Social Sciences

And Man Created God

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

£44.99

And Man Created God presents a new theory of myth as the creative force linking history and transcendence. The myths in Genesis and Exodus are presented in a new light, compared with Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Greek mythologies to highlight the pagan contrast.

The Farmer’s Boy by Robert Bloomfield

A Parallel Text Edition

By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

Robert Bloomfield’s bestselling poem, The Farmer’s Boy, was a polished rewrite that erased the author's Suffolk voice. This edition reveals his true intentions for the first time, printing his original manuscript alongside the published version.

Robert Bloomfield’s bestselling poem, The Farmer’s Boy, was a polished rewrite that erased the author’s Suffolk voice. This edition reveals his true intentions for the first time, printing his original manuscript alongside the published version.

Music and Modernism, c. 1849-1950

Edited By: Charlotte de Mille

£44.99

This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.

Faulkner at Fifty

Tutors and Tyros

Edited By: Marie Liénard-Yeterian, Gérald Préher

£44.99

This collection focuses on teaching Faulkner and shows how he used other writers to shape his craft. It brings together new ways of reading his works, transforming his fiction into new meanings for the twenty-first century. A tribute to pioneers in Faulkner studies.

Words and Music

Edited By: Victor Kennedy

£44.99

A collection of perspectives on the interplay between words and music, from opera librettos and Broadway to rap lyrics and video game soundtracks. Topics include translation challenges, censorship, and cultural analyses of contemporary song lyrics.

A Seamless Web

Transatlantic Art in the Nineteenth Century

Edited By: Cheryll May

£44.99

These essays reveal the nineteenth-century “conversation of cultures” between America and Europe was a two-way exchange. American art used motifs like the cowboy to create its own identity, while Europeans appropriated icons like the American Indian.

Reconstructing Pain and Joy

Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives

Edited By: Elly Ifantidou, Chryssoula Lascaratou

£44.99

How are pain and joy constructed, represented, and socially determined? This is the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to investigate how these multi-faceted experiences are reconstructed in language, literature, art, and culture.

Reading the Fantastic Imagination

The Avatars of a Literary Genre

Edited By: Dana Percec

£44.99

This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy 'lowbrow' fiction being studied by canonical scholars.

This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy ‘lowbrow’ fiction being studied by canonical scholars.

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.

You are What You Eat

Literary Probes into the Palate

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

£44.99

This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.

Masculinity and the Other

Historical Perspectives

Edited By: Heather Ellis, Jessica Meyer

£44.99

Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of 'otherness' against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.

Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of ‘otherness’ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.

Voyages of Body and Soul

Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond

Edited By: Ketu H. Katrak, Anita Ratnam

£44.99

This collection explores India’s “mad” female saint-poets and multifaceted epic women from across history. These icons resisted patriarchal norms, following their chosen paths with monumental courage, creativity, and deep devotion. Their lives are models for the 21st century.

In Defense of Liberal-Pluralism

By: Upendra Chidella, Vikram Singh Sirola

£44.99

This book critiques Kantian universalism, arguing that the complex human condition requires a morality beyond simple binaries. It redefines liberal-pluralism as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.

Insight into EFL Teaching and Issues in Asia

Edited By: Evelyn Doman

£44.99

EFL teachers and researchers in Asia share successful teaching techniques and new methodologies. This collection offers practical suggestions for the classroom and unique insights for teaching English where students have limited informal language exposure.

Cyberspace Odyssey

Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology

By: Jos de Mul

£44.99

This book deals with the last stage of the human odyssey: the exploration of cyberspace. As new technologies colonize our bodies and minds, the author investigates the implications for our culture and form of life. Winner of the Socrates Prize.

Memory, Mind and Language

Edited By: Hans Götzsche

£44.99

Exploring the deep connections between language, brain, and mind, this book surveys key trends in 21st-century linguistics. It unites diverse scholarly traditions on topics from broad theory to specific analysis.

Strangers in New Homelands

The Social Deconstruction and Reconstruction of “Home” among Immigrants in the Diaspora

Edited By: Lewis Asimeng-Boahene, Michael Baffoe

£44.99

For immigrants, the concept of “home” evokes confusion, fear, and hope. This collection explores what this concept means for people making new lives in strange environments, examining the challenges of settlement, integration, and adaptation.

The Dancer and the Dance

Essays in Translation Studies

Edited By: Chan Sin-wai

£44.99

This collection of essays is the product of theory integrated with practice. Thirteen experts unravel the mystery of translation—"the most complex type of event yet produced"—tracing hitherto undiscovered patterns in its vast, mysterious tapestry.

This collection of essays is the product of theory integrated with practice. Thirteen experts unravel the mystery of translation—”the most complex type of event yet produced”—tracing hitherto undiscovered patterns in its vast, mysterious tapestry.

Advances in Discourse Approaches

Edited By: Marta Dynel

£44.99

From Quentin Tarantino’s films to the Bible and legal discourse, this volume addresses diverse topics. Each chapter deploys a separate theoretical framework, offering a representative sample of developments in discourse approaches for researchers and students.

From Language to Discourse

Selected Papers of VII Linguistic Sharing Forum

Edited By: Larysa Shotropa, Noémia Jorge, Camile Tanto, Lúcia Cunha

£44.99

This volume presents ongoing research in phonology, language acquisition, syntax, and terminology. Evaluated by an academic committee, these papers by young researchers are presented alongside work from senior researchers João Costa and Maria Antónia Coutinho.

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