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Back to the Future of the Body

Edited By: Dominic Janes

£39.99

What can past experiences of the body tell us about what it can become? As cyborgs and patented genes put the future of the human body at stake, this volume develops strategies for bodily empowerment to get “back to the future of the body”.

All Graceful Instruments

The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon

Edited By: Nicholas Meriwether

£39.99

This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band's success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.

This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band’s success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.

Legilimens!

Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies

Edited By: Christopher E. Bell

£39.99

Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.

Language and Humour in the Media

Edited By: Jan Chovanec, Isabel Ermida

£39.99

This volume provides new insights into the interface of humour and media discourse. It analyzes the roles humour plays and the butts it targets across cultures, covering everything from wordplay in sitcoms to news satire in online media.

The Effect of Interactivity in e-Learning Systems

By: Chris Evans, Luis Palacios

£39.99

Does interactivity enhance e-Learning? While often claimed, little scientific evidence exists. This book provides proof, presenting three empirical studies on the impact of interactive feedback on learners, teachers, and the environment.

Islam in its International Context

Comparative Perspectives

Edited By: Chris Flood, Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich

£39.99

Changing attitudes to Islam influence political cultures and national identities. This volume offers in-depth, multi-nation perspectives from Europe, the USA and the Middle East, addressing issues from Muslim radicalism to Islamophobia and Islamic art.

Labour Markets at a Crossroads

Causes of Change, Challenges and Need to Reform

Edited By: Henrik Lindberg

£39.99

Stagnant European labour markets are failing to create jobs and growth. This volume uncovers the "corporative cartels" at the heart of the problem and presents clear policy options for vital reform.

Stagnant European labour markets are failing to create jobs and growth. This volume uncovers the “corporative cartels” at the heart of the problem and presents clear policy options for vital reform.

Poland’s Angry Romantic

Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz Słowacki

Edited By: Peter Cochran, Bill Johnston, Mirosława Modrzewska

From £19.99

Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but little known in the West. This much-needed introduction contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski.

Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I

The Years of Fame 1836-1863

By: Barbara Kendall-Davies

£39.99

A superb singer and composer, Pauline Viardot Garcia was a 19th-century muse to Brahms and Meyerbeer. Loved by Turgenev for forty years, she was a musical genius. This first comprehensive biography in English reveals the life of this forgotten powerhouse.

Anthony Burgess

Music in Literature and Literature in Music

Edited By: Marc Jeannin

£39.99

This book offers a new insight into the relationship between literature and music through the works of Anthony Burgess. International scholars explore the musicality of literature and the literary aspects of music, referencing artists from Mozart to Joyce.

What’s in a Text? Inquiries into the Textual Cornucopia

Edited By: Adam Głaz, Hubert Kowalewski, Anna Weremczuk

£39.99

Linguists and translators address fundamental questions about text: What is it? Why do we study it? What are we looking for? This volume helps the reader appreciate the richness of text as a treasure-trove for scholars with various approaches to language.

Remembering Television

Histories, Technologies, Memories

Edited By: Kate Darian-Smith, Sue Turnbull

£39.99

This path-breaking book explores television's social and cultural impacts, asking how its programming has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Leading scholars examine the intricate connections between history, memory, and television in today’s world.

This path-breaking book explores television’s social and cultural impacts, asking how its programming has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Leading scholars examine the intricate connections between history, memory, and television in today’s world.

The Gothic Byron

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£39.99

The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

The Future is Now

A New Look at African Diaspora Studies

Edited By: Vanessa K. Valdés

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This collection of essays from new voices in African Diaspora Studies explores art, literature, film, and music across the Americas and Europe. Scholars interrogate themes of memory, power, and identity to uncover forgotten episodes of history.

Mary Shelley

Her Circle and Her Contemporaries

Edited By: L. Adam Meckler, Lucy Morrison

£39.99

This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.

The Meaning of Sexual Identity in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Judith S. Kaufman

£39.99

In a "post-gay era," is sexual identity becoming obsolete? Are LGBT youth being duped into conformity? This volume offers compelling debates from a wide variety of perspectives on the current state and possible irrelevance of sexual identity in the 21st century.

In a “post-gay era,” is sexual identity becoming obsolete? Are LGBT youth being duped into conformity? This volume offers compelling debates from a wide variety of perspectives on the current state and possible irrelevance of sexual identity in the 21st century.

Talk in Institutions

A LANSI Volume

Edited By: Catherine Box, Christine M. Jacknick, Hansun Zhang Waring

£39.99

This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.

Development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India

Edited By: Jagan Karade

£39.99

Reputed scholars offer a critical analysis of strategies for the development of SCs and STs in India. This well-researched volume is an invaluable tool for planners and policymakers seeking to evolve viable strategies for the coming years.

Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir

Tracking Emerging Expressions of Egyptian Identity

Edited By: Amanda Fields, Emily Golson, Loubna Youssef

£39.99

The 2011 revolution complicated questions about Egyptian identity. This volume focuses on written and oral expression, viewed through the lenses of rhetoric and communication, to understand how the demand for change altered Egyptians’ perceptions of themselves.

Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity and Values in Edmund Husserl

Edited By: Susi Ferrarello

£39.99

This analysis of values within Husserlian phenomenology describes our experience of intersubjective values and explores ethics as a practical matter, offering a third phenomenological way beyond the common positivistic and deontological dichotomy.