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Margaret Storm Jameson

Writing in Dialogue

Edited By: Jennifer Birkett, Chiara Briganti

£34.99

Storm Jameson’s writing mirrored the 20th century. This first collection of essays devoted to her work reassesses her pivotal role, analysing her engagement with war, fascism, and socialism, and reveals a sequence of unpublished letters.

Entertainment, Leisure and Identities

Edited By: Alyson Brown

£29.99

Beyond mere diversion, entertainment is how we forge our identities. This collection of essays reveals this vital process from the Middle Ages to the present day.

1956 and all that

Edited By: Keith Flett

£34.99

To mark the 50th anniversary of 1956, academics and activists presented new historical research on the Hungarian revolt and Suez. This collection examines their wider significance, the crisis of Stalinism, and the rise of a New Left as a result.

Islam in Contemporary Africa

On Violence, Terrorism and Development

Edited By: Afis A. Oladosu

£34.99

Scholars, Christians, and Muslims analyze the impact of terrorism on Islam, harmony, and development in Africa. These essays examine the global war on terror from diverse perspectives including jurisprudence, history, gender, and international diplomacy.

Studies in Irreversibility

Texts and Contexts

Edited By: Benjamin Schreier

£39.99

This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.

Heroes and Saints

The Moment of Death in Cross-cultural Perspectives

Edited By: Phyllis Granoff, Koichi Shinohara

£39.99

This volume explores the moment of death in ancient cultures, from Asian religions to heroic sagas. Despite the diversity of traditions, these essays reveal a fundamental human need to see in death a possibility of choice and a promise of hope.

a Wilderness of Signs

Ethics, Beauty, & Environment after Postmodernism

Edited By: Joe Jordan

£34.99

While postmodernism displaced "grand narratives," it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.

While postmodernism displaced “grand narratives,” it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.

The Texture of Internet

Netlinguistics in Progress

Edited By: Maria Lluïsa Gea-Valor, María José Esteve Ramos

£34.99

Language transforms to meet the demands of our digital world. The Texture of Internet explores these linguistic changes in texting, email, blogs, and websites, becoming a key reference for anyone interested in language use in our technological environment.

Recognition in Politics

Theory, Policy and Practice

Edited By: Julie Connolly, Michael Leach, Lucas Walsh

£39.99

With contributions from Nancy Fraser, this collection examines ‘recognition’ in politics. It addresses theoretical and practical problems of identity and justice, casting new light on conflicts in an era of globalisation and cultural diversity.

Demography In Transition

Emerging Trends in Population Studies

Edited By: Amanda K. Baumle

£39.99

This compilation provides unique insight into complex demographic issues. Demographers examine how race and ethnicity affect access to heath care, the consequences of an aging population, migration patterns, and the implications of changing family structures.

The Detective as Historian

Edited By: Ray Browne, Lawrence Kreiser

£39.99

Historical crime fiction serves the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. It brings the past to the present, making characters alive and events interesting. Writers fill in human motivations where records don't exist, recovering the past.

Dialogues of Love and Government

a Study of the Erotic Dialogue Form in some Texts from the Courtly Love Tradition

By: Alice Spencer

£29.99

This study examines the Boethian dialogue form in Medieval texts on love and government. It links the dialogue to courtly love and Platonic politics, arguing that its irony implies a rejection of absolutist notions of love and government.

Language Issues in Canada

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Martin Howard

£34.99

This volume illuminates Canada’s linguistic diversity through innovative studies on language politics, legislation, education, and minority issues. The languages covered include English and French, as well as Aboriginal languages.

Crash Cinema

Representation in Film

Edited By: Will Godfrey, Jill Good, Mark Goodall

£29.99

Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema's power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.

Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema’s power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.

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.

Brain Development in Learning Environments

Embodied and Perceptual Advancements

Edited By: Claudia Sabatano, Flavia Santoianni

£34.99

This volume on bioeducational research forges a dialogue between education, neuroscience, and biology. It analyses biodynamic perspectives on how learning environments shape brain development, embodied cognition, and perceptual knowledge.

“Revelations of Character”

Ethos, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy in Montaigne

Edited By: Corinne Noirot-Maguire with Valérie M. Dionne

£34.99

In the Essais, Montaigne weighs ancient rhetorical and ethical theories as he develops his own paradoxical and dynamic notion of ethos. This collection of essays explores the ramifications of his quest for more human and humane modes of expression.

Beyond the World of Titans, and the Remaking of World Order

A Preface to a New Logic of Empire Building

By: Peter Baofu

£39.99

Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. dominance is ending. The world is evolving towards a 'post-post-Cold War era'—a world of titans and new empires remaking world order. This shift reveals the future emergence of a 'union of the unions' on earth and in space.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. dominance is ending. The world is evolving towards a ‘post-post-Cold War era’—a world of titans and new empires remaking world order. This shift reveals the future emergence of a ‘union of the unions’ on earth and in space.

Ghosts, Stories and Histories

Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories

Edited By: Sladja Blazan

£39.99

This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison's Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.

This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.

“Survivor” – Representations of the “New Irish”

Dúchas Dóchasach

By: Jean Ryan Hakizimana

£29.99

This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.