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The Knowledge Argument and Phenomenal Concepts

By: Luca Malatesti

£39.99

This book confronts Frank Jackson’s influential knowledge argument against physicalism. It defends physicalism using the phenomenal concept strategy, arguing that we don't know non-physical facts, but have unique ways of thinking about conscious experience.

This book confronts Frank Jackson’s influential knowledge argument against physicalism. It defends physicalism using the phenomenal concept strategy, arguing that we don’t know non-physical facts, but have unique ways of thinking about conscious experience.

Cognitive Dynamics in Linguistic Interactions

Edited By: Alexander Kravchenko

£39.99

Current methods of teaching language are failing because we lack a holistic understanding of how language shapes human interaction. Orthodox science sees language as a tool, but there is no humanness without languaging. This volume forges a new path.

Bound and Unbound

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Genders and Sexualities

Edited By: Zowie Davy, Julia Downes, Lena Eckert

£39.99

This collection stems from the 'Thinking Gender: The Next Generation' postgraduate conference, hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.

This collection stems from the ‘Thinking Gender: The Next Generation’ postgraduate conference, hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.

Protection of Minorities

Regimes, Norms and Issues in South Asia

By: Borhan Uddin Khan, Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman

£39.99

This book critically examines international standards for minority protection and their application in South Asia. It explores why minorities still face deprivation despite compatible domestic laws, and assesses the potential of regional cooperation.

It’s all Mediating

Outlining and Incorporating the Roles of Curating and Education in the Exhibition Context

Edited By: Kaija Kaitavuori, Laura Kokkonen, Nora Sternfeld

£39.99

This book brings together thinkers in curating and education to explore the two core functions of museums. As these fields professionalize, have they drifted too far apart? The volume encourages dialogue, examining collaboration between curators and educators.

We Are Playing Football

Sport and Postcolonial Subjectivity, Panapompom, Papua New Guinea

By: Will Rollason

£39.99

This pioneering study of grassroots sport in Papua New Guinea explores how Panapompom villagers’ attempts to recreate global football entangle them in circuits of colonial power, challenging what it means to be “globalised.”

Automatic Processing of Various Levels of Linguistic Phenomena

Selected Papers from the NooJ 2011 International Conference

Edited By: Božo Bekavac, Kristina Vučković

£39.99

This volume contains papers from the NooJ 2011 Conference. Researchers use the NooJ linguistic environment to analyze diverse corpora, from ancient texts to astronaut conversations, covering topics like machine translation and information extraction.

The Subprime Crisis and Its Impact on Financial and Managerial Environments

An Unequal Repercussion at European Level

Edited By: Elisabeth Paulet

£39.99

Unpacking the 2008 global financial crisis, this book reveals its lasting impacts and argues for a multinational solution to safeguard the international banking system.

Canada

Text and Territory

Edited By: Máire Áine Ní Mhainnín, Elizabeth Tilley

£39.99

These essays debate literature, language, immigration, and culture in Canada, Ireland, and Europe. From the place of hockey in literary consciousness to mapping minority languages, the focus is on exploring culture in its widest sense.

Ethnographic Discourse of the Other

Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Edited By: Eswarappa Kasi, Ramesh C. Malik

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This book explores the 'Other'—the oppressed and marginalized sections of society. This interdisciplinary volume discusses and theorizes the pragmatic concepts and issues related to these groups in contemporary South Asia.

This book explores the ‘Other’—the oppressed and marginalized sections of society. This interdisciplinary volume discusses and theorizes the pragmatic concepts and issues related to these groups in contemporary South Asia.

Crossings

David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media

Edited By: Johan Callens

£39.99

International scholars assess David Mamet's career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

International scholars assess David Mamet’s career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

A Theory of Literary Explication

Specifying a Relativistic Foundation in Epistemic Probability, Cognitive Science, and Second-Order Logic

By: Kenneth B. Newell

£39.99

This book forges a middle way between the postmodern view of infinite interpretations and the intentionalist view of one. Drawing on multidisciplinary research, it provides a foundation for judging some explications of a literary work to be better than others.

Treat or Trick? Halloween in a Globalising World

Edited By: Malcolm Foley, Hugh O’Donnell

£39.99

As Halloween spreads across Europe, is it rampant cultural imperialism or a welcome treat? This book examines the phenomenon from its origins to its arrival in Europe, revealing a complexity characterised by multiple meanings and intense battles over ownership.

Let’s Learn Together, Let’s Work Together

Challenges and Solutions for Transcultural Health and Social Care

Edited By: Kathleen Markey, Larry O’Connor, Patricia White

£39.99

This volume explores global challenges and solutions for transcultural health care. Providing competent care requires knowledgeable, culturally sensitive professionals. Deeply rooted values must be challenged to address unwitting prejudices and stereotyping.

Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory

Edited By: Colin Counsell, Roberta Mock

£39.99

Exploring the body's role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, 'perform' meaning.

Exploring the body’s role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, ‘perform’ meaning.

Demography In Transition

Emerging Trends in Population Studies

Edited By: Amanda K. Baumle

£39.99

This compilation provides unique insight into complex demographic issues. Demographers examine how race and ethnicity affect access to heath care, the consequences of an aging population, migration patterns, and the implications of changing family structures.

The Future of Aesthetic Experience

Conceiving a Better Way to Understand Beauty, Ugliness, and the Rest

By: Peter Baofu

£39.99

Dr. Baofu argues that postmodernism is an aesthetic fad and the current debate on beauty is obsolete. He reveals the great transformations of aesthetic experience to come, both here on Earth and later in deep space, based on his new transformative theory.

History and Narration

Looking Back from the Twentieth Century

Edited By: Marialuisa Bignami

£39.99

This volume explores the relation between narration and history, arguing we must be aware of the rhetorical strategies in historical writing. The essays consider narrativity in authors as diverse as V. Woolf, S. Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, and A. Ghosh.

Elemental Sculpture

Theory and Practice

By: Todor Todorov

£39.99

This book explores Elemental Sculpture, a tendency in contemporary art defining a new relationship between sculpture and nature. It examines its development in the works of Hepworth, Moore, and Calder, and includes sculptures from the author’s 35-year career.

Religion and Revolution

Spiritual and Political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal

By: John Andrew Morrow

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A study of spiritual and political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal, the great Latin American poet, priest, and revolutionary. The work examines his connection to Ṣūfism and details his trip to Iran during the triumph of the Islāmic Revolution.

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