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Gujaratis in the West

Evolving Identities in Contemporary Society

Edited By: Sharmina Mawani, Anjoom A. Mukadam

£34.99

This compilation of scholarly works investigates how Gujaratis, a successful and integrated community, construct and express their complex religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities in the West, offering a unique insight into a community often overlooked.

France at the Flicks

Trends in Contemporary French Popular Cinema

Edited By: Isabelle Vanderschelden, Darren Waldron

£34.99

Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood's dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.

Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood’s dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.

Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe

Day-to-Day History

Edited By: Larisa Lempertienė, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė

£34.99

This collection reveals the Jewish space as diverse forms of life in 19th and 20th century Eastern Europe. Scholars explore social life, leisure, and coexistence, showing how this world transformed while preserving its authenticity and individuality.

Rethinking the Reform Question

Edited By: Ann Marie Bissessar

£34.99

In this collection, eminent academics explain the phenomenon of public sector reform. Drawing on vast theoretical, empirical, and comparative data, this is a first-rate resource for scholars seeking to understand its key trends, challenges, and dilemmas.

Languages for Specific Purposes

Searching for Common Solutions

Edited By: Dita Gálová

£39.99

This book provides an overview of solutions and current issues in teaching Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP). Containing 20 articles by teachers and researchers, it is a valuable resource for language teachers and specialists designing LSP courses.

Divided we stand

The French and Italian political parties and the rearmament of West Germany, 1949-1955

By: Linda Risso

£39.99

In the 1950s, fears of a ‘new Wehrmacht’ clashed with the ambition for European integration, sparking passionate political debates. This book offers an innovative examination of the role non-state actors and political parties played in France and Italy.

Freedom of Expression

Counting the Costs

Edited By: Glen Newey

£34.99

Freedom of expression is under assault from religious activists, political establishments, and technology. This collection explores these new challenges, asking how to weigh free expression against other rights and if free speech can survive its costs.

Cosmologies of Suffering

Post-communist Transformation, Sacral Communication, and Healing

Edited By: Agita Lūse

£34.99

This volume explores the permanent ‘transition’ and persistent social suffering in post-communist countries. Ethnographic accounts reveal how people cope with trauma by relinquishing reliance on the self and turning towards a higher power.

Photographing Papua

Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public Domain

Edited By: Max Quanchi

£39.99

This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.

Brecht, Broadway and United States Theater

Edited By: J. Chris Westgate

£34.99

This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht's encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.

This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht’s encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.

Alternatives within the Mainstream II

Queer Theatres in post-war Britain

Edited By: Dimple Godiwala

£39.99

This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.

Literatures in the Digital Era

Theory and Praxis

Edited By: Dolores Romero, Amelia Sanz

£39.99

This book analyses the impacts of digital technology on literature. It explores how computer resources are used to preserve and study texts, the birth of a new digital literature, and the emergence of new literary theories pointing to a new humanism.

Culture and Ideology at an Invented Place

By: Zhang Pinggong

From £29.99

This first analysis of narratives surrounding China's popular Overseas Chinese Town theme park sheds a cultural and political light on the “modern pleasure space.” It illustrates in detail the distinctive nature of Chinese theme park development.

This first analysis of narratives surrounding China’s popular Overseas Chinese Town theme park sheds a cultural and political light on the “modern pleasure space.” It illustrates in detail the distinctive nature of Chinese theme park development.

Studies in the Morpho-Syntax of Greek

Edited By: Artemis Alexiadou

£34.99

This collection of generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax shows how the study of Greek feeds generative theory. The analyses contribute to comparative syntax and cross-linguistic variation, making it essential for scholars of Greek and theoretical linguistics.

Fields of Expertise

A Comparative History of Expert Procedures in Paris and London, 1600 to present

Edited By: Christelle Rabier

£39.99

Fields of Expertise explores the relationship between experts and power from a historical perspective. Using case studies from Paris and London since 1600, it challenges traditional views on expertise in risk management, medicine, and economic policy.

The Epicurean Theory of Mind, Meaning and Knowledge

By: David Swift

£29.99

David Swift turns to the philosopher Epicurus for a scientific explanation of the mind. Reinterpreting thinkers from Descartes to Freud, he reveals the secrets of love, hate, and behavior as the results of learned experience, not genetic predisposition.

P. Papinius Statius Volume I

Thebaid and Achilleid

By: A. L. Ritchie, Mike J. Edwards

£39.99

This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.

P. Papinius Statius Volume II

Thebaid and Achilleid

By: A. L. Ritchie, J. B. Hall

£39.99

This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.

Dispersion of Meaning

The Fading Out of the Doctrinaire World?

By: Matko Meštrović

£29.99

In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.

Many Floridas

Women Envisioning Change

Edited By: Rhonda L. S. Ovist, Chemba Raghavan

£24.99

This collection of feminist essays envisions change for women in Florida. Authors write from various intersections of class, race, and sexuality to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making meaningful connections between the academy and the community.