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Lexical Issues of UNL

Universal Networking Language 2012 Panel

Edited By: Ronaldo Martins

£39.99

This book explores the Universal Networking Language (UNL), an artificial language designed for machines to represent knowledge independently of human languages. It highlights UNL’s fundamental principles and shows how their materialization has evolved over time.

Consequences of the European Monetary Integration on Financial Systems

Edited By: Stanislav Polouček, Daniel Stavárek

£39.99

This book identifies effects of the European monetary integration on the financial systems of euro area member countries. It presents a rich collection of original studies by scholars, central bankers, and practitioners on the most relevant issues debated today.

Disability and Medieval Law

History, Literature, Society

Edited By: Cory James Rushton

£39.99

Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies dealt with crime, punishment, and mental illness. When did law take disability into account? When did it choose to cause disabilities? How did authors use disability to discuss law and human nature?

Life Writing

The Spirit of the Age and the State of the Art

Edited By: Meg Jensen, Jane Jordan

£39.99

In our age of testimony, what are we to make of all this telling of lives? This collection of essays from leading writers and academics demonstrates the fluidity and diversity of life writing, presenting both the state of the art and the spirit of our age.

Dimensions of Social Exclusion

Ethnographic Explorations

Edited By: Eswarappa Kasi, K. M. Ziyauddin

£39.99

This book revolves around the societal institutions that exclude, discriminate, and deprive groups based on identities such as caste or ethnicity. It examines social exclusion as a complex, multi-dimensional process across a wide spectrum of societies.

Yesterday’s Words

Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography

Edited By: Marijke Mooijaart, Marijke van der Wal

£39.99

Yesterday’s Words explores scholarly issues in historical lexicography and lexicology. Contributions discuss dictionaries of former ages, the vocabulary of the past, current projects, and the modern technology essential for studying yesterday's words.

Knowing and Being

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi

Edited By: Tihamér Margitay

£39.99

Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist's passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume's critical essays analyze and develop his thought.

Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist’s passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume’s critical essays analyze and develop his thought.

Adapting Gaskell

Screen and Stage Versions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction

Edited By: Loredana Salis

£39.99

This collection charts the adaptation of Gaskell’s fiction, placing her alongside authors like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. It will surely prompt more investigations into the adaptability of her work. – Deborah Cartmell

The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian

Re-opening the Early Historiography of Modern Architecture

By: Gevork Hartoonian

£39.99

A critical re-reading of early modern architectural history. Through post-war theory, this book unpacks the canon of Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion, extending the critical historiography of Frampton and Tafuri.

Platonism for the Iron Age

An Essay on the Literary Universal

By: Frederic Will

From £29.99

The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both to Classical Greek and eighteenth-century thought, and to language in the pressure cooker of the American street.

Interpersonal Trauma and its Consequences in Adulthood

Edited By: Alicja Kuczyńska, Agnieszka Widera-Wysoczańska

£39.99

This book presents studies on the influence of childhood abuse on adult functioning, including various symptoms, problems, and personality and neurobiological disorders. It also contains psychotherapeutic issues connected with interpersonal trauma.

Negritude

Legacy and Present Relevance

Edited By: Isabelle Constant, Kahiudi C. Mabana

£39.99

Is Negritude a relic of the colonial era? This collection shows its continued vitality. African & Caribbean writers demonstrate how, beyond race, Negritude remains a relevant poetic, philosophical, and cultural force in its modern forms.

Recovering Memory

Irish Representations of Past and Present

Edited By: Hedda Friberg, Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Lene Yding Pedersen

£39.99

This collection of essays examines representations of memory in Irish literature and culture. It explores public and private memory, the intersection between collective and individual, and the relation between memory, identity, and Ireland's tragic past.

Revisiting the Past through Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia

Selected Papers from the 50th Meeting of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota

Edited By: Russel Hirst, Bruce Maylath, Dale Sullivan

£39.99

This volume investigates how our memories of conflict are shaped by rhetoric. From the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, the authors examine how rhetoric acts as a catalyst not only for what we remember, but also for what we are made to forget.

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.

The “Nation” in War

A Study of Military Literature and Hindi War Cinema

By: Gita Viswanath

£39.99

The Nation in War explores notions of nation and nationalism in Indian military literature and Hindi war cinema. This book examines how these narratives construct the “nation,” create consensus for war, and portray women as national subjects.

How Pupils Cope with School

By: Cedric Cullingford

£39.99

Based on pupils' experiences, this book demonstrates that the education system has a disastrous effect on young people. It thwarts their intelligence, exploits their vulnerability to trauma, and fails to fulfil its own aims. The research points to clear conclusions.

Based on pupils’ experiences, this book demonstrates that the education system has a disastrous effect on young people. It thwarts their intelligence, exploits their vulnerability to trauma, and fails to fulfil its own aims. The research points to clear conclusions.

Children and Childhoods 3

Immigrant and Refugee Families

Edited By: Katey De Gioia, Peter Whiteman

£39.99

Some people choose to cross borders for adventure or opportunity; others are forced to flee conflict or abuse. Immigrant and Refugee Families provides insights into the complex issues they face and explores ways to empower them when settling into a new country.

Singing for Themselves

Essays on Women in Popular Music

Edited By: Patricia Spence Rudden

£39.99

This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny's Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.

This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny’s Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.

Radical Cultures and Local Identities

Edited By: Krista Cowman, Ian Packer

£39.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores the connections between radicalism and localism across the globe. It questions how the local fosters new political possibilities, empowers under-represented groups, and shapes distinct cultural forms of resistance.

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