Social Sciences

Studies on Karachi

Papers Presented at the Karachi Conference 2013

Edited By: Sabiah Askari

£52.99

This book, a landmark in scholarship on Karachi, explores the city's development from a sleepy settlement into a mega-city. It depicts a city that, despite its vibrancy, is afflicted with problems ranging from poor planning to colossal mismanagement.

This book, a landmark in scholarship on Karachi, explores the city’s development from a sleepy settlement into a mega-city. It depicts a city that, despite its vibrancy, is afflicted with problems ranging from poor planning to colossal mismanagement.

Seeing Whole

Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight

Edited By: Asbjørn Grønstad, Mark Ledbetter

£52.99

This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.

Close Relations

Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre

Edited By: Paul Monaghan

£52.99

This book applies insights from the “spatial turn” to Greek and Roman theatre. It explores the complex interweaving of space-time, the relations between ancient theatrical space, and how it has been interpreted and transformed throughout history.

Probing the Skin

Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone

Edited By: Dirk Vanderbeke, Caroline Rosenthal

£52.99

Across art, literature, and medicine, these essays read the skin—as a sensual surface, a racial marker, and a canvas for tattoos, scars, and memory.

Growing Up a Woman

The Private/Public Divide in the Narratives of Female Development

Edited By: Milena Kaličanin, Soňa Šnircová

£52.99

The contributions to this volume explore contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, highlighting the continuing relevance of the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism.

Labour Law in Russia

Recent Developments and New Challenges

Edited By: Anthony Forsyth, Elena Radevich

£52.99

Russia’s transition to a market economy required new employment laws, but many issues remain unaddressed. The papers in this volume consider recent developments from a historical and comparative perspective to provide insights and examine current challenges.

D. H. Lawrence

New Critical Perspectives and Cultural Translation

Edited By: Simonetta de Filippis

£52.99

Offering a selection of papers delivered at the 13th International D.H. Lawrence Conference, the essays here provide new readings of Lawrence’s work and ideology through various theoretical and philosophical approaches, while others focus on translation.

Queer Stories of Europe

Edited By: Jānis Ozoliņš, Kārlis Vērdiņš

£52.99

The first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region, the essays here deal with representations of queer culture over a period of more than one hundred years, with a specific interest in belletristics.

Queering Women’s and Gender Studies

Edited By: Begoña Crespo, Isabel Moskowich

£52.99

This text brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women’s, gender, and queer studies. It adopts an inclusive attitude to the so-called “others” present in these fields.

Radical Contra-Diction

Coleridge, Revolution, Apostasy

By: Björn Bosserhoff

£52.99

This first book-length study of Coleridge’s reactions to the French Revolution examines his trajectory from ‘radical’ to ‘conservative’, and challenges the very notion that these labels can be applied to him.

Travelling around Cultures

Collected Essays on Literature and Art

Edited By: Zsolt Győri, Gabriella Moise

£52.99

This volume investigates how literary and artistic practices expose the invisible structures of Anglo-American culture. Chapters revisit authors like Dickens and Dickinson as social commentary, and explore the politics of practices like censorship, fan fiction, and travelogues.

Coercive Diplomacy of NATO in Kosovo

By: Enver Bytyçi

£52.99

This book examines NATO’s engagement in Kosovo and the reasoning behind its 1999 military intervention. It analyzes the historical conflict between Albanians and Serbs, the contradicting stances at the Security Council, and the issue of Kosovo's future.

ELT

New Horizons in Theory and Application

Edited By: Christoph Haase, Joel Cameron Head

£52.99

This collection of research papers presents new findings in linguistics, methodology, and literature. It explores diverse topics from English as a lingua franca and MOOCs to indigenous storytelling, providing inspiration for a wide spectrum of practitioners.

Ethnosymbolism and the Dynamics of Identity

By: Liu Mingxin, Elya Tzaneva

£52.99

Using insights from Bulgarian history, Tzaneva views the construction of Bulgarian national identity as a process intimately affected by social circumstances in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, and explores how the concept of ethnosymbolism contributes to identity dynamics.

Whose City Is That? Culture, Design, Spectacle and Capital in Istanbul

Edited By: Dilek Özhan Koçak, Orhan Kemal Koçak

£52.99

For each inhabitant there is another Istanbul, created from their own experiences. This book gathers researchers from diverse disciplines to explore the city's real and imaginary borders, asking the ultimate question: Whose city is it?

For each inhabitant there is another Istanbul, created from their own experiences. This book gathers researchers from diverse disciplines to explore the city’s real and imaginary borders, asking the ultimate question: Whose city is it?

Exploring Political and Gender Relations

New Digital and Cultural Environments

Edited By: Valentina Marinescu

£52.99

Offering a contemporary, multicultural approach to the relationship between politics, media and society, this publication investigates such links from various perspectives. It brings to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed.

Constraints and Language

Edited By: Philippe Blache, Henning Christiansen, Verónica Dahl

£52.99

The concept of “constraint” is used across linguistics, computer science, and psychology. This book builds an extended overview of the use of constraints to model and process language, making it useful for researchers and as a class book for advanced courses.

On the Translation of Swearing into Spanish

Quentin Tarantino from Reservoir Dogs to Inglourious Basterds

By: Betlem Soler Pardo

£52.99

This book analyzes how insults in Quentin Tarantino's films are dubbed from English into Spanish. His films offer an interesting opportunity because of the exceptional number of insults they contain—1526 have been recorded, classified and analysed.

This book analyzes how insults in Quentin Tarantino’s films are dubbed from English into Spanish. His films offer an interesting opportunity because of the exceptional number of insults they contain—1526 have been recorded, classified and analysed.

Adsensory Financialisation

By: Pamela Odih

£52.99

Odih identifies the biopolitical basis of adsensory wearable technologies, arguing that the paradoxical feature of adsensory technologies is the proliferation of risk. It also deals with the neoliberal construct of the entrepreneurial lifestyle insurance subject.

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