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International Conference on Use-Wear Analysis

Use-Wear 2012

Edited By: Nuno Bicho, Juan F. Gibaja

£73.99

This volume explores use-wear studies as a proxy for prehistoric techno-cultural reconstruction. Discussing various research methods, techniques, chronologies, and regions, this book will be of interest to both archaeologists and anthropologists.

Malady and Mortality

Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture

Edited By: Helen Thomas

£52.99

This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.

Popularizing Learned Medicine in Late-17th-Century England

The Art of Physick made Plain and Easie

By: Giulia Rovelli

From £32.99

This book explores the popularization of learned medical knowledge in late 17th-century England. It analyzes the translation of key texts from Latin into English—from Nicholas Culpeper’s famous work to more obscure publications—to show how medicine reached a wider audience.

Neo-Romantic Landscapes

An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger

By: Stella Hockenhull

£34.99

This reappraisal of Powell and Pressburger's films challenges their status as 'un-British' outsiders. Focusing on the use of landscape, it connects their wartime cinema to Neo-Romantic painting, resituating them firmly in British visual art traditions.

This reappraisal of Powell and Pressburger’s films challenges their status as ‘un-British’ outsiders. Focusing on the use of landscape, it connects their wartime cinema to Neo-Romantic painting, resituating them firmly in British visual art traditions.

An Introduction to Graph Theory and Combinatorics and their Applications

By: Mukesh Kumar, Mohammad Tamsir

From £37.99

An introduction to Graph Theory and Combinatorics and their Applications. Presented in a simple way with examples, it contains a wide variety of applications to real world Science and Engineering problems and includes multiple choice questions for competitive exams.

Widening Access throughout the Student Lifecycle

Edited By: Graeme Atherton, Steve Kendall, Michael Naughton

£61.99

This title provides leading contemporary thought and research on how to address inequalities in participation in Higher Education across the “student lifecycle”, highlighting a range of practices in widening access, including chapters on financial support and mature students.

The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings

By: Edward J. Olszewski

£78.99

This study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.

The Nordic Storyteller

Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen

Edited By: Susan C. Brantly, Thomas A. DuBois

£49.99

Nineteen essays explore Nordic storytelling, from oral traditions like folklore and legend to the great literary works of authors like H. C. Andersen, Ibsen, and Isak Dinesen. The volume demonstrates the enduring power of narrative in Scandinavian life.

Social Orders and Social Landscapes

Edited By: Charles W. Hartley, Laura M. Popova, Adam T. Smith

£44.99

This book marks a new direction in Eurasian archaeology, focusing on how people lived in their local environments. It re-images Eurasia as a complex landscape of shifting social boundaries, questioning rigid stereotypes and offering novel interpretations of the past.

Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Muslim Thought

Edited By: Abbas Poya, Farid Suleiman

£52.99

Ten articles on contemporary Muslim thought, gathered here, give testimony to the existence of plurality in Muslim theology. They each focus on the thought of a contemporaneous Muslim theologian and deliberate the interdependence between theological debates and their context.

The Logics of Change

Poverty, Place, Identity and Social Transformation Mechanisms

Edited By: Andreas Koch, Clemens Sedmak

£49.99

In a world of constant change, inequality and poverty challenge well-being. This volume brings together researchers from different disciplines to shed light on theories, methodologies, and concrete applications of change concepts referring to poverty, place, and identity.

Methodological Approaches to STEM Education Research Volume 5

Edited By: Peta J. White, Russell Tytler, Joseph Paul Ferguson, John Cripps Clark

From £40.99

This volume promotes innovation in research methodologies for science, mathematics, health, and environmental education. Chapters present new methods to address global challenges like climate change, exploring queer theory, AI, arts-based studies, and socioscientific approaches.

The Silk Road of Adaptation

Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures

Edited By: Dr Laurence Raw

£44.99

Using the Silk Road as a metaphor for transcultural exchange, this anthology presents adaptation as a continuous process. Essays from diverse disciplines show how adaptation is a transmedial and transnational act with psychological as well as political significance.

EFL Learners’ Acquisition of the English Article System

A Comparative Study

By: Mahmoud Hajjar

From £36.99

This book addresses controversies in second language acquisition, including the role of the first language and universal grammar, by investigating how speakers of Arabic and Japanese acquire English articles. Useful for researchers, students, and teachers in language education.

Microwave Theory and Techniques

By: Andrey D. Grigorev

From £33.99

This book describes the principles of microwave circuit theory, bridging electromagnetic fields and circuit analysis. It explores scattering, admittance, impedance, and transmission matrices in detail. Learn analysis methods for complex networks, aided by numerous diagrams.

Multilingual Europe

Reflections on Language and Identity

Edited By: Heather Merle Benbow, Jane Warren

£34.99

This volume explores the relationship between language and identity in an expanding, multicultural Europe. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it combines sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema.

The Scholar’s Thomas Jefferson

Vital Writings of a Vital American

By: M. Andrew Holowchak

From £33.99

While most compilations focus on Jefferson the politician, this unique book remedies that shortcoming. It is a collection of Jefferson’s writings for those interested in the breadth and depth of his amazing mind, with sections on politics, morality, religion, and education.

Crisis in Contemporary British Fiction

Edited By: Anastasia Logotheti

From £29.99

This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.

Byron and Italy

By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

Peter Cochran explores Byron’s relationship with Italy as a whole—its literature, women, and politics. He argues the poet’s sojourn was an attempt to forge a new identity, showing how Italian culture gave him a new sense of self and his poetry.

Post/modern Dracula

From Victorian Themes to Postmodern Praxis

Edited By: John S. Bak

£29.99

This collection explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker’s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola’s film, demonstrating how the century separating them binds more than it divides. These essays reveal why Dracula remains forever post/modern.

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