Social Sciences

Power Politics in Africa

Nigeria and South Africa in Comparative Perspective

Edited By: Olusola Ogunnubi, Samuel Oyewole

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This collection examines power politics in Africa, focusing on the strategies of regional powers like Nigeria and South Africa. It contrasts the struggle for hegemony with pan-African solidarity, contributing a vital African perspective to a largely Eurocentric field.

Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco

£44.99

Gender plays a significant role in accessing resources, rights, and power. Through case studies, research, and theory, interdisciplinary scholars shed light on the intricate links between gender, policy, and social change in Africa and worldwide.

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.

Practical Action

Wittgenstein, Pragmatism and Sociology

By: Albert Ogien

£58.99

This book presents a dynamic model of practical action that challenges the one imposed by the cognitive sciences. Integrating Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and interactionist sociology, it reveals a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.

Practical Approaches to Teaching Film

Edited By: Rachel S. Ritterbusch

£39.99

Unlock film's power in the classroom. Experts show how to use movies from blockbusters to art films to foster critical thinking. This practical guide provides sample syllabi, assignments, and a glossary of key film terms for immediate use.

Unlock film’s power in the classroom. Experts show how to use movies from blockbusters to art films to foster critical thinking. This practical guide provides sample syllabi, assignments, and a glossary of key film terms for immediate use.

Practical L2 Reading

By: Alan M. Taylor

£66.99

Does glossing actually improve L2 reading comprehension? This definitive reference cuts through academic jargon to explore the effects of glossing on L2 reading and vocabulary learning. It outlines variables, theories, and strategies for improving and measuring L2 reading.

Practical Tools for Developing Transversal Skills in Vocational Education and Training

By: Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio, Igor Filibi

From £41.99

This book offers VET teachers a set of practical, tested tools to develop students' transversal competences. The units cover teamwork, communication, and conflict resolution, providing In-TRAY type activities with downloadable elements for direct use in the classroom.

This book offers VET teachers a set of practical, tested tools to develop students’ transversal competences. The units cover teamwork, communication, and conflict resolution, providing In-TRAY type activities with downloadable elements for direct use in the classroom.

Practice and Theory for Materials Development in L2 Learning

Edited By: Brian Tomlinson, Hitomi Masuhara, Freda Mishan

£68.99

This collection contributes to the growing body of empirical literature on materials development, adopting a reverse approach to the topic. It also gives evidence for the global diversity of materials development at different levels for different specialities and purposes.

Practices in Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning

Edited By: Michael Joseph Ennis, Catherine Elizabeth Riley

£58.99

To prepare learners for global citizenship, language teaching must be intercultural. This book offers a collection of successful, bottom-up experiences rooted in praxis, sharing activities and methods that can be informative to the realities of all readers.

Practices of Abstract Art

Between Anarchism and Appropriation

Edited By: Wiebke Gronemeyer, Isabel Wünsche

£57.99

Given the renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, this collection of essays investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years, engaging it in its increasingly diverse cultural environment.

Practices of Ethics

An Empirical Approach to Ethics in Social Sciences Research

Edited By: Fernanda Menéndez, Isabella Paoletti, Maria Isabel Tomás

£44.99

For social sciences researchers confronted with ethical dilemmas, this book provides examples of ethical reflection. It deals with complex ethical questions that arise during fieldwork which find no clear guidance from professional codes, showing a new empirical approach.

Practices of Proximity

The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature

By: Katherine E. Russo

£39.99

This study investigates the appropriation of English in the literary contact zone between ‘white’ and Indigenous Australia. It insists on the multilateral ownership of the language, seeing Indigenous literature as a space to rethink co-habitation and sovereignty.

Practicing Applied Anthropology Across Discontinuous Social Fields

By: Keith V. Bletzer

From £43.99

This book covers the author’s field experiences as an ethnographer in Central America and an applied anthropologist in the US. It highlights the importance of incorporating ethnography into work tasks across a range of social fields and diverse socio-cultural groups.

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..

Practising the Good Life

Lifestyle Migration in Practices

Edited By: Inês David, João Sardinha, Kate Torkington

£47.99

This collection explores lifestyle migration and the pursuit of ‘the good life’. Through global case studies—from Spain to Nepal—it provides interdisciplinary insights into the everyday practices of community, identity, and home-making.

Pragmatic Aspects of L2 Communication

From Awareness through Description to Assessment

Edited By: Sara Gesuato, Giuliana Salvato, Erik Castello

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This volume addresses pragmatic aspects of L2 communication from the perspectives of researchers, practitioners, and learners. It shows how pragmatic awareness is crucial for social competence and can be applied to language teaching and assessment.

Pragmatic Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

Culture vs Speech

By: Petra Ivenz, Eva Reid

From £29.99

This book analyzes and compares the language styles, politeness, and directness used by English and Slovak presenters on live television. Because the shows are unscripted, their language is more natural, and the results contribute to sociolinguistic research worldwide.

Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume I

Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies

Edited By: Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka

£54.99

This collection of essays critically examines linguistic action and how we “do things with words”. Representing different pragmatic approaches, the texts include theoretical discussions, case studies, reports on experimental pragmatics, and corpus studies.

Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II

Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains

Edited By: Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka

£49.99

This volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of semantically-restricted domains. It addresses phenomena from a variety of perspectives, exploring politics, ideology, humour, power, media, and specialized communication in business, law, and science.

Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse

Linguistics and Literature

Edited By: Christoph Schubert, Laurenz Volkmann

£47.99

Offering integrative investigations, the contributions here show how postcolonial Englishes, such as those spoken in India and Nigeria, have produced different pragmatic conventions in a complex interplay of culture-specific and global linguistic practices.

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