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Contemporary Studies in Sciences

Edited By: Recep Efe, Isa Cürebal

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Bridging diverse disciplines from the genesis of the Maldives to robotic agriculture, this book presents cutting-edge research from leading experts. It offers vital recommendations for future work, making it essential for academics, students, and practitioners.

Islam and Democracy

Perspectives on the Arab Spring

Edited By: Aylin Ünver Noi

£44.99

After the Arab Spring, the success of Islamist parties raised fears for human rights and democracy. This book explores the complex challenges of democratic transition in the Middle East and the roles of Islam and democracy in these ongoing developments.

Prospects and Impediments of Feminist Monolithism

Re-Reading Mid-Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry

By: Rosalyn Mutia

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This book reads poetry by British, American, and Sub-Saharan women to argue for feminist monolithism. It finds remarkable consistency in themes of resisting oppression across geographical divides, proposing this as a stable ground for unity without ignoring their differences.

Figurativity across Domains, Modalities and Research Practices

Edited By: Alexandra Bagasheva, Nelly Tincheva

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Figurativity is not mere linguistic flourish, but constitutive of human comprehension, communication, and functioning. This volume explores the cognitive operations behind non-literal thought and expression across various languages, cultures, and media.

Local Agri-food Systems in a Global World

Market, Social and Environmental Challenges

Edited By: Maria Cecilia Mancini, Michele Donati

£39.99

This collection of essays analyzes the market, social, and environmental challenges of local agri-food systems in a global world. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it explores the links between local and global strategies, governance, and rural development.

Thracian Language and Greek and Thracian Epigraphy

By: Peter A. Dimitrov

£34.99

The study of Thracian has been hindered by outdated methods that caused various misunderstandings. This book introduces a new method resting on phonological analysis of onomastics, providing a more rigorous and convincing account of the language.

Patents and Artificial Intelligence

Thinking Computers

By: Michael J. Dochniak

£61.99

Dochniak showcases the immense utility of AI, providing an easy-to-read summary of many of the approximately 150 patents with the phrase “artificial intelligence” in their titles which were granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 1987 to 2017.

British Pop Art and Postmodernism

By: Justyna Stępień

£41.99

British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement's mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.

British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement’s mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.

Intercultural Education and Competences

Challenges and Answers for the Global World

Edited By: Carl Grant, Agostino Portera

£52.99

This volume explains why it is necessary to invest in education. It analyses the current situation in intercultural education and intercultural competences, and addresses the challenges to, and possible ways of dealing with, different perspectives in intercultural education.

Doom, Desire and the Polis in Eugene O’Neill’s Drama

By: Adel Bahroun

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This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire and the power of doom. The city is the stage where his protagonists, as desiring machines, try to evade modern closed circles of power, anticipating concepts from Gilles Deleuze.

East Central Europe in Exile Volume 1

Transatlantic Migrations

Edited By: Anna Mazurkiewicz

£49.99

This two-volume series explores the East Central European émigré experience of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the reasons for migration and initial adaptation to the later negotiation of new identities while maintaining ties to the old country.

Identity Issues

Literary and Linguistic Landscapes

Edited By: Vesna Lopičić

£44.99

A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.

Rhetorical Aspects of Discourses in Present-Day Society

Edited By: Lotte Dam, Lise-Lotte Holmgreen, Jeanne Strunck

£39.99

Once dismissed as linguistic ornamentation, rhetoric re-emerged as a vital tool for communication in modern society. This book analyzes its use across political, journalistic, and organisational discourse, showing how rhetoric shapes human action and interaction.

Language and Sexuality (through and) beyond Gender

Edited By: Costas Canakis, Venetia Kantsa, Kostas Yiannakopoulos

£39.99

This collection of papers from linguistics and anthropology explores the intricate relation between language, gender, and sexuality. Contributors cover topics from heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and queer experience to voice, silence, and nationalism.

Place

Local Knowledge and New Media Practice

Edited By: Danny Butt, Jon Bywater, Nova Paul

£34.99

This book explores tensions between global new media and local practices, focusing on artists in indigenous cultural settings. Through analysis of art and film, it asks how long-held attachments to place are transforming in the new media context.

The Future of Post-Human Performing Arts

A Preface to a New Theory of the Body and its Presence

By: Peter Baofu

£54.99

This book offers a new transdisciplinary theory of performing arts to go beyond existing traditions. This seminal project will fundamentally change how we think about the arts from the combined perspectives of the mind, society, and culture.

The Failure of the Arab Spring

By: Khalifa A. Alfadhel

£45.99

A concise guide on how and why the Arab Spring failed, Alfadhel presents a narrative of events in the Arab World. He describes an original investigation into why the Arab Spring cannot be seen as a wave of democratization, due to intolerant Islamist actors’ input in its failure.

Choir Stalls and their Workshops

Proceedings of the Misericordia International Colloquium 2016

Edited By: Willy Piron, Anja Seliger

£64.99

This conference proceedings discusses the workshop context of medieval choir stalls in its broadest sense, given the relative lack of studies on the process and circumstances of the making of these complex objects.

Scientific Programming

Numeric, Symbolic, and Graphical Computing with Maxima

By: Jorge Alberto Calvo

£70.99

Calvo offers an introduction to computer programming, numerical analysis, and other mathematical ideas that extend the basic topics learned in calculus. He illustrates how mathematicians and scientists write computer programs.

Gobies in the Mekong Delta

By: Quang Minh Dinh, Tran Thi Huyen Lam, Lam Thanh Tran, Gieo Hoang Phan, Tien Thi Kieu Nguyen, Ton Huu Duc Nguyen

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The Mekong Delta's economically significant fish species are threatened by fragmented research, hindering conservation. This monograph offers a solution: the culmination of a decade of research providing a holistic understanding of their genetics, ecology, and survival.

The Mekong Delta’s economically significant fish species are threatened by fragmented research, hindering conservation. This monograph offers a solution: the culmination of a decade of research providing a holistic understanding of their genetics, ecology, and survival.

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