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Crossing Colonial Historiographies

Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective

Edited By: Anne Digby, Projit B. Muhkarji

£39.99

This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It explores new conceptual perspectives and highlights thematic commonalities and divergences across regions.

Restless Travellers

Quests for Identity across European and American Time and Space

Edited By: Antonio José Miralles Pérez

£39.99

This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain's imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.

This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain’s imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.

An Introduction to Language Description

By: John Rhoades

£39.99

This workbook introduces language's basic systems—sound, meaning, and grammar—and how to describe them. Using actual language data, you get involved in linguistic analysis with a focus on real human usage, not correctness.

This workbook introduces language’s basic systems—sound, meaning, and grammar—and how to describe them. Using actual language data, you get involved in linguistic analysis with a focus on real human usage, not correctness.

Rebellion and Revolution

Defiance in German Language, History and Art

Edited By: Melissa Etzler, Priscilla Layne

£39.99

This collection of essays by scholars of history, literature, and film offers new perspectives on key moments of German rebellion. It takes a multidisciplinary approach to analyze events from the 1525 Peasants’ War to the fall of the GDR.

In Praise of Cinematic Bastardy

Edited By: Sébastien Lefait, Philippe Ortoli

£39.99

Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.

Language, Lineage and Location in the Works of Osbern Bokenham

By: Alice Spencer

£39.99

The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.

Collected Articles of the IInd International Linguistics Conference (Taganrog, Russia)

Edited By: Olga E. Bondarets, Galina T. Polenova

£39.99

This book presents the most important research from an international linguistic conference, covering Historical linguistics, Lexicology, Grammar, Pragmatics, Ethnolinguistics, and Translation. A key resource for philologists, teachers, and students.

Dancing the Tao

Le Guin and Moral Development

By: Sandra J. Lindow

£39.99

This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.

Not Far From Here

The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver

Edited By: Vasiliki Fachard, Robert Miltner

£39.99

Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.

Songs of Resilience

Edited By: Andy Brader

£39.99

This book is a chorus of practices that use music to build resilience. Academics and practitioners share projects from health, education, and social work, asking: Can music build measurable resilience? Can we replicate these outcomes in diverse groups?

Peaceful Surrender

The Depopulation of Rural Spain in the Twentieth Century

By: Fernando Collantes, Vincente Pinilla

£39.99

In the 20th century, Spain experienced one of Europe’s most intense processes of rural depopulation. This book explains how the adaptive strategies of rural populations led to a “peaceful surrender” of traditional society, a view distanced from simple nostalgia.

New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy

Edited By: Antonis Petrides

£39.99

This book showcases new approaches to postclassical comedy. The contributions approach New Comedy as theatrical performance and a dynamic player in socio-political discourse, emphasizing its progressiveness and importance for Hellenistic and Roman culture.

Global Student Mobility in the Asia Pacific

Mobility, Migration, Security and Wellbeing of International Students

Edited By: Peter Kell, Gillian Vogl

£39.99

Millions of students study abroad, facing hostility, poverty, and alienation. This book explores the dilemmas of transnational education, proposing pragmatic approaches and positive responses to the challenges of global student mobility.

Cricket and Globalization

Edited By: Stephen Wagg

£39.99

Cricket's globalization has followed a unique path. Unlike other sports, non-Western countries have taken control of the game's economics and politics. Spurred by Twenty20, the game has been transformed and "Indianized" by new business elites.

Cricket’s globalization has followed a unique path. Unlike other sports, non-Western countries have taken control of the game’s economics and politics. Spurred by Twenty20, the game has been transformed and “Indianized” by new business elites.

Co-operatives in a Global Economy

The Challenges of Co-operation Across Borders

Edited By: J. J. McMurtry, Darryl Reed

£39.99

In the global economy, cooperatives face a trade-off between their principles and economic viability. Critics argue they are irrelevant, while advocates see a sustainable, equitable alternative. This collection examines the debate about their future roles.

Transnational England

Home and Abroad, 1780-1860

Edited By: Monika Class, Terry F. Robinson

£39.99

Transnational England sheds light on how England’s encounters with other cultures shaped its identity. Through literature from 1780-1860, these essays reveal how global connections simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation.

Literatures of War

Edited By: Eve Patten, Richard Pine

£39.99

War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.

Life Stories and Sociological Imagination

Music, Private Lives, and Public Identity in France and Sweden

By: Alexandra D'Urso

£39.99

This book examines music artists Faudel (France) and Adam Tensta (Sweden), revealing how they connect personal struggles to public issues. Their work offers a unique window into how national identity is changing in France, Sweden, and beyond.

Culture and Power

The Plots of History in Performance

Edited By: Carla Rodríguez González, Rubén Valdés Miyares

£39.99

These essays explore the performance of historical plots. Questioning traditional historiography, they analyze the emplotment of history in visual culture, museums, and national identities, arguing that writing history is a performative act.

Academic Writing

By: Luke Strongman

£39.99

How can I improve my writing and be more persuasive? This book answers these and other questions about academic writing. Learn to choose words carefully to communicate complex ideas. A practical guide for students, teachers, and all writers.