Social Sciences

African Film Cultures

Contexts of Creation and Circulation

Edited By: Añuli Agina, Barbara Knorpp, Winston Mano

£61.99

This book offers new perspectives on diverse African film cultures. It uniquely engages with the peoples, histories, geographies, and changing production cultures shaped by audiences at home and in the diaspora, providing useful analyses of socio-political factors.

Art and Future

Energy, Climate, Cultures

Edited By: Peter Stupples, Jane Venis

£61.99

This publication examines the future of art in a changing world. In particular, contributors discuss the agency of art in conditions of ecological threats to the natural world, to climate change and the effects of globalisation, neoliberal economics and mass tourism.

The English Urban Renaissance Revisited

Edited By: John Hinks

£61.99

The essays here offer a wide-ranging study of the continuing impact of the ‘English Urban Renaissance’ and investigate the wider impact of the concept beyond England. They reiterate the importance of provincial towns as hubs of economic, cultural and political activity.

Does Energy Cause Ethnic War? East Mediterranean and Caspian Sea Natural Gas and Regional Conflicts

By: Marika Karagianni, Andreas Stergiou

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The energy-rich Caspian and Eastern Mediterranean regions are plagued by deep-seated conflicts. This book investigates the impact of their abundant energy resources on these disputes and on the power game between the EU and Russia.

Rethinking J.S. Bach’s Musical Offering

By: Anatoly Milka

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J.S. Bach’s Musical Offering survived as separated sheets, its true structure a puzzle for centuries. This book revises groundbreaking research to present a unique conception of the work's original design, focusing on the mysterious ordering of its ten canons.

J.S. Bach’s Musical Offering survived as separated sheets, its true structure a puzzle for centuries. This book revises groundbreaking research to present a unique conception of the work’s original design, focusing on the mysterious ordering of its ten canons.

The Orient in Music – Music of the Orient

Edited By: Małgorzata Grajter

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European fascination with Oriental cultures has found multifaceted manifestations. Music, as an important element of cultural communication, is well suited for such transitions. This collection of essays explores the fascinating influences between Orient and Western music.

South African Literary Cultural Nationalism—Abalobi beSizwe eMzansi—1918-45

Returning to the Source

By: Nicholas M. Creary

£61.99

Creary’s intellectual history uses Amílcar Cabral’s theory of the “return to the source” to examine Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi, Vilakazi’s poetry, and Jordan’s The Wrath of the Ancestors within the broader context of African cultural nationalisms in the early twentieth century.

Promised End

The Last Scene of King Lear

By: Seth C. Hawkins

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The whole meaning of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy depends on Lear’s last lines. Is his vision an epiphany or delusion? Is the play nihilistic or redemptive? This book deploys a wide spectrum of critical approaches to enlist readers in a quest for the answer.

Aristide of Le Figaro

By: Mary Munro-Hill

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Can language be truly absorbing? For thirty years, Aristide’s witty and elegant grammar columns for Le Figaro entertained France. This book on his work, for lovers of the French language, is both entertaining and instructive, peppered with extracts from his original writings.

Studies in Language Variation and Change 2

Shifts and Turns in the History of English

Edited By: Catherine Delesse, Elise Louviot, Catherine Delesse

£61.99

This collection of essays traces the history of the English language, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly the influence of Scandinavian, French, and Latin, which are all considered here.

Debating with the Eumenides

Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece

Edited By: Vayos Liapis, Maria Pavlou

£61.99

Greek tragedy takes pride of place in the dialogue between modern Greece and its classical past. In this volume, scholars explore how tragic myth has been reimagined in modern Greek drama and poetry, with extensive coverage of major authors like Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos.

French Historians in the Nineteenth Century

Providence and History

By: F.L. van Holthoon

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This study of nineteenth-century French historians reveals a major change of perspective. Early historians like Guizot looked to the past for guidance, while later historians saw it as a closed book to be opened, highlighting overlooked figures like Comtesse d’Agoult.

Reporting the Attacks on Dubrovnik in 1991, and the Recognition of Croatia

Edited By: Mato Brautović, Renaud de la Brosse

£61.99

This title provides an overview of the role of the media during the attack on Dubrovnik in autumn 1991 by the federal army and Montenegrin reservists, and represents a primary source of information about the propaganda war waged during the conflict between Croatia and Serbia.

Political Philosophy in Motion *.mkv

By: Dan Dungaciu

£61.99

This book offers a precise way of “looking at things” to re-define the relationship between film and political philosophy. It provides new reflections on the domain’s themes, appealing to academics interested in political philosophy, media studies, and cultural studies.

Modality in Modern Greek

By: Eleni Staraki

£61.99

Staraki analyses both main and embedded modality in the modern Greek language. By reviewing the classical semantic and syntactic literature related to modality, she offers a new account of its interpretation in modern Greek regarding non-veridicality and non-monotonic principles.

Exploring the Syntax and Semantics of South Asian Languages

Edited By: Reena Ashem, Gurmeet Kaur, Usha Udaar

£61.99

This collection offers fresh perspectives on the syntax and semantics of South Asian languages. Drawing on novel data, it covers key grammatical aspects like clausal/nominal structure, case/phi-agreement, and primitive categories, with analyses couched in the generative paradigm.

The Practicalities of Producing the Play Mozart, with Music by Franz von Suppé

By: Lucinda Bray, Dario Salvi

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In 1854, Franz von Suppé wrote music for a play that accompanies the action like a film score. While the music works today, the 19th-century German script does not. This book details the challenge of adapting the text for a modern audience while keeping Suppé's score intact.

The Ancient War’s Impact on the Home Front

Edited By: Lucia Cecchet, Christopher Degelmann, Maik Patzelt

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This first comprehensive volume explores the concept of the ‘home front’ in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Crossing borders between history, social sciences, and religious studies, it investigates the impact of war on the social and religious spheres of civilian communities.

Psychology for a Better World

A Cross-Cultural Anthology on Emotional Well-Being

Edited By: Murari Prasad Regmi, Karen Schmaling, Antigonos Sochos

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This anthology from World without Anger (WWA) promotes peace. Peer-reviewed papers from an international conference reflect diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives on anger management, emotional intelligence, and cultural harmony.

Building Inclusive Communities through Education and Learning

Edited By: Klara Skubic Ermenc, Borut Mikulec

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This book examines the complex relationship between learning, education, and community. Using Slovenian studies with global relevance, it offers a unique perspective shaped by the historical European experience of attempting collective unity in former Yugoslavia.

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