Social Sciences

Frontiers in Neuroethics

Conceptual and Empirical Advancements

Edited By: Andrea Lavazza

£41.99

This collection provides an updated overview of the theoretical perspectives and empirical research related to neuroethics. Its eight chapters offer a cross-section of a lively debate that will serve as the focus of scientific, cultural, and political reflection in years to come.

From Damascus to Beirut

Contested Cities in Arab Writing (1969-1989)

By: Hazem Fadel

£41.99

This monograph analyses the way four contemporary novels engage with the phenomena of nationalism, feminism, post- and neo-colonialism, civil war, and social change in the Arab world using an urban scenario as their privileged point of observation.

Threads of Hope

Counselling and Emotional Support Services for Communities in Crisis

By: Susan Dale

From £24.99

This book uses a collaborative narrative research process to explore the lived experiences of one specific group of community members who responded to a traumatic event by setting up, and running, a therapeutic project to support the community between 2012 and 2014.

The House, the World, and the Theatre

Self-Fashioning and Authorial Spaces in the Prefaces of Hawthorne, Dickens, and James

By: Geraldo Magela Cáffaro

£41.99

Cáffaro departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to discuss key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture, namely the way authors used their prefaces to fashion themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing.

The Feral Piers

A Reader's Experience of the British Library Cotton Caligula A XI Manuscript of Piers Plowman

By: Rosanne P. Gasse

£47.99

Rosanne Gasse offers an innovative approach to the plethora of questions that surround the various Piers Plowman manuscripts. It is a micro-study of one particular historic version of Piers Plowman, its scribe, and its fifteenth and sixteenth-century readers.

Intractable Dilemmas in the Energy-Rich Eastern Mediterranean

Edited By: Aris Petasis

£52.99

The Eastern Mediterranean is in turmoil, plagued by conflict and economic crisis. But newly discovered energy reserves offer hope. This book proposes a High Energy Authority for countries to exploit their reserves together, turning antagonists into allies and reducing conflict.

The Fruits of Madness

Perspectives on the Prophetic Movements in Three Traditions

Edited By: John Tracy Greene

From £34.99

This title brings together presentations given at a seminar held in 2014 as part of the Annual International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, and offers fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on the ancient Israelite and early Jewish concern with prophecy.

New Insights into Corpora and Translation

Edited By: Daniel Gallego-Hernández

£41.99

This publication brings together work presented at the 4th International Conference on Corpus Use and Learning to Translate, and includes contributions on the use of multilingual corpora in teaching scientific translation and trans-collocations in parallel corpora, among others.

Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in Humanities

Edited By: Eugene Steele

£47.99

This volume analyzes research that oversteps disciplinary boundaries, exploring new fields and methodologies emerging in a globalized academic environment. It assesses theories on inter- and transdisciplinarity and measures their impact on literature and the humanities.

Empires, Nations and Private Lives

Essays on the Social and Cultural History of the Great War

Edited By: François-Olivier Dorais, Daria Dyakonova, Nari Shelekpayev

£47.99

Bringing together papers presented at a conference devoted to little-known facets of the First World War’s cultural and social history, this collection examines the causes and consequences of the conflict from a perspective extending beyond the traditional focus on Europe.

Modernizing Educational Practice

Perspectives in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

Edited By: Katarzyna Papaja, Artur Swiateka

£52.99

This book represents presentations given at the Ustroń CLIL 2013 conference, which brought together academicians, researchers, teachers and educational authorities to exchange research on Content and Language Integrated Learning methodologies.

The Land of Fertility I

South-east Mediterranean since the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest

Edited By: Maciej Wacławik, Maciej Wacławik

£41.99

The papers collected in this anthology are based on presentations given at the conference “The Land of Fertility: The South-East Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest”, focused on the processes prevalent in this region after the end of the Stone Age.

Language at Work

Analysing Language Use in Work, Education, Medical and Museum Contexts

Edited By: Helen de Silva Joyce

£47.99

This title outlines recent linguistic research in a cross-section of institutions, including museums, schools, and universities, to investigate the language of the workplace and public institutions.

From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean

Military Engineers in the Development of Cities and Territories

Edited By: Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez, Gene A. Smith

£41.99

This publication explores how military engineers in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico reshaped the physical landscape for imperial reasons, laying the foundations for colonial development, and highlights the role of military engineers in articulating new American countries.

Renewable Energy

Selected Issues Volume I

Edited By: Manuel Pérez-Donsión, Manuel Pérez-Donsión, Silvano Vergura

£62.99

The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.

Extraction and Analysis of Modal Auxiliaries in Consecutive Clauses from a Corpus

By: Robert Chartrand

£41.99

Given the lack of resources that provide examples as to what English modals could be used when referring to successive clauses, Chartrand develops and discusses a method to extract modal auxiliaries in two consecutive clauses from the British National Corpus 2007 XML edition.

A Serious Genre

The Apology of Children's Literature

Edited By: Dana Percec

£47.99

This anthology assembles an international team of by scholars and academics to investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called children’s literature from a number of perspectives, including classical Victorian children’s books.

A Community of Voices on Education and the African American Experience

A Record of Struggles and Triumphs

Edited By: Hazel Arnett Ervin, Lois Jamison Sheer

£57.99

This book fills a void in the history of African American education by addressing the vibrant education ethos within Black America. It is essential reading for all interested in ensuring the posterity of a society via equal access to quality education.

Seeing Whole

Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight

Edited By: Asbjørn Grønstad, Mark Ledbetter

£52.99

This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.

Education in St. Maarten from 1954 to 2000

An Oral History Account

By: Milton George

£47.99

George narrates the development of education in St. Maarten over a period of nearly 50 years, tapping into the experience of the protagonists, giving postcolonial subjects, often bypassed or forgotten by most traditional historians, a voice in the recording of their own history.

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