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Mapping Leisure across Borders

Edited By: Gianna Cappello, Ishwar Modi, Fabio Massimo Lo Verde

£59.99

The borders between leisure and work are becoming more and more blurred. Such border-crossing is the leitmotif of this book, which has a multidisciplinary scope for scholars and students interested in leisure's effects on social cohesion.

Working the System in Sub-Saharan Africa

Global Values, National Citizenship and Local Politics in Historical Perspective

Edited By: Corrado Tornimbeni

£39.99

How are democracy and development negotiated in sub-Saharan Africa? This volume offers context-based analyses showing how local practices have been ‘working the system’ of global ideas, a process with a rich historical dimension often overlooked.

Severally Seeking Sartre

Edited By: Benedict O’Donohoe

£44.99

This collection of essays presents fresh perspectives on familiar Sartrean subjects and novel approaches to neglected ones. Scholars offer surprising new angles, viewing Sartre through Pop-Art, jazz, and dialogues with figures like Dennett, Badiou, and Genet.

Public Space in Informal Settlements

The Barrios of Bogotá

By: Jaime Hernández-García

£44.99

This book views Bogotá's informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios' social dynamics. An insider's perspective.

This book views Bogotá’s informal settlements as an opportunity to understand the city. It explores public spaces born from self-help, which are public in ownership but communal in use, and vital to the barrios’ social dynamics. An insider’s perspective.

Memory and Ethnicity

Ethnic Museums in Israel and the Diaspora

Edited By: Dario Miccoli, Emanuela Trevisan Semi

£44.99

In museums and public spaces, ethnicity has become central to the Jewish and Israeli cultural imagination. Memory and Ethnicity explores how diverse Jewish groups represent their past, analyzing which memories are preserved and which are suppressed.

Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging

Edited By: Teresa Botelho, Iolanda Ramos

£44.99

These essays explore how social identities like gender, race, and nation are imagined, performed, and questioned in literature, cinema, and visual culture. They also address identity in utopian and dystopian thought, imagining futures for belonging.

Learn and Gain

By: Suhair Al Alami

£39.99

These eight short stories illustrate how great writers help us see the world in new ways. The book integrates literary, communicative, and critical thinking skills, combining listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Ideal for EFL/ESL students and teachers.

Public Service Media in the Digital Age

International Perspectives

Edited By: Agnes Gulyás, Ferenc Hammer

£39.99

Public service media are in dramatic transformation. This book provides analysis of the key issues from an international perspective, bringing together leading researchers to explore the future of broadcasting and the new participatory roles of audiences.

Anglistics in Lithuania

Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Aspects of Study

Edited By: Jonė Grigaliūnienė, Inesa Šeškauskienė

£44.99

This collection offers diverse accounts of English and Lithuanian studies, with a particular focus on the contrastive aspect. Presenting a wide variety of empirical data, these essays have profound implications for both translation and teaching.

This Landscape’s Fierce Embrace

The Poetry of Francis Harvey

Edited By: Donna L. Potts

£39.99

This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3

Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa

Edited By: Kene Igweonu, Osita Okagbue

£39.99

This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.

Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change to Tourism

Case Studies of Best Practice

Edited By: Louis D'Amore, Patrick Kalifungwa

£54.99

The travel and tourism industry is both a significant contributor to climate change and is directly impacted by it. As a vital driver of the global economy, the sector must adapt. This collection offers indispensable insights and models of best practice.

European Dictatorships

A Comparative History of the Twentieth Century

By: Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stokłosa

£69.99

How did Europe become a “Europe of the Dictatorships“? To understand this process, one must look at the transitions. This book traces Europe's history from WWI, through the shift from fascist to communist states, to the history of the Eastern Bloc.

How did Europe become a “Europe of the Dictatorships“? To understand this process, one must look at the transitions. This book traces Europe’s history from WWI, through the shift from fascist to communist states, to the history of the Eastern Bloc.

Border Crossings

Narration, Nation and Imagination in Scots and Irish Literature and Culture

Edited By: Lauren Clark, Colin Younger

£44.99

Borderlands are crucibles for diverse cultures and alternative histories. This collection explores the contested terrains of the British Isles, where borders extend beyond the geographical to the cultural, psychic, and social, shaping competing identities.

Discourses of Space

Edited By: Judit Pieldner

£49.99

This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.

Ireland in Crisis?

Analyses and Proposed Solutions

Edited By: Seán Ó Nualláin

£44.99

These proceedings from the International Congress of Irish Studies explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.

An Insatiable Dialectic

Essays on Critique, Modernity, and Humanism

Edited By: Roberto Cantú

£44.99

Leading philosophers and cultural critics challenge the view that critique, modernity, and humanism are obsolete. These essays argue that these concepts are crucial in an age where democratic ideals and intercultural understanding are vanishing possibilities.

User-Centred and Context-Aware Identity Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

By: Abdullahi Arabo

£39.99

Identity theft is a growing concern in mobile ad-hoc networks. This book presents an innovative framework for identity management that puts users back in control. Using context-awareness and user-centricity, it protects identity and balances privacy with convenience.

Gregory and Leander

An Analysis of the Special Friendship between Pope Gregory the Great and Leander, Archbishop of Seville

By: John R. Martyn

£39.99

Gregory the Great and Leander were close friends with similar lives, works, and deaths. This book explores their shared theological influence across Italy and Spain and their role in spreading the Christian Church. Both extraordinary men were very much on the side of women.

Personal and Public Lives and Relationships in a Changing Social World

By: Rosemary Rae, Dr Sharon Wray

£44.99

This groundbreaking collection explores how personal and public lives inter-relate during rapid social and political change. It aims to understand the effects of these overlapping spheres on everyday life, relationships, and inequalities.

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