Social Sciences

Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things

Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Edited By: Melissa Beattie, Ross P. Garner, Una McCormack

£39.99

These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.

Imprints of Jesus of Nazareth

The Veil and the Shroud

By: Liberato De Caro, Emilio Matricciani

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The Veil of Manoppello shows a face, alive. The Shroud of Turin, a body, dead. For 2000 years, their origin has been a mystery. Now, discover overwhelming new evidence from the first scientific examination of the Veil, linking both relics to one man.

Improving Learning in Secondary Schools

Conditions for Successful Provision and Uptake of Classroom Assessment Feedback

By: Kenneth Ndifor Tangie

£52.99

The mere presence of feedback is not enough to support learning. This book argues feedback is a social process where context is critical. It presents a critical analysis of feedback in teacher talk and writing to generate a new, globally-applicable theory of classroom feedback.

Improving Teachers’ Understanding of Antisocial Orientation

By: Salvatore B. Durante, John R. Reddon, Jan E. Reddon

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Teachers have expressed a lack of training in how to manage student aggression. This book improves understanding of antisocial orientation by examining its causes and treatments, and concludes with classroom strategies and school modifications to foster a prosocial orientation.

Improving Teaching and Learning through Experiential Learning

By: Betty McDonald

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Answering questions like "Will I ever use this?," this book shows why learning is most effective through experience. It provides the tools needed to make better use of experiences to improve teaching and learning.

Answering questions like “Will I ever use this?,” this book shows why learning is most effective through experience. It provides the tools needed to make better use of experiences to improve teaching and learning.

Improving Teaching and Learning through Internationalisation

By: Betty McDonald

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A vital guide for higher education administrators and international students. It blends empirical findings, personal experiences, and cultural insights to enhance global learning and cross-cultural understanding.

Improvisation

Between Technique and Spontaneity

Edited By: Marina Santi

£34.99

This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.

In and Out

Eccentricity in Britain

Edited By: Sophie Aymes-Stokes, Laurent Mellet

£44.99

This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.

In and Out of Africa

Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections

Edited By: Joanna Boampong

£44.99

This anthology explores the deep historical and cultural bonds connecting Africa to the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds. Scholars and artists examine themes of colonization, slavery, identity, and migration through new artistic prisms.

In Defense of Liberal-Pluralism

2nd Edition

By: Upendra Chidella

£29.99

This book challenges Kantian universalism, arguing that moral reasoning is bound by paradoxes and irreducible choices. It redefines liberal-pluralism, treating morality as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.

In Defense of Liberal-Pluralism

By: Upendra Chidella, Vikram Singh Sirola

£44.99

This book critiques Kantian universalism, arguing that the complex human condition requires a morality beyond simple binaries. It redefines liberal-pluralism as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.

In History and Education, from the Munster Blackwater to the Indian Ocean

An Autoethnography

By: Tom O’Donoghue

From £25.99

This book illuminates 70 years of educational development in Ireland and internationally. The author traces his journey from an early life in rural Ireland to academic work in Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Asia, linking his experiences to major historical events.

In Levinas’ Trace

Edited By: Maria Dimitrova

£34.99

This book explores human relationships from the perspective of phenomenology. More than an abstract academic work, it is essential for those interested in ethics and political philosophy, offering new ways to articulate humanism and justice for scholars and policymakers.

In Memoriam

Commemoration, Communal Memory and Gender Values in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World

Edited By: Helène Whittaker

£34.99

Ancient societies deliberately perpetuated the memory of individuals and events. This volume discusses the creation of memory in the Graeco-Roman world, asking how an individual’s gender and social status affected their chances of being remembered after death.

In Permanent Transit

Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience

Edited By: Clara Sarmento, Silvia Sousa

£49.99

In Permanent Transit offers interdisciplinary approaches to migrations, globalisation, and the intercultural experience. This book finds the potential for change at peripheries marked by hybridity, where the ‘excluded’ use subversion to undermine the powerful.

In Praise of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

By: John Hardy

£66.99

This work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," demonstrating his imaginative insights into the drama of human life. It reveals his continuing relevance by exploring themes of domestic violence, trust, and the need for new perspectives.

This work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” demonstrating his imaginative insights into the drama of human life. It reveals his continuing relevance by exploring themes of domestic violence, trust, and the need for new perspectives.

In Praise of Cinematic Bastardy

Edited By: Sébastien Lefait, Philippe Ortoli

£39.99

Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.

In Search of (Non)Sense

Edited By: Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska, Grzegorz Szpila

£44.99

Are all literary texts interpretable? This volume explores the borderline of sense and nonsense, where literary studies and linguistics converge. Contributors tackle anomaly and absurdity, drawing from cognitive studies, pragmatics, and philosophy.

In Search of a European Public Sphere

Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects

Edited By: Malgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska

From £30.99

This vital collection offers insight into the European public sphere, providing Western and Eastern perspectives on media trends like misinformation and fragmentation. It analyzes current issues such as populism, migration, and foreign involvement in European affairs.

In Search of Agamemnon

Early Travellers to Mycenae

By: Nektarios Karadimas, Dudley Moore, Edward Rowlands

£39.99

Before Schliemann, pioneers and ancients were fascinated by Mycenae. This book brings to life their thoughts and descriptions of the Lion Gate and ‘Treasury of Atreus’—observations that are not only of historical interest, but pure poetry.

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