Social Sciences

Theoretically Speaking about Literature

Understanding Theory in the Study of Literary Works

Edited By: David Owen, Cristina Pividori

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This book offers a practical insight into critical interpretation. By discussing a single text from the perspective of eighteen distinct theories, it makes complex ideas accessible and gives readers a comprehensible guide to the beliefs that underpin criticism.

Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education

Adventurous Encounters

Edited By: Wera Grahn, Edyta Just

£61.99

This book revitalizes the concept of generic skills, which have recently become widespread in universities, but also advocates daring pedagogical practices that invigorate the meaning of, and approach to, teaching and learning in present landscapes of higher education.

Theorising and Representing Maternal Realities

Edited By: Julie Kelso, Marie Porter

£34.99

This book expands academic knowledge of motherhood from a feminist perspective. When mothers are responsible for theorising their own realities, dominant representations are challenged. It is no longer acceptable to regard mothers as objects of research; they are the subjects.

Theorising Rome

Edited By: Rhiannon Evans, Sonya Wurster

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What did ‘Rome’ mean in antiquity, and what has it meant since? This volume shows that ancient Rome has been recontextualised and remade by successive historical periods. These studies show how Rome and its texts are recast for each new audience through adaptation and critique.

Theorising the Popular

Edited By: Michael Brennan, Jacqui Miller

£58.99

While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.

Theorization and Representations in Linguistics

Edited By: Viviane Arigne, Christiane Migette

£68.99

Addressing issues of theorization in linguistics associated with systems of representation, these essays question the very concept of metalanguage and study the relationship between linguistics and cognition from a variety of perspectives.

Theorizing Images

Edited By: Žarko Paić, Žarko Paić

£47.99

This book explores the dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and over their values and purposes. The contributions here, by theorizing images in their aesthetic, historical, and technological guises, pave the way for the future of visual culture.

Theory and Best Practice Models in Educational Institutions in Spain and Italy

Edited By: Esteban Vázquez Cano, Luisa Sevillano García, Annemarie Profanter

£58.99

As migration changes Europe, education plays a key role. This volume analyzes the support of immigrant children in Spain and Italy, focusing on themes like linguistic diversity, teacher training, and school culture. It serves as a sounding board for developments across Europe.

Theory and Practice of Logic-Based Therapy

Integrating Critical Thinking and Philosophy into Psychotherapy

By: Elliot D. Cohen

£39.99

We upset ourselves by deducing destructive conclusions from irrational premises. This book presents Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), a guide to using logic and philosophy to refute these fallacies, overcome anxiety, depression, and anger, and attain happiness.

Theory and Praxis

Indian and Western

Edited By: M.S. Pandey, R.N. Rai, Anita Singh

£47.99

This anthology of research papers critically explores contemporary literary theory. It provides a wide spectrum of theories—from postcolonialism to eco-criticism—and applies them to global texts, offering an interdisciplinary inquiry into human existence.

Theory and Structure in Addiction and Cure

By: Adi Ann Berkovic, Shlomo Giora Shoham, Efrat Vignansky-Addad

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This book is for everyone interested in the prevention and treatment of addiction. It applies research on the causes and cures of drug addiction using the author’s unique personality theory, analyzing 12 addict case studies. A timely read for dealing with the opioid crisis.

Theory and the Transformative Humanities

Edited By: Kunhammad K K, Rafseena M.

From £32.99

This volume explores the transformative humanities, a vision for transforming cultures, individuals, and society. Through scholarly essays on topics like posthumanism and film studies, it offers new perspectives to innovate and transform the world we live in.

Theory of Language and Meaning in Phenomenological Structuralism

By: Paul C. Mocombe

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Paul C. Mocombe’s theory of phenomenological structuralism reveals language's dual role: to capture reality and structure our world, even as we use ego-centered discourse to defer meaning.

Paul C. Mocombe’s theory of phenomenological structuralism reveals language’s dual role: to capture reality and structure our world, even as we use ego-centered discourse to defer meaning.

Theory That Matters

What Practice After Theory

Edited By: Kacper Bartczak, Małgorzata Myk

£49.99

Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.

Theory, Practice, and Guidelines for Communicating Health and Pandemics in Africa

Edited By: Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, Levi Zeleza Manda

From £37.99

This book provides the context, guidelines, and tools for covering health, pandemics, and development in Africa. It is an essential resource for journalists, students, public health communicators, and international development agencies.

Therapeutic Journalism

Presenting Information with Emotional Literacy

By: Alexandra Kitty

From £35.99

This book shows how emotional literacy and clinical psychology can create a therapeutic form of journalism. It presents a new model to analyze information through an emotional lens, empowering students to inform with empathy and see a shattered world with a fresh pair of eyes.

Therapeutic Keys to Self-Actualization in Homer’s Demeter

By: Lindy McMullin

£64.99

Integrating ancient wisdom with modern science, this book investigates myth's effect on development. Using Homer’s Hymn to Demeter and music in a therapeutic setting, it reveals personal epiphanies that can change perceptions and contribute to a healing process.

Integrating ancient wisdom with modern science, this book investigates myth’s effect on development. Using Homer’s Hymn to Demeter and music in a therapeutic setting, it reveals personal epiphanies that can change perceptions and contribute to a healing process.

Things That Liberate

An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer

Edited By: Alison Bartlett, Margaret Henderson

£44.99

This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women’s lives and shaped the feminist movement since 1970. Combining personal narrative and historical analysis, it documents the material culture of liberation, from overalls to kombis.

Think Consumer

The Enforcement of the Trade Mark Quality Guarantee Revisited, A Legal and Economic Analysis

By: Jamil Ammar

£39.99

Contrary to mainstream thinking, this book argues that the quality function of a trade mark should be enforced by law. This encourages traders to improve goods over advertising, reducing consumer search costs and bridging the gap between legal theory and reality.

Thinkers, Activists, and Politics

Critical Studies of Revolutionaries

By: R. G. Williams

£67.99

From Karl Marx to Che Guevara, these critical essays examine revolutionaries who fought for freedom. Their bold ideas reshaped political thought, and their legacy fuels debates today. People often interpret the world—real revolutionaries attempt to change it.

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