Social Sciences – Page 415 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Imagining Blackness in Germany and Austria

Edited By: Sabrina K. Rahman, Michael Saman, Charlotte Szilagyi

£39.99

These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.

Rethinking the Vanguard

Aesthetic and Political Positions in the Modernist Debate, 1917-1962

By: John W. Maerhofer

£39.99

This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard's transformation and its relevance today.

Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse

A Sociolinguistic Perspective

By: Yves Talla Sando Ouafeu

£39.99

This phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English reveals how speakers make new information prominent and extensively use the falling tone. These findings challenge sociolinguistic theories from native English, which do not always apply in postcolonial settings.

Design and Cinema

Form Follows Film

Edited By: Ayhan Enşici, Belkıs Uluoğlu, Ali Vatansever

£39.99

Design and Cinema: Form Follows Film explores the patterns of experience created by the brotherhood of these disciplines. The book is organized in two parts: Discourse, a look at formal categories, and Works, which presents films and workshop examples.

The Home Entrepreneur Systems Model

A Grounded Theory of Home-based Business Needs and Practises

By: Ronald Pierce-Lyons

£39.99

This book chronicles a PhD student’s research into home-based businesses. Using Grounded Theory, it develops the Home Entrepreneur Systems model, a new way to understand how home business meets our needs for security, autonomy, balance, meaning and community.

Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism

Edited By: Gina Ponce de Leon

£39.99

Current Latin American post-feminist writers propose a transgressive new social order. This critical text explores how their narratives seek a dignified life for women by overcoming dominant social, political, and cultural structures.

Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq

Policies, Programs and International Perspectives

Edited By: Adenrele Awotona

£39.99

Current reconstruction in Iraq is failing because a top-down approach cannot succeed. This volume presents expert analysis from an international conference on rebuilding sustainable communities with lessons from across the globe for Iraq.

Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters

Studies on the Medieval Body in Honour of Margaret Bridges

Edited By: Nicole Nyffenegger, Katrin Rupp

£39.99

This book offers fresh insights into medieval bodies from multiple perspectives. Ten essays by renowned scholars explore diverse, interdisciplinary approaches, connecting medieval literature with history, theology, gender studies, and the arts.

Teaching Translation and Interpreting

Challenges and Practices

Edited By: Łukasz Bogucki

£39.99

This book offers an up-to-date overview of current trends in teaching translation. The innovative articles will appeal to students, lecturers, researchers and professionals alike, offering universal conclusions that are applicable worldwide.

Looking at the Broad Picture

Smarter Software Development for Irish Companies

Edited By: Martha H. Sanders

£39.99

This book is the story of how ten Irish software companies evolved their development processes over the last decade. It discusses specific change-processes, the benefits of each, and suggests developments for the future.

A Feminist Case Study in Transnational Migration

The Anne Jemima Clough Journals

Edited By: Mary Gallant

£39.99

Although unacknowledged, Anne Jemima Clough laboured fervently for women’s education. This volume compiles her unpublished papers, diaries, and correspondence, providing raw material for scholars studying the women's movement and Victorian feminism.

Innovative Technology and Globalization

Edited By: Chantal Ammi

£39.99

This book enhances the reader's knowledge of globalization's role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.

This book enhances the reader’s knowledge of globalization’s role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.

Edward Said and Jacques Derrida

Reconstellating Humanism and the Global Hybrid

Edited By: Mina Karavanta, Nina Morgan

£39.99

By placing Edward Said and Jacques Derrida in each other’s company, these essays by leading scholars reconstellate their work on humanism. This collection opens questions of ethics and politics to reconsider the human subject in the global moment.

Discourse Interpretation

Approaches and Applications

Edited By: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Renata Povolná

£39.99

This volume provides new insights into discourse interpretation across many genres. Combining theoretical insights with empirical investigations, it explores how meaning is a dynamic construct, constantly reinterpreted in light of social and situational contexts.

Confronting the International Patriarchy

Iran, Iraq and the United States of America

Edited By: Philippa Winkler

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While external states—often in the name of women’s liberation—restrict the participation of women in the Middle East, this book demonstrates their joint efforts to confront the international patriarchy with examples of resistance from Iran to the UN.

The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture

Edited By: Heiko Feldner, Claire Gorrara, Kevin Passmore

£39.99

These essays reveal the 1950s not as transitional years, but as an astonishingly fecund period of experimentation. This volume explores the decade's profound impact on post-war European identities, society, politics, and culture.

These essays reveal the 1950s not as transitional years, but as an astonishingly fecund period of experimentation. This volume explores the decade’s profound impact on post-war European identities, society, politics, and culture.

A Lucian for our Times

Edited By: Adam Bartley

£39.99

The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.

Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism

Edited By: Tatiani Rapatzikou

£39.99

This book tackles Hellenism as a global entity through a comparative study of English and American literary, cultural, and artistic trends from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It proves the enduring, intercontinental appeal of Hellenism.

Outsourcing and Service Work in the New Economy

The Case of Call Centres in Mexico City

By: José-Luis Álvarez-Galván

£39.99

This book examines outsourcing's impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City's call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how 'old economy' tactics persist in the 21st century.

This book examines outsourcing’s impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City’s call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how ‘old economy’ tactics persist in the 21st century.

Locality, Memory, Reconstruction

The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-Industry Communities

Edited By: Jopi Nyman, Risto Turunen

£39.99

This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.