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Telling Tales

Storytelling in Contemporary Spain

Edited By: Anne L. Walsh

£52.99

This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation's identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.

This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation’s identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.

The Age of Asian Migration

Continuity, Diversity, and Susceptibility Volume 1

Edited By: Yuk Wah Chan, David Haines, Jonathan Lee

£54.99

Asia is the world region producing the most international migrants. This book provides a full discussion of Asian migration, from historical perspectives to current flows and diasporas, covering key regions and offering a reassessment with crucial policy implications.

Language Processing and Disorders

Edited By: Teresa Parodi, Vicenç Torrens

£79.99

Language processing is considered as an important part of cognition, with an ever-increasing amount of studies conducted on this field. This book gathers together research on language processing and disorders presented at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference in Madrid.

The a priori in the Thought of Descartes

Cognition, Method and Science

By: Jan Palkoska

£57.99

This book offers a clear and historically adequate account of the disputed issue of the exact meaning Descartes associates with the term ‘a priori’, so different from the Aristotelian usage. It will add to a better understanding of fundamental issues in the philosopher’s thought.

Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume Two

Proceedings of the Sixth AESOP Conference on Sustainable Food Planning

Edited By: Rob Roggema

£80.99

This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.

Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah, Muslim Sufi Saint and Gift of Heaven

By: Abu Bakr Sirajuddin Cook

£61.99

Despite the enduring popularity of the works of Shadhiliyya master Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah, there has been no systematic analysis of his worldview. This book is the first study to highlight the interconnections in his writings, building a new understanding of his Sufism.

Business Threats and Opportunities in the Western Balkans

Edited By: Hristina Runcheva Tasev, Elena Makrevska Disoska

From £29.99

This book provides a comprehensive outlook on long-term economic changes in the Western Balkans. It offers decision-makers ways to leverage the rise of digital technologies for sustainable growth based on green and clean solutions.

Zeng Shiqiang and the Chinese Style of Management

By: Li Guoqing, Luan Weixia, Zhang Yue

£64.99

This monograph illustrates Professor Zeng Shiqiang’s insightful observations on the essence of the Chinese style of management science, which has developed around how modern management strategies can be integrated with ancient Chinese philosophical wisdom and ideology.

Biologists in the Age of Totalitarianism

Personal Reminiscences of Ornithologists and Other Naturalists

Edited By: Eugeniusz Nowak

£64.99

These gripping biographies reveal the hidden lives of biologists in the Third Reich. Dr. Nowak, who knew many personally, uses newly opened archives to tell the stories of victims and perpetrators caught in the ideological nets of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism.

Sustainable Development in Mechanical Engineering

Case Studies in Applied Mechanics (2nd Edition)

Edited By: Sylvie Nadeau, Yvan Petit, Stéphane Hallé

£41.99

Engineers have a responsibility to safeguard the public's environment, health, and safety. This book proposes sixteen practical cases integrating mechanical engineering with environmental, health, and safety risk management to transfer this essential knowledge.

Engineers have a responsibility to safeguard the public’s environment, health, and safety. This book proposes sixteen practical cases integrating mechanical engineering with environmental, health, and safety risk management to transfer this essential knowledge.

Resistance and the Practice of Rationality

By: Martin W. Bauer, Rom Harré, Carl Jensen

£49.99

Resistance is a historical constant, not simply irrational behaviour. Fifteen authors from diverse disciplines, including physics, biology, and political science, explore concepts of ‘resistance’ and examine the potential of a general ‘resistology’.

Al Qaeda and the Islamic State

A Threat to Europe’s Security

By: Mari Carmen Forriol

From £35.99

This book analyses attacks by Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Western Europe. It details their ideological sources, financing, and dissemination of their message through social media, as well as the radicalisation of Europeans who go to Syria and Iraq to wage jihad.

Fathers in Victorian Fiction

Edited By: Natalie McKnight

£39.99

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors' lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors’ lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

Made in Oceania

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social and Cultural Meanings and Presentation of Oceanic Tapa

Edited By: Peter Mesenhöller, Annemarie Stauffer

£41.99

This volume brings together papers from a symposium on the social meanings, conservation and presentation of Oceanic tapa, or barkcloth, in 2014, and offers insights into current museum practice, connecting historical research with recent cultural developments in the Pacific.

On the Turn

The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English

Edited By: Bárbara Arizti, Silvia Martínez-Falquina

£44.99

This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the 'ethical turn' in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.

This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.

West of Eden

Botanical Discourse, Contact Languages and Translation

By: Rosanna Masiola

£39.99

West of Eden is a study of botanical discourse in colonial and post-colonial contexts. It explores the loss of roots and identity when plants were brought along the slave-route. The loss of a plant may also mean the loss of its name, putting a rich eco-literature at risk.

Power, Politics and Episcopal Authority

The Bishops of Cremona and Lincoln in the Middle Ages (1066-1340)

By: Angelo Silvestri

£52.99

This book assesses the shifts in bishops’ power in Lincoln and Cremona from the 11th to the 14th century. The comparison highlights the differences between the role of a prelate in England's largest diocese and the struggle for authority in a communal Italian city.

This book assesses the shifts in bishops’ power in Lincoln and Cremona from the 11th to the 14th century. The comparison highlights the differences between the role of a prelate in England’s largest diocese and the struggle for authority in a communal Italian city.

The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage

A Contrastive Study from a Cultural Perspective

By: Claudia E. Stoian

£57.99

Stoian studies the field of online tourism promotion, focusing on that of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, looking at two different types of websites—institutional and commercial—from three countries, Romania, Spain and the UK.

The Formation of Intellectual Capital in Mexico

By: Gerardo Reyes Ruiz

From £36.99

This book evaluates Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI) within the international scientific context. It assesses this research elite’s role and transcendence to recognize the impact and success of Mexico’s research policy.

This book evaluates Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI) within the international scientific context. It assesses this research elite’s role and transcendence to recognize the impact and success of Mexico’s research policy.

6th International Finance Conference on Financial Crisis and Governance

Edited By: Mondher Bellalah

£74.99

In an era of volatile and integrated markets, regulators worry about economic growth and financial crisis. This book analyzes key issues from risk assessment, corporate governance, and debt's role in crises to international investments and innovative solutions.

In an era of volatile and integrated markets, regulators worry about economic growth and financial crisis. This book analyzes key issues from risk assessment, corporate governance, and debt’s role in crises to international investments and innovative solutions.

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