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Language Arts in Asia 2

English and Chinese through Literature, Drama and Popular Culture

Edited By: Christina DeCoursey

£39.99

This volume presents contemporary research in Language Arts for English teaching. Using motivating materials like literature, drama, comics, anime, and film, it explores how to develop language mastery, critical thinking, and intercultural sensitivity.

Engaging Geographies

Landscapes, Lifecourses and Mobilities

Edited By: Juliana Mansvelt, Russell Prince, Michael Roche

£44.99

This volume draws together research on landscapes, lifecourses, and mobilities. It treats landscapes in an adventurous way, concentrating on infrastructure and ideology. It also explores the lifecourse from birth to death and the movement of people and ideas.

The Great War

Localities and Regional Identities

Edited By: Craig Horner, Nick Mansfield

£39.99

The First World War transformed British society. While most focus is on military aspects, this volume considers how these changes varied across Britain’s Home Front. Was there a common national response, or did strong regional identities prevail?

Collaborative Intelligence

Towards the Social Organization

By: Anthony Forsyth

£44.99

This book describes the steps to transform a company into a social organization. It covers the strategic transformation, how HRM must adapt for collaborative work, and the new leadership skills needed, all supplemented with case studies from managers.

Towards Creative Imagination in Victorian Literature

By: Aleksandra Piasecka

£44.99

This book explores the creative imagination in Victorian England through five key figures: John Ruskin, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater and Arthur Symons. It contrasts the views of theoreticians with the experiences of practitioners.

Venanzio Rauzzini

Piramo e Tisbe, A Dramatic Cantata

Edited By: Paul F. Rice

£39.99

Venanzio Rauzzini was a celebrated singer and composer for whom Mozart wrote the motet, Exultate jubilate. His cantata, Piramo e Tisbe, was drawn from his own hit London opera, preserving the principal elements of the story.

The Future of Philology

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Columbia University German Graduate Student Conference

Edited By: Hannes Bajohr, Benjamin R. Dorvel, Vincent Hessling

£44.99

Does philology still have a place? This volume collects essays by young philologists who show that the discipline’s core—the care for the text—wields competencies that are indispensable, confronting the “fate of a soft science in a hard world.”

Dimensions of the Word

Edited By: Grzegorz Drożdż

£44.99

This volume addresses the long-standing debate on the “word”. Eleven authors analyze its multi-faceted nature from multiple linguistic perspectives, contributing to a more thorough comprehension than any single approach can afford.

The Lexical/Functional Divide in Aphasic Production – Poorly Studied Aphasic Syndromes and Theoretical Morpho-Syntax

A Collection of Case Studies in Italian

By: Ludovico Franco

£39.99

This collection of clinical case studies on aphasic syndromes builds a bridge between clinical evidence and theoretical linguistics. It addresses debates on the lexical/functional divide in grammar and the crucial role of single case studies today.

Esther Tusquets

Scholarly Correspondences

Edited By: Nina L. Molinaro, Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva

£44.99

This volume reviews the life and work of Spanish writer Esther Tusquets (1936–2012). The essays contained offer new readings of the author’s canonical fiction and delve into the largely unexplored terrain of her non-fiction.

The Edges of the Roman World

Edited By: Staša Babić, Marko Jankovic

£49.99

This collection of papers deals with cultural changes that occurred in the context of Roman imperial politics. The papers focus on societies on the fringes, both social and geographical, and their response to Roman Imperialism in local contexts.

Law and Popular Culture

International Perspectives

Edited By: Michael Asimow, Kathryn Brown, David Papke

£54.99

Most people derive their basic understanding of law from cultural products like movies and television. This book explores the global transmission of law-related popular culture across borders, with two dozen authors from nine countries offering international perspectives.

Human Rights in Changing Times

Edited By: G. P. Agarwal, Sunil K. Choudhary, Reenu Gupta

£49.99

This book analyses the changing notion of human rights from legal-political, socio-economic, gender, and ecological perspectives. Focusing on its relevance in an era of globalization, it presents a unique combination of theoretical and practical studies.

Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives

Edited By: Dana Mihăilescu, Roxana Oltean, Mihaela Precup

£54.99

This collection examines the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the US. Departing from early trauma theory, contributors analyze fiction, memoirs, and films to explore multidirectional memory, autobiography, national commemoration, and 9/11.

Varieties of Liberalism

Contemporary Challenges

Edited By: Jan Harald Alnes, Manuel Toscano

£49.99

Varieties of Liberalism presents an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary challenges. An international array of scholars addresses pressing questions of free speech, citizenship, justice, and migration through critical perspectives on liberalism.

Speaking With Their Own Voices

The Stories of Slaves in the Persian Gulf in the 20th Century

By: Jerzy Zdanowski

£39.99

This unique study of slavery in the 20th-century Persian Gulf gives voice to the enslaved. Through their own statements asking for manumission, it presents hundreds of life stories, uncovering new aspects of everyday life in the Arabian Peninsula.

The Meaning of Sexual Identity in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Judith S. Kaufman

£39.99

In a "post-gay era," is sexual identity becoming obsolete? Are LGBT youth being duped into conformity? This volume offers compelling debates from a wide variety of perspectives on the current state and possible irrelevance of sexual identity in the 21st century.

In a “post-gay era,” is sexual identity becoming obsolete? Are LGBT youth being duped into conformity? This volume offers compelling debates from a wide variety of perspectives on the current state and possible irrelevance of sexual identity in the 21st century.

Enacting Nationhood

Identity, Ideology and the Theatre, 1855-99

Edited By: Scott R. Irelan

£39.99

This collection of essays explores constructions of “We the People” during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It interrogates pro- and anti-enslavement nationalism, partisanship, and armed conflict through dramatic literature and live performance.

Human-Environmental Interactions in Cities

Challenges and Opportunities of Urban Land Use Planning and Green Infrastructure

Edited By: Nadja Kabisch, Neele Larondelle, Angela Reeve

£39.99

This book examines human-environment interactions to foster biodiversity under the pressure of urbanisation. Using international case studies, it introduces concepts like biophilic urbanism and offers planning recommendations for sustainable green infrastructure.

The Disappointed Bridge

Ireland and the Post-Colonial World

By: Richard Pine

From £34.99

This first major study of Ireland’s post-colonial experience draws parallels with other emergent nations. Through literary and musical contexts, it offers unique insight into independence, asking: What happens to an emerging nation after it has emerged?

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