Bookshop

Media, Power and Empowerment

Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference CEECOM Prague 2012

Edited By: Tereza Pavlíčková, Irena Reifová

£57.99

This collection of original research maps trends in CEE media, providing insight into the region's shared history and politics. It also discusses the differences among the countries, the consequences for their media scenes, and the lived experiences of their people.

This collection of original research maps trends in CEE media, providing insight into the region’s shared history and politics. It also discusses the differences among the countries, the consequences for their media scenes, and the lived experiences of their people.

Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema

Edited By: Loredana Di Martino, Pasquale Verdicchio

£57.99

This book explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a “return to reality” by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. It focuses on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day.

Global Perspectives on the Holocaust

History, Identity, Legacy

Edited By: Nancy E. Rupprecht

£57.99

This volume expands Holocaust coverage beyond its traditional European focus to a worldwide and interdisciplinary perspective. Scholars from five continents explore new research on the history, identity, and profound legacy of the Holocaust.

Sustainable Alternatives for Poverty Reduction and Eco-Justice

Volume 1 2nd Edition

Edited By: Lucas Andrianos, Guillermo Kerber, Jan-Willem Sneep

£57.99

This book presents papers on sustainable alternatives for poverty reduction and ecological justice. Covering themes of climate change, green economy, and human rights, it offers a new perspective on the diversity of approaches to sustainable development.

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2015

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£57.99

Deriving from the 6th Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, this collection presents material from the fields of philosophy, literature and theatre. It will interest researchers of literature, theatre and the arts from a consciousness studies perspective.

Public Participation in Planning in India

Edited By: Ashok Kumar

£57.99

Urban planning isn't about consensus—it's about resolving conflict. This book challenges the myth of a single public interest, reframing planning as a field of resolvable disputes. Through case studies, it uncovers pathways for deeper, more meaningful public participation.

Urban planning isn’t about consensus—it’s about resolving conflict. This book challenges the myth of a single public interest, reframing planning as a field of resolvable disputes. Through case studies, it uncovers pathways for deeper, more meaningful public participation.

Perspectives

Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Literature

By: Jalal Uddin Khan

£57.99

Essays on Romantic, Victorian, and Modern literature, from Blake and Keats to Yeats. Marked by originality and simplicity, the discussion is as lucid and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making it accessible to non-specialist and academic readers.

Film Festivals and Anthropology

Edited By: María-Paz Peirano, Aida Vallejo

£57.99

This volume probes the intersections between anthropology and film festival studies. It provides a historical reconstruction of most of the main festivals exhibiting ethnographic film, considering the parallel global evolution of programming and organisational practices.

Contemporary Homo Ludens

Edited By: Halina Mielicka-Pawłowska

£57.99

Play allows the fulfilment of dreams, yet also teaches subjugation to social norms. Traditional play preserves culture across generations, while contemporary forms integrate communities. Play invalidates social divisions and imparts meaning to our reality.

Readings in Oriental Literature

Arabian, Indian, and Islamic

By: Jalal Uddin Khan

£57.99

This collection of essays is a fresh, lucid, and scholarly exploration of Oriental literature. It connects topics from the Arabian Nights to Coleridge and Tagore, while avoiding jargon to remain accessible for specialists and non-specialist readers alike.

International Symposium on East Anatolia—South Caucasus Cultures

Proceedings I

Edited By: Mehmet Işıklı, Birol Can, Mehmet Işikli

£57.99

The Southern Caucasus is a historically vital but under-researched region. This publication presents 75 selected articles from an international symposium, exploring the area's cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages through archaeology and art history.

The Southern Caucasus is a historically vital but under-researched region. This publication presents 75 selected articles from an international symposium, exploring the area’s cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages through archaeology and art history.

Music on Stage Volume 2

Edited By: Luis Campos, Fiona Jane Schopf

£57.99

This volume highlights the growing fusion and blurring of boundaries between traditional genres. Topics explored range from intercultural opera and the Rocky Horror Show to trans-genre adaptation in Strauss and Glass, and how the physical body dictates movement.

Thinking Reality and Time through Film

Edited By: José Manuel Martins, Christine Reeh

£57.99

Encompassing papers from the 2014 Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film, this compilation discusses new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. It explores film’s nature philosophically and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker.

Daughters of the Nile

Egyptian Women Changing Their World

Edited By: Samia Spencer

From £24.99

Highlighting pioneering and ground-breaking Egyptian women that the media have overlooked and ignored, this collection shatters the monolithic and unflattering stereotype of contemporary Egyptian women as victims, uneducated and uncivilized, dominated by men.

The Caribbean in a Changing World

Surveying the Past, Mapping the Future, Volume 2

Edited By: Stephanie Fullerton-Cooper, Erica Gordon, Livingston Smith

£57.99

This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.

A Sandy Path near the Lake

In Search of the Illusory Khemananda

Edited By: Chalermsee Olson, Grant Olson

£57.99

The autobiography of Kovit Khemananda, a Thai Buddhist artist and spiritual teacher. His insightful spiritual quest takes him from the monkhood to sojourns abroad, revealing a path of frustration and liberation that helps us crack the code of the human condition.

Patrick White Centenary

The Legacy of a Prodigal Son

Edited By: Bill Ashcroft, Cynthia vanden Driesen

£57.99

Marking the centenary of Nobel laureate Patrick White, this volume offers invaluable insight into his work. An international galaxy of eminent critics and new talents provide fresh perspectives, highlighting his legacy and stature as a public intellectual.

Mathematics in Industry

Edited By: Angela Slavova

£57.99

This book presents achievements in industrial and applied mathematics, offering new methods and algorithms for solving real-life problems. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and covers topics like numerical methods, control systems, and scientific computing.

The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany

The Past Imperfect

By: Erwin J. Warkentin

£57.99

Warkentin summarises the activities and methods of the American military’s Information Control Division. He also offers his perspective on how the US occupation of Germany in 1945 utilised psychologists, sociologists and others to vet candidates for media licenses in Germany.

Capturing Phonological Shades Within and Across Languages

Edited By: Yuchau E. Hsiao, Lian-Hee Wee

£57.99

Leading phonologists from Asia and America unite in this volume, featuring work from giants like Kiparsky, Archangeli, Pulleyblank, Inkelas, Broselow, and Duanmu San.

Verify to Download