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The Philosophy of Rudolf Steiner

An Introduction

By: Thomas Redwood

From £32.99

While Rudolf Steiner's influence is widespread, his philosophy remains largely unknown. This book makes his complex spiritual philosophy, Anthroposophy, accessible. Using simple terms, it presents the fundamentals and offers a first step for further study.

While Rudolf Steiner’s influence is widespread, his philosophy remains largely unknown. This book makes his complex spiritual philosophy, Anthroposophy, accessible. Using simple terms, it presents the fundamentals and offers a first step for further study.

Disability in Spanish-speaking and U.S. Chicano Contexts

Critical and Artistic Perspectives

Edited By: Dawn Slack

From £30.99

Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.

An Annotated Edition of Helen Waddell’s Peter Abelard

Edited By: Jennifer FitzGerald, Constant J. Mews

From £38.99

Helen Waddell’s classic novel tells the powerful love story of 12th-century teacher Peter Abelard and the learned Heloise. This annotated edition introduces the extensive literary and historical sources Waddell incorporated into the best-selling story of love and theology.

Is Renewable Energy Affordable?

By: Derek George Birkett

From £25.99

Your electricity bills have doubled for a reason. Failed state policy has put our power supply at risk. An engineer reveals the true costs of renewables and the radical solution politicians have missed.

Topical Issues in International Development and Economics

Edited By: Désiré Avom, Gilles Dufrénot

From £41.99

This book offers insights on current topics in development economics. The authors question common strategies like financial globalization and ask whether education has really been a factor in development. They address gender effects, leapfrogging, and the role of fiscal policy.

The History and Mystery of Breast Cancer

By: Michael Baum

From £25.99

Public fear of breast cancer obscures the facts. Treatments can increase other health risks, while fear itself can impair quality of life. This book explores the history and mystery of breast cancer, from Ancient Egypt to the future, to champion the totality of women’s health.

Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots

An Evangel of Religion and Love

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

From £22.99

Meyerbeer's most popular opera, Les Huguenots, is a gigantic drama of faith, love, and self-sacrifice set against the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. Its music reaches sublime heights, capturing the tragedy of religious intolerance with intense passion.

Meyerbeer’s most popular opera, Les Huguenots, is a gigantic drama of faith, love, and self-sacrifice set against the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. Its music reaches sublime heights, capturing the tragedy of religious intolerance with intense passion.

Nietzsche and Phenomenology

Edited By: Tony O’Connor

From £25.99

This collection of essays explores the connection between Nietzsche and Phenomenology. Leading international scholars uncover surprising new connections and profound differences, offering significant insights that broaden our understanding of both.

Tackling Online Education

Implications of Responses to COVID-19 in Higher Education Globally

Edited By: Huili Han, James H. Williams, Shasha Cui

From £30.99

Leading experts from eight countries discuss how national policy responses to COVID-19 shaped higher education. This book offers solutions to common problems like Zoom fatigue and lack of student engagement, and provides techniques for effective online teaching and learning.

Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Writing Back to History and Oppression

By: Charlotte Beyer

From £30.99

This book explores how contemporary children’s and young adult novels write back to history and oppression. Analyzing works from across the globe, it investigates how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power, language, and social justice.

Commodore Squib

The Life, Times and Secretive Wars of England’s First Rocket Man, Sir William Congreve, 1772-1828

By: James Earle

From £24.99

When England faced Napoleonic France, Sir William Congreve championed secret weapons, notably gunpowder rockets. His was a world of experimental warfare and espionage. Acclaimed and derided, his overlooked influence is commemorated in the American National Anthem.

Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence

Texts, Iconography, Music and Cinema

Edited By: Alejandro Cantarero de Salazar, Alicia Esteban Santos, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado

From £33.99

Composed 25 centuries ago, Greek lyric poems sing of everyday life, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume offers literary analyses, studies the poems' reflection in Greek art, and explores their connection to music and modern cinema.

Composed 25 centuries ago, Greek lyric poems sing of everyday life, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume offers literary analyses, studies the poems’ reflection in Greek art, and explores their connection to music and modern cinema.

Memorializing and Decolonizing Practices in the Francophone Caribbean and Other Spaces

Edited By: Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette

From £32.99

This hybrid collection of essays and self-portraits explores the ‘mark’—from heritage and race to trauma and scars. Through various art forms, it tackles identity, emancipation, and self-determination in postcolonial France and the French Caribbean.

Nutrition, Health and Sport

By: Agron Rexhepi

From £29.99

Healthy nutrition is critical to the body's self-defense. This book covers calculating daily nutritional needs, energy balance, restoring healthy body weight, treating food intolerance, and using food supplements and ergogenic aids in sport.

Healthy nutrition is critical to the body’s self-defense. This book covers calculating daily nutritional needs, energy balance, restoring healthy body weight, treating food intolerance, and using food supplements and ergogenic aids in sport.

Cheating and Business Ethics

By: Wallace R. Baker

From £30.99

Exploring business ethics through history, philosophy, and biology, this book addresses today’s key concerns, from wealth inequality to sustainability. It is an invitation to make the world a better place by engaging in ethical thought.

The European Integration Crisis

An Economic Analysis

By: Marek Loužek, Luboš Smrčka

From £32.99

European integration results from self-interest, not altruism. This book uses public choice theory to de-idealize the process and explain the EU's current crisis. Since integration is not irreversible, could we be entering an era of disintegration?

European integration results from self-interest, not altruism. This book uses public choice theory to de-idealize the process and explain the EU’s current crisis. Since integration is not irreversible, could we be entering an era of disintegration?

Making Sense of Stories

An Inquirer's Compendium

Edited By: Geof Hill, Andrew Rixon

From £30.99

This book is an invaluable guide for the researcher or professional using storytelling as inquiry. Drawing from disciplines like psychology and sociology, its 29 chapters provide a rich compendium of ways to analyse stories and make sense of them.

Creation, Sin and Reconciliation

Reading Primordial and Patriarchal Narrative in the Book of Genesis

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

From £26.99

Through a close reading of chapters 1–11, 32–33 and 37–50, Letellier investigates the unique position of the Book of Genesis in its provision of the foundational stories of Creation and the emergence of mankind, paying particular attention to the language and style of the text.

Sound Worlds from the Body to the City

Listen!

Edited By: Ariane Wilson

From £30.99

This hugely diverse volume reveals the extent to which aural perception influences our spatial awareness. Spanning psychology to geography, and zoology to urban planning, it covers a range of environments in which sounds contribute to forming our sense of space and place.

Semiotics and Visual Communication III

Cultures of Branding

Edited By: Evripides Zantides

From £40.99

This book investigates the Semiotics of Branding, a status of almost mythical proportion that has triumphed over the past few decades. From tribal markers to national flags, a form of branding is at work that responds to the need for interaction through shared codes of meaning.

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