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The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal

Edited By: Caroline Hamilton, Michelle Kelly, Elaine Minor

£34.99

This rich collection of essays engages with “refusal” as a form of social action and resistance. Ranging from activism to identity, it is an important contribution to our understanding of the tensions and contradictions of contemporary culture.

Muses and Measures

Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities

By: Frank Hakemulder, Willie van Peer, Sonia Zyngier

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This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.

Road Memories

Aspects of Migrant History

By: Michael Hayes

£24.99

This volume explores the image of the Traveller/Gypsy, the migrant, and the “Other.” In an age of mass migration, diaspora communities such as Travellers and Gypsies disrupt dominant cultural narratives and serve to hybridise the discourse.

Socrates

Reason or Unreason as the Foundation of European Identity

Edited By: Ann Ward

£34.99

Socrates made human questions central to rational inquiry, a foundation for European identity. But this view has been challenged by history, faith, and art. Can Socratic philosophy survive these critiques and still sustain political life?

From Weimar to Christiania

German and Scandinavian Studies in Context

Edited By: Florence Feiereisen, Kyle Frackman

£29.99

From Weimar to Christiania is a compilation of graduate student work in German and Scandinavian Studies. These essays use a variety of disciplinary approaches to connect the fields, delivering compelling research that expands knowledge in northern European studies.

The Arab Authoritarian Regime between Reform and Persistence

Edited By: Henner Fürtig

£39.99

Arab authoritarian regimes use liberalisation as a tool to avoid democracy. But what if these self-serving reforms backfire? This book analyses how policies meant to strengthen authoritarian rule may unintentionally destabilise it, leading to democracy by accident.

Holocaust Film

The Political Aesthetics of Ideology

By: Terri Ginsberg

£34.99

Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.

North African Mosaic

A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities

Edited By: Nabil Boudraa, Joseph Krause

£44.99

Forged from centuries of exchange, North African cultures flourish in a polysemic voice. This book explores them as a bridge between sub-Saharan peoples and Europe, an antidote to anemic politics, and a seminal force in the cross-flow of global destinies.

Realities and Remediations

The Limits of Representation in Film

Edited By: Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Elizabeth Wells

£29.99

This volume of new essays examines how representations are put into place through mise-en-scene, editing and technology. In a hyper-visual era, these essays challenge commonplaces, problematising our relationship to a perceived reality.

On the Outlook

Figures of the Messianic

Edited By: Thomas Crombez, Katrien Vloeberghs

£29.99

This volume explores how messianic thinking, from its Judeo-Christian origins to thinkers like Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, has been used to confront injustice. These essays analyze its influence on contemporary politics, philosophy, and law.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: General Editor, Claudia Slate

£39.99

Florida's long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Proceedings from the first Bergen Workshop on Anaphora Resolution (WAR I)

Edited By: Christer Johansson

£29.99

This book presents recent research in anaphora resolution and co-reference using computational and machine-learning models. It covers novel approaches, applications like Q&A systems, and includes an extensive annotation guideline for large corpora.

Postmodern Ethics

The Re-appropriation of Committed Writing in the Works of Antonio Tabucchi and Leonardo Sciascia 1975-2005

By: Elizabeth Wren-Owens

£34.99

Postmodern Ethics offers a new reading of Leonardo Sciascia and Antonio Tabucchi. It argues that in a climate of postmodern doubt, the writers embraced the absence of fixed truths to forge a new kind of socio-political engagement through literature.

Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Dimensions of Dialects in Education

Edited By: Andreas Papapavlou, Pavlos Pavlou

£34.99

This volume brings together findings on the disputed role of non-standard dialects in education. It offers insights on policy, classroom use, and bidialectalism to help create an environment that respects the linguistic rights of all speakers.

Fictional Realities / Real Fictions. Contemporary Theatre in Search of a New Mimetic Paradigm

Edited By: Mateusz Borowski, Malgorzata Sugiera

£34.99

This collection tackles the problem of fictionality and reality in contemporary theatre. It analyzes how phenomena like new media and post-dramatic forms challenge the basic dichotomy between the fictional and the real on which Western theatre is based.

Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning

Edited By: Fernando Rubio

£34.99

Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning addresses a surprisingly neglected topic. This volume explores self-esteem in the language classroom through theory, research, and practical activities, making it an essential resource for researchers and practitioners.

Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness

Interrogating Influential Representations

Edited By: Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

£39.99

This thought-provoking anthology explores provocative representations of deviance in various media—from films to internet sites—and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles.

Germaine Tillion, Lucie Aubrac, and the Politics of Memories of the French Resistance

By: Donald Reid

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Figures like Germaine Tillion, the Aubracs, and Marc Bloch made the radical decision to resist. This collection of essays addresses how resisters made sense of their world, and how later generations have engaged with the complex legacy of the Resistance.

Post/modern Dracula

From Victorian Themes to Postmodern Praxis

Edited By: John S. Bak

£29.99

This collection explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker’s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola’s film, demonstrating how the century separating them binds more than it divides. These essays reveal why Dracula remains forever post/modern.

Zoom In, Zoom Out

Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema

Edited By: Sandra Barriales-Bouche, Marjorie Attignol Salvodon

£34.99

European films are a vital space where borders and identity are renegotiated. This collection explores how filmmakers question the continent by crossing geographic, cultural, and aesthetic boundaries, framing European cinema as a work-in-progress.