Social Sciences

Fostering Culture Through Film

A Resource for Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultural Studies

Edited By: Elda Buonanno Foley, Patrizia Comello Perry

£47.99

The book highlights the theories and practical applications by which instructors of foreign languages and cultural studies use contemporary film to provide insightful readings on diverse local communities.

Enhancing Customer Experience in the Service Industry

A Global Perspective

Edited By: Levent Altinay, Surya Poudel

£47.99

The essays included in this text provide a new and definitive overview of customer experience and how it can be managed and enhanced in the service industry. The highly qualified international team of contributors ensures that it adopts a global perspective.

Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s

Historical Perspectives

Edited By: Jamie Medhurst, Siân Nicholas, Thomas O’Malley

£47.99

The essays here contribute to research on the medium of television by bringing together work focusing on national developments in both UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be compared.

What Comes After Occupy?

The Regional Politics of Resistance

Edited By: Todd A. Comer

£47.99

Occupy Wall Street in NYC received much publicity, but little attention has been given to the hundreds of Occupy groups in other locations. This volume rectifies this, with essays addressing the creative politics of occupation in these different contexts.

From Islamic Revivalism to Islamic Radicalism in Southeast Asia

A Study of Jamā‘ah Tablīgh in Malaysia and Indonesia

By: Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad

£47.99

This ethnography of Jamā‘ah Tablīgh in Malaysia and Indonesia explores its members’ religious lives, revealing a radical yet non-violent vision for a contemporary, mosque-based Islamic caliphate.

Words for Odours

Language Skills and Cultural Insights

Edited By: Melissa Barkat-Defradas, Elisabeth Motte-Florac

£47.99

This volume brings together studies on how olfactory experiences are verbalized. Applying pragmatic and theoretical approaches, it investigates the complex cognitive and cultural strategies speakers use to talk about odours in a variety of languages and domains.

In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond

A History of Jews and Muslims (15th-17th Centuries) Vol. 2

Edited By: Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, Lúcia Liba Mucznik, José Alberto R. Silva Tavim

£47.99

Beginning with the forced conversion of 16th–17th century Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects on their diasporas, focusing on language, culture, identity discourses, and interchanges between those communities.

Apocalyptic Projections

A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

£47.99

Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.

A History of Neapolitan Drama in the Twentieth Century

By: Mariano D'Amora

£47.99

This monograph shows how Neapolitan theatre managed to not only survive, but thrive in an era that saw the disappearance of a number of regional theatre traditions in Italy, with Neapolitan playwrights forcefully proclaiming their roots as a primary source for their work.

Rembrandt’s Passion Series

By: Simon McNamara

£47.99

This is the first monograph on Rembrandt's Passion Series, the most prestigious commission of his early career. It traces the history of these overlooked paintings, highlights the self-images within them, and proves why they are finally a true “series”.

This is the first monograph on Rembrandt’s Passion Series, the most prestigious commission of his early career. It traces the history of these overlooked paintings, highlights the self-images within them, and proves why they are finally a true “series”.

Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture

By: Elena Polyudova

£47.99

Polyudova presents a unique study of Russian war songs created during and after World War II, showing how such songs provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia.

Qualitative Research in Business

A Practical Overview

By: Alf H. Walle

£47.99

Many professionals lack the skills to apply powerful qualitative research methods. This practical guide provides effective, "how to" advice for using these tools in business decision-making. Assuming no prior background, it is an invaluable resource.

Many professionals lack the skills to apply powerful qualitative research methods. This practical guide provides effective, “how to” advice for using these tools in business decision-making. Assuming no prior background, it is an invaluable resource.

The Feral Piers

A Reader's Experience of the British Library Cotton Caligula A XI Manuscript of Piers Plowman

By: Rosanne P. Gasse

£47.99

Rosanne Gasse offers an innovative approach to the plethora of questions that surround the various Piers Plowman manuscripts. It is a micro-study of one particular historic version of Piers Plowman, its scribe, and its fifteenth and sixteenth-century readers.

Transcultural Screenwriting

Telling Stories for a Global World

Edited By: Carmen Sofia Brenes, Patrick Cattrysse, Margaret McVeigh

From £47.99

This text offers an innovative approach to the study of screenwriting as a creative process by integrating the fields of film and TV production studies, screenwriting studies, narrative studies, rhetorics, transnational cinema studies, and intercultural communication studies.

Enemies Within

Cultural Hierarchies and Liberal Political Models in the Hispanic World

Edited By: María Sierra

£47.99

This volume provides historical perspectives on the debate on forms of government and political legitimacy in the Hispanic dimension of the Atlantic world, where modern politics was based on a series of exclusions that were explained as natural and necessary.

Teaching to Difference? The Challenges and Opportunities of Diversity in the Classroom

Edited By: Nicole E. Johnson, Stacey-Ann Wilson

£47.99

This volume offers a comparative perspective on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the classroom. Through reflections from international educators, it explores the frustrations, triumphs, and successes of connecting with students across differences.

Chinese Migration and Families-At-Risk

Edited By: Ko Ling Chan

£47.99

Grounded in recent research, this vital book offers a critical review of Chinese migration. It explores the patterns and influences of internal migration, movements to Hong Kong, and migration to Western countries, focusing on migrant families-at-risk.

Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire

Edited By: Philip J. Havik, Malyn Newitt

£47.99

This collection investigates Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa, and the resultant formation of mixed or creole communities which were influenced culturally both by Portugal and indigenous societies.

Faultlines in Postcoloniality

Contemporary Readings

Edited By: Ernest L. Veyu

£47.99

This collection of scholarly articles addresses fundamental postcolonial concerns. The chapters explore the social and literary fragmentation caused by cultural and political tensions, aiming to bridge the gaps across these faultlines.

Beyond the Skin

The Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies in an Unequal World

By: Bianca Maria Pirani

£47.99

"We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies." In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.

“We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies.” In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.

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