Social Sciences

Fathers in Victorian Fiction

Edited By: Natalie McKnight

£39.99

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors' lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors’ lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

Academic Days of Timişoara

Social Sciences Today

Edited By: Maria Palicica, Georgeta Raţă

£54.99

Social Sciences Today contains papers from an international symposium covering economics, education, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This collection will appeal to social science teachers at all levels of instruction.

The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture

Edited By: Heiko Feldner, Claire Gorrara, Kevin Passmore

£39.99

These essays reveal the 1950s not as transitional years, but as an astonishingly fecund period of experimentation. This volume explores the decade's profound impact on post-war European identities, society, politics, and culture.

These essays reveal the 1950s not as transitional years, but as an astonishingly fecund period of experimentation. This volume explores the decade’s profound impact on post-war European identities, society, politics, and culture.

Literary Translation

Aspects of Pragmatic Meaning

By: Bahaa-Eddin A. Hassan

£34.99

This manual applies linguistic pragmatics to literary translation. Using Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy as a guide, it bridges theory and practice to show how translators can preserve implied meaning and improve their work.

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain

A Reader’s Guide

By: Rodney Symington

From £34.99

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.

Receptions and Re-visitings

Review Articles, 1978-2011

By: Roger C. Richardson

£34.99

This collection of essays addresses politics, gender, the English Revolution, and more. With a strong historiographical dimension that extends to modern times, this is an accessible guide for general readers and specialists alike.

Perspectives on the Educational Experiences of African/Caribbean Boys

By: Nisheet Gosai

£39.99

This study explores African/Caribbean boys’ educational experiences in the UK. It contrasts narratives of racial exclusion in mainstream schools with the positive support of supplementary education, highlighting what the former can learn from the latter.

Restless Travellers

Quests for Identity across European and American Time and Space

Edited By: Antonio José Miralles Pérez

£39.99

This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain's imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.

This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain’s imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.

Resounding Pasts

Essays in Literature, Popular Music, and Cultural Memory

Edited By: Drago Momcilovic

£39.99

Music and literature shape cultural memories. In an age where artistic commemorations overlap and cross borders, they create a network of representations that challenges how we remember, share, and interpret the past.

American Turkish Encounters

Politics and Culture, 1830-1989

Edited By: Bilge Nur Criss, Selcuk Esenbel, Tony Greenwood

£49.99

Turkish-American relations go beyond strategic issues. This book explores the rich social, cultural, and intellectual dimensions of this critical encounter since the Cold War, offering original perspectives for specialists and general readers alike.

Latest Trends in ELF Research

Edited By: Alasdair Archibald, Alessia Cogo, Jennifer Jenkins

£24.99

This book provides new insights into English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), exploring the latest empirical research in business and academic ELF, intercultural communication, language attitudes, and code-switching. Essential for linguists and ELT practitioners.

Artistic Ambivalence in Clay

Portraits of Pottery, Ceramics, and Gender

By: Courtney Lee Weida

£34.99

Glimpse into the lives of fifteen prominent women in contemporary ceramics. Spanning generations and geographies, they describe tensions in their art and careers, analyzing the persistence of sexism while celebrating their often neglected perspectives.

In Levinas’ Trace

Edited By: Maria Dimitrova

£34.99

This book explores human relationships from the perspective of phenomenology. More than an abstract academic work, it is essential for those interested in ethics and political philosophy, offering new ways to articulate humanism and justice for scholars and policymakers.

Knowing Their Place? Identity and Space in Children’s Literature

Edited By: Terri Doughty, Dawn Thompson

£39.99

What does it mean for a child to "know their place" in a globalized world? This collection explores how identity is formed by place in children's literature, studying indigeneity, the natural world, fantastic spaces, and texts like Peter Pan and Harry Potter.

What does it mean for a child to “know their place” in a globalized world? This collection explores how identity is formed by place in children’s literature, studying indigeneity, the natural world, fantastic spaces, and texts like Peter Pan and Harry Potter.

Politics of Interculturality

Edited By: Fred Dervin, Anahy Gajardo, Anne Lavanchy

£39.99

This volume offers a critical evaluation of interculturality, capturing vigorous debates across four continents. Scholars break with tradition to challenge the tired old notion of ‘culture’ and establish new ways of engaging with the concept.

Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Critical Approaches

Edited By: Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally

£34.99

This first volume of essays on Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel, A Mercy, presents critical approaches to its richly-layered text. It explores the novel’s setting before slavery was linked to race, illuminating the work for scholars and students.

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

Zanetta

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£34.99

Auber was one of the most successful French opera composers of the 19th century. His opéra-comique Zanetta, with librettist Eugène Scribe, is a tale of courtly intrigue where a nobleman's fake courtship of a gardener's daughter leads to true love.

Auber was one of the most successful French opera composers of the 19th century. His opéra-comique Zanetta, with librettist Eugène Scribe, is a tale of courtly intrigue where a nobleman’s fake courtship of a gardener’s daughter leads to true love.

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

Actéon

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£34.99

In this opéra-comique by Auber and Scribe, a myth becomes a fable of art and love. To woo the secluded Adèle, Count Léoni disguises himself as a blind singer. He is asked to pose as Actaeon for a painting, but when his deception is revealed, disaster looms.

Prosecutors’ Forensic Speech in Implicit Pragmalinguistics

By: Irina Zyubina

£34.99

This book introduces Implicit Pragmalinguistics, a new branch of linguistics, to analyze prosecutors’ forensic speech. It compares the individual and stereotyped speech behaviors of English- and Russian-speaking prosecutors based on experimental results.

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

La Barcarolle

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£39.99

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, a giant of 19th-century French opera, collaborated with librettist Eugène Scribe on La Barcarolle. A tale of court intrigue and artistic rivalry, this opéra-comique retains all its freshness, delicacy and charm.

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