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Language Issues in Canada

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Martin Howard

£34.99

This volume illuminates Canada’s linguistic diversity through innovative studies on language politics, legislation, education, and minority issues. The languages covered include English and French, as well as Aboriginal languages.

Dialogues of Love and Government

a Study of the Erotic Dialogue Form in some Texts from the Courtly Love Tradition

By: Alice Spencer

£29.99

This study examines the Boethian dialogue form in Medieval texts on love and government. It links the dialogue to courtly love and Platonic politics, arguing that its irony implies a rejection of absolutist notions of love and government.

The Detective as Historian

Edited By: Ray Browne, Lawrence Kreiser

£39.99

Historical crime fiction serves the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. It brings the past to the present, making characters alive and events interesting. Writers fill in human motivations where records don't exist, recovering the past.

Demography In Transition

Emerging Trends in Population Studies

Edited By: Amanda K. Baumle

£39.99

This compilation provides unique insight into complex demographic issues. Demographers examine how race and ethnicity affect access to heath care, the consequences of an aging population, migration patterns, and the implications of changing family structures.

Recognition in Politics

Theory, Policy and Practice

Edited By: Julie Connolly, Michael Leach, Lucas Walsh

£39.99

With contributions from Nancy Fraser, this collection examines ‘recognition’ in politics. It addresses theoretical and practical problems of identity and justice, casting new light on conflicts in an era of globalisation and cultural diversity.

The Texture of Internet

Netlinguistics in Progress

Edited By: Maria Lluïsa Gea-Valor, María José Esteve Ramos

£34.99

Language transforms to meet the demands of our digital world. The Texture of Internet explores these linguistic changes in texting, email, blogs, and websites, becoming a key reference for anyone interested in language use in our technological environment.

a Wilderness of Signs

Ethics, Beauty, & Environment after Postmodernism

Edited By: Joe Jordan

£34.99

While postmodernism displaced "grand narratives," it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.

While postmodernism displaced “grand narratives,” it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.

Heroes and Saints

The Moment of Death in Cross-cultural Perspectives

Edited By: Phyllis Granoff, Koichi Shinohara

£39.99

This volume explores the moment of death in ancient cultures, from Asian religions to heroic sagas. Despite the diversity of traditions, these essays reveal a fundamental human need to see in death a possibility of choice and a promise of hope.

Studies in Irreversibility

Texts and Contexts

Edited By: Benjamin Schreier

£39.99

This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.

Islam in Contemporary Africa

On Violence, Terrorism and Development

Edited By: Afis A. Oladosu

£34.99

Scholars, Christians, and Muslims analyze the impact of terrorism on Islam, harmony, and development in Africa. These essays examine the global war on terror from diverse perspectives including jurisprudence, history, gender, and international diplomacy.

1956 and all that

Edited By: Keith Flett

£34.99

To mark the 50th anniversary of 1956, academics and activists presented new historical research on the Hungarian revolt and Suez. This collection examines their wider significance, the crisis of Stalinism, and the rise of a New Left as a result.

Entertainment, Leisure and Identities

Edited By: Alyson Brown

£29.99

Beyond mere diversion, entertainment is how we forge our identities. This collection of essays reveals this vital process from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Margaret Storm Jameson

Writing in Dialogue

Edited By: Jennifer Birkett, Chiara Briganti

£34.99

Storm Jameson’s writing mirrored the 20th century. This first collection of essays devoted to her work reassesses her pivotal role, analysing her engagement with war, fascism, and socialism, and reveals a sequence of unpublished letters.

Sophie’s Choice

A Contemporary Casebook

Edited By: James L. W. West III, Rhoda Sirlin

£29.99

This casebook collects interpretations of William Styron’s controversial novel, Sophie's Choice. It focuses on key themes like its treatment of women, sexuality, and the Holocaust, with commentaries by Elie Wiesel, Gloria Steinem, and Styron himself.

This casebook collects interpretations of William Styron’s controversial novel, Sophie’s Choice. It focuses on key themes like its treatment of women, sexuality, and the Holocaust, with commentaries by Elie Wiesel, Gloria Steinem, and Styron himself.

Ein Kabinettstück der Schauspielkunst / A Showpiece of the Art of Acting

Ursula Dinkgräfes Bühnenlaufbahn / Ursula Dinkgräfe’s stage career

By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£29.99

Dieses Buch zeichnet die Theaterlaufbahn der Schauspielerin Ursula Dinkgräfe (1947-1987) nach. Sie war in der Theaterszene hoch geschätzt, aber ohne Filmruhm. Ein unberücksichtigtes Kapitel deutscher Theatergeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.

African American Humor, Irony and Satire

Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking

Edited By: Dana A. Williams

£29.99

Essays on Ishmael Reed, George Schuyler, Dave Chappelle, and more reveal how humor, irony, and satire highlight the complexity of African American life and its connections to world cultures.

Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis

Application and Theory

Edited By: Christopher Hart, Dominik Lukeš

From £19.99

This volume explores the convergence of Cognitive Linguistics and critical discourse analysis. It addresses socio-political discourses on nation, immigration, and war, and is of value to anyone interested in the interaction between language, mind, and society.

Rethinking Diasporas

Hidden Narratives and Imagined Borders

Edited By: Kevin Howard, Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh

£29.99

This book rethinks diaspora for the 21st century. It explores hidden narratives of the displaced to interrogate contemporary notions of place and identity, challenging traditional assumptions about migration, assimilation, and belonging.

Santayana and America. Values, Liberties, Responsibility

By: Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski

£34.99

This book explores philosopher George Santayana’s provocative views on America—a topic no one has yet considered in a serious way. It argues that the impartiality of Santayana's philosophy, its transcendence of cultural limits, makes it a living philosophy.

This book explores philosopher George Santayana’s provocative views on America—a topic no one has yet considered in a serious way. It argues that the impartiality of Santayana’s philosophy, its transcendence of cultural limits, makes it a living philosophy.

The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity

Literature and the Christian Critic

Edited By: Deborah Bowen

£39.99

This volume brings two worlds together. Instead of crisis, its contributors see the postmodern turn as an opportunity. These Christian scholars enter into dialogue with contemporary literary theory, offering innovative new readings informed by both theory and faith.