Social Sciences

Animal Narratives and Culture

Vulnerable Realism

By: Anna Barcz

£45.99

Barcz’s monograph explains how realism is a narration that tests nonhuman vulnerable experience. The first part gives examples of realism’s redefinition in trauma studies, the second probes what is added to the narrative by literature, and the third analyses cultural texts.

London and Literature, 1603-1901

Edited By: Angela Kikue Davenport, Yui Nakatsuma, Barnaby Ralph

£45.99

This title covers literature from the beginning of the Jacobean period to the end of the Victorian era. Centring on the city of London, it explores different aspects of the interaction of literature and place, covering works by major figures within this time period.

Performing Identity and Gender in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts

Edited By: Panayiota Chrysochou

£45.99

This volume investigates the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category.

Sports and Violence

History, Theory, and Practice

Edited By: Craig Hovey, Myles Werntz, John B. White

£45.99

The essays collected here reflect on the confluence of violence within organized sports. They detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offers ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence.

The Neo Abu Sayyaf

Criminality in the Sulu Archipelago of the Republic of the Philippines

By: Bob East

£45.99

East follows the rise of criminality in the greater Mindanao region regarding the participation of major players in the suppression of the Moros—indigenous Muslims. He contemplates, among other things, why a murderous group such as the Abu Sayyaf has so much local support.

Late Nineteenth-Century Italy in Africa

The Livraghi Affair and the Waning of Civilizing Aspirations

By: Stephen C. Bruner

£45.99

Bruner looks at an 1891 affair concerning a claim that officials in Italy’s Red Sea colony ordered the secret and brutal killing of certain indigenous notables. He studies how this affair re-shaped the Italian outlook on colonialism, opening the door to conflicts and battles.

Evil and a Selection of its Theological Problems

Edited By: Benjamin Arbour, John R. Gilhooly

£45.99

This volume incorporates responses to the charge that there is something irrational about believing in God, given all the evil in the world. It critiques the problem of evil, offers a narrative response, and relates the problem of evil to developments in modern analytic theology.

Culture and Power

Identity and Identification

Edited By: Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo, Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martin-Albo

£44.99

This collection explores identity and identification in cultural studies. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on topics such as gender politics, postcolonialism, and the nation.

The Dynamics of Interconnections in Popular Culture(s)

Edited By: Ray B. Browne, Ben Urish

£44.99

This collection of articles considers how popular cultures create a global cultural exchange, precipitating new adaptations and connections. The collection demonstrates that the everyday lives of ordinary people are unified through their expressions of shared humanity.

Giacomo Meyerbeer Choral Music and Songs

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£44.99

This volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. These include patriotic anthems, a tribute to Beethoven, and laments.

Understanding by Communication

Edited By: Elena Borisova, Olga Souleimanova

£44.99

This volume introduces East European linguistic thought, offering unique paradigms that differ significantly from Western traditions. It focuses on understanding in communication and promotes views that may boost new perspectives in linguistic research.

Morality and Spirituality in the Contemporary World

Edited By: Chandana Chakrabarti

£44.99

The world's deep-seated problems, from environmental crisis to social injustice, arise from technological society and structures of domination. This book offers guidance, providing a plurality of moral and spiritual perspectives to find reasonable responses.

The world’s deep-seated problems, from environmental crisis to social injustice, arise from technological society and structures of domination. This book offers guidance, providing a plurality of moral and spiritual perspectives to find reasonable responses.

Understanding Boccherini’s Manuscripts

Edited By: Rudolf Rasch

£44.99

This book discusses the manuscript sources for the music of Luigi Boccherini, a foremost 18th-century composer. Experts explore manuscript types, chronology, catalogues, and specific works, making this an indispensable tool for any scholar of his life and work.

Applied Social Psychology

Edited By: Patricia-Luciana Runcan

£44.99

These essays use social psychology theories to explore new research on vulnerable groups and mental health. This book is a useful tool for professionals in psychology, education, and social work, and accessible to a wider audience.

Education and Continuous Education

Edited By: Georgeta Raţă

£44.99

Explore 20 interdisciplinary essays on the social factors shaping education from youth to adulthood. A vital tool for professionals and anyone passionate about lifelong learning, this collection offers fresh insights into continuous education.

Aspects of Linguistic Impoliteness

Edited By: Denis Jamet, Manuel Jobert

£44.99

This book presents linguistic impoliteness as a field of study in its own right, not just "politeness gone wrong." Researchers offer diverse theoretical approaches and case studies on rudeness in television, literature, philosophy, and modern communication.

This book presents linguistic impoliteness as a field of study in its own right, not just “politeness gone wrong.” Researchers offer diverse theoretical approaches and case studies on rudeness in television, literature, philosophy, and modern communication.

Confessing the International Rights of Children

The Basic Documents with Analysis

By: Farhad Malekian, Kerstin Nordlöf

£44.99

This book brings together all international documents significant to the protection of the rights of children. While children's rights obviously exist, the implementation of those rights is not so easy.

This book brings together all international documents significant to the protection of the rights of children. While children’s rights obviously exist, the implementation of those rights is not so easy.

Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia

Edited By: Ann-Helén Bay, Bo Bengtsson, Per Strömblad

£44.99

This book sheds light on how the welfare-states of Scandinavia struggle with diversity, inclusion and citizenship. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, migration challenges social citizenship, creating new tensions between rights, obligations, and identity.

Achievement Motivation in the Leadership Role of Extension Agents

By: Maimunah Ismail, Roya Karami

£44.99

This book is relevant to agricultural extension theory and practice. It identifies the background, personal, and environmental factors influencing achievement motivation in the leadership role of extension agents, based on an original study in Iran.

“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”

Towards an Ecology of Learning

By: Paolo Palmieri

£44.99

This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners' genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.

This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners’ genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.

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