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The Empty Too

Language and Philosophy in the Works of Samuel Beckett

By: Arthur Broomfield

£39.99

This controversial study argues that for Beckett, pure language is reality. While the world we perceive cannot be proved to exist, language survives to become the real. Beckett’s art is his philosophy, a thinking that surpasses the major philosophers.

Sociological Perspectives of Health and Illness

Edited By: Constantinos N. Phellas

£44.99

This volume examines important themes in medical sociology, documenting the thinking and frameworks shaping research today. It covers topics from the morality of death to conflicts between health providers, and will interest students and professionals.

Women, Islam and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Nilgun Anadolu-Okur

£39.99

This pioneering study explores the new female Muslim identity. Through interdisciplinary essays, it examines the daily struggles, challenges, choices, and rights of Muslim women globally, both within and outside the Muslim world, in the twenty-first century.

Health at Work, Ageing and Environmental Effects on Future Social Security and Labour Law Systems

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

£105.99

This volume analyses the challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, affecting people's work and rights. With a global perspective, it provides solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems.

This volume analyses the challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, affecting people’s work and rights. With a global perspective, it provides solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems.

Acts of Memory

The Victorians and Beyond

Edited By: Ryan Barnett, Serena Trowbridge

£34.99

For the Victorians, memory was inseparable from literature. This collection of lively essays offers a rich and diverse exploration of this interconnection, discussing well-known figures and texts alongside key psychological and philosophical works.

Rushdie’s Cross-Pollinations

By: Dana Bădulescu

From £29.99

This book is a literary journey through Salman Rushdie’s cross-pollinated gardens, where reading is a quest. It explores his sorcery with language, the dark season of the fatwa, the lush sensuality of his novels, and his Quichotte, a Don Quijote for the internet age.

The Caribbean in a Changing World

Surveying the Past, Mapping the Future, Volume 1

Edited By: Stephanie Fullerton-Cooper, Erica Gordon, Livingston Smith

£63.99

This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.

China’s Development from a Global Perspective

Edited By: María Dolores Elizalde, Wang Jianlang

£76.99

This volume presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the development of diplomatic relations, and the rise and resolution of conflicts.

Enhancing Customer Experience in the Service Industry

A Global Perspective

Edited By: Levent Altinay, Surya Poudel

£47.99

The essays included in this text provide a new and definitive overview of customer experience and how it can be managed and enhanced in the service industry. The highly qualified international team of contributors ensures that it adopts a global perspective.

Dictatorship in Fact and in Fiction

Edited By: Keith Ellis

From £32.99

Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term "dictatorship," re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.

Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term “dictatorship,” re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.

Hindustani Traces in Malay Ghazal

'A song, so old and yet still famous'

By: Gisa Jähnichen, Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda

£63.99

This monograph investigates the Malay ghazal, in its various shapes and with its different meanings, in order to study the musical traces of Hindustani culture. It describes the development of the ghazal, from its early forms to its modern transformation into local art.

Public Space in Informal Settlements

The Barrios of Bogotá

By: Jaime Hernández-García

£44.99

This book views Bogotá's informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios' social dynamics. An insider's perspective.

This book views Bogotá’s informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios’ social dynamics. An insider’s perspective.

Midwives’ Emotional Care of Women becoming Mothers

By: Sue Barker

£34.99

This book explores the emotional care midwives give women to reduce distress and provide comfort. Based on research and written in accessible language, it is a useful source for students, voluntary groups, and women on their journey to motherhood.

A Political Thesaurus for Interpreters and Translators

By: Abdulaziz Al-Maosherji

From £29.99

This book is your guide to the political language of the Middle East. It is a tool for translators and interpreters to master the language, combining an academic overview of translating and interpreting with six key themes related to politics.

Information Infrastructure(s)

Boundaries, Ecologies, Multiplicity

Edited By: Alessandro Mongili, Giuseppina Pellegrino

£52.99

This book explores how information infrastructures enable, but also constrain, cooperation across different groups. It questions the role of the material and immaterial objects connecting us—from devices and networks to society itself.

The Still Life in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

By: Elizabeth Hicks

£39.99

This book explores A. S. Byatt's visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and "cold" artwork.

This book explores A. S. Byatt’s visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and “cold” artwork.

Characterization and Applications of Clay as a Novel Material

Edited By: Neeraj Kumari, Chandra Mohan

From £38.99

This book is a comprehensive overview of clay science, covering the characterization and application of clay minerals. Explore applications in pharmaceuticals, wastewater treatment, construction, and agriculture. An important reference for researchers, scientists, and engineers.

The Efficiency and Productivity of Indian Pharmaceutical Companies

A Firm-Level Analysis

By: Aas Mohammad

From £30.99

This book evaluates the Indian pharmaceutical industry, highlighting the government's role in its growth from non-existence before the 1970s to one of the largest in the world. It provides an understanding of productivity and efficiency for health administrators and economists.

This book evaluates the Indian pharmaceutical industry, highlighting the government’s role in its growth from non-existence before the 1970s to one of the largest in the world. It provides an understanding of productivity and efficiency for health administrators and economists.

Contrasting English and Other Languages through Corpora

Edited By: Markéta Janebová, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Michaela Martinková

£61.99

This title addresses several issues on contrasts between English and other languages. It gives valuable insights into cross-linguistic differences between English and other languages, which might otherwise go unnoticed, and will be useful to experts on language studies.

Geopolitics to Geocriticism

A Study of TV Series in Türkiye, Serbia, Romania and Beyond

Edited By: Deniz Bayrakdar

From £38.99

This collection analyses TV series (‘dizi’) from Türkiye, Serbia, and Romania. It explores their role in identity building, social reflection, and soft power, stressing the importance of these cultural products for public diplomacy in the Balkans and their global reach.

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