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Englishness Revisited

Edited By: Floriane Reviron-Piégay

£49.99

What is Englishness? Is there a national character? This collection seeks to answer these questions by offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Englishness since the eighteenth century, challenging stereotypes and offering keys to understanding its diverse expressions.

Deep Learning Model Optimization, Deployment and Improvement Techniques for Edge-native Applications

Edited By: Pethuru Raj, Gayathri Nagasubramanian

From £40.99

Edge AI is digitally transforming industries. Explore cutting-edge technologies for real-time, intelligent decision-making at the network’s edge. Through case studies and practical guidelines, this book is an essential resource to harness the potential of Edge AI.

Anger in the Long Nineteenth Century

Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Ritushree Sengupta, Shouvik Narayan Hore

From £32.99

This collection traverses anger studies from the Classical age to the present day. The book illustrates how literature documents and even institutionalizes primal, emotive outbursts, with analysis of works ranging from Aristotle and Seneca to Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Bronte.

A Decade of Change and Continuity in Midlife

By: Gaylene Carpenter, Jean Stockard

From £30.99

For ten years, researchers tracked a group of adults—their stresses, joys, and changing lives. This book summarizes the results of this unique study, documenting how experiences with relationships, work, and health shape us, offering fascinating insights for the midlife years.

Challenges and Opportunities of the Ambiguous Post-Pandemic World

Edited By: Ahmet Gökbel, Erman Akıllı, Burak Güneş

From £36.99

This book discusses the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on both high-level politics and people’s inner worlds. Through diverse religious, historical, social, and legal analyses, it offers broad perspectives and questions the future of international security.

This book discusses the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on both high-level politics and people’s inner worlds. Through diverse religious, historical, social, and legal analyses, it offers broad perspectives and questions the future of international security.

Envisioning Sustainabilities

Towards an Anthropology of Sustainability

Edited By: Pierre McDonagh, Fiona Murphy

£52.99

The essays within consider the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. They present a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of ‘sustainability imaginaries’, arguing for the value of the social sciences in considering sustainability.

The Roots of Western Swing

Texas Swing, Race, Radio and Records

By: John L. Clark, Jr.

From £29.99

This book details the early history of Western swing—a hybrid of country, jazz, and blues. In the 1930s, musicians influenced by jazz foregrounded improvisation and blues expression to develop an original style that reached its peak popularity in the 1940s.

The Crisis of Schooling? Learning, Knowledge and Competencies in Modern Societies

Edited By: José Resende, Maria Manuel Vieira

From £16.99

This book raises key questions about schooling in a globalized world. What does lifelong learning mean for knowledge transmission? Are competences the new form of qualification? How do teachers deal with these new professional dilemmas?

Macedonian Foreign Policy

From Disintegration to Integration

By: Dejan Marolov, Aneta Stojanovska-Stefanova

From £33.99

This book provides an overview of modern Macedonian political history, with a comprehensive analysis of the 1990s events that led to independence. It also determines the role of the political elite and the foreign policy significant to the creation of the young republic.

Modern Educational Methods and Strategies in Teaching Mathematics

Changing Thoughts

By: Yousef Methkal Abd Algani, Jamal Eshan

From £32.99

Uncover the building blocks of primary math success and the motivational factors that drive students. This guide connects the development of student identity in secondary school to the critical role mathematical aptitude plays in a society's economic prosperity.

A Discourse Perspective on Daniel O’Connell’s Repeal Movement

By: Davide Mazzi

From £29.99

This book takes a new angle on Daniel O’Connell, providing a discourse perspective on his oratorical skills and his perception by the press. It examines what rhetorical strategies he used to persuade Catholics and how he was assessed by nationalist and unionist print media.

Information Resource Science

Theoretical and Methodological Foundations

By: Tatyana Berestova

From £31.99

This book introduces the new field of ‘Information Resource Science.’ While applied knowledge is developing, no theoretical study exists. This book fills that gap, solving basic issues of information resource theory to improve the creation and use of information.

Joseph Wright, Esq. Painter and Gentleman

By: Andrew Graciano

£34.99

Andrew Graciano’s study re-evaluates Joseph Wright’s career, connecting his art to contemporary science, industry, and economics. Graciano reveals Wright as an intellectual painter and a gentleman whose social standing has been ignored by scholars.

Hindi as a Second and Foreign Language

Edited By: Shiv-Kumar Singh, Gaurav Kumar

From £29.99

This book offers better ways of teaching and learning Hindi as a foreign language. With customised teaching methods for learners and valuable information for researchers, it is a must-read for learners, researchers and teachers of Hindi as a foreign language.

The Ottoman Turks in English Heroic Plays

By: Işıl Şahin Gülter

From £29.99

This book challenges the view of Restoration drama as purely domestic. It reveals how heroic plays used stereotypes of the Ottoman Turks to dramatize England's own revolution, regicide, and restoration, while shaping an emerging British imperial ideology.

This book challenges the view of Restoration drama as purely domestic. It reveals how heroic plays used stereotypes of the Ottoman Turks to dramatize England’s own revolution, regicide, and restoration, while shaping an emerging British imperial ideology.

Artists and Migration 1400-1850

Britain, Europe and beyond

Edited By: Jessica David, Matej Klemencic, Kathrin Wagner

£52.99

This collection thematically analyses the migrant artist’s experience in Europe and its colonies from the early modern period to the Industrial Revolution. It studies the influence of the transient artist, both on their adoptive country and their own oeuvre and native culture.

The ‘Ordering-Phase Separation’ Transition in Alloys

By: Yuri Ustinovshikov

From £29.99

Conventional theories about alloys are wrong. This book is the first to present exhaustive evidence that processes in alloys are determined by the chemical interaction between nearest atoms, radically changing our ability to consciously design new materials.

Western Neo-Aramaic

The Dialect of Jubaadin

By: Anas Abou-Ismail

£95.99

Western Neo-Aramaic is the last surviving branch of Western Aramaic, kept alive for thousands of years in three remote Syrian villages. Now at great risk of extinction, this book explores the language with a detailed grammar, texts by native speakers, and a thorough dictionary.

The Burroughs Corporation and Its Innovative Architecture

By: Stephen H. Kaisler

From £41.99

This book surveys the history of the Burroughs Corporation, from its days as an early mainframe vendor to its merger with Univac to form Unisys. Burroughs developed one of the most innovative computer architectures, whose advanced designs survive today as a counterpoint to IBM.

Twenty-First-Century Gothic

Edited By: Brigid Cherry, Peter Howell, Caroline Ruddell

£34.99

These essays reinterpret the Gothic inheritance from a 21st-century perspective, a mode uniquely applicable to the frightening instability of our world. This collection explores Gothic’s contemporaneity through horror novels, cinema, poetry, music, and fan cultures.

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