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Collecting East and West

Edited By: Andrea M. Gáldy, Adriana Turpin

£44.99

Collecting exotic objects has long united humanity. The essays in this volume connect these collections with their forms of display—from Chinese cabinets built in the West to Western-style palaces in China—charting encounters between cultures across millennia.

The Italian Psychiatric Experience

By: Alessandro De Risio

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Italy's 1978 Psychiatric Reform closed all psychiatric hospitals, a move praised worldwide. But this transition had notable setbacks. This book provides a much-needed appraisal, highlighting the reform’s often-overlooked shortcomings with a multi-faceted, independent viewpoint.

Italy’s 1978 Psychiatric Reform closed all psychiatric hospitals, a move praised worldwide. But this transition had notable setbacks. This book provides a much-needed appraisal, highlighting the reform’s often-overlooked shortcomings with a multi-faceted, independent viewpoint.

Art and Future

Energy, Climate, Cultures

Edited By: Peter Stupples, Jane Venis

£61.99

This publication examines the future of art in a changing world. In particular, contributors discuss the agency of art in conditions of ecological threats to the natural world, to climate change and the effects of globalisation, neoliberal economics and mass tourism.

The Game Culture Reader

Edited By: Jason Thompson

£44.99

Has Game Studies reached an unproductive stasis, mired in reductive debates? This volume's contributors move beyond commonplaces like violence and sexism, arguing that digital games must be understood on their own terms as complex cultural forms.

Has Game Studies reached an unproductive stasis, mired in reductive debates? This volume’s contributors move beyond commonplaces like violence and sexism, arguing that digital games must be understood on their own terms as complex cultural forms.

Peripheral Europe

On Transitology and Post-Crisis Discourses in Southeast Europe

By: Ksenija Vidmar Horvat

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This book connects the EU’s mismanagement of the financial and refugee crises to the integration of the post-socialist East. By turning Europe’s social contract into a cultural one, this process has betrayed core democratic values, both East and West.

Science and Empire in the Nineteenth Century

A Journey of Imperial Conquest and Scientific Progress

Edited By: Catherine Delmas, Christine Vandamme

£39.99

This book explores how sciences like anthropology and ethnography became tools of empire. It analyzes the link between knowledge and power, revealing the tension between scientific objectivity and imperialist propaganda in the British and American empires.

Green Methodologies Leading to the Formation of New C-C and C-Heteroatom Bonds

By: Neslihan Demirbas, Arif Mermer, Ahmet Demirbas

From £31.99

An expert guide to integrating sustainable green chemistry into your work. This book provides a comprehensive overview of green techniques and is an essential resource for academic and industrial researchers in chemistry, environmental science, and pharmaceutical science.

The Philosophy of Yoga in Contemporary American Fiction

Bellow, Salinger, Updike, Vonnegut

By: Sukhbir Singh

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This book unveils the mystical motifs and yoga philosophies interwoven into the narrative structures of fictions by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, and Kurt Vonnegut, opening new vistas on the interface between Eastern philosophy and Western literature.

Assessing Organizational Diversity with the McIntosh Index

By: Salomón Alcocer Guajardo

From £35.99

This book offers HR practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to measuring workplace diversity using the McIntosh index. With examples and regression methods, it shows how to assess the organizational factors that influence age, ethnic, gender, and organizational diversity.

Complexes of Natural Flavonoids with Transition Metals

The Structure and the Role in Human Health

By: Ekaterina A. Korobkova

From £32.99

The beneficial effects of plants are associated with flavonoids, which bind metals to form complexes. This book summarizes the scientific evidence on the structure, chemistry, and biological function of these metal-flavonoid complexes and their effect on disease.

Nuclear Proliferation and the Dilemma of Peace in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: David A. Valone

£34.99

President Jimmy Carter recalls the imminent nuclear threat he faced in the White House. He is joined by experts and a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb in this collection of talks on nuclear disarmament and the ongoing struggle for peace.

Theoretical Perspectives on Cultural Representations in Vietnamese Children’s Picturebooks

By: Ngoc Tai Huynh, Vinh To, Angela Thomas

From £33.99

This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It's a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.

This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It’s a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.

An Innovative Approach to Voice Education and Voice Therapy

The Eclectic Therapy Method

By: Hugo Lycke

From £35.99

Based on a database of over 1,000 Voice Range Profiles from professional voice users, the Eclectic Therapy Method (E.T.M.) allows you to objectively evaluate your voice, expand it to its maximum potential, and compare your results with the exceptional data in this study.

Relevance Theory

More than Understanding

Edited By: Agnieszka Piskorska

£49.99

This volume covers topics central to pragmatic research: politeness, communication, metaphor, and humour. Alongside innovative theoretical proposals, it offers interesting analyses and discussions.

Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845

Visualising Identity and Difference

By: Prasannajit de Silva

£61.99

De Silva considers the ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals that the position of the British population in the country in the 19th century was often more nuanced than often assumed.

A Literary, Philosophical and Religious Journey into Well-Being

Fulfilled Lives

Edited By: Nili Alon Amit

From £32.99

This volume traces the concept of happiness through the history of thought, from early Greek philosophy to contemporary psychology. As the volume shows, happiness appears in many forms, all connected with the human sense of approaching oneness with the world or with the divine.

Legilimens!

Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies

Edited By: Christopher E. Bell

£39.99

Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.

Teaching, Learning and Investigating Pragmatics

Principles, Methods and Practices

Edited By: Sara Gesuato, Winnie Cheng, Sara Gesuato

£62.99

This collection of research investigates how to teach and assess pragmatic competence in second/foreign language education. Topics include speech acts, syllabus design, and instructional methods. For linguists, language teachers, and communication experts.

Labour in the 21st Century

Insights into a Changing World of Work

Edited By: Emanuele Dagnino, Anthony Forsyth, Silvia Fernández Martínez

£61.99

This compendium investigates and discusses the different aspects of the major transformations that have characterized the world of work in recent years. It claims that in order to propose solutions to cope with such changes, it is necessary to analyze their ongoing dynamics.

Homosexuality in Italian Literature, Society, and Culture, 1789-1919

Edited By: Elisa Bianco, Anita Virga

£61.99

Homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism and trans-genders represented new ideas and mentalities which shattered nineteenth-century Italy. This book offers a comprehensive overview of this phenomenon and makes a major contribution to Italian studies and modern European history.

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