Social Sciences

Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other

Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation

Edited By: Tuomas Huttunen, Janne Korkka

£39.99

This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.

Words and Images on the Screen

Language, Literature and Moving Pictures

Edited By: Ágnes Pethő

£39.99

Word has been a primordial companion to cinema from its beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in moving pictures, covering their interconnectedness through in-depth case studies and general surveys.

Berlin Since the Wall’s End

Shaping Society and Memory in the German Metropolis since 1989

Edited By: John Alexander Williams

£29.99

Since the Wall fell, Berlin has confronted the daunting challenges of reunification. This book examines two broad concerns—society and historical memory—casting light on a metropolis scarred, but not destroyed, by the upheavals of recent history.

The World as a Global Agora

Critical Perspectives on Public Space

Edited By: Soumia Boutkhil, Larbi Touaf

£39.99

Ranging from architecture to gender studies, the essays in this collection explore public space as a vital aspect of public life. The authors agree that no matter what form it takes, public space remains fundamental to all societies as the basis for civic action.

Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema

Edited By: Kenneth R. Morefield

£34.99

These provocative essays explore the uneasy relationship between religion and film in the works of masters like Bergman, Tarkovsky, and del Toro. This spiritual and critical journey challenges us to think more forcefully about the values that shape our lives.

Diasporic Literature and Theory – Where Now?

Edited By: Mark Shackleton

£34.99

The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand 'culture' beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.

The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand ‘culture’ beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.

The Globetrotting Shopaholic

Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Places

Edited By: Annessa Ann Babic, Tanfer Emin Tunc

£34.99

This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada's West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.

This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada’s West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.

Questioning Linguistics

Edited By: Naomi Knight, Ahmar Mahboob

£34.99

This volume brings together diverse perspectives to question the nature of linguistics. Experts and new theorists challenge current thoughts on language theory and application, inviting us to reconsider the methods we take for granted in our research.

Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Edited By: Daniel Cohen, Nick Trakakis

£34.99

Do we have the free will necessary for moral responsibility, or does determinism make it impossible? This volume offers new perspectives from leading philosophers on these questions, exploring fairness, obligation, and meaningfulness in a deterministic universe.

(1968) Episodes of Culture in Contest

Edited By: Cathy Crane, Nicholas Muellner

£34.99

This critical and historical anthology looks at 1968, bringing together scholars, critics, and media-makers. Their work engages the period’s international activism through close readings of cultural production, from mass media to avant-garde practices.

English Language and Literature

Cross Cultural Currents

Edited By: Modupe Moyosore Alimi, Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi, Patrick James Ebewo

£39.99

This collection of essays interrogates the language dilemma in Africa. While many Africans require the economic and social benefits of English, there is a growing resistance. The book explores how African languages and English enhance, inhibit, and influence each other.

Proceedings of the 2007 International NooJ Conference

Edited By: Xavier Blanco

£34.99

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 2007 NooJ conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to build libraries of linguistic resources and Natural Language Processing applications.

Literary and Cultural Intersections during the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Marianna D’Ezio

£29.99

This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.

Tracing Henry James

Edited By: Melanie H. Ross, Greg W. Zacharias

£44.99

Tracing Henry James brings together 28 essays by established and newer scholars from eight countries. This diverse collection explores James’s shorter and longer fiction, his travel essays, criticism, and letters.

Engaged Romanticism

Romanticism as Praxis

Edited By: Mark Lussier, Bruce Matsunaga

£34.99

Exploring “engaged romanticism” as a practice rather than a historical period, these essays examine how writers deployed their talents to transform the public sphere. This collection sounds the depths of what engaged practice can accomplish, both in its own age and ours.

Henry Fielding In Our Time

Papers Presented at the Tercentenary Conference

Edited By: J. A. Downie

£39.99

Essays by leading scholars offer a cross-section of current approaches to Henry Fielding’s life and writings. This collection explores his famous novels, journalism, and social pamphlets, appealing to students, academics, and readers interested in the novel.

Freelance English Teaching in Eastern Europe

A Perspective from R.P.

By: Christopher Stanling

£29.99

An invaluable guide to freelance English teaching in Eastern Europe, with exclusive insights on combining work with travel. This information-rich account is essential for teacher-travelers, career-minded graduates, and ELT entrepreneurs.

Liminal Spaces

The Double Art of Carol Shields

By: Alex Ramon

£34.99

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields. Arguing against enduring conceptions of Shields’s fiction as celebratory domestic miniaturism, the study presents her work as more expansive and equivocal than has sometimes been recognised, reading her texts as “liminal spaces” situated on a series of formal and thematic borders. Close attention is paid to Shields’s stylistic experimentation, to her subversions of auto/biography and historiography, and to the significance of her critical writing, while works which have previously received very little analysis, such as her early poetry…

The Arts and Youth at Risk

Global and Local Challenges

Edited By: Kate Donelan, Angela O’Brien

£34.99

"Philosophically complex and pragmatically provocative," this book interrogates arts-based interventions for "at risk" youth. International experts explore the positive outcomes and ethical challenges of working with marginalised communities.

“Philosophically complex and pragmatically provocative,” this book interrogates arts-based interventions for “at risk” youth. International experts explore the positive outcomes and ethical challenges of working with marginalised communities.

Meaning without Analyticity

Essays on Logic, Language and Meaning

By: H.G. Callaway

£34.99

This book explores a non-behavioristic theory of meaning, rejecting the analytic-synthetic distinction. It answers challenges from the revival of pragmatism by bringing it into contact with analytic philosophy, where Frege and Quine meet Peirce, James, and Dewey.

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