Social Sciences

Sensi/able Spaces

Space, Art and the Environment Proceedings of the SPARTEN conference, Reykjavík, June 1st and 2nd, 2006

Edited By: Edward H. Huijbens, Ólafur Páll Jónsson

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SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of "sensible" spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the "sensable"—what we perceive through our senses.

SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of “sensible” spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the “sensable”—what we perceive through our senses.

Film and Ethics

What Would You Have Done?

Edited By: Jacqui Miller

£39.99

This book explores the slipperiness of ethics in Film Studies. It shows that from the silent era to the present day, film has been inherently concerned with ethical issues, forcing the spectator to be an active participant in creating meaning.

The Forbidden

Edited By: Benito Pérez Galdós

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A wealthy philanderer attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He succeeds with two, but it is the wild and impetuous Camila who resists his temptations and holds our attention. A major work from Spain’s greatest novelist.

Children and Childhoods 2

Images of Childhood

Edited By: Peter Whiteman

£39.99

Decisions about children's lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.

Decisions about children’s lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.

A Journey through Knowledge

Festschrift in Honour of Hortensia Pârlog

Edited By: Loredana Frăţilă, Codruța Goșa

£39.99

A Journey through Knowledge is a collection of articles honouring renowned Romanian linguist Hortensia Pârlog. United by the common theme of the “journey,” these articles explore traveling across identities, time, space, languages, and cultures.

Lexicography and Terminology

A Worldwide Outlook

Edited By: Olga Karpova, Olga M. Karpova, Faina Kartashkova

£39.99

This book explores current trends in lexicography and terminology. It analyzes the presentation of complex items like idioms and non-equivalent lexics in various dictionaries and examines terminology for Languages for Special Purposes from a cognitive angle.

Uncertain Justice

Crimes and Retribution in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

By: Nicoletta Di Ciolla

£39.99

Il giallo, Italy's crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.

Il giallo, Italy’s crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.

Religious Reading in the Lutheran North

Studies in Early Modern Scandinavian Book Culture

Edited By: Charlotte Appel, Morten Fink-Jensen

£39.99

Religious Reading in the Lutheran North opens up an overlooked part of early modern history. Following the Reformation, high literacy fueled a boom in religious literature across the Nordic countries. This book investigates publication, reading habits, and interpretations.

Undescribed and Endangered Languages

the Preservation of Linguistic Diversity

Edited By: Amedeo De Dominicis

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This book offers a linguistic and phonetic analysis of undescribed and endangered languages. A contribution to the debate on linguistic diversity, it is an ideal overview for linguists, phoneticians, students, and researchers.

Bridges Across the Sahara

Social, Economic and Cultural Impact of the Trans-Sahara Trade during the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited By: Ali Abdullatif Ahmida

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This book rethinks the history of modern Africa, examining the Saharan trade not as a barrier, but as a bridge. It critiques colonial scholarship and provides an alternative narrative of the forgotten histories that linked North, Central, and West Africa.

Beyond Postmodernism

Onto the Postcontemporary

Edited By: Christopher K. Brooks

£39.99

This collection provides an alternative to Postmodernism, arguing it has ruled too long. Contributors utilize critical tools like posthumanism and postcontemporary theory, yielding conclusions beyond its scope. For those seeking something new, join the dialogue.

A Cultural Journey through the English Lexicon

Edited By: Roberto Facchinetti

£39.99

This book explores the English lexicon as a mirror of cultural identity. Studies show how word contextualization leads to differing interpretations, revealing that language needs the cornerstone of Culture to thrive.

Coming Home? Vol. 2

Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009

Edited By: Sharif Gemie

£39.99

Forced displacement creates conflict. This book explores the complex inter-relationship of conflict, return migration, and the compelling search for a sense of home, shifting attention to the colonial and post-colonial framework of the French-North African nexus.

Twain’s Omissions

Exploring the Gaps as Textual Context

Edited By: Gretchen Martin

£39.99

Mark Twain utilized a unique literary device by omitting crucial information to create narrative gaps. The essays in this collection explore these omissions in his greatest works, revealing overlooked information ironically generated by what he left out.

Theory and Practice of Logic-Based Therapy

Integrating Critical Thinking and Philosophy into Psychotherapy

By: Elliot D. Cohen

£39.99

We upset ourselves by deducing destructive conclusions from irrational premises. This book presents Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), a guide to using logic and philosophy to refute these fallacies, overcome anxiety, depression, and anger, and attain happiness.

Subjectivity and the Social World

A Collection of Essays around issues relating to the Subject, the Body and Others

Edited By: Stephen Burwood, Tom Feldges, Josh N.W. Gray

£39.99

Even as science reveals the brain's workings, the question of the relation between the experiencing subject and the brain remains open. What is a subject and how does it interact with others? This book provides innovative answers on subjectivity and the social world.

Even as science reveals the brain’s workings, the question of the relation between the experiencing subject and the brain remains open. What is a subject and how does it interact with others? This book provides innovative answers on subjectivity and the social world.

Adaptations, Versions and Perversions in Modern British Drama

Edited By: Ignacio Ramos Gay

£39.99

This book scrutinises the complexities of adapting plays across cultures. Through modern British theatre, it explores the split between state-imposed and personal identity in an age of globalism, arguing for the need to transcend cultural frontiers.

Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies

Collaborative Research on Africa

Edited By: Kenneth Harrow, Kizitus Mpoche

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This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context. Bringing together views from specialists from several parts of the world, it handles complex themes in an accessible manner for all readers.

Sonic Mediations

Body, Sound, Technology

Edited By: Carolyn Birdsall, Anthony Enns

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Sonic Mediations is a collection of essays that invites readers to rethink mediation by examining the relationships between the body, sound, and technology. It addresses key questions about performance, perception, and the role of the listener.

Public Offices, Personal Demands

Capability in Governance in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

Edited By: Jan Hartman, Jaap Nieuwstraten, Michel Reinders

£39.99

This collection of essays explores a fundamental question of seventeenth-century governance: what makes a person capable for office? Focusing on the Dutch Republic, it shows how scientists, citizens, and merchants all joined the heated debate.

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