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Reading America

New Perspectives on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle

£34.99

This collection of essays offers a refreshing perspective on classic American novels. It explores familiar texts through unfamiliar lenses, shedding light on surprising aspects of works by authors from Toni Morrison to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Death Becomes Her

Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America

Edited By: Elizabeth Dill, Sheri Weinstein

£34.99

From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.

Re-Embroidering the Robe

Faith, Myth and Literary Creation since 1850

Edited By: Suzanne Bray, Adrienne E. Gavin, Peter Merchant

£34.99

Since the mid-nineteenth century, writers have retold old myths with fresh messages or created new ones for traditional truths. The eighteen essays in this book examine this transforming artistry in literature from 1850 to the present day.

The Crisis of Schooling? Learning, Knowledge and Competencies in Modern Societies

Edited By: José Resende, Maria Manuel Vieira

From £16.99

This book raises key questions about schooling in a globalized world. What does lifelong learning mean for knowledge transmission? Are competences the new form of qualification? How do teachers deal with these new professional dilemmas?

The Production and Perception of Japanese Pitch Accent

By: Yukiko Sugiyama

£34.99

Earlier descriptions of Japanese pitch accent had unclear perceptual bearing. This book uses production and perception experiments to show some acoustic properties are not used by listeners in word identification, underscoring the need to study both.

Categories, and What Is Beyond (Volume 2

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Gyula Klima

£34.99

Drawing on late antiquity and the middle ages, these essays study what types of things exist, the accuracy of our knowledge, the semantics of analogy, and how these considerations bear on our ability to learn and speak of God.

Violent Depictions

Representing Violence Across Cultures

Edited By: Sarah McDonald, Susanna Scarparo

£34.99

In a world that accepts violence as a just enterprise, what is violence? Is it justifiable? Violent Depictions addresses these questions, exploring the relationship between violence and representation in films, literature, and history.

Anti-Social Behaviour in Northern Ireland

By: Brendan Sturgeon

£34.99

Few studies have analyzed anti-social behaviour in Northern Ireland. This book fills that gap, considering the Troubles, the role of paramilitary groups, and the impact of the political settlement to offer insight into how to respond to the problem.

Artistic Ambivalence in Clay

Portraits of Pottery, Ceramics, and Gender

By: Courtney Lee Weida

£34.99

Glimpse into the lives of fifteen prominent women in contemporary ceramics. Spanning generations and geographies, they describe tensions in their art and careers, analyzing the persistence of sexism while celebrating their often neglected perspectives.

Themata Politica

Hellenic and Euro-Atlantic

By: Christos C. Evangeliou

£34.99

These political essays focus on Greek/Turkish relations, Cyprus, and the war on terror. Written by a philosopher of Hellenic ancestry, they are characterized by frank talk, fresh ideas, and historical insights that try to discern the future.

Professional Ethics

Education for a Humane Society

Edited By: Bart McGettrick, Feng Su

£34.99

This book addresses the ethical dimension of professional development. With contributors from a variety of fields, it explores inter-professional ways of working and developing an ethical response to changing contexts. Useful for practitioners, managers, and scholars.

Across Boundaries

International Perspectives on Translation Studies

Edited By: Dorothy Kenny, Kyongjoo Ryou

£34.99

This book showcases research into translation and translation teaching in contexts across the globe. Contributors from twelve countries and a variety of disciplines offer a genuinely international, multidisciplinary view of contemporary translation studies.

Agile Development in the Irish Software Industry

Models for Change

By: Sinéad Hayes

£34.99

This book presents a change management framework for software companies transitioning to agile development. Utilising Kotter’s eight-step technique, it demonstrates how incorporating the Scrum process led to successful changes in a leading global company.

Hunting the Collectors

Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives

Edited By: Susan Cochrane, Max Quanchi

£34.99

This volume investigates Pacific collections in Australian museums and the diverse 19th- and 20th-century collectors responsible. Essays reveal the motivations that led to the preservation of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island art, objects, and documents.

Irelands of the Mind

Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture

Edited By: Richard C. Allen, Stephen Regan

£34.99

This compelling series of essays explores changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Its prevailing theme is the complicated sense of belonging in modern Irish culture, giving questions of national identity a new treatment.

Multilingual Europe

Reflections on Language and Identity

Edited By: Heather Merle Benbow, Jane Warren

£34.99

This volume explores the relationship between language and identity in an expanding, multicultural Europe. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it combines sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema.

Formal Notes on Coeur d’Alene Clause Structure

By: Shannon Bischoff

£34.99

This is the first formal account of the clause structure and lexical affixation of Coeur d’Alene, a polysynthetic Salish language. Drawing on Gladys Reichard's archives and the Coeur d’Alene Language Program, it aids language preservation.

This is the first formal account of the clause structure and lexical affixation of Coeur d’Alene, a polysynthetic Salish language. Drawing on Gladys Reichard’s archives and the Coeur d’Alene Language Program, it aids language preservation.

Improvisation

Between Technique and Spontaneity

Edited By: Marina Santi

£34.99

This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.

Bonds and Borders

Identity, Imagination and Transformation in Literature

Edited By: Rebecca DeWald, Dorette Sobolewski

£34.99

This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.

Modernity at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Edited By: Volker Schmidt

£34.99

Modernity is back on sociology's agenda. With the exhaustion of postmodernism and an intensification of modernization around the world, this volume contributes to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of modernity and its significance in non-Western societies.

Modernity is back on sociology’s agenda. With the exhaustion of postmodernism and an intensification of modernization around the world, this volume contributes to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of modernity and its significance in non-Western societies.