Social Sciences

North American Indian Medicine Powers

Spirit Talkers

By: William Lyon

From £49.99

This book challenges the notion that American Indian medicine powers are mere superstition. Utilizing a recent discovery in quantum mechanics, it explains shamanic ceremony, arguing there is now more evidence to assume these powers are real than to assume they are not.

North and South

Essays on Gender, Race and Region

Edited By: Christine DeVine, Mary Ann Wilson

£44.99

This collection of essays crosses historical and disciplinary boundaries to ask if “north” and “south” represent real divisions. The essays interrogate boundaries—symbolic and literal, as communication and division—and explore how identity emerges across them.

Northern Afghanistan

Edited By: Major C. E. Yate

£24.99

A fascinating, first-hand account of the Anglo-Russian commission that delineated Afghanistan’s northern frontier. Presented as a series of letters, it describes the year-long journey with notes on Herat, the Oxus, and the Hindu Kush mountains.

Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea

Seascapes and Dreamscapes

Edited By: Andrew Jennings, Silke Reeploeg, Angela Watt

£61.99

This anthology delves into the shared Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, showing how the experience of being surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean has been a constant in the islanders’ history and identities.

Northrop Frye in Context

By: Diane Dubois

£39.99

Diane Dubois situates Northrop Frye’s work in its biographical and historical context. Illuminating his œuvre as a personal project rooted in the social and religious conditions of his time, this book helps us see the key theorist's work anew.

Northrop Frye’s Lectures

Student Notes from His Courses, 1947–1955

Edited By: Robert D. Denham

£73.99

This collection provides a transcription of fifteen sets of notes taken by Northrop Frye’s students in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and is the only available extended record of the courses taught by the great Canadian literary critic and humanist.

Norwegian Perspectives on Education and Cultural Diversity

Edited By: Lars Anders Kulbrandstad, Sidsel Lied, Garry Robson

£64.99

This collection of articles utilises thematic orientations, methodological approaches and data materials to give an insight into the opportunities and challenges that exist for education in society, in relation to the growing cultural and linguistic complexity prevalent today.

Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day

Edited By: Isabella van Elferen

£34.99

The Gothic rewrites the past through nostalgia and perversion. This collection examines how novels, films, and music use this transgressive drive to break down boundaries between past and present, norm and deviation, and other and self.

Not Far From Here

The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver

Edited By: Vasiliki Fachard, Robert Miltner

£39.99

Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.

Not So Innocent Abroad

The Politics of Travel and Travel Writing

Edited By: Ulrike Brisson, Bernard Schweizer

£39.99

Travel and travel writing are never innocent. This book offers a fresh approach, arguing that journeying always occurs within political systems. It reveals the political implications and dissimulated messages in travelogues from the 18th to 21st century.

Not So Strange Bedfellows

The Nexus of Politics and Religion in the 21st Century

Edited By: Rob Imre, Jim Jose

£44.99

This volume challenges the dominant orthodoxy of secularity. Its contributors demonstrate that ‘secular’ democracy is not separate from religion, exploring how nation-states infuse politics with religiosity and proving the two remain deeply connected.

Not White/Straight/Male/Healthy Enough

Being “Other” in the Academy

Edited By: Michael A. Moreno, Michele Shaul

£58.99

This anthology discloses the experiences of members of the academic community who know the struggle for acceptance all too well. It serves to caution newcomers to the academy, to equip teachers to identify and discuss inequity in the classroom, and to provoke change.

Not-I/Thou

The Other Subject of Art and Architecture

By: Gavin Keeney

£39.99

In these essays, Art and Architecture emerge from the gray areas of cultural production as a type of knowledge with no utilitarian agency. They operate at the edge of authorized systems, quietly validating the shadowy and recondite operations of intellect.

Notes on Knowledge, Indifference and Redundancy

By: Esteban Céspedes

£45.99

This title addresses a diverse range of important topics concerning the notion of knowledge, connecting them in a unifying way, and providing answers to a number of key questions concerning this concept.

Notional Identities

Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies

By: Thomas Christie

£44.99

This book examines popular Scottish speculative and crime fiction from the 1970s onward, investigating how these works engaged with national identity, a tumultuous political climate, and their relationship to mainstream literary writing.

Notions of Physics in Natural Philosophy

Edited By: George Vlahakis

£24.99

This volume explores the emergence of physics in ancient philosophy, the concept of physical laws from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and the mathematization of Natural Philosophy that led to the emergence of the classical sciences.

Novel Avenues to the Study of Language Structure

Edited By: Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru, Alina Tigău, Ioana Stoicescu, Ruxandra Dragan

£72.99

This volume presents papers from AICED 24, delving into language structure. Contributions explore the syntax, phonology, and semantics of Romanian and other European languages, as well as topics like translation and L2 learning. For all linguists interested in these fields.

Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind

Edited By: Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske

£47.99

This collection demonstrates the novel's power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind's urge to understand itself.

This collection demonstrates the novel’s power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind’s urge to understand itself.

NP-Anaphora in Modern Greek

A Partial Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach

By: Michael Chiou

£39.99

This study offers a new perspective on NP-anaphora in modern Greek, proposing a pragmatic analysis based on neo-Gricean principles. It argues that preference, regulated by principles of communication, governs how anaphoric expressions are chosen and interpreted.

Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia

Edited By: Manas Chatterji, Padmanabh M. Kamath

From £30.99

This book explains the compulsions to revise India's Nuclear Doctrine (IND) in response to geostrategic realities, including Pakistan's tactical nuclear weapons and terrorism. It explores updating the policy for massive retaliation with a credible second strike capability.

This book explains the compulsions to revise India’s Nuclear Doctrine (IND) in response to geostrategic realities, including Pakistan’s tactical nuclear weapons and terrorism. It explores updating the policy for massive retaliation with a credible second strike capability.

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