Social Sciences

Land and Mind

Kenneth White's Geopoetics in the Arabian Context

By: Bsaithi Omar

£34.99

This book is a study of Kenneth White’s geopoetics, applying the concept to Charles Doughty’s Arabia Deserta. The result is not only a reinterpretation of an English classic, but an introduction to a regrounded field of culture.

Holocaust of the East

By: Farzana Moon

£34.99

Recounting the tragic partition of Hindustan, this book brings harsh history to bear on love stories as tragic as the peoples ripped apart by their country’s division. It explores love in a world of madness, where love becomes an answer for the future.

Theorising and Representing Maternal Realities

Edited By: Julie Kelso, Marie Porter

£34.99

This book expands academic knowledge of motherhood from a feminist perspective. When mothers are responsible for theorising their own realities, dominant representations are challenged. It is no longer acceptable to regard mothers as objects of research; they are the subjects.

Shifting Landscapes

Film and Media in European Context

Edited By: Miyase Christensen, Nezih Erdoğan

From £19.99

An innovative understanding of Europe's rapidly changing film and media scene. Eighteen analyses re-examine what “European” media means in an era of technological change, globalization, and shifting cultural and geographical borders.

An innovative understanding of Europe’s rapidly changing film and media scene. Eighteen analyses re-examine what “European” media means in an era of technological change, globalization, and shifting cultural and geographical borders.

Baroque Tendencies in Contemporary Art

Edited By: Kelly A. Wacker

£34.99

This collection of essays explores Neo-Baroque tendencies in contemporary art. Scholars reveal how artists and architects fold past traditions into the present, finding parallels between the Baroque's spectacle and fluidity and our own diverse, pluralistic culture.

This collection of essays explores Neo-Baroque tendencies in contemporary art. Scholars reveal how artists and architects fold past traditions into the present, finding parallels between the Baroque’s spectacle and fluidity and our own diverse, pluralistic culture.

Truths Breathed Through Silver

The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy

Edited By: Joe R. Christopher, Jonathan Himes, Salwa Khoddam

£29.99

The Oxford Inklings believed old myths held truth to fortify humanity. This collection explores how Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams wove theology and literary craft to connect the mortal with the divine.

Sexing Code

Subversion, Theory and Representation

By: Claudia Herbst

£29.99

Sexing Code proposes that the representation of technical ability perpetuates the association of the male with intellect and the female with the body. Challenging this, it highlights women’s contributions and demonstrates how gendering is a salient factor in culture.

Sights Unseen

Unfinished British Films

Edited By: Dan North

£34.99

Many British films never make it to the screen. This book uses archival resources to reconstruct the stories behind these thwarted productions, providing an illuminating insight into the factors which have undermined the stability of the film industry in Britain.

Beyond Money, Cars, and Women

Examining Black Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture

By: Jasmin S. Greene

£24.99

How does hip hop shape black masculinity? Going beyond outsider criticism, this book gives a voice to the men affected. Through interviews, it explores hip hop's damaging and positive effects, and its potential as a powerful tool for social change.

How does hip hop shape black masculinity? Going beyond outsider criticism, this book gives a voice to the men affected. Through interviews, it explores hip hop’s damaging and positive effects, and its potential as a powerful tool for social change.

Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa

Edited By: Dan Wylie

£39.99

In Southern Africa, how we belong is tied to the land. These essays probe the tensions between settler modernity and indigenous world-views, exploring the limits and potential of human compassion for the natural world in a post-colonial era.

The Worlds of Elias Canetti

Centenary Essays

Edited By: William Collins Donahue, Julian Preece

£39.99

The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.

Words into Pictures

E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders

Edited By: Jirí Flajšar, Zénó Vernyik

£34.99

This collection of new essays explores E. E. Cummings as both poet and artist. Bringing together the verbal and the visual, the volume examines under-researched fields of his unique, genre-crossing work.

Irelands of the Mind

Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture

Edited By: Richard C. Allen, Stephen Regan

£34.99

This compelling series of essays explores changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Its prevailing theme is the complicated sense of belonging in modern Irish culture, giving questions of national identity a new treatment.

To Inspire and Instruct

A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums

Edited By: Christina Nielsen

£34.99

This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.

Sustaining a Resilient Asia Pacific Community

Edited By: Kiran Sagoo, Wilmar Salim

£29.99

This book presents papers by graduate students on sustaining resilience in the Asia Pacific. After identifying contemporary issues, these papers propose frameworks for resolving them from a unique multidisciplinary and multilevel perspective.

Translation and Censorship in Different Times and Landscapes

Edited By: Maria Lin Moniz, Teresa Seruya

£39.99

This volume explores translation and censorship, focusing on the Iberian dictatorial regimes of Spain and Portugal. Presenting new case studies, it offers a critical view of censorship from Brazil and China to Victorian England and examines self-censorship.

Space – Archaeology’s Final Frontier? An Intercontinental Approach

Edited By: Dustin Keeler, Roderick B. Salisbury

£39.99

This book explores the cultural and social aspects of space in archaeology. Using cutting-edge spatial methods, it reveals how people have used space to subsist, recreate culture, and understand landscape, social relationships, and cultural heritage.

Afroeurope@ns

Cultures and Identities

Edited By: Marta Sofía López

£34.99

This pioneering collection of essays establishes a comparative agenda for the study of black literatures and identities in the European Union, analyzing diasporic communities and cultural productions across Europe with particular attention to women writers.

History, Politics, Identity

Reading Literature in a Changing World

Edited By: Marija Knežević, Aleksandra Nikcevic-Batricevic

£29.99

This book highlights issues of culture and identity, focusing on how cultural encounters are changing the world and its reflection in literature. Emphasizing cultural pluralism and the necessity of coexistence, this collection will appeal to scholars and the general public.

Bodily Inscriptions

Interdisciplinary Explorations into Embodiment

Edited By: Lori Duin Kelly

£29.99

This collection of essays explores the body as a site of cultural inscription within popular culture. Topics range from fat and anorexia to tattoos, mastectomy, and gender identity, drawing on perspectives from Queer Theory, Fat, and Disability Studies.

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