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Terror Truncated

The Decline of the Abu Sayyaf Group from the Crucial Year 2002

By: Bob East

£39.99

To distinguish fact from myth, this book traces the crimes and leaders of the widely misunderstood Abu Sayyaf Group. It concludes that the group has been in decline since 2002, and by 2012 existed as fragmented cells rather than an organised entity.

Dominant Culture and the Education of Women

Edited By: Julia C. Paulk

£34.99

This collection explores women's struggle for education from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. It demonstrates not only the great strides women have made but also the challenges that have yet to be overcome.

This collection explores women’s struggle for education from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. It demonstrates not only the great strides women have made but also the challenges that have yet to be overcome.

Framing Globalization

Visual Perspectives

Edited By: Patrizia Faccioli, Jacqueline A. Gibbons

£29.99

This collection of readings explores the intersection of the global and local through visual sociology. It examines how images in various contexts reflect and generate sociological concepts, shaping our understanding of identity, culture, and belonging worldwide.

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.

Europe

Home of Migrants Built on Sand. EU Political and Legal Discourse on Immigration and Asylum

By: Stefania D’Avanzo

£39.99

EU policy to protect refugees has proven inadequate, failing to guarantee their rights. This study investigates how vague language in the EU's own legal Directives contributed to this failure to harmonize procedures and protect displaced people.

EU policy to protect refugees has proven inadequate, failing to guarantee their rights. This study investigates how vague language in the EU’s own legal Directives contributed to this failure to harmonize procedures and protect displaced people.

Single-Voice Transformations

A Model for Parsimonious Voice Leading

By: Brandon Derfler

£39.99

This study models smooth voice leading with abstract algebra via the single-semitone transformation (SST). The model yields 3D graphical lattices and serves as a versatile analytical tool for music from Chopin and Webern to Paul Lansky and John Adams.

Patents and Climate Change

There's No Place Like Home

By: Michael J. Dochniak

£58.99

Since the year 1989, hundreds of global-warming related patents have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Dochniak provides an easy-to-read summary of such patents, in addition to presenting inventor profiles and news articles that are thought-provoking.

Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse

20th Century Experience

Edited By: Irma Ratiani

£54.99

This collection pioneers scholarly inquiry into the challenges facing literature in totalitarian strangleholds, focusing on the Soviet experience. Scholars from post-Soviet states and beyond assess texts, intellectual terror, and the myths of the era.

New Actors and Issues in the Post-Arab Uprisings Period

Edited By: Duygu Ersoy, Jülide Karakoç

£41.99

Karakoç and Ersoy bring together papers which examine how the post-Arab uprisings period, with its diverse issues and actors, challenges existing policies and national borders in the Middle East, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the ongoing social changes.

Building a House in Rural Romania before and after 1989

By: Florica (Bohîlțea) Mihuț

From £29.99

This book is a contextual analysis of the Romanian rural architectural landscape in the communist and post-communist eras. It examines the legal framework for constructing private houses under the Ceausescu dictatorship and the social actions that transform a house into a home.

Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics

Edited By: Ghil‘ad Zuckermann

£49.99

This collection of scholarly articles from an international workshop features world-class papers analysing Afro-Asiatic languages and cultures, including Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Chadic and Semitic.

Engaged Learners and Digital Citizens

Critical Outcomes for Teaching and Learning

By: Brad Garner

£54.99

Garner encourages teaching faculty to adopt a proactive stance to technology through engaging digital tools that promote skill acquisition. He delineates a model for digital learning, providing examples of digital tools and their possible applications for teaching and learning.

Versions Of Ireland

Empire, Modernity And Resistance In Irish Culture

By: Eóin Flannery

£34.99

Versions of Ireland brings a postcolonial optic to Irish cultural studies, highlighting imperial modernity and resistance. More than just theory, it offers rich analyses of republican murals, poetry, gothic fiction, and nineteenth-century photography.

Ireland and Dysfunction

Critical Explorations in Literature and Film

Edited By: Asier Altuna-García de Salazar

£52.99

At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.

Psychoanalysis

Philosophy, Art and Clinic

Edited By: David Henderson

£47.99

Resulting from a conference on “Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society” held in 2014, this volume offers insights into emerging psychoanalytic thought. The contributions utilise various psychoanalytic concepts to discuss a range of problems in philosophy, art and the clinic.

The Management of Intercultural Academic Interaction

Student Exchanges between Japanese and Australian Universities

By: Hiroyuki Nemoto

£34.99

This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students' transition between cultures.

Subject to Reading

Literacy and Belief in the Work of Jacques Lacan and Paulo Freire

By: Eugene Henry de Klerk

£39.99

Recasting Lacanian psychoanalysis and Freirean literacy as an education in responsible subjecthood, this book intervenes against the global double bind of fanatical certainty and capitalist abstraction to forge a new political theology.

Representations of Female Identity in Italy

From Neoclassism to the 21st Century

Edited By: Silvia Giovanardi Byer, Fabiana Cecchini

£61.99

This volume examines iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. It characterizes the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities.

Establishment of Cancer Gene Therapy

By: Jerzy Trojan

From £33.99

This book chronicles a 40-year battle against glioblastoma, a fatal brain tumour, and the revolutionary treatment that emerged. Cancer Gene Therapy turns a patient's own cancer cells into a vaccine, inducing an immune response to increase survival and improve quality of life.

This book chronicles a 40-year battle against glioblastoma, a fatal brain tumour, and the revolutionary treatment that emerged. Cancer Gene Therapy turns a patient’s own cancer cells into a vaccine, inducing an immune response to increase survival and improve quality of life.

Intellectual Agent, Mediator and Interlocutor

A. B. Assensoh and African Politics in Transition

Edited By: Toyin Falola, Emmanuel M. Mbah

£52.99

This book critically examines African politics, arguing that many contemporary problems have their roots in the fifteen years prior to independence (1945–1960). This was the incubation period for the dysfunction that has stymied the continent ever since.

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