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Idiom Treatment Experiments in Machine Translation

By: Dimitra Anastasiou

£39.99

Idiomatic expressions challenge Machine Translation (MT), as they cannot be translated literally. This book shows how MT systems can correctly process and translate idioms using simple linguistic resources, providing a practical foundation with plenty of examples.

Feminisms is Still Our Name

Seven Essays on Historiography and Curatorial Practices

Edited By: Malin Hedley Hayden, Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe

£39.99

This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.

Women Patrons and Collectors

Edited By: Andrea M. Gáldy

£39.99

Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.

Learning Abroad

A History of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan

By: Hilary Perraton

£39.99

Since 1959, Commonwealth scholarships have moved 25,000 people across borders, launching them into influence. This book tells the story of the plan, asking who was selected and why, and assesses the long-term impact to answer a key question: was it good value?

Divided Eastern Europe

Borders and Population Transfer, 1938-1947

Edited By: Aleksandr Dyukov, Olesya Orlenko

£39.99

In 1938, new borders divided Eastern Europe, creating the foundation for conflict. This collection of articles by international researchers explores national border changes from 1938 to 1947: population transfers, interethnic purges, and their modern legacy.

Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Translation and Gender Studies

Edited By: Vanessa Leonardi

£39.99

This volume analyses how Feminist Translation Studies challenges patriarchal language worldwide. Scholars bridge the gap between theory and practice to explore the crucial relationship between gender, culture, identity, and translation.

Governing Diversities

Democracy, Diversity and Human Nature

Edited By: Joanne Paul

£39.99

How should we govern diverse populations? This volume addresses this core political question by engaging with the history of ideas on democracy and diversity, from ancient Greece to modern-day Mexico, with contributions from innovative and leading scholars.

Global Norms in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Klaus-Gerd Giesen, Kees van der Pijl

£39.99

Global norms are no longer established by states alone, but by new actors like the private sector and NGOs. This collection of critical studies challenges convenient theories to explore the practical, theoretical and ethical implications of this new world.

The Philosophical Basis of Inter-religious Dialogue

The Process Perspective

Edited By: Mirosław Patalon

£39.99

In an age of global tension, can religions remain isolated islands? What is the true role of inter-religious dialogue? This selection of articles uses process philosophy to explore different points of view on these essential questions.

Researching the Self

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Willem E. Frankenhuis, Ellen Grünewald

£39.99

Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and computer science unite to explore the self. What are its neural correlates? Can individuals have multiple selves? How do selves depend on others? Will engineers ever construct artificial selves?

Applied Ethnomusicology

Historical and Contemporary Approaches

Edited By: Klisala Harrison, Elizabeth Mackinlay, Svanibor Pettan

£39.99

Applied ethnomusicology is an approach guided by social responsibility toward solving concrete problems. This volume brings together diverse perspectives on its potential in contributing to sustainable music cultures and the use of music in conflict resolution.

Civil Strife in a Complex and Changing World

Perspectives Far and Near

Edited By: Gena Howard, Nancy Riecken, Linda Urschel

£39.99

This collection offers perspectives on social conflict, past and present, with a view toward building connections. From Renaissance preachers to soldiers in Afghanistan, these papers explore issues that at some times separate us and at other times bring us together.

Sudan’s Wars and Peace Agreements

Edited By: Stephanie Beswick, Jay Spaulding

£39.99

Leading experts on Sudan analyze its chronic history of conflict since 1956 and the international efforts for peace. As the nation faces the separation of South Sudan, these essays offer compelling lessons from six decades of war. Must reading for what unfolds.

War, Human Dignity and Nation Building

Theological Perspectives on Canada’s Role in Afghanistan

Edited By: Gary D. Badcock

£39.99

Canada’s longest conflict, the Afghan Mission, is a watershed moment with immense costs, yet it remains little scrutinized by faith communities. This volume is the first to bring together theologians, politicians, and academics to dialogue on its impact.

Hearing Places

Sound, Place, Time and Culture

Edited By: Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy, Dolly MacKinnon

From £19.99

How do we hear and respond to place? 37 international artists and scholars explore this question, interrogating place as an acoustic space where sound, time, and culture collide. This book provokes us all to pay attention to how we hear the world.

Translating Identity and the Identity of Translation

Edited By: Madelena Gonzalez, Francine Tolron

£39.99

This volume uses translation to explore identity in cultural, artistic and literary production. It examines how identity is “translated” for global markets and asks if it's possible to transcend cultural barriers in an era of homogenization.

This volume uses translation to explore identity in cultural, artistic and literary production. It examines how identity is “translated” for global markets and asks if it’s possible to transcend cultural barriers in an era of homogenization.

“And that’s true too”

New Essays on King Lear

Edited By: Pierre Iselin, François Laroque

£39.99

Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare's elusive and powerful tragedy.

Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness

Interrogating Influential Representations

Edited By: Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

£39.99

This thought-provoking anthology explores provocative representations of deviance in various media—from films to internet sites—and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles.

Portable Roots

Transplanting the Bicultural Child

By: Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner

£39.99

This book challenges the traditional understanding of human development by focusing on identity formation in bicultural children. Drawing on a three-decade study, it explores themes of “rootlessness” and asks how transplanted roots can thrive.

Victorian Traffic

Identity, Exchange, Performance

Edited By: Sue Thomas

£39.99

This collection explores "traffic"—a key concept for the Victorian era's imperial expansion. With a global range, these essays address the two-way, cross-cultural exchange of ideas, images, and identity, revealing it as relational and always in motion.

This collection explores “traffic”—a key concept for the Victorian era’s imperial expansion. With a global range, these essays address the two-way, cross-cultural exchange of ideas, images, and identity, revealing it as relational and always in motion.