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Imagology Profiles

The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature

Edited By: Laura Laurušaitė

£61.99

This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like "geo-imagology" and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.

This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like “geo-imagology” and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.

Analyzing Foreign Policy Crises in Turkey

Conceptual, Theoretical and Practical Discussions

Edited By: Fuat Aksu, Helin Sari Ertem

£61.99

This collection examines foreign policy crises and the way the states and leaders deal with them. It sheds light on how the reactions of the Turkish ruling elite change while trying to manage crises, such as that of Cyprus and the Aegean Sea.

Witchcraft Accusations and Persecutions as a Mechanism for the Marginalisation of Women

By: Samantha Spence

£61.99

Drawing on feminist commentary, this book examines the re-emergence of witchcraft beliefs. It argues that accusations are used to marginalize women, leading to pervasive violence, and assesses the effectiveness of human rights law in protecting them.

Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook 2017

By: Gordon Burt

£61.99

World events in 2017 showed the fundamental features of social systems. The structure of power is changing, with the prominent roles played by Trump, Putin and Xi. As such, this text explores peace and conflict, politics, international relations, and social sciences.

Senses, Affects and Archaeology

Changing the Heart, the Mind and the Pants

By: José Roberto Pellini

£61.99

Senses and affects are not just physiological tools, but practices that constantly update our position in the world. Understanding how we are educated within these practices is the first step towards decolonizing our worldview and freeing our senses.

Mapping Migration

Culture and Identity in the Indian Diasporas of Southeast Asia and the UK

Edited By: Jerri Daboo, Jirayudh Sinthuphan

£61.99

This anthology considers culture and identity in Indian diaspora communities in Southeast Asia and the UK. It shows how cultural practices, including the use of performance, food, and religion, demonstrate how traditions are preserved, as well as adapted, in new contexts.

Broadening Critical Boundaries in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

Edited By: Amie A. Doughty

£61.99

The contributions here explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture, and include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf, the role of public youth librarians, and the use of popular video games in the secondary classroom.

Male Bodies and Sexual Difference

A Proposal for a Feminist Corporeo-ethics

By: Ovidiu Anemtoaicei

£61.99

Anemtoaicei addresses themes concerning male bodies, men and masculinities from an explicitly feminist philosophical position, drawing from various fields, including phenomenology, gender theory, sociology of the body and continental philosophy, among others.

Dialogues on the Delta

Approaches to the City of Stockton

Edited By: Martín Camps

£61.99

This interdisciplinary collection examines Stockton, California. Once ground zero for the housing crisis and the first major American city to declare bankruptcy, it cannot be framed by misfortune alone. Discover a vibrant community with a rich, diverse, and vital history.

A Handout on Medical English for Health Professionals

By: Goretti Faya Ornia

£61.99

This guide to medical English is for healthcare professionals and students. It covers essential grammar, medical vocabulary, and phonetics to improve your listening and speaking skills. Ideal for self-study or as a handout for specialized courses.

Arthur Miller’s Century

Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of America’s Great Playwright

Edited By: Stephen Marino

£61.99

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century's major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century’s major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

Blind People’s Pragmatic Abilities

By: Jolanta Sak-Wernicka

£61.99

Sak-Wernicka explores the impact of visual impairment on the interpretation of utterances. She identifies common ground between the pragmatic analysis of comprehension and visual impairment, and shows how the study of pragmatics is enriched by the study of visual impairment.

Centenary of the Russian Revolution (1917-2017)

Edited By: Andreu Mayayo i Artal, Antoni Segura i Mas

£61.99

This collection provides an historical, plural and original analysis of the Russian Revolution to mark its first centenary. It focuses on both regional aspects and major events and phenomena, including the importance of World War I and the birth of the Communist International.

Late-Victorian Heroic Lives in the Writings of Frank Mundell

By: Moniez Baptiste

£61.99

Baptiste explores the work of Frank Mundell, a late-Victorian author for the Sunday School Union. Mundell focused on heroism and represented various kinds of heroic deeds and figures, regardless of gender, in his books, and wrote for both educative and entertaining purposes.

Forgotten British Film

Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema

By: Philip Gillett

£61.99

Gillett exhumes some of the films released in Britain over the last 70 years, including Daybreak (1948), and he probes the reasons for their neglect. He considers the contributions of those involved in the films and examines such issues as the response of critics and audiences.

Making Sense of Popular Culture

Edited By: Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo, Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martin-Albo

£61.99

As popular culture has now become closely intertwined with current debates within cultural studies, this volume focuses on a variety of issues ranging from the ideological construction of identities in print media to narratives of the postmodern condition in film and fiction.

The Persecution of Professors in the New Turkey

Expulsion of Excellence – A Facebook Book

By: Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.

£61.99

This book tells the story of an American academic, Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., living and working in the AKP heartland of Turkey. It recounts the events surrounding his wrongful arrest for “aiding and abetting a terrorist organization”, employing a media studies approach.

Sustainability in Tourism and Regional Development

Edited By: Boštjan Brumen, Mitja Gorenak, Marjetka Rangus

£61.99

This book provides a rigorous examination of sustainable tourism, with particular attention paid to Slovenia. It offers a unique and balanced view of both theoretical issues and practical cases, making it valuable for students, researchers and professionals.

The Ways of Fiction

New Essays on the Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Nicholas J. Crowe

£61.99

The essays gathered here capture fresh perspectives on the literary environments of the eighteenth century, and are specifically concerned with how culture shapes literature and is in turn influenced by it.

Are There Limits to Science?

Edited By: Gillian Straine

£61.99

This compilation is the result of the 2016 conference of the UK’s Science and Religion Forum which brings together leading scientific and theological thinkers to reflect together on key issues in these two fields.