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Changes, Conflicts and Ideologies in Contemporary Hispanic Culture

Edited By: Teresa Fernandez Ulloa

£59.99

This book studies how conflicts, changes, and ideologies appear in Hispanic discourse. It analyzes how ideological shifts of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries are reflected in the language, literature, and culture of Spain and Latin America.

Basics of Plant Breeding

Edited By: Muhammad Sabar, Sana E. Mustafa

£59.99

This book explores conventional breeding and modern molecular techniques to enhance yield, quality, and resilience in major cereals. It bridges foundational principles with cutting-edge innovations, providing an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and students.

Gendering Terrorism in South Asian Narratives of the Post-9/11 Era

By: Mala Renganathan

£59.99

This book contextualizes the terror histories of post-9/11 literature from the USA, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka. It reads selected short stories, novels, and poems from a gendered perspective.

Greek Folk Textiles

Customs, Symbolism, Narrative

By: Johannis Tsoumas

£59.99

This richly illustrated historical research investigates Greek folk textiles, revealing their ritualistic, symbolic, and narrative character. The author deciphers their rich, coded language, showing how they shaped the customs, beliefs, and history of an entire nation.

Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance

By: Patrick J. Ebewo

£61.99

Ebewo’s text represents a compendium of discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered include ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, and the funeral rites of Nelson Mandela.

Debating with the Eumenides

Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece

Edited By: Vayos Liapis, Maria Pavlou

£61.99

Greek tragedy takes pride of place in the dialogue between modern Greece and its classical past. In this volume, scholars explore how tragic myth has been reimagined in modern Greek drama and poetry, with extensive coverage of major authors like Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos.

Art and Future

Energy, Climate, Cultures

Edited By: Peter Stupples, Jane Venis

£61.99

This publication examines the future of art in a changing world. In particular, contributors discuss the agency of art in conditions of ecological threats to the natural world, to climate change and the effects of globalisation, neoliberal economics and mass tourism.

African Film Cultures

Contexts of Creation and Circulation

Edited By: Añuli Agina, Barbara Knorpp, Winston Mano

£61.99

This book offers new perspectives on diverse African film cultures. It uniquely engages with the peoples, histories, geographies, and changing production cultures shaped by audiences at home and in the diaspora, providing useful analyses of socio-political factors.

Representing Africa in the Motherland and the Diaspora

Essays on Theatre, Dance, Music and Cinema

Edited By: Kevin J. Wetmore

£61.99

This publication gathers scholars from Africa, Europe and the USA to explore the representation of Africa in the performing arts and cinema. It represents an extended dialogue between African scholars and artists about the challenges of representing themselves and their societies

Symbols and Models in the Mediterranean

Perceiving through Cultures

Edited By: Aneilya Barnes, Mariarosaria Salerno

£61.99

This anthology spans a vast chronology and territory, ranging from Old Kingdom Egypt to modern-day Slovenia. Each essay serves as a micro-study that demonstrates the many ways in which Mediterranean communities have co-opted, appropriated, and adapted symbols from one another.

Historiography of World War II in Contemporary American Cinema

By: Deniz Gürgen Atalay

£61.99

This book explores the shifting portrayal of World War II in Hollywood films. Adopting a comparative study, it discusses WWII films made during the Bush administration after 9/11 and those produced during the presidential campaign of Obama.

Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey

Design across Borders

Edited By: Paolo Girardelli, Ezio Godoli

£61.99

This collection covers a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities to Anatolia and the Aegean region. It explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analysed on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials.

Victorian Cultures of Liminality

Borders and Margins

Edited By: Amina Alyal, Susan Anderson

£61.99

This volume focuses on cross-fertilisation in the arts, liminal spaces, and marginal figures. It contributes to scholarship on Anglo-French exchanges, evoking a sense of temporal shift as nineteenth-century values progress and showing how pictures and texts shape identity.

Forgotten British Film

Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema

By: Philip Gillett

£61.99

Gillett exhumes some of the films released in Britain over the last 70 years, including Daybreak (1948), and he probes the reasons for their neglect. He considers the contributions of those involved in the films and examines such issues as the response of critics and audiences.

Heinz-Uwe Haus on Culture and Politics

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Heinz-Uwe Haus

£61.99

Heinz-Uwe Haus, a leading voice in the collapse of communism in the GDR, combined politics and theatre. In this book, he provides a unique insider's narrative of German unification and its aftermath, widening the context to current issues through the lens of theatre.

Heinz-Uwe Haus, a leading voice in the collapse of communism in the GDR, combined politics and theatre. In this book, he provides a unique insider’s narrative of German unification and its aftermath, widening the context to current issues through the lens of theatre.

Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century

Marlboro Men and California Gurls

Edited By: Astrid M. Fellner, Marta Fernández-Morales, Martina Martausová

£61.99

This publication details popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century media. It investigates the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in an original and rigorous way.

Underwater Worlds

Submerged Visions in Science and Culture

Edited By: Will Abberley

£61.99

This anthology throws open a new area in the emerging field of “blue” environmental humanities by exploring how subaqueous environments have been imagined and represented across cultures and media.

Turkey as a Simulated Country

By: Sabiha Çimen

£61.99

This book provides an overview of the politics of urbanism for Syrian immigrants in Turkey. Based on a field survey, it analyses the cultural meaning of individual life, belonging, and nostalgic identity, providing a sociological and ontological reading of the image.

Semiotics and Visual Communication II

Culture of Seduction

Edited By: Evripides Zantides

£61.99

This book explores the Culture of Seduction, defining it not as sexual enticement, but as a mechanism of attraction and appeal. In an increasingly hyper-real world, this force has powerful agency in communication, advertising, fashion, and packaging design.

Palaeoart of the Ice Age

By: Robert G. Bednarik

£61.99

In the first book to offer a comprehensive synthesis of the known Pleistocene palaeoart of six continents, Bednarik contemplates the origins of art in a balanced manner, based on reality rather than fantasies about cultural primacy.