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Analyzing Public Policies in Latin America

A Cognitive Approach

Edited By: Melina Rocha Lukic, Carla Tomazini

£41.99

This book presents research on public policies in Latin America from a cognitive perspective. It asks what paradigms have shaped these policies, how they have changed over time, and who the new actors and coalitions influencing agendas are today.

Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others)

Edited By: Jack Boss, Brad Osborn, Tim S. Pack

£44.99

This collection of essays applies traditional and innovative techniques to the music of late 20th and 21st-century composers, making the music of our time less impenetrable by showing how it follows and varies older schemes. Includes analysis of popular music and jazz.

Anatomy of a Terrorist Organisation

The Kurdistan Workers' Party

Edited By: Serhat A. Erkmen, Burak Güneş

£86.99

Leading experts examine the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), tracing its evolution from a Cold War entity to a global network. This book analyzes the PKK's ideology, propaganda, and operational dynamics, and its profound impact on regional geopolitics and global security.

Leading experts examine the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), tracing its evolution from a Cold War entity to a global network. This book analyzes the PKK’s ideology, propaganda, and operational dynamics, and its profound impact on regional geopolitics and global security.

Anatomy of Science Fiction

Edited By: Donald E. Morse

£29.99

This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. "Will find a market both among academics and... undergraduates." - Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. “Will find a market both among academics and… undergraduates.” – Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

Ancient Dramatic Chorus through the Eyes of a Modern Choreographer

Zouzou Nikoloudi

By: Katia Savrami

£45.99

Savrami analyses the work of the Greek choreographer Zouzou Nikoloudi, and provides answers to key questions about her work in relation to ancient Greek views of tragedy and the ways those views have been reinterpreted in contemporary dance practice.

Ancient Epic

Literary and Linguistic Essays

Edited By: Concepción Cabrillana, Cecilia Criado, Mercedes Díaz de Cerio Díez

£47.99

This book adopts a broad approach to the Epic, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, with comparisons to Vedic, Sanskrit, and Medieval poetry. It explores the hero, the bard, and myth, and traces the influence of Homer on authors like Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca.

Ancient Greek Art and European Funerary Art

Edited By: Evangelia Georgitsoyanni

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This collection of papers charts European cemeteries as cultural sites and open-air museums. Authors present funerary art, investigate historical approaches, and propose ways to promote cemetery heritage, laying the groundwork for public discussion on our common heritage.

Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality

Edited By: Lena Larsson Lovén, Agneta Strömberg

£39.99

The study of ancient marriage has traditionally focused on elite texts and laws. This collection reveals a shift in focus, with essays examining demographic and contractual evidence, inscriptions, and visual imagery alongside innovative readings of authors.

Ancient Mediterranean Religions

Myth, Ritual and Religious Experience

By: John C. Stephens

£47.99

Stephens offers a clear and concise historical overview of the major religious movements of the ancient Mediterranean world existing from the time of the second millennium BCE up until the fourth century CE, including both the Judeo-Christian and pagan religious traditions.

Ancient South Arabia through History

Kingdoms, Tribes, and Traders

Edited By: George Hatke, Ronald Ruzicka

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South Arabia’s remoteness means that it remains under-researched, despite its huge significance during pre-Islamic times. Its languages, location as a site for intercontinental trade, and its extensive ancient written history will be of interest to scholars and laypeople alike.

Ancient Urban Globalisation and Economic Development

By: David A. Warburton

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This volume explores the historical background of contemporary social and economic issues. It argues that globalisation is not new, and that deep history offers essential lessons about wealth, the nature of money, and the understanding of justice.

Ancient Warfare

Introducing Current Research, Volume I

Edited By: Geoff Lee, Helene Whittaker, Graham Wrightson

£52.99

This collection presents current research on ancient warfare, covering a wide range of themes and neglected topics. Readable and engaging, it offers a high standard of scholarship appealing to historians, students, and a wider audience.

Ancient Warfare, Volume II

Introducing Current Research

Edited By: Jared Kreiner, Graham Wrightson

From £36.99

This volume demonstrates the wide array of topics in ancient warfare. Arranged chronologically in Greek and Roman sections, it covers topics from battle narratives and logistics to the ideology of women in war, showcasing innovative new ideas in the field.

Ancient Women in Modern Media

Edited By: K. S. Burns, W. S. S. Duffy

£41.99

The heroines of ancient myth remain potent today, challenging popular beliefs about the roles of women. This collection of essays examines their legacy from page to stage to screen to understand how they have evolved to retain and increase their power.

And Man Created God

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

£44.99

And Man Created God presents a new theory of myth as the creative force linking history and transcendence. The myths in Genesis and Exodus are presented in a new light, compared with Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Greek mythologies to highlight the pagan contrast.

And Translation Changed the World (and the World Changed Translation)

Edited By: Alberto Fuertes, Esther Torres

£41.99

Translation has played a major role in the evolution of societies, affecting the relationships between peoples and power. This volume examines the role of translators in different historical contexts, from 16th-century Mexico to 21st-century Japan.

Andreas Gryphius and T.S. Eliot’s “The Dissociation of Sensibility”

Cataclysm, Despair, Healing

By: Christopher J Terry

£70.99

A new appraisal of Andreas Gryphius, the great Baroque poet, through T.S. Eliot’s “Dissociation of Sensibility.” Supported by new translations, it shows how Eliot illuminates Gryphius as Gryphius illuminates Eliot. Both suffered the cataclysm of civil war and despair.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Poetics of Cinema

By: Thomas Redwood

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Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, he succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated, but often misunderstood, masterpieces.

Angels, a Messenger by Any Other Name in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic Traditions

Edited By: John Tracy Greene

£58.99

What are angels and what is their purpose? Humans have identified many types, from warriors and healers to guardians and teachers, who influence our lives and destinies. The essays in this volume reflect thoughtful responses to this abiding concern.

Anger in the Long Nineteenth Century

Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Ritushree Sengupta, Shouvik Narayan Hore

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This collection traverses anger studies from the Classical age to the present day. The book illustrates how literature documents and even institutionalizes primal, emotive outbursts, with analysis of works ranging from Aristotle and Seneca to Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Bronte.