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Beckett’s Literary Legacies

Edited By: Matthew Feldman, Mark Nixon

£34.99

This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.

Sustaining Excellence in ‘Communicating across the Curriculum’

Cross-Institutional Experiences and Best Practices

Edited By: Amani Elshimi, Nagwa Kassabgy

£34.99

This book presents cross-cultural best practices for using communication skills to enhance learning across disciplines. Featuring experiences from institutions worldwide, it highlights intriguing similarities and differences for scholars and teachers.

Beyond Words

The Othering Excursion in Contemporary American Literature

By: Wendy Harding, Jacky Martin

£34.99

When interpretation no longer applies, the Othering Excursion begins. This book elaborates a new method for reading texts that use disruptive rhetoric and distortion to point beyond cultural norms, finding meaning in zones of literary obscurity.

Voters or Consumers

Imagining the contemporary electorate

Edited By: Darren Lilleker, Richard Scullion

£34.99

This collection asks whether the consumer, not the voter, is now central to politics. It explores political consumerism, party branding, and how consumer behaviour models can explain voting and political communication.

Seeing Perception

Edited By: Silke Horstkotte, Karin Leonhard

£39.99

How do we see and write about perception? The act of vision is profoundly impure, entangled with other senses, memory, and dreams. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between seer and seen and the core concepts of visual perception theory.

The Language of Diversity

Restoration Toward Peace and Unity

Edited By: Trevor Grizzle, Andrew Lang, Mary Alice Trent

£39.99

From a Christian worldview, these essays bridge gaps among racial, cultural, and religious differences. The selections examine interfaith relations and challenge readers to probe topics like education, race, and gender.

Singing for Themselves

Essays on Women in Popular Music

Edited By: Patricia Spence Rudden

£39.99

This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny's Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.

This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny’s Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.

Constructing and Sharing Memory

Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment

Edited By: Larry Stillman

£39.99

Community Informatics uses information and communication technologies for positive social change, particularly with disadvantaged communities. This volume brings together valuable international perspectives on community memory, technologies, and societal good.

The Book of Change

By: Clint Miller

£29.99

A synthesis of symbolic logic and poetry, The Book of Change unlocks the secrets of the universe through symmetrical verse. Profound scientific and philosophical truths are simplified into images, laying out the nature of reality from physics to ethics.

Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism

Edited By: Tatiani Rapatzikou

£39.99

This book tackles Hellenism as a global entity through a comparative study of English and American literary, cultural, and artistic trends from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It proves the enduring, intercontinental appeal of Hellenism.

Hearing Places

Sound, Place, Time and Culture

Edited By: Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy, Dolly MacKinnon

From £19.99

How do we hear and respond to place? 37 international artists and scholars explore this question, interrogating place as an acoustic space where sound, time, and culture collide. This book provokes us all to pay attention to how we hear the world.

Migrations

Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand

Edited By: Alexandra Barratt, Stephanie Hollis

£34.99

This collection of essays by international experts and New Zealand curators opens up the little-known medieval manuscripts of New Zealand to a wider audience, placing them within the international discourse of postcolonial heritage and manuscript studies.

Feminism Reframed

Reflections on Art and Difference

Edited By: Alexandra M. Kokoli

£39.99

This collection reframes the dialogue between feminism, art history, and visual culture. It revisits feminist art histories to ask urgent questions for the present and reasserts the need for continuous feminist interventions in the academy and the art world.

Byron at the Theatre

Edited By: Peter Cochran, Shona M. Allan

£34.99

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri's influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri’s influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2007

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe

£44.99

Highlighting the growing interest in consciousness studies, these essays explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literary studies, film, fine arts and music.

Environmental Psychology

Putting Research into Practice

By: Eddie Edgerton, Ombretta Romice, Christopher Spencer

£39.99

This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.

Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe

Edited By: Chris Bishop

£34.99

From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.

21st-Century Gay Culture

Edited By: David A. Powell

£29.99

This collection of essays on 21st-century queer culture features authors from a variety of fields investigating the ever-fluid nature of labels and definitions. Topics include queer African-Americans, same-sex marriage, and French gay culture.

Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions

Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£39.99

An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

Children of the Sun

An Ethnographic Study of the Street Children of Latin America

By: Jerry Hollingsworth

£29.99

An ethnographic study of street children in Mexico and Peru. Based on firsthand knowledge gained from living and working with them, this book offers an in-depth look at their subculture, drug use, crime, and the effects on their development.