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Beckett’s Literary Legacies

Edited By: Matthew Feldman, Mark Nixon

£34.99

This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.

Use Against Scepticism

By: Massimiliano Vignolo

£34.99

This book argues for a version of semanticalism, treating semantic properties as emergent and natural. They are needed to explain how linguistic expressions guide us to reality. We ought to accept semantic properties since our best theory of the world makes reference to them.

China and the West

Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life

Edited By: Lili Hernández

£34.99

This collection scrutinises how China and the West interact in culture, arts, politics and everyday life. The essays analyse new dynamics that challenge authoritative views and deconstruct traditional responses to otherness within globalisation.

Re-doing Rapunzel’s Hair

Viewing Subjective Cognition in Fancifold

By: Lisa Pavlik-Malone

£34.99

This volume explores embodied cognition and our imaginative experience of hair, using Rapunzel's symbolic hair as a touchstone. It introduces “fancifold,” a quality of imagination that produces both enchantment and disenchantment.

This volume explores embodied cognition and our imaginative experience of hair, using Rapunzel’s symbolic hair as a touchstone. It introduces “fancifold,” a quality of imagination that produces both enchantment and disenchantment.

Emerald Green

An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature

By: Tim Wenzell

£34.99

Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature's reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.

Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature’s reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.

Arthur W. Upfield

Life and Times of Bony's Man

By: A. J. Milnor

£34.99

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective "Bony," rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective “Bony,” rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

Equalities and Education in Europe

Explanations and Excuses for Inequality

By: Melinda Dooly, Nanny Hartsmar, Alistair Ross

£34.99

This timely book analyzes educational inequities in Europe. Rejecting the idea that education simply reproduces social patterns, the authors argue that educational policies have the potential to challenge inequality and transform the lives of disadvantaged groups.

Staging of Classical Drama around 2000

Edited By: Alena Sarkissian, Pavlína N. Šípová

£34.99

Classical drama on the modern stage is a major cultural and political phenomenon. Intertwined with the politics of locale, language, and culture, its performance is a feature in all types of theatre. These essays provide case studies for everyone in the field.

Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Alex Hall, Gyula Klima

£34.99

This volume studies causality and skepticism from medieval to modern philosophy. Essays contrast Aquinas’s idea of a first mover with Hume’s account of successive events, re-evaluating the Aristotelian paradigm against modern science and Cartesian skepticism.

Women Willing to Fight

The Fighting Woman in Film

Edited By: Silke Andris, Ursula K. Frederick

£34.99

This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.

Objects, Audiences, and Literatures

Alternative Narratives in the History of Design

Edited By: David Raizman, Carma Gorman

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Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.

Political Outsiders in Swedish History, 1848-1932

Edited By: Lars Edgren, Magnus Olofsson

£34.99

Challenging the 'Swedish model', these essays present new research on forgotten 19th and 20th-century political movements. By examining political outsiders, the authors contribute to a timely rethinking of the roots of contemporary Sweden.

Challenging the ‘Swedish model’, these essays present new research on forgotten 19th and 20th-century political movements. By examining political outsiders, the authors contribute to a timely rethinking of the roots of contemporary Sweden.

Music and Literary Modernism

Critical Essays and Comparative Studies

Edited By: Robert P. McParland

£34.99

Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore the place of music in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and the importance of literary art for composers from Messiaen to The Beatles.

New Perspectives on the Irish Catholic Tradition

Edited By: Gavan Jennings

£34.99

In these thought-provoking essays, Irish Catholic writers from diverse backgrounds examine a wide range of issues: liturgy, politics, culture, and bioethics. This collection explores the Catholic tradition as lived in Ireland, offering an encouragement to fidelity.

Olde New Mexico

By: Robert D. Morritt

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This history of New Mexico covers early Pueblo societies, Spanish incursions, and the fortitude of indigenous people as they faced conquistadors and American “Frontier” soldiers.

Globalization and the Posthuman

By: William S. Haney II

£34.99

Globalization and posthumanism, through the interface of humans and machines, may undermine our innate consciousness. This book argues that combining biotechnology with globalization will diminish our capacity to experience the self, leading to global crime and sickness.

Children’s Literature and Culture

Edited By: Harry Eiss

£34.99

This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.

Ossi Wessi

Edited By: Donald Backman, Aida Sakalauskaite

£34.99

This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.

Information and Communication Technology and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

From Theory to Practice

Edited By: Diane Poulin, Sébastien Tran

£34.99

ICT can be a source of competitive advantage for SMEs. This book provides a synthesis of the advantages of ICT, illustrating the technologies used with theoretical and practical views. It is an indispensable reference for both academics and practitioners.

A Creative Passion

Anarchism and Culture

Edited By: Jeff Shantz

£34.99

Anarchism—the idea that people can live free from rulers—remains a misunderstood philosophy. This book offers insights into anarchist cultural practices, exploring how, as Bakunin proclaimed, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.