Social Sciences

Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States

Memories and Visions, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Edited By: Jonathan H. X. Lee

£52.99

This collection explores Southeast Asian American subjectivities through the interplay of memory and vision. Authors examine diverse homes, creativities, and queer sexualities to provide new visions that link Southeast Asia to America in creative and purposeful ways.

Assembling Identities

Edited By: Sam Wiseman

£47.99

This cross-disciplinary collection explores how identities – individual, communal, and national – are constructed, maintained and contested. These essays emphasize the invariable ambiguity and instability of identity, offering new perspectives on a concept in ceaseless change.

Coming Home?

Conflict and Return Migration in Post-Civil War Europe of the Twentieth-Century and in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962–2009, in Two Volumes

Edited By: Sharif Gemie, Norry LaPorte

£54.99

The wars of the twentieth century created the refugee. Forced displacement, in turn, created its own conflicts. This series explores the complex relationship between conflict, return migration, and the compelling, often elusive, search for a sense of home.

Emerson Goes to the Movies

Individualism in Walt Disney Company's Post-1989 Animated Films

By: Justyna Fruzińska

£41.99

This book traces Emersonian individualism in Disney's post-1989 animated films, proving self-reliance is still alive in popular culture. It explores what influences Disney and how individualism intersects with race, gender, class, and imperialism.

This book traces Emersonian individualism in Disney’s post-1989 animated films, proving self-reliance is still alive in popular culture. It explores what influences Disney and how individualism intersects with race, gender, class, and imperialism.

An Ethics of/for the Future?

Edited By: Mary Shanahan

£41.99

This unique collection challenges readers to reconsider the nature of ethics. With a panoramic view of ethical themes, it revisits age-old positions and investigates fresh fields to elicit new debates. An invaluable resource for students and scholars.

William Gilpin and Letter Writing

Vol. 1 & 2

By: Alain Kerhervé

£62.99

This first-time edition of William Gilpin's letter-writing manual offers moral models for young men. Its counterpart is his personal correspondence with his grandson, revealing intimate details of his daily life, domestic concerns, and the art of being a grand-father.

This first-time edition of William Gilpin’s letter-writing manual offers moral models for young men. Its counterpart is his personal correspondence with his grandson, revealing intimate details of his daily life, domestic concerns, and the art of being a grand-father.

The Scourges of the South? Essays on “The Sickly South” in History, Literature, and Popular Culture

Edited By: Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Beata Zawadka

£41.99

Eleven scholars challenge the popular vision of the American South as an ill region. They interpret its “sickly” culture not as a problem, but as an opportunity and a springboard to cultural revitalization and a new kind of “health”.

Henry James Today

Edited By: John Carlos Rowe

£41.99

This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.

Democracy in the Workplace and at Home

Finding Freedom, Liberty and Justice in the Lived Environment

By: Randall Ray Booze

£41.99

This book explores how democratic concepts like freedom and justice impact our work and home environments. It reveals how a lack of these concepts harms health and well-being, and shows how to create more democratic, healthy, and productive lives.

Foreign Correspondence

Edited By: Jan Borm

£47.99

This volume treats travel writing as "foreign correspondence," a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.

This volume treats travel writing as “foreign correspondence,” a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.

Deleuze and Asia

Edited By: Ronald Bogue, Hanping Chiu, Yu-lin Lee

£47.99

In the first collection devoted to Deleuze and Asia, Asian and Western scholars explore Deleuzian concepts in philosophy, religion, film, art, and literature, mapping new directions in East-West research that reveal new dimensions of Deleuze’s thought.

Choral Singing

Histories and Practices

Edited By: Ursula Geïsler, Karin Johansson

£47.99

What role does choral activity play in the construction of social and musical meaning? This anthology addresses questions like these from a wide range of disciplines, contributing to a transdisciplinary discussion about the origins, functions, and meanings of choral singing.

Behind the Words

The FCO, Hegemonolingualism and the End of Britain's Freedom

By: William Mallinson

From £29.99

Standard English is not a question of class, but of education. This book tears up that falsehood, demonstrating through original texts how the attack on clear English has infected the Foreign Office, leading to a serious loss in Britain’s independence.

As Mirrors Are Lonely

A Lacanian Reading on the Modern Irish Novel

By: Peter Guy

£47.99

This new study investigates how Irish writers since the sixties have responded to a changing world, re-examining their work through the theory of Jacques Lacan. It focuses on John McGahern, Brian Moore and John Broderick, exploring gender and family.

Kant’s B Deduction

By: Pablo Muchnik

£41.99

This line-by-line commentary on Kant's B-Transcendental Deduction reveals its argument as the progressive unfolding of the Principle of Apperception. Focusing on this structure settles controversial questions, making it helpful to students and specialists.

This line-by-line commentary on Kant’s B-Transcendental Deduction reveals its argument as the progressive unfolding of the Principle of Apperception. Focusing on this structure settles controversial questions, making it helpful to students and specialists.

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things

By: Richard Allen Shoaf

£41.99

This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.

Symbolic Forms as the Metaphysical Groundwork of the Organon of the Cultural Sciences

Volume 1

By: Israel Bar-Yehuda Idalovichi

£59.99

This work reclassifies the history of ideas through a new organon for the cultural sciences. Radically revising standard theories, it extracts principles from philosophy, arts, and sciences, and reshapes them as symbolic forms grounded in imagination.

Using Technology in Foreign Language Teaching

Edited By: Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Salah Troudi

£52.99

This book explores how to best utilize technology in language teaching, debating the advantages and disadvantages of IT integration. It examines IT use in countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia, providing a useful resource for professionals and researchers.

Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel

A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives

Edited By: Binne de Haan, Konstantin Mierau

£39.99

This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.

“Hours like bright sweets in a jar”

Time and Temporality in Literature and Culture

Edited By: Sonia Front, Alicja Bemben

£41.99

Investigating time from interdisciplinary perspectives, these essays explore resistance against the hegemony of linear time. Literary, cinematographic, and cultural practices enact exploding temporalities to reflect the multifaceted human experience of time.

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