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Tabish Khair

Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Om Prakash Dwivedi

£44.99

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair's unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair’s unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

African Film

Looking Back and Looking Forward

Edited By: Foluke Ogunleye

£44.99

This interdisciplinary book interrogates Africa’s filmic past, analyses current productions, and projects into the future. Traversing politics, economics, and history, it explores production, marketing, gender, race, and legal issues.

“An Ald Reht”

Essays on Anglo-Saxon Law

By: Carole Hough

£49.99

This volume brings together thirteen essays on the legal system of Anglo-Saxon England. Based on twenty years of research, it offers important insights into English law from the sixth century through to its preservation in twelfth-century manuscripts.

Sport and the Christian Religion

A Systematic Review of Literature

By: Andrew Parker, Nick J. Watson

£44.99

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. It offers an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ philosophy of modern sport for students, academics, and coaches.

Child and Family Welfare

Edited By: Mihai-Bogdan Iovu, Patricia-Luciana Runcan

£44.99

Child and Family Welfare explores welfare from theoretical and empirical perspectives, discussing dimensions like emotional welfare and life satisfaction. This volume is a practical tool for the public and professionals involved in promoting children’s rights.

Around the Point

Studies in Jewish Literature and Culture in Multiple Languages

Edited By: Roman Katsman, Ber Kotlerman, Hillel Weiss

£69.99

This unique collection brings together scholars to explore Jewish literature across numerous languages. A significant endeavor, this volume tackles essential questions of Jewish identity, literary history, cultural influence, and Holocaust literature.

Talk in Institutions

A LANSI Volume

Edited By: Catherine Box, Christine M. Jacknick, Hansun Zhang Waring

£39.99

This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.

Art and Food

Edited By: Peter Stupples, Jane Venis

£44.99

Art and Food is a collection of essays exploring a range of research topics relating to the representation of food in art and art in food, from iconography and allegory, through class and commensality, to kitchen architecture and haute cuisine.

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1, 2 and 3

Edited By: Kene Igweonu, Osita Okagbue

£59.99

This book set is a comprehensive exploration of African theatre on the continent and in the diaspora. Essays demonstrate how practitioners tackle colonial legacies and globalization, forging a thriving and distinctively African aesthetic.

Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991

Edited By: Olga Breskaya, Anatoli Mikhailov

£44.99

Following communism's collapse, an expansion of higher education in Eastern Europe created an overproduction of specialists. This has discredited the value of education, risking social transformation. This book addresses the urgent reforms needed for the region's universities.

Following communism’s collapse, an expansion of higher education in Eastern Europe created an overproduction of specialists. This has discredited the value of education, risking social transformation. This book addresses the urgent reforms needed for the region’s universities.

Otherness in Hispanic Culture

Edited By: Teresa Fernandez Ulloa

£69.99

This book addresses ideological changes of the 19th-21st centuries and their impact on Spanish language and culture. It focuses on ‘otherness’ in its various dimensions, arguing that the vision of the other is ultimately a reflection of the self.

Literature and the Monarchy

The Traditional and the Modern Concept of the Office of Poet Laureate of England

By: Ewa Panecka

£44.99

This book explores the Poet Laureateship from the Restoration to today, revealing the symbolic link it forges between literature, the Monarchy, and national identity.

Elemental Sculpture

Theory and Practice

By: Todor Todorov

£39.99

This book explores Elemental Sculpture, a tendency in contemporary art defining a new relationship between sculpture and nature. It examines its development in the works of Hepworth, Moore, and Calder, and includes sculptures from the author’s 35-year career.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Sciences

Edited By: Georgeta Raţă

£49.99

This collection of essays offers interdisciplinary perspectives on social sciences from researchers across three continents. It explores Human Resources Management, International Relations, and Sociology, appealing to educators, researchers, and students.

How We Are Governed

Investigations of Communication, Media and Democracy

Edited By: Philip Dearman, Cathy Greenfield

£44.99

How We Are Governed explores relations between communication and politics, from formal policy to the informal negotiation of power. It examines how communicative practices and technologies shape our world, asking whether these arrangements are truly democratic.

A Seamless Web

Transatlantic Art in the Nineteenth Century

Edited By: Cheryll May

£44.99

These essays reveal the nineteenth-century “conversation of cultures” between America and Europe was a two-way exchange. American art used motifs like the cowboy to create its own identity, while Europeans appropriated icons like the American Indian.

Intercultural Dialogue on English Language Teaching

Multilingual Teacher Educator’s Narrative of Professional Learning

By: Christine Manara

£44.99

This book follows five multilingual English teacher educators as they reconstruct their professional identities. Their narratives reveal a "struggle for voice" against dominant discourses, calling for pedagogical reform that honors learners' linguistic and cultural identity.

This book follows five multilingual English teacher educators as they reconstruct their professional identities. Their narratives reveal a “struggle for voice” against dominant discourses, calling for pedagogical reform that honors learners’ linguistic and cultural identity.

Milestones on the Road to Dystopia

Interpreting George Orwell’s Self-Division in an Era of ‘Force and Fraud’

By: Firas Adnan Jabbar Al-Jubouri

£44.99

This book explores George Orwell’s journey to dystopia, examining the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a divided self. It presents a new understanding of his work by connecting his critiques of ‘force and fraud’ to the totalitarian tactics of Machiavelli.

Business Intelligence and Mobile Technology Research

An Information Systems Engineering Perspective

Edited By: Sean B. Eom, Mohamed Ridda Laouar

£49.99

Business intelligence and analytics allow organizations to make informed decisions. This volume presents insightful research papers on the top-priority disruptive IT technologies that help businesses seize digital opportunities to increase growth and reduce costs.

Fabricating the Body

Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse

Edited By: Sarah Himsel Burcon

£39.99

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on "indebted" bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on “indebted” bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

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