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Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts

Incarnation, Initiation, Institution

By: Frances Altvater

£52.99

Altvater looks at three areas of concern around baptism as a sacrament—incarnation, initiation, and baptism within the Church—and the images that embody that religious discussion. She argues baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian.

Religious Reading in the Lutheran North

Studies in Early Modern Scandinavian Book Culture

Edited By: Charlotte Appel, Morten Fink-Jensen

£39.99

Religious Reading in the Lutheran North opens up an overlooked part of early modern history. Following the Reformation, high literacy fueled a boom in religious literature across the Nordic countries. This book investigates publication, reading habits, and interpretations.

Effects of Cancer Treatment on the Nervous System, Volume 1

Edited By: Wolfgang Grisold, Stefan Oberndorfer, Guido Cavaletti, Riccardo Soffietti

From £37.99

This volume covers cancer epidemiology, drug development, and therapies, presenting tools to assess side effects. It also explores patient quality of life, palliative care, and the global disparities that prevent equal access to diagnosis and treatment.

New Literature in Chinese

China and the World

By: Zhu Shoutong

£52.99

Shoutong discusses the connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. He argues that such fields as “World Chinese Literature” should unite in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, as they share a language, culture and tradition.

From Francis Bacon to William Golding

Utopias and Dystopias of Today and of Yore

Edited By: Minodora Barbul, Ramona Demarcsek, Ligia Tomoiagă

£39.99

Researchers from philology, philosophy, and anthropology come together to complete a 21st century vision on utopia. This interdisciplinary volume contains rigorous academic work alongside more relaxed essays.

The Evil, the Fated, the Biblical

The Latent Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy

By: Hanna Boguta-Marchel

£39.99

This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy's novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity's most troublesome issues.

This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy’s novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity’s most troublesome issues.

The Spatial Dynamics of Juvenile Series Literature

Edited By: Michael G. Cornelius

From £30.99

We are shaped by the places we inhabit, but what about characters who never change? This collection explores juvenile series books, where protagonists like Nancy Drew demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact on them—an exercise in spatial authority.

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.

Making the Most of Intercultural Education

Edited By: Garry Robson, Virginie Trémion, Fred Dervin

£41.99

My intercultural may not be your intercultural. This volume makes sense of the contested notion of the ‘intercultural’ in education, proposing critical and reflexive approaches from contexts worldwide. For students, teachers, and researchers.

The Southern African Development Community in Zimbabwe

Non-Intervention and Non-Indifference

By: Rich Mashimbye

From £35.99

This book narrates the unravelling of Zimbabwe, once an African inspiration. It examines the pivotal moments precipitating its fall, from colonisation and dispossession to the misrule, violence and economic mismanagement that followed under Robert Mugabe.

Marriage Seen through Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs

By: Anna T. Litovkina, Wolfgang Mieder

From £31.99

This book explores views of marriage, husbands, and wives in Anglo-American anti-proverbs. It analyzes their nature, qualities, and behaviours as revealed through these proverb transformations, appealing to both general readers and specialists alike.

Civilization at Risk

Seeds of Strife (Second Edition)

By: Ron D. Petitte

From £29.99

A devastating human rights war has unfolded, an injustice of Holocaust dimensions. With 30 million people in slavery, this 21st Century scourge cannot be combated by indifference. This book is an immediate call to arms to fight the evil of Human Trafficking.

Contextualizing Translation Theories

Aspects of Arabic–English Interlingual Communication

By: Ali Almanna

£47.99

This volume provides critical readings of Arabic–English translation strategies, from equivalence to domestication and foreignization. It demonstrates the pros and cons of each within a theoretical context, augmented by examples from actual textual data.

Names in the Economy

Cultural Prospects

Edited By: Terhi Ainiala, Ulla Hakala, Paula Sjöblom

£49.99

Onomastic research has expanded towards names that reflect our commercial culture. Culture produces names and names produce culture. This multidisciplinary book contemplates commercial names from the viewpoints of linguistics, onomastics, marketing, and branding.

English for Academic Purposes

Approaches and Implications

Edited By: Giuliana Diani

£52.99

Analysis of academic genres and corpus resources reveals the patterning of academic texts across disciplines. This volume addresses issues in academic discourse from a range of perspectives, with an emphasis on practical applications for teachers and researchers of EAP.

Mechanisms and the Contingency of Social Causality

By: Alexei Anisin

From £32.99

The origin of the scientific term “the mechanism” is widely misunderstood. This book reveals its true roots are not in mechanical philosophy, but in ideas of social causality from Ancient Greek tragedy, tracing the term's evolution through history to our current digital era.

The origin of the scientific term “the mechanism” is widely misunderstood. This book reveals its true roots are not in mechanical philosophy, but in ideas of social causality from Ancient Greek tragedy, tracing the term’s evolution through history to our current digital era.

Mothers at the Margins

Stories of Challenge, Resistance and Love

Edited By: Jenny Jones, Marie Porter, Lisa Raith

£52.99

This collection speaks with the voices of mothers who feel alienated, stigmatised, or silenced for not fitting the expected norms of motherhood. It challenges narrow ideas of maternal identity, revealing structures of oppression and strategies of resistance and love.

Digital Work and Personal Data Protection

Key Issues for the Labour of the 21st Century

Edited By: Lourdes Mella Méndez, Nuno Cerejeira Namora, Duarte Abrunhosa e Sousa

£105.99

International contributors explore the impact of new information technologies on the labour market, covering work, rights, health, and personal data protection. With chapters in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, this book will appeal to lawyers, academics, and HR experts.

Turkey

A Regional Power in the Making

Edited By: Kenan Aksu

£49.99

This book explains the most important domestic and international developments related to Turkey during the last two decades. Written by experts to the highest academic standards, it focuses on Turkey’s relations with the wider world and is highly analytical.

Everyday Feminist Research Praxis

Doing Gender in the Netherlands

Edited By: Koen Leurs, Domitilla Olivieri

£49.99

This volume explores the everyday as a site of micro-political power struggles. By connecting theory with feminist research practice, contributors show how to disentangle daily routines, scrutinize entrenched power relations, and energize new forms of recognition.

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