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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.

New Approaches to Specialized English Lexicology and Lexicography

Edited By: Marián Alesón, Isabel Balteiro

£39.99

This book presents the latest approaches to Lexicology and Lexicography. It offers insights into specialized languages across diverse fields like cinema, fashion, law, and medicine, examining translation, word-formation, and teaching.

Canterbury

A Medieval City

Edited By: Catherine Royer-Hemet

£39.99

Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury's fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.

Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury’s fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.

Case Studies in Communication about Sex

Edited By: Janet MacLennan, Carey Noland, Danielle M. Stern

From £19.99

This compilation of 21 case studies from leading researchers explores communication about sex in relationships. It provides tangible skills to improve relationships, encourage safer sex, and navigate difficult topics like media, health, and culture.

Sociological Perspectives of Health and Illness

Edited By: Constantinos N. Phellas

£44.99

This volume examines important themes in medical sociology, documenting the thinking and frameworks shaping research today. It covers topics from the morality of death to conflicts between health providers, and will interest students and professionals.

Place and Tourism Promotion

Urban Regeneration?

By: Edmund Christopher Matotay

£34.99

This book examines Arusha, Tanzania's place promotion strategies. It reveals how the city uses national parks and flag institutions to attract international tourists, boosting its popularity and growing the number of visits to its attractions.

This book examines Arusha, Tanzania’s place promotion strategies. It reveals how the city uses national parks and flag institutions to attract international tourists, boosting its popularity and growing the number of visits to its attractions.

Science and Empire in the Nineteenth Century

A Journey of Imperial Conquest and Scientific Progress

Edited By: Catherine Delmas, Christine Vandamme

£39.99

This book explores how sciences like anthropology and ethnography became tools of empire. It analyzes the link between knowledge and power, revealing the tension between scientific objectivity and imperialist propaganda in the British and American empires.

Obamagelicals

How the Right Turned Left

By: Michele Gilbert, Ronald Eric Matthews

£34.99

Obamagelicals demonstrates how Obama capitalized on a shift in values among younger, centrist evangelicals. Treating Protestant evangelicalism not as a monolith but a mosaic, he embraced cultural and political shifts that John McCain missed.

Zero to Hero, Hero to Zero

In Search of the Classical Hero

Edited By: Lydia Langerwerf, Cressida Ryan

£39.99

What makes a hero? This book challenges standard expectations, exploring the phenomenon of heroism from a range of viewpoints and asking why heroic qualities so often turn sour. Covering Euripides to Monty Python, it examines the changing notion of the hero.

Urban Planning after War, Disaster and Disintegration

Case Studies

By: John Yarwood

£39.99

What if urban planning could prevent war? Drawing on firsthand experience in conflict and disaster zones, this book reveals how disputes over land and property fuel societal collapse—and how smart urbanism can be a vital tool for building peace.

Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Scott M. Powers

£39.99

This collection offers an international perspective on evil in contemporary French literature. Essays explore how authors give account of human catastrophes—from genocide to terrorism—investigating the origins of evil and the ethics of writing on suffering.

New Fathers? Contemporary American Stories of Masculinity, Domesticity and Kinship

By: Helena Wahlström

£34.99

This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that texts since the 1990s address “new fatherhood,” problematizing the legitimacy of “new fathers” and “alternative families.”

Negation Raising

Logical Form and Linguistic Variation

By: Vincenzo Moscati

£34.99

This book explores the syntax of negative sentences, addressing the tension between negation's variable forms and its stable logical meaning. A new mapping operation is proposed to unify its interpretation and explain phenomena like negative concord.

This book explores the syntax of negative sentences, addressing the tension between negation’s variable forms and its stable logical meaning. A new mapping operation is proposed to unify its interpretation and explain phenomena like negative concord.

Born in the Jungles of Burma

Behind Enemy Lines in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations

By: Andrew Wax

£34.99

In WWII's unforgiving China-Burma-India Theater, a unique US-British air unit, Air Commando 1, was forged. It pioneered large-scale air supply and support deep behind enemy lines, establishing a vital method of warfare for all subsequent wars.

In WWII’s unforgiving China-Burma-India Theater, a unique US-British air unit, Air Commando 1, was forged. It pioneered large-scale air supply and support deep behind enemy lines, establishing a vital method of warfare for all subsequent wars.

Interfaces in Language

Edited By: John Partridge

£44.99

This volume expands on orthodox distinctions in language study to explore a wider concept of linguistic interfaces. It examines clashes between languages and politics, contact between languages, and language as influenced by cognitive and other factors.

Barbarians at the Gate

Studies in Language Attitudes

Edited By: Patricia Donaher

£44.99

The study of language attitudes investigates how our beliefs about language shape racial issues, social policy, and cultural stereotypes. This volume examines four key intersections in language attitudes research: Authority, Affiliation, Authenticity, and Accommodation.

Of the Students, By the Students, and For the Students

Time for Another Revolution

Edited By: Martin Wolff

£54.99

Millions of Chinese college graduates study English for years yet remain unable to communicate. This book exposes a 30-year-old failed program, a practice of insanity, and presents a proven solution: the successful remedial program, Holistic English.

Sexing the Look in Popular Visual Culture

Edited By: Kathy Justice Gentile

£39.99

This collection of essays focuses on the eroticized “look” and the sexualization of visual culture. From sexy female robots and Bridget Jones to Victorian fashion and feminist debates, these essays offer new conceptions of perception and representation.

Crime Over Time

Temporal Perspectives on Crime and Punishment in Australia

Edited By: Robyn Lincoln

£39.99

Marrying criminology and history, this book offers a unique examination of crime over 200 years of Australian history. It explores how crime has evolved, from colonial bushranging to cybercrime, revealing the historical factors that shape punishment today.

Applications of Finite-State Language Processing

Selected Papers from the 2008 International NooJ Conference

Edited By: Svetla Koeva, Tamás Váradi, Max Silberztein

£39.99

NooJ is a corpus processing tool and linguistic development environment. This volume contains papers from the 2008 International NooJ conference, presenting varied problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and new developments in the tool itself.

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