Social Sciences

The Financial Sector in the Enlarging European Union

Edited By: Daniel Stavárek

£39.99

This collection of peer-reviewed studies offers deep insight into the financial and banking sectors of new EU-member countries. Through original research, it compares their development to established countries and explores their prospective integration into the EMU.

Strategic HRM and Performance

Theory and Practice

By: Tamer K. Darwish

£39.99

The link between strategic human resource management and organisational performance is heavily debated, with inconclusive results. This book explores which HR practices enhance performance, how to measure it, and why an interrelated system of practices is key.

From Fictionalism to Realism

Edited By: Carola Barbero, Maurizio Ferraris, Alberto Voltolini

£39.99

This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.

Esthetic Experiments

Interdisciplinary Challenges in American Studies

Edited By: Marek Wojtaszek

£39.99

This book investigates the cultural and political aspects of technology in American society. Presenting critical accounts of writing, media, surveillance, and war, these essays explore the coalescence of technology and text to reformulate the American experience.

Historicising the French Revolution

Edited By: Carolina Armenteros, Tim Blanning, Isabel Noronha-DiVanna

£39.99

Though the French Revolution is long over, its memory holds sway. The sixteen essays in this volume investigate its intellectual and material legacies, exposing the myriad ways the Revolution changed humanity’s possible futures and continues to shape our world.

Testing the Boundaries

Self, Faith, Interpretation and Changing Trends in Religious Studies

Edited By: Patricia ‘Iolana, Samuel Tongue

£39.99

Progressive movements are challenging how we understand the Divine. In Testing the Boundaries, ten scholars explore faith, our image of Self, our relation to the religious Other, and more, testing the boundaries of traditional theology where possibilities gather.

Recovering Hispanic Religious Thought and Practice of the United States

Edited By: Nicolás Kanellos

£39.99

The religious diversity of Hispanics in the United States has been inadequately studied, contributing to a perception of a monolithic Catholic culture. This volume presents original work on topics rarely addressed, laying the groundwork for a new sub-discipline.

Locality, Memory, Reconstruction

The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-Industry Communities

Edited By: Jopi Nyman, Risto Turunen

£39.99

This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.

Outsourcing and Service Work in the New Economy

The Case of Call Centres in Mexico City

By: José-Luis Álvarez-Galván

£39.99

This book examines outsourcing's impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City's call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how 'old economy' tactics persist in the 21st century.

This book examines outsourcing’s impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City’s call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how ‘old economy’ tactics persist in the 21st century.

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.

A Lucian for our Times

Edited By: Adam Bartley

£39.99

The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.

The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture

Edited By: Heiko Feldner, Claire Gorrara, Kevin Passmore

£39.99

These essays reveal the 1950s not as transitional years, but as an astonishingly fecund period of experimentation. This volume explores the decade's profound impact on post-war European identities, society, politics, and culture.

These essays reveal the 1950s not as transitional years, but as an astonishingly fecund period of experimentation. This volume explores the decade’s profound impact on post-war European identities, society, politics, and culture.

Discourse Interpretation

Approaches and Applications

Edited By: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Renata Povolná

£39.99

This volume provides new insights into discourse interpretation across many genres. Combining theoretical insights with empirical investigations, it explores how meaning is a dynamic construct, constantly reinterpreted in light of social and situational contexts.

Edward Said and Jacques Derrida

Reconstellating Humanism and the Global Hybrid

Edited By: Mina Karavanta, Nina Morgan

£39.99

By placing Edward Said and Jacques Derrida in each other’s company, these essays by leading scholars reconstellate their work on humanism. This collection opens questions of ethics and politics to reconsider the human subject in the global moment.

Innovative Technology and Globalization

Edited By: Chantal Ammi

£39.99

This book enhances the reader's knowledge of globalization's role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.

This book enhances the reader’s knowledge of globalization’s role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.

A Feminist Case Study in Transnational Migration

The Anne Jemima Clough Journals

Edited By: Mary Gallant

£39.99

Although unacknowledged, Anne Jemima Clough laboured fervently for women’s education. This volume compiles her unpublished papers, diaries, and correspondence, providing raw material for scholars studying the women's movement and Victorian feminism.

Looking at the Broad Picture

Smarter Software Development for Irish Companies

Edited By: Martha H. Sanders

£39.99

This book is the story of how ten Irish software companies evolved their development processes over the last decade. It discusses specific change-processes, the benefits of each, and suggests developments for the future.

Teaching Translation and Interpreting

Challenges and Practices

Edited By: Łukasz Bogucki

£39.99

This book offers an up-to-date overview of current trends in teaching translation. The innovative articles will appeal to students, lecturers, researchers and professionals alike, offering universal conclusions that are applicable worldwide.

Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters

Studies on the Medieval Body in Honour of Margaret Bridges

Edited By: Nicole Nyffenegger, Katrin Rupp

£39.99

This book offers fresh insights into medieval bodies from multiple perspectives. Ten essays by renowned scholars explore diverse, interdisciplinary approaches, connecting medieval literature with history, theology, gender studies, and the arts.

Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq

Policies, Programs and International Perspectives

Edited By: Adenrele Awotona

£39.99

Current reconstruction in Iraq is failing because a top-down approach cannot succeed. This volume presents expert analysis from an international conference on rebuilding sustainable communities with lessons from across the globe for Iraq.

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