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Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds

Edited By: Tracey Bowen, Mary-Lou Nemanic

£39.99

This collection of essays explores how visual and Internet culture interact, examining how we use virtual imaginings to construct who we are. It treats Internet images as contested sites of cultural activity and transformation, raising questions for future scholarship.

The Future of Post-Human Formal Science

A Preface to a New Theory of Abstraction and Application

By: Peter Baofu

£49.99

The addiction to formal science has impoverished our knowledge and well-being. This book provides a better way to understand its nature, offering a new theory to transcend existing approaches and alter the way we think about the human future.

Perspectives on Power

An Inter-Disciplinary Approach

Edited By: Jernej Letnar Černič, Lindsay Milligan, Heather M. Morgan

£49.99

In this interdisciplinary collection, postgraduate researchers boldly explore power relations. Twenty-one articles spanning the arts and social sciences—from human rights to literature—reveal the many similarities that exist between these distinct disciplines.

Engaging Imagination and Developing Creativity in Education

Edited By: Krystina Madej

£39.99

Imagination is the source of creativity. This collection of essays from authors around the world offers new, practical ideas for infusing classrooms with imaginative activities. Explore theories of creativity and their application to curriculum and social issues.

Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume I

Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies

Edited By: Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka

£54.99

This collection of essays critically examines linguistic action and how we “do things with words”. Representing different pragmatic approaches, the texts include theoretical discussions, case studies, reports on experimental pragmatics, and corpus studies.

Alexander the Great

By: Krzysztof Nawotka

£49.99

This comprehensive biography presents Alexander’s story based on ancient sources, including non-Western evidence. It reveals the Oriental perspective on his epic conquests and offers a balanced portrait, avoiding both idealization and deconstruction.

Commodore Squib

The Life, Times and Secretive Wars of England’s First Rocket Man, Sir William Congreve, 1772-1828

By: James Earle

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When England faced Napoleonic France, Sir William Congreve championed secret weapons, notably gunpowder rockets. His was a world of experimental warfare and espionage. Acclaimed and derided, his overlooked influence is commemorated in the American National Anthem.

PostGender

Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture

Edited By: Ayelet Zohar

£44.99

A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.

Shapes of Openness

Bakhtin, Lawrence, Laughter

By: Matthew Leone

£34.99

This study explores the remarkable affinities between Bakhtin and Lawrence. It uses Bakhtinian theory to challenge damaging biases about Lawrence, finding the shape of his novel Women in Love to be interrogative, where characters are questions personified.

I More than Others

Responses to Evil and Suffering

Edited By: Eric R. Severson

£39.99

How responsible are we for the world's suffering? Inspired by Dostoyevsky, philosophers and theologians confront the nature of evil, our shared guilt, and the difficult struggle for hope.

How responsible are we for the world’s suffering? Inspired by Dostoyevsky, philosophers and theologians confront the nature of evil, our shared guilt, and the difficult struggle for hope.

Love, Sorrow and Joy

A New Voice in Irish Avant-Garde Poetry

By: Graham Gillespie

£39.99

The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.

Ethical Contexts and Theoretical Issues

Essays in Ethical Thinking

By: Santiago Sia

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This book makes a philosophical contribution to current ethical debates. It moves beyond traditional approaches to present an alternative foundation for decision-making: a philosophically grounded, relational perspective that replaces an individualistic one.

Sacred Geography of Goddesses in South Asia

Essays in Memory of David Kinsley

Edited By: Rana Singh

£49.99

A tribute to David Kinsley, this interdisciplinary anthology explores the sacred geography of goddesses. Essays from scholars of religious studies, geography, and anthropology link ecology and shamanism with landscape as temple and territory as cosmos.

Mobilising against Marginalisation in Europe

Edited By: Didier Chabanet, Frédéric Royall

£39.99

This book examines the collective action of marginalised people in Western Europe. It analyses how they organise to overcome obstacles, act collectively, and intervene in public space, exploring their political significance amid new forms of inequality.

Teaching the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Mary Ann Rooks

£34.99

This collection offers innovative strategies and practical advice for teaching eighteenth-century texts. Authors share a wealth of experience and best practices for engaging students with Western and non-Western literature from this important period.

Imagining ‘the Turk’

Edited By: Božidar Jezernik

£39.99

The image of ‘the Turk’ was historically the negative of the European self-image. Assuming the role of the ‘defining other,’ this concept was a constitutive element of European cultural identity. This book explores this past to better understand it.

Literature, Writing, and the Natural World

Edited By: James Guignard, T. P. Murphy

£39.99

This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.

Byron and Bob

Lord Byron’s Relationship with Robert Southey

By: Peter Cochran

£39.99

Byron's most important literary relationship was with Robert Southey, whom he hated and to whom he "dedicated" his masterpiece, *Don Juan*. This book argues Byron's literary distaste became a projected self-distrust, a dislike for his own flaws.

Byron’s most important literary relationship was with Robert Southey, whom he hated and to whom he “dedicated” his masterpiece, *Don Juan*. This book argues Byron’s literary distaste became a projected self-distrust, a dislike for his own flaws.

Exile and the Narrative/Poetic Imagination

Edited By: Agnieszka Gutthy

£39.99

This collection of essays examines poetic and narrative responses to exile. It features works from rarely studied parts of the world, including Armenia, Egypt, and Tibet, exploring feelings of loss, memories of trauma, and the search for identity.

Building Asian Families and Communities in the 21st Century

Selected Proceeds of the 2nd Asian Psychological Association Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June, 2008

By: Jas Laile Suzana Binti Jaafar, Sherri McCarthy

£74.99

Psychology is growing more rapidly in Asia than in any other part of the world. This book presents current research showing how the discipline adapts to the philosophies and history of the region, blending Western science with Eastern practices.