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Psychoanalysis in Context

Edited By: Alvin Henry

£39.99

Drawing on psychoanalysis, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the contributors examine how the circulation of psychoanalysis across time and place reflects and shapes literature, offering fresh insights into their shared literary history.

Eat History

Food and Drink in Australia and Beyond

Edited By: Sofia Eriksson, Madeleine Hastie, Tom Roberts

£39.99

Eat History offers fascinating new insights into gastronomic studies and cultural history. Nine leading historians explore topics from vodka to patty cakes across the globe, engaging academics and general readers keen to discover how food opens up new areas of history.

Dynamic of Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia

Edited By: Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani, Shamsuddin L. Taya

£39.99

In multi-ethnic societies, the threat is from within. Ethnic conflict is a time bomb, as nation-building often marginalizes groups and sparks violence. Can a democratic setting moderate these tensions and achieve peaceful resolution in Southeast Asia?

Colonial and Global Interfacings

Imperial Hegemonies and Democratizing Resistances

Edited By: Gary Backhaus

£39.99

Colonial techniques of domination boomeranged back to the West, sustained by capitalist relations. As new movements challenge the world order, this book explores how global flows of people and ideas transform identity and power from the North to the South.

Future Prospects for Music Education

Corroborating Informal Learning Pedagogy

Edited By: Vesa Kurkela, Lauri Väkevä

£39.99

Inspired by Lucy Green's groundbreaking work, this anthology offers a critical examination of informal learning pedagogy in music education. An international community of scholars explores future prospects for music education with informal learning as its focal point.

Inspired by Lucy Green’s groundbreaking work, this anthology offers a critical examination of informal learning pedagogy in music education. An international community of scholars explores future prospects for music education with informal learning as its focal point.

Sexing the Look in Popular Visual Culture

Edited By: Kathy Justice Gentile

£39.99

This collection of essays focuses on the eroticized “look” and the sexualization of visual culture. From sexy female robots and Bridget Jones to Victorian fashion and feminist debates, these essays offer new conceptions of perception and representation.

“The Wandering Life I Led”

Essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and Early Modern Women’s Border Crossings

Edited By: Susan Shifrin

£39.99

International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.

Decentralised Governance in Tribal India

Negotiating Space between the State, Community and Civil Society

By: M. Aruna Kumar

£39.99

This book studies tribal participation in Panchayat Raj since the PESA Act. Through field study, it explores the link between Democracy, Decentralisation, and Development, questioning whether real power has been devolved from Lok Sabha to Gram Sabha.

Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-garde

Defining Modern and Traditional in France, 1900-1960

Edited By: Natalie Adamson, Toby Norris

£39.99

This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.

Art Theory as Visual Epistemology

Edited By: Harald Klinke

£39.99

"What is knowledge?" is as much a philosophic question as "What is an image?" Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.

“What is knowledge?” is as much a philosophic question as “What is an image?” Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.

Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert

Philosophers on Telepathy and Other Exceptional Experiences

By: Hein van Dongen, Hans Gerding

£39.99

Though paranormal experiences are rarely taken seriously, this book demonstrates that to important philosophers—from Kant to Derrida—controversial phenomena like telepathy and clairvoyance were serious topics, thoughtfully interpreted.

Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress

The Golden Age of Italian Cult Cinema 1970-1985

By: Xavier Mendik

£39.99

Explore the golden age of 1970s Italian cult cinema. This book considers the social and political factors that spawned a decade of stylish films dominated by extreme sexuality and violence, profiling icons like Dario Argento and genres from giallo to sex comedy.

Demand, Supply and Welfare Aspects of Pipe-borne Water in Sri Lanka

By: Dinusha Dharmaratna

£39.99

Under-pricing threatens Sri Lanka's water utility. This book examines alternative pricing strategies to improve efficiency and equity, ensuring the financial viability needed for critical infrastructure expansion and maintenance.

Under-pricing threatens Sri Lanka’s water utility. This book examines alternative pricing strategies to improve efficiency and equity, ensuring the financial viability needed for critical infrastructure expansion and maintenance.

Albania and Europe in a Political Regard

Edited By: Klodiana Beshku, Orinda Malltezi

£39.99

This multidisciplinary work explores the relationship between Albania and Europe. Chapters cover history, sociology, and political science, examining the multidimensional idea of Europe and its reflection in Albanian society, both past and present.

Dance in Ireland

Steps, Stages and Stories

By: Sharon A. Phelan

£39.99

Dance in Ireland provides an in-depth view of dance during the colonial and post-colonial eras. It presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and a signifier of cultural change. An indispensable resource for academics and artists alike.

African Mosaic

Political, Social, Economic and Technological Development in the New Millennium

Edited By: E. Ike Udogu, Alfred Zack-Williams

£39.99

African Mosaic is essential reading for all students of Africa. This invaluable collection of essays by leading experts deals with the most pressing issues facing the continent, from development and human rights to education and technology.

Contested Boundaries

New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison

Edited By: Maxine L. Montgomery

£39.99

Contested Boundaries uses Toni Morrison’s enigmatic novel, A Mercy, as a locus to discuss her entire canon. Essays explore her re-figuration of core themes—the legacy of slavery, trauma, and love—charting a shift in her work to open up new ways of interrogating her writing.

Philosophy and Education

Introducing Philosophy to Young People

Edited By: Roberta Israeloff, Jana Mohr Lone

£39.99

Are children natural philosophers? This book shows how to build on their inherent curiosity about life’s big questions. It describes models for introducing philosophy into schools using literature, games, and activities to help students develop analytic skills.

Turkey–EU Relations

Power, Politics and the Future

Edited By: Kenan Aksu

£39.99

This book tells the untold story of the positive aspects of EU–Turkey relations. Because this complex relationship is often misunderstood, and public perceptions are shaped by political leaders, mutual benefits are underestimated. This book fills those gaps.

“The EU is Not Them, But Us!”

The First Person Plural and the Articulation of Collective Identities in European Political Discourse

By: Attila Krizsán

£39.99

This corpus-driven analysis of political speeches on EU integration from Finland, Hungary, and the UK reveals how language reflects power positions. It offers insights into articulations of collective identity and shared European patterns of identification.