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Psychology and Indigenous Australians

Effective Teaching and Practice

Edited By: Keith McConnochie, Wendy Nolan, Rob Ranzijn

£34.99

From a fraught colonial past, a new Australian psychology is emerging. Led by Indigenous voices, this landmark collection showcases a culturally responsive practice for all Australians.

Psychology, Interregna and the Struggle for New Orders

Time of the Monsters

By: Oliver Hoffmann

£59.99

When an old order collapses and a new one is yet to emerge, "monsters" arise. This book decodes the psychological and economic dynamics of systemic instability, providing a critical lens to understand the populist surges and digital disruptions shaping the future.

When an old order collapses and a new one is yet to emerge, “monsters” arise. This book decodes the psychological and economic dynamics of systemic instability, providing a critical lens to understand the populist surges and digital disruptions shaping the future.

Psychosocial Explorations of Gender in Society

Edited By: Rubina Hanif, Humaira Jami, Sobia Masood, Aisha Zubair, Anila Kamal

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Adopting a psychological perspective, this book explores gender beyond the binary. Its empirical research provides insight into gender roles and identities in education, domestic, and socio-political settings, detailing gender issues and challenges across cultures in Pakistan.

Public Goods, Sustainable Development and the Contribution of Business

By: Roland Bardy, Arthur Rubens, Raymond Saner, Lichia Yiu

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This book links sustainable development to preserving public goods, creating a corporate responsibility for their maintenance. Successful delivery depends on a positive relationship between the public and private sectors, and this book closes that gap with common methodologies.

Pygmalion’s Chisel

For Women Who Are “Never Good Enough”

By: Tracy M. Hallstead

£39.99

In a culture that scrutinizes women and makes them feel flawed, many labor under an assumption of their own imperfection. Hallstead traces this to the myth of Pygmalion and finds solutions in the wisdom of historical women who forged a path to responsive feminism.

Queer Exoticism

Examining the Queer Exotic Within

Edited By: Judith S. Kaufman, Tamara Powell

£39.99

These essays examine the queer tendency to seek different subjects of desire in an effort to find oneself. This search for the exotic becomes a path to self-knowledge, where the outward gaze turns inward to reveal an inner exoticism.

Queer Identities / Political Realities

Edited By: Bruce Drushel, Kathleen German

£39.99

This book examines the intersection of political leadership, media coverage, and sexual identity, with emphasis on the negotiation between public and private behavior. Centering on key cases, each chapter questions assumptions about media coverage of same-sex behavior.

Queer Stories of Europe

Edited By: Jānis Ozoliņš, Kārlis Vērdiņš

£52.99

The first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region, the essays here deal with representations of queer culture over a period of more than one hundred years, with a specific interest in belletristics.

Queering Women’s and Gender Studies

Edited By: Begoña Crespo, Isabel Moskowich

£52.99

This text brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women’s, gender, and queer studies. It adopts an inclusive attitude to the so-called “others” present in these fields.

Questions of Civil Society

Category-Position-Functionality

Edited By: Adam Jarosz, Adam Jarosz

£49.99

This interdisciplinary volume explores civil society, stimulating new research questions. Avoiding a fixed definition, it examines civil society's pivotal role in 21st-century upheavals and in the renegotiation of relations between the state and society.

This interdisciplinary volume explores civil society, stimulating new research questions. Avoiding a fixed definition, it examines civil society’s pivotal role in 21st-century upheavals and in the renegotiation of relations between the state and society.

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.

Race and Agency in Thomas Sowell

Revisiting the African American Liberal Integrationist Experience

By: Sami C. Nighaoui

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This book exposes the ideological dogmatism behind Thomas Sowell’s attacks on Black culture and calls to end preferential policies, revealing them as a direct threat to the ideal of an ethnically integrated society.

Race and State

Edited By: Karen Fricker, Ronit Lentin

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Speaking about racism is difficult, yet state racism is more acceptable than ever. Immigration detention and racial profiling impact our daily lives. Race and State breaks the taboo of discussing the links between “race” and state from multiple perspectives.

Racisms in the New World Order

Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity

Edited By: Hurriyet Babacan

£34.99

In our globalized world, racism is constantly changing. This book moves beyond traditional ideas to examine contemporary racisms, their intersection with other prejudices, and their link to the ‘War on Terror’ and ‘Islamaphobia’. It presents strategies for action.

Radiance and Symbolism in Modern Stained Glass

European and American Innovations and Aesthetic Interrelations in Material Culture

Edited By: Liana De Girolami Cheney

£57.99

Written for students and the general public interested in the humanities, literature, history, art history, and new media and popular culture, this publication examines the visual beauty and symbolism of stained-glass windows in Europe and American cultures during the modern era.

Radio at the Edges

Perspectives on Alternative, Community and Pirate Radio

Edited By: Matt Mollgaard

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This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio, addressing the impacts and challenges of community and pirate radio. It will appeal to scholars and students of radio studies, as well as those interested in alternative media systems.

Radio Relations

Policies and Aesthetics of the Medium

Edited By: Tiziano Bonini, Madalena Oliveira, Grażyna Stachyra

£61.99

This book explores how radio builds affective relations and reinforces a sense of community. It features erudite essays from world-famous figures like Seán Street and Enrico Menduni, alongside perspectives from brilliant young researchers and practitioners from around the world.

Rajam Krishnan and Indian Feminist Hermeneutics

Edited By: Sarada Thallam

£52.99

This book interprets the feminist theories of Rajam Krishnan, a doyen of Tamil literature, who has been a forerunner of many contemporary ideologies. It provides much-needed tools for the vast corpus of contemporary research in the global domain of Indian women’s literature.

Ranked Set Sampling

Edited By: Munir Ahmad, M. Hanif, Hassen A. Muttlak

£39.99

Ranked Set Sampling has numerous advantages over classical sampling techniques. This volume of reviewed essays is a reference book for postgraduate students in economics, social, medical, biological sciences, and statistics. The subject is a hot topic for dissertations.

Re-Constructing Place and Space

Media, Culture, Discourse and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas

Edited By: Kamille Gentles-Peart, Maurice L. Hall

£34.99

This book explores the influence of embodied, discursive, and mediated communication on the construction and maintenance of Caribbean diasporic communities, presenting a more complex picture of peoples from the region and their diasporic identities.