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Women’s Political Visibility and Media Access

The Case of Nigeria

Edited By: Oladokun Omojola

£39.99

Despite laws against gender discrimination, women remain invisible in the media. This book explores women's political visibility in Nigeria, assessing aggressive tactics, “conscious reporting,” and the use of ICTs as practical ways of bridging this wide gap.

Despite laws against gender discrimination, women remain invisible in the media. This book explores women’s political visibility in Nigeria, assessing aggressive tactics, “conscious reporting,” and the use of ICTs as practical ways of bridging this wide gap.

Youth and the Labour Market in Romania

Edited By: Vasilica Ciucă, Anthony Forsyth

£54.99

This book examines the Romanian labour market, where youth face decreased job security and a risk of exclusion. It explains the challenges of the long transition from education to decent employment, a struggle faced by all, regardless of education level.

Undoing Plessy

Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor, and the Law, 1895-1950

By: Gordon P. Andrews

£44.99

Undoing Plessy explores the life of Charles Hamilton Houston, a “social engineer” who used the law to dismantle racial barriers. Houston understood the right to work was necessary for true freedom and built a strategy to win civil rights in the pre-Brown era.

The Debt Crisis in the Eurozone

Social Impacts

Edited By: Nikos Petropoulos, George O. Tsobanoglou

£59.99

In a crisis comparable to the Great Depression, 20 social scientists delve into the causes and social impacts on Europe's periphery. They cover consequences from poverty to protest and offer policy recommendations to transform the crisis into an opportunity.

In a crisis comparable to the Great Depression, 20 social scientists delve into the causes and social impacts on Europe’s periphery. They cover consequences from poverty to protest and offer policy recommendations to transform the crisis into an opportunity.

The Disappointed Bridge

Ireland and the Post-Colonial World

By: Richard Pine

From £34.99

This first major study of Ireland’s post-colonial experience draws parallels with other emergent nations. Through literary and musical contexts, it offers unique insight into independence, asking: What happens to an emerging nation after it has emerged?

Human-Environmental Interactions in Cities

Challenges and Opportunities of Urban Land Use Planning and Green Infrastructure

Edited By: Nadja Kabisch, Neele Larondelle, Angela Reeve

£39.99

This book examines human-environment interactions to foster biodiversity under the pressure of urbanisation. Using international case studies, it introduces concepts like biophilic urbanism and offers planning recommendations for sustainable green infrastructure.

Enacting Nationhood

Identity, Ideology and the Theatre, 1855-99

Edited By: Scott R. Irelan

£39.99

This collection of essays explores constructions of “We the People” during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It interrogates pro- and anti-enslavement nationalism, partisanship, and armed conflict through dramatic literature and live performance.

The Meaning of Sexual Identity in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Judith S. Kaufman

£39.99

In a "post-gay era," is sexual identity becoming obsolete? Are LGBT youth being duped into conformity? This volume offers compelling debates from a wide variety of perspectives on the current state and possible irrelevance of sexual identity in the 21st century.

In a “post-gay era,” is sexual identity becoming obsolete? Are LGBT youth being duped into conformity? This volume offers compelling debates from a wide variety of perspectives on the current state and possible irrelevance of sexual identity in the 21st century.

Speaking With Their Own Voices

The Stories of Slaves in the Persian Gulf in the 20th Century

By: Jerzy Zdanowski

£39.99

This unique study of slavery in the 20th-century Persian Gulf gives voice to the enslaved. Through their own statements asking for manumission, it presents hundreds of life stories, uncovering new aspects of everyday life in the Arabian Peninsula.

Varieties of Liberalism

Contemporary Challenges

Edited By: Jan Harald Alnes, Manuel Toscano

£49.99

Varieties of Liberalism presents an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary challenges. An international array of scholars addresses pressing questions of free speech, citizenship, justice, and migration through critical perspectives on liberalism.

Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives

Edited By: Dana Mihăilescu, Roxana Oltean, Mihaela Precup

£54.99

This collection examines the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the US. Departing from early trauma theory, contributors analyze fiction, memoirs, and films to explore multidirectional memory, autobiography, national commemoration, and 9/11.

Human Rights in Changing Times

Edited By: G. P. Agarwal, Sunil K. Choudhary, Reenu Gupta

£49.99

This book analyses the changing notion of human rights from legal-political, socio-economic, gender, and ecological perspectives. Focusing on its relevance in an era of globalization, it presents a unique combination of theoretical and practical studies.

Law and Popular Culture

International Perspectives

Edited By: Michael Asimow, Kathryn Brown, David Papke

£54.99

Most people derive their basic understanding of law from cultural products like movies and television. This book explores the global transmission of law-related popular culture across borders, with two dozen authors from nine countries offering international perspectives.

The Edges of the Roman World

Edited By: Staša Babić, Marko Jankovic

£49.99

This collection of papers deals with cultural changes that occurred in the context of Roman imperial politics. The papers focus on societies on the fringes, both social and geographical, and their response to Roman Imperialism in local contexts.

Esther Tusquets

Scholarly Correspondences

Edited By: Nina L. Molinaro, Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva

£44.99

This volume reviews the life and work of Spanish writer Esther Tusquets (1936–2012). The essays contained offer new readings of the author’s canonical fiction and delve into the largely unexplored terrain of her non-fiction.

The Lexical/Functional Divide in Aphasic Production – Poorly Studied Aphasic Syndromes and Theoretical Morpho-Syntax

A Collection of Case Studies in Italian

By: Ludovico Franco

£39.99

This collection of clinical case studies on aphasic syndromes builds a bridge between clinical evidence and theoretical linguistics. It addresses debates on the lexical/functional divide in grammar and the crucial role of single case studies today.

Dimensions of the Word

Edited By: Grzegorz Drożdż

£44.99

This volume addresses the long-standing debate on the “word”. Eleven authors analyze its multi-faceted nature from multiple linguistic perspectives, contributing to a more thorough comprehension than any single approach can afford.

The Future of Philology

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Columbia University German Graduate Student Conference

Edited By: Hannes Bajohr, Benjamin R. Dorvel, Vincent Hessling

£44.99

Does philology still have a place? This volume collects essays by young philologists who show that the discipline’s core—the care for the text—wields competencies that are indispensable, confronting the “fate of a soft science in a hard world.”

Venanzio Rauzzini

Piramo e Tisbe, A Dramatic Cantata

Edited By: Paul F. Rice

£39.99

Venanzio Rauzzini was a celebrated singer and composer for whom Mozart wrote the motet, Exultate jubilate. His cantata, Piramo e Tisbe, was drawn from his own hit London opera, preserving the principal elements of the story.

Towards Creative Imagination in Victorian Literature

By: Aleksandra Piasecka

£44.99

This book explores the creative imagination in Victorian England through five key figures: John Ruskin, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater and Arthur Symons. It contrasts the views of theoreticians with the experiences of practitioners.

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