Social Sciences

The Compliance of Foreign-Owned Banks with the European Union’s Rule of Law in the Western Balkans

By: Vesna Lukovic

From £33.99

This book explores foreign banks in the Western Balkans, their relationships with consumers, and their convergence to the rule of law of the European Union. It is of great use to students of the economics of the Western Balkans and others interested in the subject.

The Computer Culture Reader

Edited By: Joseph R. Chaney, Ken S. McAllister, Judd Ethan Ruggill

£39.99

Scholars probe how people and computers collaborate to create meaning. Through examinations of community, communication, work, and play, this volume delivers new insights about the robust and fragile relationships between computers and people.

The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1848

Edited By: Katie Halsey, Jane Slinn

£34.99

This collection of essays discusses conversation in the eighteenth century as concept and practice. At its heart is a key question: are eighteenth-century conceptualisations of conversation still relevant to scholars and thinkers today?

The Concept of Coexistence in Islamic Primary Sources

An Analytical Examination

By: Ali Shehata Abdou Selim

£52.99

This book explores the theological aspect of Muslim coexistence in non-Muslim lands. It raises key questions pertinent to this issue: Is it permissible for Muslims to acquire non-Muslim citizenship? How do they perceive civic duties, and are they obliged to fulfil them?

The Concept of Fluidity in the Baroque Age

Liquid Mirrors

By: Jelena Todorović

From £31.99

The Baroque world was a flowing one, a realm of presences in constant flux. Everything was in endless motion—space, time, emotions, and the individual itself. This absence of solidity would define the era. This book charts the fluidity of the age, from geographies to souls.

The Concept of Motherhood in India

Myths, Theories and Realities

Edited By: Zinia Mitra

From £30.99

This book explores motherhood from ancient times to the present, analyzing how the ideal is manufactured by society through archetypes, religion, and media. It rereads the myths surrounding motherhood as social constructs and contrasts them with its lived reality.

The Concept of the Soul

Scientific and Religious Perspectives

Edited By: Michael Fuller

£24.99

The idea of the soul will not go away, despite criticism of traditional dualism. This book explores the concept from theological, scientific, and philosophical perspectives, presenting diverse approaches and conclusions from leading scholars.

The Concept of Time and Historical Experience

By: Mihai Popa

From £31.99

When does an event become historical experience: at the moment it occurs, or later as it is remembered? This work argues that history is a relationship between the present of the historian and the past, a dynamic where history moves with us. It is for historians and researchers.

The Conceptualisation of the Christian Life in John Henry Newman’s Parochial and Plain Sermons

By: Marcin Kuczok

£49.99

This book uses cognitive semantics to analyze the concept of “The Christian Life” in John Henry Newman’s sermons. It identifies metaphorical models, such as “A Journey” and “A Race,” that blend everyday concepts with the domain of Christianity.

The Conformists

Creativity and Decadence in the Bulgarian Cinema 1945-89

By: Evgenija Garbolevsky

£39.99

Explore the paradoxes of Bulgarian cinema under Communist rule. This work reveals why intellectuals chose loyalty to the state-controlled film industry over rebellion, challenging the view of Eastern Bloc art as propaganda by showing its parallels with the West.

The Confucian Revival in Taiwan

Xu Fuguan and His Theory of Chinese Aesthetics

By: Téa Sernelj

From £30.99

Xu Fuguan is a central representative of Modern Confucianism. This book focuses on his fundamental contributions to philosophy, particularly his reinterpretations of Confucian and Daoist aesthetics. It highlights the link between ethics and aesthetics in his innovative theories.

The Conservation of Endangered Archives and Management of Manuscripts in Indian Repositories

By: Anindita Kundu Saha

From £35.99

This book details the conservation, care, and management of Indian manuscripts. It covers their materials, writing techniques, and dating methods, as well as preventive measures for preservation, including ancient indigenous practices and the hazards of using chemicals.

The Conservative Party and the Creation of the Welfare State

By: Eric Caines

From £32.99

This book challenges the myth that the UK's post-war Welfare State was solely a Labour Party creation. It examines the contributions of figures like Churchill and Beveridge to argue that, over the half-century, the greater share of credit belongs to the Conservative Party.

This book challenges the myth that the UK’s post-war Welfare State was solely a Labour Party creation. It examines the contributions of figures like Churchill and Beveridge to argue that, over the half-century, the greater share of credit belongs to the Conservative Party.

The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess

Goddess Traditions of Asia

Edited By: Phyllis K. Herman, Deepak Shimkhada

From £19.99

Essays trace the multiplicity of Asian goddesses as symbols of wisdom, power, transformation, and creation. This volume draws from Indian, Nepali, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese traditions, a scope seldom found in other works.

The Constantly Reshaping Social Identities in the Middle East

Edited By: Gadi Hitman, Eyal Lewin

From £35.99

This book moves beyond state-centric politics to explore how communities and leaders shape socio-political identities. It emphasizes the importance of identities and narratives within the cultural, religious, and social contexts of the Middle East and Mediterranean region.

The Construction of Latina/o Literary Imaginaries

Essays on Alternative Worldviews

By: Blanca López de Mariscal

£58.99

This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.

The Construction of Motherhood and Maternal Experiences

An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Edited By: Fatma Zehra Fidan

£59.99

Women have been called inadequate, yet are sanctified as perfect mothers. This book offers a new lens on motherhood, examining its history, its experiences across cultures, and the effects of this sacred ideal in a world shaped by poverty, trauma, and social media.

The Consumer Culture Theory of Brands

By: Robert Pennington

From £29.99

Once marketed, brands belong to consumers, who give them meaning. This book explains what brands mean to consumers, how they use them to communicate, and how advertising has become an integral component of the cultural communication system that is consumption.

The Contemporary Arab Contribution to World Culture

An Arab-Western Dialogue

Edited By: Magdi Youssef

From £46.99

This book challenges the projected image of a dominant West as a necessary model for a dependent ‘rest of the world.’ It calls for a decolonization of human knowledge, using recent Arab contributions as an example of an alternative to the globalization of Western norms.

The Contemporary Art Gallery

Display, Power and Privilege

By: David Carrier, Darren Jones

£45.99

Carrier and Jones enliven readers’ latent knowledge of galleries, like architectural motifs, the intended impression conveyed to the visitor, and their human interactions. Much has been written about the art, but the secretive culture of the galleries themselves is now uncovered.

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