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Discourse Interpretation

Approaches and Applications

Edited By: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Renata Povolná

£39.99

This volume provides new insights into discourse interpretation across many genres. Combining theoretical insights with empirical investigations, it explores how meaning is a dynamic construct, constantly reinterpreted in light of social and situational contexts.

Women Patrons and Collectors

Edited By: Andrea M. Gáldy

£39.99

Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.

Reconsidering a Lost Intellectual Project

Exiles’ Reflections on Cultural Differences

Edited By: José M. Faraldo, Carolina Rodríguez-López

£34.99

This book explores how transnational experiences shaped the views of intellectuals exiled between 1933–1945. Essays focus on German, Spanish, and East European cases, comparing how exiles reconsidered their past in light of their new homelands.

Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship

Democratic National Citizenship in Hong Kong

By: Mike Byram, Lai Pak-Sang

£39.99

This book explores school processes in Hong Kong, where education must now manage diversity. It investigates how a liberal and democratic national identity, distinct from that of mainland China, develops under the “one country two systems” policy.

Film in the Post-Media Age

Edited By: Ágnes Pethő

£49.99

In an age of media convergence, many have proclaimed the death of cinema. But as moving images enter art galleries, the internet, and our daily lives, what happens to film? This volume explores not the disappearance of cinema, but its blooming post-media life.

Catholic Education

Universal Principles, Locally Applied

Edited By: Andrew B. Morris

£39.99

This collection of essays explores the Catholic Church’s understanding of human flourishing and education. It provides insights and case studies into how Catholic education policy is implemented in a variety of national and international contexts.

How Far Can We Go? Pain, Excess and the Obscene

By: Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis

£34.99

The public does not desire horror, yet enjoys it in art. In the monstrous marriage of the abject and the sublime, this thrill transforms the spectator into voyeur or victim. Representing horror means rendering it enjoyable—a game of limits that are no longer limits.

Cognitive Dynamics in Linguistic Interactions

Edited By: Alexander Kravchenko

£39.99

Current methods of teaching language are failing because we lack a holistic understanding of how language shapes human interaction. Orthodox science sees language as a tool, but there is no humanness without languaging. This volume forges a new path.

Bodies and Culture

Discourses, Communities, Representations, Performances

Edited By: Christopher E. Forth, Marike Janzen, Damon Talbott

£34.99

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.

Beckett Re-Membered

After the Centenary

Edited By: James Carney, Michael O’Sullivan, Karl White

£39.99

This collection of recent scholarship on Samuel Beckett offers a diverse and comprehensive survey of his literary and philosophical work. It will appeal to any reader interested in provocative responses to one of the 20th century’s most important writers.

The Middle East and the Cold War

Between Security and Development

Edited By: Matteo Gerlini, Massimiliano Trentin

£34.99

This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War's impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.

This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War’s impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.

Lights! Camera! Action and the Brain

The Use of Film in Education

Edited By: Maher Bahloul, Carolyn Graham

£44.99

This book details an innovative pedagogy using film in education. It bridges neurological theory with practical applications from worldwide scholars, showing how film can be a powerful pedagogical tool for all learners, including those with special needs.

Re-inventing/Re-presenting Identities in a Global World

Edited By: Eleftheria Arapoglu, Tatiani Rapatzikou, Smatie Yemenedzi-Malathouni

£39.99

With the peripheral now the center of contemporary culture, this volume examines cultural identity in a global world. It addresses immigration, diaspora, and gender politics, exploring cultural identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.

Art in Literature, Literature in Art in 19th Century France

By: Emilie Sitzia

£44.99

In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art's influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.

In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art’s influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.

‘A Storme Out of Wales’

The Second Civil War in South Wales, 1648

By: Robert Matthews

£39.99

This is the first detailed study of the 1648 revolt in Wales, covering the Battle of St. Fagans and Cromwell’s campaign. It offers a radical reinterpretation: not a Royalist uprising, but a localist revolt against a centralising government.

The Captivity Narrative

Enduring Shackles and Emancipating Language of Subjectivity

Edited By: Benjamin Mark Allen

£34.99

These scholarly essays assess captivity, exploring how captives expressed psychological duress and coped with bondage. Offering historical, literary, and philosophical analyses, topics range from 17th-century captivity to 21st-century prisoner narratives.

Out of the Ordinary

Representations of LGBT Lives

Edited By: Ian Rivers, Richard Ward

£34.99

This book challenges the ordinariness of heterosexuality by exploring the politics of representing LGBT lives. It demonstrates how representation is a battleground for the visibility of ‘non-normative’ voices and a site for fruitful reinvention.

To be a Sailor’s Wife

By: Hanna Hagmark-Cooper

£34.99

This book brings maritime women’s experiences to the fore. Based on the life stories of seafarers’ wives from the Åland Islands, it explores their perception of leading two parallel lives and investigates their attitudes to the myths surrounding their image.

Demand, Supply and Welfare Aspects of Pipe-borne Water in Sri Lanka

By: Dinusha Dharmaratna

£39.99

Under-pricing threatens Sri Lanka's water utility. This book examines alternative pricing strategies to improve efficiency and equity, ensuring the financial viability needed for critical infrastructure expansion and maintenance.

Under-pricing threatens Sri Lanka’s water utility. This book examines alternative pricing strategies to improve efficiency and equity, ensuring the financial viability needed for critical infrastructure expansion and maintenance.

Equalities and Education in Europe

Explanations and Excuses for Inequality

By: Melinda Dooly, Nanny Hartsmar, Alistair Ross

£34.99

This timely book analyzes educational inequities in Europe. Rejecting the idea that education simply reproduces social patterns, the authors argue that educational policies have the potential to challenge inequality and transform the lives of disadvantaged groups.