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Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety

An Interdisciplinary Examination of Contemporary and Historical Human Challenges

Edited By: Will Jackson, Bob Jeffrey, Mattia Mariano

£39.99

This interdisciplinary collection critically interrogates ‘crisis,’ a defining concept of our times. Leading scholars unsettle common notions by exploring crises across politics, society, and the humanities, examining the roots of our understanding and its representation.

Women at the Polls

The Gender Gap, Cultural Politics, and Contested Constituencies in the United States

By: Cal Clark, Janet Clark

£39.99

Since 1980, U.S. elections have been marked by a “gender gap” in which women are more supportive of Democrats. Women at the Polls finds this gap is extensive across demographic groups, based on differing political attitudes on key issues.

Literature, Writing, and the Natural World

Edited By: James Guignard, T. P. Murphy

£39.99

This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.

Law, Morality, and Abolitionism

Francis Wayland and Antislavery in America

By: Matthew Hill

£39.99

Brown University President Francis Wayland denounced slavery as sinful yet respected the laws protecting it. Events forced him to confront his own moral arguments: If slavery violates natural rights, how could he not act? This work explores his journey.

Researching Work-Family Discourses

Step-by-Step Audiovisual Analysis of the British Sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003)

By: Eduardo R. Infante

£39.99

This book uses qualitative methodologies to research work-family discourses, unveiling hidden social messages about gender roles. The complex discourses are retrieved from the British TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses.

Love, Sorrow and Joy

A New Voice in Irish Avant-Garde Poetry

By: Graham Gillespie

£39.99

The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.

Home and the World

South Asia in Transition

Edited By: Atreyee Phukan, V.G. Julie Rajan

£39.99

South Asia is rising, roiling with internal contradictions. Gathering essays by scholars, writers, and artists, this volume addresses nationalism, gender, and diaspora. An accessible and essential reference for understanding the global phenomenon of South Asia.

Current Projects in Historical Lexicography

Edited By: John Considine

£39.99

This collection brings together seven papers by editors of historical dictionaries. The contributions offer a rare set of insights into ongoing lexicographical work, addressing both methodological and practical issues such as funding and publication media.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Cantatas for Festive Occasions

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£39.99

Giacomo Meyerbeer’s cantatas were written for royal and civic commissions to celebrate dynastic events and praise famous men. His powers of lyric beauty and dramatic pomp are amply in evidence, revealing a forgotten side to the great operatic composer.

Tove Jansson Rediscovered

Edited By: Malin Lidström Brock, Kate McLoughlin

£39.99

Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children's fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.

Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children’s fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.

The Coherence of the Inchoate

Children and the Internet

By: Albin Wallace

£39.99

This book compares children's in-school and out-of-school internet use. At home, learning is self-motivated and purposeful, often assisted by peers. As home and school practices diverge, school use may become increasingly irrelevant to children’s lives.

This book compares children’s in-school and out-of-school internet use. At home, learning is self-motivated and purposeful, often assisted by peers. As home and school practices diverge, school use may become increasingly irrelevant to children’s lives.

The Imagination in Education

Extending the Boundaries of Theory and Practice

Edited By: Sean Blenkinsop

£39.99

This collection of essays centres on the theory and practice of imagination in education. The 13 essays present distinct yet converging points of view, exploring the breadth and richness of the field.

Supervision in Educational, Social and Medical Services Professions

By: Georgeta Raţă

£39.99

Combat stress and burnout in caring professions. This guide explores the vital role of supervision, drawing on quantitative research with 400 social workers, educators, and medical staff.

Risk Assessment of Food Supply

A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

By: Tetsuji Tanaka, Huanguang Qiu

£39.99

What are the true risks of agricultural free trade? Using CGE models, this book analyzes Japan's trade liberalization and the 2008 food crisis, revealing the severe impacts on the world's poorest economies.

What are the true risks of agricultural free trade? Using CGE models, this book analyzes Japan’s trade liberalization and the 2008 food crisis, revealing the severe impacts on the world’s poorest economies.

Writing Fundamentalism

Edited By: Axel Stähler, Klaus Stierstorfer

£39.99

Fundamentalism is text-centred, but its complex and paradoxical relationship with literature remains largely unexplored. These essays explore this relationship, analysing literary representations of fundamentalism and revealing unexpected affinities between the two.

Global and Local Art Histories

Edited By: Celina Jeffery, Gregory Minissale

£39.99

Global and Local Art Histories analyzes art outside of hegemonic Euro-American themes. Essays from a broad range of cultural perspectives contest concepts of history and culture, exploring global and local identities and questioning "the work of art.”

John Locke and the Native Americans

Early English Liberalism and Its Colonial Reality

By: Nagamitsu Miura

£39.99

This book elucidates Locke’s law of nature and view of war, revealing how they justified colonialism. His theories favoured European land acquisition over native rights and allowed the militarily superior side to proclaim a just war, undermining his principles of freedom.

The Search for Wholeness and Diaspora Literacy in Contemporary African American Literature

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego

£39.99

This volume explores the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings of contemporary African American women. Across fiction, drama, and poetry, this search is analyzed as a source of creativity and agency, healing spirit and body by reconciling past and present.

The Legacy of William Carlos Williams

Points of Contact

Edited By: Ian Copestake

£39.99

These essays examine William Carlos Williams’s continued importance to American poetry. The book highlights his impact on diverse poets and sheds light on contemporary trends by re-examining his work from the perspective of those he influenced.

News as Changing Texts

Corpora, Methodologies and Analysis

By: Birte Bös, Roberto Facchinetti

£39.99

This book focuses on the interrelation between ‘news’ and ‘change’, exploring the evolution of news as a textual type across the centuries in Britain. Through linguistic analyses of corpora, it examines news in its continuous process of adjustment and renewal.