Social Sciences

Sexing the Border

Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe

Edited By: Katarzyna Kosmala

£47.99

This innovative book is a timely intervention in video and new media art, examining gender in post-Socialist contexts. Chapters explore how encounters between art and technology represent gender, critically reflecting current debates across the region and Europe.

Metamorphoses of (New) Media

Edited By: Julia Genz, Ulrike Küchler

£47.99

In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection investigate the recent powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a ‘new’ medium.

Antiziganism

What’s in a Word?

Edited By: Markus End, Hristo Kyuchukov, Pia Laskar

£47.99

This volume explores the discrimination and persecution of Romanies, focusing on the theoretical understanding of ‘antiziganism.’ Essays analyze the historical continuity of stereotypes and the counter-discourse of Romanies, providing necessary readings.

A Divided Hungary in Europe

Exchanges, Networks and Representations, 1541-1699; Volume 3 – The Making and Uses of the Image of Hungary and Transylvania

Edited By: Gábor Almási

£47.99

Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary witnessed a surprising cultural flourishing. This was possible through intense exchange with Europe. This series draws an alternative map of the era, replacing centre-periphery conceptions.

Spirituality for Youth-Work

New Vocabulary, Concepts and Practices

Edited By: Phil Daughtry

£47.99

This title addresses the lack of studies discussing spirituality in human services and youth work. It offers a coherent vocabulary and narrative from which to construct a more deliberate practice of spiritual care, education and professional identity for youth workers.

Ancient Epic

Literary and Linguistic Essays

Edited By: Concepción Cabrillana, Cecilia Criado, Mercedes Díaz de Cerio Díez

£47.99

This book adopts a broad approach to the Epic, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, with comparisons to Vedic, Sanskrit, and Medieval poetry. It explores the hero, the bard, and myth, and traces the influence of Homer on authors like Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca.

A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research

Towards a New Paradigm of Knowledge Production & Exploring New Frontiers of Gender Research in Southern Africa

Edited By: Samantha Van Schalkwyk

£47.99

Questions of gender and violence against women have been placed firmly on the agenda of research within the humanities in recent years. This book represents an important combination of scholarly insights and provides multiple reflections on gender research in the African context.

Coordination and Subordination

Form and Meaning—Selected Papers from CSI Lisbon 2014

Edited By: Sandra Pereira, Clara Pinto, Fernanda Pratas

£47.99

Recent studies challenge the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. This collection of papers delves into these challenges, using data from different languages to develop innovative perspectives and advance thought-provoking ideas.

The Psychology of School Climate

By: Garry Wade McGiboney

£47.99

This monograph highlights that school climate is a science of education and psychology that must be studied in detail in order to understand the dynamic nature of learning environments, and to learn how to improve the conditions for learning in all schools.

Managing the Environmental Crisis in Ghana

The Role of African Traditional Religion and Culture with special reference to the Berekum Traditional Area

By: Kwasi Nyamekye

£47.99

Neither Western science nor Indigenous knowledge alone can solve today's environmental problems. This book is a valuable guide to blending both, showing how Indigenous African religion and culture can help create holistic solutions for conservation.

Neither Western science nor Indigenous knowledge alone can solve today’s environmental problems. This book is a valuable guide to blending both, showing how Indigenous African religion and culture can help create holistic solutions for conservation.

Divine Rite of Kings

Land, Race, Same Sex, and Empire in Mormonism and the Esoteric Tradition

By: Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.

£47.99

This monograph presents a social-historical-political analysis of the religion of the Latter-day Saints as deeply indebted to a variety of esoteric systems of belief, discussing the connections between its current homophobic policies and its earlier racist practices.

Shirley Gorelick (1924–2000)

Painter of Humanist Realism

By: Andrew D. Hottle

£47.99

The first in-depth study of Shirley Gorelick (1924–2000), a master of psychological realism. This book illuminates her compelling, large-scale portraits that captured the complex inner lives of her subjects. A major artistic voice, rediscovered.

Towards the Ecology of Human Communication

Edited By: Marta Bogusławska-Tafelska, Anna Drogosz

£47.99

This publication offers analyses of the recent shift within language and communication research from post-Newtonian transpersonal models of meaning co-creation to the systemic methods used within current studies, showing how human communication is a constantly evolving process.

Men in the Bible and Related Literature

In the Grip of Specific Males

Edited By: John Tracy Greene

£47.99

International scholars explore the roles of men in the Bible. These essays examine shepherds, lawgivers, tricksters, fathers, sons, and prophets, offering unique perspectives on leadership, family, and faith. A vital study for any student of the Bible.

Sanctified Subversives

Nuns in Early Modern English and Spanish Literature

By: Horacio Sierra

£47.99

Sierra illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood.

Roidis and the Borrowed Muse

British Historiography, Fiction and Satire in Pope Joan

By: Foteini Lika

£47.99

Using diverse sources ranging from hagiographies and historiographies to historical novels and satirical poems, this is the first full-length examination of Emmanouil Roidis’ Pope Joan (1866).

From West to East

Current Approaches to Medieval Archaeology

Edited By: Scott D. Stull

£47.99

A sweeping overview of new research in medieval archaeology. This collection unites cutting-edge theory with global case studies—from Viking Vinland and Irish castles to Byzantine sites and the medieval diet. A vital look at the latest work in the field.

The Koreas between China and Japan

Edited By: Lee Guen, Victor Teo

£47.99

This collection of essays examines the Korean Peninsula's nuclear and reunification challenges through the crucial lens of Sino-Japanese relations. While China and Japan share the goal of a stable, nuclear-free Korea, both North and South Korea adeptly resist their influence.

This collection of essays examines the Korean Peninsula’s nuclear and reunification challenges through the crucial lens of Sino-Japanese relations. While China and Japan share the goal of a stable, nuclear-free Korea, both North and South Korea adeptly resist their influence.

A Different Germany

Pop and the Negotiation of German Culture

Edited By: Claude Desmarais

£47.99

A Different Germany looks at film, popular literature, and theatre to show how diverse communities are thriving. The authors argue that Germany is much more than the few tropes that circulate through the Cold War lens in the English-speaking world.

Render Unto God

Christianity and Capitalism in Crisis

Edited By: Ryan C. McIlhenny

£47.99

While many reconsider capitalism, its most devout disciples—evangelicals—have been silent. This book calls Christians to rethink how market fundamentalism fractures families, creates inequality, and destroys the environment. Have we forgotten our commitment to God?

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