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Rethinking the Reform Question

Edited By: Ann Marie Bissessar

£34.99

In this collection, eminent academics explain the phenomenon of public sector reform. Drawing on vast theoretical, empirical, and comparative data, this is a first-rate resource for scholars seeking to understand its key trends, challenges, and dilemmas.

Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe

Day-to-Day History

Edited By: Larisa Lempertienė, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė

£34.99

This collection reveals the Jewish space as diverse forms of life in 19th and 20th century Eastern Europe. Scholars explore social life, leisure, and coexistence, showing how this world transformed while preserving its authenticity and individuality.

France at the Flicks

Trends in Contemporary French Popular Cinema

Edited By: Isabelle Vanderschelden, Darren Waldron

£34.99

Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood's dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.

Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood’s dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.

Gujaratis in the West

Evolving Identities in Contemporary Society

Edited By: Sharmina Mawani, Anjoom A. Mukadam

£34.99

This compilation of scholarly works investigates how Gujaratis, a successful and integrated community, construct and express their complex religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities in the West, offering a unique insight into a community often overlooked.

Structures as Argument

The Visual Persuasiveness of Museums and Places of Worship

Edited By: J. Donald Ragsdale

From £19.99

Structures as Argument assesses museums, places of worship, and monuments as means of visual persuasion. It argues that structures can influence viewers as much as speeches or ads, and to miss this essential feature is to fail in understanding their cultural roles.

Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology

Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present

Edited By: Anna Hoefnagels, Gordon E. Smith

£34.99

Explore the breadth of Canadian music scholarship, from First Nations traditions to Celtic and French folksong. Celebrating a rich history, this is a vital resource for academics and music enthusiasts alike.

Security of Archaeological Heritage

Edited By: Nick Petrov

£24.99

"Security of Archaeological Heritage" covers heritage management in archaeology from England to Bangladesh. It reflects real international exchange experience, based on the proceedings of two recent meetings that took place in Ireland and Russia.

“Security of Archaeological Heritage” covers heritage management in archaeology from England to Bangladesh. It reflects real international exchange experience, based on the proceedings of two recent meetings that took place in Ireland and Russia.

Liberalism and Skepticism

By: Alexander Mitjashin

£34.99

This book of political philosophy argues that libertarianism provides more efficient decision-making than any other political order. It links this idea to the theory of knowledge, revealing the connection between how we know and how we are governed.

Theatres of Thought

Theatre, Performance and Philosophy

Edited By: Daniel Watt

£29.99

Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.

Music, Meaning and Transformation

Meaningful Music Making for Life

By: Steve Dillon

£34.99

This book examines meaningful music making, reframing music education to focus on the student's personal, social, and cultural experience. It provides a guide for teachers to facilitate lifelong music making for health, wellbeing, and a sense of belonging.

This book examines meaningful music making, reframing music education to focus on the student’s personal, social, and cultural experience. It provides a guide for teachers to facilitate lifelong music making for health, wellbeing, and a sense of belonging.

Migrants and Memory

The Forgotten “Postcolonials”

By: Micheal O'Haodha

£29.99

This volume gives a voice to marginalized communities—the hidden Irish, the migrant, the nomad. Scholars and activists explore ethnicity, identity, and racism, offering a catalyst for new inquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani, and Migration Studies.

In the Place of Sound

Architecture | Music | Acoustics

Edited By: Marco Polo, Colin Ripley, Arthur Wrigglesworth

£34.99

This book presents thirteen essays and seven graphic works from a conference of artists, researchers, and architects. The chapters explore the fraught relationship between sound and space, presenting a provocative collection of ideas and designs.

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.

The Nomadic Subject

Postcolonial Identities on the Margins

Edited By: Jean Ryan Hakizimana

£29.99

This book explores the image of the Traveller, nomad, migrant, and outsider amid cultural diaspora and globalisation. With a focus on the experiences of Irish Travellers and Roma, these essays resonate with the hybrid narratives of many Western countries today.

Trends in Contemporary Italian Narrative 1980-2007

Edited By: Gillian Ania, Ann Hallamore Caesar

£29.99

This volume's eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.

This volume’s eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.

Triumphant Bodies

Sexual Political Conquest in Women’s Published Writing, 1660-1763

By: Emily Smith

£29.99

This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.

Come Weep With Me

Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers

Edited By: Joyce C. Harte

£39.99

This groundbreaking anthology examines loss and mourning in the work of Caribbean women writers like Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maryse Condé. These original essays explore slavery, dictatorships, and disaster, challenging customary discourses on loss.

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.

Framing Globalization

Visual Perspectives

Edited By: Patrizia Faccioli, Jacqueline A. Gibbons

£29.99

This collection of readings explores the intersection of the global and local through visual sociology. It examines how images in various contexts reflect and generate sociological concepts, shaping our understanding of identity, culture, and belonging worldwide.

Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction

Edited By: Anita Higgie, Linda Martz

£34.99

Essays by international scholars explore how detective fiction mirrors personal, sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. This collection examines the genre's evolution and its interface with diverse national literatures and histories.

Essays by international scholars explore how detective fiction mirrors personal, sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. This collection examines the genre’s evolution and its interface with diverse national literatures and histories.