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A Handbook of Case Studies in Finance

By: Tarika Singh

£58.99

This book links the theory of finance to financial management decisions. Case studies require students to look deep into the concepts of finance to solve problems and help relate these concepts with decision-making processes.

Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe

Practices, Projections and Trajectories

Edited By: Nkululeko Sibanda

From £33.99

This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.

Vantage Theory

A View on Language, Cognition and Categorization

Edited By: Adam Głaz, Marnie L. Moist

£54.99

This book introduces Vantage Theory, Robert E. MacLaury's model of categorization. The theory views categorization as constructing a point of view, by analogy to how humans orient in space-time. The volume includes MacLaury's unpublished studies and new research.

This book introduces Vantage Theory, Robert E. MacLaury’s model of categorization. The theory views categorization as constructing a point of view, by analogy to how humans orient in space-time. The volume includes MacLaury’s unpublished studies and new research.

Fostering Culture Through Film

A Resource for Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultural Studies

Edited By: Elda Buonanno Foley, Patrizia Comello Perry

£47.99

The book highlights the theories and practical applications by which instructors of foreign languages and cultural studies use contemporary film to provide insightful readings on diverse local communities.

Round Heads

The Earliest Rock Paintings in the Sahara

By: Jitka Soukopova

£39.99

The Central Sahara is the world’s greatest “museum” of rock art, but its thousands of prehistoric images have been described and classified, not interpreted. Using interdisciplinary studies, this book proposes new ways to research the art and the societies that created it.

Endurance and the First World War

Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia

Edited By: David Monger, Katie Pickles

£52.99

This collection explores endurance in New Zealand and Australia during the First World War. Researchers examine what it meant for soldiers and civilians to endure hardship on the battlefield and home front, and how the war endured through memory, myth, and memorials.

Engendering Difference

Sexism, Power and Politics

Edited By: Vesna Kondrič Horvat, Victor Kennedy

£64.99

From the pronouns we use to the more salient issues concerning abuse of power and exertion of violence, gender runs as a seemingly inevitable divide. This volume addresses the continuing relevance of the quest to diminish that gap, from a wide range of perspectives.

Contemporary Issues in Housing Design

Edited By: Kutay Güler

£61.99

This title discusses an array of critical contemporary issues on housing design pertaining to sustainable practices, emerging technologies, heritage conservation, humanitarian efforts, and their effects on occupants’ physical and psychological experience and well-being.

Resource Curse Reduction through Innovation – A Blessing for All – The Case of Kuwait

By: Meshaal Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah

£39.99

This book explores how Kuwait can convert its oil “resource curse” into a blessing. It considers the strategic points surrounding oil governance and its implication for growth, arguing that a planned investment in innovation is critical for development.

The First World War

Analysis and Interpretation, Volume 1

Edited By: Antonello Biagini

£57.99

The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.

Reverence for Life Revisited

Albert Schweitzer's Relevance Today

Edited By: David A. Valone

£34.99

This book's essays re-examine Albert Schweitzer's life and his "Reverence for Life" philosophy, assessing its relevance for the twenty-first century. Featuring diverse perspectives, including from Jane Goodall, they explore applications to today's global issues.

This book’s essays re-examine Albert Schweitzer’s life and his “Reverence for Life” philosophy, assessing its relevance for the twenty-first century. Featuring diverse perspectives, including from Jane Goodall, they explore applications to today’s global issues.

Knowing Their Place? Identity and Space in Children’s Literature

Edited By: Terri Doughty, Dawn Thompson

£39.99

What does it mean for a child to "know their place" in a globalized world? This collection explores how identity is formed by place in children's literature, studying indigeneity, the natural world, fantastic spaces, and texts like Peter Pan and Harry Potter.

What does it mean for a child to “know their place” in a globalized world? This collection explores how identity is formed by place in children’s literature, studying indigeneity, the natural world, fantastic spaces, and texts like Peter Pan and Harry Potter.

Audiovisual Media and Identity Issues in Southeastern Europe

Edited By: Eckehard Pistrick, Nicola Scaldaferri, Gretel Schwörer

£44.99

This volume explores how audiovisual media shapes identity in Southeastern Europe. Using photos and sound recordings, scholars offer a comparative and historical view on how self-images are constructed and negotiated through postsocialist change.

Queering Women’s and Gender Studies

Edited By: Begoña Crespo, Isabel Moskowich

£52.99

This text brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women’s, gender, and queer studies. It adopts an inclusive attitude to the so-called “others” present in these fields.

Contextualising English as a Lingua Franca

From Data to Insights

Edited By: Xavier Martin-Rubió

£61.99

This volume collects ten papers testifying to the great scope of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research. The contributions analyze computer-mediated communication, social issues in diverse contexts, and new pedagogical initiatives, situating ELF in its multilingual future.

Music on Stage Volume 2

Edited By: Luis Campos, Fiona Jane Schopf

£57.99

This volume highlights the growing fusion and blurring of boundaries between traditional genres. Topics explored range from intercultural opera and the Rocky Horror Show to trans-genre adaptation in Strauss and Glass, and how the physical body dictates movement.

Enemy Images in War Propaganda

Edited By: Marja Vuorinen

£34.99

Where does today's passionate intensity come from? To understand modern ideological enmity, this book investigates the propaganda of the past, from Hitler’s enemy images to the Rwandan genocide and the invisible enemies of the future.

Where does today’s passionate intensity come from? To understand modern ideological enmity, this book investigates the propaganda of the past, from Hitler’s enemy images to the Rwandan genocide and the invisible enemies of the future.

Lawrence Durrell’s Woven Web of Guesses (Durrell Studies 2)

By: Richard Pine

From £30.99

A foremost expert presents original essays on Lawrence Durrell, author of *The Alexandria Quartet*. This volume explores his private notebooks, early literary connections with Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, and new insights into his mental states, politics, and sexual orientation.

Wicked Ladies

Provincial Women, Crime and the Eighteenth-Century English Justice System

By: Gregory J. Durston

£49.99

This book shifts the focus from London to explore female crime in 18th-century provincial England. It examines why women offended and their treatment by the justice system, comparing their experiences to those of men and their counterparts in the capital.

Assaulting the Past

Violence and Civilization in Historical Context

Edited By: Katherine D. Watson

£39.99

This interdisciplinary book offers a comparative history of interpersonal violence since the early modern period. Drawing on records from five countries, it explores Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilizing process to offer new insights on violence and society.

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