Social Sciences

Contingencies and Masterly Fictions

Countertextuality in Dickens, Contemporary Fiction and Theory

By: Lauren Watson

£39.99

This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens's novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.

This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens’s novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.

Rhetoric in the Rest of the West

Edited By: Shane Borrowman, Marcia Kmetz, Robert L. Lively

£39.99

The history of rhetoric has continued to exist in a binary of West and Rest, silencing many voices within the West itself. This book expands the conversation by examining the traditions that lost the cultural competition and have been shrouded in shadow.

Imagery, Spirituality and Ideology in Baroque Spain and Latin America

Edited By: Marta Bustillo, Jeremy Roe

£34.99

These essays explore visual imagery as a medium for the Catholic Church's spiritual and ideological concerns in the Spanish Habsburg Empire. New sources reveal how art was used to ‘Delight, Move and Instruct’ spectators in cities from Cuzco to Madrid.

These essays explore visual imagery as a medium for the Catholic Church’s spiritual and ideological concerns in the Spanish Habsburg Empire. New sources reveal how art was used to ‘Delight, Move and Instruct’ spectators in cities from Cuzco to Madrid.

Spoken Communication

Edited By: Isabella Chiari, Antonella Giannini, Massimo Pettorino

£39.99

This volume offers a description of current research on Spoken communication. It gives updated insights on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives, language pathologies, multimodal dialog, voice expressiveness, and sign languages.

Alienation and Resistance

Representation in Text and Image

Edited By: Laura Findlay, Gordon Spark

£44.99

This collection examines representations of alienation and resistance across diverse media. Essays explore these themes in everything from 16th-century drama to modern comics and film, asking: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of these forces in our culture?

Crossing Colonial Historiographies

Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective

Edited By: Anne Digby, Projit B. Muhkarji

£39.99

This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It explores new conceptual perspectives and highlights thematic commonalities and divergences across regions.

Society in Focus—Change, Challenge and Resistance

Reflections from South Africa and Beyond

Edited By: Lindy Heinecken, Heidi Prozesky

£39.99

This collection of sociological research from South Africa critically examines societal issues. Chapters explore themes of power and the environment, development, workplace change, and the complex interplay of race, class, and gender with empirical richness.

Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing

Edited By: Paul Salzman

£39.99

This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.

Anna Banti and the (Im)possibility of Love

By: Wissia Fiorucci

£34.99

This book explores Banti’s Italian feminism, focusing on her interpretation of “equality” versus “sexual difference.” Through an analysis of her novels and short stories, it argues that Banti embraced a feminism of difference to preserve woman's identity.

Racism in Novels

A Comparative Study of Brazilian and South African Cultural History

By: Elaine Rocha

£34.99

Novels from early 20th-century Brazil and South Africa reveal a shared history: the use of racial policy to control society. Elaine Rocha examines how literature reflected the stark realities of everyday segregation in both nations.

Sustainable Development in Mechanical Engineering

Case Studies in Applied Mechanics

Edited By: Sylvie Nadeau, Yvan Petit, Stéphane Hallé

£34.99

Engineers have a responsibility to safeguard public health and safety. This book presents fifteen practical mechanical engineering cases that integrate design principles with environment, health, and safety risk management to prepare future engineers.

The British Labour Movement and Imperialism

Edited By: Billy Frank, Craig Horner, David Stewart

£39.99

This collection explores the British labour movement's neglected relationship with imperialism from 1800–1982. It engages with themes from trade union interaction with empire to post-colonialism, making a substantial contribution to the debates on imperialism's legacy.

This collection explores the British labour movement’s neglected relationship with imperialism from 1800–1982. It engages with themes from trade union interaction with empire to post-colonialism, making a substantial contribution to the debates on imperialism’s legacy.

Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism

Edited By: Sebnem Toplu, Şebnem Toplu

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Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.

The Non-verbal Type of Small Clauses in English and Lithuanian

By: Judita Giparaite

£39.99

This pioneering study applies generative grammar to Lithuanian in a contrastive analysis of small clauses in English and Lithuanian. The work addresses whether these constructions express a subject-predicate relationship and function as a clause.

On the Borders of Convention

Edited By: Aleksandra Nikčević Batrićević

£39.99

International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.

The Taylor Effect

Responding to a Secular Age

Edited By: Ian Leask with Eoin Cassidy, Alan Kearns, Fainche Ryan

£39.99

The Taylor Effect presents a diverse collection of essays addressing Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. With contributions from philosophy, theology, literature, and political science, this is a central reference point for any future discussion of Taylor’s work.

Polish Migrants in Belfast

Border Crossing and Identity Construction

By: Marta Kempny

£39.99

Based on an ethnographic study of Polish migrants in Belfast, this book explores identity construction. It investigates the tension between preserving one's culture of origin and the urge to cross its boundaries, and the role of religion in shaping identity.

Based on an ethnographic study of Polish migrants in Belfast, this book explores identity construction. It investigates the tension between preserving one’s culture of origin and the urge to cross its boundaries, and the role of religion in shaping identity.

Critical Perspectives on Literature and Culture in the New World Order

Edited By: Washima Che Dan, Jason Sanjeev Ganesan, Noritah Omar

£39.99

This volume offers critical perspectives on literature and culture, contesting the New World Order and the hegemony of stronger nations. With a significant focus on Islam, it challenges academic discourses founded upon Western-style scholarship.

Technology and the Pedagogics of Learning

By: Jephias Mapuva

£34.99

This volume explores the prospects and challenges of using technology in education. It addresses how students and academics can benefit from e-tools like blogs and wikis, and how technology is causing a paradigm shift from traditional teaching methods.

World Governance

Do We Need It, Is It Possible, What Could It (All) Mean?

Edited By: Jovan Babić, Petar Bojanić

From £34.99

Do we need a world government to ensure peace and well-being? While security and sustainability are strong arguments for it, many fear it would become tyrannical. This book explores the necessary components of an effective and just global order.

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