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Exploring the Global Caribbean

Edited By: Susan Roberson

£44.99

More than a location, the Caribbean is a global crossroads. This collection traces the flows of people, literature, and ideas that connect the West Indies to the world, revealing the islands as powerful makers of international culture and meaning.

Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research

Edited By: Engin Arik

£49.99

This book offers unique perspectives on Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and sign linguistics. Covering topics from TİD's history to grammar, this volume is a useful resource for newcomers and gives new momentum to future research.

This book offers unique perspectives on Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and sign linguistics. Covering topics from TİD’s history to grammar, this volume is a useful resource for newcomers and gives new momentum to future research.

Contextualizing the Pedagogy of English as an International Language

Issues and Tensions

Edited By: Nugrahenny T. Zacharias

£44.99

This book addresses the complexities of English as an International Language (EIL) in the classroom. It brings together narratives of the realities, struggles, and tensions EIL practitioners face, exploring pedagogical challenges in diverse contexts.

Vantage Theory

A View on Language, Cognition and Categorization

Edited By: Adam Głaz, Marnie L. Moist

£54.99

This book introduces Vantage Theory, Robert E. MacLaury's model of categorization. The theory views categorization as constructing a point of view, by analogy to how humans orient in space-time. The volume includes MacLaury's unpublished studies and new research.

This book introduces Vantage Theory, Robert E. MacLaury’s model of categorization. The theory views categorization as constructing a point of view, by analogy to how humans orient in space-time. The volume includes MacLaury’s unpublished studies and new research.

Twain’s Omissions

Exploring the Gaps as Textual Context

Edited By: Gretchen Martin

£39.99

Mark Twain utilized a unique literary device by omitting crucial information to create narrative gaps. The essays in this collection explore these omissions in his greatest works, revealing overlooked information ironically generated by what he left out.

The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum

Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, and the Authorship of Early Shakespeare and Anonymous Plays

By: Donna Murphy

£49.99

Donna N. Murphy demonstrates how Christopher Marlowe, sometimes with Thomas Nashe, appears to have become Shakespeare on a linguistic basis. Documenting a sharp learning curve, she presents a case that open-minded readers are likely to find surprisingly convincing.

Aspects of Linguistic Impoliteness

Edited By: Denis Jamet, Manuel Jobert

£44.99

This book presents linguistic impoliteness as a field of study in its own right, not just "politeness gone wrong." Researchers offer diverse theoretical approaches and case studies on rudeness in television, literature, philosophy, and modern communication.

This book presents linguistic impoliteness as a field of study in its own right, not just “politeness gone wrong.” Researchers offer diverse theoretical approaches and case studies on rudeness in television, literature, philosophy, and modern communication.

Collecting East and West

Edited By: Andrea M. Gáldy, Adriana Turpin

£44.99

Collecting exotic objects has long united humanity. The essays in this volume connect these collections with their forms of display—from Chinese cabinets built in the West to Western-style palaces in China—charting encounters between cultures across millennia.

Assessing L2 Students with Learning and Other Disabilities

Edited By: George Spanoudis, Dina Tsagari

£49.99

This volume discusses the assessment of Second Language Learners with Specific Language Learning Disorders and other disabilities. It explores theoretical models, evaluates accommodation practices, and fills a crucial gap for researchers and professionals.

Conversion in English

A Cognitive Semantic Approach

By: Sándor Martsa

£49.99

This book proposes that conversion in English is a semantic process driven by conceptual mappings. It questions previous interpretations that mistake the effect of conversion for its cause and helps settle long-standing debates on its directionality and productivity.

Cross Currents

Comparative Responses to Global Interdependence

Edited By: Cindy Scheopner, Ian M. Sullivan

£39.99

Comparative philosophy engages thinkers worldwide to approach common problems from different perspectives. This approachable survey brings “eastern” and “western” philosophy into a global conversation. Foreign terms are translated and notes give context.

Promotion, Popularisation and Pedagogy

An Analysis of the Verbal and Visual Strategies in the COE's Human Rights Campaigns

By: Sole Alba Zollo

£44.99

This study investigates the Council of Europe’s human rights campaigns, identifying the linguistic and visual means of persuasion used. The analysis highlights how Promotion, Popularisation, and Pedagogy overlap to raise awareness and promote the Institution itself.

Albania and Europe in a Political Regard

Edited By: Klodiana Beshku, Orinda Malltezi

£39.99

This multidisciplinary work explores the relationship between Albania and Europe. Chapters cover history, sociology, and political science, examining the multidimensional idea of Europe and its reflection in Albanian society, both past and present.

A Window on the Italian Female Modernist Subjectivity

From Neera to Laura Curino

Edited By: Rossella M. Riccobono

£44.99

These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.

Buffy Conquers the Academy

Conference Papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations

Edited By: U. Melissa Anyiwo, Karoline Szatek-Tudor

£39.99

This collection celebrates Buffy Studies as a global and interdisciplinary academic discipline. Scholars delve into the intricate world of Sunnydale from multiple perspectives, ranging from gender/sexuality to religion.

Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus in the Phantasmagoria

By: Norman Simms

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In a phantasmagoric trial, Alfred Dreyfus was called a “zinc puppet.” This book reveals the man behind the enigma: his concealed Jewish identity, the love it inspired, and the Court Martial as a fin de siècle horror fantasy.

Civil Strife in a Complex and Changing World

Perspectives Far and Near

Edited By: Gena Howard, Nancy Riecken, Linda Urschel

£39.99

This collection offers perspectives on social conflict, past and present, with a view toward building connections. From Renaissance preachers to soldiers in Afghanistan, these papers explore issues that at some times separate us and at other times bring us together.

The Shaping of Persian Art

Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia

Edited By: Yuka Kadoi, Iván Szántó

£49.99

The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.

Perspectives on Kurdistan’s Economy and Society in Transition

Volume II

Edited By: Serwan M.J. Baban, Alan Dilani, Almas Heshmati

£59.99

This volume is a collection of studies from the World Kurdish Congress, focusing on improving the quality of life, science, and culture for progress in Kurdistan. Topics cover health, education, politics, and industry, concluding with recommendations to the government.

Politics, Poetics, Affect

Re-visioning César Vallejo

Edited By: Stephen M. Hart

£39.99

This book re-visions the life and work of Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Ten essays are grouped into sections on Politics, Poetics and Affect, exploring his rivalry with Neruda, the role of the human body in his work, and his lasting influence.

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