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Art and the Artist in Society

Edited By: Jane Elizabeth Alberdeston, Elsa Luciano Feal, José Jiménez-Justiniano

£49.99

This compilation of essays examines the nexus between artists, their art, and society. Through a diverse group of artists, it explores important issues like the representation of the Other and the construction of the self, offering fascinating insights.

Communication Shock

The Rhetoric of New Technology

By: Ty Adams, Steve Smith

£47.99

As we become more networked, we must confront the social impact of new technologies. Communication Shock explores these changes and challenges readers to find a balance, maintain individual autonomy, and make informed choices for the life one wishes to live.

Dying to Eat

Health, Heresy and Hysteria

By: Michael David Trevan

£80.99

Trevan examines our oft emotional relationship with food, and challenges how the science and knowledge of food, health and nutrition are derived. He also investigates those foods that come ready loaded with poisonous compounds and carcinogens.

Perspectives on Working Life

By: Matthew Etherington

From £29.99

This book investigates work from diverse worldviews—cultural, religious, humanist, and Indigenous. Our work lives can be more deeply understood and appreciated when exposed to perspectives different from our own, yielding new insights about relationships and crisis at work.

Patterns of Inter-ethnic Relations with the Roma in the Carpathian Basin

Stigmatising Distinction

By: József Kotics

From £37.99

Based on three decades of anthropological fieldwork, this book argues that Roma-non-Roma coexistence in the Carpathian Basin is always based on opposition. It presents case studies and applied projects to reveal patterns that can be used to fight the exclusion of the Roma today.

Sustainability of Tourism

Cultural and Environmental Perspectives

Edited By: Metin Kozak, Nazmi Kozak

£44.99

This book examines policies and practices for sustainable tourism development. It provides real-world examples and international cases related to culture and nature, with guidelines that apply to museums, cities, regions, and countries.

Early Football Professionalism in Sheffield

Following the Money

By: Graham Curry

From £33.99

Professional football's origins are often linked to Lancashire, but this book reveals the true story of its beginnings in Sheffield. This is the first in-depth study of the early importation and payment of players, told through the lives of the individuals involved.

Professional football’s origins are often linked to Lancashire, but this book reveals the true story of its beginnings in Sheffield. This is the first in-depth study of the early importation and payment of players, told through the lives of the individuals involved.

Applied Qualitative Studies in Education

Edited By: Evaggelia Kalerante, Panagiotis Giavrimis, Theodoros Eleftherakis, Lela Gogou, Souzanna-Maria Nikolaou

From £30.99

This collection of qualitative studies explores current educational issues concerning teachers, students, and parents. Using scientific yet comprehensible methods, it investigates attitudes and behaviours on topics of international relevance, making research accessible to all.

Innovative Practice and Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Psychosocial Difficulties and Disabilities

Edited By: Angie Hart, Elias Kourkoutas

£73.99

This book presents methods to help children, adolescents, and families deal with adversity. It focuses on strengthening social, emotional, and learning skills and promoting child, family, and school resilience for professionals, teachers, and parents.

Caribbean Without Borders

Literature, Language and Culture

Edited By: Raquel Puig, Dorsía Smith

£34.99

This pioneering collection of essays offers a comprehensive study of the literature, language, and culture of the Caribbean. Exploring prominent scholars and key issues, this volume examines the Caribbean in its complex, rarely addressed reality.

Samuel Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland

Edited By: Alan Graham, Scott Hamilton

£61.99

Examining the politics of cultural identity, sexuality in the post-independence era, and Ireland’s culture of incarceration, amongst other themes, this conference proceedings enriches understandings of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of Beckett’s work.

Terminological Approaches in the European Context

Edited By: Paola Faini

£74.99

This volume provides a picture of state-of-the-art studies on terminology at the European level. It also discusses the selection of languages and cultural attitudes that characterize European Union countries, challenging and productive as they can be.

Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama

Edited By: René Agostini, Madelena Gonzalez

£52.99

What is the value of art in an age of corporatized knowledge? This volume explores the crucial intersection of aesthetics and ideology. Through a wide range of international examples, these essays argue that the arts are fundamental to any progress in society.

Towards a Sustainable Information Society

People, Business and Public Administration Perspectives

Edited By: Ewa Ziemba

£57.99

This volume represents an important voice in the scientific discourse on what constitutes a sustainable information society, and provides a new comprehensive and forward-looking approach to such a development.

Language at Work

Analysing Language Use in Work, Education, Medical and Museum Contexts

Edited By: Helen de Silva Joyce

£47.99

This title outlines recent linguistic research in a cross-section of institutions, including museums, schools, and universities, to investigate the language of the workplace and public institutions.

Contemporary Television Series

Narrative Structures and Audience Perception

Edited By: Silvia Branea, Bianca Mitu

£44.99

This volume proposes an interdisciplinary approach to worldwide television series, analyzing the invisible barriers between fiction and reality. Readers can explore unique insights into the impact of television on reality and on their own lives.

Underwater Worlds

Submerged Visions in Science and Culture

Edited By: Will Abberley

£61.99

This anthology throws open a new area in the emerging field of “blue” environmental humanities by exploring how subaqueous environments have been imagined and represented across cultures and media.

Isaeus’ On the Estate of Pyrrhus (Oration 3)

Edited By: Rosalia Hatzilambrou

£61.99

This edition of the third speech of the orator Isaeus offers a new Greek text, English translation, and detailed commentary. It demonstrates the skill of the under-appreciated orator and casts light on complex aspects of Athenian family law. Accessible without knowledge of Greek.

The Alchemical Virgin Mary in the Religious and Political Context of the Renaissance

By: Urszula Szulakowska

£61.99

This study explores the survival of Roman Catholic doctrine and visual imagery in the alchemical treatises composed by members of the Lutheran and Anglican confessions during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods.

The Sublime Today

Contemporary Readings in the Aesthetic

Edited By: Gillian B. Pierce

£44.99

How is the sublime relevant today? As new media changes aesthetic experience, this volume investigates the sublime in contemporary literature, film, and art, connecting historical theories to pressing questions of gender, politics, and terror.

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