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Advances in Discourse Approaches

Edited By: Marta Dynel

£44.99

From Quentin Tarantino’s films to the Bible and legal discourse, this volume addresses diverse topics. Each chapter deploys a separate theoretical framework, offering a representative sample of developments in discourse approaches for researchers and students.

The Sword and the Crucible. Count Boldizsár Batthyány and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth-Century Hungary

By: Dóra Bobory

£39.99

In the 16th century, aristocrats became practitioners of science. Hungarian Count Boldizsár Batthyány, a formidable warrior, was also a devotee of natural philosophy, creating an intellectual hub for alchemy, medicine, and botany to make the Muses speak among arms.

Sub-national Fiscal Sustainability in a Globalised Setting

Edited By: Jacob John

£39.99

Eminent scholars and administrators analyze fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, and decentralization. This collection addresses growing fiscal stress and offers strategies for sustainability for national and sub-national governments in a globalized world.

The Gothic Byron

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£39.99

The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Winterson Narrating Time and Space

Edited By: Mine Özyurt Kılıç, Margaret J-M Sönmez

£39.99

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson's works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson’s works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

Lexicography and Terminology

A Worldwide Outlook

Edited By: Olga Karpova, Olga M. Karpova, Faina Kartashkova

£39.99

This book explores current trends in lexicography and terminology. It analyzes the presentation of complex items like idioms and non-equivalent lexics in various dictionaries and examines terminology for Languages for Special Purposes from a cognitive angle.

Ludwig Minkus La Bayadère

Grand Ballet in Four Acts and Seven Scenes by Sergei Khudekov and Marius Petipa Piano Score

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£54.99

Ludwig Minkus’s score for La Bayadère conjures an exotic India, where a world of rivalry and death contrasts with a realm of dreams and transcendent love, realized in the famous Kingdom of the Shades. Here for the first time is the piano score of the entire ballet.

Locality, History, Memory

The Making of the Citizen in South Asia

Edited By: Rita Mukherjee, M. N. Rajesh

£39.99

This book interrogates how place, history, and memory create the citizen in South Asia. Moving beyond the state, it asks: How does our history enforce or dilute the notion of the citizen? How far does memory strengthen it and what role do faith and religion play?

Political Ideology in Ireland

From the Enlightenment to the Present

Edited By: Olivier Coquelin, Patrick Galliou, Thierry Robin

£44.99

This collection of essays by leading experts interrogates history to understand Ireland's unique political and ideological complexity. Exploring diverse persuasions from the Enlightenment to the present, it sheds light on the building of a modern nation.

This collection of essays by leading experts interrogates history to understand Ireland’s unique political and ideological complexity. Exploring diverse persuasions from the Enlightenment to the present, it sheds light on the building of a modern nation.

Belief, History and the Individual in Modern Chinese Literary Culture

Edited By: Artur K. Wardega

£34.99

Modern Chinese literature raises complex questions about life amid changing values and uncertainty. This volume presents ten essays by Chinese and European scholars examining the individual and society, searching beyond national identities for global exchange.

Englishness Revisited

Edited By: Floriane Reviron-Piégay

£49.99

What is Englishness? Is there a national character? This collection seeks to answer these questions by offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Englishness since the eighteenth century, challenging stereotypes and offering keys to understanding its diverse expressions.

Messengers of Eros

Representations of Sex in Australian Writing

By: Xavier Pons

£29.99

Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia's postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia’s postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

The Short Story

Edited By: Ailsa Cox

£34.99

The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.

Scouting Frontiers

Youth and the Scout Movement’s First Century

Edited By: Nelson R. Block, Tammy M. Proctor

£39.99

Scouting Frontiers is the first book to discuss the history of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements on an international scale. It examines how the world's greatest youth movement transformed as it faced frontiers of nation, empire, religion, and gender.

Scouting Frontiers is the first book to discuss the history of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements on an international scale. It examines how the world’s greatest youth movement transformed as it faced frontiers of nation, empire, religion, and gender.

Pope Gregory and the Brides of Christ

By: John R. C. Martyn

£34.99

John Martyn turns his attention to a hitherto neglected subject: the letters of Pope Gregory the Great which pertain to nuns and convents. This edition of the letters in both Latin and English is of inestimable value and will spur further research.

Sacred and Immoral

On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk

Edited By: Jeffrey A. Sartain

£39.99

This is the first scholarly anthology on Chuck Palahniuk’s work beyond Fight Club. It provides the most comprehensive resource to date, featuring new critical analyses, the most complete bibliographies, and a new interview with the author himself.

Space and Time in Language and Literature

Edited By: Lovorka Gruić Grmuša, Marija Brala Vukanović

£34.99

For millennia, we have been intrigued by space and time. This book brings together eight essays exploring their expression in language and literature, using diverse linguistic and literary perspectives to reveal how culture shapes our conception of reality.

Sociology and Law

The 150th Anniversary of Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

Edited By: Stephen Hunt, Maria Serafimova, with Vladimir Vladov

£39.99

This book explores the relations between Sociology and Law using Durkheim's heritage. Topics cover socio-legal studies, religion, contemporary ethnic conflict, and cyberspace. This book is for scholars, students, and researchers.

This book explores the relations between Sociology and Law using Durkheim’s heritage. Topics cover socio-legal studies, religion, contemporary ethnic conflict, and cyberspace. This book is for scholars, students, and researchers.

The Crisis of Schooling? Learning, Knowledge and Competencies in Modern Societies

Edited By: José Resende, Maria Manuel Vieira

From £16.99

This book raises key questions about schooling in a globalized world. What does lifelong learning mean for knowledge transmission? Are competences the new form of qualification? How do teachers deal with these new professional dilemmas?

Studies in Canadian English

Lexical Variation in Toronto

By: Adam Bednarek

£34.99

This publication focuses on vocabulary that reflects unique Canadian traits and a fluid national identity. Focusing on multicultural Toronto, the study uses questionnaires and texts from the Toronto Sun to observe Canadianisms within everyday discourse.