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Sensorium

Aesthetics, Art, Life

Edited By: Barbara Bolt, Felicity Colman, Graham Jones

£39.99

This book reconfigures art and philosophy by returning to an older meaning of aesthetics: our capacity to receive sensations. Following Deleuze and Lyotard, it frames artists as experimenters with the sensible who extend our perceptual interface with the world.

The Hydropolitics of Africa

A Contemporary Challenge

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Mechthild Nagel, Muna Ndulo

£39.99

Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.

Positioning the New

Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon

Edited By: Elisabetta Marino, Tanfer Emin Tunc

£39.99

This volume explores Chinese American authors' place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.

This volume explores Chinese American authors’ place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.

Seeing Perception

Edited By: Silke Horstkotte, Karin Leonhard

£39.99

How do we see and write about perception? The act of vision is profoundly impure, entangled with other senses, memory, and dreams. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between seer and seen and the core concepts of visual perception theory.

Sino-Christian Studies in China

Edited By: YANG Huilin, Daniel H. N. YEUNG

£39.99

This is the first book to introduce the English-speaking world to "Sino-Christian Studies." Born from a 1980s academic movement in China exploring Christian thought's role in western culture, this collection features essays by prominent scholars.

This is the first book to introduce the English-speaking world to “Sino-Christian Studies.” Born from a 1980s academic movement in China exploring Christian thought’s role in western culture, this collection features essays by prominent scholars.

Cronies or Capitalists? The Russian Bourgeoisie and the Bourgeois Revolution from 1850 to 1917

By: David Lockwood

£39.99

Why wasn’t there a successful bourgeois revolution in Russia? This political history of the Russian capitalist class from 1850 to 1917 traces their opposition to the autocracy and their alliance for reform that led to the Soviet state and their own destruction.

Culture and Ideology at an Invented Place

By: Zhang Pinggong

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This first analysis of narratives surrounding China's popular Overseas Chinese Town theme park sheds a cultural and political light on the “modern pleasure space.” It illustrates in detail the distinctive nature of Chinese theme park development.

This first analysis of narratives surrounding China’s popular Overseas Chinese Town theme park sheds a cultural and political light on the “modern pleasure space.” It illustrates in detail the distinctive nature of Chinese theme park development.

New Voices, New Visions

Challenging Australian Identities and Legacies

Edited By: Catriona Elder, Keith Moore

£39.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores Australian identity, nation, and place. Linking old and new stories, it engages with contemporary issues like immigration and climate change through unique and accessible case studies from both historical and modern life.

Women in the Arts

Eccentric Essays in Music, Visual Arts and Literature

Edited By: Diane Touliatos-Miles, Barbara Harbach

£39.99

This pioneering collection of essays is a multi-disciplined celebration of women creators. It presents an interdisciplinary emphasis on the long-neglected contributions of women to music, visual arts, and literature, and the obstacles they overcame.

John Dos Passos

Biography and Critical Essays

Edited By: Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu, Bernardo Guido de Vasconcelos

£39.99

These essays explore Dos Passos’s writings through the lens of biography, aesthetics, and social critique. They examine his innovative literary techniques and his status as a towering figure of American Modernism who chronicled an era that shattered the ‘American Dream’.

Pygmalion’s Chisel

For Women Who Are “Never Good Enough”

By: Tracy M. Hallstead

£39.99

In a culture that scrutinizes women and makes them feel flawed, many labor under an assumption of their own imperfection. Hallstead traces this to the myth of Pygmalion and finds solutions in the wisdom of historical women who forged a path to responsive feminism.

Openness with Roots

Education in Religion in Irish Primary Schools

By: Caroline Renehan

£39.99

With 90% of Irish primary schools under Catholic patronage in an increasingly diverse country, this book explores the debate on denominational religious education, questioning the duties of both the Church and the State.

Acts of Love and Lust

Sexuality in Australia from 1945-2010

Edited By: Lisa Featherstone

£39.99

Over six decades, Australia has undergone a sexual revolution. This collection by leading historians explores how sexuality was constructed by the state, law, and media, and how love and lust were experienced by individuals, shaping society and culture.

Domestic Policy Discourse in the US and the UK in the ‘New World Order’

Edited By: Lori Maguire

£39.99

A unique comparative study of US & UK politics, blending personal accounts with sharp analysis. It tackles the era's defining issues, from the Clinton-Obama healthcare debate to the economic crisis, Climategate, and the 2010 UK election.

A unique comparative study of US & UK politics, blending personal accounts with sharp analysis. It tackles the era’s defining issues, from the Clinton-Obama healthcare debate to the economic crisis, Climategate, and the 2010 UK election.

Learning Democratic Practices

Political Parties, Media and American Political Development

By: Janet Youngblood

From £19.99

This book examines how democracy works by viewing political parties as “communities of practice.” Through interviews with partisans, it shows how they learn to function, revealing what is happening to “democracy” in the United States and how it got that way.

International Perspectives on Pragmatism

Edited By: Peter H. Hare, J.K. Swindler, Michel Weber

£39.99

Is democracy in decay? This book offers a pragmatist meditation on the question, combining practical politics with the history of ideas. It explores arguments from both critics and supporters, covering corruption, theory, community, and art.

The Ballets of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£39.99

Though known as a master of opéra-comique, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber was crucial to the development of Romantic ballet. His grand operas featured long danced interludes, and his music later inspired ballets by choreographers like Frederick Ashton.

Society, Culture and Technology at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Edited By: Katarzyna Leszczyńska, Janusz Mucha

£39.99

This collection analyses research in the sciences, humanities, and high technology. The authors explore the contexts of scientific research, the links between information technology and everyday life, and the relations between innovation and business culture.

English in Southeast Asia

Varieties, Literacies and Literatures

Edited By: David Prescott

£39.99

This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: April van Camp, Claudia Slate

£39.99

This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida's first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.

This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida’s first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.

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