Social Sciences

Empowerment versus Oppression

Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels

Edited By: Sally Goade

£39.99

Are women readers oppressed by patriarchal romance narratives, or empowered by them? Building on early critics, these selections add new perspectives, examining diverse subtypes and featuring unique voices from international readers, novelists, and critics.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Sacred Works

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£39.99

Giacomo Meyerbeer is famed for opera, but he also wrote a body of carefully crafted religious works throughout his life. These pieces, from youthful songs to monumental psalms, reveal the depth of his religious convictions and ecumenical openness.

Enacting Nationhood

Identity, Ideology and the Theatre, 1855-99

Edited By: Scott R. Irelan

£39.99

This collection of essays explores constructions of “We the People” during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It interrogates pro- and anti-enslavement nationalism, partisanship, and armed conflict through dramatic literature and live performance.

Exile and the Narrative/Poetic Imagination

Edited By: Agnieszka Gutthy

£39.99

This collection of essays examines poetic and narrative responses to exile. It features works from rarely studied parts of the world, including Armenia, Egypt, and Tibet, exploring feelings of loss, memories of trauma, and the search for identity.

Celluloid Saviours

Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film

By: Emily Caston

£39.99

In "film blanc," a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It's a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.

In “film blanc,” a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It’s a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.

The Ethics of Consent and Choice in Prenatal Screening

By: Eleanor Miligan

£39.99

Prenatal screening offers parental choice, but the anomalies it finds are often unfixable. When termination is the only intervention, complex ethical questions arise about which traits are desirable. This book explores these choices and their impact on autonomy.

Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of African States in the 21st Century

By: E. Ike Udogu

£39.99

Africa, arguably the world’s richest continent, lags in development and is politically marginalized. This book debates strategies to advance a Union of African States, arguing it is critical to provide the clout needed to spur development and gain global relevance.

Levity of Design

Man and Modernity in the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

By: Wit Píetrzak

£39.99

Is it still possible to think of the human subject as a viable category? This book demonstrates how J. H. Prynne’s poetry overcomes the impasse of poststructuralism, developing a language in which the notion of man can be restituted.

Marcel Duchamp and Eroticism

Edited By: Marc Decimo

£39.99

While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now "lift the veil" on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.

While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now “lift the veil” on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.

Seeing with Different Eyes

Essays in Astrology and Divination

Edited By: Patrick Curry, Angela Voss

£39.99

These cutting-edge essays on divination and astrology feature authors from diverse academic disciplines. They address divination with critical but sympathetic inquiry, seeking to understand the divinatory act on its own terms across widely varying contexts.

Crisis and Change

Religion, Ethics and Theology under Late Modern Conditions

Edited By: Jan-Olav Henriksen, Tage Kurtén

£39.99

One cannot understand religion and ethics without paying attention to context. As late modern conditions pose new challenges to established theology, this volume rethinks religion and Christian ethics, exploring how they appear in new ways and new contexts.

Birth and Death in British Culture

Liminality, Power, and Performance

Edited By: Anette Pankratz, Claus-Ulrich Viol, Ariane de Waal

£39.99

Why look at birth and death together? These 13 interdisciplinary articles prove that looking at the two in tandem throws their distinct patterns and shared socio-political issues into sharp relief, probing their medialisation and commodification.

English and Empowerment in the Developing World

Edited By: Nasreen Hussain, Mohammad Zafar

£39.99

This collection of papers investigates empowerment within language, education, and technology. Researchers analyse complex educational and socio-cultural issues in developing countries, forcing readers to see them from a different perspective.

Descartes and the Modern

Edited By: Gordon McOuat, Neil Robertson, Tom Vinci

£39.99

Recent scholarship challenges Descartes's role as the founder of modernity. This collection of original papers by leading philosophers explores this debate, bringing together for the first time naturalist and phenomenological schools of thought.

Recent scholarship challenges Descartes’s role as the founder of modernity. This collection of original papers by leading philosophers explores this debate, bringing together for the first time naturalist and phenomenological schools of thought.

EU Energy Law

Constraints with the Implementation of the Third Liberalisation Package

Edited By: Robert Zajdler

£39.99

This book investigates legal shortfalls in new EU energy legislation from a business perspective. By comparing former and present rules, it shows how liberalisation of the EU energy market is achievable and suggests improvements for future legislation.

Charles Taylor’s Vision of Modernity

Reconstructions and Interpretations

Edited By: Christopher Garbowski, Jan Hudzik, Jan Kłos

£39.99

A penetrating cross-section of influential philosopher Charles Taylor's thought. The contributions in this volume engage with and find inspiration in his work on the modern self, secularization, liberalism, communitarianism, language, and culture.

A penetrating cross-section of influential philosopher Charles Taylor’s thought. The contributions in this volume engage with and find inspiration in his work on the modern self, secularization, liberalism, communitarianism, language, and culture.

World Constitutionalism

Edited By: Carmo D’Souza, Anthony D’Souza

£39.99

In World Constitutionalism, over two dozen scholars pen innovative ideas to visualize a future for a just world order. Their vision crosses national barriers through the realms of Human Rights, Environmental Law, and Global Democracy.

Myth as Symbol

A Psychoanalytic Study in Contemporary German Literature

By: Sonia Saporiti

£39.99

Reconsidering the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, this study explores the modern literary reworking of myth. From Jungian archetypes to the Freudian unconscious, it analyzes figures like Undine and Medea to explore timeless questions.

Ta(l)king English Phonetics Across Frontiers

Edited By: Biljana Čubrović, Tatjana Paunović

£39.99

This book explores English phonetics from a wide spectrum of perspectives. As a global language, the very notions of native/non-native and standard/non-standard have changed. This collection covers varieties, L2 teaching, language contact, and change.

The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess

Goddess Traditions of Asia

Edited By: Phyllis K. Herman, Deepak Shimkhada

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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.

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