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Francophone Women Coming of Age

Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean

Edited By: Debra Popkin

£29.99

These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.

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.

Hungarian Perspectives on the Western Canon

Post-Comparative Readings

Edited By: László Bengi, Gábor Mezei, Ernő Kulcsár Szabó

£29.99

In this collection, Hungarian literature is read together with canonical works of the Western literary tradition. The text scrutinises the distinction between “major” and “minor” literatures, showing that this can highlight previously unknown components of the literary tradition.

Migrants and Memory

The Forgotten “Postcolonials”

By: Micheal O'Haodha

£29.99

This volume gives a voice to marginalized communities—the hidden Irish, the migrant, the nomad. Scholars and activists explore ethnicity, identity, and racism, offering a catalyst for new inquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani, and Migration Studies.

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.

After God, with Reason Alone – Saikat Guha Commemorative Volume (Volume 8

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Gyula Klima

£29.99

Philosopher and physicist Saikat Guha was a metaphysician interested in applying rigorous logic to theology. These five papers reformulate Aquinas's arguments for God, ask if Ockham's razor requires atheism, and model the Trinity's logical consistency.

Philosopher and physicist Saikat Guha was a metaphysician interested in applying rigorous logic to theology. These five papers reformulate Aquinas’s arguments for God, ask if Ockham’s razor requires atheism, and model the Trinity’s logical consistency.

Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature

Remapping Uncertain Territories

Edited By: Magali Compan, Katarzyna Pieprzak

£29.99

As globalization displaces bodies, landscape becomes a potent source for identity. This collection examines how contemporary French literature re-maps post-colonial worlds, exploring dispossession, resistance, and re-appropriation in a constructed literary space.

Teaching C. S. Lewis

A Handbook for Professors, Church Leaders, and Lewis Enthusiasts

Edited By: Richard Hill, Lyle Smith

£29.99

This practical guide for C.S. Lewis study groups eliminates weeks of research. Covering his novels, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters, each chapter includes biographical sketches, chapter summaries, discussion themes, and study questions.

The Mirror of Antiquity

20th Century British Travellers in Greece

By: David Wills

£29.99

This book exposes how 20th-century travel writers’ responses to Greece were conditioned by classical scholarship and history. David Wills shows how, in their hands, Greece became less a modern country and more a mirror of its ancient past.

Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan

By: Rodney Edgecombe

£29.99

This study examines the work of Edwin Morgan, a poet admired for his experimental writings and diverse output. Chapters cover his vision poems, his use of the grotesque, adaptations of the elegy, and his enterprise of “voicing” the universe.

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.

Zero for Parents and Teachers, or (Almost) All You Need to Know about Mathematics for Young Children

By: Anne D. Cockburn, Anna Papadopoulou, Ioannis Papadopoulos

£24.99

For parents and teachers nervous about teaching maths to young children, this book offers safe, sympathetic guidance. Written by early years educators, it covers basic topics in a friendly way, with fun activities to build mathematical confidence for you and your children.

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.

Northern Afghanistan

Edited By: Major C. E. Yate

£24.99

A fascinating, first-hand account of the Anglo-Russian commission that delineated Afghanistan’s northern frontier. Presented as a series of letters, it describes the year-long journey with notes on Herat, the Oxus, and the Hindu Kush mountains.

Plato and Platonism

By: Walter Pater

£24.99

This critique presents Plato’s leading doctrines in close connection with the man himself. It explores the relationship between author and text, with chapters on Socrates, Plato's aesthetics, The Republic, and the Sophists.

The Books of Job

By: Maurice J. O’Sullivan

£24.99

For a thousand years, an unlikely cast—from beggars to earls—sought the perfect English Job. This book uncovers their stories and assembles a composite translation from fifty versions, revealing a compelling and paradoxical conversation.

The Da Vinci Code in the Academy

Edited By: Bradley Bowers

£24.99

Reacting to The Da Vinci Code, scholars debate the feminist challenge to patriarchal authority and the textual construction of meaning. These essays examine resistance to the sacred feminine in religious, cultural, and literary histories.

Postcolonial Identities

Constructing the "New Irish"

By: Jean Ryan Hakizimana, Michael Hayes

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One man’s story of exile and renewal. Traumatised by the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda, artist Jean Hakizimana journeyed to Ireland. There, he rediscovered the healing power of painting, his story reflecting the multicultural experience of the “new” Irish.

Naturalisme et excès visuels

pantomime, parodie, image, fête. Mélanges en l'honneur de David Baguley

Edited By: Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze, Edward Welch

£24.99

Ce recueil explore l’esthétique naturaliste sous un jour nouveau à travers le concept d’excès. Pantomime, parodie, image et fête : ces quatre facettes révèlent la prédominance du corporel et du visuel au cœur d'un naturalisme foncièrement moderne.

Renaissance Tales of Desire

Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Theseus and Ariadne, Ceyx and Alcione and Orpheus his Journey to Hell. A Revised and Augmented Edition

Edited By: Sophie Alatorre with a Preface by Sarah A. Brown

£24.99

This edition of mythological tales from Ovid highlights the epyllion, a genre that influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare. While concerned with metamorphosis, these witty narrative poems also express deep male anxiety about female desire in early modern England.