Social Sciences

Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community

Edited By: Bryan Kirschen

£47.99

This collection addresses linguistic, historical, and cultural matters pertinent to the Sephardim from the fifteenth century to the present. Essays reveal how Sephardim worldwide position themselves and explore the development, endangerment, and revitalization of Judeo-Spanish.

Beyond the Night

Creatures of Life, Death and the In-Between

Edited By: Nadine Farghaly

£47.99

From Beowulf to Buffy, this collection analyzes old and new creatures in popular culture. Beyond the Night offers insights into the monstrous, exploring their significance for society in relation to sexuality, gender, social change, and otherness.

Identity, Trauma, Sensitive and Controversial Issues in the Teaching of History

Edited By: Hilary Cooper, Jon Nichol

£62.99

History Education is a politically contested subject, and can both promote xenophobia and develop tolerance. Accordingly, these essays address the major challenges that it faces in an era of globalisation, digital revolution, and international and religious conflict.

Laws of Nature, Laws of God?

Proceedings of the Science and Religion Forum Conference, 2014

Edited By: Louise Hickman, Neil Spurway

£34.99

How should we view scientific laws? In this book, scientists, historians, and philosophers tackle this topic, sparked by Nancy Cartwright’s provocative question: “How could laws make things happen?” Her answer was “They couldn’t!”

Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing

An Onomasiological Account of Neoclassical Formations

By: Renáta Panocová

£41.99

Using an onomasiological approach, this book analyzes neoclassical formations in English and Russian medical terms. It argues that what is a system of word formation in English represents only individual borrowings in Russian, solving a key problem in morphological theory.

Caribbean Without Borders

Beyond the Can[n]on’s Range

Edited By: Gabriel J. Jiménez Fuentes, Gabriel Mejía González, Marisol Joseph Haynes

£52.99

In a Caribbean fragmented by colonization, this book calls for a “submarine” unity that defies borders. Featuring essays on linguistics, literature, art, and more, it re-envisions a Caribbean aesthetics to convey the limitless nature of the region.

Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction

By: Sonia Front

£41.99

Front investigates the use of the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualizations in theories of the new physics as a thematic and formal framework for the British novel of the twenty-first century.

Revisiting “Social Factors”

Advancing Research into People and Place

Edited By: Georgia Lindsay, Lusi Morhayim

£47.99

This collection of cutting-edge research explores the human experience of the built environment. Touching on issues of sustainability, disaster recovery, and culture, it demonstrates a renaissance of Social Factors for scholars, students, and practitioners.

Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Gyula Klima

£47.99

Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures who bookend a major thirteenth-century philosophical tradition. This volume explores Maimonides’s work on God and creation alongside the revolutionary logic and metaphysics developed by Scotus.

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.

Living Like Nomads

The Milanese Anarchist Movement Before Fascism

By: Fausto Butta

£47.99

Living Like Nomads illuminates the unknown history of Milanese anarchists in the two decades before fascism. It tells the fascinating stories of their lifestyles, political campaigns, and ideological debates. They were the first to resist the violence of Mussolini’s black shirts.

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.

New Approaches to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia

Proceedings of the First Olympia-Seminar 8th-10th May 2014

Edited By: András Patay-Horváth

£52.99

This volume explores the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the largest in mainland Greece. International experts from many fields offer new perspectives on its architecture, sculptural decoration, and the cult of Zeus, bridging classical studies with new digital technologies.

Lexical Issues in L2 Writing

Edited By: Katalin Doró, Päivi Pietilä, Renata Pípalová

£47.99

Given increasing interest in lexical issues in second language acquisition studies in recent years, and the importance of words to every instance of communication, this volume concentrates on vocabulary in written language, with a particular focus on academic settings.

An Edgy Realism

Film Theoretical Encounters with Dogma 95, New French Extremity, and the Shaky-Cam Horror Film

By: Jerome Schaefer

£41.99

Using actor-network theory, Schaefer’s study offers an investigation of the new realism that has characterized cinema since the turn of the millennium due to the proliferation of the digital.

Colonialism and National Identity

Edited By: Paolo Bertella Farnetti, Cecilia Dau Novelli

£47.99

This book addresses the neglected link between national identity and colonial culture in Italy. It is a critical reflection on a denied past, reconstructing uncomfortable memories that overlap the challenging present circumstances of rigidity, racism and rejection.

South Asian Migration

Remittances and Beyond

Edited By: Zaara Zain Hussain, Md Mizanur Rahman

£47.99

This volume provides insights into international migration, diaspora engagement, and remittances in South Asia. It analyses the implications for development, focusing on “Remittance-Induced Development” and “Diaspora-Induced Development.”

Invisible Cultures

Historical and Archaeological Perspectives

Edited By: Francesco Carrer, Viola Gheller

£52.99

Some cultural groups are “invisible,” absent from historiographical records or material remains. This volume explores why the memory of these marginalized groups was obliterated and presents new perspectives aimed at returning voice and presence to the “invisibles” of history.

Environment-Cultural Interaction and the Tribes of North-East India

Edited By: Banshaikupar Lyngdoh Mawlong, Marco Babit Mitri

£47.99

Human survival depends on nature, a relationship defined by culture. This book argues that environmental conservation is a matter of moral ethics, and must accommodate the traditional knowledge of indigenous cultures to restore the bond between humans and nature.

The European Union and the Challenges of the New Global Context

Edited By: Ileana Tache

£47.99

This book analyzes the EU's challenges as a global actor amid recent political and economic crises. It covers foreign policy, sanctions, and trade, offering timely analysis of EU responses to events like the Ukrainian conflict, and proposes a unique macroeconomic model.

This book analyzes the EU’s challenges as a global actor amid recent political and economic crises. It covers foreign policy, sanctions, and trade, offering timely analysis of EU responses to events like the Ukrainian conflict, and proposes a unique macroeconomic model.

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