Social Sciences

Islamic Economics

Basic Concepts, New Thinking and Future Directions

Edited By: Taha Eğri, Necmettin Kizilkaya

£47.99

Co-opted by the existing system, "Islamic economics" has become limited to finance, its potential overlooked. This book examines the debate from various perspectives to lay a firm foundation for contemporary socio-economic issues.

Co-opted by the existing system, “Islamic economics” has become limited to finance, its potential overlooked. This book examines the debate from various perspectives to lay a firm foundation for contemporary socio-economic issues.

Feast or Famine? Food and Children’s Literature

Edited By: Bridget Carrington

£47.99

Food is central to children’s literature. This collection examines the uses of food in books from the nineteenth century to modern fantasy, showing how it reflects society and culture and is used by authors to instruct and deliver moral messages.

The Sunset of Tradition and the Origin of the Great War

By: Alexander Wolfheze

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From a Traditionalist perspective, the Modern Era is a Dark Age. This work deconstructs the myth of “progress,” exposing Modernity’s values as inversions of Tradition that set the stage for a final showdown. It clears away illusions to lead a new generation to write history anew.

Critical and Comparative Perspectives on American Studies

Edited By: Faruk Bajraktarević, Ksenija Kondali

£47.99

This volume explores American Studies today, investigating its capacity to respond to 21st-century challenges in a world of transnational flux. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, these essays offer a multifaceted image of a complex and rapidly evolving discipline.

Right Radicalism in Party and Political Systems in Present-day European States

By: Natalia Eremina, Sergei Seredenko

£47.99

This book offers a multidimensional study of the evolution of far-right parties and ultranationalist ideology and their impact on contemporary European politics, society, and the state, revealing the danger they represent.

Assembling Identities

Edited By: Sam Wiseman

£47.99

This cross-disciplinary collection explores how identities – individual, communal, and national – are constructed, maintained and contested. These essays emphasize the invariable ambiguity and instability of identity, offering new perspectives on a concept in ceaseless change.

Female Beauty Systems

Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the Present

Edited By: Christine Adams, Tracy Adams

£47.99

Female beauty systems sort individuals into "more" or "less" desirable. These essays examine Western female beauty systems over the centuries, considering how women have complied with, contributed to, profited or suffered from, and resisted them.

Female beauty systems sort individuals into “more” or “less” desirable. These essays examine Western female beauty systems over the centuries, considering how women have complied with, contributed to, profited or suffered from, and resisted them.

Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse

Linguistics and Literature

Edited By: Christoph Schubert, Laurenz Volkmann

£47.99

Offering integrative investigations, the contributions here show how postcolonial Englishes, such as those spoken in India and Nigeria, have produced different pragmatic conventions in a complex interplay of culture-specific and global linguistic practices.

Communication and Information Technology in Society

Volume 3 Social Communication

Edited By: Jolanta Kowal

£47.99

This book explores the role of media in our modern, globalized world. Investigating communication through social sciences, cultural studies, and education, it offers unique insights from European countries in transition.

Of Treason, God and Testicles

Political Masculinities in British and American Films of the Early Cold War

By: Kathleen Starck

£47.99

This monograph analyses in what shape the interplay between widespread political and ideological Cold War convictions and Cold War notions of masculinity found its way onto British and American cinema screens during the early days of the conflict.

Voicing the Text

American Drama and the Production of Voice

By: Petra Ragnerstam

£47.99

By using both drama and film, and by exploring the translation between the two, this study shows that voice can be placed in a grid where the subject, body, language and power interconnect in ways that question established ideas concerning voice – what it is and what it can do.

Make Me Yours

How Art Seduces

By: Laura González

£47.99

Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.

The Age of Asian Migration

Continuity, Diversity, and Susceptibility Volume 2

Edited By: Yuk Wah Chan, Heidi Fung, Grażyna Szymańska-Matusiewicz

£47.99

Explore modern Asian migrations through the crucial lenses of women, refugees, and economics. This volume offers fresh insights and compelling new case studies on human movement since WWII.

Shifting Visions

Gender and Discourses

Edited By: Allyson Jule

£47.99

This global, interdisciplinary collection explores how gender and language create lived experience. Studies analyze topics from religion and politics to education and sexuality, with scholarship from Britain, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.

The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries

Images of Intergeneration Relationships

By: Welleda Muller

£47.99

Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.

Myths and Brands in Vocational Education

Edited By: Anja Heikkinen, Lorenz Lassnigg

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Offering perspectives from under-discussed linguistic contexts, including Spain and Austria, in addition to more prominent countries such as the UK, this title explores tensions between the local and the global in education, investigating its increasing commodification.

New Horizons in the Study of Motion

Bringing Together Applied and Theoretical Perspectives

Edited By: Alberto Hijazo-Gascón, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano

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Recent studies in lexicalization patterns have attracted attention in fields such as linguistics regarding the online/offline verbalization of motion. These essays depart from such research to offer insights into new ways of applying motion and widening theoretical perspectives.

Constraints and Driving Forces in Economic Systems

Studies in Honour of János Kornai

Edited By: Balázs Hámor, Miklós Rosta

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The various contributions to this volume have as their central point the forces driving development and the constraints hindering progress in a variety of economic systems and subsystems.

Negotiating a Presence-Centred Christian Counselling

Towards a Theologically Informed and Culturally Sensitive Approach

By: Simon Shui-Man Kwan

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Kwan navigates between two counselling frameworks: one Eastern, secular, social scientific, and modern; the other Western, Christian, theological, and traditional; negotiating a revised presence-centred form of counselling that is cross-culturally sensitive.

English as a Foreign Language for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons

Challenges and Strategies

Edited By: Ewa Domagała-Zyśk, Edit H. Kontra

£47.99

This volume describes experiences of teaching foreign language to deaf and hard-of-hearing students and presents aspects of empirical research in this field. It discusses mainly the issue of specific methodology for teaching English as a foreign language to these learners.

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