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The Ethics of the Family

Edited By: Linda Oravecz, Adam Potthast, Stephen Scales

£49.99

What are our ethical commitments to our family and the broader community? These essays provide ethical analyses of issues from same-sex marriage to licensing parents, covering love, sex, marriage, and the influence of technology on family life.

Football Fans, Their Information, The Web and The Personal Home Page

By: Shant Narsesian

£49.99

This book examines the role of the Personal Home Page (PHP) as an information resource, using English professional football as a case study. While rich with unique information, these fan sites are often underused. This study proposes a new blueprint for a communal website.

Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations

A Critical Approach to Doctor Who

Edited By: Christopher J. Hansen

£44.99

A critical approach to Doctor Who, this book examines the famous science fiction show as a cultural artifact. It explores the show’s dialogue with politics, religion, and culture, as well as the peculiarities of its audience response.

Republican, First, Last, and Always

A Biography of B. Carroll Reece

By: Suzanne Bowers

£39.99

B. Carroll Reece, a 35-year congressman and RNC Chairman, pushed anti-communism to the forefront of Republican politics. Believing capitalism was America’s strongest defense, he attacked any threat—from government projects to powerful foundations.

A Full-Bodied Society

Edited By: Logie Barrow

£34.99

The human body is always changing its meanings. Why did Puritans stop addressing God as Mother? How did Victorian women’s sports grow? How transgressive was the ‘dandy’? This lively volume explores the variety of body-studies and their answers.

Rockin’ the Borders

Rock Music and Social, Cultural and Political Change

Edited By: Björn Horgby, Fredrik Nilsson

£39.99

This volume investigates how rock music has shaped identities and lifestyles since the 1950s. It offers a comparative perspective on rock's role in everyday life in the USA and Europe, including states on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

This volume investigates how rock music has shaped identities and lifestyles since the 1950s. It offers a comparative perspective on rock’s role in everyday life in the USA and Europe, including states on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium

Edited By: William Hope

£39.99

This collection of essays examines new millennium Italian cinema, from established masters like Nanni Moretti to new directors like Paolo Sorrentino. Their films reveal an Italy of converging social and political forces where individuals struggle for self-realization.

Essays on the Concept of Mind in Early-Modern Philosophy

Edited By: Petr Glombíček, James Hill

£34.99

The essays in this volume discuss philosophical theories of mind from the early-modern period, a time unparalleled for originality. Featuring the best contemporary research, these all-new essays examine Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, and others.

Anthropological Fieldwork

A Relational Process

Edited By: James Davies, Dimitrina Spencer

£39.99

The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied process mediated by emotions. For fieldwork to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity is essential. They propose new ways of practising it to enhance anthropological knowledge.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Carole Policy, Claudia Slate

£39.99

This volume contains essays about Florida literature and history. Topics range from slave shipwrecks and Zora Neale Hurston to Stephen King and the “Dexter” novels, as well as Florida ecocriticism, Hunter Thompson, and Elizabeth Bishop.

Migrants and Cultural Memory

The Representation of Difference

By: Micheal O'Haodha

£34.99

This volume explores representations of the Traveller, Roma, and migrant “Other”. It shows how the migrant experience is echoed in the hybrid and diverse discourses of Western countries, pointing to the ongoing reconfiguration of dominant cultural narratives.

This “Self” Which Is Not One

Women’s Life Writing in French

Edited By: Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth

£34.99

This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.

After the Postsecular and the Postmodern

New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion

Edited By: Anthony Paul Smith, Daniel Whistler

From £29.99

A vanguard of scholars asks what comes after the postsecular and postmodern in Continental philosophy of religion. This volume argues philosophy must liberate itself from theological norms and mutate into a new speculative practice to confront the challenges of our time.

Reconceptualising the Divide

Identity, Memory, and Nationalism in Sino-Japanese Relations

Edited By: Victor Teo

£39.99

Despite vibrant economic relations, Sino-Japanese relations remain strained. This book focuses on the neglected “ideational” forces—memories, identities, and nationalism—that synthesize with domestic politics to shape the future of these two giants.

Knowing and Being

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi

Edited By: Tihamér Margitay

£39.99

Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist's passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume's critical essays analyze and develop his thought.

Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist’s passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume’s critical essays analyze and develop his thought.

Globalization and Aspects of Translation

Edited By: Juliane House, Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Said M. Shiyab

£39.99

For students of translation, linguistics, and languages, this book explores the relationship between translation and globalization. International scholars cover cultural communication, ethics, and media, blending theory with practice for a truly global perspective.

Event and Decision

Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead

Edited By: Roland Faber, Henry Krips, Daniel Pettus

£44.99

This book unites the philosophies of Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead on the concept of the event. For all three thinkers, the event necessitates a radical politics, revealing humanity as constituted by a multiplicious cycle of infinite creation.

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.

Activating the Past

History and Memory in the Black Atlantic World

Edited By: Andrew Apter, Lauren Derby

£49.99

Activating the Past explores how memories of the slave trade in the Black Atlantic retreat into ritual. Though rarely acknowledged, these repressed histories are activated during public festivals and spirit possession in West Africa and the Americas.

Writing America into the Twenty-First Century

Essays on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle, Anne-Marie Evans

£34.99

This collection of essays presents a refreshing analysis of recent American fiction. Interrogating works by authors like Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy, it offers a new way to examine the American novel in the twenty-first century.

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