Social Sciences

When East Meets West

Media Research and Practice in US and China

Edited By: Fran Blumberg

£34.99

This book serves as a reference that brings together theoretical perspectives and research on media from a Sino-American vantage point. It considers the issues China and the U.S. will encounter as they move toward greater interdependence, capturing a “decisive moment.”

Ruskin in Perspective

Contemporary Essays

Edited By: Carmen Casaliggi, Paul March-Russell

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This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.

“Toubab La!” Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

By: Ginette Curry

£39.99

This study examines mixed-race characters in literature from the African diaspora across the US, Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. It analyzes the different ways multiracial characters look at the world, how the world looks at them, and their constant search for identity.

Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature

Edited By: Andrea Morris, Margaret Parker

£34.99

This collection of essays on Hispanic literature connects texts, contexts, and genres. Authors offer innovative approaches to the Hispanic world, challenging traditional assumptions about identity, race, and gender while exploring the experience of those on the margin.

World Constitutionalism

Edited By: Carmo D’Souza, Anthony D’Souza

£39.99

In World Constitutionalism, over two dozen scholars pen innovative ideas to visualize a future for a just world order. Their vision crosses national barriers through the realms of Human Rights, Environmental Law, and Global Democracy.

Applying Theory and Research to Learning Japanese as a Foreign Language

Edited By: Masahiko Minami

£39.99

This book discusses adult learners of Japanese and English-Japanese bilingual children, addressing gaps in the literature. Its goal is to integrate theoretical concepts and research findings and apply them to the teaching and learning of Japanese.

Women Moving Forward Volume Two

An Intersectional Lens for a Tapestry of Diverse Voices

Edited By: Raúl Fernández-Calienes

£39.99

A weaving of stories about hope, fortitude, and resilience. This collection shares narratives of the global movement of women towards empowerment, exploring the challenges they face as they move forward. This profound volume both inspires and challenges.

The Rise of Authoritarian Liberal Democracy

By: Peter Baofu

£39.99

This book challenges the wisdom that separates liberal democracies from authoritarian systems. It argues that a liberal democracy not only can be as evil as its counterparts, but can become more authoritarian as it advances—an advanced stage of democracy itself.

Racisms in the New World Order

Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity

Edited By: Hurriyet Babacan

£34.99

In our globalized world, racism is constantly changing. This book moves beyond traditional ideas to examine contemporary racisms, their intersection with other prejudices, and their link to the ‘War on Terror’ and ‘Islamaphobia’. It presents strategies for action.

(Re)Creating Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Edited By: Amanda Mordavsky Caleb

£39.99

This collection reconsiders the history of science in nineteenth-century Britain. Moving away from a Darwin-focused history, these interdisciplinary essays offer fresh insights into scientific development through history, religion, literature, and art.

Researching the Self

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Willem E. Frankenhuis, Ellen Grünewald

£39.99

Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and computer science unite to explore the self. What are its neural correlates? Can individuals have multiple selves? How do selves depend on others? Will engineers ever construct artificial selves?

English in Southeast Asia

Varieties, Literacies and Literatures

Edited By: David Prescott

£39.99

This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.

Movie Time

By: James Combs

£34.99

Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.

Francophone Women Coming of Age

Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean

Edited By: Debra Popkin

£29.99

These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.

Approaches to Specialised Discourse in Higher Education and Professional Contexts

Edited By: Alejandro Curado-Fuentes, Mª Mercedes Rico-García, Patricia Edwards Rokowski

£34.99

This collection of studies on languages for specific purposes (LSP) analyses discourse across academic and professional areas. It offers valuable insights into communicative strategies and methodological approaches for teaching specialised communication skills.

Eastwards / Westwards

Which Direction for Gender Studies in the 21st Century?

Edited By: Clara Sarmento

£34.99

This collection of essays on gender in Asian countries offers a critical transnational perspective. It explores the interplay between local and global forces in the (re)invention of male and female identities across politics, literature, and popular culture.

Through Other Eyes

The Translation of Anglophone Literature in Europe

Edited By: Sophie Alatorre, Richard Trim

£29.99

This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.

Writing Imagined Diasporas

South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity

Edited By: Joel Kuortti

£29.99

This study argues that diasporic South Asian women writers are not merely assimilating to North American culture but actively reshaping it. Their writings of imagined diasporas create new, hybrid identities that challenge "national" discourses.

Romanticism and Parenting

Image, Instruction and Ideology

Edited By: Carolyn Weber

£29.99

How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.

Querying Difference in Theatre History

Edited By: Ann Haugo, Scott Magelssen

£29.99

As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.

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