Social Sciences

Press, Propaganda and Politics

Cultural Periodicals in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania

Edited By: Rubén Jarazo Álvarez, Andrada Fatu-Tutoveanu

£44.99

This study compares media in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania, revealing startling similarities in the propaganda of two opposing regimes. It challenges old paradigms and forges a new, unified framework for understanding totalitarian systems.

Applied Social Sciences

Administration and Management

Edited By: Cosmin Goian, Georgeta Raţă

£44.99

This collection of studies in administration, management, and law explains complex concepts through theoretical and empirical research. It is an educational support for professionals and is accessible to a broader audience interested in an interdisciplinary approach.

Visions and Revisions

The Word and the Text

Edited By: Roger Kojecký, Andrew Tate

£39.99

Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.

Fundraising, Flirtation and Fancywork

Charity Bazaars in Nineteenth Century Australia

By: Annette Shiell

£44.99

The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia's major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.

The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia’s major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.

Film and Ethics

What Would You Have Done?

Edited By: Jacqui Miller

£39.99

This book explores the slipperiness of ethics in Film Studies. It shows that from the silent era to the present day, film has been inherently concerned with ethical issues, forcing the spectator to be an active participant in creating meaning.

The Post-War Angola

Public Sphere, Political Regime and Democracy

By: Paulo C. J. Faria

£49.99

In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the 'public sphere,' but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public's role, using Foucault's ideas to look afresh at Angola's democratic future.

In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the ‘public sphere,’ but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public’s role, using Foucault’s ideas to look afresh at Angola’s democratic future.

Text in Contemporary Theatre

The Baltics within the World Experience

Edited By: Guna Zeltiņa with Sanita Reinsone

£44.99

This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. Focusing on the Baltics but with wider insight into world drama, this book is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.

Risk Assessment of Food Supply

A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

By: Tetsuji Tanaka, Huanguang Qiu

£39.99

What are the true risks of agricultural free trade? Using CGE models, this book analyzes Japan's trade liberalization and the 2008 food crisis, revealing the severe impacts on the world's poorest economies.

What are the true risks of agricultural free trade? Using CGE models, this book analyzes Japan’s trade liberalization and the 2008 food crisis, revealing the severe impacts on the world’s poorest economies.

Art and Time

By: Derek Allan

£39.99

How do great works of art live on long after their cultures have vanished? This book rejects the idea that art is simply timeless. It argues that art transcends time through a process of metamorphosis, posing a major challenge to traditional aesthetics.

Cinema and Evil

Moral Complexities and the “Dangerous” Film

By: Dara Waldron

£44.99

This book explores films that address the problem of evil, drawing on thinkers from Manicheanism to Arendt. It considers how filmmakers like Fritz Lang and Michael Haneke use “dangerous” films to task us with considering evil as our own responsibility.

Myth as Symbol

A Psychoanalytic Study in Contemporary German Literature

By: Sonia Saporiti

£39.99

Reconsidering the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, this study explores the modern literary reworking of myth. From Jungian archetypes to the Freudian unconscious, it analyzes figures like Undine and Medea to explore timeless questions.

Hilarion’s Asse

Laurence Sterne and Humour

Edited By: Anne Bandry-Scubbi, Peter de Voogd

£39.99

Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne's kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.

Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne’s kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.

Being Doll

A Study of Youngness & Oldness at Interface

By: Lisa Pavlik-Malone

£39.99

This book explores the symbolic relationship between self and object, studying how the mind integrates opposing ideas like “youngness” and “oldness” to expand its understanding of Self through the experience of a "doll" as memory, metaphor, and art.

Theory That Matters

What Practice After Theory

Edited By: Kacper Bartczak, Małgorzata Myk

£49.99

Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.

As Time Goes By

Portraits of Age

Edited By: Joy Charnley, Caroline Verdier

£49.99

This volume provides literary analyses of ageing through writers from Cervantes to Cixous. Exploring universal themes, these essays offer portraits of what age is, has been, and might be, demonstrating literature's power to reflect social trends.

The Lives of Texts

Exploring the Metaphor

Edited By: Andrzej Kowalczyk, Katarzyna Pisarska

£49.99

Exploring the metaphor of a text as a living organism, this book traces life-like phenomena—birth, maturation, death, and resurrection—in literature from the Middle Ages to popular culture, including works by Mary Shelley, J.K. Rowling, and Neil Gaiman.

Central Europe on the Threshold of the 21st Century

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Challenges in Politics and Society

Edited By: Adam Jarosz, Krzysztof Olszewski

£54.99

This book discusses Central Europe's transforming political, economic and social landscape. It is a useful source of knowledge on this “undiscovered island” in contemporary international relations.

This book discusses Central Europe’s transforming political, economic and social landscape. It is a useful source of knowledge on this “undiscovered island” in contemporary international relations.

The Secret Keepers

Narratives Exploring the Inter and Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Violence

By: Susan Dale

£39.99

Secrecy around childhood abuse creates a traumatic legacy passed through generations. This book demonstrates the use of narrative as a therapeutic process, finding creative ways for people to break the silence and live beyond being defined by abuse and violence.

Miracle Enough

Papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake

Edited By: William Gray, Peter Winnington

£44.99

This is the first comparable collection of essays on Mervyn Peake ever published. Selected from an international conference, these papers by scholars and artists take a wide variety of approaches to his work—from the Gormenghast trilogy to his poetry and art.

Blue Black Sea

New Dimensions of History, Security, Strategy, Energy and Economy

Edited By: Giray Saynur Bozkurt

£59.99

Experts from the Black Sea states analyze the region’s complex security, political, and economic dynamics, offering essential assessments of the international policies shaping the area today.

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