Social Sciences

Crossings

David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media

Edited By: Johan Callens

£39.99

International scholars assess David Mamet's career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

International scholars assess David Mamet’s career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

A Theory of Literary Explication

Specifying a Relativistic Foundation in Epistemic Probability, Cognitive Science, and Second-Order Logic

By: Kenneth B. Newell

£39.99

This book forges a middle way between the postmodern view of infinite interpretations and the intentionalist view of one. Drawing on multidisciplinary research, it provides a foundation for judging some explications of a literary work to be better than others.

Treat or Trick? Halloween in a Globalising World

Edited By: Malcolm Foley, Hugh O’Donnell

£39.99

As Halloween spreads across Europe, is it rampant cultural imperialism or a welcome treat? This book examines the phenomenon from its origins to its arrival in Europe, revealing a complexity characterised by multiple meanings and intense battles over ownership.

Let’s Learn Together, Let’s Work Together

Challenges and Solutions for Transcultural Health and Social Care

Edited By: Kathleen Markey, Larry O’Connor, Patricia White

£39.99

This volume explores global challenges and solutions for transcultural health care. Providing competent care requires knowledgeable, culturally sensitive professionals. Deeply rooted values must be challenged to address unwitting prejudices and stereotyping.

Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory

Edited By: Colin Counsell, Roberta Mock

£39.99

Exploring the body's role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, 'perform' meaning.

Exploring the body’s role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, ‘perform’ meaning.

Demography In Transition

Emerging Trends in Population Studies

Edited By: Amanda K. Baumle

£39.99

This compilation provides unique insight into complex demographic issues. Demographers examine how race and ethnicity affect access to heath care, the consequences of an aging population, migration patterns, and the implications of changing family structures.

The Future of Aesthetic Experience

Conceiving a Better Way to Understand Beauty, Ugliness, and the Rest

By: Peter Baofu

£39.99

Dr. Baofu argues that postmodernism is an aesthetic fad and the current debate on beauty is obsolete. He reveals the great transformations of aesthetic experience to come, both here on Earth and later in deep space, based on his new transformative theory.

History and Narration

Looking Back from the Twentieth Century

Edited By: Marialuisa Bignami

£39.99

This volume explores the relation between narration and history, arguing we must be aware of the rhetorical strategies in historical writing. The essays consider narrativity in authors as diverse as V. Woolf, S. Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, and A. Ghosh.

Elemental Sculpture

Theory and Practice

By: Todor Todorov

£39.99

This book explores Elemental Sculpture, a tendency in contemporary art defining a new relationship between sculpture and nature. It examines its development in the works of Hepworth, Moore, and Calder, and includes sculptures from the author’s 35-year career.

Religion and Revolution

Spiritual and Political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal

By: John Andrew Morrow

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A study of spiritual and political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal, the great Latin American poet, priest, and revolutionary. The work examines his connection to Ṣūfism and details his trip to Iran during the triumph of the Islāmic Revolution.

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

Le Serment

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£39.99

Auber, one of the 19th century's most successful French composers, collaborated with librettist Scribe on *Le Serment*. In this tale of love and honor, an oath protects a secret brigand, set to refined music with a brilliant soprano showpiece.

Auber, one of the 19th century’s most successful French composers, collaborated with librettist Scribe on *Le Serment*. In this tale of love and honor, an oath protects a secret brigand, set to refined music with a brilliant soprano showpiece.

Environmental Psychology

Putting Research into Practice

By: Eddie Edgerton, Ombretta Romice, Christopher Spencer

£39.99

This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.

The Factors Shaping Entrepreneurial Intentions

By: Afsaneh Bagheri, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope Pihie

£39.99

This book explores the personal and environmental factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intentions. It provides insights for policymakers, educators, and students on developing entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and career choices.

Women’s Movements and Countermovements

The Quest for Gender Equality in Southeast Asia and the Middle East

Edited By: Claudia Derichs, Dana Fennert

£39.99

This volume explores women’s movements and their countermovements in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Covering case studies from Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Tunisia, it reveals the dominant pattern of Islamist movements countering the goals of women’s movements.

Mapping Experience in Polish and Russian Women’s Writing

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec

£39.99

This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.

An [Un]Likely Alliance

Thinking Environment[s] with Deleuze/Guattari

Edited By: Bernd Herzogenrath

£39.99

This study explores 'environment' and 'ecology' in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.

This study explores ‘environment’ and ‘ecology’ in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.

Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things

Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Edited By: Melissa Beattie, Ross P. Garner, Una McCormack

£39.99

These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.

The Permanence of the Transient

Precariousness in Art

Edited By: Camila Maroja, Caroline Menezes, Fabrizio Poltroniere

£39.99

Precariousness in art may be transient, yet it instigates permanent changes. These interdisciplinary essays examine the traces of precariousness in contemporary art, locating it as an undercurrent and connective tissue across diverse areas of knowledge and life.

Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel

A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives

Edited By: Binne de Haan, Konstantin Mierau

£39.99

This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.

Past and Future Vision of Veterinary Research

Study of Factors Affecting Racehorse Performance in Hong Kong

By: Kenneth Lam

£39.99

Based on extensive data research, this book details a new approach to enhancing racehorse welfare. It introduces an integrated technology for monitoring training and biometrics to assess injury risk, optimizing safety, performance, and racing integrity.

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