Social Sciences – Page 449 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Ballets of Ludwig Minkus

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

From £19.99

Ludwig Minkus is one of music’s biggest mysteries. An influential composer for Imperial Russia's ballet, he was scorned by critics. Now his works Don Quixote and La Bayadère are taking the world by surprise. This study discovers the man behind the powerful music.

Ludwig Minkus is one of music’s biggest mysteries. An influential composer for Imperial Russia’s ballet, he was scorned by critics. Now his works Don Quixote and La Bayadère are taking the world by surprise. This study discovers the man behind the powerful music.

Natural Environment and Culture in the Mediterranean Region

Edited By: Georges Cravins, Recep Efe

£44.99

The Mediterranean Basin, a biodiversity hotspot, has endured 8000 years of human impact. Now facing water shortages and desertification, it is a key example of the "Anthropocene." This book synthesizes knowledge to throw light on our unpredictable future.

The Mediterranean Basin, a biodiversity hotspot, has endured 8000 years of human impact. Now facing water shortages and desertification, it is a key example of the “Anthropocene.” This book synthesizes knowledge to throw light on our unpredictable future.

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.

Film and Television Stardom

Edited By: Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

£39.99

Film and Television Stardom examines stars as a social phenomenon from the silent era to today's reality TV. It provides new insights on the star system, media spectatorship, and analyzes individual stars from James Stewart to Jessica Simpson.

Film and Television Stardom examines stars as a social phenomenon from the silent era to today’s reality TV. It provides new insights on the star system, media spectatorship, and analyzes individual stars from James Stewart to Jessica Simpson.

Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics (Volume II)

Edited By: Frank Boers, Jeroen Darquennes, Koen Kerremans

£39.99

This book presents a selection of papers from an international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics, fostering an exchange of knowledge on cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. It covers diverse topics and research perspectives.

“The Given Note”

Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry

By: Seán Crosson

£34.99

This book examines how traditional Irish music and song have influenced Irish poets. It looks at this influence historically and in contemporary work, focusing on six key poets, including Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

Breakcore

Identity and Interaction on Peer-to-Peer

By: Andrew Whelan

£39.99

This interdisciplinary ethnography examines interaction and exchange within the 'bedroom producer' culture of 'breakcore' electronic music. It explores the cultural politics and aesthetics of identity in this environment, highlighting gender, ethnicity, and technology.

This interdisciplinary ethnography examines interaction and exchange within the ‘bedroom producer’ culture of ‘breakcore’ electronic music. It explores the cultural politics and aesthetics of identity in this environment, highlighting gender, ethnicity, and technology.

Descartes and the Modern

Edited By: Gordon McOuat, Neil Robertson, Tom Vinci

£39.99

Recent scholarship challenges Descartes's role as the founder of modernity. This collection of original papers by leading philosophers explores this debate, bringing together for the first time naturalist and phenomenological schools of thought.

Recent scholarship challenges Descartes’s role as the founder of modernity. This collection of original papers by leading philosophers explores this debate, bringing together for the first time naturalist and phenomenological schools of thought.

Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein

German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations

Edited By: Jörg Esleben, Jörg-U. Keßler, Sukanya Kulkarni

£34.99

Explore the centuries-long fascination between India and Germany. This book charts their complex, entangled exchange in literature, philosophy, and politics, providing a vital overview of current research on their shared history.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Keith Huneycutt, Claudia Slate

£34.99

This volume includes essays on Florida literature and history. Of special interest are studies of 19th and 21st-century literature, the contributions of African-American figures like Zora Neale Hurston, and suggestions for teaching Florida Studies.

Beyond the Brain

Embodied, Situated and Distributed Cognition

Edited By: Benoit Hardy-Vallée

£34.99

Cognitive science now emphasizes the entrenchment of the brain in body, context and culture, rather than as the only seat of intelligence. This book provides a general overview of current research on embodied, situated and distributed cognition.

Music of Japan Today

Edited By: E. Michael Richards, Kazuko Tanosaki

£39.99

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through essays from international composers, performers, and scholars, covering topics from Toru Takemitsu's legacy to computer music and avant-garde sound artists.

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through essays from international composers, performers, and scholars, covering topics from Toru Takemitsu’s legacy to computer music and avant-garde sound artists.

Power and Image in Early Modern Europe

Edited By: Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire

£34.99

How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.

Third Agents

Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination

Edited By: Ian Cooper, Ekkehard Knörer, Bernhard Malkmus

£34.99

This book explores the 'third agent'—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

This book explores the ‘third agent’—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

Trauma, History, Philosophy (With Feature Essays by Agnes Heller and György Márkus)

Edited By: Murray Noonan, Matthew Sharpe

£34.99

In an age of terror, this essay collection explores trauma's renewed relevance, examining 9/11, the Shoah, and tyranny through the thought of Derrida, Zizek, Lacan, and Freud.

In an age of terror, this essay collection explores trauma’s renewed relevance, examining 9/11, the Shoah, and tyranny through the thought of Derrida, Zizek, Lacan, and Freud.

What Rough Beasts? Irish and Scottish Studies in the New Millennium

Edited By: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

£34.99

What Rough Beasts presents an innovative and diverse collection of new research in Irish and Scottish Studies. Showcasing original material by both emergent and established scholars, this book covers issues including poetry and violence, film, history, and more.

Students, Staff and Academic Mobility in Higher Education

Edited By: Mike Byram

£39.99

Academic mobility in higher education is a high-profile phenomenon. This book reports research on the experience for students and staff, charting the far-reaching effects on universities, teaching, and individuals as they are forced to see themselves in a new light.

Women, Wellness, and the Media

Edited By: Margaret C. Wiley, Barbara Barnett

£34.99

Thirteen scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the relationship between media stereotypes and women’s health. They show how these images harm women’s health while turning millions in corporate profits.

The Myth of Culture

Why We Need a Genuine Natural Science of Societies

By: Nigel Barber

£39.99

Social scientists appeal to "culture" to explain human actions, an unscientific principle that makes progress impossible. This book is a critique of culture-centered social science and a manifesto for a new evolutionary approach to understanding society's problems.

Social scientists appeal to “culture” to explain human actions, an unscientific principle that makes progress impossible. This book is a critique of culture-centered social science and a manifesto for a new evolutionary approach to understanding society’s problems.

The English Malady

Enabling and Disabling Fictions

Edited By: Glen Colburn

£34.99

These essays examine hysteria in 18th-century Europe, revealing it as a key Enlightenment metaphor. Writers of the period considered hysteria not only a curse but also a blessing, an expression of ambivalence about the emergence of modernity.