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Beyond the Hijab Debates

New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion

Edited By: Tanja Dreher, Christina Ho

£39.99

Public debates reduce complex issues to simplistic binaries. This collection cuts through the noise, offering incisive analyses and new possibilities for understanding the intersection of gender, race, and religion.

Media Agoras

Democracy, Diversity, and Communication

Edited By: Sofie Van Bauwel, Bart Cammaerts, Iñaki Garcia-Blanco

£39.99

This collection of essays presents up-to-date perspectives on the media's role in constructing a more inclusive society. From theoretical debates to empirical analyses, this book presents a critical overview of crucial debates in contemporary European societies.

This collection of essays presents up-to-date perspectives on the media’s role in constructing a more inclusive society. From theoretical debates to empirical analyses, this book presents a critical overview of crucial debates in contemporary European societies.

Career Paths for Programmers

Skills in Senior Software Roles

By: Jack Downey

£39.99

Commercial software development requires more than technical skill; it demands communication and collaboration. Based on a three-year study, this book explores the diverse roles and skills needed by senior practitioners, showing the various paths to advance.

Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World

Edited By: Katherine A. Hermes, Karen A. Ritzenhoff

£49.99

This book assembles essays that explore sex and sexuality in historical and contemporary times. Using feminist lenses, these articles reevaluate familiar topics from early religious practices and medieval literature to current films and advertising.

A Foucault for the 21st Century

Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium

Edited By: Sam Binkley, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

From £29.99

How relevant is Foucault’s social thought today? This collection of essays offers novel interpretations of his key concepts—biopower, governmentality, and subjectivation—applying them to contemporary issues like neoliberalism, genetics, and surveillance.

R|EVOLUTIONS

Mapping Culture, Community, and Change from Ben Jonson to Angela Carter

Edited By: Jennifer Craig, Warren Steele

£34.99

Can art change the world? R|EVOLUTIONS is a unique collection interrogating intersections between culture, community, revolution, and evolution. Multidisciplinary in approach, it examines how enduring social issues intertwine with current concerns.

When the World Turned Upside-Down

Cultural Representations of Post-1989 Eastern Europe

Edited By: Kathleen Starck

£34.99

This collection of essays explores post-1989 Western perceptions of Eastern Europe. It argues the East-West divide has not vanished, examining portrayals of the region’s transformations in Western fiction, travel writing, theatre, and documentaries.

Living Outside the Walls

The Chinese in Prato

Edited By: Rebecca French, Russell Smyth

£44.99

The influx of Chinese to Prato's textile industry has stirred strong emotions. This is the first comprehensive English study of the migration, exploring the economic and social dilemmas from a full range of perspectives.

The influx of Chinese to Prato’s textile industry has stirred strong emotions. This is the first comprehensive English study of the migration, exploring the economic and social dilemmas from a full range of perspectives.

Globalization and Transnational Migrations

Africa and Africans in the Contemporary Global System

Edited By: Oluyato Adesina

£44.99

While globalization promised an interconnected world, for Africa it has meant marginalization, poverty, and instability. This book investigates the challenges of migration, brain drain, and identity to help readers make sense of Africa’s position today.

Betraying the Event

Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures

Edited By: Fatima Festić

£39.99

This volume offers a critical reconsideration of victimhood, exposing its cultural and political constructions. It examines how language can be manipulated to devise a vicious reversal of victim/victimizer positions, raising awareness of the consequences.

Locality, History, Memory

The Making of the Citizen in South Asia

Edited By: Rita Mukherjee, M. N. Rajesh

£39.99

This book interrogates how place, history, and memory create the citizen in South Asia. Moving beyond the state, it asks: How does our history enforce or dilute the notion of the citizen? How far does memory strengthen it and what role do faith and religion play?

Sociology and Law

The 150th Anniversary of Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

Edited By: Stephen Hunt, Maria Serafimova, with Vladimir Vladov

£39.99

This book explores the relations between Sociology and Law using Durkheim's heritage. Topics cover socio-legal studies, religion, contemporary ethnic conflict, and cyberspace. This book is for scholars, students, and researchers.

This book explores the relations between Sociology and Law using Durkheim’s heritage. Topics cover socio-legal studies, religion, contemporary ethnic conflict, and cyberspace. This book is for scholars, students, and researchers.

Global Cultures

By: Frank A. Salamone

£34.99

This book presents material on how American popular culture has influenced the world. Chapters range from Nigeria to Japan, covering topics like music, art, holidays, romance, and toys, illustrating the vast scope of American popular culture.

The Minorities of Cyprus

Development Patterns and the Identity of the Internal-Exclusion

Edited By: Nicholas Coureas, Marina Elia, Andrekos Varnava

£39.99

This book examines the history of Cyprus's minorities: Maronites, Armenians, and Latins. It charts their evolving relationship with the dominant Greek and Turkish communities, their subsequent ‘internal exclusion’, and what the future holds for them.

This book examines the history of Cyprus’s minorities: Maronites, Armenians, and Latins. It charts their evolving relationship with the dominant Greek and Turkish communities, their subsequent ‘internal exclusion’, and what the future holds for them.

Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco

£44.99

Gender plays a significant role in accessing resources, rights, and power. Through case studies, research, and theory, interdisciplinary scholars shed light on the intricate links between gender, policy, and social change in Africa and worldwide.

The Computer Culture Reader

Edited By: Joseph R. Chaney, Ken S. McAllister, Judd Ethan Ruggill

£39.99

Scholars probe how people and computers collaborate to create meaning. Through examinations of community, communication, work, and play, this volume delivers new insights about the robust and fragile relationships between computers and people.

Critical Perspectives on Language and Discourse in the New World Order

Edited By: Faiz Sathi Abdullah, Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan Bee Hoon

£39.99

This collection explores language in the “New World Order,” raising consciousness about how discourse constructs identities and empowers users. A significant contribution to the critical discussion, it highlights the socially transformative role of language.

Weighting Differences

Romanian Identity in the Wider European Context

Edited By: Vasile Boari, Sergiu Gherghina

£39.99

Who are the Romanians? What is the essence of their identity? This multidisciplinary volume gathers renowned scholars to tackle questions of Romanian identity in a European context, providing a multi-layered view of what it means in the contemporary period.

Belonging and Exclusion

Case Studies in Recent Australian and German Literature, Film and Theatre

Edited By: Ulrike Garde, Anne-Rose Meyer

£39.99

This is the first cross-cultural analysis of how belonging and exclusion are represented in literature, film and theatre in the context of migration in Australia and Germany. The focus on artistic works offers unique snapshots of these processes.

The Racial Politics of Bodies, Nations and Knowledges

Edited By: Barbara Baird, Damien W. Riggs

£44.99

This book chips away at racial hierarchies obstructing human rights and social justice. While many authors write from an Australian perspective, the issues—from Indigenous sovereignties to media representations—have clear relevance beyond national borders.