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Advances in Language Acquisition

Edited By: Xenia Konstantinopoulou, Marina Lalioti, Stavroula Stavrakaki

£54.99

This book raises issues at the centre of language acquisition research, including first and second language acquisition, language impairment, and cross-linguistic comparisons. It constitutes a valuable reference guide for current work in the field.

Without Borders or Limits

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies

Edited By: Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo, Nathan J. Jun

£49.99

Activists, artists, and academics explore anarchism's potential to transform reality. This dynamic, interdisciplinary collection bridges theory and praxis with art and culture, offering vital tools for critical teachers, students, and organizers.

Activists, artists, and academics explore anarchism’s potential to transform reality. This dynamic, interdisciplinary collection bridges theory and praxis with art and culture, offering vital tools for critical teachers, students, and organizers.

The Impact of the Subprime Crisis on Global Financial Markets, Banks and International Trade

A Quest for Sustainable Policies

By: Indranarain Ramlall

£39.99

This book analyzes financial stability risk across international financial markets, banks, and trade. It offers innovative research and suggests new policy approaches to deal with three major crises: the debt crisis, an ageing population, and climate change.

Narrating American Gender and Ethnic Identities

Edited By: Aleksandra M. Różalska, Grażyna Zygadło

£44.99

This volume investigates cultural representations of American minorities and women. Through analysis of film and literature, it explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class, and the complex relationship between the dominant and the marginalized.

Salome

The Image of a Woman Who Never Was; Salome

By: Rosina Neginsky

From £36.99

Though her name means “peaceful,” Salome is linked to the beheading of John the Baptist. This history describes how the myth of Salome was created through art, literature, and music, and how her image as evil varied according to prevailing cultural myths surrounding women.

Culture of Tobacco

An Ethnographic Enquiry into the Socio-Economic Mobility of Dalits of Rural India

By: Kranthi Kumar Chikkala

£44.99

This book explores the impact of tobacco cultivation on rural Andhra Pradesh. A comparative study of two villages reveals how this labor-intensive crop creates prosperity and changes social relationships, prompting a re-examination of agricultural policy.

Focus on English Phonetics

Edited By: Tatjana Paunović, Biljana Čubrović

£49.99

Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume's diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.

Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume’s diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.

Black Writers and the Left

Edited By: Kristen Moriah

£44.99

Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.

Virgo to Virago

Medea in the Silver Age

By: Kirsty Corrigan

£49.99

Virgo to Virago offers a study of the formidable Medea in the Silver Age. Examining her portrayal in Ovid, Seneca, and Valerius Flaccus, it explores whether this mighty female character has any claim to sympathy or admiration in these texts.

Building a Validity Argument for a Listening Test of Academic Proficiency

By: Vahid Aryadoust

£49.99

Using a modern approach, this book builds a validity argument for an IELTS listening test. It presents the first treatment of validity argument and analytical tools in one volume, mapping psychometric analysis onto the framework to improve language assessments.

New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy

Edited By: Maria O'Neill, Ken Swinton, Aaron Winter

£49.99

Building on original research, this collection examines the EU's Internal Security Strategy. Experts from law, politics, and other fields analyze its approach to terrorism, cybercrime, and cross-border crime, and its implications for democracy and human rights.

Building on original research, this collection examines the EU’s Internal Security Strategy. Experts from law, politics, and other fields analyze its approach to terrorism, cybercrime, and cross-border crime, and its implications for democracy and human rights.

Educating for Peace

Edited By: Lokanath Mishra

£39.99

Peace education provides the skills to move from a culture of war to one of peace. This book lays a foundation for students, teachers, and peace educators to explore the elements necessary to create a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men

Superheroes and the American Experience

Edited By: Julian C. Chambliss, Thomas Donaldson, William Svitavsky

From £34.99

This collection explores the superhero's evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.

This collection explores the superhero’s evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.

Media, Technology and the Imagination

Edited By: Marie Hendry, Jennifer Page

£39.99

Technology is reshaping imagination itself. The essays in this volume explore the thrilling intersection of the digital and the creative as it transforms modern film, fiction, and art.

Heimat Goes Mobile

Hybrid Forms of Home in Literature and Film

Edited By: Gabriele Eichmanns, Yvonne Franke

£44.99

The German concept of Heimat—a feeling of home and belonging—is evolving in a globalized world. This collection of essays explores new, hybrid forms of Heimat in film, literature, and culture, showing how the notion now transcends boundaries of nation and race.

Aesthetic Fatigue

Modernity and the Language of Waste

Edited By: John F. M. Clark, John Scanlan

£49.99

Why does progress feel like decline? This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modernity, exploring the "language of waste" and the aesthetic fatigue that reshapes our world and our inner lives.

Why does progress feel like decline? This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modernity, exploring the “language of waste” and the aesthetic fatigue that reshapes our world and our inner lives.

Corporate Governance and Compliance with IFRSs

MENA Evidence

By: Marwa Hassaan

£49.99

This is the first book to examine how corporate governance improves compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) in MENA stock exchanges. It identifies obstacles and suggests actions to globalize these emerging markets.

Socrates and Dionysus

Philosophy and Art in Dialogue

Edited By: Ann Ward

£44.99

Nietzsche argued Socratic reason destroyed the tragic art of Dionysus, pitting science against art. But are they enemies? This volume challenges that division, exploring how artists and thinkers bridge the gap between the world of fact and the world of fiction.

Modernisation of Chinese Culture

Continuity and Change

Edited By: Jana S. Rošker, Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

£54.99

This book maps Chinese modernisation, highlighting its relationship to historical and theoretical contexts. Going beyond economics, its multifaceted perspectives focus on overlooked issues in culture, ideology, and society, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity.

Social Capital in Organizations

An Exchange Theory Approach

By: Wenzel Matiaske

£49.99

This study interprets networks as social capital. It fuses socioeconomic exchange theory with social network analysis and puts the resulting synthesis to the test by examining cooperation among equal members of an organization.

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