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Speaking–Writing With

Aboriginal and Settler Interrelations

By: Fiona McAllan

£44.99

Our differences often divide us. This text theorises ways of speaking “with” (instead of “for”) others by exploring the relationship between poststructural theories and indigenous relational ontologies to transform relations of suppression into mutual respect.

Literature, Rhetoric and Values

Selected Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011

Edited By: Randy Allen Harris, Shelley Hulan, Murray McArthur

£44.99

These essays use cutting-edge scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting issues like torture, genocide, and environmental apocalypse. Authors essay the ethical dimensions of works from whisky bottles to graphic novels.

Wilde’s Wiles

Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

£44.99

This unique collection of essays by international experts celebrates Oscar Wilde’s genius. It explores his enduring influence on culture—from aesthetics to queer theory—and examines the influence of his family and friends on him.

Poetry and Voice

A Book of Essays

Edited By: Stephanie Norgate

£44.99

This international collection of essays fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Contributors give rare insights into inner poetic processes and artistic debates, approaching the question of what it is to ‘find a voice’ in poetry from multiple angles.

Feedback in Online Course for Non-Native English-Speaking Students

By: Larisa Olesova

£39.99

This study investigates the effectiveness of audio versus text feedback for non-native English-speaking students in online courses. It shows how feedback impacts learning and perception, and how results differ if the instructor is a native or non-native speaker.

Migration and Exile

Charting New Literary and Artistic Territories

Edited By: Ada Savin

£39.99

This volume challenges the boundaries between American studies, exploring exile and migration. It asks how crossing borders affects notions of home, nation, and language, charting new literary and artistic territories in exilic creation.

Film Style and the World War II Combat Genre

By: Stuart Bender

£49.99

Why does combat on film feel so real? Drawing on cognitive psychology, this groundbreaking study dissects the style of WWII films, revealing how dense audio-visual information creates a powerful sense of realism.

Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others)

Edited By: Jack Boss, Brad Osborn, Tim S. Pack

£44.99

This collection of essays applies traditional and innovative techniques to the music of late 20th and 21st-century composers, making the music of our time less impenetrable by showing how it follows and varies older schemes. Includes analysis of popular music and jazz.

Visible Exports / Imports

New Research on Medieval and Renaissance European Art and Culture

Edited By: Emily-Jan Anderson, Jill Farquhar, John Richards

£49.99

New perspectives on medieval and renaissance art and culture. Essays explore 14th and 15th century European art production, from workshop practice and patronage to the circulation of styles and ideas.

Press, Propaganda and Politics

Cultural Periodicals in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania

Edited By: Rubén Jarazo Álvarez, Andrada Fatu-Tutoveanu

£44.99

This study compares media in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania, revealing startling similarities in the propaganda of two opposing regimes. It challenges old paradigms and forges a new, unified framework for understanding totalitarian systems.

Applied Social Sciences

Administration and Management

Edited By: Cosmin Goian, Georgeta Raţă

£44.99

This collection of studies in administration, management, and law explains complex concepts through theoretical and empirical research. It is an educational support for professionals and is accessible to a broader audience interested in an interdisciplinary approach.

Visions and Revisions

The Word and the Text

Edited By: Roger Kojecký, Andrew Tate

£39.99

Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.

Fundraising, Flirtation and Fancywork

Charity Bazaars in Nineteenth Century Australia

By: Annette Shiell

£44.99

The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia's major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.

The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia’s major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.

Film and Ethics

What Would You Have Done?

Edited By: Jacqui Miller

£39.99

This book explores the slipperiness of ethics in Film Studies. It shows that from the silent era to the present day, film has been inherently concerned with ethical issues, forcing the spectator to be an active participant in creating meaning.

The Post-War Angola

Public Sphere, Political Regime and Democracy

By: Paulo C. J. Faria

£49.99

In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the 'public sphere,' but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public's role, using Foucault's ideas to look afresh at Angola's democratic future.

In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the ‘public sphere,’ but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public’s role, using Foucault’s ideas to look afresh at Angola’s democratic future.

Text in Contemporary Theatre

The Baltics within the World Experience

Edited By: Guna Zeltiņa with Sanita Reinsone

£44.99

This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. Focusing on the Baltics but with wider insight into world drama, this book is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.

Risk Assessment of Food Supply

A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

By: Tetsuji Tanaka, Huanguang Qiu

£39.99

What are the true risks of agricultural free trade? Using CGE models, this book analyzes Japan's trade liberalization and the 2008 food crisis, revealing the severe impacts on the world's poorest economies.

What are the true risks of agricultural free trade? Using CGE models, this book analyzes Japan’s trade liberalization and the 2008 food crisis, revealing the severe impacts on the world’s poorest economies.

Art and Time

By: Derek Allan

£39.99

How do great works of art live on long after their cultures have vanished? This book rejects the idea that art is simply timeless. It argues that art transcends time through a process of metamorphosis, posing a major challenge to traditional aesthetics.

Cinema and Evil

Moral Complexities and the “Dangerous” Film

By: Dara Waldron

£44.99

This book explores films that address the problem of evil, drawing on thinkers from Manicheanism to Arendt. It considers how filmmakers like Fritz Lang and Michael Haneke use “dangerous” films to task us with considering evil as our own responsibility.

Myth as Symbol

A Psychoanalytic Study in Contemporary German Literature

By: Sonia Saporiti

£39.99

Reconsidering the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, this study explores the modern literary reworking of myth. From Jungian archetypes to the Freudian unconscious, it analyzes figures like Undine and Medea to explore timeless questions.

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