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Women, Pain and Death

Rituals and Everyday Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond

Edited By: Evy Johanne Håland

£34.99

This cross-cultural collection explores women and death from the margins of Europe and beyond. Presenting original material from little-known areas, these studies offer new perspectives on cultural change and reveal surprising parallels between diverse societies.

Issues in Accents of English

Edited By: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak

£39.99

This book explores the variability of native and non-native English accents, questioning the very distinction between them. From a non-native perspective, it presents studies on pronunciation acquisition, teaching models, and pedagogical methods.

Ideology and Rhetoric

Constructing America

Edited By: Bożenna Chylińska

£49.99

These essays explore American culture through race, class, gender, and power. They reveal a nation born from conflicting ideologies, offering a transnational re-evaluation of the very idea of America itself.

“Romanticism” – and Byron

By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

This book argues "Romanticism" is a meaningless academic construct. Dr. Cochran then examines Byron's life and work, showing how his antithetical nature was an embarrassment for his social life, but a great benefit to his creativity.

This book argues “Romanticism” is a meaningless academic construct. Dr. Cochran then examines Byron’s life and work, showing how his antithetical nature was an embarrassment for his social life, but a great benefit to his creativity.

The Human Being in Contemporary Philosophical Conceptions

Edited By: Nikolai Omelchenko

£44.99

This book presents an integral philosophy of human being. Amidst a new anthropological renaissance, scholars from different countries explore how knowledge of what we are, what we can do, and what we must become can guide our political and educational programs.

Reconstructing the Middle Ages

Gaston Paris and the Development of Nineteenth-century Medievalism

By: Carolina Armenteros

£34.99

Exploring nineteenth-century French medievalism through scholar Gaston Paris, this book reveals how theories of medieval literature intersected with nationalism. It shows medievalism was a topic reaching beyond academia to shape national pride, memory, and identity.

Humorous Garden-Paths

A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study

By: Marta Dynel

£44.99

This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life at Its Centenary

Edited By: John Allphin Moore

£29.99

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book's impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book’s impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.

Psychology and Indigenous Australians

Effective Teaching and Practice

Edited By: Keith McConnochie, Wendy Nolan, Rob Ranzijn

£34.99

From a fraught colonial past, a new Australian psychology is emerging. Led by Indigenous voices, this landmark collection showcases a culturally responsive practice for all Australians.

Once upon a Time

Myth, Fairy Tales and Legends in Margaret Atwood’s Writings

Edited By: Sarah A. Appleton

£29.99

Essays by influential scholars explore Margaret Atwood’s use of myth, fairy tales, and archetypal narratives to illuminate her fiction and poetry. This collection demonstrates how Atwood revisions old stories, creating a familiar yet unique reading experience.

The Poetics of Philosophy [A Reading of Plato]

By: David Ross

£49.99

This book explores the silenced link between reason and madness. Reading Plato through Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida, it forges a new logic to reclaim the human need for a meaningful life in a world that denies it.

Culture and Power

The Plots of History in Performance

Edited By: Carla Rodríguez González, Rubén Valdés Miyares

£39.99

These essays explore the performance of historical plots. Questioning traditional historiography, they analyze the emplotment of history in visual culture, museums, and national identities, arguing that writing history is a performative act.

(M)Othering the Nation

Constructing and Resisting National Allegories through the Maternal Body

Edited By: Lisa Bernstein

£34.99

This collection explores how cultural narratives represent the mother as nation. It examines how this allegory both reinforces traditional roles and challenges them, creating new social identities and providing alternative models for women's lives.

Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntaxfest

Edited By: Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Phoevos Panagiotidis

£39.99

This volume presents contributions from theoretical linguists on left peripheries and their interface interpretation. It offers eleven studies on clausal and nominal phenomena across diverse languages, underscoring the importance of studying the edge of constituents.

Africa’s Finances

The Contribution of Remittances

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Muna Ndulo

£39.99

Remittances to developing countries exceed development aid. This volume explores their contribution to Africa’s finances and provides guidelines to expand them, examining resources from money transfers and new technologies to skills remitted by the diaspora.

The Future of Post-Human Engineering

A Preface to a New Theory of Technology

By: Peter Baofu

£44.99

Is mass media informational and accurate or disinformational and propagandistic? Neither view is correct. Something vital has been missing from the analysis. This book shows a better way to understand mass media, one that will alter our future.

Space of a Garden – Space of Culture

Edited By: Grzegorz Gazda, Mariusz Golab

£44.99

This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.

An [Un]Likely Alliance

Thinking Environment[s] with Deleuze/Guattari

Edited By: Bernd Herzogenrath

£39.99

This study explores 'environment' and 'ecology' in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.

This study explores ‘environment’ and ‘ecology’ in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.

Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys

Twentieth-Century Representations of Male Beauty

Edited By: Steven L. Davis, Maglina Lubovich

£34.99

This study challenges the standard of white, heterosexual male beauty. It explores the connections between beauty and a broad spectrum of masculinities, examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and queer constructions of male beauty in Western culture.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Armenian Roots, Global Branches

Edited By: Michael Pittman

£29.99

This volume presents a selection of writings on G.I. Gurdjieff, an important 20th-century figure whose influence continues to grow. Articles explore his key ideas and contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, music, and education.