Social Sciences

Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives

Edited By: Kenneth Reeds, Anna Rocca

£44.99

This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women's autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.

This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women’s autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.

Intercultural Dialogue on English Language Teaching

Multilingual Teacher Educator’s Narrative of Professional Learning

By: Christine Manara

£44.99

This book follows five multilingual English teacher educators as they reconstruct their professional identities. Their narratives reveal a "struggle for voice" against dominant discourses, calling for pedagogical reform that honors learners' linguistic and cultural identity.

This book follows five multilingual English teacher educators as they reconstruct their professional identities. Their narratives reveal a “struggle for voice” against dominant discourses, calling for pedagogical reform that honors learners’ linguistic and cultural identity.

Understanding the City

Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies

Edited By: Gülçin Erdi-Lelandais

£44.99

This book moves beyond the theoretical discussion of Henri Lefebvre. It presents empirical case studies from different cities, using his key concepts to propose new comprehensions of the contemporary city and empower shared desires for just urban outcomes.

Problems of Contemporary World Futurology

Edited By: Vladimir I. Yakunin

£44.99

Is scientific forecasting of the future possible? The authors of this book are convinced it is. Using rigorous methodology and mathematical modeling, leading experts demonstrate what the world will look like in the coming decades and centuries.

The Good Body

Normalizing Visions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 1836-1867

By: William M. Etter

£44.99

This book examines how nineteenth-century American literature and culture defined “normal” and “abnormal” bodies to justify or critique concerns like slavery, national progress, and the Civil War, shaping the political and social orders of the era.

Universal Morality Reconsidered

The Concept of God

By: Joseph Bankard

£44.99

This book bridges the great divide in moral discourse. It argues that universal morality is most successful when grounded in God, and unlike other works, it successfully integrates the newest empirical research from the sciences into a theological framework.

My Mother’s Table

At Home in the Maronite Diaspora, A Study of Emigration from Hadchit, North Lebanon to Australia and America

By: Nelia Hyndman-Rizk

£44.99

This study explores how Lebanese immigrants construct home in diaspora. When traditional ties of kinship, village, and sect are transformed, they face a crisis of belonging. The study finds home is not a physical place but a metaphysical state, created by women.

New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication

Edited By: Lucis Fernández Amaya, Maria de la O Hernández López, Reyes Gómez Morón

£44.99

Prominent scholars explore (im)politeness in human communication. This volume reviews the state of the art, analysing politeness in media, the effects of speech acts, and implications for language teaching, offering new perspectives on social interaction.

Food Politics

Studying Food, Identity and Difference among the Garos

By: Queenbala Marak

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This ethnographic work discusses the politics inherent in food among the Garos of Assam and Bangladesh. Living as a minority on the peripheries of a dominant culture, the Garos conceptualize themselves and the ‘other’ world through the microcosm of food.

Russia in Transition

Regional Integration, Media Censorship and Culture Institutes

Edited By: Feng-Yung Hu

£44.99

This book discusses Russia's transition over the last two decades, giving a panorama of Putin’s ruling ideology by examining his regional and media policies. Russia-China relations are also discussed as a crucial factor for security in the Asian-Pacific region.

This book discusses Russia’s transition over the last two decades, giving a panorama of Putin’s ruling ideology by examining his regional and media policies. Russia-China relations are also discussed as a crucial factor for security in the Asian-Pacific region.

Marked Word Order in the Qurān and its English Translations

Patterns and Motivations

By: Dr Ahmed Saleh Elimam

£44.99

The Qurān’s eloquent style uses marked word order for emphasis and meaning. This book examines how this distinctive feature is handled in ten English translations, offering a systematic comparison of the translators' strategies and stylistic choices.

Labour Regulation in the 21st Century

In Search of Flexibility and Security

By: Pietro Manzella

£44.99

The economic crisis proved the EU's flexicurity strategy inadequate. These papers investigate 21st-century labour regulation, exploring the essential balance between flexibility and security from a comparative and transnational perspective.

The economic crisis proved the EU’s flexicurity strategy inadequate. These papers investigate 21st-century labour regulation, exploring the essential balance between flexibility and security from a comparative and transnational perspective.

Body and Time

Bodily Rhythms and Social Synchronism in the Digital Media Society

Edited By: Bianca Maria Pirani, Thomas S. Smith

£44.99

This collection of essays conceptualizes the body as a system embedded in a social network. It challenges the digital media's view of the body as a 2D icon, demonstrating how our experience of time is determined by the cultural use of bodily rhythms.

This collection of essays conceptualizes the body as a system embedded in a social network. It challenges the digital media’s view of the body as a 2D icon, demonstrating how our experience of time is determined by the cultural use of bodily rhythms.

Tabish Khair

Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Om Prakash Dwivedi

£44.99

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair's unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair’s unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

Lines of Thought

Rethinking Philosophical Assumptions

By: Claudio Ferreira Costa

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In this innovative book, philosopher Claudio Costa argues that old philosophical ideas should be reworked, not dismissed. He challenges contemporary analytical philosophy's views on language, knowledge, and free will, aiming to restore a broader, more comprehensive perspective.

In this innovative book, philosopher Claudio Costa argues that old philosophical ideas should be reworked, not dismissed. He challenges contemporary analytical philosophy’s views on language, knowledge, and free will, aiming to restore a broader, more comprehensive perspective.

The Medieval Empire in Central Europe

Dynastic Continuity in the Post-Carolingian Frankish Realm, 900-1300

By: Herbert Schutz

£44.99

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe's strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe’s strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

The Epistemology of Utopia

Rhetoric, Theory and Imagination

Edited By: Jorge Bastos da Silva

£44.99

Utopianism nurtures possibilities by critiquing and transforming the world. This volume provides critical revisions of the field through essays on topics ranging from Plato’s Republic and More’s Utopia to modern-day cosmopolitics and science.

Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Edited By: Justin Caouette, Ishtiyaque Haji

£44.99

A dilemma threatens our belief in moral responsibility: if determinism is true, we lack control; if not, our actions are a matter of luck. This collection of new essays confronts this problem, with contributions by John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, and others.

Conflict, Violence, Terrorism, and their Prevention

Edited By: Arthur J. Kendall, Chas Morrison, J. Martin Ramirez

£44.99

This book provides an inter-disciplinary, global perspective on conflict, violence, and terrorism. It explores the conditions by which violent conflict occurs and examines concrete, multi-faceted solutions. Violence is neither inevitable nor innately determined.

The British Indian Army

Virtue and Necessity

Edited By: Rob Johnson

£44.99

This work explores the British Indian Army: a unique partnership of imperial and South Asian cultures. An instrument of expeditionary war that enjoyed its greatest triumph defeating Japan in 1945, it paradoxically became a potent vehicle for a free India.

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