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Women, Wellness, and the Media

Edited By: Margaret C. Wiley, Barbara Barnett

£34.99

Thirteen scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the relationship between media stereotypes and women’s health. They show how these images harm women’s health while turning millions in corporate profits.

Power and Image in Early Modern Europe

Edited By: Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire

£34.99

How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.

Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein

German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations

Edited By: Jörg Esleben, Jörg-U. Keßler, Sukanya Kulkarni

£34.99

Explore the centuries-long fascination between India and Germany. This book charts their complex, entangled exchange in literature, philosophy, and politics, providing a vital overview of current research on their shared history.

Popular Media and Communication

Essays on Publics, Practices and Processes

Edited By: Stuart Price, Karen Ross

£34.99

This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.

Development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India

Edited By: Jagan Karade

£39.99

Reputed scholars offer a critical analysis of strategies for the development of SCs and STs in India. This well-researched volume is an invaluable tool for planners and policymakers seeking to evolve viable strategies for the coming years.

Gender and Displacement

"Home" in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography

Edited By: Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth

£24.99

This volume investigates the construction of "home" in Francophone women's autobiography. Narratives of female identity connect race, gender, colonization, and migration in writers from North Africa, the Caribbean, and immigrant writers in France.

This volume investigates the construction of “home” in Francophone women’s autobiography. Narratives of female identity connect race, gender, colonization, and migration in writers from North Africa, the Caribbean, and immigrant writers in France.

Dangers in the Incommensurability of Globalization

Socio-Political Volatilities

Edited By: Gary Backhaus, John Murungi

£29.99

A gap exists between our intentions and their objective consequences, creating a chaos, or incommensurability, that foils human plans. This book explores how this dynamic reveals the tenuous character of our world through global warming, peak oil, and volatile economics.

The Shamanic Themes in Georgian Folktales

By: Elliot D. Cohen

£24.99

Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia's pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.

Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia’s pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.

Ethnicity and Social Divisions

Contemporary Research in Sociology

Edited By: Elias le Grand, Karin Halldén, Zenia Hellgren

£39.99

This anthology explores the intersection of ethnicity, immigration, and social class. Representing a new generation of social scientists from Harvard, Oxford, and Stockholm, the contributors present empirical research on social inequality.

Women at the Polls

The Gender Gap, Cultural Politics, and Contested Constituencies in the United States

By: Cal Clark, Janet Clark

£39.99

Since 1980, U.S. elections have been marked by a “gender gap” in which women are more supportive of Democrats. Women at the Polls finds this gap is extensive across demographic groups, based on differing political attitudes on key issues.

Women in the Portuguese Colonial Empire

The Theatre of Shadows

Edited By: Clara Sarmento

£39.99

Across the vast Portuguese colonial empire, women were silenced, mystified, and erased from history. This collection of essays questions these historical gaps, uncovering the real roles of those whose voices were systematically written out of the record.

Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural

Art and Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Edited By: Andrew Graciano

£34.99

Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.

Insanity and Genius

Masks of Madness and the Mapping of Meaning and Value

By: Harry Eiss

£44.99

The truths we need come from a way of knowing not of logic, but of expression—a world that takes us beyond the grasp of reason. This book is an exploration of the greatest minds and how they have struggled to find the deepest truths about the human condition.

Problems of Working Women in Karachi, Pakistan

By: Iffat Hussain

£29.99

Based on interviews with working women in Karachi, this book explores their struggle for identity and survival in a male-dominated society. Using clear graphs and case studies, it details the problems they face in a gender-biased world.

Mediations in Cultural Spaces

Structure, Sign, Body

Edited By: John Wall

£34.99

These essays explore the cultural production of space across East and West. Through interdisciplinary treatments of architecture, politics, and new media, this volume reveals space as a radically mobile concept, conceived in terms of power and emancipation.

Between the Pigeonholes

Gerald Heard, 1889-1971

By: Alison Falby

£34.99

An intellectual pioneer praised by Huxley and Forster but now largely unknown, Gerald Heard was a cultural force. This first full-length study examines how his ideas bridged science, spirituality, and politics, influencing both the Left and the Right.

Trust and Transitions

Social Capital in a Changing World

Edited By: Joseph D. Lewandowski, Milan Znoj

From £19.99

This volume examines trust within social capital theory, using empirical studies of post-Communist countries and theoretical analysis. Noted scholars explore trust's role in marketization and democratization, presenting contemporary perspectives for times of transition.

This volume examines trust within social capital theory, using empirical studies of post-Communist countries and theoretical analysis. Noted scholars explore trust’s role in marketization and democratization, presenting contemporary perspectives for times of transition.

Researching Experiences

Exploring Processual and Experimental Methods in Cultural Analysis

Edited By: Lisa Gjedde, Bruno Ingemann

£34.99

This book focuses on how people experience and construct meaning from visual culture. It presents video-based methods for researching experiences, introducing methodological tools like the reflexivity lab for students, researchers, and practitioners.

Masculinities and Music

Engaging Men and Boys in Making Music

By: Scott Harrison

£34.99

Performer and teacher Scott Harrison offers a passionate, humorous, and serious look at men and music. Combining personal stories with academic research, this book explores why men and boys struggle to participate in music and how they can re-engage.

Young Children as Active Citizens

Principles, Policies and Pedagogies

Edited By: Patrick Hughes, Glenda Mac Naughton, Kylie Smith

£39.99

Young Children as Citizens explores how children can participate in civic life as social actors with rights. It presents research-based case studies where policy-makers and educators listened to children's views on public issues, enhancing a democratic society.

Young Children as Citizens explores how children can participate in civic life as social actors with rights. It presents research-based case studies where policy-makers and educators listened to children’s views on public issues, enhancing a democratic society.