Social Sciences

The European Culture for Human Rights

The Right to Happiness

Edited By: Filomena Maggino, Elena Zamfir

£59.99

This pioneering analysis frames happiness as a human right, linking our quality of life to collective responsibility. It offers a pragmatic vision for improving our inner and outer worlds in a complex, modern society.

The United States between China and Japan

Edited By: Caroline Rose, Victor Teo

£59.99

The United States has played a pivotal, controversial role in China-Japan relations since WWII. This volume provides a multi-faceted overview of America’s interaction in East Asia, highlighting the obstacles to improved bilateral and regional integration.

Fresche fontanis

Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

Edited By: J. Derrick McClure, Janet Hadley Williams

£59.99

Fresche fontanis presents major new research by leading scholars on Scottish culture of the 14th-17th centuries. Essays analyze writers, romances, chronicles, and manuscripts, making a significant contribution to this imaginatively productive period.

Translation across Time and Space

By: Wafa Abu Hatab

£59.99

This book investigates aspects of translation, including its literary, legal, and machine forms, and covers a range of languages, from Arabic to French. It gives researchers interested in translation studies a detailed insight into translation as a product and a process.

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Education

Edited By: Hasan Arslan, Ercan Kocayörük

£59.99

This collection of essays from educators across Africa, Asia, and Europe explores key issues in education. Topics range from teacher education and psychosocial development to educational policy and language in teaching. For educators, researchers, and students.

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.

Picturing the Language of Images

Edited By: Laurence Petit

£59.99

This collection of essays explores the complex interaction between the verbal and the visual across literature, painting, film, and comics. Spanning four centuries, these works re-think the very acts of reading and viewing.

Mixed Metaphors

The Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Edited By: Stefanie Knöll, Sophie Oosterwijk

£59.99

This collection of essays reveals the lasting influence of the Danse Macabre, a European motif where Death summons us all—rich or poor. Mixing dance and violence, it inspired artists and dramatists like Shakespeare, and shaped culture from the Middle Ages to today.

Architecture and Royal Presence

Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592-1627)

By: Sabina de Cavi

£59.99

This book offers an interpretation of Spanish architectural patronage in Naples. Focusing on architects Domenico Fontana and his son Giulio Cesare, it shows how Naples participated in the imperial program and explains the delayed flowering of its Baroque architecture.

The Debt Crisis in the Eurozone

Social Impacts

Edited By: Nikos Petropoulos, George O. Tsobanoglou

£59.99

In a crisis comparable to the Great Depression, 20 social scientists delve into the causes and social impacts on Europe's periphery. They cover consequences from poverty to protest and offer policy recommendations to transform the crisis into an opportunity.

In a crisis comparable to the Great Depression, 20 social scientists delve into the causes and social impacts on Europe’s periphery. They cover consequences from poverty to protest and offer policy recommendations to transform the crisis into an opportunity.

Language Skills

Traditions, Transitions and Ways Forward

Edited By: Halina Chodkiewicz, Magdalena Trepczyńska

£59.99

This volume offers an international perspective on language skills. It explores the development of spoken, reading, and writing skills, incorporating technology and original empirical studies. A vital resource for researchers, classroom teachers, and students.

Twentieth Century Borrowings from French to English

Their Reception and Development

By: Julia Landmann

£59.99

French's vast influence on English is well-known, but recent borrowings are little studied. This work analyzes 1677 20th-century loanwords from the OED to reveal their modern impact and semantic evolution.

French’s vast influence on English is well-known, but recent borrowings are little studied. This work analyzes 1677 20th-century loanwords from the OED to reveal their modern impact and semantic evolution.

Images and Human Rights

Local and Global Perspectives

Edited By: Nancy Lipkin Stein

From £46.99

This collection covers issues of creation, distribution, and control of images, questioning its impact on human rights and its ethical implications. It explains how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual publically communicates these.

Small-Screen Shakespeare

By: Peter Cochran

£59.99

Small-Screen Shakespeare is a guide to Shakespeare productions on computer or TV. From silent films to cinematic spin-offs, Peter Cochran gives an expert opinion on the best and worst, based on a lifetime of viewing, teaching, acting and directing.

Intermarriage throughout History

Edited By: Luminița Dumănescu, Marius Eppel, Daniela Mârza

£59.99

This unique collection of essays sheds light on mixed marriages throughout history. How did people overcome obstacles put in their path by church, family, and state? Mixed marriages offer a window on the tensions between societal norms and individual choice.

Bethsaida in Archaeology, History and Ancient Culture

A Festschrift in Honor of John T. Greene

Edited By: J. Harold Ellens

£59.99

Uncover biblical Bethsaida, a key site in Jesus’s life. Decades of archaeological discoveries reveal the vibrant daily life, culture, and religion of the first-century Holy Land for scholars and interested readers alike.

Receptions and Re-visitings

Review Articles, 1978-2011 and Social History, Local History, and Historiography

By: Roger C. Richardson

£59.99

This wide-ranging collection of essays on early modern English history explores the English Revolution, social change, politics, and historiography. This accessibly written guide is a rewarding volume for general readers and specialists alike.

Containing Iran

Obama’s Policy of “Tough Diplomacy”

By: Sasan Fayazmanesh

£59.99

This book examines the Obama Administration’s policy toward Iran, arguing its “tough diplomacy” was a facade. Designed with Israeli interests, it used sanctions and military threats to create a pretext for aggression—a policy that ultimately failed to contain Iran.

Mediterráneos

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Cultures of the Mediterranean Sea

Edited By: Arturo Echavarren, Sergio Carro Martin, Esther Fernández Medina

£59.99

This book analyzes the political, religious, social, and artistic expressions that have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near East, highlighting the scope of this blend of traditions from its earliest stages to the present.

Turkey’s Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East

Under the Shadow of the Arab Spring

Edited By: Ýdris Demir

£59.99

This book investigates the effects of the Arab Spring on Turkish foreign policy, drawing on a wide range of disciplines including sociology and economics. It reflects on the emergence of new regional actors in the Middle East and the ongoing complicated struggle in Syria.

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