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Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance

Transnational Perspectives

Edited By: Matthew Isaac Cohen, Laura Noszlopy

£39.99

This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.

Meanings of Ripley

The Alien Quadrilogy and Gender

Edited By: Elizabeth Graham

£39.99

This collection offers varied interpretations of sci-fi icon Ellen Ripley. Is she a feminist hero? A patriarchal mother? Does she move beyond dichotomous gender roles? Voices from multiple disciplines explore these questions against the backdrop of Second Wave Feminism.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: General Editor, Claudia Slate

£39.99

Florida's long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Urban Planning in the Middle East

Case Studies

By: John Yarwood

£39.99

A partial professional autobiography, this book describes diverse urban planning projects across Turkey, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Syria. The author personally worked on all projects, tackling themes from slum upgrading to post-war reconstruction.

Sociology of Health in a Dalit Community

Axes of Exclusion of Hadis

By: K. M. Ziyauddin

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This book explores how generations of caste prejudice have impacted the health of India's Hadi Caste. It examines their occupations, customs, and social interactions to reveal the deep link between the community's socio-cultural life and their well-being.

This book explores how generations of caste prejudice have impacted the health of India’s Hadi Caste. It examines their occupations, customs, and social interactions to reveal the deep link between the community’s socio-cultural life and their well-being.

From Francis Bacon to William Golding

Utopias and Dystopias of Today and of Yore

Edited By: Minodora Barbul, Ramona Demarcsek, Ligia Tomoiagă

£39.99

Researchers from philology, philosophy, and anthropology come together to complete a 21st century vision on utopia. This interdisciplinary volume contains rigorous academic work alongside more relaxed essays.

Performance and Ethnography

Dance, Drama, Music

Edited By: Peter Harrop, Dunja Njaradi

£39.99

This volume explores the intersection of performance and ethnography across dance, drama, and music. It champions an embodied, sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between researchers and participants to understand performance amid migration and commodification.

Translation Reconsidered

Culture, Genre and the “Colonial Encounter” in Nineteenth Century Bengal

By: Chandrani Chatterjee

£39.99

This interdisciplinary study argues that translation does not merely relocate a text, but negotiates and alters relationships between cultures. Focusing on the cultural history of Bengal, it explores how genres are also translated, assuming striking new shapes.

Determinants of Productivity in Indian Science

By: A. V. S. Kamesh

£39.99

This organizational study of science in India focuses on the determinants of scientists' productivity. It considers how factors like communication technology can reinforce social inequality and provides policy-oriented suggestions aimed at ensuring equality.

This organizational study of science in India focuses on the determinants of scientists’ productivity. It considers how factors like communication technology can reinforce social inequality and provides policy-oriented suggestions aimed at ensuring equality.

Persona and Paradox

Issues of Identity for C.S. Lewis, his Friends and Associates

Edited By: Suzanne Bray

£39.99

This collection of essays examines the life and work of C.S. Lewis and his associates through the theme of identity. Scholars explore gender, family, and national identity in the writings of Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, and others.

International Student Adaptation to Academic Writing in Higher Education

By: Ly Thi Tran

£39.99

This book explores international students’ adaptation to academic writing, introducing new concepts of adjustment. It offers a dialogical pedagogic model for mutual adaptation, arguing that adjustment is a shared responsibility between students and academics.

Scottish Cinema Now

Edited By: Fidelma Farley, Jonathan Murray, Rod Stoneman

£39.99

Since films like Trainspotting, Scottish cinema has gained an international profile. This is the first collection of essays to examine the new films, filmmakers, and images of Scottishness, setting a new agenda for the study of Scotland on screen.

Norm-struggles

Sexualities in Contentions

Edited By: Lena Martinsson, Eva Reimers

£39.99

Norm-Struggles challenges normativity and heteronormativity. Focusing on contradictions and disruptions, the authors explore how norms are produced, subverted, and changed across diverse international settings, from schools to popular culture.

Tomorrow through the Past

Neal Stephenson and the Project of Global Modernization

Edited By: Jon Lewis

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This first collection of scholarly essays on Neal Stephenson examines his novels from The Big U to The Baroque Cycle and his non-fiction. The collection includes a new interview with Stephenson, making it essential for readers and scholars alike.

Constructing Professional Discourse

A Multiperspective Approach to Domain-Specific Discourses

By: Concepción Orna-Montesinos

£39.99

This book explores the role language plays in professional communities by providing an integrative, multi-perspective approach to domain-specific discourse. It links textual analysis to the social context of its production, offering fresh insights.

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?

Contours of Privacy

Edited By: David Matheson

£39.99

An international group of contributors explores privacy’s contours in a series of accessible yet rigorous essays. Themes include the psychology of privacy, social accountability, and the concerns of emerging information technologies.

Ethnicity and Social Divisions

Contemporary Research in Sociology

Edited By: Elias le Grand, Karin Halldén, Zenia Hellgren

£39.99

This anthology explores the intersection of ethnicity, immigration, and social class. Representing a new generation of social scientists from Harvard, Oxford, and Stockholm, the contributors present empirical research on social inequality.

Public Theatres and Theatre Publics

Edited By: Sara Freeman, Robert Shimko

£39.99

This collection connects theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. Essays from prominent scholars explore how performing in public shapes identity, class, and political agency across three centuries and in multiple global contexts.

Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy

Edited By: Philip Brownell

£39.99

This handbook is the needed bridge between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. It provides vital empirical support for the practice—a timely response to the evidence-based movement and the increasing policy call for "what works."

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