Social Sciences

Mediating Peace

Reconciliation through Visual Art, Music and Film

Edited By: Sebastian Kim, Pauline Kollontai, Sue Yore

£57.99

This edited collection examines the role of art, music and film in peace-building and reconciliation in a range of conflict situations. The contributors are composed of prominent scholars and artists, and examine theoretical, professional and practical concerns.

Mediating Religious Cultures in Early Modern Europe

Edited By: Torrance Kirby, Matthew Milner

£44.99

The lingua franca for cultural self-understanding in the early-modern period was ineluctably religious. Without religion we cannot comprehend its myriad facets, from markets and art to the very terminology of unbelief. This collection of essays explores these themes.

Mediation across the Globe

Excerpts from the World Mediation Summit

Edited By: Kevin Brown, Santiago Madrid Liras, Emilio Navas Paús

£61.99

This eye-opening book provides insights into what success looks like in a mediation practice. It will appeal to anyone interested in practical experiences in meditation across the globe, or wanting to discover how the most successful mediators operate.

Mediations in Cultural Spaces

Structure, Sign, Body

Edited By: John Wall

£34.99

These essays explore the cultural production of space across East and West. Through interdisciplinary treatments of architecture, politics, and new media, this volume reveals space as a radically mobile concept, conceived in terms of power and emancipation.

Medical Brochure as a Textual Genre

By: Goretti Faya Ornia

£47.99

Ornia uses medical brochures in the United Kingdom and Spain to determine the features that these texts present in each country and to check if medical brochures published in Spain and translated into English include all relevant features typical of original English texts.

Medical Cannabis

A Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana

By: Corey Hebert

£62.99

Medical Cannabis is one of the most misunderstood holistic medications. This book cuts through the confusing scientific terms to chronicle its history, current uses, and the ever-changing social and political landscape. A must-read for anyone who wants to know the facts.

Medical Education Reform in China

Practical Lessons from Wuhan University

Edited By: Renslow Sherer, Yu Xiangting, Feng Youmei

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Due to the rapid pace of scientific progress in medicine, there is a global movement to improve medical education. This unique book describes a novel and successful example of medical education reform that may inspire medical school leaders both in China and abroad.

Medical Humanities in Theory and Practice

Edited By: Andrzej Kapusta, Michal Lytovka

£58.99

This volume explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. It covers medical knowledge, public health, and the experience of illness, raising ethical and philosophical questions that will open up new vistas of study for the reader.

Medicinal Plants as Functional Food Candidates

Challenges and Opportunities

Edited By: Shachi Singh, Garima Upadhyay

£83.99

This book provides a comprehensive overview of medicinal plant-based functional foods. It explains how the chemical diversity of medicinal plants can be used to develop health-promoting products, and covers the opportunities and challenges associated with this research.

Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub-Saharan Africa

Edited By: Poonam Bala

£61.99

Delving into the dynamics of colonial engagements and their implications in understanding the dominant discourses of the empire, the book investigates the various imperial interactions with colonized peoples in the former British colonies of India and in sub-Saharan Africa.

Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage

The Past is Back on Stage

Edited By: Marianne Drugeon

From £29.99

This volume explores the connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. It assesses how adaptations and history plays offer a new perspective on our past, present, and future, exploring today's burning social and political issues.

Medieval and Early Modern Epistemology

After Certainty (Volume 17

Edited By: Gyula Klima

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This author-meets-critics volume evaluates Robert Pasnau’s After Certainty. Pasnau presents the history of epistemology as a gradual lowering of expectations for certain knowledge, concluding that contemporary epistemology is now estranged from its tradition.

Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages

Edited By: Alyce A. Jordan, Janet T. Marquardt

From £19.99

This collection of essays explores the enduring afterlife of medieval art and architecture. It examines how medieval works were preserved, restored, and appropriated from the 16th to 20th centuries to shape modern political, religious, and cultural practices.

Medieval Legal and Political Thought

From Isidore and the Quran to Maimonides and the Incas

By: Larry May

From £35.99

Far from "Dark," the Middle Ages developed vital legal ideas to contain violence. This book reveals how religious law created new problems and argues that Renaissance thought began much earlier, blurring the line between the Medieval and Modern and leaving a lasting legacy.

Far from “Dark,” the Middle Ages developed vital legal ideas to contain violence. This book reveals how religious law created new problems and argues that Renaissance thought began much earlier, blurring the line between the Medieval and Modern and leaving a lasting legacy.

Medieval Metaphysics, or is it “Just Semantics”? (Volume 7

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Gyula Klima

£34.99

Medieval thinkers, driven by metaphysical and epistemological commitments, sought to discern how concepts latch onto reality. This book follows these attempts concerning the signification of theological discourse, Trinitarian semantics, and essential definition.

Medieval or Early Modern

The Value of a Traditional Historical Division

Edited By: Ronald Hutton

£41.99

The historical terms ‘medieval’ and ‘early modern’ are imprecise and carry ideological baggage. This collection of essays assembles concerned scholars to debate this problem, suggesting different solutions for different kinds of history-writing.

Medieval Skepticism, and the Claim to Metaphysical Knowledge (Volume 6

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Gyula Klima

£34.99

This collection of essays explores medieval skepticism and metaphysical knowledge. It features scholarly exchanges on Siger of Brabant’s strategy against the skeptic, Walter Chatton’s critique of Ockhamism, and key issues in the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas.

Medieval Territories

Edited By: Jesús Brufal, Flocel Sabaté

£67.99

This compendium brings together 18 case studies investigating territory in the Middle Ages from an archaeological perspective. The contributions focus especially on cases in Portugal, Spain and Italy, in order to provide a Mediterranean perspective.

Medieval Urban Identity

Health, Economy and Regulation

Edited By: Flocel Sabaté

£52.99

This book adopts a new approach to medieval urban life, using health, the economy, and law as frames of reference. Scholars provide insights into housing, cures for diseases, the work of artisans, and the relationship between the town and its region.

Medieval Urban Planning

The Monastery and Beyond

Edited By: Mickey Abel

£52.99

This collection examines whether multifaceted urban planning took place in the Middle Ages, and its manifestation itself outside of the monastic realm. It expands our grasp of how authoritative figures saw the planning process and applied plans to structure a particular outcome.

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