Social Sciences

Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism

Edited By: Tatiani Rapatzikou

£39.99

This book tackles Hellenism as a global entity through a comparative study of English and American literary, cultural, and artistic trends from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It proves the enduring, intercontinental appeal of Hellenism.

Hearing Places

Sound, Place, Time and Culture

Edited By: Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy, Dolly MacKinnon

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How do we hear and respond to place? 37 international artists and scholars explore this question, interrogating place as an acoustic space where sound, time, and culture collide. This book provokes us all to pay attention to how we hear the world.

Feminism Reframed

Reflections on Art and Difference

Edited By: Alexandra M. Kokoli

£39.99

This collection reframes the dialogue between feminism, art history, and visual culture. It revisits feminist art histories to ask urgent questions for the present and reasserts the need for continuous feminist interventions in the academy and the art world.

Byron at the Theatre

Edited By: Peter Cochran, Shona M. Allan

£34.99

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri's influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri’s influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2007

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe

£44.99

Highlighting the growing interest in consciousness studies, these essays explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literary studies, film, fine arts and music.

Environmental Psychology

Putting Research into Practice

By: Eddie Edgerton, Ombretta Romice, Christopher Spencer

£39.99

This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.

Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe

Edited By: Chris Bishop

£34.99

From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.

21st-Century Gay Culture

Edited By: David A. Powell

£29.99

This collection of essays on 21st-century queer culture features authors from a variety of fields investigating the ever-fluid nature of labels and definitions. Topics include queer African-Americans, same-sex marriage, and French gay culture.

Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions

Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£39.99

An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

Children of the Sun

An Ethnographic Study of the Street Children of Latin America

By: Jerry Hollingsworth

£29.99

An ethnographic study of street children in Mexico and Peru. Based on firsthand knowledge gained from living and working with them, this book offers an in-depth look at their subculture, drug use, crime, and the effects on their development.

Negotiating Boundaries? Identities, Sexualities, Diversities

Edited By: Clare Beckett, Marie Macey, Owen Heathcote

£39.99

This is a lively, nuanced portrayal of the struggles around identity, inequality, and domination. Ambitious in its scope, this international and interdisciplinary collection offers a powerful, hopeful picture of the pursuit of change through the lens of boundaries.

A Celebration of Frances Burney

Edited By: Lorna J. Clark

£39.99

Novelist, playwright and diarist, Frances Burney’s journey to recognition has been a long one. This volume covers her remarkable career, showing her rise from a minor precursor to Jane Austen to a powerful and influential writer in her own right.

The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960’s

Edited By: Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega

£34.99

Challenging the view that only realist texts are ethical, this volume argues that the parodic and self-conscious games of experimental fiction offer a powerful critique of received truths, practicing an ethics of alterity. It examines key British novels.

Linguistic Identity in Postcolonial Multilingual Spaces

Edited By: Eric A. Anchimbe

£39.99

This volume offers new approaches to multilingualism and identity in postcolonial societies. It explores the complex interplay of indigenous and ex-colonial languages—embraced as socio-economic assets or treated as alienating colonial legacies.

Whiteheadian Ethics

Abstracts and Papers from the Ethics Section of the Philosophy Group at the 6th International Whitehead Conference at the University of Salzburg, July 2006

Edited By: Mihály Tóth, Theodore Walker

£29.99

These papers explore the ethical and meta-ethical implications of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy. From a major international conference, contributions cover the metaphysics of morals, evaluating moral practices, and ethics and aesthetic values.

Blaze

Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism

Edited By: Karen Frostig, Kathy A. Halamka

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How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.

Recycling Culture(s)

Edited By: Sara Martín

£34.99

Culture survives by constant recycling. This "stimulating, relevant and exciting" volume explores this strategy across an impressive assortment of contexts, from comic-book heroes and James Bond to African-Caribbean women and mobile phones.

Culture survives by constant recycling. This “stimulating, relevant and exciting” volume explores this strategy across an impressive assortment of contexts, from comic-book heroes and James Bond to African-Caribbean women and mobile phones.

Advancing Multiculturalism, Post 7/7

Edited By: John Eade

£34.99

In a post-7/7 world, multiculturalism is more important than ever. This collection examines the historical context and social policy perspectives of multiculturalism, presenting arguments for both integrationist and multicultural approaches to the debate.

Emerging Business Theories for Educators and Practitioners

Edited By: Maureen L. Mackenzie, Stuart L. Rosenberg

£39.99

This book offers valuable insight into the issues managers contend with and serves as a compendium for emerging business theories. Educators will find it a valued tool to help students embrace the theoretical and develop the applied.

Sensi/able Spaces

Space, Art and the Environment Proceedings of the SPARTEN conference, Reykjavík, June 1st and 2nd, 2006

Edited By: Edward H. Huijbens, Ólafur Páll Jónsson

£39.99

SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of "sensible" spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the "sensable"—what we perceive through our senses.

SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of “sensible” spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the “sensable”—what we perceive through our senses.

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