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Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Edited By: Matthew Curtis, Anastasia Smirnova

£29.99

This collection presents cutting-edge research in Slavic syntax and semantics from a new generation of scholars. The papers explore a range of phenomena across various Slavic languages, of interest to both formal linguists and Slavicists generally.

Romanticism Gendered

Male Writers as Readers of Women’s Writing in Romantic Correspondence

By: Andrea Fischerová

£39.99

This study examines the letters of the great male Romantics—Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Scott, Shelley, and Wordsworth—to discover their views on women writers. Their correspondence reveals a long list of now-marginalized female authors, offering a new gendered perspective.

Florida without Borders

Women at the Intersections of the Local and Global

Edited By: Judy A. Hayden, Sharon Kay Masters, Kim Vaz

£34.99

This anthology explores women’s activism across borders, highlighting global issues like human rights, poverty, and trafficking. Feminist scholars investigate the gendered body in activism, the obstacles women face, and the fight for feminist social change.

Design and Emotion Moves

Edited By: Pieter M.A. Desmet, Jeroen van Erp, MariAnne Karlsson

£39.99

To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.

The Gentleman, the Virtuoso, the Inquirer

Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa and the Art of Collecting in Early Modern Spain

Edited By: Mar Rey Bueno

£34.99

Explore the world of Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, a scientific collector in early modern Spain. His cabinet of curiosities, garden, and library reveal a 'virtuoso' immersed in the wonders of nature, furthering the ideal of factuality in the Scientific Revolution.

Explore the world of Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, a scientific collector in early modern Spain. His cabinet of curiosities, garden, and library reveal a ‘virtuoso’ immersed in the wonders of nature, furthering the ideal of factuality in the Scientific Revolution.

Anglicisms in Europe

Linguistic Diversity in a Global Context

Edited By: Roswitha Fischer, Hanna Pulaczewska

£39.99

This volume examines the influence of English on European languages, linking linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political, and cultural issues. It explores attitudes towards anglicisms, their use in specialized discourse, and their reflection in dictionaries.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Armenian Roots, Global Branches

Edited By: Michael Pittman

£29.99

This volume presents a selection of writings on G.I. Gurdjieff, an important 20th-century figure whose influence continues to grow. Articles explore his key ideas and contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, music, and education.

Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys

Twentieth-Century Representations of Male Beauty

Edited By: Steven L. Davis, Maglina Lubovich

£34.99

This study challenges the standard of white, heterosexual male beauty. It explores the connections between beauty and a broad spectrum of masculinities, examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and queer constructions of male beauty in Western culture.

An [Un]Likely Alliance

Thinking Environment[s] with Deleuze/Guattari

Edited By: Bernd Herzogenrath

£39.99

This study explores 'environment' and 'ecology' in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.

This study explores ‘environment’ and ‘ecology’ in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.

Space of a Garden – Space of Culture

Edited By: Grzegorz Gazda, Mariusz Golab

£44.99

This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.

The Future of Post-Human Engineering

A Preface to a New Theory of Technology

By: Peter Baofu

£44.99

Is mass media informational and accurate or disinformational and propagandistic? Neither view is correct. Something vital has been missing from the analysis. This book shows a better way to understand mass media, one that will alter our future.

Africa’s Finances

The Contribution of Remittances

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Muna Ndulo

£39.99

Remittances to developing countries exceed development aid. This volume explores their contribution to Africa’s finances and provides guidelines to expand them, examining resources from money transfers and new technologies to skills remitted by the diaspora.

Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntaxfest

Edited By: Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Phoevos Panagiotidis

£39.99

This volume presents contributions from theoretical linguists on left peripheries and their interface interpretation. It offers eleven studies on clausal and nominal phenomena across diverse languages, underscoring the importance of studying the edge of constituents.

(M)Othering the Nation

Constructing and Resisting National Allegories through the Maternal Body

Edited By: Lisa Bernstein

£34.99

This collection explores how cultural narratives represent the mother as nation. It examines how this allegory both reinforces traditional roles and challenges them, creating new social identities and providing alternative models for women's lives.

Culture and Power

The Plots of History in Performance

Edited By: Carla Rodríguez González, Rubén Valdés Miyares

£39.99

These essays explore the performance of historical plots. Questioning traditional historiography, they analyze the emplotment of history in visual culture, museums, and national identities, arguing that writing history is a performative act.

The Poetics of Philosophy [A Reading of Plato]

By: David Ross

£49.99

This book explores the silenced link between reason and madness. Reading Plato through Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida, it forges a new logic to reclaim the human need for a meaningful life in a world that denies it.

Once upon a Time

Myth, Fairy Tales and Legends in Margaret Atwood’s Writings

Edited By: Sarah A. Appleton

£29.99

Essays by influential scholars explore Margaret Atwood’s use of myth, fairy tales, and archetypal narratives to illuminate her fiction and poetry. This collection demonstrates how Atwood revisions old stories, creating a familiar yet unique reading experience.

Psychology and Indigenous Australians

Effective Teaching and Practice

Edited By: Keith McConnochie, Wendy Nolan, Rob Ranzijn

£34.99

From a fraught colonial past, a new Australian psychology is emerging. Led by Indigenous voices, this landmark collection showcases a culturally responsive practice for all Australians.

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life at Its Centenary

Edited By: John Allphin Moore

£29.99

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book's impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book’s impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.

Humorous Garden-Paths

A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study

By: Marta Dynel

£44.99

This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.