Social Sciences

Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History

HistoRisus

Edited By: Rafał Borysławski, Justyna Jajszczok, Jakub Wolff

£52.99

This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.

Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past

Selected Proceedings from the 36th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum

Edited By: Meriem Pagès, Robert G. Sullivan

£52.99

This volume celebrates the ways the Middle Ages and Renaissance are represented in our own age. The contributions bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.

Languaging Diversity

Identities, Genres, Discourses

Edited By: Giuseppe Balirano

£52.99

This volume explores the relationship between Language and Diversity, assuming identities are dynamically negotiated as discourse unfolds. It examines how people use linguistic resources to achieve, maintain, or challenge their cultural, social, and gender identities.

Depicting Dante in Anglo-Italian Literary and Visual Arts

Allegory, Authority and Authenticity

By: Christoph Lehner

£52.99

This title examines key stages of Dante’s appropriation in Western cultural history. It focuses on his representation, including how his image was fixed in the first 200 years of his appropriation in Florence and how Dantean images and his text have been used in Britain.

Using Technology in Foreign Language Teaching

Edited By: Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Salah Troudi

£52.99

This book explores how to best utilize technology in language teaching, debating the advantages and disadvantages of IT integration. It examines IT use in countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia, providing a useful resource for professionals and researchers.

Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature

By: Dimitrios Kassis

£52.99

This book deals with travel narratives on the North from 1784 to 1897, exploring how writers used the idea of a Nordic utopia to address Britishness, gender, and the racial discourse on nationhood.

In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond

A History of Jews and Muslims (15th-17th Centuries) Vol. 1

Edited By: Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, Lúcia Liba Mucznik, José Alberto R. Silva Tavim

£52.99

Beginning with the forced conversion of Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects on their respective diasporas, focusing on a variety of approaches, from language and culture to identity discourses and interchanges between those communities.

Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus

Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean

By: William Mallinson

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Using the story of Kissinger’s behaviour regarding Cyprus, backed up by recently revealed government documents, Mallinson provides an incisive analysis of Kissinger’s approach, revealing a man who appears to have considered political strategy more important than law and ethics.

Ain’thology

The History and Life of a Taboo Word

Edited By: Seth Katz, Patricia Donaher

£52.99

Language critics call ain’t “lazy” or “stupid,” yet it’s used by speakers of all dialects. Why? This first book-length collection dedicated to the shibboleth analyzes the history and life of this taboo word in English speech, writing, and media.

Essays on Roberto Gerhard

Edited By: Monty Adkins, Michael Russ

£52.99

This volume explores Roberto Gerhard’s work from the early Wind Quintet through to the late period Metamorphoses. It suggests evidence that situates his idiosyncratic experiments alongside, rather than after, the total serialist works of his European counterparts.

A World Beyond Global Disorder

The Courage to Hope

Edited By: Fred Dallmayr, Edward Demenchonok

£52.99

This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms.

Social Media in Asia

Changing Paradigms of Communication

Edited By: Azman Azwan Azmawati, Rachel E. Khan

£52.99

Written by Asian academics and practitioners, this book explores social media in Southeast Asia. Discover how it has changed the paradigm of communication: as an avenue for free expression, a tool for news distribution, an aid in crime prevention, and a means to find a partner.

C. S. Lewis and the Inklings

Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology

Edited By: Jason Fisher, Mark Hall, Salwa Khoddam

£52.99

The Inklings’ views on the negative impacts of technology and their resolution through fellowship and faith. Essays demonstrate how their literary craft can enchant readers, empowering them with a keener spiritual vision to tackle present concerns.

Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series

An Intercultural Analysis

By: Silvia Grassi

£52.99

This book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. It challenges the rhetoric of “normalisation” and represents a major contribution to these fields in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.

The Theory of Musical Communication

By: Alexander N. Yakoupov

£52.99

Yakupov summarises the communicative processes encompassing the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena of musical art. He considers the numerous communicative links in the spheres of the composer, performer, listener and musicologist-critic.

Growing Democracy in Africa

Elections, Accountable Governance, and Political Economy

Edited By: Mamoudou Gazibo, J. Oloka-Onyango

£52.99

This edited collection critically examines the record on democratization in Africa thus far, questioning the state of governance in sub-Saharan Africa, and seeks a new, integrated, focused approach to the study of governance.

Language Crisis in the Ryukyus

Edited By: Mark Anderson, Patrick Heinrich

£52.99

Once denigrated, the Ryukyuan languages are now severely endangered by oppressive policies. This volume depicts the history of the crisis, shedding light on the dark side of modernization and a misplaced obsession with monolingualism.

The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema

Violence Void Visualization

Edited By: Michael Elm, Kobi Kabalek, Julia B. Köhne

£52.99

This volume explores how film depicts historical trauma resulting from extreme violence, focusing on Israeli-Palestinian, German, and US cinema. Scholars analyze how movies visualize shattering experiences, uniquely tracing horror aesthetics to question trauma's loops.

Power, Politics and Episcopal Authority

The Bishops of Cremona and Lincoln in the Middle Ages (1066-1340)

By: Angelo Silvestri

£52.99

This book assesses the shifts in bishops’ power in Lincoln and Cremona from the 11th to the 14th century. The comparison highlights the differences between the role of a prelate in England's largest diocese and the struggle for authority in a communal Italian city.

This book assesses the shifts in bishops’ power in Lincoln and Cremona from the 11th to the 14th century. The comparison highlights the differences between the role of a prelate in England’s largest diocese and the struggle for authority in a communal Italian city.

The World in the Mind and Sculpture of Deafblind People

By: Ewa Anna Niestorowicz

£52.99

Niestorowicz discusses the creative capabilities of people with simultaneous impairment of sight and hearing. She presents a study of the act of creation performed by deafblind people, which makes it possible to propose a vision of reality as conveyed through their sculptures.

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