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Sino-Christian Studies in China

Edited By: YANG Huilin, Daniel H. N. YEUNG

£39.99

This is the first book to introduce the English-speaking world to "Sino-Christian Studies." Born from a 1980s academic movement in China exploring Christian thought's role in western culture, this collection features essays by prominent scholars.

This is the first book to introduce the English-speaking world to “Sino-Christian Studies.” Born from a 1980s academic movement in China exploring Christian thought’s role in western culture, this collection features essays by prominent scholars.

Seeing Perception

Edited By: Silke Horstkotte, Karin Leonhard

£39.99

How do we see and write about perception? The act of vision is profoundly impure, entangled with other senses, memory, and dreams. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between seer and seen and the core concepts of visual perception theory.

Positioning the New

Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon

Edited By: Elisabetta Marino, Tanfer Emin Tunc

£39.99

This volume explores Chinese American authors' place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.

This volume explores Chinese American authors’ place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.

The Hydropolitics of Africa

A Contemporary Challenge

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Mechthild Nagel, Muna Ndulo

£39.99

Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.

Sensorium

Aesthetics, Art, Life

Edited By: Barbara Bolt, Felicity Colman, Graham Jones

£39.99

This book reconfigures art and philosophy by returning to an older meaning of aesthetics: our capacity to receive sensations. Following Deleuze and Lyotard, it frames artists as experimenters with the sensible who extend our perceptual interface with the world.

Voices from within the Veil

African Americans and the Experience of Democracy

Edited By: William H. Alexander, Charles H. Ford, Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander

£39.99

The Veil hangs between Then and Now, between Black and White, between You and Me. Voices from within the Veil explores this 400-year prelude, addressing African Americans’ marginalization and their paths to empowerment through protest and organization.

Anáil an Bhéil Bheo

Orality and Modern Irish Culture

Edited By: Nessa Cronin, John Eastlake

£39.99

Anáil an Bhéil Bheo explores orality in modern Irish culture through interdisciplinary essays on literature, folklore, and the arts. Includes major contributions by leading scholars Gearóid Ó Crualaoich and Henry Glassie.

Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans

Edited By: Tatjana Aleksić

£39.99

This collection explores how Balkan literary and national poetics interrelate. Through innovative analysis of literature and film, it reveals a unique "mythistory"—a blend of myth and historical fact used to construct national identity.

This collection explores how Balkan literary and national poetics interrelate. Through innovative analysis of literature and film, it reveals a unique “mythistory”—a blend of myth and historical fact used to construct national identity.

Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe

Between Utopia and Nihilism

Edited By: Fabio Vighi

£39.99

This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe's last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.

This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe’s last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.

Episodes from a History of Undoing

The Heritage of Female Subversiveness

Edited By: Reghina Dascal

£39.99

This volume illustrates women’s resistance to patriarchal norms. From mythical amazons and Renaissance monarchs to modern activists and academics, these women became trail-blazers by undoing, rewriting, and refashioning political and cultural concepts.

Ninety Years of the Abruzzo National Park 1922-2012

Proceedings of the Conference held in Pescasseroli, May 18-20, 2012

Edited By: Luigi Piccioni

£39.99

The Abruzzo National Park is one of the oldest protected areas in Europe. This volume reconstructs the highlights of the Park’s troubled but influential history and its connections with environmentalism and Italian society at large.

Culture as Text, Text as Culture

Edited By: Elodie Lafitte, Christina Wall, Mary Cobb Wittrock

£39.99

This interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history, by exploring how all texts and their contexts are constructs.

The Order of the Acquisition of the English Article System by Polish Learners in Different Proficiency Groups

By: Artur Swiateka

£39.99

This book studies how Polish students acquire the English article system. Based on studies of beginner to advanced learners, the results prove that L2 acquisition is better in advanced groups, while less advanced groups have tremendous difficulties.

A Study in Legal History Volume II; The Last of England

Lord Denning’s Englishry and the Law

By: Charles Stephens

£39.99

Lord Denning’s celebrated judgments were known for their deep ‘Englishness’. As English identity is fiercely debated today, this book considers the role of Englishness in his jurisprudence, from his views on history and race to European law.

Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts

Current Challenges, Future Directions

Edited By: Graeme Cane

£39.99

This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.

Remapping the Future

History, Culture and Environment in Australia and India

Edited By: Deb N. Bandyopadhyay, Paul Brown

£39.99

This collection of essays explores the cross-cultural linkages between Australia and India. From diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, it examines intersections of history, culture and environment, building on a shared history and looking to the future.

Investigating Arthur Upfield

A Centenary Collection of Critical Essays

Edited By: Carol Hetherington, Kees de Hoog

£39.99

This collection of critical essays by international scholars and novelists like Tony Hillerman celebrates Arthur Upfield, creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The essays assess his place in the annals of crime fiction and Australian cultural history.

American Literary-Political Engagements

From Poe to James

By: William M. Etter

£39.99

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era's most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era’s most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

Precedented Environmental Futures

Skin and Substance

By: Colin Porteous

From £39.99

This book addresses in a holistic manner the built environment through the lens of environmental architecture. It offers broad discursive messages, rather than narrow conclusions, and will have lasting luminance for new generations involved with the built environment.

Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing

Edited By: Paul Salzman

£39.99

This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.