Social Sciences

Competition Policy and Resource Utilization

An Agenda for Resource-Dependent Developing Countries

By: David Oluwadare Adetoro

£52.99

This book examines how competition law can promote efficient resource allocation in resource-dependent developing economies. It offers insights into problems like the ‘resource curse,’ corruption, and abusive business practices, and their implications for competition.

Ancient Warfare

Introducing Current Research, Volume I

Edited By: Geoff Lee, Helene Whittaker, Graham Wrightson

£52.99

This collection presents current research on ancient warfare, covering a wide range of themes and neglected topics. Readable and engaging, it offers a high standard of scholarship appealing to historians, students, and a wider audience.

Intellect Encounters Faith – A Synthesis

A Festschrift in Honor of Jay Harold Ellens, Ph.D.

Edited By: J. Harold Ellens, John Tracy Greene

From £39.99

This collection of essays is a tribute to renaissance man Dr. Jay Harold Ellens: a scholar, psychologist, and military chaplain. The volume merges deep scholarship with personal reflections on Psychology, Religious Literature, and Military History.

Photography and Cinema

50 Years of Chris Marker’s La Jetée

Edited By: Teresa M. Flores, Joana Cunha Leal, Margarida Medeiros

£52.99

Visionary filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker blurred the lines between the still and moving image. This volume explores this fusion through his masterpiece La Jetée, analyzing its profound and lasting influence on art and cinema.

Practicing Philosophy

Edited By: Lydia Amir, Aleksandar Fatić

£52.99

This volume presents the state of the art of philosophical practice worldwide from the perspectives of leading philosophical practitioners, and demonstrates the breadth of philosophical practice and its various methodological directions..

Self-Presentation and Identity in the Roman World

Edited By: Andreas Gavrielatos

£52.99

This volume examines how self-presentation can facilitate our understanding of how individuals present their identities. Topics covered include identities shaped through the self-presentation of authors in Latin literature, and explorations on epigraphy and historical analyses.

The Many Faces of War in the Ancient World

Edited By: Graham Wrightson, Sabine Müller, Graham Wrightson

£52.99

This volume explores warfare and its political implications from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. With a focus on cultural and social history, it presents an overview of current issues and diverse approaches to the “new” military history.

Jawless Fishes of the World

Volume 2

Edited By: Richard Beamish, Alexei Orlov

£52.99

The first book to focus exclusively on various aspects of jawless fish species throughout the world, this volume provides an overview of a variety of related topics, including their taxonomy, zoogeography, phylogeny, molecular biology, evolution, and role in the ecosystem.

Myths and Memories

(Re)viewing Colonial Western Australia through Travellers’ Imaginings, 1850-1914

By: Cindy Lane

£52.99

This book examines European travellers' perceptions of southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Shaped by power and privilege, their narrow narratives created a mythical "pioneer" community, ignoring the inequalities of colonial life.

This book examines European travellers’ perceptions of southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Shaped by power and privilege, their narrow narratives created a mythical “pioneer” community, ignoring the inequalities of colonial life.

Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts

Incarnation, Initiation, Institution

By: Frances Altvater

£52.99

Altvater looks at three areas of concern around baptism as a sacrament—incarnation, initiation, and baptism within the Church—and the images that embody that religious discussion. She argues baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian.

Medieval Urban Planning

The Monastery and Beyond

Edited By: Mickey Abel

£52.99

This collection examines whether multifaceted urban planning took place in the Middle Ages, and its manifestation itself outside of the monastic realm. It expands our grasp of how authoritative figures saw the planning process and applied plans to structure a particular outcome.

Revisiting Traditional Institutions in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills

Edited By: Charles Reuben Lyngdoh

£52.99

This collection studies the landscapes of traditional institutions that exist in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India. It blends oral tradition with historical records and secondary literature sources, examining the power and function interplay between authorities.

Term Structure of Profit Rates of Sukuk

MATLAB Stochastic Simulation

By: Adesina-Uthman Ganiyat

£52.99

This book applies term structure models to analyse the financial instrument Sukuk. It establishes “profit rate yield curves” for sovereign and corporate bonds, providing informative case studies for students and researchers in financial economics.

Surrounded by Water

Landscapes, Seascapes and Cityscapes of Sardinia

Edited By: Andrea Corsale, Giovanni Sistu

£52.99

This work investigates the physical and human geography of Sardinia, the second largest Mediterranean island, with its complex and varied features. Each chapter offers an analysis of a specific facet of the island, complemented with insights gained from in-depth research.

Rethinking Social Issues in Education for the 21st Century

UK Perspectives on International Concerns

Edited By: Sylvia Horton, Wendy Sims-Schouten

£52.99

Key social issues and controversies in education are revisited in this volume. The text shows how common interests and collaboration help us understand social issues, the evaluation of governmental responses, and the promotion of ideas about the way forward into the 21st century.

Teaching Theology in a Technological Age

Edited By: Doru Costache, James R. Harrison

£52.99

Providing research from scholars from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, this collection of essays explores how the theological sector of education, drawing upon its scriptural heritage, can come to grips with the digital age.

Food Security and Food Production

Institutional Challenges in Governance Domain

Edited By: C. Sheela Reddy

£52.99

India's food security depends on its ecological foundation, which is threatened by competition for water and land. This book addresses the critical institutional challenges and offers insights into the changes needed to ensure food security for the nation.

India’s food security depends on its ecological foundation, which is threatened by competition for water and land. This book addresses the critical institutional challenges and offers insights into the changes needed to ensure food security for the nation.

The System of Absentology in Ontological Philosophy

By: Adam Lovasz

£52.99

Lovasz deals primarily with absentology, an ontological and social-scientific epistemological mode, dedicated to the analysis of absence. His monograph is drawn by manifestations of absence and deals with three terms, ‘the shadow economy’, ‘corruption’ and ‘pollution’.

Mothers at the Margins

Stories of Challenge, Resistance and Love

Edited By: Jenny Jones, Marie Porter, Lisa Raith

£52.99

This collection speaks with the voices of mothers who feel alienated, stigmatised, or silenced for not fitting the expected norms of motherhood. It challenges narrow ideas of maternal identity, revealing structures of oppression and strategies of resistance and love.

Corruption in Ukraine

Rulers’ Mentality and the Destiny of the Nation, Geophilosophy of Ukraine

By: Oleg Bazaluk

£52.99

Bazaluk expands the understanding of Ukraine as a limitrophe state, as a frontier between two world cultures, the East and the West. He explains the relationship between the totally corrupt Ukrainian political system and the geographic location of the country.

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