Social Sciences

Globalization and Aspects of Translation

Edited By: Juliane House, Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Said M. Shiyab

£39.99

For students of translation, linguistics, and languages, this book explores the relationship between translation and globalization. International scholars cover cultural communication, ethics, and media, blending theory with practice for a truly global perspective.

Rewriting/Reprising in Literature

The Paradoxes of Intertextuality

Edited By: Claude Maisonnat, Josiane Paccaud-Huguet, Annie Ramel

£39.99

This book offers a fresh outlook on rewriting-reprising. Taking a text’s origin as untraceable, it reconsiders trauma in relation to creative repetition. The act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: the repetitive stitching of what is constantly ripped up.

Working the System in Sub-Saharan Africa

Global Values, National Citizenship and Local Politics in Historical Perspective

Edited By: Corrado Tornimbeni

£39.99

How are democracy and development negotiated in sub-Saharan Africa? This volume offers context-based analyses showing how local practices have been ‘working the system’ of global ideas, a process with a rich historical dimension often overlooked.

The Famished Road

Ben Okri’s Imaginary Homelands

Edited By: Vanessa Guignery

£39.99

This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.

Sartre in Search of an Ethics

By: Paul Crittenden

£39.99

Jean-Paul Sartre spent his life trying to write a book on ethics. This study examines his three incomplete attempts, from his post-war existentialist notes to the dialectical ethics of his later years and the final interviews before his death.

Unity in Diversity, Volume 1

Cultural Paradigm and Personal Identity

Edited By: Julitta Rydlewska

£39.99

How is identity formed by culture and society? This collection of essays by multicultural scholars explores issues of difference, otherness, inclusion, and multiple ethnic, cultural, and gender identities from literary, social, and historical perspectives.

Censorship across Borders

The Reception of English Literature in Twentieth-Century Europe

Edited By: Alberto Lázaro, Catherine O’Leary

£39.99

These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.

Exploring English Phonetics

Edited By: Tatjana Paunović, Biljana Čubrović

£39.99

This volume is a meeting point for scholars in English Phonetics worldwide. It explores language varieties, research methods, and the challenges of teaching English to non-native speakers, offering intriguing results from original research.

Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnological Interrelations In and Around Armenia

Edited By: Uwe Bläsing, Jasmine Dum-Tragut

£39.99

Armenia has long been a cultural bridge in the Southern Caucasus. While preserving its unique identity, it has been shaped by its neighbors. This volume offers an interdisciplinary view of the linguistic and cultural properties Armenians share with them.

Emergence of Linguistic Abilities

Edited By: Frédérique Gayraud, Sophie Kern, Egidio Marsico

£39.99

This book addresses the emergence of linguistic abilities during the critical first three years of life. Experts examine the continuity between language components, broadening the discussion with perspectives from phylogeny, pathology, and animal communication.

Investment Portfolio Selection Using Goal Programming

An Approach to Making Investment Decisions

By: Rania Azmi

£39.99

This book provides practitioners with a superior scientific framework for investment decision-making. Using Goal Programming, it offers a realistic approach to portfolio selection that finds feasible solutions for complex, real-world problems.

Spoken Communication

Edited By: Isabella Chiari, Antonella Giannini, Massimo Pettorino

£39.99

This volume offers a description of current research on Spoken communication. It gives updated insights on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives, language pathologies, multimodal dialog, voice expressiveness, and sign languages.

New Trends in Lexicography

Ways of Registrating and Describing Lexis

Edited By: Olga Karpova, Faina Kartashkova

£39.99

This book develops new trends in theoretical and practical lexicography. It presents analysis of cultural issues, phraseology, idioms, and non-equivalent lexis, with a focus on innovations in specialized, bilingual, and monolingual dictionaries.

Radical Cultures and Local Identities

Edited By: Krista Cowman, Ian Packer

£39.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores the connections between radicalism and localism across the globe. It questions how the local fosters new political possibilities, empowers under-represented groups, and shapes distinct cultural forms of resistance.

Children and Childhoods 3

Immigrant and Refugee Families

Edited By: Katey De Gioia, Peter Whiteman

£39.99

Some people choose to cross borders for adventure or opportunity; others are forced to flee conflict or abuse. Immigrant and Refugee Families provides insights into the complex issues they face and explores ways to empower them when settling into a new country.

How Pupils Cope with School

By: Cedric Cullingford

£39.99

Based on pupils' experiences, this book demonstrates that the education system has a disastrous effect on young people. It thwarts their intelligence, exploits their vulnerability to trauma, and fails to fulfil its own aims. The research points to clear conclusions.

Based on pupils’ experiences, this book demonstrates that the education system has a disastrous effect on young people. It thwarts their intelligence, exploits their vulnerability to trauma, and fails to fulfil its own aims. The research points to clear conclusions.

The “Nation” in War

A Study of Military Literature and Hindi War Cinema

By: Gita Viswanath

£39.99

The Nation in War explores notions of nation and nationalism in Indian military literature and Hindi war cinema. This book examines how these narratives construct the “nation,” create consensus for war, and portray women as national subjects.

Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntaxfest

Edited By: Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Phoevos Panagiotidis

£39.99

This volume presents contributions from theoretical linguists on left peripheries and their interface interpretation. It offers eleven studies on clausal and nominal phenomena across diverse languages, underscoring the importance of studying the edge of constituents.

Recovering Memory

Irish Representations of Past and Present

Edited By: Hedda Friberg, Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Lene Yding Pedersen

£39.99

This collection of essays examines representations of memory in Irish literature and culture. It explores public and private memory, the intersection between collective and individual, and the relation between memory, identity, and Ireland's tragic past.

Negritude

Legacy and Present Relevance

Edited By: Isabelle Constant, Kahiudi C. Mabana

£39.99

Is Negritude a relic of the colonial era? This collection shows its continued vitality. African & Caribbean writers demonstrate how, beyond race, Negritude remains a relevant poetic, philosophical, and cultural force in its modern forms.

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