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Advances in Business in Asia

The Opportunities, Threats, and Future Trends of Businesses in China, India and the ASEAN Countries

Edited By: Victor Egan, Chris Perryer, Brian Sheehan

£34.99

Examine current trends, opportunities, and challenges for organisations in Asia, with a specific focus on China, India, and the ASEAN region. This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers by eminent academics in their fields of expertise.

Third Agents

Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination

Edited By: Ian Cooper, Ekkehard Knörer, Bernhard Malkmus

£34.99

This book explores the 'third agent'—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

This book explores the ‘third agent’—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

Parallel Discourses

Religious Identity and HIV Prevention in Botswana

By: Kipton E. Jensen

£34.99

To make public health programs in Botswana more effective, we must understand local religious and cultural beliefs. This book explores the parallel discourses on HIV between faith and public health, suggesting common ground for collaborative and effective prevention.

In Memoriam

Commemoration, Communal Memory and Gender Values in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World

Edited By: Helène Whittaker

£34.99

Ancient societies deliberately perpetuated the memory of individuals and events. This volume discusses the creation of memory in the Graeco-Roman world, asking how an individual’s gender and social status affected their chances of being remembered after death.

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.

19th Century Maharashtra

A Reassessment

Edited By: Shraddha Kumbhojkar

£34.99

A fresh look at 19th-century Maharashtra, a society at a crossroads. The book critiques its literature and social reforms, arguing elite attempts were limited. It highlights the radicality of subalterns like Mahatma Phule, whose experience spurred real change.

Ferocious Things

Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia

By: Cathleen Therese Maslen

£34.99

It’s fatal making a fuss ... . In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

It’s fatal making a fuss … .
In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

Medieval Metaphysics, or is it “Just Semantics”? (Volume 7

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Gyula Klima

£34.99

Medieval thinkers, driven by metaphysical and epistemological commitments, sought to discern how concepts latch onto reality. This book follows these attempts concerning the signification of theological discourse, Trinitarian semantics, and essential definition.

Beckett’s Literary Legacies

Edited By: Matthew Feldman, Mark Nixon

£34.99

This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.

Use Against Scepticism

By: Massimiliano Vignolo

£34.99

This book argues for a version of semanticalism, treating semantic properties as emergent and natural. They are needed to explain how linguistic expressions guide us to reality. We ought to accept semantic properties since our best theory of the world makes reference to them.

China and the West

Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life

Edited By: Lili Hernández

£34.99

This collection scrutinises how China and the West interact in culture, arts, politics and everyday life. The essays analyse new dynamics that challenge authoritative views and deconstruct traditional responses to otherness within globalisation.

Re-doing Rapunzel’s Hair

Viewing Subjective Cognition in Fancifold

By: Lisa Pavlik-Malone

£34.99

This volume explores embodied cognition and our imaginative experience of hair, using Rapunzel's symbolic hair as a touchstone. It introduces “fancifold,” a quality of imagination that produces both enchantment and disenchantment.

This volume explores embodied cognition and our imaginative experience of hair, using Rapunzel’s symbolic hair as a touchstone. It introduces “fancifold,” a quality of imagination that produces both enchantment and disenchantment.

Emerald Green

An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature

By: Tim Wenzell

£34.99

Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature's reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.

Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature’s reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.

Arthur W. Upfield

Life and Times of Bony's Man

By: A. J. Milnor

£34.99

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective "Bony," rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective “Bony,” rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

Equalities and Education in Europe

Explanations and Excuses for Inequality

By: Melinda Dooly, Nanny Hartsmar, Alistair Ross

£34.99

This timely book analyzes educational inequities in Europe. Rejecting the idea that education simply reproduces social patterns, the authors argue that educational policies have the potential to challenge inequality and transform the lives of disadvantaged groups.

Staging of Classical Drama around 2000

Edited By: Alena Sarkissian, Pavlína N. Šípová

£34.99

Classical drama on the modern stage is a major cultural and political phenomenon. Intertwined with the politics of locale, language, and culture, its performance is a feature in all types of theatre. These essays provide case studies for everyone in the field.

Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Alex Hall, Gyula Klima

£34.99

This volume studies causality and skepticism from medieval to modern philosophy. Essays contrast Aquinas’s idea of a first mover with Hume’s account of successive events, re-evaluating the Aristotelian paradigm against modern science and Cartesian skepticism.

Women Willing to Fight

The Fighting Woman in Film

Edited By: Silke Andris, Ursula K. Frederick

£34.99

This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.

Objects, Audiences, and Literatures

Alternative Narratives in the History of Design

Edited By: David Raizman, Carma Gorman

From £14.99

Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.

Political Outsiders in Swedish History, 1848-1932

Edited By: Lars Edgren, Magnus Olofsson

£34.99

Challenging the 'Swedish model', these essays present new research on forgotten 19th and 20th-century political movements. By examining political outsiders, the authors contribute to a timely rethinking of the roots of contemporary Sweden.

Challenging the ‘Swedish model’, these essays present new research on forgotten 19th and 20th-century political movements. By examining political outsiders, the authors contribute to a timely rethinking of the roots of contemporary Sweden.