Social Sciences

Old Stories, New Readings

The Transforming Power of American Drama

Edited By: Miriam López-Rodríguez, Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz, Inmaculada Pineda-Hernández

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This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright's telling. Focusing on "small stories" that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.

This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright’s telling. Focusing on “small stories” that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.

City of Empires

Ottoman and British Famagusta

Edited By: Michael J. K. Walsh

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This title represents the first volume dedicated entirely to studies of the historic city of Famagusta in the years which followed the siege of 1571, despite the city’s undoubted importance.

Resilient Territories

Innovation and Creativity for New Modes of Regional Development

Edited By: Hugo Pinto

£52.99

As recent crises challenge territories, what makes them resilient? This book advances the scientific agenda on regional resilience, innovation, and creativity, informing policy-makers about new modes of development for adapting to external shocks.

Dr Johnson’s Friend and Robert Adam’s Client Topham Beauclerk

By: David Noy

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Dr Johnson would walk to the ends of the earth to save him, yet others rejoiced at his death. How did a beautiful, privileged youth become infamous for causing a lice infestation? A friend to the Enlightenment's leading figures, he lived life to the full.

Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres

Edited By: Lucy R Nicholas, Andrea Riedl, Svorad Zavarský

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This collection brings together twenty-three scholars from thirteen countries to explore the dynamic and profound ways in which polemical theology, its discourses and codes, interacted with non-theological literary genres in the early modern era.

Intersections of Displacement

Refugees' Experiences of Home and Homelessness

By: Priya N. Kissoon

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A new, hidden homelessness has emerged among asylum seekers. Examining refugee experiences in London and Toronto, this book argues that this requires a new perspective from refugees themselves, asking how they reconstruct ‘home’ in the face of differing national policies.

Donato Manduzio’s Diary, from Church to Synagogue

By: Viviane Serfaty

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Serfaty translates the full text of Donato Manduzio’s Diary from Italian into English, making it available at last to a wider public. She provides a social and historical basis for the trajectory of Manduzio and retraces his mystical visions and spiritual development.

Ecclesia et Violentia

Violence against the Church and Violence within the Church in the Middle Ages

Edited By: Radosław Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski

£52.99

This interdisciplinary anthology explores violence and the medieval Church. It examines attacks against clergy, aggression between them, and the role of violence in discipline, revealing how it was integral to the legal culture and social bonds of medieval Europe.

English for Academic Purposes

Approaches and Implications

Edited By: Giuliana Diani

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Analysis of academic genres and corpus resources reveals the patterning of academic texts across disciplines. This volume addresses issues in academic discourse from a range of perspectives, with an emphasis on practical applications for teachers and researchers of EAP.

Creative Dialogues

Narrative and Medicine

Edited By: Isabel Fernandes, Cecilia Beecher Martins, Amândio Reis

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This collection of essays is a groundbreaking contribution to Narrative Medicine and the Health Humanities. Featuring prestigious scholars like Rita Charon, it is highly beneficial for healthcare professionals, medical students, and Humanities researchers.

D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix

Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence

By: Peter Balbert

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This innovative study of D. H. Lawrence’s fiction examines the dominant presence of a “marriage matrix”, showing how this intense pattern of preoccupation consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence’s life as depression, illness, friendship, and renewal.

Averting a Global Environmental Collapse

The Role of Anthropology and Local Knowledge

Edited By: Thomas Reuter

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Averting environmental catastrophe is a socio-political, not technical, challenge. This volume presents papers from international experts exploring how anthropology and indigenous knowledge can provide solutions for sustainable environments, resource management, and justice.

Defining and Redefining Space in the English-Speaking World

Contacts, Frictions, Clashes

Edited By: Fanny Moghaddassi, Ghislain Potriquet

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Focusing on contacts, frictions, and clashes, this collection explores their spatial nature, highlighting the stakes of (re)definitions of space. It examines how efforts, such as defining and mapping spaces, lead to geographical, social, political, and aesthetic definitions.

Multilingualism and Education in Africa

The State of the State of the Art

Edited By: Ruth W. Ndung’u, Martin C. Njoroge, Daniel O. Orwenjo

£52.99

An essential resource for understanding multilingualism and education in Africa. Written by leading authorities, this book examines policies and practices across the continent, combining theoretical, empirical, and personal experiences to show what works.

Innovative Management Perspectives on Confronting Contemporary Challenges

Edited By: Evangelos Tsoukatos, Demetris Vrontis

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In a clashing socio-economic climate, managers face unforeseen challenges. This book provides direction and insight on finding innovative solutions, presenting research and ideas that transcend conventional theory and have practical implementations.

Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art

Edited By: Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, László B. Sári

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This volume probes how space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It considers the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts.

Intractable Dilemmas in the Energy-Rich Eastern Mediterranean

Edited By: Aris Petasis

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The Eastern Mediterranean is in turmoil, plagued by conflict and economic crisis. But newly discovered energy reserves offer hope. This book proposes a High Energy Authority for countries to exploit their reserves together, turning antagonists into allies and reducing conflict.

Sounds of Life

Music, Identity and Politics in Zimbabwe

Edited By: Fainos Mangena, Itai Muwati

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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.

The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century

Proceedings of the International Lute Symposium Utrecht, 30 August 2013

Edited By: Jan W.J. Burgers, Tim Crawford, Matthew Spring

£52.99

The articles brought together here provide a broad and many-layered overview of the significance of the lute in the seventeenth century Netherlands, highlighting its central role in the rich musical culture of the ‘Golden Age’ of the Dutch Republic.

Transforming Learning

International Perspectives

Edited By: Stacey Blackman, Babalola J. Ogunkola

£52.99

Aimed at educators who want to impact the lives of the students who attend their classrooms, this volume presents indigenous frameworks applied to subjects in education, the humanities and sciences that inform critical praxis in teacher education.

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