Social Sciences

New Challenges for Language Testing

Towards Mutual Recognition of Qualifications

Edited By: María Luisa Carrió-Pastor

£54.99

This text presents the key aspects of the application of assessment in higher education and the systems of accreditation. It teaches the basic principles of language testing and accreditation, providing cases of how new methods are useful to second language teachers and students.

Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe

Volume 2

Edited By: Corina Rotar, Marius Rotar

£54.99

This book invites the reader on a fascinating journey across three centuries of Europe, using death as a guide. Authors from varying backgrounds—historians, sociologists, doctors, and more—explore the complex phenomena of death and dying across the continent.

Daimonic Imagination

Uncanny Intelligence

Edited By: Patrick Curry, William Rowlandson

£54.99

This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence—god, angel, muse, spirit—and its role in inspired creativity. Contributors evoke the daimon through history, literature, and encounter, exploring humanity’s relationship with mysterious and numinous reality.

Focusing on EFL Reading

Theory and Practice

Edited By: Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Adrian Roscoe

£54.99

Reading in a foreign language is a puzzle, but essential for EFL students whose future may depend on it. This book's thorough coverage of up-to-date theory, practice, and research is an invaluable resource for researchers and teachers.

Reading in a foreign language is a puzzle, but essential for EFL students whose future may depend on it. This book’s thorough coverage of up-to-date theory, practice, and research is an invaluable resource for researchers and teachers.

The Mythology of Dance

By: Harry Eiss

From £27.99

The dance floor is the stage of life. This book explores how dance reflects the maps of meaning that structure our lives, from religious to artistic forms, examining performers from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson and choreographers like Balanchine and Fosse.

Environment and Ecology in the Mediterranean Region II

Edited By: Recep Efe

£54.99

Ecology’s role is increasingly vital in our dynamic world. This book explores critical environmental topics from climate change and water scarcity to mountain ecosystems, proving fruitful for students and researchers from diverse disciplines.

Hegel’s Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation

Logic as Form of the World

By: Stephen Theron

£54.99

In this final volume on Hegel as theologian, we discover the reconciliation of Mind with itself as the nerve of Hegel’s thought. Subtitled “Logic as Form of the World,” this work identifies faith with rationality and man as the form of the world.

Russian Classical Literature Today

The Challenges/Trials of Messianism and Mass Culture

Edited By: Yordan Ljutskanov, Hristo Manolakev, Radostin Rusev

£54.99

This book explores the struggle for Russia's literary canon. It reveals how contemporary culture reworks the classics while resisting political and economic pressures, showing how a new canon is forged.

This book explores the struggle for Russia’s literary canon. It reveals how contemporary culture reworks the classics while resisting political and economic pressures, showing how a new canon is forged.

China Views Nine-Eleven

Essays in Transnational American Studies

Edited By: Mei Renyi, Yan Xunhau

£54.99

In this collection of essays, scholars, mostly from China, address how Nine-Eleven affected the United States globally and at home. They discuss foreign policy, internal politics, and cultural repercussions, viewing the events in a much broader historical context.

Advances in Language Acquisition

Edited By: Xenia Konstantinopoulou, Marina Lalioti, Stavroula Stavrakaki

£54.99

This book raises issues at the centre of language acquisition research, including first and second language acquisition, language impairment, and cross-linguistic comparisons. It constitutes a valuable reference guide for current work in the field.

In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor

Tomás Pereira, SJ (1645–1708), the Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China

Edited By: Artur K. Wardega

£54.99

These essays explore the decisive moments of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era, focusing on the neglected Tomás Pereira. A musician and diplomat closer to the emperor than any Westerner, his influence was ultimately undermined by a papal legation.

Rivals and Conspirators

The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre

By: Fae Brauer

£54.99

This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.

Language and Politics in Africa

Contemporary Issues and Critical Perspectives

Edited By: John Obiero Ogone, Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo

£54.99

This collection offers critical perspectives on the interface of Language and Politics in post-colonial African countries. Exploring both the politics of language and the language of politics, this volume is a must-read for interested scholars and students.

New Perspectives on Late Antiquity

Edited By: David Hernández de la Fuente

£54.99

Late Antiquity (3rd–7th c.) was a first Renaissance, shaping the Western World. This volume combines diverse methodologies, with leading scholars offering a scientific update on new research in history, archaeology, philosophy, and classical studies.

Zen-Life

Ikkyū and Beyond

By: Evgeny Steiner

£54.99

This multidisciplinary study examines Ikkyū Sōjun, the embodiment of Japan's Muromachi era. It reconstructs his creative mentality, exploring his art, interpretation of Zen, and religious principles, showing how his rebellious ways were deeply embedded in tradition.

This multidisciplinary study examines Ikkyū Sōjun, the embodiment of Japan’s Muromachi era. It reconstructs his creative mentality, exploring his art, interpretation of Zen, and religious principles, showing how his rebellious ways were deeply embedded in tradition.

Creation and Use of Historical English Corpora in Spain

Edited By: Nila Vázquez

£54.99

This volume offers a complete view of Historical English Corpora studies in Spain. The first part describes new projects from Spanish universities, while the second includes findings from scholars using this new material and more traditional corpora.

Ludwig Minkus La Bayadère

Grand Ballet in Four Acts and Seven Scenes by Sergei Khudekov and Marius Petipa Piano Score

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£54.99

Ludwig Minkus’s score for La Bayadère conjures an exotic India, where a world of rivalry and death contrasts with a realm of dreams and transcendent love, realized in the famous Kingdom of the Shades. Here for the first time is the piano score of the entire ballet.

Latin American Bureaucracy and the State Building Process (1780-1860)

Edited By: Juan Carlos Garavaglia, Juan Pro Ruiz

£54.99

While most analyses of state formation focus on Europe and North America, this volume pays particular attention to Latin America. It provides the first detailed perspective on the formation of the State’s bureaucracies and offers an innovative analysis.

The Age of Asian Migration

Continuity, Diversity, and Susceptibility Volume 1

Edited By: Yuk Wah Chan, David Haines, Jonathan Lee

£54.99

Asia is the world region producing the most international migrants. This book provides a full discussion of Asian migration, from historical perspectives to current flows and diasporas, covering key regions and offering a reassessment with crucial policy implications.

Natural Environment and Culture in the Mediterranean Region II

Edited By: Ibrahim Atalay, Recep Efe, Munir Ozturk

£54.99

The Mediterranean Basin, one of the world's largest archipelagos, is located at the intersection of Eurasia and Africa. A cradle to ancient civilizations like the Greeks and Romans, its shores and rich biodiversity are now threatened by overuse.

The Mediterranean Basin, one of the world’s largest archipelagos, is located at the intersection of Eurasia and Africa. A cradle to ancient civilizations like the Greeks and Romans, its shores and rich biodiversity are now threatened by overuse.

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