Social Sciences

Patrick White Centenary

The Legacy of a Prodigal Son

Edited By: Bill Ashcroft, Cynthia vanden Driesen

£57.99

Marking the centenary of Nobel laureate Patrick White, this volume offers invaluable insight into his work. An international galaxy of eminent critics and new talents provide fresh perspectives, highlighting his legacy and stature as a public intellectual.

Mathematics in Industry

Edited By: Angela Slavova

£57.99

This book presents achievements in industrial and applied mathematics, offering new methods and algorithms for solving real-life problems. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and covers topics like numerical methods, control systems, and scientific computing.

The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany

The Past Imperfect

By: Erwin J. Warkentin

£57.99

Warkentin summarises the activities and methods of the American military’s Information Control Division. He also offers his perspective on how the US occupation of Germany in 1945 utilised psychologists, sociologists and others to vet candidates for media licenses in Germany.

Capturing Phonological Shades Within and Across Languages

Edited By: Yuchau E. Hsiao, Lian-Hee Wee

£57.99

Leading phonologists from Asia and America unite in this volume, featuring work from giants like Kiparsky, Archangeli, Pulleyblank, Inkelas, Broselow, and Duanmu San.

Disasters

Mental Health Context and Responses

Edited By: George Christodoulou

£57.99

With numerous disasters occurring throughout the world, understanding their mental health consequences is a pressing need. This volume deals with Natural, Human-made, and Economic Disasters, helping to manage and mitigate their mental health effects.

Personal and National Destinies in Independent India

A Study of Selected Indian English Novels

By: Rositta Joseph Valiyamattam

£57.99

This is a study of fiction that re-writes the grand Indian narrative from a subaltern point of view. It pays tribute to the heroism of ordinary Indians, analyzing how distinguished novelists advocate for an inclusive, humane India, attempting to keep the soul of the nation alive.

The a priori in the Thought of Descartes

Cognition, Method and Science

By: Jan Palkoska

£57.99

This book offers a clear and historically adequate account of the disputed issue of the exact meaning Descartes associates with the term ‘a priori’, so different from the Aristotelian usage. It will add to a better understanding of fundamental issues in the philosopher’s thought.

Views on Eighteenth Century Culture

Design, Books and Ideas

Edited By: Luís Manuel A. V. Bernardo, Leonor Ferrão

£57.99

Using the Portuguese architect and city planner Eugénio dos Santos as a reference point, contributions to this text provide insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal and its relationships with other European cultural movements in fields such as philosophy and literature.

Hegel’s Apotheosis of Logic

By: Stephen Theron

£57.99

Theron presents what Hegel calls “the vital spirit of the actual world”, the truth, namely, of logic’s form and content as one concrete whole. He operates from the view that thinking is necessarily free and unbounded, if we escape a performative contradiction in evaluating it.

Serve the Power(s), Serve the State

America and Eurasia

Edited By: Michael J. Braddick, Juan Carlos Garavaglia, Christian Lamouroux

£57.99

This book examines the organization and the consolidation of various groups, including judicial officers and tax agents, acting to create newly emergent forms of social and political power across a range of different cultures and locations.

Practices of Abstract Art

Between Anarchism and Appropriation

Edited By: Wiebke Gronemeyer, Isabel Wünsche

£57.99

Given the renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, this collection of essays investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years, engaging it in its increasingly diverse cultural environment.

Passion and Precision

Collected Essays on English Poetry from Geoffrey Chaucer to Geoffrey Hill

By: A. V. C. Schmidt

£57.99

These essays bring passionate and precise attention to ten major poets from the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection explores English and Irish writers from Chaucer and the Pearl-poet to T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney.

Africa’s Many Divides and Africa’s Future

Pursuing Nkrumah`s Vision of Pan-Africanism in an Era of Globalization

Edited By: Vincent Dodoo, Charles Quist-Adade, Wendy Royal

£57.99

"If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us," Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.

“If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us,” Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.

The Post-Industrial Landscape as Site for Creative Practice

Material Memory

Edited By: Gwen Heeney

£57.99

This book investigates the role of material memory in the post-industrial landscape and the ways landscape can host many forms of creative practice. Material memory’s role in public artworks and political installation art is detailed, within the post-industrial landscape.

Atomization or Integration? Transborder Aspects of Multipedagogy

Edited By: Justyna Pilarska, Alicja Szerląg, Arkadiusz Urbanek

£57.99

This book presents detailed European reflections on the current ways of conceptualising multiculturalism as expressed across Europe. Each chapter indicates the areas in which the volume’s study will have a particular impact.

Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe

Past and Present Volume I/2

Edited By: Gerhard Besier

£57.99

The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume investigates the effect of the differing circumstances in these various national societies on these religious societies, and the challenges they had to overcome.

Rural Tourism

An International Perspective

Edited By: Katherine Dashper

£57.99

Rural tourism is seen as a solution to rural decline, but its benefits are often overstated and unrealistic. This collection questions the contribution tourism makes to rural regions through diverse, research-driven case studies.

New Technologies as a Factor of International Relations

Edited By: Katarzyna Mojska, Monika Szkarłat

£57.99

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of technology's influence on contemporary international relations. Exploring the complex challenges of these changes, it is essential reading for scholars, students, and anyone interested in this dynamic interplay.

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of technology’s influence on contemporary international relations. Exploring the complex challenges of these changes, it is essential reading for scholars, students, and anyone interested in this dynamic interplay.

Children in South African Families

Lives and Times

Edited By: Nene Ernest Khalema, Monde Makiwane, Mzikazi Nduna

£57.99

This book gives an overview of African children’s lives in times of transition, transformation, and change some twenty-two years after political emancipation in South Africa. It covers conceptual and theoretical questions that explore the context of children’s experiences.

Between Concept and Identity

Edited By: Esteban Fernández-Cobián

£57.99

What is the identity of a place of worship in the new millennium? Does new religious architecture maintain its sacramental value, or has it become disconnected from tradition? This book explores where contemporary religious architecture is heading.

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