Social Sciences

Dynamic of Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia

Edited By: Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani, Shamsuddin L. Taya

£39.99

In multi-ethnic societies, the threat is from within. Ethnic conflict is a time bomb, as nation-building often marginalizes groups and sparks violence. Can a democratic setting moderate these tensions and achieve peaceful resolution in Southeast Asia?

Eat History

Food and Drink in Australia and Beyond

Edited By: Sofia Eriksson, Madeleine Hastie, Tom Roberts

£39.99

Eat History offers fascinating new insights into gastronomic studies and cultural history. Nine leading historians explore topics from vodka to patty cakes across the globe, engaging academics and general readers keen to discover how food opens up new areas of history.

Psychoanalysis in Context

Edited By: Alvin Henry

£39.99

Drawing on psychoanalysis, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the contributors examine how the circulation of psychoanalysis across time and place reflects and shapes literature, offering fresh insights into their shared literary history.

Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals

Achieving an Internationally Set Agenda

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Deborah Bryceson, Muna Ndalo

£39.99

This volume addresses heretofore ignored dimensions of transport in Africa—mobility issues of the urban poor, women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services, aligning transport with the MDGs for policymakers.

Queer Exoticism

Examining the Queer Exotic Within

Edited By: Judith S. Kaufman, Tamara Powell

£39.99

These essays examine the queer tendency to seek different subjects of desire in an effort to find oneself. This search for the exotic becomes a path to self-knowledge, where the outward gaze turns inward to reveal an inner exoticism.

“Show us what you’ve got”

Building and Managing Strong Brands in Ireland’s Service SMEs

Edited By: Brian Healy, Gillian Horan

£39.99

This research addresses how owner/managers of Irish service small medium enterprises (SMEs) execute and manage brands. In an area of study in its infancy, this book provides evidence of the importance and relevance of branding to SMEs.

Promoting Trade Competitiveness in Developing Countries

Edited By: Wineaster Anderson, Marcellina M. Chijoriga, John R.M. Philemon

£39.99

Developing countries stand to lose or gain from globalization. This book provides critical insights into trade competitiveness, foreign investment, and natural resources, provoking debate and leading to solutions that help improve their lot.

Education Loan and Inclusive Growth

India in a Comparative Perspective

By: Jacob John

£39.99

This book explores education loans as a tool for financing higher education in developing countries. Using India as a case study, it reveals how the system excludes the poor and formulates an action plan to make it an inclusive financing tool.

Sub-national Fiscal Sustainability in a Globalised Setting

Edited By: Jacob John

£39.99

Eminent scholars and administrators analyze fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, and decentralization. This collection addresses growing fiscal stress and offers strategies for sustainability for national and sub-national governments in a globalized world.

Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions

Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£39.99

An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

The Source of the Blue Nile

Water Rituals and Traditions in the Lake Tana Region

By: Gedef Abawa Firew, Anders Kaliff

£39.99

In Ethiopia, the Blue Nile is seen as the biblical river Gihon, flowing from Paradise. This book combines historic sources and new ethnography to present the rich myths, rituals, and cultural heritage structured around these sacred waters.

Discourse Dynamics

By: Sara Sanchez

£39.99

This study of French discourse connectives challenges outdated paradigms. It proposes a new descriptive model within the Theory of Argumentation, using innovative tools like semantic blocks and discourse algorithms for a modern, 21st-century approach.

A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises

Essays on Contemporary Literature in Honour of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente

Edited By: Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez, José Francisco Fernández

£39.99

A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.

Experiments in Freedom

Explorations of Identity in New South African Drama

By: Anton Krueger

£39.99

Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.

Health and Cultural Values

Female Circumcision within the Context of HIV/AIDS in Cameroon

By: Vitalis Pemunta Ngambouk

£39.99

In the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Female Circumcision among Cameroon's Ejagham tribes is transforming. This ethnography captures local agency and cultural complexity, questioning anti-FC interventions that miss the ritual's true significance.

In the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Female Circumcision among Cameroon’s Ejagham tribes is transforming. This ethnography captures local agency and cultural complexity, questioning anti-FC interventions that miss the ritual’s true significance.

Assessing Social Capital

Concept, Policy and Practice

Edited By: Rosalind Edwards, Jane Franklin, Janet Holland

From £19.99

Social capital is a key concept in policymaking, but does it hide more than it illuminates? Is it even harmful? This collection assesses the theory and its policy drawbacks. Renowned researchers reveal its flaws and offer alternatives, while others adapt it.

Photographing Papua

Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public Domain

Edited By: Max Quanchi

£39.99

This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.

Nameless God

By: Hal Hargreaves

£39.99

Names play pivotal roles in unlocking early Christianity, revealing theological positions and triggering the suggestion of a nameless god. This book is a primer for those who value objective observation over orthodoxy, offering a fresh, positive view of agnostic thought.

Cultural Encounters Between East and West

Edited By: Matthew Birchwood, Matthew Dimmock

£39.99

A radical reappraisal of the relationship between East and West. This inter-disciplinary volume refutes Euro-centric assumptions, exploring the complex cultural, diplomatic, mercantile, and military encounters between 1453 and 1699.

Cultural Parks and National Heritage Areas

Assembling Cultural Heritage, Development and Spatial Planning

By: Pablo Alonso González

£39.99

What is a cultural park? This book answers the question, moving beyond technical narratives to provide a much-needed critical reflection. It offers a novel theoretical conceptualization of cultural parks and a methodology for their empirical analysis.

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