Social Sciences

Justice Connections

Edited By: Patricia Easteal

£49.99

This book is a vigilant pursuit of justice across subjects from violence against women to environmental law. Constant themes are respect for the individual and protection for the vulnerable, arguing that justice is not law, but an evolving, performative idea.

Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania

New Insights

Edited By: Lavinia Stan, Lucian Turcescu

£57.99

This text asks if there are any lessons that Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners. It proposes that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to terms with its communist past.

Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, the Mozart of Kathakali

By: Mohan Gopinath, Sabina Zacharias

From £36.99

This book presents insights into the work of actor Krishnan Nair, unique in the field of Kathakali. Through his superb ability to connect with audiences and his sheer charisma, Nair achieved his burning ambitions: ensuring Kathakali performers gained status and a decent wage.

Kaleidoscopic Grammar

Investigation into the Nature of Binarism

By: Junichi Toyota

£34.99

This book explores binarism—pairs of binary features—as a powerful tool in the evolution of civilization, cognition, and language. It argues that binarism provides a base for complexity, proposing that the first verbs evolved from a split in early nouns.

Kam Women Artisans of China

Dawn of the Butterflies

By: Marie Anna Lee

£76.99

Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.

Kamp Melbourne in the 1920s and ’30s

Trade, Queans and Inverts

By: Wayne Murdoch

£61.99

Homosexual men in Melbourne in the 1920s and ‘30s formed a subculture of friendship groups, meeting places and secret signs which allowed them to live their lives despite legal, social and moral restrictions. Murdoch investigates this subculture and those men who lived within it.

Kant and his Philosophical Revolution

Edited By: R. M. Wenley

£24.99

Designed for the general reader, this book explores the larger sweep of Kant’s thought. Wenley’s penetrating yet remarkably clear style makes complex ideas accessible, while its scholarly nature makes the work as useful to the Kant specialist.

Kant’s Shorter Writings

Critical Paths Outside the Critiques

Edited By: Robert Hanna, Rafael V. Orden Jiménez, Robert Louden

£63.99

Spanning the entire intellectual career of Kant, this work highlights the importance of the thinker’s shorter writings. It contrasts with other such studies of his work, which typically focus on a specific part of his career, and on either his theoretical or practical philosophy.

Kant’s B Deduction

By: Pablo Muchnik

£41.99

This line-by-line commentary on Kant's B-Transcendental Deduction reveals its argument as the progressive unfolding of the Principle of Apperception. Focusing on this structure settles controversial questions, making it helpful to students and specialists.

This line-by-line commentary on Kant’s B-Transcendental Deduction reveals its argument as the progressive unfolding of the Principle of Apperception. Focusing on this structure settles controversial questions, making it helpful to students and specialists.

Kantian Perspectives on Issues in Ethics and Bioethics

By: Lina Papadaki

From £29.99

This book analyzes major ethical and bioethical issues like euthanasia, suicide, organ commerce, sexual objectification, and abortion from the perspective of Kant’s moral theory. It tackles questions of autonomy, human dignity, and free choice.

Karachi in the Twenty-First Century

Political, Social, Economic and Security Dimensions

By: Mansoor Bin Tahnoon Al Nehayan

£47.99

Globalisation has had a major impact on Karachi, geographically and culturally situated within modern Pakistan, but a global city affected by global forces. This title shows how the process has exacerbated local and regional problems, pushing the city to the brink of chaos.

Karen Barad’s Feminist Materialism

Intra-action and Diffraction

By: David Harris

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This book is an immanent critique of influential theorist Karen Barad. It explores the consistency and application of her theory of “agential realism,” which connects feminist theory, philosophy, and science through concepts like “intra-action,” derived from quantum physics.

Karen Blixen’s Existentialism

"Where I Ought to Be"

By: Lars Kaaber

From £36.99

This book investigates the writings of Karen Blixen from an existentialist angle. Blixen subtly integrates the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre, making them accessible while offering her own ideas on existentialism’s fundamental problem: how to become who you are.

Karl Marx’s Philosophy of Nature, Action and Society

A New Analysis

By: Justin Holt

£34.99

This work analyses Marx's philosophy of nature as the basis for his practical philosophy. Marx considered humans' relationship to the world as natural, social, and material. This material feature of human action is the foundation for social critique.

This work analyses Marx’s philosophy of nature as the basis for his practical philosophy. Marx considered humans’ relationship to the world as natural, social, and material. This material feature of human action is the foundation for social critique.

Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century

New Critical Essays

Edited By: Heather Ostman

£29.99

This collection of essays updates Kate Chopin scholarship for the 21st century. Breaking from familiar feminist trends, these essays explore her stories and novels through lenses of race, class, gender, and culture, offering fresh readings of The Awakening.

Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

Edited By: Polina Mackay, Kathryn Nicol

£39.99

Kathy Acker’s fictions prefigured our contemporary world. This collection of essays analyzes transnationalism in her work, locating her in current debates on postnationalism and global identity—a timely re-appraisal of an important American writer.

Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek

Five Readings

By: Wook-Dong Kim

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This book analyzes Zorba the Greek, the modern classic by one of Greece's greatest writers, Nikos Kazantzakis. It reads the acclaimed novel from five critical perspectives: formalist, existentialist, feminist, ecocritical, and intercultural. Useful for scholars and readers.

This book analyzes Zorba the Greek, the modern classic by one of Greece’s greatest writers, Nikos Kazantzakis. It reads the acclaimed novel from five critical perspectives: formalist, existentialist, feminist, ecocritical, and intercultural. Useful for scholars and readers.

Keeping Peace in a Turbulent World

Reflections from the Field

Edited By: Kawser Ahmed, Del H Khan

From £39.99

This book shares 33 stories of courage and sacrifice from UN peacekeepers serving in the world's most challenging regions. With valuable insights from former senior UN leaders, these accounts offer an intimate glimpse into the realities faced on the frontlines.

This book shares 33 stories of courage and sacrifice from UN peacekeepers serving in the world’s most challenging regions. With valuable insights from former senior UN leaders, these accounts offer an intimate glimpse into the realities faced on the frontlines.

Keeping the Lid on

Urban Eruptions and Social Control since the 19th Century

Edited By: Logie Barrow, François Poirier, Susan Finding

£34.99

This book explores social segregation, urban conflict, and collective memory. From epidemics and uprisings to memories in song and novels, case studies consider cities like London, New York, and Salvador de Bahia, filling the gaps in official history.

Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Shadow (Expanded Edition)

Politics, Nationalism and the Ogoni Protest Movement

By: Sanya Osha

From £30.99

Ken Saro-Wiwa’s non-violent struggle for democracy, minority rights, and environmental awareness defined the Ogoni crisis of the 1990s. In a context of despotism, he was brutally cut down. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the crisis and its unfolding aftermath.

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