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Rule of Law through Human Rights and International Criminal Justice

Essays in Honour of Adama Dieng

Edited By: Charles Riziki Majinge

£62.99

As a jurist, diplomat, and activist, Adama Dieng has inspired a generation with his commitment to human rights and the rule of law, especially in Africa. In this collection of essays, friends and colleagues honour his life's work for a better Africa and a better world.

Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa

Edited By: Joyce T. Mathangwane, Akin Odebunmi

£62.99

Unpacking discourses in African law, media, and art, these authoritative essays reveal how language shapes the continent's unique cultural values and complex social realities.

Unpacking discourses in African law, media, and art, these authoritative essays reveal how language shapes the continent’s unique cultural values and complex social realities.

Vistas of English for Specific Purposes

Edited By: Nadežda Stojković

£62.99

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a necessary skill for career advancement. This comprehensive volume brings together insightful papers from an international conference, offering rich insights into innovative teaching practices and worthwhile research.

The Agony of France

By: Andrew Sangster

£62.99

Adopting a sympathetic attitude towards the French plight during German occupation in the 1940s, Sangster examines the nature of de Gaulle’s myth-building, demonstrating that historical mythology is part of every country’s history when seeking its own redemption from the past.

Conservation Issues in Modern and Contemporary Murals

Edited By: Tom Learner, Mercedes Sanchez-Pons, Will Shank

£62.99

This volume is a forum for conservators, scientists, artists, and heritage managers on the complex task of preserving our changing heritage. It unites theoretical reflections, scientific studies, and the vital experiences of all partners involved.

Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume One

Proceedings of the Sixth AESOP Conference on Sustainable Food Planning

Edited By: Rob Roggema

£62.99

This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.

How Global Migration Changes the Workforce Diversity Equation

Edited By: Anthony Forsyth, Hina Sheikh, Francesca Sperotti

£62.99

This volume explores how a dialogue between diversity and migration research can deepen understanding. It highlights challenges in host societies, from exclusion to anti-migrant attitudes, and points toward solutions through diversity management and legal reform.

Input a Word, Analyze the World

Selected Approaches to Corpus Linguistics

Edited By: Francisco Alonso Almeida, Ivalla Ortega Barrera, Elena Quintana Toledo

£62.99

Comprising contributions by scholars from across the globe, this collection represents current perspectives on Corpus Linguistics from a variety of linguistic subdisciplines. It will be of particular interest to language specialists.

Business Performance Measurement and Management

Edited By: Vincent Charles, Mukesh Kumar

£62.99

This book introduces new contexts and emerging research in business performance measurement and management. It presents a variety of perspectives from global authors across accounting, finance, marketing, and operations management in a single volume.

Shakespeare’s Verbal Art

By: William Bellamy

£62.99

William Bellamy examines the newly re-discovered anagrams that lie hidden in all Shakespearean texts, and explains the essential role played by these concealed figures in Classical and Renaissance poetry, using a range of examples, including Othello, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night.

Jean Delville

Art between Nature and the Absolute

By: Brendan Cole

£62.99

This is the first full-length study of Jean Delville, a leader of Idealist Art. Like Kandinsky and Mondrian, his paintings and writings drew on esoteric philosophy to connect the physical world with a higher, spiritual reality.

Current Research in African Linguistics

Papers in Honor of Ọladele Awobuluyi

Edited By: Oluseye Adesola, Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie, Lendzemo Constantine Yuka

£62.99

Honoring Ọladele Awobuluyi, international scholars present new research in African linguistics. This important contribution presents data and linguistic analysis from many African languages, covering topics from phonology and morphology to syntax and semantics.

Relativity in Human Judgment

By: Donald Laming

£62.99

In a series of judgments, an error in one is passed to the next because each judgment acts as a reference point for its successor. This book explores this phenomenon, known as 'absolute identification,' and the biases that result. A key text for psychologists studying judgment.

In a series of judgments, an error in one is passed to the next because each judgment acts as a reference point for its successor. This book explores this phenomenon, known as ‘absolute identification,’ and the biases that result. A key text for psychologists studying judgment.

Sports Journalism in the Age of Paterno

Making JoePa

By: David Schwartz

£62.99

For decades, sports journalists made Joe Paterno an American hero. When a devastating scandal revealed the villain beneath, they had to confront their profession. This book examines an industry that built a monster and asks: Is sports journalism journalism at all?

The Life of Lauro de Bosis

Icarus the Anti-Fascist

By: Joseph Farrell

£62.99

History has forgotten Lauro de Bosis. A gifted Italian poet turned passionate anti-Fascist, he chose to operate alone against Mussolini's regime. In 1931, he flew solo over Rome dropping propaganda, aware he was repeating the flight of Icarus and would not return.

History has forgotten Lauro de Bosis. A gifted Italian poet turned passionate anti-Fascist, he chose to operate alone against Mussolini’s regime. In 1931, he flew solo over Rome dropping propaganda, aware he was repeating the flight of Icarus and would not return.

Surfing the Waves of Identity

Asian Representations on the American Stage

By: Yoon Mi Sohn

£62.99

Asian Americans have often been viewed as a monolithic group. This book traces the origins and impacts of racist stereotypes through a chronological study of dramatists' works, offering nuanced perspectives on the evolving portrayals of Asian Americans in U.S. culture.

Asian Americans have often been viewed as a monolithic group. This book traces the origins and impacts of racist stereotypes through a chronological study of dramatists’ works, offering nuanced perspectives on the evolving portrayals of Asian Americans in U.S. culture.

Echoes of the Border in Horacio Quiroga’s Work

By: Wilson Alves-Bezerra

£62.99

This book offers a critical review of Horacio Quiroga's work from the perspective of the border, verifying how the discourse of 19th-century Argentine nation-building reverberates in his literature. It grants a new status to his work, avoiding regionalist or realist readings.

This book offers a critical review of Horacio Quiroga’s work from the perspective of the border, verifying how the discourse of 19th-century Argentine nation-building reverberates in his literature. It grants a new status to his work, avoiding regionalist or realist readings.

The Phenomenology of Movement and Rest

Wandering and Dwelling with Naipaul, Sebald and Tranströmer

By: Satarupa Sinha Roy

£62.99

This book is a phenomenological exploration of wandering and dwelling in the works of V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, and T. G. Tranströmer. It is the first study of their common engagement with the existential themes of movement and rest, which testify to our primal human desires.

The Canopy of the Old War

On the Relationship Between Religion and Violence

By: Christian Wevelsiep

£62.99

Religion’s power in war is undeniable. These presentations explore the ambivalence of religion, showing how it leads to extreme enmity. But violence does not have the last word. This book demonstrates religion's function as the authentic expression of the meaning of our lives.

Religion’s power in war is undeniable. These presentations explore the ambivalence of religion, showing how it leads to extreme enmity. But violence does not have the last word. This book demonstrates religion’s function as the authentic expression of the meaning of our lives.

Geodiversity, Geoheritage and Geotourism

Concepts and Examples in João Pessoa, Brazil

By: Luciano Schaefer Pereira, Marcos Antônio Leite do Nascimento

£62.99

This book connects geology, culture, and tourism, showing how geoheritage can create sustainable geotourism. Using João Pessoa, Brazil as an example, it shows how tourism can preserve environments, enrich visitor experiences, and support local communities.