Social Sciences

Can Our Civilisation Survive the Changes Generated by New Technology? Analysing Society and Media

By: Vesna Lukovic, Marja Novak Vogric

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History shows that civilizations collapse when they fail to adapt to change. Today, new technology threatens to destroy our own world. This book analyzes its social disadvantages—from fake news to its earliest victims—and asks what must be done to adapt and use it for the good.

The Rise and Decline of Ancient Civilizations

By: Eka Avaliani

£64.99

This book examines five models of ancient civilization in the Near East and Mediterranean. It explores the dynamics of their development, the structure of civilizations, cultural transformation through space and time, and the specifics of their unique artistic thinking.

Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English

By: Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni, Gill Philip

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This book presents a model of epistemic stance, showing that questions come from two distinct positions: Unknowing (a lack of knowledge) and Uncertain (a lack of certainty). Uncertain questions range on a continuum from expressing doubt to advancing a supposition.

German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries)

Writing the Arctic

Edited By: Jan Borm, Joanna Kodzik

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German travellers, explorers, and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first English-language volume dedicated to their work, offering critical readings of travelogues, histories, and fiction.

Subversion of Victorian Gender Roles in Oscar Wilde’s Selected Plays

By: Başak Çün

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This book examines how Oscar Wilde’s plays subvert Victorian gender roles and moral codes. He creates a new perception of womanhood and manhood, unbound by the strict borders separating the proper from the improper, revealing a morally complex new world.

Cooperative Strategy for the 21st Century

By: Francisco J. Garrido

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Conflict-based strategy is obsolete. This is the essential guide to cooperative strategy for modern leaders. In a world where the choice is stark—"cooperate, or die"—this book provides the playbook for a successful future.

Conflict-based strategy is obsolete. This is the essential guide to cooperative strategy for modern leaders. In a world where the choice is stark—”cooperate, or die”—this book provides the playbook for a successful future.

The Main Successes and Failures of the Trump Administration’s Foreign and Domestic Policies

By: Jorge Morales Pedraza

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This book analyzes former President Trump’s domestic and foreign policies, from trade wars to nuclear programs. It details their successes, failures, and negative impact on the US and its allies, while offering recommendations to resolve the conflicts they generated.

Philosophy and Mental Health in the Age of Nihilism

Nothing Really Matters

By: Lehel Balogh

£64.99

This book explores the interconnections of nihilism, anxiety, and authenticity in East Asian and Western philosophies, religions, and psychotherapies. An innovative, cross-cultural study, it re-examines Buddhist and Daoist concepts to argue for an authentic no-self.

Emotions and Society in Difficult Times

Edited By: Adrian Scribano, Juan A. Roche Cárcel

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The pandemic revealed more than a virus. This book uncovers the deep connections between emotion, vulnerability, poverty, and power, showing how the crisis exposed the pre-existing social fractures that determined who suffered most.

Higher Education and Research in the Post-Knowledge Society

Scenarios for a Future World

Edited By: Merle Jacob, Mary-Louise Kearney, V. Lynn Meek

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How will higher education evolve to underpin sustainable societies? This book explores future scenarios against a background of transformation, including digital advances, globalization, socio-economic inequality, and climate change.

Cognitive Dissonance and the Reproduction of the Black Achievement Gaps in the US

By: Mai Abdul Rahman

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This book explores how racism and cognitive bias in public schooling breed student achievement gaps. It shows how educators transmit social and racial inequities and offers a set of interventions to build healthy school climates where every student is welcomed and honored.

Higher Education Ethics

Five Domains to Improve Education

By: Russell Porter, Janet Gordon

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Equip your institution with a robust ethical framework. This guide offers a new typology of higher education ethics, featuring proven decision-making models, case studies, and professional standards for navigating complex global challenges.

Myth Formation in the Fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh

By: Nilanjan Chakraborty

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This book studies how myths construct community identity, focusing on the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh. A comparative postcolonial analysis, it delves into how these major authors from Nigeria and India use myth to represent the cultural mores of their societies.

Voyages in Postcolonial African Theatre Practice

Edited By: Charles Nwadigwe, Keneth Bamuturaki

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This volume of essays dissects critical issues in postcolonial African theatre. It moves beyond conventional theory to focus on the concrete realities practitioners face, exploring diverse topics from censorship and cultural policy to text, performance, and production.

Contemporary Dance in South Africa

The Toyi-Toying Body

By: Sarahleigh Castelyn

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How does the body in South African contemporary dance protest oppressive power? This book examines key post-apartheid works to reveal their social and political meanings, capturing a unique moment in the nation's history and telling the story of its past, present, and future.

How does the body in South African contemporary dance protest oppressive power? This book examines key post-apartheid works to reveal their social and political meanings, capturing a unique moment in the nation’s history and telling the story of its past, present, and future.

Doom, Desire and the Polis in Eugene O’Neill’s Drama

By: Adel Bahroun

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This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire and the power of doom. The city is the stage where his protagonists, as desiring machines, try to evade modern closed circles of power, anticipating concepts from Gilles Deleuze.

Absolute Idealism as a Necessary Condition for Sacramental or Other Theology

By: Stephen Theron

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This book bridges Christian sacramental praxis with philosophy of mind. Through a new philosophy of incarnation, it argues self-consciousness must develop towards the Absolute Idea, where religion becomes intellectual virtue. A new theology is here. It is time to put it to work.

Approaches to Building a Smart Community

An Exploration through the Concept of the Digital Village

Edited By: Jackie Phahlamohlaka

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This book offers unique ‘glocal’ approaches to ‘smart communities’, drawing on South African experiences to address this global issue. It blends social and technical aspects, presenting insights from a range of community practitioners, academics, architects, and engineers.

America in Crisis

Insights from New Social Science Disciplines

By: Michael A. Alexander

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America is in crisis. A changing climate, financial instability, and political turmoil threaten our future. Using the new science of cliodynamics, this book explains how rising inequality causes such crises and reveals how we can build a stronger, more prosperous America.

International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures

From Translingualism to Language Mixing

Edited By: Katie Jones, Julian Preece, Aled Rees

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This collection of essays charts interactions between majority and minority languages. Through case studies of authors like Elena Ferrante, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, it explores migration, self-translation, language death, and power in (post-)colonial contexts.

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