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Grace under Pressure

Grey's Anatomy Uncovered

Edited By: Cynthia Burkhead, Hillary Robson

£29.99

This collection of essays offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Authors examine topics including the show's creation and marketing, the role of music, and its exploration of gender, family, and morality.

This collection of essays offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Authors examine topics including the show’s creation and marketing, the role of music, and its exploration of gender, family, and morality.

Dominant Culture and the Education of Women

Edited By: Julia C. Paulk

£34.99

This collection explores women's struggle for education from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. It demonstrates not only the great strides women have made but also the challenges that have yet to be overcome.

This collection explores women’s struggle for education from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. It demonstrates not only the great strides women have made but also the challenges that have yet to be overcome.

Collected Articles of the IInd International Linguistics Conference (Taganrog, Russia)

Edited By: Olga E. Bondarets, Galina T. Polenova

£39.99

This book presents the most important research from an international linguistic conference, covering Historical linguistics, Lexicology, Grammar, Pragmatics, Ethnolinguistics, and Translation. A key resource for philologists, teachers, and students.

Contemporary Phonology in Brazil

Edited By: Leda Bisol, Cláudia Regina Brescancini

£39.99

Contemporary Phonology in Brazil is a collection of phonological studies in Brazilian Portuguese and Indigenous Brazilian Languages covering Prosodic Phonology, Historical Change, Segmental Phonology, First Language Acquisition and Indigenous Languages.

Cultural Practices, Political Possibilities

Edited By: Rohee Dasgupta

£34.99

This book explains the political significance of cultural constructions in global-local clashes, identity, and the self. Through diverse case-studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, authors interpret cultural politics and their consequential divides.

Musical Currents from the Left Coast

Edited By: Bruce Quaglia, Jack Boss

£39.99

This collection presents a snapshot of current music theory, exploring repertoire from Bach to the avant-garde. Neglected aspects of musical structure like rhythm and meter are given new focus, with many essays centered on the music and ideas of Arnold Schoenberg.

New Developments in Financial Modelling

Edited By: Margarida Catalão-Lopes, Joaquim Pina, João O. Soares

£39.99

This volume joins authors from academia and practice to offer a multiplicity of issues and methodology in finance. It presents applied and theoretical work on banking, market microstructure, risk, and portfolio selection, useful for both practice and research.

Ethnicity and Social Divisions

Contemporary Research in Sociology

Edited By: Elias le Grand, Karin Halldén, Zenia Hellgren

£39.99

This anthology explores the intersection of ethnicity, immigration, and social class. Representing a new generation of social scientists from Harvard, Oxford, and Stockholm, the contributors present empirical research on social inequality.

Women at the Polls

The Gender Gap, Cultural Politics, and Contested Constituencies in the United States

By: Cal Clark, Janet Clark

£39.99

Since 1980, U.S. elections have been marked by a “gender gap” in which women are more supportive of Democrats. Women at the Polls finds this gap is extensive across demographic groups, based on differing political attitudes on key issues.

The Canterbury Tales Revisited – 21st Century Interpretations

Edited By: Kathleen A. Bishop with a Foreword by David Matthews

£39.99

In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.

Voices from within the Veil

African Americans and the Experience of Democracy

Edited By: William H. Alexander, Charles H. Ford, Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander

£39.99

The Veil hangs between Then and Now, between Black and White, between You and Me. Voices from within the Veil explores this 400-year prelude, addressing African Americans’ marginalization and their paths to empowerment through protest and organization.

Trajectories of Memory

Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts

Edited By: Beth Griech-Polelle, Christina Guenther

£39.99

This volume offers new perspectives on remembering the Holocaust in history, literature, and theatre. It addresses changing representations across generations and asks: As survivors die, how do we transmit their difficult legacy and respond to the dictum: Never again?

Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy

Edited By: Philip Brownell

£39.99

This handbook is the needed bridge between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. It provides vital empirical support for the practice—a timely response to the evidence-based movement and the increasing policy call for "what works."

New Trends in Translation and Cultural Identity

Edited By: Micaela Muñoz-Calvo, Maria del Carmen Buesa Gómez, Maria-Angeles Ruiz Moneva

£44.99

An essential resource for scholars, teachers, and students. This collection of articles offers a multicultural reflection on translation and cultural identity from diverse perspectives, fostering the intercultural communication crucial to our “global village”.

Women in the Portuguese Colonial Empire

The Theatre of Shadows

Edited By: Clara Sarmento

£39.99

Across the vast Portuguese colonial empire, women were silenced, mystified, and erased from history. This collection of essays questions these historical gaps, uncovering the real roles of those whose voices were systematically written out of the record.

Gender and Sexual Identities in Transition

International Perspectives

Edited By: Patricia Bou, José Santaemilia

£34.99

This volume offers an international panorama of how gendered and sexualized identities are created, challenged, and refused across the globe. As unstable constructions in permanent transition, gender and sexual identities are never at rest.

What Do You See? International Perspectives on Children’s Book Illustration

Edited By: Jennifer Harding, Pat Pinsent

From £25.99

This illustrated book explores the diversity of children's book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.

This illustrated book explores the diversity of children’s book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.

Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living

Edited By: Vrasidas Karalis

£34.99

Prominent thinkers from various disciplines engage with Martin Heidegger to critically evaluate his controversial legacy. This volume goes beyond polarized perceptions to present a neo-humanist and post-political reading of what is still "livable" in his work.

Culture, Nature, Memes

Edited By: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

£34.99

This collection of essays on cognition explores cognitive processes in culture, nature, and memes. The authors introduce a dynamic approach, shedding new light on themes such as animal thought, minds and computing, and the social dimension of knowledge.

Engaging Tradition, Making It New

Essays on Teaching Recent African American Literature

Edited By: Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn

£29.99

Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Focusing on transgression, this collection explores writers who challenge expectations, pointing toward new methods of teaching and research.

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