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Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World

Edited By: Cécile Cottenet, Jean-Christophe Murat, Nathalie Vanfasse

£39.99

This book tackles cultural transformations across the English-speaking world in literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It provides readers with tools to decipher these dynamic phenomena and understand the new life they infuse into cultures.

Breakcore

Identity and Interaction on Peer-to-Peer

By: Andrew Whelan

£39.99

This interdisciplinary ethnography examines interaction and exchange within the 'bedroom producer' culture of 'breakcore' electronic music. It explores the cultural politics and aesthetics of identity in this environment, highlighting gender, ethnicity, and technology.

This interdisciplinary ethnography examines interaction and exchange within the ‘bedroom producer’ culture of ‘breakcore’ electronic music. It explores the cultural politics and aesthetics of identity in this environment, highlighting gender, ethnicity, and technology.

Early Farmers, Late Foragers, and Ceramic Traditions

On the Beginning of Pottery in the Near East and Europe

Edited By: Dragoş Gheorghiu

£39.99

Prominent scholars present new perspectives on the beginnings of pottery in Europe's late forager and early farmer societies. This collection of essays explores the rise of a new technology, offering a fascinating read for scholars and the public alike.

Prominent scholars present new perspectives on the beginnings of pottery in Europe’s late forager and early farmer societies. This collection of essays explores the rise of a new technology, offering a fascinating read for scholars and the public alike.

Engaging Imagination and Developing Creativity in Education

Edited By: Krystina Madej

£39.99

Imagination is the source of creativity. This collection of essays from authors around the world offers new, practical ideas for infusing classrooms with imaginative activities. Explore theories of creativity and their application to curriculum and social issues.

Research in Management Accounting

Malaysian Environment

Edited By: Ruhanita Maelah

£39.99

This book addresses the gap in management accounting research focused on Malaysia. It provides research-oriented articles on key issues and is an essential reference for researchers, academics, managers, accountants, and policy makers.

Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives

Edited By: Robin Hammerman

£39.99

This collection of essays examines how nineteenth and twentieth century women writers responded to patriarchal assumptions about literary merit while contributing to new conceptions of womanhood in Anglophone literary culture.

Soldiers, Bombs and Rifles

Military History of the 20th Century

Edited By: Paola Lo Cascio, Antoni Segura i Mas, Alberto Pellegrini

£39.99

Military History is not just for experts. It is an essential, interdisciplinary tool for interpreting historical processes. This book analyzes the main wars of the 20th century, with contributions on WWI, WWII, the Spanish Civil War, and asymmetric conflicts.

The American Village in a Global Setting

Selected papers from an interdisciplinary conference in honor of Sinclair Lewis and Ida K. Compton

Edited By: Michael E. Connaughton, Suellen Rundquist

£39.99

Selected from a conference honoring Sinclair Lewis, these papers consider his world through today’s lens. Scholars address community, comparing his vision to other authors and media, and use his work as a springboard to discuss today’s global issues.

Feminist Insiders-Outsiders

Muslim Women in Nigeria and the Contemporary Feminist Movement

By: Ibrahim Olatunde Uthman

£39.99

This book examines the Islamic feminism of Nigerian Muslim women. It argues that their struggles are rooted in Islamic texts from the Prophetic era, contrary to stereotypes of patriarchal domination, and shows how they use organizations for feminist changes.

Selected Essays on Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures

By: Igor Maver

£39.99

These essays on Canadian, Australian and New Zealand literatures consider texts and authors within the post-colonial paradigm, focusing on diasporic writing, national consciousness, and prominent authors like Margaret Atwood.

Algernon Sidney Crapsey

The Last of the Heretics

By: Dr. Stephen T. Neese

£39.99

Algernon Crapsey’s life reflected America's shift from a religious to a secular culture. Once a leading Episcopal missioner, his liberal thinking led to a heresy trial that captivated the nation and ended in his excommunication.

Algernon Crapsey’s life reflected America’s shift from a religious to a secular culture. Once a leading Episcopal missioner, his liberal thinking led to a heresy trial that captivated the nation and ended in his excommunication.

The Taylor Effect

Responding to a Secular Age

Edited By: Ian Leask with Eoin Cassidy, Alan Kearns, Fainche Ryan

£39.99

The Taylor Effect presents a diverse collection of essays addressing Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. With contributions from philosophy, theology, literature, and political science, this is a central reference point for any future discussion of Taylor’s work.

Taking a Hard Look

Gender and Visual Culture

Edited By: Amanda du Preez

£39.99

This volume takes a hard look at the creative intersection of gender and visual culture. It explores how visual culture is gendered and questions debilitating role models, creating a dialogue with international theory from a South perspective.

Translation and Censorship in Different Times and Landscapes

Edited By: Maria Lin Moniz, Teresa Seruya

£39.99

This volume explores translation and censorship, focusing on the Iberian dictatorial regimes of Spain and Portugal. Presenting new case studies, it offers a critical view of censorship from Brazil and China to Victorian England and examines self-censorship.

Emblems of Adversity

Essays on the Aesthetics of Politics in W. B. Yeats and Others

By: Rached Khalifa

£39.99

These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats's poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.

These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats’s poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.

Betwixt and Between

Place and Cultural Translation

Edited By: David Johnston, Stephen Kelly

£39.99

This book examines the fraught relationship between place and cultural translation. Examining translation across multiple contexts and genres, it argues for the fruitful dislocation of translation to challenge the destructive politics of nationalism and cultural homogeneity.

Music and Technologies

Edited By: Darius Kučinskas

£39.99

Music and Technologies is a collection of articles by musicians, computer scientists, and educators from all over the world. It explores contemporary ideas in the field, from automatic cognition and simulation to the re-creation of music, with sound and scoring at its core.

Architecture

The Making of Metaphors

Edited By: Barie Fez-Barringten

£39.99

The author's writings are based on his 1968 Yale University lecture series, “Architecture: The Making of Metaphors”.

The author’s writings are based on his 1968 Yale University lecture series, “Architecture: The Making of Metaphors”.

Romualdo Marenco

Excelsior and Sport

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£39.99

In Manzotti's spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.

In Manzotti’s spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.

The Arab Authoritarian Regime between Reform and Persistence

Edited By: Henner Fürtig

£39.99

Arab authoritarian regimes use liberalisation as a tool to avoid democracy. But what if these self-serving reforms backfire? This book analyses how policies meant to strengthen authoritarian rule may unintentionally destabilise it, leading to democracy by accident.