Social Sciences

Niger Delta

Constraints and Pathways to Development

Edited By: Ibaba Samuel Ibaba

£39.99

Since the 1970s, Nigeria's Niger Delta has been engulfed by oil-related conflicts. This book explores the complex constraints and pathways to development in the region, bringing to the fore the challenges and options for a sustainable future.

Since the 1970s, Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been engulfed by oil-related conflicts. This book explores the complex constraints and pathways to development in the region, bringing to the fore the challenges and options for a sustainable future.

Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other

Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation

Edited By: Tuomas Huttunen, Janne Korkka

£39.99

This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.

Being Amongst Others

Phenomenological Reflections on the Life-world

Edited By: Eric Chelstrom

£39.99

Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.

Terror Truncated

The Decline of the Abu Sayyaf Group from the Crucial Year 2002

By: Bob East

£39.99

To distinguish fact from myth, this book traces the crimes and leaders of the widely misunderstood Abu Sayyaf Group. It concludes that the group has been in decline since 2002, and by 2012 existed as fragmented cells rather than an organised entity.

Religion After Kant

God and Culture in the Idealist Era

Edited By: Paolo Diego Bubbio, Paul Redding

£39.99

After Kant, idealist thinkers like Hegel and Schelling transformed the conceptual framework for considering religion. This volume explores their reconsideration of religion’s place within human self-fashioning, which shaped later thinkers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.

Linguists of Tomorrow

Selected Papers from the 1st Cyprus Postgraduate Student Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Edited By: Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Aljona Shelkovaya

£39.99

This collection of papers by established and up-and-coming researchers covers topics from theoretical linguistics to psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in current issues in linguistics.

New Ideas in the Writing Arts

Edited By: Graeme Harper

£39.99

The growth of Creative Writing has generated new ways of thinking about the craft. This book presents fresh explorations that treat writing as a dynamic activity, not a static object, offering practical ways to develop your own work.

Culture and Dialogue

Volume 3, Issue Number 1 - March 2013

Edited By: Gerald Cipriani

£39.99

Culture and Dialogue explores dialogical practice within culture, be it philosophy, art, or politics. This Special Issue is devoted to the theme of “religion and dialogue,” bringing together a range of outstanding essays on the subject.

Freond ic gemete wið

Perspectives on Medieval Britain; Language, Literature, Society

Edited By: Helena Filipová, Michaela Hejná

£39.99

This book offers a mosaic of perspectives on medieval Britain. Its chapters present focused analyses of language, literature, and society from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late Middle Ages, offering new readings of texts and exploring language change.

Interwar Japan beyond the West

The Search for a New Subjectivity in World History

By: Oliviero Frattolilio

£39.99

To avoid the Western imperialist yoke, late nineteenth-century Japan embraced an imperial identity. This was justified by a philosophy that saw Japan’s hegemonic aspirations as a moral obligation: a duty to overcome modern civilization and promote a new culture.

Internal Structure of Verb Meaning

A Study of Verbs in Tamazight (Berber)

By: Karim Achab

£39.99

This study makes years of academic research on Tamazight (Berber) verbs accessible to a wide audience. It investigates the internal structure of verb meaning, revealing insights from a millennia-old language that has resisted oppression and is spoken by millions.

The Computer Culture Reader

Edited By: Joseph R. Chaney, Ken S. McAllister, Judd Ethan Ruggill

£39.99

Scholars probe how people and computers collaborate to create meaning. Through examinations of community, communication, work, and play, this volume delivers new insights about the robust and fragile relationships between computers and people.

Fields of Expertise

A Comparative History of Expert Procedures in Paris and London, 1600 to present

Edited By: Christelle Rabier

£39.99

Fields of Expertise explores the relationship between experts and power from a historical perspective. Using case studies from Paris and London since 1600, it challenges traditional views on expertise in risk management, medicine, and economic policy.

Sharing Concerns

Country Case Studies in Public-Private Partnerships

Edited By: Cristina Neesham, Marius Profiroiu, Julian Teicher

£39.99

This book draws together case analyses of public-private partnerships in Australia, France, Romania and Spain. The study illustrates that these partnerships are very adaptable and can take a variety of forms in different industries, regions or legal frameworks.

American Modernism

Cultural Transactions

Edited By: Catherine Morley

£39.99

This book explores American literary modernism as a by-product of cultural transactions between the United States and Europe. Eminent scholars re-examine the works of Wharton, Pound, and Eliot, viewing American literature in a broad international context.

The Grammatical Voice in Japanese

A Typological Perspective

By: Junichi Toyota

£39.99

This book's main argument is that the Japanese passive originates from an earlier middle voice. This reframes the voice system from a conventional active-passive binary pair to a newly proposed active-middle-passive ternary pair.

This book’s main argument is that the Japanese passive originates from an earlier middle voice. This reframes the voice system from a conventional active-passive binary pair to a newly proposed active-middle-passive ternary pair.

Computing and Philosophy in Asia

Edited By: Soraj Hongladarom

£39.99

This collection explores the relationship between computing and philosophy, from AI and ethics to how computers relate to human lives within specific cultures. It breaks new ground by highlighting the cultural dimensions of these issues, particularly in Asia.

Issues in Scottish Vowel Quantity

By: Stawomir Zdziebko

£39.99

Exploring Aitken’s Law, the unique Scottish Vowel Length Rule, this book argues that all vowel length distinctions are a consequence of universal, inviolable principles of grammar.

Lesser Civil Wars

Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War

By: Marsha R. Robinson

Edited By: Marsha R. Robinson

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This book explores the cycle where the Memory of war, kept alive by civilians, creates the Will to fight again. It examines these "lesser civil wars"—the battles over memory in the Ohio River Valley that incubate a nation’s will to fight.

This book explores the cycle where the Memory of war, kept alive by civilians, creates the Will to fight again. It examines these “lesser civil wars”—the battles over memory in the Ohio River Valley that incubate a nation’s will to fight.

Byron and Orientalism

Edited By: Peter Cochran

From £18.99

Byron is often thought of as the Romantic poet most familiar with the East. This book examines this thesis, looking at Byron’s knowledge of the East and its religions, his Turkish Tales, his influence on Pushkin, and his own disorientated existence.

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