The Arts and Youth at Risk
“Philosophically complex and pragmatically provocative,” this book interrogates arts-based interventions for “at risk” youth. International experts explore the positive outcomes and ethical challenges of working with marginalised communities.
“Imperialists in Broken Boots”
This book argues that in Southern Africa, ‘poor white’ was not a narrow economic category but a term for those who threatened to collapse racial, sexual, and class boundaries. It studies writers who either embraced this threat or argued for a solution.
An assistant for students of Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality. This volume places Whitehead in historical context, presents an exposition of his philosophy, and explores his influential doctrine of God in comparison with traditional Christian thought.
Dalit Women and Dropout Rates in Collegiate Education
Caste remains a hurdle in Indian education, particularly for Dalit women. This book throws light on the social stigma they face, leading to high dropout rates from college in the Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh.
Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus
Using the story of Kissinger’s behaviour regarding Cyprus, backed up by recently revealed government documents, Mallinson provides an incisive analysis of Kissinger’s approach, revealing a man who appears to have considered political strategy more important than law and ethics.
Women in Dialogue
This collection of essays explores women as objects of cultural production and as creators themselves. It features literary analysis alongside personalized observations by women writers on their work, using dialogue as a platform for learning and mutual understanding.
Loss, Hurt and Hope
What happens when a child experiences bereavement or trauma? Untreated, it causes devastating loss. *Loss, Hurt and Hope* gathers the wisdom of professionals, providing the tools to help these children move from despair to hope and renewal.
New essays by leading scholars explore how different cultures conceive of art and beauty. Discover how Buddhist, Confucian, and Upanişadic thought shape aesthetics in the East, revealing deep cultural differences and similarities with the West.
Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys
This study challenges the standard of white, heterosexual male beauty. It explores the connections between beauty and a broad spectrum of masculinities, examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and queer constructions of male beauty in Western culture.
Lucian, a 2nd-century satirist, composed the Dialogues of the Sea Gods: a collection of amusing dialogues between figures from Greek myth. This volume examines his work, contemporary views on myth, and the flourishing of Greek culture under Roman rule.
The Flesh of Being
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
This collection of essays on the Cambridge School of Economics features figures like Keynes and Joan Robinson. It explores Keynesian themes—the fight against unemployment, money, and uncertainty—making Keynes’s legacy relevant today in persuasive essays accessible to the public.
The Anonymous Society
An anthropological look inside 12-Step groups. This in-depth study explores how ritual, therapy, and anonymity combat addiction, revealing the vital role these associations play in contemporary society.
Before St. John’s, the first fever hospital, patients suffered and died in their homes. The spread of fever was controlled by isolating them. This Irish study covers the cholera epidemic of 1832 and the Great Famine of the 1840s.
For William Morris, beauty in daily life was revolutionary. These essays explore how the everyday—from domestic interiors to utopian socialism—informed his art, politics, and radical call for social transformation, a vision that remains powerfully relevant.
This volume explores the prospects and challenges of using technology in education. It addresses how students and academics can benefit from e-tools like blogs and wikis, and how technology is causing a paradigm shift from traditional teaching methods.
New Conservative Explications
As interest in explicating classic poems has declined, many still puzzle readers. This book provides new explications for twelve poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats, and others, arguing that this practice can reveal their sense and conserve them.
Universal Representation, and the Ontology of Individuation (Volume 5
These essays explore ceaseless medieval debates on how we conceive things and the nature of individuation. They consider the metaphysics of universal representation in thinkers from Avicenna and Aquinas to Duns Scotus and Ockham.
Out of the Burning House
A Marxist historian and a behaviourist psychologist revisit their university days, exploring the overlooked social forces that shaped a generation: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the English Language
Explore cross-disciplinary solutions to teaching English in a globalised world. This collection by Romanian researchers offers vital, practical insights for specialists, teachers, and students.
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