Social Sciences

The Mission and Message of Music

Building Blocks to the Aesthetics of Music in our Time

By: Michal Smoira Cohn, Shlomo Giora Shoham

£44.99

This book probes the beauty and meaning of music, arguing it is a message in sound—a covenant between musician and listener. One sends the musical message, the other internalizes it. Intended for music connoisseurs and all interested in artistic thought.

Diaries of a Forgotten Parent

Divorced Dads on Fathering Through and Beyond Divorce

By: Wendy A. Paterson

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An intimate window on the lives of divorced men. Ten American fathers share intensely personal reflections of guilt, pain, and pride, deconstructing the societal myth that fathers are less valuable parents than mothers.

Building Communities and Making Connections

Edited By: Susana Rivera-Mills, Juan Antonio Trujillo

£39.99

Academic endeavors have long been separate from local communities. This book closes the gap by exploring ways academia and the communities it serves can collaborate to create authentic and applied learning environments.

Current Projects in Historical Lexicography

Edited By: John Considine

£39.99

This collection brings together seven papers by editors of historical dictionaries. The contributions offer a rare set of insights into ongoing lexicographical work, addressing both methodological and practical issues such as funding and publication media.

From Question to Quest

Literary-Philosophical Enquiries into the Challenges of Life

By: Santiago Sia

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The quest for answers to life's challenges is a human task. This book offers literary-philosophical enquiries into the search for meaning, wisdom, morality, community, suffering, and the longing for immortality.

The quest for answers to life’s challenges is a human task. This book offers literary-philosophical enquiries into the search for meaning, wisdom, morality, community, suffering, and the longing for immortality.

Preaching Christ in a Postmodern Culture

By: K. A. Beville

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This book assesses preaching in a postmodern culture that rejects absolute truth and authority. For disillusioned practitioners, it offers guidelines, distinguishing authoritative from authoritarian preaching to show the homiletic task is still feasible.

Byron and Hobby-O

Lord Byron’s Relationship with John Cam Hobhouse

By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

This is a frank and intimate study of the relationship between Byron and his best friend, John Cam Hobhouse. Initially collaborators and rivals, Byron rapidly outstretched Hobhouse in poetry, while Hobhouse, in the longer term, outstretched Byron in politics.

Transcultural Encounters amongst Women

Redrawing Boundaries in Hispanic and Lusophone Art, Literature and Film

Edited By: Gabrielle Carty, Patricia O’Byrne

£39.99

This collection explores how women from the Hispanic and Lusophone world cross cultural boundaries in literature and film, examining their experiences through the powerful themes of identity, conflict, and values.

Writing America into the Twenty-First Century

Essays on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle, Anne-Marie Evans

£34.99

This collection of essays presents a refreshing analysis of recent American fiction. Interrogating works by authors like Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy, it offers a new way to examine the American novel in the twenty-first century.

Activating the Past

History and Memory in the Black Atlantic World

Edited By: Andrew Apter, Lauren Derby

£49.99

Activating the Past explores how memories of the slave trade in the Black Atlantic retreat into ritual. Though rarely acknowledged, these repressed histories are activated during public festivals and spirit possession in West Africa and the Americas.

Peacemaking, Peacemakers and Diplomacy, 1880-1939

Essays in Honour of Professor Alan Sharp

Edited By: Gaynor Johnson

£39.99

Leading scholars explore the ‘new diplomacy’ conducted before, during, and after the First World War. These essays examine its origins, the changing view of war as a diplomatic tool, and how the Paris Peace Conference was viewed inside and outside Europe.

Event and Decision

Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead

Edited By: Roland Faber, Henry Krips, Daniel Pettus

£44.99

This book unites the philosophies of Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead on the concept of the event. For all three thinkers, the event necessitates a radical politics, revealing humanity as constituted by a multiplicious cycle of infinite creation.

Globalization and Aspects of Translation

Edited By: Juliane House, Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Said M. Shiyab

£39.99

For students of translation, linguistics, and languages, this book explores the relationship between translation and globalization. International scholars cover cultural communication, ethics, and media, blending theory with practice for a truly global perspective.

Knowing and Being

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi

Edited By: Tihamér Margitay

£39.99

Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist's passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume's critical essays analyze and develop his thought.

Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist’s passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume’s critical essays analyze and develop his thought.

Reconceptualising the Divide

Identity, Memory, and Nationalism in Sino-Japanese Relations

Edited By: Victor Teo

£39.99

Despite vibrant economic relations, Sino-Japanese relations remain strained. This book focuses on the neglected “ideational” forces—memories, identities, and nationalism—that synthesize with domestic politics to shape the future of these two giants.

After the Postsecular and the Postmodern

New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion

Edited By: Anthony Paul Smith, Daniel Whistler

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A vanguard of scholars asks what comes after the postsecular and postmodern in Continental philosophy of religion. This volume argues philosophy must liberate itself from theological norms and mutate into a new speculative practice to confront the challenges of our time.

This “Self” Which Is Not One

Women’s Life Writing in French

Edited By: Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth

£34.99

This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.

Migrants and Cultural Memory

The Representation of Difference

By: Micheal O'Haodha

£34.99

This volume explores representations of the Traveller, Roma, and migrant “Other”. It shows how the migrant experience is echoed in the hybrid and diverse discourses of Western countries, pointing to the ongoing reconfiguration of dominant cultural narratives.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Carole Policy, Claudia Slate

£39.99

This volume contains essays about Florida literature and history. Topics range from slave shipwrecks and Zora Neale Hurston to Stephen King and the “Dexter” novels, as well as Florida ecocriticism, Hunter Thompson, and Elizabeth Bishop.

Anthropological Fieldwork

A Relational Process

Edited By: James Davies, Dimitrina Spencer

£39.99

The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied process mediated by emotions. For fieldwork to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity is essential. They propose new ways of practising it to enhance anthropological knowledge.

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