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The Middle East and the Cold War

Between Security and Development

Edited By: Matteo Gerlini, Massimiliano Trentin

£34.99

This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War's impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.

This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War’s impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.

Beckett Re-Membered

After the Centenary

Edited By: James Carney, Michael O’Sullivan, Karl White

£39.99

This collection of recent scholarship on Samuel Beckett offers a diverse and comprehensive survey of his literary and philosophical work. It will appeal to any reader interested in provocative responses to one of the 20th century’s most important writers.

Bodies and Culture

Discourses, Communities, Representations, Performances

Edited By: Christopher E. Forth, Marike Janzen, Damon Talbott

£34.99

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.

Cognitive Dynamics in Linguistic Interactions

Edited By: Alexander Kravchenko

£39.99

Current methods of teaching language are failing because we lack a holistic understanding of how language shapes human interaction. Orthodox science sees language as a tool, but there is no humanness without languaging. This volume forges a new path.

How Far Can We Go? Pain, Excess and the Obscene

By: Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis

£34.99

The public does not desire horror, yet enjoys it in art. In the monstrous marriage of the abject and the sublime, this thrill transforms the spectator into voyeur or victim. Representing horror means rendering it enjoyable—a game of limits that are no longer limits.

Catholic Education

Universal Principles, Locally Applied

Edited By: Andrew B. Morris

£39.99

This collection of essays explores the Catholic Church’s understanding of human flourishing and education. It provides insights and case studies into how Catholic education policy is implemented in a variety of national and international contexts.

Film in the Post-Media Age

Edited By: Ágnes Pethő

£49.99

In an age of media convergence, many have proclaimed the death of cinema. But as moving images enter art galleries, the internet, and our daily lives, what happens to film? This volume explores not the disappearance of cinema, but its blooming post-media life.

Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship

Democratic National Citizenship in Hong Kong

By: Mike Byram, Lai Pak-Sang

£39.99

This book explores school processes in Hong Kong, where education must now manage diversity. It investigates how a liberal and democratic national identity, distinct from that of mainland China, develops under the “one country two systems” policy.

Reconsidering a Lost Intellectual Project

Exiles’ Reflections on Cultural Differences

Edited By: José M. Faraldo, Carolina Rodríguez-López

£34.99

This book explores how transnational experiences shaped the views of intellectuals exiled between 1933–1945. Essays focus on German, Spanish, and East European cases, comparing how exiles reconsidered their past in light of their new homelands.

Women Patrons and Collectors

Edited By: Andrea M. Gáldy

£39.99

Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.

Discourse Interpretation

Approaches and Applications

Edited By: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Renata Povolná

£39.99

This volume provides new insights into discourse interpretation across many genres. Combining theoretical insights with empirical investigations, it explores how meaning is a dynamic construct, constantly reinterpreted in light of social and situational contexts.

The Politics of Translation and Transmission

Basilikon Doron in Hungarian Political Thought

By: Hanna Orsolya Vincze

£39.99

This book studies the beginnings of Hungarian political thought through two 17th-century texts derived from an unlikely source: King James I’s Basilikon Doron. It reveals how Scottish ideas were re-articulated in a Central European context.

Romance

The History of a Genre

Edited By: Dana Percec

£39.99

This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.

Gothic Legacies

Four Centuries of Tradition and Innovation in Art and Architecture

Edited By: Laura Cleaver, Ayla Lepine

£44.99

Gothic art and architecture were reinterpreted in diverse ways from the sixteenth century onwards. These essays explore what “Gothic” meant across different periods and cultures, and how it was used to shape personal, national, and international identities.

Re-reading / La relecture

Essays in honour of Graham Falconer

Edited By: Rachel Falconer, Andrew Oliver

£44.99

What happens when we re-read a familiar book? This volume of essays by eminent scholars explores how re-reading can affirm our identity or reveal our changing selves, and how this core literary practice shapes and reshapes the canon.

Developments in the Theory and Practice of Citizenship

Edited By: Simon McMahon

£34.99

Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book's contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.

Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book’s contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.

Byron and Italy

By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

Peter Cochran explores Byron’s relationship with Italy as a whole—its literature, women, and politics. He argues the poet’s sojourn was an attempt to forge a new identity, showing how Italian culture gave him a new sense of self and his poetry.

Civic Duty

Public Services in the Early Modern Low Countries

By: Manon van der Heijden

£39.99

This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.

Religion After Kant

God and Culture in the Idealist Era

Edited By: Paolo Diego Bubbio, Paul Redding

£39.99

After Kant, idealist thinkers like Hegel and Schelling transformed the conceptual framework for considering religion. This volume explores their reconsideration of religion’s place within human self-fashioning, which shaped later thinkers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.

The Postmodern Mythology of Michel Tournier

By: Melissa Panek

£34.99

In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier's mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.

In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier’s mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.

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