Social Sciences

Crime and Madness in Modern Austria

Myth, Metaphor and Cultural Realities

Edited By: Rebecca S. Thomas

£44.99

This collection explores the history, politics, and representation of crime and madness in modern Austria. It reveals how cultural responses are steeped in mythmaking, while literary representations expose deep-seated attitudes about Austrian society.

Conversations in Philosophy

Crossing the Boundaries

Edited By: F. Ochieng’-Odhiambo

£39.99

These essays demonstrate philosophy’s relevance to fundamental human problems. Crossing disciplinary and regional boundaries from Africa to America, they explore pressing issues like development, conflict, and apathy, reflecting the vitality of philosophical discourse.

You are What You Eat

Literary Probes into the Palate

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

£44.99

This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.

Education Landscapes in the 21st Century

Cross-cultural Challenges and Multi-disciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Iris Guske

£44.99

With contributions from scholars and practitioners on five continents, this volume focuses on pressing themes in 21st-century pedagogy. It offers a plurality of approaches with universally applicable findings for professionals in classrooms worldwide.

Algernon Sidney Crapsey

The Last of the Heretics

By: Dr. Stephen T. Neese

£39.99

Algernon Crapsey’s life reflected America's shift from a religious to a secular culture. Once a leading Episcopal missioner, his liberal thinking led to a heresy trial that captivated the nation and ended in his excommunication.

Algernon Crapsey’s life reflected America’s shift from a religious to a secular culture. Once a leading Episcopal missioner, his liberal thinking led to a heresy trial that captivated the nation and ended in his excommunication.

Tribades, Tommies and Transgressives; History of Sexualities

Volume I

Edited By: Sonja Tiernan

£39.99

Inspired by the ‘Historicising the Lesbian’ conference, this collection of essays covers a wide period in history, from the medieval to the modern. The chapters explore a huge range of subjects to widen our knowledge of lesbian history.

New Beginnings in Literary Studies

Edited By: Willie van Peer

£44.99

This volume shows there is much more to analysing literature than traditional studies. It demonstrates, in non-technical language, how diverse perspectives from psychology to computer science can offer new insights into literary texts, their readers, and effects.

Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond

By: Aleš Erjavec

£34.99

This book examines the relationship between modernism and postmodernism, visual culture, and East-West aesthetics. It argues that recent postsocialist visual art contradicts canonical theories of the avant-garde, offering a global view on the philosophy of art.

Emergence of Linguistic Abilities

Edited By: Frédérique Gayraud, Sophie Kern, Egidio Marsico

£39.99

This book addresses the emergence of linguistic abilities during the critical first three years of life. Experts examine the continuity between language components, broadening the discussion with perspectives from phylogeny, pathology, and animal communication.

A Belle in the Prison of Socrates

By: Ahmed Etman

£24.99

A Belle in the Prison of Socrates presents the historical philosopher to critique contemporary life. The play sheds light on the fragility of Democratic practices, luring readers to compare Democracy in ancient Athens with its modern variations.

The English Malady

Enabling and Disabling Fictions

Edited By: Glen Colburn

£34.99

These essays examine hysteria in 18th-century Europe, revealing it as a key Enlightenment metaphor. Writers of the period considered hysteria not only a curse but also a blessing, an expression of ambivalence about the emergence of modernity.

The Myth of Culture

Why We Need a Genuine Natural Science of Societies

By: Nigel Barber

£39.99

Social scientists appeal to "culture" to explain human actions, an unscientific principle that makes progress impossible. This book is a critique of culture-centered social science and a manifesto for a new evolutionary approach to understanding society's problems.

Social scientists appeal to “culture” to explain human actions, an unscientific principle that makes progress impossible. This book is a critique of culture-centered social science and a manifesto for a new evolutionary approach to understanding society’s problems.

Women, Wellness, and the Media

Edited By: Margaret C. Wiley, Barbara Barnett

£34.99

Thirteen scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the relationship between media stereotypes and women’s health. They show how these images harm women’s health while turning millions in corporate profits.

Students, Staff and Academic Mobility in Higher Education

Edited By: Mike Byram

£39.99

Academic mobility in higher education is a high-profile phenomenon. This book reports research on the experience for students and staff, charting the far-reaching effects on universities, teaching, and individuals as they are forced to see themselves in a new light.

What Rough Beasts? Irish and Scottish Studies in the New Millennium

Edited By: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

£34.99

What Rough Beasts presents an innovative and diverse collection of new research in Irish and Scottish Studies. Showcasing original material by both emergent and established scholars, this book covers issues including poetry and violence, film, history, and more.

Trauma, History, Philosophy (With Feature Essays by Agnes Heller and György Márkus)

Edited By: Murray Noonan, Matthew Sharpe

£34.99

In an age of terror, this essay collection explores trauma's renewed relevance, examining 9/11, the Shoah, and tyranny through the thought of Derrida, Zizek, Lacan, and Freud.

In an age of terror, this essay collection explores trauma’s renewed relevance, examining 9/11, the Shoah, and tyranny through the thought of Derrida, Zizek, Lacan, and Freud.

Third Agents

Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination

Edited By: Ian Cooper, Ekkehard Knörer, Bernhard Malkmus

£34.99

This book explores the 'third agent'—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

This book explores the ‘third agent’—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

Power and Image in Early Modern Europe

Edited By: Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire

£34.99

How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.

Music of Japan Today

Edited By: E. Michael Richards, Kazuko Tanosaki

£39.99

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through essays from international composers, performers, and scholars, covering topics from Toru Takemitsu's legacy to computer music and avant-garde sound artists.

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through essays from international composers, performers, and scholars, covering topics from Toru Takemitsu’s legacy to computer music and avant-garde sound artists.

Beyond the Brain

Embodied, Situated and Distributed Cognition

Edited By: Benoit Hardy-Vallée

£34.99

Cognitive science now emphasizes the entrenchment of the brain in body, context and culture, rather than as the only seat of intelligence. This book provides a general overview of current research on embodied, situated and distributed cognition.

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