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Adorno’s Aesthetics of Critique

By: Shea Coulson

£29.99

This book examines Adorno's mode of critique through his aesthetics. It explores how this focus on aesthetics shapes his readings of knowledge, history, culture, and art to reassert his relevance for constructing effective modes of critical thinking.

This book examines Adorno’s mode of critique through his aesthetics. It explores how this focus on aesthetics shapes his readings of knowledge, history, culture, and art to reassert his relevance for constructing effective modes of critical thinking.

Tasks in Action

Task-Based Language Education from a Classroom-Based Perspective

Edited By: Kris Van den Branden, Koen Van Gorp, Machteld Verhelst

£39.99

Empirical evidence on Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) in real classrooms is lacking. This volume fills that gap, compiling studies that describe what learners and teachers actually do, providing valuable new insights into TBLT implementation.

On the Turn

The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English

Edited By: Bárbara Arizti, Silvia Martínez-Falquina

£44.99

This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the 'ethical turn' in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.

This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.

Multiple Lenses

Voices from the Diaspora located in Canada

Edited By: David Divine

£44.99

Spanning 400 years, this essential introduction explores the Black Canadian experience. Through diverse lenses from law to music, leading voices reveal the ongoing struggle and triumph in the quest for identity, justice, and self-definition.

Corporate Citizenship

Perspectives in the New Century

By: Ananda Das Gupta

£29.99

As globalization deepens, it is necessary to ensure business activities make a positive contribution to communities. This book underlines the big-picture thinking on the roles business can play in fostering a moral, equitable and ecologically sustainable world.

The Irish Celebrating

Festive and Tragic Overtones

Edited By: Marie-Claire Considère-Charon, Philippe Laplace, Michel Savaric

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This collection of essays explores the dual aspects of celebrating in Ireland—‘the festive’ and ‘the tragic’. Insightful essays examine how feasts, literature, and commemorations have shaped Ireland’s past, present, and national identity.

To See the Wizard

Politics and the Literature of Childhood

Edited By: Laurie Ousley

£44.99

Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this volume interrogates the politics at work in children's literature. It analyzes how "wizards"—writers, publishers, and others—use stories to shape young readers' views on race, class, gender, and power.

Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this volume interrogates the politics at work in children’s literature. It analyzes how “wizards”—writers, publishers, and others—use stories to shape young readers’ views on race, class, gender, and power.

Seeing with Different Eyes

Essays in Astrology and Divination

Edited By: Patrick Curry, Angela Voss

£39.99

These cutting-edge essays on divination and astrology feature authors from diverse academic disciplines. They address divination with critical but sympathetic inquiry, seeking to understand the divinatory act on its own terms across widely varying contexts.

Processability Approaches to Second Language Development and Second Language Learning

Edited By: Jörg-U. Keßler

£34.99

Processability Theory (PT) explains the developmental sequences in second language learning, providing insights into what learners are ready to acquire. Taking PT as its point of departure, this book applies, tests, and extends the theory.

Postcolonial Borderlands

Orality and Irish Traveller Writing

By: Christine Walsh

£29.99

This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.

Sensi/able Spaces

Space, Art and the Environment Proceedings of the SPARTEN conference, Reykjavík, June 1st and 2nd, 2006

Edited By: Edward H. Huijbens, Ólafur Páll Jónsson

£39.99

SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of "sensible" spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the "sensable"—what we perceive through our senses.

SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of “sensible” spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the “sensable”—what we perceive through our senses.

Emerging Business Theories for Educators and Practitioners

Edited By: Maureen L. Mackenzie, Stuart L. Rosenberg

£39.99

This book offers valuable insight into the issues managers contend with and serves as a compendium for emerging business theories. Educators will find it a valued tool to help students embrace the theoretical and develop the applied.

Advancing Multiculturalism, Post 7/7

Edited By: John Eade

£34.99

In a post-7/7 world, multiculturalism is more important than ever. This collection examines the historical context and social policy perspectives of multiculturalism, presenting arguments for both integrationist and multicultural approaches to the debate.

Recycling Culture(s)

Edited By: Sara Martín

£34.99

Culture survives by constant recycling. This "stimulating, relevant and exciting" volume explores this strategy across an impressive assortment of contexts, from comic-book heroes and James Bond to African-Caribbean women and mobile phones.

Culture survives by constant recycling. This “stimulating, relevant and exciting” volume explores this strategy across an impressive assortment of contexts, from comic-book heroes and James Bond to African-Caribbean women and mobile phones.

Blaze

Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism

Edited By: Karen Frostig, Kathy A. Halamka

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How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.

Whiteheadian Ethics

Abstracts and Papers from the Ethics Section of the Philosophy Group at the 6th International Whitehead Conference at the University of Salzburg, July 2006

Edited By: Mihály Tóth, Theodore Walker

£29.99

These papers explore the ethical and meta-ethical implications of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy. From a major international conference, contributions cover the metaphysics of morals, evaluating moral practices, and ethics and aesthetic values.

Linguistic Identity in Postcolonial Multilingual Spaces

Edited By: Eric A. Anchimbe

£39.99

This volume offers new approaches to multilingualism and identity in postcolonial societies. It explores the complex interplay of indigenous and ex-colonial languages—embraced as socio-economic assets or treated as alienating colonial legacies.

The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960’s

Edited By: Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega

£34.99

Challenging the view that only realist texts are ethical, this volume argues that the parodic and self-conscious games of experimental fiction offer a powerful critique of received truths, practicing an ethics of alterity. It examines key British novels.

A Celebration of Frances Burney

Edited By: Lorna J. Clark

£39.99

Novelist, playwright and diarist, Frances Burney’s journey to recognition has been a long one. This volume covers her remarkable career, showing her rise from a minor precursor to Jane Austen to a powerful and influential writer in her own right.

Negotiating Boundaries? Identities, Sexualities, Diversities

Edited By: Clare Beckett, Marie Macey, Owen Heathcote

£39.99

This is a lively, nuanced portrayal of the struggles around identity, inequality, and domination. Ambitious in its scope, this international and interdisciplinary collection offers a powerful, hopeful picture of the pursuit of change through the lens of boundaries.