Social Sciences

Being Bilingual in Borinquen

Student Voices from the University of Puerto Rico

Edited By: Alicia Pousada

£58.99

In Puerto Rico's complex linguistic landscape, the voices of its people have been muted. This volume showcases twenty-five personal histories from language professionals, revealing their many routes to bilingualism and why one-size-fits-all policies fail.

In Puerto Rico’s complex linguistic landscape, the voices of its people have been muted. This volume showcases twenty-five personal histories from language professionals, revealing their many routes to bilingualism and why one-size-fits-all policies fail.

Varian Studies Volume Two

Elagabal

By: Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado

£64.99

A study of Emperor Elagabalus’s architecture and sculpture in Rome. This book confirms the Palatine site and astronomical implications of the Varian Temple, and analyses relief sculpture to explore the cosmology, theology, and ritual of the Syrian sun god's cult.

The Admiralty Sessions, 1536-1834

Maritime Crime and the Silver Oar

By: Gregory J. Durston

£61.99

Between 1536 and 1834, England's Admiralty Sessions tried serious maritime crimes like piracy and murder. This book documents the unique court's history, its immense challenges, and its battle to enforce the law thousands of miles from shore.

Between 1536 and 1834, England’s Admiralty Sessions tried serious maritime crimes like piracy and murder. This book documents the unique court’s history, its immense challenges, and its battle to enforce the law thousands of miles from shore.

The Faustus Myth in the English Novel

By: Şeyda Sivrioğlu

£58.99

The Faustus myth explores the human instinct to trespass the limits of knowledge for power and self-definition. This book offers perspectives on its literary versions: Marlowe’s tragedy, Goethe’s salvation, and the ambiguous collapse in John Fowles’ The Magus.

Vision beyond Visual Perception

Edited By: Borko Kovačević, Ian Richards, Junichi Toyota

£58.99

Vision is not just perception, but is deeply rooted in human physiology, psychology and culture. This book challenges the Anglo-centric view that vision is a universal source for metaphor, exploring languages worldwide where other senses are preferred.

Diversity and Social Justice in Early Childhood Education

Nordic Perspectives

Edited By: Kirsten Lauritsen, Garry Robson

£58.99

This book discusses how early childhood education can work with diversity and language to allow inclusion and social justice for all children. Building on case studies from Nordic countries, it offers insights from children, practitioners and parents.

Teacher Education in India

Issues and Concerns

Edited By: Lokanath Mishra

£63.99

A progressive country is built upon the quality and commitment of its teachers. The teacher education system is a powerful vehicle to raise educational standards. This collection of papers analyses this system and its improvement, with special reference to North East India.

Pluralism, Pragmatism and American Democracy

A Minority Report

By: H.G. Callaway

£64.99

Callaway defends democratic individualism against more collectivist and corporatist tendencies in contemporary neo-pragmatism, and draws upon up-to-date political analysis in order to justify America’s long republican tradition.

Language and Speech in Synchrony and Diachrony

Papers from an International Linguistics Conference

Edited By: Tatiana G. Klikushina

£81.99

This collection examines language and speech in synchrony and diachrony. It covers cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, translation, text, and discourse, analyzing languages from various groups, including the non-literate Yenisei languages.

New Methodological Approaches to Foreign Language Teaching

Edited By: Thomas H. Schmidt, Laura Torres-Zúñiga

£67.99

Turn research into practice. This guide shows how to integrate linguistics, translation, literature, and cultural studies into the language classroom with innovative strategies for teaching English, Spanish, French, and German.

Reflections on Female and Trans* Masculinities and Other Queer Crossings

Edited By: Nina Kane, Jude Woods

£61.99

This thought-provoking collection presents many voices exploring themes of female and trans* masculinities, gender equality, and the lives and activism of LGBT*IQ artists. It travels across time telling gender-crossing stories of creative resistance for readers of queer culture.

Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts

The Press and the Pulpit

Edited By: Anja-Maria Bassimir, Oliver Scheiding

£61.99

This volume explores the relationship between religion and print, examining the material devices, business structures, and cultural networks that circulate words and images to nourish religious faith in a global context.

A Cybernetic Study of Speaking and Singing

By: Ion Piso

£58.99

Piso offers a detailed investigation of the singing technique generally known as “inhaling the voice” technique, and analyses the usage of vowels in spoken and sung variants, offering advice to singers regarding how they can improve their pronunciation of vowels and consonants.

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.

Remembering Home in a Time of Mobility

Memory, Nostalgia and Melancholy

Edited By: Maja Mikula

£61.99

In an age of displacement, this volume explores how we use memory, nostalgia, and melancholy to cope with the loss of home. It examines the politics of these strategies and their intersection with identity positions such as gender, class, and sexuality.

Arthur Miller’s Century

Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of America’s Great Playwright

Edited By: Stephen Marino

£61.99

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century's major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century’s major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

On Trauma and Traumatic Memory

Edited By: Bootheina Majoul

£58.99

This anthology focuses on the role of writing to preserve memories, to excavate traumas and to heal the ever-present scars of the past. It gathers together research papers from different universities around the world, including India, Italy, Tunisia and the USA.

Rewriting Shakespeare’s Plays For and By the Contemporary Stage

Edited By: Michael Dobson, Estelle Rivier-Arnaud

£58.99

Why are contemporary playwrights obsessed with rewriting Shakespeare? Across the world, new writers have questioned the political and cultural stakes of repeating his classics. This collection asks: do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare, or does his survival depend on them?

Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India

From the Margins to the Center

By: Kavita Chakravarty, Pareena Lawrence

£58.99

After a constitutional amendment reserved political seats for women in rural Haryana, who are the women who ran for office? What barriers do they face? Ten elected women Sarpanches share their own life stories, reflecting on their journeys and the difference they are making.

Science, Public Health and Nation-Building in Soekarno-Era Indonesia

By: Vivek Neelakantan

£61.99

Indonesia’s early public health successes gave way to an era of bold plans but unfulfilled aspirations. This book reveals the inner tensions between a biomedical approach to disease eradication and a holistic vision linking public health to nation-building.

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