Social Sciences

Crisis and Change

Religion, Ethics and Theology under Late Modern Conditions

Edited By: Jan-Olav Henriksen, Tage Kurtén

£39.99

One cannot understand religion and ethics without paying attention to context. As late modern conditions pose new challenges to established theology, this volume rethinks religion and Christian ethics, exploring how they appear in new ways and new contexts.

Crisis and Creativity in Performing Arts Training

Edited By: Robert Lewis, Soseh Yekanians

From £35.99

Key articles from the 2023 AusAct conference address innovative post-COVID discussions on how the Performing Arts can survive crisis. Chapters explore the significant role of acting teachers in our education sector and their contribution to the international creative economies.

Crisis Communication in the Digital Age

Manage or Rampage

By: Ayse Simin Kara

£58.99

In recent years, in countries with high crisis expectation and risk probabilities, a significant rise in the number of crises has been observed. This study discusses crisis management types and strategies, stressing the vital role of public relations in their resolution.

Crisis in Contemporary British Fiction

Edited By: Anastasia Logotheti

From £29.99

This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.

Crisis in Governance

Military Rule in Bangladesh during 2007–2008

By: Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury

From £30.99

An academic view of military intervention in Bangladesh, with insights from unique personal experience and confidential documents. This book reveals unrecorded facts about the causes of the 2007 intervention and the ambiguous role of foreign powers.

Crisis, Exposure, Imagination

Lifting Veils

Edited By: Fred Abong, Craig Condella, Jordan E. Miller

£58.99

Unprecedented crises expose new ways of understanding. This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of imagination in our response. Lifting the veil between crisis and creativity radically undoes the past, opens us to the future, and provides vision and hope.

Crisis, Globalization and Governance

How to Draw Lessons?

Edited By: Nehme Azoury, Frank Bournois

£39.99

As globalization challenges old business practices, this book tackles how to reinvent governance at private and public levels. It provides strategies to reorient globalization for a safer future, promoting public interest and social democracy.

Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety

An Interdisciplinary Examination of Contemporary and Historical Human Challenges

Edited By: Will Jackson, Bob Jeffrey, Mattia Mariano

£39.99

This interdisciplinary collection critically interrogates ‘crisis,’ a defining concept of our times. Leading scholars unsettle common notions by exploring crises across politics, society, and the humanities, examining the roots of our understanding and its representation.

Critical and Comparative Perspectives on American Studies

Edited By: Faruk Bajraktarević, Ksenija Kondali

£47.99

This volume explores American Studies today, investigating its capacity to respond to 21st-century challenges in a world of transnational flux. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, these essays offer a multifaceted image of a complex and rapidly evolving discipline.

Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age

Edited By: Anna Maria Guasch Ferrer, Nasheli Jimenez Val

£52.99

Leading scholars pose fundamental questions about contemporary art in the global age. This volume maps current debates on archives, politics, labor, and the post-natural condition, providing a cartography of the conceptual intersections in global art studies today.

Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age II

The Territories of the Contemporary

Edited By: Christina Grammatikopoulou, Rafael Pinilla

£61.99

This volume addresses questions that are crucial to approaching art, visuality, and cultural policies from the perspective of global transformations and the rise of new social, political and cultural paradigms.

Critical Coalitions

Literary Aesthetics and Beyond

Edited By: Rimika Singhvi, Gunja Patni

From £36.99

Explore the dynamic interplay of literature and contemporary themes like postcoloniality, gender, and new media. Combining scholarly dialogue, no-holds-barred interviews, and poignant poetry, this book offers fresh perspectives on culture, identity, and representation.

Critical Cultural Awareness

Managing Stereotypes through Intercultural (Language) Education

Edited By: Yumiko Furumura, Maria Lebedko, Yau Tsai

£44.99

This book promotes understanding of stereotypes and suggests ways teachers can manage them by developing students' critical cultural awareness. It provides a firm platform for the practical application of knowledge and skills when managing stereotypes in the classroom.

This book promotes understanding of stereotypes and suggests ways teachers can manage them by developing students’ critical cultural awareness. It provides a firm platform for the practical application of knowledge and skills when managing stereotypes in the classroom.

Critical Edition of The Silence of Dean Maitland by Maxwell Gray

Edited By: Kevin A. Morrison

From £32.99

Rediscover a forgotten classic. Maxwell Gray’s bestselling 1886 novel, The Silence of Dean Maitland, combines evocative English landscape, in the mould of Thomas Hardy, with a gripping plot of crime and moral choice. This edition includes scholarly articles on its adaptations.

Critical Engagements on African Literature

An Offering to Professor Isidore Diala

Edited By: Abba A. Abba, Benedictus C. Nwachukwu

From £33.99

This is the first book devoted to Isidore Diala’s award-winning drama and poetry. The essays offer fresh insights on African literary landscapes, exploring themes of national history, ritual aesthetics, postcolonial implosions, oil politics, exile, and gender.

Critical Essays on Barack Obama

Re-affirming the Hope, Re-vitalizing the Dream

Edited By: Melvin B. Rahming

£44.99

In this collection of critical essays, diverse scholars move beyond personal opinion to examine Barack Obama’s life, writings, and presidency. They explore his impact on race and public policy, his potential to re-shape America, and to re-vitalize the American Dream.

Critical Essays on Bernard Stiegler

Philosophy, Technology, Education

By: Joff P. N. Bradley

From £33.99

As Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy emerges as a dominant force, this compendium offers a comprehensive examination of his ideas and their impact on contemporary thought. Immerse yourself in this insightful exploration of Stiegler’s enduring intellectual legacy.

Critical Essays on Literature, Language, and Aesthetics

A Volume in Honour of Milind Malshe

Edited By: Saroja Ganapathy, Arnapurna Rath

From £32.99

Reflecting Professor Milind Malshe’s research interests, this volume of interdisciplinary essays explores the social sciences and humanities. The essays engage in a free play of many voices and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and casual readers.

Critical Essays on World Literature, Comparative Literature and the “Other”

By: Jüri Talvet

From £33.99

This book offers a theoretical and practical treatment of World and Comparative Literature from the perspective of “peripheral” cultures. It aims to transcend the monologues of cultural “centres,” advocating for creative dialogues and a mutually enriching symbiotic relationship.

Critical Interculturality

Lectures and Notes

By: Garry Robson

£58.99

Dervin offers new critical insights into intercultural communication and education, assembling previously unpublished lectures delivered in different countries (namely, Canada, China, Finland, Russia and the USA), as well as notes on intercultural events and encounters.

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