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Modelling Emergency Situations in the Drilling of Deep Boreholes

By: Sergii Glazunov, Olga Glushakova, Valery Gulyayev

From £35.99

Complex oil and gas extraction is accompanied by grave failures like drill string buckling, resonant vibrations, and bit whirling. To analyze these phenomena, this book elaborates new mathematical models and numerical methods, offering new results for designers and specialists.

Not Far From Here

The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver

Edited By: Vasiliki Fachard, Robert Miltner

£39.99

Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.

Francophone Women Coming of Age

Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean

Edited By: Debra Popkin

£29.99

These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.

Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story

Edited By: Oriana Palusci

£61.99

This edited volume investigates Alice Munro’s art as a storyteller and the processes she performs on the contemporary short story genre in her creative anatomical theatre from a variety of different critical perspectives ranging from post-structuralism to cultural studies.

French through Corpora

Ecological and Data-Driven Perspectives in French Language Studies

Edited By: Virginie André, Christophe Benzitoun, Henry Tyne

£49.99

This book offers studies on the French language—its forms, variation, and acquisition—through the use of corpora. It provides an up-to-date account for researchers and students, linking data, theory, and methods in French and general linguistics.

Urban Elections and Decision-Making in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

Edited By: Jan Marco Sawilla, Rudolf Schlögl

£44.99

In early modern cities, oligarchies collided with community expectations for participation. This book offers new interpretations of the techniques elites used to cope with these tensions, examining elections, consent, dissent, and even urban revolts.

Epistemology of Ordinary Knowledge

Edited By: Paolo Piccari, Mariano L. Bianca

£52.99

Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. The papers collected here analyse different aspects of ordinary knowledge and of its epistemology.

Reflections on Persian Grammar Vol. II

Further Developments in Persian Linguistic Scholarship

By: A. Soheili

From £30.99

This collection is a survey of the historical development of Persian grammar. The contributions from distinguished scholars display their deep knowledge of the Persian language, its literature, and history to illustrate its major structural properties and parametric variations.

Advances in Discourse Approaches

Edited By: Marta Dynel

£44.99

From Quentin Tarantino’s films to the Bible and legal discourse, this volume addresses diverse topics. Each chapter deploys a separate theoretical framework, offering a representative sample of developments in discourse approaches for researchers and students.

Minority Theatre on the Global Stage

Challenging Paradigms from the Margins

Edited By: Madelena Gonzalez, Hélène Laplace-Claverie

£49.99

This volume explores contemporary theatre's affinity with the margins. Essays examine how minority theatre challenges cultural consensus and gives universal resonance to conflicted identities, re-examining the status of theatre itself in a globalized world.

This volume explores contemporary theatre’s affinity with the margins. Essays examine how minority theatre challenges cultural consensus and gives universal resonance to conflicted identities, re-examining the status of theatre itself in a globalized world.

How to Teach University Students to Make an Attractive TED-like Speech

By: Ran Fan

From £36.99

Drawing from experience and analysis of TED talks, Ran Fan presents a groundbreaking approach to turning presentations into career-launching showcases. This guide offers educators practical strategies to foster confident speakers ready to captivate any audience.

Diaspora, Literature, and Writing of Afghan Lives in Iran

By: Vida Rahiminezhad, Faeze Mohammadianroshan

From £32.99

For three generations, Afghans have migrated across the world. This book defines the concept of diaspora, considering key ideas like “belonging” and “return.” It focuses on the Afghan diaspora, particularly in Iran, and offers short accounts of their lives.

The Moral Psychology of Terrorism

Implications for Security

Edited By: Nathan Lean, Jalil Roshandel

£44.99

Why do terrorists kill? This volume moves beyond politics to explore the psychology, morality, and beliefs that fuel terrorism. With perspectives from many disciplines, it probes the minds of terrorists to understand this tragic path to violence.

Sex-Based Harassment in the World of Work

Examining Evolving Jurisprudence under India's PoSH Law

By: Deeksha Malik

From £33.99

This book explores the evolving jurisprudence on workplace sexual harassment. It examines the judiciary's approach to complex issues: the ambit of 'workplace', handling vague or anonymous complaints, ensuring balance in inquiries, and the interplay with criminal proceedings.

This book explores the evolving jurisprudence on workplace sexual harassment. It examines the judiciary’s approach to complex issues: the ambit of ‘workplace’, handling vague or anonymous complaints, ensuring balance in inquiries, and the interplay with criminal proceedings.

A Multilingual Perspective on the Diversification of Academic Writing

By: Verbra Frances Pfeiffer

From £31.99

This book analyzes multilingual academic writing through translanguaging, examining the disparity between thinking in one language and writing in another. It offers practical strategies for educators to acknowledge student voices and identities, decolonizing academic writing.

The Unassuming Sky

The Life and Poetry of Timothy Corsellis

By: Helen Goethals

£39.99

For the first time in a collected edition, the work of Timothy Corsellis. The poems tell the striking story of an unusual war poet whose life was cut tragically short: an RAF pilot who refused to bomb civilians, and his literary encounter with Stephen Spender.

Electron Beams in a Plasma

By: Evgeniy G. Shustin

From £29.99

Explore the interaction of electron beams with plasma and beam plasma discharge. This book covers the history, theory, and experimental research, with a focus on applications ranging from the physics of near-Earth space to materials technologies for micro- and nanoelectronics.

Attitudes towards the Other in Muslim Poetry and Letters in Andalusia

By: Abdallah Ebraheem Tarabieh

From £31.99

This study of medieval poetry explores the interaction between Muslim and Jewish culture in Andalusia. It sheds light on the figure of the “Other”—the Jew in Islam—through the authentic voice of poets, offering a perspective beyond the histories written about the period.

Shakespeare’s Verbal Art

By: William Bellamy

£62.99

William Bellamy examines the newly re-discovered anagrams that lie hidden in all Shakespearean texts, and explains the essential role played by these concealed figures in Classical and Renaissance poetry, using a range of examples, including Othello, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night.

Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture

Edited By: Dorsía Smith, Tatiana Tagirova

£39.99

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region's literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer's role as a political activist.

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.

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