Social Sciences

Living War, Thinking Peace (1914-1924)

Women’s Experiences, Feminist Thought, and International Relations

Edited By: Bruna Bianchi, Geraldine Ludbrook

£47.99

This volume offers first-hand accounts from women facing the horrors of war, explores the lives and thought of several key women activists who challenged inequalities, and examines the work of women who saw the outbreak of the First World War as an opportunity for emancipation.

Communication and Information Technology in Society

Volume 1 Real Communication

Edited By: Jolanta Kowal, Mirosława Wawrzak-Chodaczek

£47.99

This interdisciplinary volume explores communication technologies across fields like economics, education, and science. Adopting a psycho-pedagogical approach, it offers insights into Poland, a country in major transition regarding such technologies.

Enforcing and Eluding Censorship

British and Anglo-Italian Perspectives

Edited By: Giovanni Iamartino

£47.99

How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.

Music and Minorities from Around the World

Research, Documentation and Interdisciplinary Study

Edited By: Ursula Hemetek, Essica Marks, Adelaida Reyes

£47.99

The study of music has become an important gateway into understanding the culture of minorities. This volume attends to Jewish themes, with authors from four continents. Its global scope and varied approaches represent the broad range of modern ethnomusicology.

Origins of the Alphabet

Proceedings of the First Polis Institute Interdisciplinary Conference

Edited By: Claudia Attucci, Christophe Rico

£47.99

Writing has arisen many times, but the alphabet was invented only once. Why did it come about? This volume brings together leading experts for an interdisciplinary debate, revealing an emerging consensus on the factors and circumstances surrounding the birth of the alphabet.

A Symphony of Flavors

Food and Music in Concert

Edited By: Edmundo Murray

£47.99

Explore the rich connections between music and food across global cultures and history. This multidisciplinary collection reveals how sound and taste have shaped our emotions, values, and identities, viewed through musicology, anthropology, and more.

Incorporations of Chineseness

Hybridity, Bodies, and Chinese American Literature

By: Serena Fusco

£47.99

Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.

Christian Churches and Nigeria’s Political Economy of Oil and Conflict

Baptist and Pentecostal Perspectives

By: Nkem Emerald Osuigwe

£47.99

Is African evangelical Christianity a-political? This ethnographic study of congregations in Nigeria's Niger Delta challenges that claim, revealing how their spirituality is a potent form of political praxis, not an escape from social responsibility.

Is African evangelical Christianity a-political? This ethnographic study of congregations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta challenges that claim, revealing how their spirituality is a potent form of political praxis, not an escape from social responsibility.

Diversities and Interculturality in Textbooks

Finland as an Example

Edited By: Kaisa Hahl, Rita Johnson Longfor, Pia-Maria Niemi

£47.99

Textbooks can create biased ideas about the ‘Other’. Using Finland's top education system as an example, this volume reveals hidden ideologies and stereotyping, and offers concrete tools to develop teachers’ and students’ critical abilities.

Textbooks can create biased ideas about the ‘Other’. Using Finland’s top education system as an example, this volume reveals hidden ideologies and stereotyping, and offers concrete tools to develop teachers’ and students’ critical abilities.

Beyond the Skin

The Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies in an Unequal World

By: Bianca Maria Pirani

£47.99

"We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies." In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.

“We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies.” In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.

Faultlines in Postcoloniality

Contemporary Readings

Edited By: Ernest L. Veyu

£47.99

This collection of scholarly articles addresses fundamental postcolonial concerns. The chapters explore the social and literary fragmentation caused by cultural and political tensions, aiming to bridge the gaps across these faultlines.

Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire

Edited By: Philip J. Havik, Malyn Newitt

£47.99

This collection investigates Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa, and the resultant formation of mixed or creole communities which were influenced culturally both by Portugal and indigenous societies.

Chinese Migration and Families-At-Risk

Edited By: Ko Ling Chan

£47.99

Grounded in recent research, this vital book offers a critical review of Chinese migration. It explores the patterns and influences of internal migration, movements to Hong Kong, and migration to Western countries, focusing on migrant families-at-risk.

Teaching to Difference? The Challenges and Opportunities of Diversity in the Classroom

Edited By: Nicole E. Johnson, Stacey-Ann Wilson

£47.99

This volume offers a comparative perspective on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the classroom. Through reflections from international educators, it explores the frustrations, triumphs, and successes of connecting with students across differences.

Enemies Within

Cultural Hierarchies and Liberal Political Models in the Hispanic World

Edited By: María Sierra

£47.99

This volume provides historical perspectives on the debate on forms of government and political legitimacy in the Hispanic dimension of the Atlantic world, where modern politics was based on a series of exclusions that were explained as natural and necessary.

The Feral Piers

A Reader's Experience of the British Library Cotton Caligula A XI Manuscript of Piers Plowman

By: Rosanne P. Gasse

£47.99

Rosanne Gasse offers an innovative approach to the plethora of questions that surround the various Piers Plowman manuscripts. It is a micro-study of one particular historic version of Piers Plowman, its scribe, and its fifteenth and sixteenth-century readers.

Qualitative Research in Business

A Practical Overview

By: Alf H. Walle

£47.99

Many professionals lack the skills to apply powerful qualitative research methods. This practical guide provides effective, "how to" advice for using these tools in business decision-making. Assuming no prior background, it is an invaluable resource.

Many professionals lack the skills to apply powerful qualitative research methods. This practical guide provides effective, “how to” advice for using these tools in business decision-making. Assuming no prior background, it is an invaluable resource.

Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture

By: Elena Polyudova

£47.99

Polyudova presents a unique study of Russian war songs created during and after World War II, showing how such songs provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia.

Rembrandt’s Passion Series

By: Simon McNamara

£47.99

This is the first monograph on Rembrandt's Passion Series, the most prestigious commission of his early career. It traces the history of these overlooked paintings, highlights the self-images within them, and proves why they are finally a true “series”.

This is the first monograph on Rembrandt’s Passion Series, the most prestigious commission of his early career. It traces the history of these overlooked paintings, highlights the self-images within them, and proves why they are finally a true “series”.

A History of Neapolitan Drama in the Twentieth Century

By: Mariano D'Amora

£47.99

This monograph shows how Neapolitan theatre managed to not only survive, but thrive in an era that saw the disappearance of a number of regional theatre traditions in Italy, with Neapolitan playwrights forcefully proclaiming their roots as a primary source for their work.

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