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Metalinguistic Discourses

Edited By: Viviane Arigne, Christiane Rocq-Migette

£52.99

This book assesses the descriptive and explanatory power of various linguistic theories. It brings together contributions addressing formal theoretical issues and studies that put these theories to the test. For linguists, advanced students, and scholars.

The Foreignness of Foreigners

Cultural Representations of the Other in the British Isles (17th-20th Centuries)

Edited By: Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding, Claire Dubois

£47.99

This collection examines Britain's encounters with the Other through literature, art, and politics. It explores how figures of the foreigner were imagined and fabricated, revealing the crucial role Otherness played in fashioning Britain’s national identity.

This collection examines Britain’s encounters with the Other through literature, art, and politics. It explores how figures of the foreigner were imagined and fabricated, revealing the crucial role Otherness played in fashioning Britain’s national identity.

Conversations in Philosophy

Knowledge and Freedom

Edited By: Ed Brandon, Roxanne Burton, F. Ochieng’-Odhiambo

£49.99

This collection of thoughtful and challenging essays offers a careful examination of knowledge and freedom. It interrogates the social dimensions of knowledge, the relationship between knowledge and truth, and the nature of personal and social liberty.

Averting a Global Environmental Collapse

The Role of Anthropology and Local Knowledge

Edited By: Thomas Reuter

£52.99

Averting environmental catastrophe is a socio-political, not technical, challenge. This volume presents papers from international experts exploring how anthropology and indigenous knowledge can provide solutions for sustainable environments, resource management, and justice.

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.

Useless Beauty

Flowers and Australian Art

By: Ann Elias

£52.99

The story of Australian art is not just landscape. Useless Beauty puts flowers front and centre, exploring how major artists like Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan used blossoms to define identity and bring a psychological dimension to the everyday.

Identity, Migration and Belonging

The Jewish Community of Leeds 1890-1920

By: Aaron Kent

£47.99

This book explores the development of the Jewish community of Leeds from the 1880s to WWI. It reveals a side of Jewishness not fully understood, providing a greater understanding of the relationships between majority and minority communities.

In Which Direction is Music Heading? Cultural and Cognitive Studies in Turkey

Edited By: Firat Kutluk, Ugur Turkmen

£41.99

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.

A Bengali Lady in England by Krishnabhabini Das (1885)

Edited By: Somdatta Mandal

From £26.99

This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.

Facing Challenges

Feminism in Christian Higher Education and Other Places

Edited By: Allyson Jule, Bettina Tate Pedersen

£41.99

This collection of essays focuses on the realities of conducting feminist work within Christian universities and churches. These honest, heartfelt essays describe the ongoing resistance feminists face while envisioning more liberating ways to integrate feminism with faith.

Formalising Natural Languages with Nooj 2014

Edited By: Mario Monteleone, Johanna Monti, Max Silberztein

£47.99

This volume is composed of 22 peer-reviewed contributions from the 2014 International NooJ Conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to formalize linguistic phenomena and develop Natural Language Processing applications.

Historical Bibliography as an Essential Source for Historiography

Edited By: Bernadette Cunningham, Václava Horčáková, Kristina Rexová

£47.99

This book explores the significance of historical bibliography for historical science. Bibliographers, historians and librarians from across Europe compare different methodological and technological approaches, and discuss the future of the field.

Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549-1640)

Edited By: Kristen Abbott Bennett

£47.99

These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.

How Peripheral is the Periphery? Translating Portugal Back and Forth

Essays in Honour of João Ferreira Duarte

Edited By: João Ferreira Duarte, Rita Bueno Maia, Marta Pacheco Pinto

£52.99

This volume reflects on Portugal’s position through the literary assets imported and exported via translation. Scholars question the peripherality of the Portuguese cultural system in essays honoring prominent scholar João Ferreira Duarte.

Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence

Implicitness Constructed and Translated in Diplomatic Discourse

By: Junfeng Zhang

£41.99

This book analyzes the translation of diplomatic discourse, which conveys uncertainty. Using the 2001 Sino-US Air Collision as a case study, it establishes a three-dimensional model for configuring implicitness in language and re-expressing it through translation.

The United States and China

Competing Discourses of Regionalism in East Asia

By: Narayani Basu

£47.99

As the US and China vie to shape East Asia's future, this book dissects their clashing worldviews, the balance of power, and the grave consequences for the region's security.

As the US and China vie to shape East Asia’s future, this book dissects their clashing worldviews, the balance of power, and the grave consequences for the region’s security.

Vistas of English for Specific Purposes

Edited By: Nadežda Stojković

£62.99

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a necessary skill for career advancement. This comprehensive volume brings together insightful papers from an international conference, offering rich insights into innovative teaching practices and worthwhile research.

British Pop Art and Postmodernism

By: Justyna Stępień

£41.99

British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement's mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.

British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement’s mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.

Is There an End of Ideologies?

Exploring Constructs of Ideology and Discourse in Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories

By: António Lopes

£47.99

Is ideology just a political pejorative? Can we be free from it? To clarify misunderstandings about the key concepts of ideology and discourse, this book traces their origins, their appropriation by Marxist theorists, and examines the relationship between them.

Innovative Management Perspectives on Confronting Contemporary Challenges

Edited By: Evangelos Tsoukatos, Demetris Vrontis

£52.99

In a clashing socio-economic climate, managers face unforeseen challenges. This book provides direction and insight on finding innovative solutions, presenting research and ideas that transcend conventional theory and have practical implementations.

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