Social Sciences

Sound Musicianship

Understanding the Crafts of Music

Edited By: Andrew R. Brown

£44.99

Sound Musicianship explores musicianship as a craft. It examines 21st-century trends like digital media, neurology, and cultural plurality, offering insights from leading researchers to help you advance your own music learning or that of others.

Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body

Edited By: Osvaldo Glieca, Marilyn Wyers

£39.99

Musicians and dancers draw upon relationships between sound and movement. Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body brings together diverse topics on the subject, raising issues concerning the collaborative aspects of creating and performing new work.

Sounds of Life

Music, Identity and Politics in Zimbabwe

Edited By: Fainos Mangena, Itai Muwati

£52.99

The papers brought together here examine the various roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimbabwean music has addressed the socio-economic, political and spiritual crisis that the country has endured in recent years.

Sounds of Origin in Heavy Metal Music

Edited By: Toni-Matti Karjalainen

£58.99

The seven scholarly essays gathered here explore local scenes and identities within heavy metal music from multiple angles, covering a variety of different countries and metal sub-genres from Finland to Indonesia, and from black metal to metalcore.

Soundweaving

Writings on Improvisation

Edited By: Franziska Schroder, Micheal Ó'hAodha

£39.99

This book on music improvisation forges new links between diverse theories and practices. Writings by musicians and theorists illuminate the field from an array of critical perspectives, with an introduction by inspiring improviser Evan Parker.

Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience

Manufacturing a Television Personality

By: Francis Shor

From £19.99

While Soupy Sales achieved national fame in the 1960s, the template was set in Detroit. This study of his early WXYZ TV shows explores the manufacturing of a personality and offers insights into 1950s pop culture, the Cold War, Jewish-inflected humor, and jazz.

Sources of British Revolutionary Politics

Edited By: R. G. Williams

From £38.99

A collection of radical documents covering revolutionary and working-class politics in Great Britain. It covers movements in British history from ancient Britain (60 CE) to the rise of the modern labour movement in 1920.

Sources of Desire

Essays on Aristotle’s Theoretical Works

Edited By: James Oldfield

£34.99

Though Aristotle’s theoretical works are often thought to be of interest only to historians, the contributions in this book show they are still profound resources for philosophical inquiry, expressing insights that challenge our understanding.

Sources of Revolutionary Politics

Edited By: R. G. Williams

From £38.99

This book collects the essential writings of the world's great revolutionary thinkers. Committed to liberty, equality, and fraternity, they struggled for a better world. By studying their ideas, we can develop new visions for a world based on human freedom.

This book collects the essential writings of the world’s great revolutionary thinkers. Committed to liberty, equality, and fraternity, they struggled for a better world. By studying their ideas, we can develop new visions for a world based on human freedom.

South Africa’s Foreign Policy Since 1994

New Insights and Perspectives

By: Rejoyce Hlengiwe Phetha

£59.99

This book discusses South Africa’s foreign policy before and after 1994. Once a pariah state, South Africa emerged as a pivotal power in Africa and an important player in global governance, seeking to reform the international order.

South African Literary Cultural Nationalism—Abalobi beSizwe eMzansi—1918-45

Returning to the Source

By: Nicholas M. Creary

£61.99

Creary’s intellectual history uses Amílcar Cabral’s theory of the “return to the source” to examine Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi, Vilakazi’s poetry, and Jordan’s The Wrath of the Ancestors within the broader context of African cultural nationalisms in the early twentieth century.

South American Cinematic Culture

Policy, Production, Distribution and Exhibition

By: Miriam Ross

£39.99

This study of South American cinema offers a new approach, revealing the interconnectivity between state, altruistic, and commercial film organizations. It produces a rich overview of a key non-Western filmmaking site, tracing how films circulate nationally and globally.

South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity

“Out of Arabia”

Edited By: George Hatke, Ronald Ruzicka

From £33.99

In pre-Islamic times, South Arabia was a crossroads linking the Near East with Africa and the Mediterranean with India. The region is unique, with a written history extending to the first millennium BCE. This volume explores the history and languages of ancient South Arabia.

South Asia and its Others

Reading the “Exotic”

Edited By: Atreyee Phukan, V.G. Julie Rajan

£34.99

These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use "exoticization" as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use “exoticization” as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

South Asian Migration

Remittances and Beyond

Edited By: Zaara Zain Hussain, Md Mizanur Rahman

£47.99

This volume provides insights into international migration, diaspora engagement, and remittances in South Asia. It analyses the implications for development, focusing on “Remittance-Induced Development” and “Diaspora-Induced Development.”

South Asian Women’s Narratives

Literatures of Their Own

Edited By: Somjeeta Pandey, Bidhu Chand Murmu

From £33.99

This collection explores works by South Asian women authors, discussing themes of gender, identity, diaspora, trauma, and the new ‘self.’ Their writings critically engage with social discrimination, empowerment, and the political issues of their times.

South Sudanese Diaspora in Australia and New Zealand

Reconciling the Past with the Present

Edited By: Daniel Harris, Tanya Lyons, Jay Marlowe

£49.99

This collection of contemporary research offers crucial insights into the South Sudanese resettlement experience in Australia and New Zealand. Diverse scholars examine the challenges, opportunities, and successes of one of the region's fastest-growing communities.

Southeast Asia between China and Japan

Edited By: Lam Peng Er, Victor Teo

£44.99

This book examines the triangular relations between China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. It argues that Southeast Asian states are not strategic pawns, but instead actively manoeuvre between these great powers, driving East Asian multilateralism.

Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States

Memories and Visions, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Edited By: Jonathan H. X. Lee

£52.99

This collection explores Southeast Asian American subjectivities through the interplay of memory and vision. Authors examine diverse homes, creativities, and queer sexualities to provide new visions that link Southeast Asia to America in creative and purposeful ways.

Southern Horrors

Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World

Edited By: Gilbert Bonifas, Martine Monacelli

£44.99

This book explores the Mediterranean's dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.

This book explores the Mediterranean’s dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.

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