Social Sciences

An Insatiable Dialectic

Essays on Critique, Modernity, and Humanism

Edited By: Roberto Cantú

£44.99

Leading philosophers and cultural critics challenge the view that critique, modernity, and humanism are obsolete. These essays argue that these concepts are crucial in an age where democratic ideals and intercultural understanding are vanishing possibilities.

Ireland in Crisis?

Analyses and Proposed Solutions

Edited By: Seán Ó Nualláin

£44.99

These proceedings from the International Congress of Irish Studies explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.

Discourses of Space

Edited By: Judit Pieldner

£49.99

This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.

Border Crossings

Narration, Nation and Imagination in Scots and Irish Literature and Culture

Edited By: Lauren Clark, Colin Younger

£44.99

Borderlands are crucibles for diverse cultures and alternative histories. This collection explores the contested terrains of the British Isles, where borders extend beyond the geographical to the cultural, psychic, and social, shaping competing identities.

European Dictatorships

A Comparative History of the Twentieth Century

By: Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stokłosa

£69.99

How did Europe become a “Europe of the Dictatorships“? To understand this process, one must look at the transitions. This book traces Europe's history from WWI, through the shift from fascist to communist states, to the history of the Eastern Bloc.

How did Europe become a “Europe of the Dictatorships“? To understand this process, one must look at the transitions. This book traces Europe’s history from WWI, through the shift from fascist to communist states, to the history of the Eastern Bloc.

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3

Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa

Edited By: Kene Igweonu, Osita Okagbue

£39.99

This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.

This Landscape’s Fierce Embrace

The Poetry of Francis Harvey

Edited By: Donna L. Potts

£39.99

This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.

Anglistics in Lithuania

Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Aspects of Study

Edited By: Jonė Grigaliūnienė, Inesa Šeškauskienė

£44.99

This collection offers diverse accounts of English and Lithuanian studies, with a particular focus on the contrastive aspect. Presenting a wide variety of empirical data, these essays have profound implications for both translation and teaching.

Public Service Media in the Digital Age

International Perspectives

Edited By: Agnes Gulyás, Ferenc Hammer

£39.99

Public service media are in dramatic transformation. This book provides analysis of the key issues from an international perspective, bringing together leading researchers to explore the future of broadcasting and the new participatory roles of audiences.

Learn and Gain

By: Suhair Al Alami

£39.99

These eight short stories illustrate how great writers help us see the world in new ways. The book integrates literary, communicative, and critical thinking skills, combining listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Ideal for EFL/ESL students and teachers.

Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging

Edited By: Teresa Botelho, Iolanda Ramos

£44.99

These essays explore how social identities like gender, race, and nation are imagined, performed, and questioned in literature, cinema, and visual culture. They also address identity in utopian and dystopian thought, imagining futures for belonging.

Memory and Ethnicity

Ethnic Museums in Israel and the Diaspora

Edited By: Dario Miccoli, Emanuela Trevisan Semi

£44.99

In museums and public spaces, ethnicity has become central to the Jewish and Israeli cultural imagination. Memory and Ethnicity explores how diverse Jewish groups represent their past, analyzing which memories are preserved and which are suppressed.

Public Space in Informal Settlements

The Barrios of Bogotá

By: Jaime Hernández-García

£44.99

This book views Bogotá's informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios' social dynamics. An insider's perspective.

This book views Bogotá’s informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios’ social dynamics. An insider’s perspective.

Severally Seeking Sartre

Edited By: Benedict O’Donohoe

£44.99

This collection of essays presents fresh perspectives on familiar Sartrean subjects and novel approaches to neglected ones. Scholars offer surprising new angles, viewing Sartre through Pop-Art, jazz, and dialogues with figures like Dennett, Badiou, and Genet.

Working the System in Sub-Saharan Africa

Global Values, National Citizenship and Local Politics in Historical Perspective

Edited By: Corrado Tornimbeni

£39.99

How are democracy and development negotiated in sub-Saharan Africa? This volume offers context-based analyses showing how local practices have been ‘working the system’ of global ideas, a process with a rich historical dimension often overlooked.

Mapping Leisure across Borders

Edited By: Gianna Cappello, Ishwar Modi, Fabio Massimo Lo Verde

£59.99

The borders between leisure and work are becoming more and more blurred. Such border-crossing is the leitmotif of this book, which has a multidisciplinary scope for scholars and students interested in leisure's effects on social cohesion.

Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Edited By: Justin Caouette, Ishtiyaque Haji

£44.99

A dilemma threatens our belief in moral responsibility: if determinism is true, we lack control; if not, our actions are a matter of luck. This collection of new essays confronts this problem, with contributions by John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, and others.

Gaining a Face

The Romanticism of C.S. Lewis

By: James Prothero, Donald T. Williams

From £29.99

This study traces the aspects of Lewis’s romantic thought as it is drawn from MacDonald, Wordsworth and other influences, and details how, beyond his fascination with joy, Lewis constructed a consistent romantic vision that allowed for a balance with reason.

Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body

Edited By: Osvaldo Glieca, Marilyn Wyers

£39.99

Musicians and dancers draw upon relationships between sound and movement. Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body brings together diverse topics on the subject, raising issues concerning the collaborative aspects of creating and performing new work.

English Tags

A Close-Up on Film Language, Dubbing and Conversation

By: Veronica Bonsignori

£44.99

This is the first study of English question tags from an integrated pragmatic and translational perspective. Analysing their syntactic and prosodic properties, it uses film language to compare their functions in English, Italian, and dubbed versions.

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