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The Oracle of the “tiny finger snap of time”

A Study of Novels with a Specific Time Culture

Edited By: Pauline Winsome Beard

£41.99

This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.

Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History

HistoRisus

Edited By: Rafał Borysławski, Justyna Jajszczok, Jakub Wolff

£52.99

This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.

Women in Leadership and Work-Family Integration Volume Two

A Woman's Identity

Edited By: Kerri Cissna-Heath, Margaret J. Weber

£41.99

This title investigates how women are assuming greater roles within the workplace and men are adopting greater roles in the home. It argues that men and women have to step into new identities and develop new roles inside the workplace and the family.

Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume One

Proceedings of the Sixth AESOP Conference on Sustainable Food Planning

Edited By: Rob Roggema

£62.99

This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.

Color Language and Color Categorization

Edited By: Jonathan Brindle, Geda Paulsen, Mari Uusküla

£57.99

This book examines how color is categorized and named in a number of languages, drawing on as-yet unexplored aspects of color language and categorization. Several approaches are taken to describe new research on how the concept is represented in various languages.

Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa

Edited By: Joyce T. Mathangwane, Akin Odebunmi

£62.99

Unpacking discourses in African law, media, and art, these authoritative essays reveal how language shapes the continent's unique cultural values and complex social realities.

Unpacking discourses in African law, media, and art, these authoritative essays reveal how language shapes the continent’s unique cultural values and complex social realities.

The Cold War and Entertainment Television

Edited By: Lori Maguire

£47.99

An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. As such, this volume discusses the impact of the conflict on entertainment television, offering comparative aspect by studying programs from both Eastern and Western blocs.

Translating the European House

Discourse, Ideology and Politics – Selected Papers by Christina Schäffner

Edited By: Stefan Baumgarten, Chantal Gagnon

£52.99

This collection explores the intersection of translation and politics. Using examples from the fall of the Berlin Wall to EU enlargement, these articles afford a fascinating insight into the textual and ideological factors shaping international political discourse.

Sophistes

Plato’s Dialogue and Heidegger’s Lectures in Marburg (1924-25)

Edited By: Diego De Brasi, Marko J. Fuchs

£41.99

Heidegger saw Plato as the founder of a Western metaphysics to be overcome. Yet Heidegger's own interpretation of Plato is controversial, and its impact on the study of Platonic philosophy itself has been neglected. This volume offers a critical re-evaluation.

Heidegger saw Plato as the founder of a Western metaphysics to be overcome. Yet Heidegger’s own interpretation of Plato is controversial, and its impact on the study of Platonic philosophy itself has been neglected. This volume offers a critical re-evaluation.

Islamic Law and Human Rights

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

By: Moataz El Fegiery

£52.99

This book argues the Muslim Brotherhood has exacerbated, not solved, tensions between Islamic law and human rights in Egypt. Its ideology and actions in power restricted religious freedom and freedom of expression, and reversed previous reforms related to women’s rights.

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.

Contemporary Social and Political Aspects of the Cyprus Problem

Edited By: Michalis Kontos, Jonathan Warner

£52.99

Containing chapters from both Turkish- and Greek-Cypriots, as well as outside scholars, this volume explores the difficulty of producing viable constitutional and civic arrangements in an ethnically-divided polity.

The Cambridge Scholars Publishing Applied Linguistics Collection

Edited By: Cambridge Scholars

£650.00

This collection brings together the pick of our recent publishing in Applied Linguistics. This area of study has a global appeal, reflected here with authors, editors and contributors from dozens of countries.

The Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lexicography Collection

Edited By: Cambridge Scholars

£375.00

This collection brings together the practical and theoretical aspects of Lexicography, a newly accepted academic discipline.

Atomization or Integration? Transborder Aspects of Multipedagogy

Edited By: Justyna Pilarska, Alicja Szerląg, Arkadiusz Urbanek

£57.99

This book presents detailed European reflections on the current ways of conceptualising multiculturalism as expressed across Europe. Each chapter indicates the areas in which the volume’s study will have a particular impact.

Constructing Modern European Private Law

A Hybrid System

By: Ivan Sammut

£68.99

Sammut examines the governance structure of the Europeanisation of European Private Law (EPL). He proves that more can be achieved here through a new approach involving innovative modes of governance in EPL.

Why Still Education?

Edited By: Gazela Pudar Draško, Predrag Krstić, Tamara Petrović-Trifunović

£41.99

This compilation of papers addresses education-related matters, with a particular focus on the purpose of education, results from a child-centred perspective, and discrimination in national and gender characteristics of education.

Like One of the Family

Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in The Help

Edited By: Fiona Mills

£47.99

Using the best-selling novel The Help and its 2011 film adaptation as a starting point, this collection considers why such sterilized versions of America’s complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary timeframe.

Multimodality and Performance

Edited By: Carla Fernandes

£47.99

Arising from a conference on multimodal communication, this volume deals with the study and documentation of the performing arts. It presents such issues as multimodality in human interaction and performance, as well as embodied cognition and metaphor.

Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe

Past and Present Volume I/2

Edited By: Gerhard Besier

£57.99

The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume investigates the effect of the differing circumstances in these various national societies on these religious societies, and the challenges they had to overcome.

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