finance Conference on Financial Crisis and Governance

Edited By: Mondher Bellalah

£74.99

In an era of volatile and integrated markets, regulators worry about economic growth and financial crisis. This book analyzes key issues from risk assessment, corporate governance, and debt's role in crises to international investments and innovative solutions.

In an era of volatile and integrated markets, regulators worry about economic growth and financial crisis. This book analyzes key issues from risk assessment, corporate governance, and debt’s role in crises to international investments and innovative solutions.

The Future of Post-Human Culinary Art

Towards a New Theory of Ingredients and Techniques

By: Peter Baofu

£69.99

Is cooking an exact art or just a means to a meal? This book challenges such opposing views, offering a new theory to understand the future of culinary art and fundamentally change how we think about it in relation to the mind, nature, society, and culture.

The Fragmenting Force of Memory

Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon

By: Norman Saadi Nikro

£39.99

This study is about cultural production that works through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It explores how writers and filmmakers reposition their sense of self from agent to casualty of history, unraveling self and circumstance through memory.

The English of Tourism

Edited By: Georgeta Raţă

£49.99

The English of Tourism offers a linguistic analysis of the language specific to tourism and related fields like hospitality, transportation, and advertising. It will appeal to professionals, researchers, students, and translators in these industries.

Revolutionary Leaves

The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski

Edited By: Sascha Pöhlmann

£44.99

Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski's fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.

Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski’s fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.

The Committed Workforce

Evidence from the Field

By: Yannis Markovits

£44.99

This research explores the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction, showing how it is influenced by the economic sector. Job satisfaction is a key mediator, linking an employee's commitment to positive organizational citizenship behaviours.

This research explores the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction, showing how it is influenced by the economic sector. Job satisfaction is a key mediator, linking an employee’s commitment to positive organizational citizenship behaviours.

Marronnage and Arts

Revolts in Bodies and Voices

Edited By: Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette

£44.99

Marronnage, the quest for freedom during Slavery, has infiltrated social relationships and the arts. This book explores how revolt is incarnated in bodies and voices through music and dance, from the French West Indies to Madagascar and Brazil.

Literacy, Literature and Identity

Multiple Perspectives

Edited By: Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Paul A. Scanlon

£44.99

This volume shows how literature and language shape the identities of individuals and societies. With a truly global reach, it draws on diverse contexts: from women in North America and African identity challenges to New Zealand’s Maoris.

The Mysterious Connection between Thomas Nashe, Thomas Dekker, and T. M.

An English Renaissance Deception?

By: Donna Murphy

From £19.99

After writer Thomas Nashe was banished and his works banned, he vanished. Then, Thomas Dekker appeared, writing in Nashe’s exact style. Coincidence or deception? This book presents linguistic evidence that Nashe outwitted authorities by assuming a new identity.

Sound Musicianship

Understanding the Crafts of Music

Edited By: Andrew R. Brown

£44.99

Sound Musicianship explores musicianship as a craft. It examines 21st-century trends like digital media, neurology, and cultural plurality, offering insights from leading researchers to help you advance your own music learning or that of others.

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

By: Harry Eiss

£44.99

Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.

Aging Femininities

Troubling Representations

Edited By: Josephine Dolan

£39.99

Older women have never been more visible, or more problematised. This collection of essays interrogates the troubling representations of “aging femininity” in popular culture, forging links between contemporary lived experience and feminist cultural theory.

The Other India

Narratives of Terror, Communalism and Violence

Edited By: Om Prakash Dwivedi

£39.99

This book explores how identities and belonging are constructed in postcolonial India. Examining various texts and movies, it discusses how the nation is plagued by communal politics and terrorism, and offers a cogent alternative for creating solidarity.

The Evil, the Fated, the Biblical

The Latent Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy

By: Hanna Boguta-Marchel

£39.99

This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy's novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity's most troublesome issues.

This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy’s novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity’s most troublesome issues.

Dialogic Openness in Nikos Kazantzakis

By: Charitini Christodoulou

£44.99

Charitini Christodoulou argues that a "dialogic openness" permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.

Charitini Christodoulou argues that a “dialogic openness” permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.

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