Social Sciences

Reporting Conflicts, Humanitarian Crises and Peace Processes

Cases from Africa

By: Tedla Desta

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This book analyses media coverage of humanitarian crises, conflicts, and peace processes in the Horn of Africa, focusing on Kenya, Sudan, and South Sudan. Using a new Four-Part Framework, it offers important recommendations applicable to similar situations in other locations.

Reporting Non-GAAP Financial Measures

A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis in Europe

Edited By: Nicola Moscariello, Michele Pizzo

From £35.99

The use of Alternative Performance Measures (APMs), or "Non-GAAP" earnings, has triggered a strong debate. Are they useful information for predicting future cash-flows, or an opportunistic tool that reduces reliability? This book provides insights on the economics of APMs.

The use of Alternative Performance Measures (APMs), or “Non-GAAP” earnings, has triggered a strong debate. Are they useful information for predicting future cash-flows, or an opportunistic tool that reduces reliability? This book provides insights on the economics of APMs.

Reporting the Attacks on Dubrovnik in 1991, and the Recognition of Croatia

Edited By: Mato Brautović, Renaud de la Brosse

£61.99

This title provides an overview of the role of the media during the attack on Dubrovnik in autumn 1991 by the federal army and Montenegrin reservists, and represents a primary source of information about the propaganda war waged during the conflict between Croatia and Serbia.

Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders

On the Edge

Edited By: Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, Alejandra María Aventín Fontana

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Now more than ever, we must reconsider what borders and frontiers mean. This collection analyzes their representation in literature, philosophy, and cinema, drawing on global examples to find what unites us in our shared humanity, rather than what divides us.

Representations of Childhood in Art and Literature

Edited By: Kanak Kanti Bera, Anindita Bhaumik, Krishanu Maiti

From £38.99

This book rejects the idea of childhood as an unambiguous monolith. It explores the constantly evolving term’s literary, artistic, and cultural representations, offering critical approaches to its treatment with all its complexities in art and literature.

Representations of Female Identity in Italy

From Neoclassism to the 21st Century

Edited By: Silvia Giovanardi Byer, Fabiana Cecchini

£61.99

This volume examines iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. It characterizes the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities.

Representations of Illness in Literature and Film

By: Bennett Kravitz

£34.99

This book examines how syndromes, disorders, and diseases appear in modern literature and film. Rather than being portrayed as a handicap, limitation becomes the hero, allowing previous outcasts into the mainstream to affirm their moral worth, skill and intelligence.

Representations of Masculinity in Literature and Film

Focus on Men

By: Sara Martín

From £31.99

From Shakespeare to Star Wars, how are men represented on the page and screen? These essays argue that men must become aware of these representations to alter toxic patriarchal models, distinguish masculinity from patriarchy, and achieve liberation from its crippling constraints.

Representations of the Local in the Postmillennial Novel

New Voices from the Margins

Edited By: Milena Kaličanin, Soňa Šnircová

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This book maps a rich variety of voices from the margins of our globalized world. Through contemporary novels by international authors, it explores the rising tension between global and local identities for those overshadowed by the intense pressure of globalization.

Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature

By: Dimitrios Kassis

£52.99

This book deals with travel narratives on the North from 1784 to 1897, exploring how writers used the idea of a Nordic utopia to address Britishness, gender, and the racial discourse on nationhood.

Representing Africa in the Motherland and the Diaspora

Essays on Theatre, Dance, Music and Cinema

Edited By: Kevin J. Wetmore

£61.99

This publication gathers scholars from Africa, Europe and the USA to explore the representation of Africa in the performing arts and cinema. It represents an extended dialogue between African scholars and artists about the challenges of representing themselves and their societies

Representing and (De)Constructing Borderlands

Edited By: Weronika Łaszkiewicz, Grzegorz Moroz, Jacek Partyka

£47.99

The studies included here stem from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces, and focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature.

Representing Culture

Essays on Identity, Visuality and Technology

Edited By: Claudia Alvares

£29.99

Defying traditional boundaries, these interdisciplinary essays offer new perspectives for cultural criticism. They explore current experience through the intersecting axes of identity politics, visual culture and technology.

Representing Minorities

Studies in Literature and Criticism

Edited By: Soumia Boutkhil, Larbi Touaf

From £17.99

This book counters the rampant uniformisation of cultures by championing the right to difference. It explores how minor literatures and suppressed voices can emerge to demand recognition, underscoring the necessity of cultural diversity in a world of consensus.

Representing Royalty

British Monarchs in Contemporary Cinema, 1994-2010

By: Julia Kinzler

£64.99

Since the early days of cinema, filmmakers have been intrigued by the lives and loves of British monarchs. Kinzler examines strategies of representing power and the staging of myths of power in seven popular films about this subject that were made after the mid-1990s.

Representing the Contemporary North American Family

Family Portraits

Edited By: Sophie Chapuis, Marie Moreau

From £30.99

Central to this book is the idea that the family still plays a pivotal role in North America. Gathering approaches from sociology, politics, media, and literature, these contributions show the centrality of the family as a social, political, legal, and fictional construct.

Republic of Macedonia Foreign Policy

Diplomacy in the Middle of the Balkans

By: Dejan Marolov

£39.99

Macedonia's existence is contested and its internal balance is delicate, yet it could become a model of stability. Dejan Marolov presents an in-depth analysis of its foreign policy since the break-up of Yugoslavia. Anyone interested in the Western Balkans should read this book.

Macedonia’s existence is contested and its internal balance is delicate, yet it could become a model of stability. Dejan Marolov presents an in-depth analysis of its foreign policy since the break-up of Yugoslavia. Anyone interested in the Western Balkans should read this book.

Republican, First, Last, and Always

A Biography of B. Carroll Reece

By: Suzanne Bowers

£39.99

B. Carroll Reece, a 35-year congressman and RNC Chairman, pushed anti-communism to the forefront of Republican politics. Believing capitalism was America’s strongest defense, he attacked any threat—from government projects to powerful foundations.

Requests in Film Dialogue and Dubbing Translation

A Comparative Study of English and Italian

By: Vittorio Napoli

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This is the first account of speech act pragmatics and (im)politeness in film conversation and dubbing, focusing on requests. It compares the features of requests in English and Italian film dialogue and reveals how their pragmatics travel across languages in translation.

Rereading Shakespeare’s Prince Hal and Falstaff

By: John Hardy

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This book analyzes the unlikely friendship of Prince Hal and Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. Though the future king rejects Falstaff, arguably the world’s greatest comic character, his voice, representing a more human side of existence, cannot ultimately be denied.

This book analyzes the unlikely friendship of Prince Hal and Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays. Though the future king rejects Falstaff, arguably the world’s greatest comic character, his voice, representing a more human side of existence, cannot ultimately be denied.

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