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Heritage and Planning History— Case Studies from the Pacific Rim

Edited By: Caroline Miller

£39.99

In a Pacific Rim setting, who benefits from urban planning? These case studies from Australia, New Zealand, and beyond explore difficulties faced by indigenous peoples and ask whose interests are at stake in urban heritage debates, challenging 'Metropolitan Theory'.

Taking Archaeology out of Heritage

Edited By: Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton

£39.99

Archaeology has long dominated “heritage” policy. This book asks whether archaeological data is actually heritage, and if archaeological knowledge reflects the values it carries for diverse communities. Academics and activists debate these critical issues.

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.

The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator

Between Violence and Artistry

By: Fatima Festić

£39.99

This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.

Elements of the Picaresque in Contemporary British Fiction

By: Ion Piso, Ligia Tomoiagă

£39.99

This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.

Of Mice and Men

Animals in Human Culture

Edited By: Nandita Batra, Vartan P. Messier

From £24.99

This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.

The Dialectics of Globalization

Economic and Political Conflict in a Transnational World

By: Jerry Harris

From £14.99

Harris challenges the view that nation-states define international relations. He argues a transnational capitalist class now heads a unified world system, creating new conflicts as we transition from national to global capitalism.

Critical Perspectives on Language and Discourse in the New World Order

Edited By: Faiz Sathi Abdullah, Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan Bee Hoon

£39.99

This collection explores language in the “New World Order,” raising consciousness about how discourse constructs identities and empowers users. A significant contribution to the critical discussion, it highlights the socially transformative role of language.

Peacemaking, Peacemakers and Diplomacy, 1880-1939

Essays in Honour of Professor Alan Sharp

Edited By: Gaynor Johnson

£39.99

Leading scholars explore the ‘new diplomacy’ conducted before, during, and after the First World War. These essays examine its origins, the changing view of war as a diplomatic tool, and how the Paris Peace Conference was viewed inside and outside Europe.

The Detective as Historian

Edited By: Ray Browne, Lawrence Kreiser

£39.99

Historical crime fiction serves the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. It brings the past to the present, making characters alive and events interesting. Writers fill in human motivations where records don't exist, recovering the past.

Shifting Landscapes

Film and Media in European Context

Edited By: Miyase Christensen, Nezih Erdoğan

From £19.99

An innovative understanding of Europe's rapidly changing film and media scene. Eighteen analyses re-examine what “European” media means in an era of technological change, globalization, and shifting cultural and geographical borders.

An innovative understanding of Europe’s rapidly changing film and media scene. Eighteen analyses re-examine what “European” media means in an era of technological change, globalization, and shifting cultural and geographical borders.

Political Theory

The State of the Discipline

Edited By: Evangelia Sembou

£39.99

Paradoxically, political theory is being marginalized in the academy. This volume addresses this situation. What are the problems and challenges it faces today? What is its importance? Its greatest strength is that it operates across disciplinary boundaries.

Sensi/able Spaces

Space, Art and the Environment Proceedings of the SPARTEN conference, Reykjavík, June 1st and 2nd, 2006

Edited By: Edward H. Huijbens, Ólafur Páll Jónsson

£39.99

SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of "sensible" spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the "sensable"—what we perceive through our senses.

SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of “sensible” spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the “sensable”—what we perceive through our senses.

Film and Ethics

What Would You Have Done?

Edited By: Jacqui Miller

£39.99

This book explores the slipperiness of ethics in Film Studies. It shows that from the silent era to the present day, film has been inherently concerned with ethical issues, forcing the spectator to be an active participant in creating meaning.

The Forbidden

Edited By: Benito Pérez Galdós

From £29.99

A wealthy philanderer attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He succeeds with two, but it is the wild and impetuous Camila who resists his temptations and holds our attention. A major work from Spain’s greatest novelist.

Children and Childhoods 2

Images of Childhood

Edited By: Peter Whiteman

£39.99

Decisions about children's lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.

Decisions about children’s lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.

A Journey through Knowledge

Festschrift in Honour of Hortensia Pârlog

Edited By: Loredana Frăţilă, Codruța Goșa

£39.99

A Journey through Knowledge is a collection of articles honouring renowned Romanian linguist Hortensia Pârlog. United by the common theme of the “journey,” these articles explore traveling across identities, time, space, languages, and cultures.

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.

Uncertain Justice

Crimes and Retribution in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

By: Nicoletta Di Ciolla

£39.99

Il giallo, Italy's crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.

Il giallo, Italy’s crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.

Religious Reading in the Lutheran North

Studies in Early Modern Scandinavian Book Culture

Edited By: Charlotte Appel, Morten Fink-Jensen

£39.99

Religious Reading in the Lutheran North opens up an overlooked part of early modern history. Following the Reformation, high literacy fueled a boom in religious literature across the Nordic countries. This book investigates publication, reading habits, and interpretations.

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