Social Sciences

Mark Twain’s Geographical Imagination

Edited By: Joseph A. Alvarez

£34.99

This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.

Cosmic Order and Cultural Astronomy

Sacred Cities of India

By: Rana Singh

£39.99

In India, sacredscapes arise where culture, geography, and cosmos create transcendent power. This volume's essays explore cultural astronomy and cosmic order through case studies of sacred sites like Khajuraho, Gaya, Kashi, Vindhyachal, and Chitrakut.

In India, sacredscapes arise where culture, geography, and cosmos create transcendent power. This volume’s essays explore cultural astronomy and cosmic order through case studies of sacred sites like Khajuraho, Gaya, Kashi, Vindhyachal, and Chitrakut.

American Modernism

Cultural Transactions

Edited By: Catherine Morley

£39.99

This book explores American literary modernism as a by-product of cultural transactions between the United States and Europe. Eminent scholars re-examine the works of Wharton, Pound, and Eliot, viewing American literature in a broad international context.

About Face

Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts

Edited By: Elena Bellina, Lindsay Eufusia, Paola Ugolini

£39.99

How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.

Rewriting/Reprising in Literature

The Paradoxes of Intertextuality

Edited By: Claude Maisonnat, Josiane Paccaud-Huguet, Annie Ramel

£39.99

This book offers a fresh outlook on rewriting-reprising. Taking a text’s origin as untraceable, it reconsiders trauma in relation to creative repetition. The act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: the repetitive stitching of what is constantly ripped up.

Traveller Friends

Edited By: Paul Harrison, Micheal Ó'hAodha

£39.99

The Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction. Paul Harrison’s arresting photos show a “hidden Ireland” relegated to the societal margins. They haunt the viewer and interrogate what it means to be human.

Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption

Politics, Culture and Identity between the Local and the Global

Edited By: Johanna Pink

£44.99

Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.

Sartre in Search of an Ethics

By: Paul Crittenden

£39.99

Jean-Paul Sartre spent his life trying to write a book on ethics. This study examines his three incomplete attempts, from his post-war existentialist notes to the dialectical ethics of his later years and the final interviews before his death.

Teaching and Learning Mathematics Together

Bringing Collaboration to the Centre of the Mathematics Classroom

By: James Pietsch

£34.99

How can teachers bring new ideas into classrooms where students are focused on assessment? This book provides an introduction to the thinking behind these ideas and puts forward a model for classroom activity based on collaboration rather than demonstration.

Metamorphosis and Place

Edited By: Mohamed Bakari, Joshua Parker, Lucie Tunkrova

£39.99

How do our identities and values change as places themselves are transformed? This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, each shedding light on how place is both a transforming subject and a transformed object.

“And that’s true too”

New Essays on King Lear

Edited By: Pierre Iselin, François Laroque

£39.99

Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare's elusive and powerful tragedy.

Greece in the Balkans

Memory, Conflict and Exchange

Edited By: Othon Anastasakis, Dimitar Bechev, Nicholas Vrousalis

£39.99

This interdisciplinary study explores the complex relationship between Greece and its Balkan neighbours over the past two hundred years, shedding light on its attributes of opportunity and risk, attraction and enmity, from multiple perspectives.

21st Century China

Views from Australia

Edited By: Mary Farquhar

£39.99

China is Australia’s ‘life-blood’. Leading academics dissect this complex relationship—from politics and law to Confucianism and ‘green’ cuisine—offering fresh insights for our shared future.

Rewriting/Reprising

Plural Intertextualities

Edited By: Georges Letissier

£39.99

These essays explore the poetics of rewriting—from homage to dissidence—revealing how second-degree literature and art can challenge and remake our cultural heritage.

Indian Geography in the 21st Century

The Young Geographers Agenda

Edited By: Ravi S. Singh

£49.99

Authored by young geographers, this book presents an action agenda for the future of geography in India. Exploring topics from education to physical and human geography, it provides a look into the future for professional geographers, researchers, and students.

Review Journal of Political Philosophy

Volume 7, Issue Number 2

Edited By: J. Jeremy Wisnewski

£14.99

This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.

Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Common Factors in a Term Structure Model

By: Ting Ting Huang

£29.99

While many financial models are too technical for non-specialists, this study uses the empirical copula to analyze bond structures. The empirical copula is more appropriate for forecasting returns, volatility, and interdependence in risk management.

Sociology of Memory

Papers from the Spectrum

Edited By: Noel Packard

£39.99

These papers advance discourse beyond “collective memory” to the contested terrain of personal, public, and commodity memory. In a society dependent on automated data, a key question arises: who owns memory, and for what social or private purpose?

Subject to Reading

Literacy and Belief in the Work of Jacques Lacan and Paulo Freire

By: Eugene Henry de Klerk

£39.99

Recasting Lacanian psychoanalysis and Freirean literacy as an education in responsible subjecthood, this book intervenes against the global double bind of fanatical certainty and capitalist abstraction to forge a new political theology.

Crossings

David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media

Edited By: Johan Callens

£39.99

International scholars assess David Mamet's career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

International scholars assess David Mamet’s career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

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