Social Sciences

The Safe Operating Space Treaty

A New Approach to Managing Our Use of the Earth System

Edited By: Klaus Bosselmann, Paulo Magalhães, Will Steffen

£52.99

Traditional law, based on borders, is ecological nonsense. This book redefines our Common Home not as a place, but as a fragile state of the Earth System, arguing for its legal recognition as a Common Natural Heritage for all humankind.

The Scholar’s Thomas Jefferson

Vital Writings of a Vital American

By: M. Andrew Holowchak

From £33.99

While most compilations focus on Jefferson the politician, this unique book remedies that shortcoming. It is a collection of Jefferson’s writings for those interested in the breadth and depth of his amazing mind, with sections on politics, morality, religion, and education.

The School at the Frontiers of Modernity

Edited By: Maria Manuel Vieira, José Resende

From £16.99

This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling's contribution to its construction.

This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling’s contribution to its construction.

The Science and Practice of Rugby Training

Edited By: Michael Hamlin

From £40.99

This book links the science behind training and recovery with practical, easy-to-understand examples. It outlines simple tools and techniques to improve rugby player performance, making it an invaluable resource for coaches, players, and sports science professionals.

The Scientific Guide to Piano Playing

By: Steve Roberson

£78.99

Too much of piano playing is undermined by half-truths, causing an epidemic of injuries and artistic frustration. The antidote is a focus on the science of body and mind. Written by a pianist for pianists, this book uses biomechanics and neuroscience to transform all we do.

The Scientification of China

By: Zhaohao Sun, Paul P. Wang

From £32.99

This book provides a novel, strategic solution for China's future, investigating the scientification of its words, language, and culture. This ‘scientific Chinese trinity’ will create a scientific China and facilitate the development of the digital economy.

This book provides a novel, strategic solution for China’s future, investigating the scientification of its words, language, and culture. This ‘scientific Chinese trinity’ will create a scientific China and facilitate the development of the digital economy.

The Scourges of the South? Essays on “The Sickly South” in History, Literature, and Popular Culture

Edited By: Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Beata Zawadka

£41.99

Eleven scholars challenge the popular vision of the American South as an ill region. They interpret its “sickly” culture not as a problem, but as an opportunity and a springboard to cultural revitalization and a new kind of “health”.

The Sea in the Literary Imagination

Global Perspectives

Edited By: Ekaterina V. Kobeleva, Ben P. Robertson, Shannon W. Thompson

From £32.99

This collection explores nautical themes in literature from multiple cultures. Spanning a millennium, it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea, offering unique insights for scholars while intriguing general readers with the interconnectedness it reveals.

The Search for Wholeness and Diaspora Literacy in Contemporary African American Literature

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego

£39.99

This volume explores the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings of contemporary African American women. Across fiction, drama, and poetry, this search is analyzed as a source of creativity and agency, healing spirit and body by reconciling past and present.

The Secret History of the Soul

Physiology, Magic and Spirit Forces from Homer to St Paul

By: Richard Sugg

£49.99

What if the soul wasn't an abstract entity but a physical force? This book examines forgotten models from the ancient world where spirit was a potent, transferable energy that blurred the line between body and soul and was used to effect magical cures.

What if the soul wasn’t an abstract entity but a physical force? This book examines forgotten models from the ancient world where spirit was a potent, transferable energy that blurred the line between body and soul and was used to effect magical cures.

The Secret Keepers

Narratives Exploring the Inter and Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Violence

By: Susan Dale

£39.99

Secrecy around childhood abuse creates a traumatic legacy passed through generations. This book demonstrates the use of narrative as a therapeutic process, finding creative ways for people to break the silence and live beyond being defined by abuse and violence.

The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell

Poet and Essayist

Edited By: Damian Atkinson

£54.99

Catholic convert Alice Meynell was a sophisticated essayist and poet of the late Victorian era. With her husband, she was central to the literary world, editing journals and famously publishing Francis Thompson’s “The Hound of Heaven.”

The Selected Letters of Charles Whibley

Scholar and Critic

Edited By: Damian Atkinson

£67.99

Scholar Charles Whibley straddled the Victorian age and the modern world. After his journalistic grounding with W.E. Henley, he moved in Parisian circles with Mallarmé and later befriended T.S. Eliot, who called his column “Musings without Method” a masterpiece of journalism.

The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan

Poet and Novelist

Edited By: Damian Atkinson

£73.99

Poet, novelist, and fighter for justice, Katharine Tynan (1859–1931) wrote through the turbulent times of Irish politics, the Great War, and civil war. An early friend of W. B. Yeats, her autobiographies and letters provide valuable insight into her extraordinary life.

The Self and the Sonnet

By: Rajan Barrett

£49.99

This interdisciplinary study explores the 800-year-old sonnet and its relationship to the self. It asks why the form persists across diverse cultures by looking at the self from the limit points of the body, mind, world and language.

The Self as Other in Minority American Life Writing

Edited By: Nelly Mok, Claudine Raynaud

From £30.99

Rimbaud’s provocative dictum that “I is an other” is reflected in this anthology, which discusses a wide-ranging array of twentieth-century and contemporary minority American modes of life writing with regards to identity, relationality, agency, and ethno-racial issues.

The Self-emptying God

An Undercurrent in Christian Theology Helping the Relationship with Science

By: Peter J. Colyer

£44.99

This book examines the concept of Christ's self-emptying (kenosis) and how this understanding extends to God. It explores the history of this persistent theme and its value for reconciling Christian faith with scientific approaches.

This book examines the concept of Christ’s self-emptying (kenosis) and how this understanding extends to God. It explores the history of this persistent theme and its value for reconciling Christian faith with scientific approaches.

The Semantics of Determiners

Domain Restriction in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

By: Carrie Gillon

£44.99

This book investigates determiners in Skwxwú7mesh Salish, which lack a definite/indefinite distinction. Instead, Skwxwú7mesh determiners are split along deictic lines. A universal correlation between the syntax and semantics of determiners is proposed.

The Semitic Heritage of Northwest Syria

By: Anas Abou-Ismail

£79.99

Journey through 6,000 years of Northwest Syria's linguistic evolution. This book analyzes key languages from Eblaite and Amorite to Aramaic and Arabic, diving deep into their various dialects. A valuable resource for linguists, historians, and Semitic studies enthusiasts.

Journey through 6,000 years of Northwest Syria’s linguistic evolution. This book analyzes key languages from Eblaite and Amorite to Aramaic and Arabic, diving deep into their various dialects. A valuable resource for linguists, historians, and Semitic studies enthusiasts.

The Serendipitous Evolution of the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917

By: Paul Goldstein, Eyal Lewin

From £33.99

Discover the intricate geopolitics behind the Balfour Declaration. This book reveals how the interests of WWI powers intersected with the Jewish people's march towards sovereignty, demonstrating how a precise alignment of forces altered the course of history.

Discover the intricate geopolitics behind the Balfour Declaration. This book reveals how the interests of WWI powers intersected with the Jewish people’s march towards sovereignty, demonstrating how a precise alignment of forces altered the course of history.

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