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The Orient in Music – Music of the Orient

Edited By: Małgorzata Grajter

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European fascination with Oriental cultures has found multifaceted manifestations. Music, as an important element of cultural communication, is well suited for such transitions. This collection of essays explores the fascinating influences between Orient and Western music.

Practical Optimization with MATLAB

By: Mircea Ancău

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This easy-to-follow guide offers a state-of-the-art approach to optimization methods for academics and industrial engineers. It provides a comprehensive study with directly implementable Matlab code, suited to readers even without a programming background.

South African Literary Cultural Nationalism—Abalobi beSizwe eMzansi—1918-45

Returning to the Source

By: Nicholas M. Creary

£61.99

Creary’s intellectual history uses Amílcar Cabral’s theory of the “return to the source” to examine Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi, Vilakazi’s poetry, and Jordan’s The Wrath of the Ancestors within the broader context of African cultural nationalisms in the early twentieth century.

Promised End

The Last Scene of King Lear

By: Seth C. Hawkins

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The whole meaning of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy depends on Lear’s last lines. Is his vision an epiphany or delusion? Is the play nihilistic or redemptive? This book deploys a wide spectrum of critical approaches to enlist readers in a quest for the answer.

Aristide of Le Figaro

By: Mary Munro-Hill

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Can language be truly absorbing? For thirty years, Aristide’s witty and elegant grammar columns for Le Figaro entertained France. This book on his work, for lovers of the French language, is both entertaining and instructive, peppered with extracts from his original writings.

Studies in Language Variation and Change 2

Shifts and Turns in the History of English

Edited By: Catherine Delesse, Elise Louviot, Catherine Delesse

£61.99

This collection of essays traces the history of the English language, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly the influence of Scandinavian, French, and Latin, which are all considered here.

Debating with the Eumenides

Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece

Edited By: Vayos Liapis, Maria Pavlou

£61.99

Greek tragedy takes pride of place in the dialogue between modern Greece and its classical past. In this volume, scholars explore how tragic myth has been reimagined in modern Greek drama and poetry, with extensive coverage of major authors like Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos.

French Historians in the Nineteenth Century

Providence and History

By: F.L. van Holthoon

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This study of nineteenth-century French historians reveals a major change of perspective. Early historians like Guizot looked to the past for guidance, while later historians saw it as a closed book to be opened, highlighting overlooked figures like Comtesse d’Agoult.

Reporting the Attacks on Dubrovnik in 1991, and the Recognition of Croatia

Edited By: Mato Brautović, Renaud de la Brosse

£61.99

This title provides an overview of the role of the media during the attack on Dubrovnik in autumn 1991 by the federal army and Montenegrin reservists, and represents a primary source of information about the propaganda war waged during the conflict between Croatia and Serbia.

Political Philosophy in Motion *.mkv

By: Dan Dungaciu

£61.99

This book offers a precise way of “looking at things” to re-define the relationship between film and political philosophy. It provides new reflections on the domain’s themes, appealing to academics interested in political philosophy, media studies, and cultural studies.

Modality in Modern Greek

By: Eleni Staraki

£61.99

Staraki analyses both main and embedded modality in the modern Greek language. By reviewing the classical semantic and syntactic literature related to modality, she offers a new account of its interpretation in modern Greek regarding non-veridicality and non-monotonic principles.

Exploring the Syntax and Semantics of South Asian Languages

Edited By: Reena Ashem, Gurmeet Kaur, Usha Udaar

£61.99

This collection offers fresh perspectives on the syntax and semantics of South Asian languages. Drawing on novel data, it covers key grammatical aspects like clausal/nominal structure, case/phi-agreement, and primitive categories, with analyses couched in the generative paradigm.

The Practicalities of Producing the Play Mozart, with Music by Franz von Suppé

By: Lucinda Bray, Dario Salvi

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In 1854, Franz von Suppé wrote music for a play that accompanies the action like a film score. While the music works today, the 19th-century German script does not. This book details the challenge of adapting the text for a modern audience while keeping Suppé's score intact.

The Ancient War’s Impact on the Home Front

Edited By: Lucia Cecchet, Christopher Degelmann, Maik Patzelt

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This first comprehensive volume explores the concept of the ‘home front’ in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Crossing borders between history, social sciences, and religious studies, it investigates the impact of war on the social and religious spheres of civilian communities.

Psychology for a Better World

A Cross-Cultural Anthology on Emotional Well-Being

Edited By: Murari Prasad Regmi, Karen Schmaling, Antigonos Sochos

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This anthology from World without Anger (WWA) promotes peace. Peer-reviewed papers from an international conference reflect diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives on anger management, emotional intelligence, and cultural harmony.

Building Inclusive Communities through Education and Learning

Edited By: Klara Skubic Ermenc, Borut Mikulec

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This book examines the complex relationship between learning, education, and community. Using Slovenian studies with global relevance, it offers a unique perspective shaped by the historical European experience of attempting collective unity in former Yugoslavia.

Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance

Things New and Old

Edited By: Larisa Kocic-Zámbó, Ágnes Matuska

£61.99

Spanning three centuries of English literature, from 15th-century texts to Milton, this collection reinterprets tradition with innovative methods. Essays explore genre experiments, contemporary Shakespearean adaptations, and new perspectives on Milton.

Memory, Place and Autobiography

Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking

By: Jill Daniels

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In autobiographical film, the filmmaker—as maker and subject—acts as a cultural guide. This book explores how memory is evoked through hybrid strategies like fictional enactment, and charts the history of British independent filmmaking from the 1970s to the age of new media.

The Effects and Consequences of Migration and Immigration on the Lebanese Economy and Tourism Sector

Edited By: Mohammad Makki, Nadine Sinno

£61.99

This book analyses Lebanon's economy, tourism, migration, and immigration after the Syrian conflict. It provides insight into public and private policies, offering a holistic analysis with recommendations for scholars and practitioners in Middle Eastern politics and economics.

This book analyses Lebanon’s economy, tourism, migration, and immigration after the Syrian conflict. It provides insight into public and private policies, offering a holistic analysis with recommendations for scholars and practitioners in Middle Eastern politics and economics.

Rethinking Sustainable Development in Terms of Justice

Issues of Theory, Law and Governance

Edited By: Lorena Martínez Hernández, Daniel Iglesias Márquez, Beatriz Felipe Pérez

£61.99

This title explores renewed and distinctive approaches to the sustainability and justice debate, integrating a range of perspectives that include moral philosophy, sociology and law.

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