Social Sciences

Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-garde

Defining Modern and Traditional in France, 1900-1960

Edited By: Natalie Adamson, Toby Norris

£39.99

This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.

Ethical Encounters

Boundaries of Theatre, Performance and Philosophy

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£39.99

These essays on theatre ethics demonstrate how academics and artists have thought about its ethical implications. They debate relevant issues and explore what is possible within theatre, challenging you to form and develop your own opinions and resultant actions.

Written on Stone

The Cultural Reception of British Prehistoric Monuments

Edited By: Joanne Parker

£34.99

This book explores the history of Britain's prehistoric monuments: not their origins, but how they have been viewed over centuries. It investigates their impact on culture, from motivating artists and authors to inspiring 'New Age' religions.

This book explores the history of Britain’s prehistoric monuments: not their origins, but how they have been viewed over centuries. It investigates their impact on culture, from motivating artists and authors to inspiring ‘New Age’ religions.

Interdisciplinary Analyses of Terrorism and Political Aggression

Edited By: Daniel Antonius, Adam D. Brown, Tali Walters

£44.99

Prominent scholars from a wide array of disciplines unpack the complex factors underlying terrorism and political violence. This volume brings together global perspectives to provide a more nuanced understanding of this critical and timely issue.

War Time Preaching and Teaching

By: Jeffrey Jon Richards

£39.99

Explore the preaching and teaching of Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Often misunderstood, this book objectively views their methods of biblical interpretation, showing how both sought to communicate the Gospel in a relevant manner during a challenging time.

Between the Two

A Nomadic Inquiry into Collaborative Writing and Subjectivity

By: Ken Gale, Jonathan Wyatt

From £19.99

This book is a reflexive exploration into collaborative writing as a method of inquiry. At its heart are sequences of exchanged writings that form an experimental, transgressive inquiry into subjectivity, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

Creative Interventions

The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy

Edited By: Eugenio Bolongaro

£49.99

Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.

Translation Reconsidered

Culture, Genre and the “Colonial Encounter” in Nineteenth Century Bengal

By: Chandrani Chatterjee

£39.99

This interdisciplinary study argues that translation does not merely relocate a text, but negotiates and alters relationships between cultures. Focusing on the cultural history of Bengal, it explores how genres are also translated, assuming striking new shapes.

Hearing the Gospel through Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”

By: Reverend Cheryl Anne Kincaid

£34.99

This Christian devotional uses A Christmas Carol as a tool to teach the ancient Advent lessons of Hope, Faith, Peace, Love and Joy. Travel through Ebenezer’s redemptive journey to examine how Christ is born in your past, present and future.

Coming of Age on Film

Stories of Transformation in World Cinema

Edited By: Anne Hardcastle, Roberta Morosini, Kendall Tarte

£34.99

Twelve film scholars examine the theme of coming of age in the cinema of Latin America, Europe, and Africa. These essays explore transformation in individuals and nations, bringing attention to a widely represented but minimally studied theme in global cinema.

St. John’s Fever and Lock Hospital Limerick, 1780-1890

By: Patricia M. Bennis

£34.99

Before St. John’s, the first fever hospital, patients suffered and died in their homes. The spread of fever was controlled by isolating them. This Irish study covers the cholera epidemic of 1832 and the Great Famine of the 1840s.

Issues in Accents of English 2

Variability and Norm

Edited By: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak

£44.99

This book explores variability in English accent production and perception by native and non-native speakers. Based on original data, it discusses intelligibility, identity, motivation, stress, and rhythm to contribute to pronunciation teaching.

New Perspectives on the Irish Catholic Tradition

Edited By: Gavan Jennings

£34.99

In these thought-provoking essays, Irish Catholic writers from diverse backgrounds examine a wide range of issues: liturgy, politics, culture, and bioethics. This collection explores the Catholic tradition as lived in Ireland, offering an encouragement to fidelity.

“This Shipwreck of Fragments”

Historical Memory, Imaginary Identities, and Postcolonial Geography in Caribbean Culture and Literature

Edited By: Li-Chun Hsiao

£34.99

This book examines Caribbean cultural identities beyond the popular perception of hybridity. Drawing on literature and music from the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean, it reveals troubled pasts and current problems eclipsed by the "tropical getaway" myth.

Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation

Issues in International American Studies

Edited By: Susana Araújo, João Ferreira Duarte, Marta Pacheco Pinto

£44.99

From different disciplinary angles, these essays explore key questions in International American Studies: What are the symbolic and material relations between the “Americas,” the “USA,” and the “World”? And how does American experience shape global practices?

The Resonance of a Small Voice

William Walton and the Violin Concerto in England between 1900 and 1940

By: Paolo Petrocelli

£34.99

A pioneering study of Walton's Violin Concerto, placed in the golden age of the English concerto (1900-1940). It sheds new light on works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Britten, and uncovers unjustly forgotten masterpieces.

A pioneering study of Walton’s Violin Concerto, placed in the golden age of the English concerto (1900-1940). It sheds new light on works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Britten, and uncovers unjustly forgotten masterpieces.

Remaking Literary History

Edited By: Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan

£39.99

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana) Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana)

Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.

On the Wings of Eagles

The Reforms of Gaius Marius and the Creation of Rome’s First Professional Soldiers

By: Christopher Anthony Matthew

£34.99

Gaius Marius was an innovative commander whose reforms changed the Roman military from a short-term militia into a professional standing army. This allowed Rome to expand but came at a cost to the state's stability. This book charts the military implications of his reforms.

Gaius Marius was an innovative commander whose reforms changed the Roman military from a short-term militia into a professional standing army. This allowed Rome to expand but came at a cost to the state’s stability. This book charts the military implications of his reforms.

Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel

Edited By: Madelena Gonzalez

£39.99

The barriers between genres have broken down, posing the question of what constitutes a novel today. This collection of essays examines generic instability and narrative impostures, demonstrating that this instability is the contemporary novel’s identity.

Wesleyan Theology and Social Science

The Dance of Practical Divinity and Discovery

Edited By: M. Kathryn Armistead, Brad D. Strawn, Ronald W. Wright

£39.99

John Wesley used science and theology to improve lives. This book continues that legacy, bringing current psychology into conversation with Wesleyan theology. In these essays, science and theology partner so that all persons can live fully and well.

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