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Einstein’s Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity

By: Galina Weinstein

£52.99

This book pieces together the jigsaw of Einstein’s journey to discovering special relativity. Lacking notes from this critical period, it explores his creative process, Poincaré's parallel work, and the paradoxes of the revolutionary theory.

This book pieces together the jigsaw of Einstein’s journey to discovering special relativity. Lacking notes from this critical period, it explores his creative process, Poincaré’s parallel work, and the paradoxes of the revolutionary theory.

On the Translation of Swearing into Spanish

Quentin Tarantino from Reservoir Dogs to Inglourious Basterds

By: Betlem Soler Pardo

£52.99

This book analyzes how insults in Quentin Tarantino's films are dubbed from English into Spanish. His films offer an interesting opportunity because of the exceptional number of insults they contain—1526 have been recorded, classified and analysed.

This book analyzes how insults in Quentin Tarantino’s films are dubbed from English into Spanish. His films offer an interesting opportunity because of the exceptional number of insults they contain—1526 have been recorded, classified and analysed.

How Global Migration Changes the Workforce Diversity Equation

Edited By: Anthony Forsyth, Hina Sheikh, Francesca Sperotti

£62.99

This volume explores how a dialogue between diversity and migration research can deepen understanding. It highlights challenges in host societies, from exclusion to anti-migrant attitudes, and points toward solutions through diversity management and legal reform.

Learning Progressions for Maps, Geospatial Technology, and Spatial Thinking

A Research Handbook

Edited By: Niem Tu Huynh, Michael N. Solem, Richard Boehm

£41.99

This book is a resource for researching learning progressions for maps, geospatial technology and spatial thinking. Featuring contributions from experts, it offers advice and guidance on research methods, data interpretation, and avoiding common pitfalls.

A Divided Hungary in Europe

Exchanges, Networks and Representations, 1541-1699; Volumes 1-3

Edited By: Gábor Almási

£73.99

Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished through intense cultural exchange. This series draws an alternative map of Hungary, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives that balance Western-Hungarian relationships.

Distance in Language

Grounding a Metaphor

Edited By: Anastasia Meermann, Barbara Sonnenhauser

£47.99

The metaphor of “distance” is crucial for understanding space, time, and relationships, but its use in linguistics is inconsistent. This volume grounds the concept, exploring its potential for analyzing the semantics, grammar, and discourse of various languages.

Facets of Urbanisation

Views from Anthropology

Edited By: Sumita Chaudhuri

£45.99

Increasing urbanisation is a dominant global trend with numerous social and environmental implications. This volume analyzes its various facets, including cultural adaptation, migration, gender, slums, and human rights, from a cross-cultural perspective.

Deceptive Fictions

Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing

By: Ulrike Tancke

£41.99

This book explores how contemporary fiction uses trauma and violence. It argues these texts are counter-narratives to postmodern thought, using the body and experiential reality to reassert the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning.

Byron’s European Impact

By: Peter Cochran

£62.99

Peter Cochran’s book charts Byron's profound influence on European literature, arguing that it was a mythical Byron who held sway. Europe's writers embraced the gloomy Byronic Hero, ignoring his satirical best, until Eliot, Joyce, and Yeats read him accurately.

Peter Cochran’s book charts Byron’s profound influence on European literature, arguing that it was a mythical Byron who held sway. Europe’s writers embraced the gloomy Byronic Hero, ignoring his satirical best, until Eliot, Joyce, and Yeats read him accurately.

Innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning

Edited By: Liz Bacon, Craig Speelman

£52.99

This collection of state-of-the-art research papers discusses innovations in technology enhanced learning in adult education. Sourced from ten countries, it provides a truly international perspective on how developments like MOOCs are revolutionising higher education.

Contemporary English Language Teaching and Research

Edited By: Mariusz Marczak

£47.99

This book provides insight into advances in English language teaching, focusing on technology and the individual learner. It will appeal to researchers and teachers who wish to keep abreast of the latest developments in techniques and understanding of learners.

Survival of the Fittest

Fricative Lenition in English and Spanish from the Perspective of Optimality Theory

By: Karolina Broś

£41.99

This book analyzes sound weakening in Spanish and English, arguing that language change is evolutionary. It frames lenition as 'natural selection': a universal tendency for sounds to fade and give way to stronger segments.

This book analyzes sound weakening in Spanish and English, arguing that language change is evolutionary. It frames lenition as ‘natural selection’: a universal tendency for sounds to fade and give way to stronger segments.

Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change

From Old to Middle English

Edited By: Brian Lowrey, Fabienne Toupin

£47.99

This collection of studies focuses on the rapid changes from Old to Middle English. With contributions from various fields and theoretical standpoints, it is essential for scholars and students of historical linguistics and the medieval history of English.

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Poverty Reduction in Africa

Strategic Management Perspective

By: Ameen Alharbi, Abdul M. Kanu, Aminu Mamman

£41.99

Why have SME interventions failed to reduce poverty in Africa? This book offers an innovative approach, moving beyond technical training to focus on mindset, system thinking, and spirituality to help policymakers and entrepreneurs achieve real change.

Theatre and Learning

Edited By: Art Babayants, Heather Fitzimmons Frey

£47.99

Since Plato, the relationship between theatre and learning has been seen as powerful, dangerous, and complex. This volume investigates this intersection, as researchers and practitioners consider the tensions and failures that make learning through theatre so engaging.

Between Time and Space

Edited By: Sulevi Riukulehto

£41.99

This volume explores regional history from around the globe, showing how time and space are connected. Through case studies ranging from romantic operas in Europe and gold-mining in South Africa to urban planning in New Zealand, it examines the most personal level of belonging.

Zulfikar Ghose

The Lost Son of the Punjab

By: Mansoor Abbasi

£41.99

Zulfikar Ghose was ranked with writers like Conrad and Nabokov, yet remains a marginal presence because his work resists categorization. This book investigates the structural patterns in his novels, focusing on his fastidious style and aesthetic design.

Allusions and Reflections

Greek and Roman Mythology in Renaissance Europe

Edited By: Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre

£57.99

The contributors to this volume explore the struggles and strategies of recycling and transforming ancient mythology during the Renaissance. They focus on the re-configuration of classical myths in political, erotic and ceremonial contexts.

Apocalyptic Projections

A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

£47.99

Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.

Mothers at the Margins

Stories of Challenge, Resistance and Love

Edited By: Jenny Jones, Marie Porter, Lisa Raith

£52.99

This collection speaks with the voices of mothers who feel alienated, stigmatised, or silenced for not fitting the expected norms of motherhood. It challenges narrow ideas of maternal identity, revealing structures of oppression and strategies of resistance and love.

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