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Game-Based Learning and the Power of Play

Exploring Evidence, Challenges and Future Directions

Edited By: Pauline Rooney, Nicola Whitton

£47.99

This edited volume explores the application, potential and challenges of game-based learning and gamification across multiple disciplines and sectors, and provides comprehensive insights into the potential of games for facilitating learning and engagement at every life stage.

An Autoethnographic Approach to Identity and Second Language

By: Beril T. Arik

From £36.99

This book investigates the identity and literacy development of an international graduate student. It finds that interactions with people and texts are the primary factor underlying disciplinary socialization, fundamentally shaping how a scholar’s identity is formed.

Multivariate Techniques

An Example Based Approach

By: Muhammad Hanif, Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz, Saman Hanif Shahbaz

From £30.99

This book covers both theoretical and applied aspects of multivariate analyses. It provides an overview of key terminology and distributions before discussing methods of drawing inferences, multivariate analysis of variance, and multivariate regression.

Female Beauty in Art

History, Feminism, Women Artists

Edited By: Maria Ioannou, Maria Kyriakidou

£44.99

Female Beauty in Art examines the role of female beauty in art, history, and culture. These essays consider how the discourse of beauty can generate empowering insights into womanhood, female destiny, and female identity.

Selling Sex Short

The Pornographic and Sexological Construction of Women’s Sexuality in the West

By: Meagan Tyler

£39.99

Pornography and sexology are redefining sexuality, but is the model they promote selling sex short? This book investigates the connections between these industries, revealing they promote a sexual ideal resembling prostitution for couples to mimic.

Language for Specific Purposes

Research and Translation across Cultures and Media

Edited By: Giuliana Elena Garzone, Dermot Heaney, Giorgia Riboni

£74.99

This volume aligns three aspects of Language for Specific Purposes: translation, linguistic research, and domain-specific web communication. It presents work in various LSP areas, like legal discourse, highlighting issues of specialised communication and its social implications.

Cognitive Approaches to English

Fundamental, Methodological, Interdisciplinary and Applied Aspects

Edited By: Mario Brdar, Marija Omazić, Višnja Pavičić Takač

£49.99

This volume presents cognitive approaches to English, discussing motivation in grammar, meaning construction, interlinguistic variation, and TEFL issues. It explores how these phenomena are motivated by metaphorical and metonymic operations.

Vanishing Voices

Silence(s) in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot and R. S. Thomas

By: Katarzyna Dudek

From £30.99

This first study bringing together Hopkins, Eliot, and Thomas explores silence in their poetry. Situated at the crossroads of poetics, philosophy, and theology, it shows how the poets sought a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.

Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World

Edited By: Katherine A. Hermes, Karen A. Ritzenhoff

£49.99

This book assembles essays that explore sex and sexuality in historical and contemporary times. Using feminist lenses, these articles reevaluate familiar topics from early religious practices and medieval literature to current films and advertising.

Word-Formation across Languages

Edited By: Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera, Lívia Körtvélyessy

£74.99

This work discusses, on contrastive principles, important questions of word-formation in a sample of 26 languages, an area not extensively covered by morphologists. Its focus, on a whole, is on typological features of word-formation in the languages sampled.

Mother-Texts

Narratives and Counter-Narratives

Edited By: Julie Kelso, Marie Porter

£44.99

Patriarchy has worked to silence women’s dialogue, creating unrepresentative maternal narratives. This book’s valuable research gives recognition to mothers as they speak up, developing a literature in their own language and claiming maternal knowledge and power.

Speaking of Endangered Languages

Issues in Revitalization

Edited By: Anne Marie Goodfellow

£39.99

This book provides an overview of endangered indigenous languages, describing local responses to maintaining them. Each chapter presents a case study of a threatened language, examining local grassroots efforts at revival and suggesting a re-examination of retention programs.

New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe

Gender, Generation and Identities

Edited By: Rosalind Marsh

£64.99

This book investigates the explosion of women’s writing in post-socialist Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. It explores why this writing has become so prominent, whether writers see their gender as a burden or empowering, and its links to nationality and class.

Russia-Eurasia Relations

Actors, Issues and Challenges

Edited By: Merve Suna Özel Özcan

From £32.99

Across the world, there are regions caught between identity and power. This book analyses the great powers’ challenges in Eurasia within the framework of strategic interests, conflict, and cooperation.

Dante and Heterodoxy

The Temptations of 13th Century Radical Thought

Edited By: Maria Luisa Ardizzone

£49.99

This volume explores Dante’s “temptations” by the radical thought of the 13th century. Spurred by new Aristotelian and Greek-Arabic learning, Dante interrogated heterodox ideas, revealing a poet deeply involved in the intellectual debates of his culture.

Masculinities in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Edith Biegler Vandervoort

£44.99

As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.

A Seamless Web

Transatlantic Art in the Nineteenth Century

Edited By: Cheryll May

£44.99

These essays reveal the nineteenth-century “conversation of cultures” between America and Europe was a two-way exchange. American art used motifs like the cowboy to create its own identity, while Europeans appropriated icons like the American Indian.

Central Asian Economies in Transition

Edited By: E. Ayşen Hiç Gencer, Cevat Gerni

£49.99

This book analyzes Central Asian economies in transition, covering their economic and political challenges, integration into the global world, international trade, and the energy sector. It offers a comprehensive picture for academics, politicians, and business leaders.

Abhinavagupta’s Comments on Aesthetics in Abhinavabhāratī and Locana

By: Sanjeev Kumar

£45.99

Gupta studies the Kashmiri practitioner Abhinavagupta’s two commentaries, Locana on Dhvanyāloka and Abhinavabhāratī on Nātyaśāstra. In particular, she discusses Abhinavagupta’s views on Lollata, Saankuka and Bhattanayaka, with each view followed by relevant criticism.

Projecting Migration over the Next Twenty Years and Beyond

Edited By: Sibel Safi, Lale Burcu Önüt

From £40.99

This volume examines critical aspects of global migration—from the rule of law and climate refugees to human trafficking and integration. It explores how the situation might evolve over the next 20 years, offering a broader perspective on this complex phenomenon.

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