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Fiscal Decentralisation to Local Governments in India

Edited By: M. A. Oommen

£34.99

This collection of scholarly papers fills a gap in the literature on fiscal decentralisation in India. The papers critically review decentralisation since the 73rd/74th constitutional amendments, with a special focus on Kerala's innovative initiatives.

The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell

Poet and Essayist

Edited By: Damian Atkinson

£54.99

Catholic convert Alice Meynell was a sophisticated essayist and poet of the late Victorian era. With her husband, she was central to the literary world, editing journals and famously publishing Francis Thompson’s “The Hound of Heaven.”

Shifting Borders

Edited By: Jean-François Bélisle, Reid Cooper, Luke Nicholson

£34.99

Shifting Borders explores borders in visual culture. While globalization advocates for fewer national barriers, veiled borders rise to maintain cultural exclusion. These essays re-examine inherited knowledge to open up new understandings of cultural difference.

Religion and Realism

Edited By: Davor Džalto

£41.99

This volume revisits the concepts of reality and realism with regard to their relation to religion and the religious real, presenting ten essays that offer methodologically diverse and intellectually challenging analyses.

Searching for America

Essays on Art and Architecture

Edited By: Robert Sheardy Jr.

£34.99

These essays explore American paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture from diverse, multidisciplinary points of view. From traditional analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, these critical works represent the multicultural identities of America.

Space and Events

Spatial PPs and Motion VPs

By: Sameerah Tawfeeq Saeed

£52.99

This book offers a new perspective on the syntax and semantics of spatial adpositions, presenting them as Relators in motion events. It provides a syntactic-semantic model and analyses equivalent elements across English, Kurdish and Arabic.

Gt Aide (Global) as Treatise in Field Planning

By: AC Dinesh, Sajesh P.V.

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Learn Earth science as easily as playing a game with this book and the Gt Aide freeware. Designed for students and researchers, its powerful modules guide you through coordinates, gridding, and sampling—no formal GIS training required. Visualize data and master geospatial skills.

Inference, Consequence, and Meaning

Perspectives on Inferentialism

Edited By: Lilia Gurova

£34.99

Inferentialism holds that an expression's meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.

Inferentialism holds that an expression’s meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.

Media, the State and Marginalisation

Tackling Challenges

Edited By: Rachna Sharma

£64.99

Containing twenty-one chapters, this title deals with Indian perspectives in relation to the media, the state and the marginalized sections of society. It will be of interest to academics, scholars and students of social sciences, and those working in the media industry.

Communities on a Frontier in Conflict

The Jesuit Guaraní Mission Los Santos Mártires del Japón

By: Robert H. Jackson

£61.99

Were the Jesuit missions in South America a socialist utopia or an independent republic? This study reveals the historical reality, analyzing the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by Spain and Portugal and the demographic consequences of military conflict.

The Heroic Female

Redefining the Role of the Heroine in the Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri

By: Stephanie Laggini Fiore

£34.99

This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.

This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri’s tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.

Paper Cranes and Mushroom Clouds

The US - Japan Conflict and the Function of Ethics in Historical Writing

By: Alexandra Perry

£41.99

Can history teach us how to live? Analyzing writing on the US-Japan WWII conflict, this book uncovers six modes of moral reasoning used by historians, challenging the divide between historical practice and ethical philosophy.

E-merging for E-Government

Citizen Orientation, Policy Making, Local Governance and ICT Use

Edited By: Asım Balcı, İhsan Tolga Medeni, Tunç Durmuş Medeni

£58.99

Explore e-Government with leading experts in this essential collection. Featuring previously unreleased articles, it merges key perspectives on citizen-centric policy, governance, and ICT.

Renewable Energy

Selected Issues Volume II

Edited By: Manuel Pérez-Donsión, Manuel Pérez-Donsión, Silvano Vergura

£73.99

The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.

Bridging Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the English Language Classroom

Edited By: Tijen Akşit, Hande Işıl Işık, Robin Turner

£58.99

This book explores the unbreakable relationship between teaching, learning, and assessment. A range of articles scrutinizes assessment from a wide spectrum: from teacher assessment literacy and technology in the classroom to the role of the CEFR and empirical data analysis.

Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons

Edited By: Teresa Barnard

£61.99

Barnard restores the juvenile journal of Anna Seward, eighteenth-century poet, biographer, and letter-writer, to its original format, making the case for Seward’s importance as a social and cultural commentator.

Rhizospheric Interactions for Abiotic Stress Mitigation

Edited By: Arvind Kumar Rai, Priyanka Chandra, Nirmalendu Basak, Parul Sundha, Rajender Kumar Yadav

From £37.99

Abiotic stressors like temperature, drought, and pollutants limit crop growth and agricultural productivity. Microorganisms are natural partners that help plants adapt. This book covers beneficial plant-microbe interactions that mitigate stress and enhance crop performance.

Religion and Belief

A Moral Landscape

Edited By: Christopher T Green, Malcolm Heath, Fabio Serranito

£39.99

This collection of essays initiates a discussion on the nuances of religion and belief. Topics range from ancient Greek philosophy to 21st century ‘New-Atheism’, challenging simple conceptions and showing caricatures of belief to be misleading.

Governing Sex, Building the Nation

The Politics of Prostitution in Postcolonial Taiwan (1945-1979)

By: Wan-Chen Yen

£47.99

Exploring the sexual politics of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan, this book focuses on the politicisation of prostitution and its role in postcolonial nationhood. It uncovers the interlinkages between colonialism, prostitution and nationalism in East Asia.

The Future of Palestinian Identity

Edited By: Sharif Kanaana

£41.99

This conference proceedings stems from a prevailing feeling among Palestinians that Palestinian identity is in a state of weakening and retreat. The contributions study, analyse, and suggest solutions to the problems facing Palestinian identity today.

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