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Seductive Screens

Children's Media—Past, Present, and Future

By: Michael Brody

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This book describes the development of children's media from radio to Facebook, explaining the perfect storm—a collision of economics, psychology, and technology—behind its growth. It explores the influence of Disney, Sesame Street, and Batman in this context.

This book describes the development of children’s media from radio to Facebook, explaining the perfect storm—a collision of economics, psychology, and technology—behind its growth. It explores the influence of Disney, Sesame Street, and Batman in this context.

The Sublime Today

Contemporary Readings in the Aesthetic

Edited By: Gillian B. Pierce

£44.99

How is the sublime relevant today? As new media changes aesthetic experience, this volume investigates the sublime in contemporary literature, film, and art, connecting historical theories to pressing questions of gender, politics, and terror.

The Noughties in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Edited By: Niamh Thornton, Kathy Bacon

£44.99

This volume explores the cultural significance of the ‘noughties’ in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, defining a new generation through its film, digital media, theatre, and history.

Film and Morality

By: Philip Gillett

£44.99

Film and Morality examines how morality is presented in films and how they serve as a source of moral values. It shows how audiences explore moral issues by following characters who make life-changing decisions and live with the consequences of their choices.

Out of the Shadows

The Life and Works of Mary De Morgan

By: Marilyn Pemberton

From £34.99

Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex "New Woman" and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”

Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex “New Woman” and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”

Shifting the Compass

Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

Edited By: Jeroen Dewulf, Michiel van Kempen, Olf Praamstra

£44.99

The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.

Constructing Capacities

Building Capabilities through Learning and Engagement

Edited By: Patrick Alan Danaher

£44.99

This book explores how learning helps people build capacities to overcome challenges. Through diverse, researched accounts, it generates new understandings of how capacities can be constructed effectively and sustainably.

Early Modern Communi(cati)ons

Studies in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Edited By: Kinga Földváry, Erzsébet Stróbl

£44.99

This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.

The Holocaust and World War II

In History and In Memory

Edited By: Wendy Koenig, Nancy Rupprecht, Nancy E. Rupprecht

£49.99

This interdisciplinary volume explores the connection between World War II and the Holocaust in history and memory. Nineteen articles from prominent scholars, including acclaimed historian Gerhard L. Weinberg, examine presidential decisions, racial hatred, and more.

Children and Armed Conflict

By: Chaditsa Poulatova

£44.99

This book examines international efforts to protect children from war through the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol. It exposes major shortcomings in the UN's monitoring process and explores how compliance can be secured more effectively.

This book examines international efforts to protect children from war through the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol. It exposes major shortcomings in the UN’s monitoring process and explores how compliance can be secured more effectively.

Fiction and Faction in the Malay World

Edited By: Mohamad Rashidi Pakri

£44.99

Explore the Malay World through the eyes of outsiders. This collection examines the personal fiction, diaries, and letters of foreigners and traders from the 18th to 20th century, revealing fascinating insights into their encounters and personalities.

Children and Childhoods 2

Images of Childhood

Edited By: Peter Whiteman

£39.99

Decisions about children's lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.

Decisions about children’s lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.

Empowered Femininity

The Textual Construction of Femininity in Women’s Fitness Magazines

By: Tracy Rundstrom Williams

£39.99

This book traces two competing ideologies—traditional and resistant femininity—in women's fitness magazines. It investigates how these discourses merge into a single hybrid, "empowered femininity," which balances valued male traits with traditional femininity.

This book traces two competing ideologies—traditional and resistant femininity—in women’s fitness magazines. It investigates how these discourses merge into a single hybrid, “empowered femininity,” which balances valued male traits with traditional femininity.

Confronting the International Patriarchy

Iran, Iraq and the United States of America

Edited By: Philippa Winkler

From £19.99

While external states—often in the name of women’s liberation—restrict the participation of women in the Middle East, this book demonstrates their joint efforts to confront the international patriarchy with examples of resistance from Iran to the UN.

(Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction

Edited By: Dorota Guttfeld, Monika Linke, Agnieszka Sowińska

£49.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history's representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history’s representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.

Cocoon Communities

Togetherness in the 21st Century

Edited By: Fred Dervin, Mari Korpela

£39.99

This innovative volume proposes the concept of Cocoon Communities: groups that are highly significant for members, yet voluntary and not binding. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives on communities of students, online mourners, expatriates, and more.

Understanding the Dynamics of Classroom Communication

By: Sungbae Ko

£44.99

This book offers much-needed descriptions of communication within language classrooms. Using authentic data, it offers new insights into patterns of interaction beyond individual learner language, with implications for Second Language Acquisition.

Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Applications to Management

Edited By: Vincent Charles, Mukesh Kumar

£44.99

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular management tool for measuring performance. This book is a collection of contributions from DEA experts, covering theoretical developments and applications in various sectors. It is useful for researchers and practitioners.

Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Edited By: Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu

£49.99

This volume offers a deeper understanding of the diversity of parliamentary practices across space and time. It highlights the role of local social, historical, and ideological factors in building culture-specific traditions of political institutions.

Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Exploring the Multi-dimensional Discourses on ‘Development’

Edited By: Nathan Andrews

£49.99

Authored by emerging African scholars, this book challenges Western notions of ‘progress’ and the view of Africa as a basket case. It rethinks predominant ideas on development, examining the challenges and possibilities of Africa’s sustainable future.

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