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The Demeter-Persephone Myth as Writing Ritual in the Lives of Literary Women

By: Jana Rivers Norton

£52.99

Norton explores the life stories of several female authors, who mirrored Demeter/Persephone’s mythic journey from abduction and rage to reconciliation. She contextualizes trauma as lived experience, to show how writing as ritual may help transform mental and emotional debility.

Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy

Edited By: Elliot D. Cohen, Samuel Zinaich

£44.99

Can philosophy help people with their personal problems? This volume explores philosophical counseling and its relationship to psychotherapy through readings by prominent philosophers and psychologists, asking if such matters are best left to therapists.

Peacemongers, Australian Resistance to War and Military Conscription, 1885 to 1945

By: Bobbie Oliver

From £33.99

War has been a dominant theme in Australian history, but there is an alternative story. In every conflict, war resisters and conscientious objectors stood firm. They endured violence and prison, branded as cowards, yet showed it took a special type of courage to resist war.

The Effect of the 1958 New York Convention on Foreign Arbitral Awards in the Arab Gulf States

By: Reyadh Mohamed Seyadi

£61.99

Seyadi provides insights that will go some way toward dissipating the concerns that are routinely raised about the procedural and practical soundness of arbitration in the Arab Gulf states. In addition, he places arbitration in the Arab Gulf states in its present legal systems.

Joyce in Progress

Proceedings of the 2008 James Joyce Graduate Conference in Rome

Edited By: John McCourt, Franca Ruggieri

£39.99

A testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce's writings, this volume offers ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary readings. These essays look at Joyce from a variety of angles and connect his work with contemporary writers, rivals, and successors.

A testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce’s writings, this volume offers ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary readings. These essays look at Joyce from a variety of angles and connect his work with contemporary writers, rivals, and successors.

Alternation between L1 (Italian) and L2 (English) in Three CLIL and EMI Contexts

By: Francesca Costa

From £29.99

This book investigates the alternation of L1 and L2 in CLIL and EMI contexts in Italy at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. It shows that alternation plays a mainly lexical role and that its use is very similar across the three educational levels.

Poverty, Charity and Social Welfare in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited By: Milan Hlavačka, Václava Horčáková, Kristina Rexová

£63.99

Examples of social practice in the Central European region from the 19th century to the 1950s are presented here. The volume responds to the current economic and social crisis, including the welfare state crisis, which raises the need to seek solutions from the past and present.

John Bull’s Italian Snakes and Ladders

English Attitudes to Italy in the mid-nineteenth Century

By: Annemarie McAllister

£34.99

This book examines how mid-19th century England used representations of Italians—from despised organ grinders to glamorous opera stars—to construct its own sense of 'Englishness', class, and masculinity.

This book examines how mid-19th century England used representations of Italians—from despised organ grinders to glamorous opera stars—to construct its own sense of ‘Englishness’, class, and masculinity.

Using Technology in Foreign Language Teaching

Edited By: Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Salah Troudi

£52.99

This book explores how to best utilize technology in language teaching, debating the advantages and disadvantages of IT integration. It examines IT use in countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia, providing a useful resource for professionals and researchers.

The Cinema of Sensations

Edited By: Ágnes Pethő

£52.99

This volume explores the “multisensory” nature of moving images. Pairing the keywords “cinema” and “sensation,” contributors examine the palpable presence of bodies, haptic images, and the link between audiovisual perception and cognitive knowledge.

The Agony of France

By: Andrew Sangster

£62.99

Adopting a sympathetic attitude towards the French plight during German occupation in the 1940s, Sangster examines the nature of de Gaulle’s myth-building, demonstrating that historical mythology is part of every country’s history when seeking its own redemption from the past.

The Soul in the Axiosphere from an Intercultural Perspective, Volume One

Edited By: Joanna Jurewicz, Ewa Masłowska, Dorota Pazio-Wlazłowska

From £40.99

These essays offer a multifaceted discourse on the soul. Using a multicultural approach, they explore fundamental themes of human existence, revealing universal values in cultures distant in time and space through religious, philosophical, and historical debates.

Towards a Medical Anthropology of Ageing

By: Miguel Kottow

£61.99

Ageing is not a disease. In an era of unfulfilled social care, this book presents an anthropological view that focuses on three essential conditions of human life that become vulnerable with advancing age: relating to others, being in the world, and leaving a legacy.

Developments in German Industrial Relations

Edited By: Gerd Grözinger, Wenzel Matiaske

£47.99

This book reviews twenty years of research in German industrial relations. It analyzes changes in the German model and its major institutions, namely trade unions and co-determination, and discusses contributions from disciplines like HRM, economics, and labour law.

Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History

Edited By: David W. Kim

£64.99

This book presents multi-angled perspectives of socio-religious transition, adopting the cultural religiosity of the Asian people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concepts of imperialism, religious syncretism and modernisation.

Folk Musical Instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By: Jasmina Talam

£44.99

For the first time, a complete overview of folk musical instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book describes the instruments—their history, construction, and playing techniques—and explores the traditions of the makers and players.

Dramatising Disaster

Character, Event, Representation

Edited By: Christine Cornea, Rhys Owain Thomas

£39.99

As the imagining of disaster intensifies in media, it is vital to understand how it is presented. Dramatising Disaster presents new research focused not on a specific event, but on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.

The Reptant Eagle

Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel

Edited By: Roberto Cantú

£52.99

Carlos Fuentes was a leading voice in Latin America’s Boom generation. The Reptant Eagle collects essays by renowned scholars that offer innovative readings of his major works and trace his contribution to the uninterrupted tradition of the art of the novel.

Views from the Parish

Churchwardens' Accounts c.1500-c.1800

Edited By: Andrew Foster, Valerie Hitchman

£47.99

This collection of essays explores churchwardens’ accounts in a number of parishes in England, Wales and Ireland. These accounts offer an invaluable source of information about the maintenance of the church fabric, and the nature of parish worship and community life in general.

Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics

Pedagogical Perspectives

Edited By: Jeroen Darquennes, Rita Temmerman, Frank Boers

£34.99

This book is the first of two volumes containing selected papers from the international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics, which brought together scholars with a shared interest in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication.

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