Social Sciences

Special Interest Tourism, 3rd Edition

By: Bongkosh N. Rittichainuwat

£64.99

This textbook covers 15 chapters on food, film, shopping, medical, ghost, and suicide tourism, and introduces students, researchers, educators, and tour operators to the demands of affluent tourists from the newly industrialized countries of East and Southeast Asia.

Handmaids, Tributes, and Carers

Dystopian Females’ Roles and Goals

Edited By: Myrna Santos

£61.99

This book studies the role of female figures in dystopian narratives, from fiction to film, addressing how such characters, from all stages of life, are often critical to these narratives, positing females as particularly powerful heroines or catalysts to action.

PaintingDigitalPhotography

Synthesis and Difference in the Age of Media Equivalence

Edited By: Carl Robinson

£64.99

This publication investigates aspects of interconnectivity between painting, the digital and photography in contemporary art practices. It contributes to discourses around networks of associations by examining where syntheses occur, and differences remain, between these media.

Probing the Enigma of Franco

By: Andrew Sangster

£61.99

Offering an accessible framework for the student and general reader to study the Franco regime, Sangster explores the various views of the Spanish dictator provided by biographers and historians.

Love in a Changing Greek Climate, and Other Essays

By: Roger Just

£58.99

These essays document a way of life that has now virtually disappeared. Based on anthropological fieldwork in a remote Greek village in the 1970s, they focus on family, kinship, and gender, and the profound transformation of rural society as it was occurring at the time.

Linguistic Issues and Quality Assessment of English-Arabic Audiovisual Translation

By: Ahmad Khuddro

£61.99

Due to a dearth of academic references in the area of English-Arabic audiovisual translation, this monograph represents a unique resource, in that it explores dubbing and subtitling into Arabic, a topic hardly discussed academically both in the Arab world and across the globe.

Shifting Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction and Film from Spain

Edited By: Jennifer Brady, Meredith L. Jeffers

£61.99

This edited volume analyses shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain.

Consciousness, Performing Arts and Literature

Trajectories, 2014-2018

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£67.99

Against the background of personal, institutional and cultural trajectories, this collection considers dance, opera, theatre and practice as research from a consciousness studies perspective.

The Depiction of Poland and Poles in The Daily Telegraph, 2007-2010

By: Dorota Kokowicz

£61.99

This book explores the image of Poland as published in The Daily Telegraph from 2007 to 2010. It investigates how one of Britain's most influential newspapers depicted Polish reality and compares this portrayal to the Polish government’s own PR objectives of that time.

This book explores the image of Poland as published in The Daily Telegraph from 2007 to 2010. It investigates how one of Britain’s most influential newspapers depicted Polish reality and compares this portrayal to the Polish government’s own PR objectives of that time.

An Introduction to Psychology for the Middle East (and Beyond)

Edited By: Louise Lambert, Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi

From £39.99

More than an average textbook, this guide combines major theories with culturally-relevant examples and indigenous research from the Middle East. Written by local experts, it helps students understand the relevance of psychology to their own lives and societies.

Security and Insecurity in the Middle East

Edited By: Imad El-Anis, Sahra Joharchi, Natasha Underhill

£58.99

This conference proceedings analyses a range of political, economic, security and socio-cultural issues that lie at the heart of the instability that the Middle East and North Africa region is currently experiencing.

Mind, Body, and Consciousness in Society

Thinking Vygotsky via Chomsky

By: Paul C. Mocombe

£61.99

Mocombe explores the nature of learning and development in the philosophy of phenomenological structuralism, which represents an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.

Sounds of Origin in Heavy Metal Music

Edited By: Toni-Matti Karjalainen

£58.99

The seven scholarly essays gathered here explore local scenes and identities within heavy metal music from multiple angles, covering a variety of different countries and metal sub-genres from Finland to Indonesia, and from black metal to metalcore.

Trends in Radio Research

Diversity, Innovation and Policies

Edited By: Manuel Fernández-Sande, J. Ignacio Gallego, Nieves Limón

£64.99

This book explores radio's adaptation to the digital era. Drawing on international research from countries like the UK, Spain, and Brazil, chapters investigate key issues, including new business models, the function of community radio, and the future of the radio spectrum.

This book explores radio’s adaptation to the digital era. Drawing on international research from countries like the UK, Spain, and Brazil, chapters investigate key issues, including new business models, the function of community radio, and the future of the radio spectrum.

Connecting Worlds

Production and Circulation of Knowledge in the First Global Age

Edited By: Fabiano Bracht, Gisele C. Conceição, Amélia Polónia

£64.99

Establishing a dialogue between colonial studies and the history of science, this title contributes to a renewed analytical framework grounded on a trans-national, trans-cultural and trans-imperial perspective.

Metamorphoses of the Absolute

Edited By: Otto Neumaier, Daina Teters

£64.99

This collection of essays is devoted to the diversity of the conceptual and terminological definitions of the notion of the “absolute”. The question here is not what the absolute is, but what possibilities exist with regard to perceiving and conceptualizing it in human terms.

Communication and Language Skills

Edited By: Iyabode Omolara Akewo Daniel

£47.99

This title will serve to provide the reader with the communicative and language skills necessary to function in modern society. It identifies the descriptive functioning of language, as well as the communicative processes involved in its usage.

Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence

The Power of the Future for Planetary Transformation

By: Glen T. Martin

From £49.99

By examining the dynamics of self-transcendence for both individuals and humanity as a whole, this study illuminates the definitive relationship between self-transcendence and global democracy, describing our transition from personal consciousness to global consciousness.

Music on Stage Volume III

Edited By: Fiona Jane Schopf

£61.99

This compendium of interdisciplinary research presents new “readings” on topics from opera by Handel and Mozart to 1960s popular sound. Chapters discuss operatic lighting, Wagner’s leitmotif technique, music and social media, and the art and politics of the collective Laibach.

Shakespeare, Our Personal Trainer

Teaching Shakespeare in Secondary Schools

Edited By: Cristina Paravano, Margaret Rose, Roberta Situlin

£61.99

Experts from literary, theatre, and scientific fields present Shakespeare’s works from different perspectives. Deploying a range of filters such as nutrition, comics, and street art, they show how the Bard can still be relevant to our lives in the 21st century.

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