Social Sciences

The Thick Bog of Metaphor and the New-wave Hermeneutic Defense of Psychoanalysis

A Critique

By: M. Andrew Holowchak

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Critics question the merit of psychotherapy without scientific verification. A common answer is that it's a hermeneutic discipline, not a science. Is that answer viable? This book maintains that today’s hermeneutical apologia is a dodge, not a defense.

Critics question the merit of psychotherapy without scientific verification. A common answer is that it’s a hermeneutic discipline, not a science. Is that answer viable? This book maintains that today’s hermeneutical apologia is a dodge, not a defense.

The Third Enlightenment (or Globalizing Meritocracies)

By: Sławomir Magala

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Political correctness cripples public debate, limits knowledge, and threatens democracy. This book shows how meritocracies have become contaminated by the propaganda of cultural wars. Why are media and teachers still following old instructions to control damage?

The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria

Essays in Honor of Ayodeji Olukoju

Edited By: Saheed Aderinto, Paul Osifodunrin

£54.99

This volume in honor of historian Ayodeji Olukoju ventures into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. It presents groundbreaking scholarship on underresearched topics like sexuality, youth, and crime, offering historical explanations for Nigeria’s challenges.

The Threat and Allure of the Magical

Selected Papers from the 17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley

Edited By: Ashwin Manthripragada, Emina Mušanović, Dagmar Theison

£39.99

This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.

The Threat of Geopolitics to International Relations

Obsession with the Heartland

By: William Mallinson, Zoran Ristic

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This text tears apart the simplistic thinking of geopolitics, proposing its replacement with the authors’ own method of ‘geohistory’. This new concept is based on recognising that at the base of any study and evaluation of the international situation lie human characteristics.

The Three Waves of Globalization

Winds of Change in Professional, Institutional and Academic Genres

Edited By: Franca Poppi

£49.99

This volume investigates how globalization changes communication genres. Combining a historical perspective with analysis of contemporary discourses, it asks: does this lead to homogenization into ‘global genres’ or the fragmentation and proliferation of new ones?

The Times, Life and Moral Dilemma of Beria

By: Andrew Sangster

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There are some figures in modern history who stand out not just for their amoral conduct but their cruelty. Sangster explores the life of the notorious Beria, Stalin’s henchman, offering historical context, biographical detail and philosophical analysis in the process.

The TOMS Effect

By: Elizabeth Ferszt

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TOMS shoes disrupted business with its one-for-one model: for every pair sold, another was given to a child in need. The TOMS Effect explores this phenomenon's influence on corporations and start-ups, and asks if its newest, riskier social campaigns can be sustained.

TOMS shoes disrupted business with its one-for-one model: for every pair sold, another was given to a child in need. The TOMS Effect explores this phenomenon’s influence on corporations and start-ups, and asks if its newest, riskier social campaigns can be sustained.

The Tradition of the Image of Edessa

By: Mark Guscin

£47.99

This monograph is a study of the literature, paintings, icons and other aspects related to the Image of Edessa, an image of Christ, which, according to tradition, was of miraculous origin, examining how it was used as a tool to express Christ’s humanity.

The Tragic Life Story of Medea as Mother, Monster, and Muse

By: Jana Rivers Norton

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This exploration of the Medea myth reveals how unresolved suffering turns to vengeance. Her tragic story became a touchstone for early twentieth-century female authors who used it to explore their own struggles with unrequited love, societal abandonment, and self-discovery.

The Tragic Transformed

Attic Drama on the Contemporary Stage

By: Burç İdem Dinçel

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This book provides a novel way of looking at Attic tragedies via three directors bearing the aesthetic imprint of Samuel Beckett: Theodoros Terzopoulos, Şahika Tekand and Tadashi Suzuki. Translation becomes a mode of physical action, using mimesis to reawaken tragic pathos.

The Trajectory of India’s Middle Class

Economy, Ethics and Etiquette

Edited By: Lancy Lobo, Jayesh Shah

£52.99

This volume examines the role of India's middle class not merely as an economic phenomenon, but as a key player in social and political change. It investigates the class's complex relationship with the state, the market, and marginalized groups.

This volume examines the role of India’s middle class not merely as an economic phenomenon, but as a key player in social and political change. It investigates the class’s complex relationship with the state, the market, and marginalized groups.

The Transformation of Social Work Education through Virtual Learning

Edited By: R. Paul Maiden

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This book tells the ‘USC story’: the challenges faced and pedagogical enhancements made in embracing new technology to teach social work online. It details how faculty converted traditional courses for a virtual program that grew to over 2,200 students.

The Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

Voices of Pure and Natural Scientists

Edited By: Annie Sylvie Beya Wakata, Siméon Fogue Kouam, Rosemary Tonjock Kinge, Télesphore Benoît Nguelefack, Aloysius Ngefac

From £36.99

How can pure and natural sciences help solve Africa's developmental crises? This book offers answers from scientists and development experts, providing new, context-specific paradigms to rewrite the continent's story and bring about its transformative development.

How can pure and natural sciences help solve Africa’s developmental crises? This book offers answers from scientists and development experts, providing new, context-specific paradigms to rewrite the continent’s story and bring about its transformative development.

The Translator, the Interpreter and the Dialogue of Languages in the Digital Age

Edited By: Adriana Neagu

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This volume offers a comprehensive, multilingual approach to the practice of translation and interpretation, shaped by global markets and advanced technologies. It provides a practice-oriented perspective on cross-cultural communication and is an accessible pedagogical resource.

The Traveling and Writing Self

Edited By: Marguerite Helmers, Tilar Mazzeo

From £14.99

These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.

The Treaty of Versailles and The Carthaginian Peace

Peacemaking and Mythmaking 1918-1919

By: Antony Lentin

£72.99

This book reconsiders the Treaty of Versailles against Keynes’ verdict of a ‘Carthaginian peace’. This powerful myth is contrasted with the reality of the Conference: a hard-won compromise. It highlights the mythology of Germany’s ‘destruction’ by a ‘Diktat’ of Versailles.

The Trials and Tribulations of Dudley Field Malone

By: Eric B. Easton

£67.99

Orator, lawyer, and actor, Dudley Field Malone defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and suffragist Alice Paul. But his life was also a tragedy of scandal and financial ruin, ending in bankruptcy with only a claim for $114 to his name. A fascinating, tragic figure.

The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives

In Memory of I.L. Peretz

Edited By: Alina Molisak, Shoshana Ronen

£64.99

Are the literary works of Polish Jews one unified literature in three languages, or is the literal corpus of each of these languages a separated literary phenomenon? Here, twenty-seven scholars explore different aspects of the multilingual literature of Eastern European Jews.

The Trinidad Dougla

Identity, Ethnicity and Lexical Choice

By: Ferne Louanne Regis

£47.99

Through detailed case studies, Regis investigates the search for personal identity of Trinidad’s Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, as they find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation.

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