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(1968) Episodes of Culture in Contest

Edited By: Cathy Crane, Nicholas Muellner

£34.99

This critical and historical anthology looks at 1968, bringing together scholars, critics, and media-makers. Their work engages the period’s international activism through close readings of cultural production, from mass media to avant-garde practices.

Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Edited By: Daniel Cohen, Nick Trakakis

£34.99

Do we have the free will necessary for moral responsibility, or does determinism make it impossible? This volume offers new perspectives from leading philosophers on these questions, exploring fairness, obligation, and meaningfulness in a deterministic universe.

Questioning Linguistics

Edited By: Naomi Knight, Ahmar Mahboob

£34.99

This volume brings together diverse perspectives to question the nature of linguistics. Experts and new theorists challenge current thoughts on language theory and application, inviting us to reconsider the methods we take for granted in our research.

The Globetrotting Shopaholic

Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Places

Edited By: Annessa Ann Babic, Tanfer Emin Tunc

£34.99

This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada's West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.

This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada’s West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.

Diasporic Literature and Theory – Where Now?

Edited By: Mark Shackleton

£34.99

The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand 'culture' beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.

The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand ‘culture’ beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.

Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema

Edited By: Kenneth R. Morefield

£34.99

These provocative essays explore the uneasy relationship between religion and film in the works of masters like Bergman, Tarkovsky, and del Toro. This spiritual and critical journey challenges us to think more forcefully about the values that shape our lives.

The World as a Global Agora

Critical Perspectives on Public Space

Edited By: Soumia Boutkhil, Larbi Touaf

£39.99

Ranging from architecture to gender studies, the essays in this collection explore public space as a vital aspect of public life. The authors agree that no matter what form it takes, public space remains fundamental to all societies as the basis for civic action.

Berlin Since the Wall’s End

Shaping Society and Memory in the German Metropolis since 1989

Edited By: John Alexander Williams

£29.99

Since the Wall fell, Berlin has confronted the daunting challenges of reunification. This book examines two broad concerns—society and historical memory—casting light on a metropolis scarred, but not destroyed, by the upheavals of recent history.

Words and Images on the Screen

Language, Literature and Moving Pictures

Edited By: Ágnes Pethő

£39.99

Word has been a primordial companion to cinema from its beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in moving pictures, covering their interconnectedness through in-depth case studies and general surveys.

Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other

Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation

Edited By: Tuomas Huttunen, Janne Korkka

£39.99

This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.

Cultures of Translation

Edited By: Monika Gomille, Axel Stähler

£34.99

These essays explore 'translation' as a key term for language, literature, and culture. The volume connects translation studies with postcolonial studies and World Englishes, revealing the profound interrelationship between language and culture.

These essays explore ‘translation’ as a key term for language, literature, and culture. The volume connects translation studies with postcolonial studies and World Englishes, revealing the profound interrelationship between language and culture.

Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women’s Writing

Edited By: Jennifer Chambers

£34.99

For readers certain there were diverse, socially relevant voices in early Canadian women’s writing—and for sceptics—this collection offers proof. These essays explore the literary voices women created to work for diversity and social change in Canada.

Oriental Languages and Cultures

Edited By: Indira Gazieva

£24.99

Discover current scholarship on the Middle and Far East. These essays offer new perspectives on the region's languages, literatures, and cultures, from theory and gender to pedagogy.

Discover current scholarship on the Middle and Far East. These essays offer new perspectives on the region’s languages, literatures, and cultures, from theory and gender to pedagogy.

Modern and Postmodern Cutting Edge Films

Edited By: Anthony D. Hughes with Miranda J. Hughes

£34.99

This anthology examines iconic films and the visionary auteurs who introduced new ways of seeing that shifted US culture. A unique collection with a diversity of genres and theoretical approaches, this indispensable text is accessible to scholars and lay readers.

Representing Culture

Essays on Identity, Visuality and Technology

Edited By: Claudia Alvares

£29.99

Defying traditional boundaries, these interdisciplinary essays offer new perspectives for cultural criticism. They explore current experience through the intersecting axes of identity politics, visual culture and technology.

Postcolonial Artist

Johnny Doran and Irish Traveller Tradition

By: Jean Ryan Hakizimana, Micheal Ó'hAodha

£24.99

Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.

Myths and Facts about Football

The Economics and Psychology of the World’s Greatest Sport

Edited By: Patric Andersson, Peter Ayton, Carsten Schmidt

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This book presents economic and psychological analyses of football, investigating popular conceptions and misconceptions. Are teams more likely to concede a goal after scoring? Does the team going first in a penalty shoot-out have an advantage?

Sacred Space, Beloved City

Iris Murdoch’s London

By: Cheryl Bove, Anne Rowe

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Explore Iris Murdoch’s London. Essays and guided walks link her plots to real landmarks and routes, revealing how characters experience their surroundings. Illustrated with atmospheric sketches, the book includes a complete glossary of London places from her 26 novels.

Literatures of War

Edited By: Eve Patten, Richard Pine

£39.99

War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.

New Literatures of Old

Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literature

Edited By: Dídac Llorens-Cubedo, José Ramón Prado-Pérez

£34.99

Artistic creativity is fuelled by dialogues between the past and the present. This book explores how these exchanges become active agents of intervention, creating spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the cultural identity of a community.