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The Ballets of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£39.99

Though known as a master of opéra-comique, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber was crucial to the development of Romantic ballet. His grand operas featured long danced interludes, and his music later inspired ballets by choreographers like Frederick Ashton.

Society, Culture and Technology at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Edited By: Katarzyna Leszczyńska, Janusz Mucha

£39.99

This collection analyses research in the sciences, humanities, and high technology. The authors explore the contexts of scientific research, the links between information technology and everyday life, and the relations between innovation and business culture.

English in Southeast Asia

Varieties, Literacies and Literatures

Edited By: David Prescott

£39.99

This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: April van Camp, Claudia Slate

£39.99

This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida's first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.

This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida’s first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.

Revisiting Decadence

A Behavioral Interpretation of Fifteenth-Century Historical Narrative

By: Lia Ross

£39.99

An introduction to the fifteenth century through the chronicles and personal recollections of its writers. It examines how their pessimistic conclusions about the conduct of their contemporaries contributed to the era's reputation for decadence.

Cherchez la femme

Women and Values in the Francophone World

Edited By: Erika Fülöp

£39.99

Challenging centuries of male-defined values, these essays explore how women of the Francophone world created new aesthetic, cultural, and social standards, from antiquity to today.

Scent and Scent-sibilities

Smell and Everyday Life Experiences

By: Kelvin E. Y. Low

£39.99

Though often ignored, smells shape our social world. This pioneering book explores how smell constructs boundaries of race, class, and gender. It reveals how scents offer insights into social relations and power structures, using Singapore as a case study.

Speaking With Their Own Voices

The Stories of Slaves in the Persian Gulf in the 20th Century

By: Jerzy Zdanowski

£39.99

This unique study of slavery in the 20th-century Persian Gulf gives voice to the enslaved. Through their own statements asking for manumission, it presents hundreds of life stories, uncovering new aspects of everyday life in the Arabian Peninsula.

Photography and Literature in the Twentieth Century

Edited By: David Cunningham, Sas Mays, Andrew Fisher

From £14.99

This accessible collection offers a fresh approach to photography and literature. Essays by acknowledged experts consider both key literary figures, from Proust to Sebald, and photographic practitioners to give a commanding, ground-breaking overview of the subject.

The Worlds of Elias Canetti

Centenary Essays

Edited By: William Collins Donahue, Julian Preece

£39.99

The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.

Some Aspects of Moroccan Arabic Agrammatism

By: Samir Diouny

£39.99

This book examines agrammatism in Moroccan Arabic, challenging prominent syntactic theories. Based on new data, it argues that the deficit is not a loss of structural knowledge, but a processing issue where access to entirely intact grammar is blocked.

Films With Legs

Crossing Borders with Foreign Language Films

Edited By: Véronique Maisier, Rosemary A. Peters

£39.99

This book explores how international cinema both erects and tears down borders. It examines how borders are constructed on screen—not just in fences and walls, but also in dialogue, dialect, and even silence.

Mining the Meaning

Cultural Representations of the 1984-5 UK Miners’ Strike

By: Katy Shaw

£39.99

This innovative study provides a critical introduction to cultural representations of the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Analysing writings, music, and film from strikers and artists, it explores the battle to ‘author’ the conflict and challenges our understanding of this period.

Running with the Fairies

Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion

By: Dennis Gaffin

From £24.99

In the first scholarly account of the Fairy Faith in over a hundred years, a PhD anthropologist interviews educated people in Ireland who have had direct spiritual experiences with fairies, recognizing the reality of nature spirit beings in a Western context.

Turning Points and Transformations

Essays on Language, Literature and Culture

Edited By: Christine DeVine

£39.99

Turning points and transformations are central to literature, culture, and life. But why are they transformational, and what brings them about? The essays in this volume examine these questions, exploring personal and cultural shifts and how we cope with them.

Social Development and Family Changes

Edited By: Cristina Gomes

£39.99

This book analyzes family diversity across cultures and generations. It reveals the complex connections between individual lives and major social, economic, and demographic shifts, deconstructing myths and exploring changes in gender and generational roles.

Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Martyn Barrett, Chris Flood

£39.99

Global migration has challenged old certainties about nationalism, ethnicity, and citizenship. This book examines these issues from multiple perspectives, revealing that nationalism remains a dominant ideology and highlighting education's crucial role.

But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body

Blake’s Revelation Unlocked

By: Eliza Borkowska

£39.99

This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.

Beyond the World of Titans, and the Remaking of World Order

A Preface to a New Logic of Empire Building

By: Peter Baofu

£39.99

Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. dominance is ending. The world is evolving towards a 'post-post-Cold War era'—a world of titans and new empires remaking world order. This shift reveals the future emergence of a 'union of the unions' on earth and in space.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. dominance is ending. The world is evolving towards a ‘post-post-Cold War era’—a world of titans and new empires remaking world order. This shift reveals the future emergence of a ‘union of the unions’ on earth and in space.

De-Canonizing Music History

Edited By: Vesa Kurkela

£39.99

This book is about musical canons and de-canonizing music history. Its main goal is to deconstruct these canons: to analyze and problematize them in their variety through artistic encounters where art meets popular, ethnic meets education, and avantgarde meets mainstream.