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Scottish Cinema Now

Edited By: Fidelma Farley, Jonathan Murray, Rod Stoneman

£39.99

Since films like Trainspotting, Scottish cinema has gained an international profile. This is the first collection of essays to examine the new films, filmmakers, and images of Scottishness, setting a new agenda for the study of Scotland on screen.

International Student Adaptation to Academic Writing in Higher Education

By: Ly Thi Tran

£39.99

This book explores international students’ adaptation to academic writing, introducing new concepts of adjustment. It offers a dialogical pedagogic model for mutual adaptation, arguing that adjustment is a shared responsibility between students and academics.

Persona and Paradox

Issues of Identity for C.S. Lewis, his Friends and Associates

Edited By: Suzanne Bray

£39.99

This collection of essays examines the life and work of C.S. Lewis and his associates through the theme of identity. Scholars explore gender, family, and national identity in the writings of Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, and others.

Determinants of Productivity in Indian Science

By: A. V. S. Kamesh

£39.99

This organizational study of science in India focuses on the determinants of scientists' productivity. It considers how factors like communication technology can reinforce social inequality and provides policy-oriented suggestions aimed at ensuring equality.

This organizational study of science in India focuses on the determinants of scientists’ productivity. It considers how factors like communication technology can reinforce social inequality and provides policy-oriented suggestions aimed at ensuring equality.

Translation Reconsidered

Culture, Genre and the “Colonial Encounter” in Nineteenth Century Bengal

By: Chandrani Chatterjee

£39.99

This interdisciplinary study argues that translation does not merely relocate a text, but negotiates and alters relationships between cultures. Focusing on the cultural history of Bengal, it explores how genres are also translated, assuming striking new shapes.

Performance and Ethnography

Dance, Drama, Music

Edited By: Peter Harrop, Dunja Njaradi

£39.99

This volume explores the intersection of performance and ethnography across dance, drama, and music. It champions an embodied, sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between researchers and participants to understand performance amid migration and commodification.

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.

Urban Planning in the Middle East

Case Studies

By: John Yarwood

£39.99

A partial professional autobiography, this book describes diverse urban planning projects across Turkey, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Syria. The author personally worked on all projects, tackling themes from slum upgrading to post-war reconstruction.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: General Editor, Claudia Slate

£39.99

Florida's long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Meanings of Ripley

The Alien Quadrilogy and Gender

Edited By: Elizabeth Graham

£39.99

This collection offers varied interpretations of sci-fi icon Ellen Ripley. Is she a feminist hero? A patriarchal mother? Does she move beyond dichotomous gender roles? Voices from multiple disciplines explore these questions against the backdrop of Second Wave Feminism.

Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance

Transnational Perspectives

Edited By: Matthew Isaac Cohen, Laura Noszlopy

£39.99

This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.

Early Childhood Programs as the Doorway to Social Cohesion

Application of Vygotsky’s Ideas from an East-West Perspective

Edited By: Jacqueline Hayden, Aija Tuna

£39.99

The theories of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky have had profound impacts on early childhood education. This volume of papers by leading experts examines his legacy in the East and West, offering ideas to benefit children and societies across the globe.

Politics and Culture in Post-War Italy

Edited By: Monica Boria, Linda Risso

£39.99

This volume offers original insights into lesser-known aspects of post-war Italian culture. It provides an interdisciplinary examination of Italian society since WWII, with innovative perspectives on literature, women’s studies, cinema, history, and politics.

Between Fear and Freedom

Cultural Representations of the Cold War

Edited By: Kathleen Starck

£39.99

The Cold War was not just a political and military competition, but a cultural one. This collection of essays by international scholars explores the conflict’s strategies and legacies in film, propaganda, music, architecture, fiction, and theatre.

Frederick Kiesler

Lost in History; Art of This Century and The Modern Art Gallery

By: Shirley Haines-Cooke

£39.99

This book uncovers the fascinating story of Frederick Kiesler’s ground-breaking Art of This Century gallery, designed for Peggy Guggenheim. It analyzes their fraught collaboration and restores Kiesler to his place in art and architecture history.

The Plastic Venuses

Archaeological Tourism in Post-Modern Society

By: Ezio Marra

£39.99

Consumerism and virtual reality are transforming archaeology. When ancient sites become theme parks and finds are exhibited in casinos, what is authenticity? This book is an innovative, critical, and stimulating appraisal of our relationship with the past.

Care or Control of the Self? Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and the Subject in the 21st Century

Edited By: Andrea D. Bührmann, Stefanie Ernst

£39.99

Amidst fundamental social change, our relationship to ourselves and others is being transformed. This anthology discusses this transformation through the perspectives of Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, analyzing structures of control within society and the individual.

Ruptures in the Western Empire

White Female Captives and Cinematic Orientalism

By: Omar Moumni

£39.99

This book investigates the representation of white female captives in Moorish thralldom in Western cinema. It deconstructs how these stories were used for imperialist ambitions and, by rereading this visual culture, gives voice to the stereotyped "other".

Media/Democracy

A Comparative Study

Edited By: Alec Charles

£39.99

The mass media have a crucial role in democracy, but is their influence constructive? This collection explores media's impact on democratic structures worldwide, from the press in Britain to social media in the Arab Region, and asks if we can become active citizens.

The mass media have a crucial role in democracy, but is their influence constructive? This collection explores media’s impact on democratic structures worldwide, from the press in Britain to social media in the Arab Region, and asks if we can become active citizens.

Irish Studies in Britain

New Perspectives on History and Literature

Edited By: Brian Griffin, Ellen McWilliams

£39.99

These essays explore how religious and political identity shaped Irish experiences from the 17th to 20th centuries. The collection examines key historical events and literary responses, addressing themes of national identity, culture, and literary influence.