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Elemental Encounters in the Contemporary Irish Novel

Reading as Touching

By: Claire McGrail Johnston

From £30.99

Reading is touching. Words pierce flesh like a knife. Storytelling breathes with air, fire, earth and water. This book explores how novels by Irish authors John Banville and Mary Morrissy revitalise these elements with sensual, social, and tactile textures.

Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions

Edited By: Pam Dickinson, Jason Jeandron, Lucy Wilson

£39.99

The landscape constrains human activity, and our actions leave traces. Geoarchaeology finds these traces to reconstruct how past peoples behaved, offering data that must contribute to the debate on the sustainability of present-day land use.

The Life and Times of Mary, Dowager Duchess of Sutherland

Power Play

By: Catherine Layton

£67.99

This definitive biography depicts one Victorian woman’s struggle to stay afloat in a rising tide of prurient scandalmongering and snobbery. Various previously untapped letters and diaries allow the reader to navigate through the sensationalist fog of the press of her time.

Natural Environment and Culture in the Mediterranean Region

Edited By: Georges Cravins, Recep Efe

£44.99

The Mediterranean Basin, a biodiversity hotspot, has endured 8000 years of human impact. Now facing water shortages and desertification, it is a key example of the "Anthropocene." This book synthesizes knowledge to throw light on our unpredictable future.

The Mediterranean Basin, a biodiversity hotspot, has endured 8000 years of human impact. Now facing water shortages and desertification, it is a key example of the “Anthropocene.” This book synthesizes knowledge to throw light on our unpredictable future.

The Middle East and the Cold War

Between Security and Development

Edited By: Matteo Gerlini, Massimiliano Trentin

£34.99

This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War's impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.

This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War’s impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.

Artificial Intelligence Multiomics in Precision Oncology

By: Ruby Srivastava

From £41.99

Artificial Intelligence is transforming precision oncology. This book analyzes AI techniques that turn complex data into clinically actionable knowledge, supporting decision-making, improving cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and enhancing patient survival.

Arthur W. Upfield

Life and Times of Bony's Man

By: A. J. Milnor

£34.99

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective "Bony," rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective “Bony,” rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

The Transition Dairy Cow

By: Pedro Melendez

£67.99

The transition period is the most critical phase in a dairy cow's productive cycle. This book offers a comprehensive description of the metabolic and physiological processes a cow experiences, detailing how to manage this period efficiently through nutrition and cow comfort.

The transition period is the most critical phase in a dairy cow’s productive cycle. This book offers a comprehensive description of the metabolic and physiological processes a cow experiences, detailing how to manage this period efficiently through nutrition and cow comfort.

Agrarian Modernity and Development in India

Postcolonial Rurality

By: Shibsankar Jena

From £35.99

This book investigates modernity in contemporary India’s agrarian social system. Farming is revealed as more than an economic activity; it is a performance where culture and social status are key, offering a new approach to agrarian development in postcolonial India.

Administration and Taxation in Former Portuguese Africa

1900-1945

By: Philip J. Havik, Alexander Keese, Maciel Santos

£47.99

This book offers the first detailed study of colonial taxation in Portugal’s African empire: Angola, Mozambique and Guinea. It interprets the social experience of African populations through their interaction with colonial rule and fiscal administration.

Recent Advances in Social Sciences

Edited By: Recep Efe, Irina Koleva

£99.99

This book covers recent advances for quantitative researchers with practical examples from the social sciences. Each chapter, written by an expert, reveals ideas and methods common to fields such as tourism, politics, and sociology.

Edmund Roberts of New Hampshire

America’s First Diplomat to Asia

By: Toby Finnegan

From £41.99

Edmund Roberts negotiated America’s first treaties with Asian powers. Appointed by President Jackson, he secured deals with Siam and Oman. Yet he was also a secret slave trader and illegal merchant who nearly sabotaged his own historic mission through his reckless greed.

Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters

Studies on the Medieval Body in Honour of Margaret Bridges

Edited By: Nicole Nyffenegger, Katrin Rupp

£39.99

This book offers fresh insights into medieval bodies from multiple perspectives. Ten essays by renowned scholars explore diverse, interdisciplinary approaches, connecting medieval literature with history, theology, gender studies, and the arts.

Transgressing Women

Space and The Body in Contemporary Noir Thrillers

By: Jamaluddin Aziz

£44.99

Transgressing Women focuses on the 'other' female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.

Transgressing Women focuses on the ‘other’ female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.

Sacred Geography of Goddesses in South Asia

Essays in Memory of David Kinsley

Edited By: Rana Singh

£49.99

A tribute to David Kinsley, this interdisciplinary anthology explores the sacred geography of goddesses. Essays from scholars of religious studies, geography, and anthropology link ecology and shamanism with landscape as temple and territory as cosmos.

Political Violence in Latin America

A Cross-Case Comparison of the Urban Insurgency Campaigns of Montoneros, M-19 and FSLN in a Historical Perspective

By: Jörg Le Blanc

£49.99

Political Violence in Latin America offers an exceptional analysis of social revolutionary conflicts. In a comparison of three case studies—the Argentinean Montoneros, Colombian M-19, and Nicaraguan FSLN—the book brings new details of the conflicts to light.

Centenary of the Russian Revolution (1917-2017)

Edited By: Andreu Mayayo i Artal, Antoni Segura i Mas

£61.99

This collection provides an historical, plural and original analysis of the Russian Revolution to mark its first centenary. It focuses on both regional aspects and major events and phenomena, including the importance of World War I and the birth of the Communist International.

Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama

A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard

By: Mufti Mudasir

£39.99

This study reveals Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard as postmodern playwrights. Their contradictory dramas subvert theatrical convention to challenge our very understanding of truth, history, and the human subject.

Children and Armed Conflict

By: Chaditsa Poulatova

£44.99

This book examines international efforts to protect children from war through the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol. It exposes major shortcomings in the UN's monitoring process and explores how compliance can be secured more effectively.

This book examines international efforts to protect children from war through the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol. It exposes major shortcomings in the UN’s monitoring process and explores how compliance can be secured more effectively.

Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine

Edited By: Rédouane Abouddahab

£39.99

In today's crime fiction, women are the criminals, not just the victims. The genre forsakes the simple "whodunnit," instead exploring the lure of violence and leaving a chilling sense of unrest.

In today’s crime fiction, women are the criminals, not just the victims. The genre forsakes the simple “whodunnit,” instead exploring the lure of violence and leaving a chilling sense of unrest.

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