Social Sciences

Literature and the Monarchy

The Traditional and the Modern Concept of the Office of Poet Laureate of England

By: Ewa Panecka

£44.99

This book explores the Poet Laureateship from the Restoration to today, revealing the symbolic link it forges between literature, the Monarchy, and national identity.

This book addresses ideological changes of the 19th-21st centuries and their impact on Spanish language and culture. It focuses on ‘otherness’ in its various dimensions, arguing that the vision of the other is ultimately a reflection of the self.

Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991

Edited By: Olga Breskaya, Anatoli Mikhailov

£44.99

Following communism's collapse, an expansion of higher education in Eastern Europe created an overproduction of specialists. This has discredited the value of education, risking social transformation. This book addresses the urgent reforms needed for the region's universities.

Following communism’s collapse, an expansion of higher education in Eastern Europe created an overproduction of specialists. This has discredited the value of education, risking social transformation. This book addresses the urgent reforms needed for the region’s universities.

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1, 2 and 3

Edited By: Kene Igweonu, Osita Okagbue

£59.99

This book set is a comprehensive exploration of African theatre on the continent and in the diaspora. Essays demonstrate how practitioners tackle colonial legacies and globalization, forging a thriving and distinctively African aesthetic.

Art and Food

Edited By: Peter Stupples, Jane Venis

£44.99

Art and Food is a collection of essays exploring a range of research topics relating to the representation of food in art and art in food, from iconography and allegory, through class and commensality, to kitchen architecture and haute cuisine.

Talk in Institutions

A LANSI Volume

Edited By: Catherine Box, Christine M. Jacknick, Hansun Zhang Waring

£39.99

This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.

Around the Point

Studies in Jewish Literature and Culture in Multiple Languages

Edited By: Roman Katsman, Ber Kotlerman, Hillel Weiss

£69.99

This unique collection brings together scholars to explore Jewish literature across numerous languages. A significant endeavor, this volume tackles essential questions of Jewish identity, literary history, cultural influence, and Holocaust literature.

Child and Family Welfare

Edited By: Mihai-Bogdan Iovu, Patricia-Luciana Runcan

£44.99

Child and Family Welfare explores welfare from theoretical and empirical perspectives, discussing dimensions like emotional welfare and life satisfaction. This volume is a practical tool for the public and professionals involved in promoting children’s rights.

Sport and the Christian Religion

A Systematic Review of Literature

By: Andrew Parker, Nick J. Watson

£44.99

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. It offers an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ philosophy of modern sport for students, academics, and coaches.

“An Ald Reht”

Essays on Anglo-Saxon Law

By: Carole Hough

£49.99

This volume brings together thirteen essays on the legal system of Anglo-Saxon England. Based on twenty years of research, it offers important insights into English law from the sixth century through to its preservation in twelfth-century manuscripts.

African Film

Looking Back and Looking Forward

Edited By: Foluke Ogunleye

£44.99

This interdisciplinary book interrogates Africa’s filmic past, analyses current productions, and projects into the future. Traversing politics, economics, and history, it explores production, marketing, gender, race, and legal issues.

Tabish Khair

Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Om Prakash Dwivedi

£44.99

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair's unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair’s unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

Eat History

Food and Drink in Australia and Beyond

Edited By: Sofia Eriksson, Madeleine Hastie, Tom Roberts

£39.99

Eat History offers fascinating new insights into gastronomic studies and cultural history. Nine leading historians explore topics from vodka to patty cakes across the globe, engaging academics and general readers keen to discover how food opens up new areas of history.

Europe as a Multiple Modernity

Multiplicity of Religious Identities and Belonging

Edited By: Srdjan Sremac, Martina Topić

£49.99

Challenging predominant modernity theory, this book argues Europe is a multiple modernity. Essays explore the plurality of religious identities and belonging in the everyday lives of individuals, focusing on their multiple senses of identification.

The European Debt Crisis

Causes, Consequences, Measures and Remedies

Edited By: Ali Ari

£44.99

The global financial crisis led to a European sovereign debt crisis that threatens the future of the EU. This book provides answers from theoretical and empirical perspectives, exploring the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the ongoing crisis.

Ninety Years of the Abruzzo National Park 1922-2012

Proceedings of the Conference held in Pescasseroli, May 18-20, 2012

Edited By: Luigi Piccioni

£39.99

The Abruzzo National Park is one of the oldest protected areas in Europe. This volume reconstructs the highlights of the Park’s troubled but influential history and its connections with environmentalism and Italian society at large.

The Fire Within

Desire in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature

Edited By: Elena Borelli

£44.99

Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.

Displaced Women

Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe

Edited By: Lucia Aiello, Joy Charnley, Mariangela Palladino

£44.99

These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.

A Model Mother? Family Policy and Childrearing in Post-Devolution Scotland

By: Tania Wood

£44.99

This book argues that UK government policy on “better parenting” promoted a middle-class model which misunderstood and devalued other approaches, reproducing social inequality and failing to support mothers who diverged from this ideal.

Nazi Ideology and Ethics

Edited By: Wolfgang Bialas, Lothar Fritze

£54.99

This volume explores the ethics of National Socialism, from its ideology of racial warfare and “euthanasia” killings to the moral convictions of perpetrators who acted with a “good conscience.” It connects Nazi ideology to current ethical challenges.

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