Social Sciences

Images and Objects in Ritual Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Northern and Central Europe

Edited By: Krista Kodres, Anu Mänd

£49.99

This collection of essays explores the role of images and objects in the ritual practices of late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The volume focuses on symbolic communication in Northern and Central Europe, including overlooked regions like Scandinavia and Poland.

Advances in Monetary Policy Design

Applications to the Gulf Monetary Union

By: Ryadh M. Alkhareif, William A. Barnett

£39.99

Simple-sum monetary indexes can be misleading. This book outlines the methods for constructing superior Divisia indexes, designed to accurately measure liquidity. It is the first to publish Divisia-based money supply indexes for the GCC countries.

Experiencing Rhythm

Contemporary Malagasy Music and Identity

By: Jenny Fuhr

£52.99

What is the common rhythmical base that unites the diverse musical styles of Madagascar? Musician and researcher Jenny Fuhr explores this claim through intense involvement in music-making, challenging prevalent Western perspectives on music.

Humorous Structures of English Narratives, 1200-1600

By: Theresa Hamilton

£49.99

How does humour work? This book tests Attardo & Raskin’s General Theory of Verbal Humor, proposing a new ‘humorist reading’. By providing the tools to ask ‘why is this humorous?’, it offers a valuable new way to understand any literary text.

Lake Garda

Gateway to D. H. Lawrence’s Voyage to the Sun

Edited By: Nick Ceramella

£54.99

D. H. Lawrence’s life was a journey to the sun, a quest that began in Gargnano. This unique book explores his "sun search" through a stimulating combination of literature, music, and painting. A book that any Laurentian cannot possibly miss.

D. H. Lawrence’s life was a journey to the sun, a quest that began in Gargnano. This unique book explores his “sun search” through a stimulating combination of literature, music, and painting. A book that any Laurentian cannot possibly miss.

On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind

What the Russian-American Odd Pair Can Tell Us about Some Values, Myths and Manias Widely Held Most Dear

By: Gene H. Bell-Villada

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Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author's own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.

Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author’s own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.

Social Realism

Art, Nationhood and Politics

By: David Forrest

£44.99

This book presents a radical reappraisal of British social realism, arguing it is a distinctive art cinema. Through analysis of key figures from Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to Andrea Arnold, it reassesses this most British of cinematic traditions.

Presences and Absences – Transdisciplinary Essays

Edited By: Katarína Labudova, Nóra Séllei

£44.99

This transdisciplinary volume discusses presence and absence, revealing how diverse areas—from linguistics and literature to film—talk to each other in surprising ways, opening up cultural, cinematic, and literary works to new readings and meanings.

Testimony, Witness, Authority

The Politics and Poetics of Experience

Edited By: Tom Clark, Sasha Henriss-Anderssen, Tara Mokhtari

£44.99

This international, interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how testimony, witness, and authority shape human experience. Scholars and artists explore how stories bear witness to experience through a web of verbal and near-verbal media.

Sharing Concerns

Country Case Studies in Public-Private Partnerships

Edited By: Cristina Neesham, Marius Profiroiu, Julian Teicher

£39.99

This book draws together case analyses of public-private partnerships in Australia, France, Romania and Spain. The study illustrates that these partnerships are very adaptable and can take a variety of forms in different industries, regions or legal frameworks.

Envisaging Death

Visual Culture and Dying

Edited By: Michele Aaron

£44.99

This book connects Death Studies to visual culture, arguing death is not universal. Who you are and where you live influences how your death is imaged and imagined, exploring how the distance between the living and the dead is both reinforced and disrupted.

Mutual (In)Comprehensions

France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century

Edited By: Rosemary Mitchell

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.

Lexical Issues of UNL

Universal Networking Language 2012 Panel

Edited By: Ronaldo Martins

£39.99

This book explores the Universal Networking Language (UNL), an artificial language designed for machines to represent knowledge independently of human languages. It highlights UNL’s fundamental principles and shows how their materialization has evolved over time.

Translation in Language Teaching and Assessment

Edited By: Georgios Floros, Dina Tsagari

£44.99

This volume examines the resurgent influence of Language Learning in Translation Studies and the contemporary ways translation is used in Language Teaching. It explores the possibilities and limitations of this interplay, raising important questions for a new era.

Contested Boundaries

New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison

Edited By: Maxine L. Montgomery

£39.99

Contested Boundaries uses Toni Morrison’s enigmatic novel, A Mercy, as a locus to discuss her entire canon. Essays explore her re-figuration of core themes—the legacy of slavery, trauma, and love—charting a shift in her work to open up new ways of interrogating her writing.

Current Approaches to Limits and Areas in Dialectology

Edited By: Xosé Álvarez, Ernestina Carrilho, Catarina Magro

£54.99

This volume brings together contributions on recent developments in dialectology, offering a panorama of case studies from Basque, Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic languages. Chapters explore quantitative methods and the growing field of dialect syntax.

The Making of Modern Portugal

Edited By: Luís Trindade

£49.99

This book is both an introductory synthesis of Modern Portugal and a collection of studies on state formation. It creates a narrative of a country struggling for modernization, making the Portuguese case a useful tool for wider debates on modernity.

Colour in Sculpture

A Survey from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present

By: Hannelore Hägele

£49.99

This book introduces sculpture across five millennia, exploring the intentional relationship between colour and form. It suggests that whether used for cultural custom or to enhance expression, polychromy adds another dimension of encoded meaning.

Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives

Edited By: Kenneth Reeds, Anna Rocca

£44.99

This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women's autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.

This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women’s autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.

The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium

Edited By: Prabhat K. Singh

£39.99

This collection of scholarly critiques explores recent Indian English novels by authors such as Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. The volume focuses on emerging genres, from crime fiction and science fiction to LGBT voices and postcolonial narratives.

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