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Enemy Images in War Propaganda

Edited By: Marja Vuorinen

£34.99

Where does today's passionate intensity come from? To understand modern ideological enmity, this book investigates the propaganda of the past, from Hitler’s enemy images to the Rwandan genocide and the invisible enemies of the future.

Where does today’s passionate intensity come from? To understand modern ideological enmity, this book investigates the propaganda of the past, from Hitler’s enemy images to the Rwandan genocide and the invisible enemies of the future.

Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic

Edited By: Gilbert D. Chaitin

£34.99

In the French Third Republic (1870-1914), literature was mobilized for political and social warfare. These essays analyze how literature became the site for fierce culture wars over national identity, secular education, women’s liberation, and more.

Chapters of Modern Human Geographical Thought

Edited By: Tomáš Drobík, Monika Šumberová

£34.99

Recognized scholars offer insights into the political, social, and cultural transformations of our globalized world. These state-of-the-art essays explore diverse topics, emphasizing interconnectedness and geography's crucial role in shaping identity.

The Life and Legacy of George Leslie Mackay

An Interdisciplinary Study of Canada’s First Presbyterian Missionary to Northern Taiwan (1872 – 1901)

Edited By: Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.

£34.99

This study explores George Leslie Mackay, a 19th-century Canadian missionary in Taiwan. He defied colonial norms by ordaining aboriginal ministers and marrying a Taiwanese woman, creating a unique “biculture” of foreign initiative and aboriginal agency.

Morality of the Past from the Present Perspective

Picture of Morality in Slovakia in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Edited By: Vasil Gluchman

£34.99

This monograph explores morality in Slovakia during the first half of the 20th century. Set in its unique socio-political context, it examines the era's key philosophical, ethical, and professional aspects, and the reflection of morality in Slovak literature.

This monograph explores morality in Slovakia during the first half of the 20th century. Set in its unique socio-political context, it examines the era’s key philosophical, ethical, and professional aspects, and the reflection of morality in Slovak literature.

The Politics of Mainstreaming in Critical Perspective

By: Sharleene May Bibbings

£34.99

Gender mainstreaming is an essential strategy for equality, but it is plagued by conceptual confusion and practical challenges. This book critiques the politics of mainstreaming, using UK local government case studies to offer new insights for progress.

The Victorians and the Ancient World

Archaeology and Classicism in Nineteenth-Century Culture

Edited By: Richard Pearson

£34.99

The 19th century was preoccupied with antiquity. As new discoveries challenged the pre-eminence of Greece and Rome, the Victorians explored a complex tension between great civilisations and primitive barbarity, influencing all aspects of their culture.

Essays on Lexicon, Lexicography, Terminography in Russian, American and Other Cultures

Edited By: Olga Karpova, Faina Kartashkova

£34.99

This collection explores topical issues in modern linguistics, including cross-cultural communication, lexicography, and terminology. It analyzes cultural aspects of language, dictionary user needs, modern terminology, and new models for reference works.

Shakespeare on Love

The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism

By: Ronald Gray

£34.99

Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare's Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.

Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.

“The Turn of the Hand”

A Memoir from the Irish Margins

By: Mary Moriarty

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This memoir, written by an “insider,” recalls the lives of the Irish Traveller community during an era of enormous social and cultural change. It tells the stories of a people whose history has often been forgotten or relegated to the cultural margins.

Researching Experiences

Exploring Processual and Experimental Methods in Cultural Analysis

Edited By: Lisa Gjedde, Bruno Ingemann

£34.99

This book focuses on how people experience and construct meaning from visual culture. It presents video-based methods for researching experiences, introducing methodological tools like the reflexivity lab for students, researchers, and practitioners.

Byron at the Theatre

Edited By: Peter Cochran, Shona M. Allan

£34.99

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri's influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri’s influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

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Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema

Edited By: Sandra Barriales-Bouche, Marjorie Attignol Salvodon

£34.99

European films are a vital space where borders and identity are renegotiated. This collection explores how filmmakers question the continent by crossing geographic, cultural, and aesthetic boundaries, framing European cinema as a work-in-progress.

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.

The School at the Frontiers of Modernity

Edited By: Maria Manuel Vieira, José Resende

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This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling's contribution to its construction.

This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling’s contribution to its construction.

Writing on the Body? Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh

By: Kay Inckle

£34.99

This courageous, thought-provoking book takes the reader on an intimate journey into the misunderstood world of body marking. It develops an embodied, feminist critique of dominant research, searching for new ways of producing knowledge and telling stories from the body.

Ties to the Homeland

Second Generation Transnationalism

Edited By: Helen Lee

£34.99

Ties to the Homeland examines the connections maintained across national borders by the children of migrants. Case studies explore their transnational practices, their impact on cultural identity and belonging, and challenge key assumptions about transnationalism.

Italian Women and Autobiography

Ideology, Discourse and Identity in Female Life Narratives from Fascism to the Present

Edited By: Fabiana Cecchini, Ioana Raluca Larco

£34.99

These essays examine identity and ideology in Italian female autobiography from the Fascist era to our time. The collection explores how women writers challenge gender roles and traditional boundaries, experimenting with new forms of self-representation.

From Camera Lens To Critical Lens

A Collection Of Best Essays On Film Adaptation

Edited By: Rebecca Housel

£34.99

This collection of essays represents the very best on film adaptation. Diverse international voices explore directors like Hitchcock, writers like Virginia Woolf, and international films from China, Japan, and France. Accessible, engaging, and informative for any reader.

Towards a New Orientation

By: Matko Meštrović

£34.99

Meštrović provides critical insights into the defining questions of our age, tracing the imbalance between market globalisation and society to contradictions within capitalism. He searches for a new commons and a movement towards freedom beyond the market's restrictions.