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Language and Humour in the Media

Edited By: Jan Chovanec, Isabel Ermida

£39.99

This volume provides new insights into the interface of humour and media discourse. It analyzes the roles humour plays and the butts it targets across cultures, covering everything from wordplay in sitcoms to news satire in online media.

Legilimens!

Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies

Edited By: Christopher E. Bell

£39.99

Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.

All Graceful Instruments

The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon

Edited By: Nicholas Meriwether

£39.99

This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band's success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.

This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band’s success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.

Back to the Future of the Body

Edited By: Dominic Janes

£39.99

What can past experiences of the body tell us about what it can become? As cyborgs and patented genes put the future of the human body at stake, this volume develops strategies for bodily empowerment to get “back to the future of the body”.

Philosophy of Sport

International Perspectives

Edited By: Alun Hardman, Carwyn Jones

£39.99

Leading moral and philosophical academics examine the global significance of sport. Articles provide a diverse set of ideas, from the ethics of performance enhancing substances and fair play, to nationalism and how sport can contribute to human well-being.

Boundaries

Edited By: Jenni Ramone, Gemma Twitchen

£39.99

This collection offers creative and critical responses to making, breaking, and negotiating boundaries. A startling reassessment of its subject, it erases the borders between the critical, the creative, and the cultural with passion and precision.

Darkening Scandinavia

Four Postmodern Pagan Essays

By: Francisc-Norbert Ormeny

£39.99

Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.

Metamorphosis and Place

Edited By: Mohamed Bakari, Joshua Parker, Lucie Tunkrova

£39.99

How do our identities and values change as places themselves are transformed? This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, each shedding light on how place is both a transforming subject and a transformed object.

Animals and Science

From Colonial Encounters to the Biotech Industry

Edited By: Maggie Bolton, Cathrine Degnen

£39.99

What does a focus on animals bring to anthropological studies of science? This collection explores the intersections between animals and science, challenging our ideas of what it means to be human and suggesting that our Western knowledge is in need of rethinking.

Anglicisms in Europe

Linguistic Diversity in a Global Context

Edited By: Roswitha Fischer, Hanna Pulaczewska

£39.99

This volume examines the influence of English on European languages, linking linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political, and cultural issues. It explores attitudes towards anglicisms, their use in specialized discourse, and their reflection in dictionaries.

Prisoners of War and Forced Labour

Histories of War and Occupation

Edited By: Marianne Neerland Soleim

£39.99

This book expands the historical perspective by connecting the Holocaust with the treatment of prisoners of war and forced labourers in the Third Reich. The volume consists of papers from international researchers presented at the Falstad symposium.

Winterson Narrating Time and Space

Edited By: Mine Özyurt Kılıç, Margaret J-M Sönmez

£39.99

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson's works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson’s works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

Greatness of Soul

In Hume, Aristotle and Hobbes, as Shadowed by Milton's Satan

By: José A. Benardete

£39.99

From a Nietzschean Hume evoking Milton’s Satan, to Aristotle’s “claws and teeth” and a deeper challenge from Hobbes, these pages mix poets and philosophers to offer a glimpse of what a classical education might look like.

Presentations of the 29th Annual SW/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association

Gender

Edited By: Gypsey Elaine Teague

£39.99

Gender is everywhere, from the cradle to the grave. Like the air, it is all around us, seldom thought of, but always present. Spanning literature, politics, sex, and religion, we hope you enjoy this volume and take away something you did not anticipate.

Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War

The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction

By: Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż

£39.99

This analysis of British war memorials in literature and film shows how they create diverse interpretations of the Great War, from the futility myth to the imperial sublime. At its heart is a core conflict: condemning a war while honouring the men who fought in it.

Metaphor in Focus

Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor Use

Edited By: Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola

£39.99

This philosophical guide on metaphor use bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical research. It analyses the role of metaphor across diverse domains, presenting interdisciplinary connections with linguistics, cognitive science, economics, and more.

Incorporeal Heroes

The Origins of Homeric Images

By: Leo S. Klejn

£39.99

The heroes of the Iliad were not historical figures or artistic creations. They originated as local cult heroes, like saints, with no connection to the Trojan War. This book reveals the sequence in which figures like Achilles were stitched into the epic.

Applications of Finite-State Language Processing

Selected Papers from the 2008 International NooJ Conference

Edited By: Svetla Koeva, Tamás Váradi, Max Silberztein

£39.99

NooJ is a corpus processing tool and linguistic development environment. This volume contains papers from the 2008 International NooJ conference, presenting varied problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and new developments in the tool itself.

Two Voices in One

Essays in Asian and Translation Studies

Edited By: Chan Sin-wai, Laurence Wong

£39.99

This collection of essays by leading scholars opens new horizons by uniting Asian and Translation Studies. Discover why a Chinese garden can be a text, how Aristotle and Mencius are linked by translation, and how computer-aided translation is developing.

Why was the State of Israel ‘Really’ Established?

By: Erez Casif

£39.99

Challenging most historians, this book suggests the struggle to establish a Jewish state was less a response to international challenges and more a struggle for power within the future state, providing new insights into pivotal historic events.