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Framing Violence

Conflicting Images, Identities, and Discourses

Edited By: Banu Baybars

£61.99

This collection analyses many of the questions surrounding challenges in framing the rising violence across the globe and in its new forms. It provides case studies and debates, with violence discussed in its political form and its domestic, financial, and artistic forms.

Aural and the University Music Undergraduate

By: Colin R. Wright

£63.99

Wright assesses the relevance of aural in a university music degree and as a preparation for a classical musician’s career. The main areas investigated are the relationship between aural ability and success in a music degree, and views about aural and its career relevance.

The Fantastic of the Fin de Siècle

Edited By: Zdeněk Beran, Irena Grubica

£52.99

This volume explores the fantastic and the fin de siècle’s relationship. It studies how this period reflects the fantastic’s relation to: aesthetic ideas, terror and horror, the sublime, and evil, Gothic and sensation fiction, the Aesthetic Movement and Decadence.

A Polyglot Pocket Dictionary of Lingála, English, French, and Italian

By: Zekeh Gbotokuma

£61.99

This work presents a glossary that allows the reader to appreciate positive diversity and interculturalism through multilingualism. It also contains key facts about the languages at hand, as well as useful phrases, weekdays, numbers, and elements of grammar.

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages Volume 1

Edited By: Marta Degani, Paolo Frassi, Maria Ivana Lorenzetti

£68.99

This two-volume book provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse. It builds on previous political discourse perspectives and provides new insights into this research area, while combining theoretical and methodological considerations.

Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past

Selected Proceedings from the 36th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum

Edited By: Meriem Pagès, Robert G. Sullivan

£52.99

This volume celebrates the ways the Middle Ages and Renaissance are represented in our own age. The contributions bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.

Narratives at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium

Edited By: Jessica Homberg-Schramm, Anna Rasokat, Felicitas Schweiker

£45.99

This volume offers an approach to narratives in the 21st century, amid growing concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations. It provides cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences.

Downscaling Culture

Revisiting Intercultural Communication

Edited By: Dorottya Cserző, Argyro Kantara, Jaspal Naveel Singh

£52.99

As globalisation makes fixed ideas of culture obsolete, this volume updates intercultural communication theory and practice. It utilises a theory of scales to ‘downscale culture’, showing how it might—or might not—be relevant in any given interaction.

Elemental Sensuous

Phenomenology and Aesthetics

Edited By: John Murungi

£45.99

Under the guidance of phenomenological insights, this book presents the sensuous in its elemental sense. It explains how the sensuous, as elemental, irreducibly expresses itself in multiple ways, allowing the reader to become more aware of themselves and the world around them.

Practices of Abstract Art

Between Anarchism and Appropriation

Edited By: Wiebke Gronemeyer, Isabel Wünsche

£57.99

Given the renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, this collection of essays investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years, engaging it in its increasingly diverse cultural environment.

Two Questers in the Twentieth-century North Africa

Paul Bowles and Ibrahim Alkoni

By: Imen Ayari Cozzo

£47.99

This unique exploration of Paul Bowles and Ibrahim Alkoni reveals timely insights into the relationship between the West and the Orient. An original work, it challenges existing scholarship and is a valuable contribution to comparative and postcolonial literature.

Investigating the Role of Language in the Identity Construction of Scholars

Coming to Terms with Inter-Cultural Communicative Competence

By: John Adamson, Vuyisile Mathew Ngoqo, Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam

£47.99

This volume explores major hindrances to communication in the way we over-generalise, stereotype and undermine the people with whom we communicate. It investigates the consequent need for greater intercultural awareness on the part of educators and students.

Essays on the Condition of Inwardness

Pieces of Otherness

By: Frederic Will

From £29.99

Will deals with inwardness in two different senses, the first as the center of existence, and the second as a quest for the meaning of the center of one’s existence. The text culminates with tales of searching for the meaning of interiority, as it self-characterises.

Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women’s Writing

By: Shahd Alshammari

£45.99

Alshammari considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women authors, readdressing the madwoman trope from a transnational approach set in contrast to the traditional Eurocentric approach to literary madness.

Spirituality for Youth-Work

New Vocabulary, Concepts and Practices

Edited By: Phil Daughtry

£47.99

This title addresses the lack of studies discussing spirituality in human services and youth work. It offers a coherent vocabulary and narrative from which to construct a more deliberate practice of spiritual care, education and professional identity for youth workers.

The Rise of the Anti-Heroine in TV’s Third Golden Age

By: Margaret Tally

£45.99

Tally offers an inspiring perspective on representations of a new kind of female character who first appeared on US TV in the mid-2000s, the anti-heroine. She studies several TV women and shows, like Homeland, Weeds and Scandal, to show the dominance of the anti-heroine on US TV.

Pictorialism in Cinema

Creating New Narrative Challenges

By: Jarmo Valkola

£63.99

Valkola extensively explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies, considering a number of theoretical and practical issues of filmic narration.

Episodes in Early Modern and Modern Christian-Jewish Relations

Diasporas, Dogmas, Differences

By: Paolo L. Bernardini

£52.99

Bernardini documents the long history of friendship and diffidence, mutual understanding and dramatic disagreements in the encounters between Christianity and Judaism, which, even today, largely conditions the Western intellectual world.

The Theoretical Background and Practical Implications of Argumentation in Ireland

By: Davide Mazzi

£54.99

Mazzi suggests, linguistically, that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have many potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. He tackles the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic.

Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind

Edited By: Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske

£47.99

This collection demonstrates the novel's power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind's urge to understand itself.

This collection demonstrates the novel’s power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind’s urge to understand itself.

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