Social Sciences

Children and Armed Conflict

By: Chaditsa Poulatova

£44.99

This book examines international efforts to protect children from war through the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol. It exposes major shortcomings in the UN's monitoring process and explores how compliance can be secured more effectively.

This book examines international efforts to protect children from war through the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol. It exposes major shortcomings in the UN’s monitoring process and explores how compliance can be secured more effectively.

Fiction and Faction in the Malay World

Edited By: Mohamad Rashidi Pakri

£44.99

Explore the Malay World through the eyes of outsiders. This collection examines the personal fiction, diaries, and letters of foreigners and traders from the 18th to 20th century, revealing fascinating insights into their encounters and personalities.

Children and Childhoods 2

Images of Childhood

Edited By: Peter Whiteman

£39.99

Decisions about children's lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.

Decisions about children’s lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.

Empowered Femininity

The Textual Construction of Femininity in Women’s Fitness Magazines

By: Tracy Rundstrom Williams

£39.99

This book traces two competing ideologies—traditional and resistant femininity—in women's fitness magazines. It investigates how these discourses merge into a single hybrid, "empowered femininity," which balances valued male traits with traditional femininity.

This book traces two competing ideologies—traditional and resistant femininity—in women’s fitness magazines. It investigates how these discourses merge into a single hybrid, “empowered femininity,” which balances valued male traits with traditional femininity.

Confronting the International Patriarchy

Iran, Iraq and the United States of America

Edited By: Philippa Winkler

From £19.99

While external states—often in the name of women’s liberation—restrict the participation of women in the Middle East, this book demonstrates their joint efforts to confront the international patriarchy with examples of resistance from Iran to the UN.

(Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction

Edited By: Dorota Guttfeld, Monika Linke, Agnieszka Sowińska

£49.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history's representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history’s representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.

Cocoon Communities

Togetherness in the 21st Century

Edited By: Fred Dervin, Mari Korpela

£39.99

This innovative volume proposes the concept of Cocoon Communities: groups that are highly significant for members, yet voluntary and not binding. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives on communities of students, online mourners, expatriates, and more.

Understanding the Dynamics of Classroom Communication

By: Sungbae Ko

£44.99

This book offers much-needed descriptions of communication within language classrooms. Using authentic data, it offers new insights into patterns of interaction beyond individual learner language, with implications for Second Language Acquisition.

Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Applications to Management

Edited By: Vincent Charles, Mukesh Kumar

£44.99

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular management tool for measuring performance. This book is a collection of contributions from DEA experts, covering theoretical developments and applications in various sectors. It is useful for researchers and practitioners.

Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Edited By: Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu

£49.99

This volume offers a deeper understanding of the diversity of parliamentary practices across space and time. It highlights the role of local social, historical, and ideological factors in building culture-specific traditions of political institutions.

Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Exploring the Multi-dimensional Discourses on ‘Development’

Edited By: Nathan Andrews

£49.99

Authored by emerging African scholars, this book challenges Western notions of ‘progress’ and the view of Africa as a basket case. It rethinks predominant ideas on development, examining the challenges and possibilities of Africa’s sustainable future.

Dramatising Disaster

Character, Event, Representation

Edited By: Christine Cornea, Rhys Owain Thomas

£39.99

As the imagining of disaster intensifies in media, it is vital to understand how it is presented. Dramatising Disaster presents new research focused not on a specific event, but on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.

Antillanité, créolité, littérature-monde

Edited By: Isabelle Constant, Kahiudi C. Mabana

£39.99

Explore how the movements of antillanité, créolité, and littérature-monde break from the literary center to forge authentic identities and a new genre.

From Fictionalism to Realism

Edited By: Carola Barbero, Maurizio Ferraris, Alberto Voltolini

£39.99

This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.

Revolutions

Finished and Unfinished, From Primal to Final

Edited By: Paul Caringella, Glenn Hughes

£54.99

This work makes new contributions not only to the study of particular revolutions, but to developing a philosophy of revolution itself. Inspired by Eric Voegelin and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, the tension between their philosophies adds to its unique richness.

Selected Papers from SinFonIJA 3

Edited By: Maja Marković

£44.99

This volume is a selection of papers from the SinFoniJa 3 conference, representing quality research in linguistics. It covers cutting-edge topics in syntax, phonology, semantics, and NLP, with analyses grounded in data from various languages.

Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips

£44.99

This volume analyses how feminism has shaped Polish literature, film and language, seeking to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. Scholars examine Polish cultural history and memory through the transformations of the last two centuries.

Tourism Marketing

On Both Sides of the Counter

Edited By: Luisa Andreu, Juergen Gnoth, Metin Kozak

£44.99

This volume presents the best research from the Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference, focusing on tourist behaviour and managerial strategies. It covers image, satisfaction, ITC, innovation, and competitiveness. A compelling update for researchers and students.

Convergent Approaches to Mediaeval English Language and Literature

Selected Papers from the 22nd Conference of SELIM

Edited By: Andrés Canga Alonso, Roberto Torre Alonso, Javier Martín Arista

£44.99

This volume is a conversation between pioneering research and traditional medievalism. These crucial essays offer multiple perspectives on the English Middle Ages, covering linguistics, literature, and translation, proving the dark ages provide foundations for new ideas.

Prosodic and Rhythmic Aspects of L2 Acquisition

The Case of Italian

Edited By: Anna De Meo

£49.99

This is the first survey of interlanguage prosody research in L2 Italian. Prosodic competence is crucial for non-native pronunciation and message understanding. The volume covers L1 transfer, pragmatics, and technology in second language teaching.

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