Social Sciences

Views, Positions, Legacies

Interviews with German and British Theatre Artists, 1985-2007

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£34.99

This book collects 24 interviews with German and British theatre artists over 20 years. Actors, directors, and dramatists discuss boulevard comedy, Brecht’s legacy, and seminal productions like Sir Richard Eyre’s account of his Hamlet at the Royal Court.

Explaining the Mental

Naturalist and Non-Naturalist Approaches to Mental Acts and Processes

Edited By: Michael Beaney, Carlo Penco

£39.99

This collection presents philosophical perspectives on the mental, exploring how to define and understand mental processes, and exhibiting the contrast between naturalistic and non-naturalistic approaches to thinking, knowledge, and intentionality.

Women’s Writing in Western Europe

Gender, Generation and Legacy

Edited By: Adalgisa Giorgio, Julia Waters

£44.99

The first study to investigate the legacy of a pioneering generation of women writers for contemporary authors across Western Europe. These studies uncover a complex web of intertextual links, offering new paradigms to think and read with.

Colonial and Global Interfacings

Imperial Hegemonies and Democratizing Resistances

Edited By: Gary Backhaus

£39.99

Colonial techniques of domination boomeranged back to the West, sustained by capitalist relations. As new movements challenge the world order, this book explores how global flows of people and ideas transform identity and power from the North to the South.

Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions

Edited By: Pam Dickinson, Jason Jeandron, Lucy Wilson

£39.99

The landscape constrains human activity, and our actions leave traces. Geoarchaeology finds these traces to reconstruct how past peoples behaved, offering data that must contribute to the debate on the sustainability of present-day land use.

Essays on Lexicon, Lexicography, Terminography in Russian, American and Other Cultures

Edited By: Olga Karpova, Faina Kartashkova

£34.99

This collection explores topical issues in modern linguistics, including cross-cultural communication, lexicography, and terminology. It analyzes cultural aspects of language, dictionary user needs, modern terminology, and new models for reference works.

Consuming Visions

New Essays on the Politics of Consumption in Modern America

Edited By: Daniel Scroop

£29.99

This collection of essays explores the “consuming visions” that shaped 20th-century American life. Ranging from the anti-chain store movement to the “bling” aesthetic, these innovative works reveal how questions of consumption have always been political.

The American Village in a Global Setting

Selected papers from an interdisciplinary conference in honor of Sinclair Lewis and Ida K. Compton

Edited By: Michael E. Connaughton, Suellen Rundquist

£39.99

Selected from a conference honoring Sinclair Lewis, these papers consider his world through today’s lens. Scholars address community, comparing his vision to other authors and media, and use his work as a springboard to discuss today’s global issues.

The Books of Job

By: Maurice J. O’Sullivan

£24.99

For a thousand years, an unlikely cast—from beggars to earls—sought the perfect English Job. This book uncovers their stories and assembles a composite translation from fifty versions, revealing a compelling and paradoxical conversation.

Hunting the Collectors

Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives

Edited By: Susan Cochrane, Max Quanchi

£34.99

This volume investigates Pacific collections in Australian museums and the diverse 19th- and 20th-century collectors responsible. Essays reveal the motivations that led to the preservation of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island art, objects, and documents.

Which Direction Ireland? Proceedings of the 2006 ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

Edited By: Donald McNamara

£29.99

Ireland is changing so rapidly that many wonder where it is headed. This book probes the geographical, historical, social, and political currents at play, offering cogent insight into these changes and well-founded projections about the future.

1848

The Year the World Turned?

Edited By: Kay Boardman, Christine Kinealy

£39.99

In 1848, the world failed to turn. Or did it? This book offers new insights by looking beyond the main revolutions to consider overlooked places from Ireland to Australia, the experiences of women, and the era’s rich cultural and intellectual ferment.

Language and Languages

Global and Local Tensions

Edited By: Christina Gitsaki

£44.99

This collection of papers by international academics explores the massive changes globalisation brings to language. Synthesizing theory and research, it addresses the tensions in ELT, ICTs, and minority languages for academics, researchers, and educators.

Aesthetics and Innovation

Edited By: Leonid Dorfman, Colin Martindale

£44.99

This book describes new ways of approaching aesthetics and innovation. Spanning Gestalt theory to the latest brain scan research, it unites chapters by Western aestheticians and Russian scholars, offering novel perspectives on art and science.

Politics and Language

Edited By: Andrew Cline, Max J. Skidmore

£34.99

This volume brings together thoughtful and provocative essays on the complex interrelationship of language, thought, and action. From popular to technical, light to deadly serious, this collection calls attention to the importance of language to politics.

Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th – 21st Century

Edited By: Cristina Sánchez-Conejero

£39.99

An exploration of the multiple meanings of “Spanishness” in 20th-21st century fiction. This book calls for a re-evaluation of what being Spanish means, analyzing themes like immigration, nationalism, and memory to dispel stereotypical notions of Spain.

Culture, Identity and Religion in Southeast Asia

Edited By: Alistair D. B. Cook

£29.99

A valuable and timely collection by specialists tackling terrorism, human rights, Islamic radicalism, and identity in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Highly recommended.

Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction

Edited By: Anita Higgie, Linda Martz

£34.99

Essays by international scholars explore how detective fiction mirrors personal, sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. This collection examines the genre's evolution and its interface with diverse national literatures and histories.

Essays by international scholars explore how detective fiction mirrors personal, sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. This collection examines the genre’s evolution and its interface with diverse national literatures and histories.

Framing Globalization

Visual Perspectives

Edited By: Patrizia Faccioli, Jacqueline A. Gibbons

£29.99

This collection of readings explores the intersection of the global and local through visual sociology. It examines how images in various contexts reflect and generate sociological concepts, shaping our understanding of identity, culture, and belonging worldwide.

Modernity at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Edited By: Volker Schmidt

£34.99

Modernity is back on sociology's agenda. With the exhaustion of postmodernism and an intensification of modernization around the world, this volume contributes to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of modernity and its significance in non-Western societies.

Modernity is back on sociology’s agenda. With the exhaustion of postmodernism and an intensification of modernization around the world, this volume contributes to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of modernity and its significance in non-Western societies.

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