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The Da Vinci Code in the Academy

Edited By: Bradley Bowers

£24.99

Reacting to The Da Vinci Code, scholars debate the feminist challenge to patriarchal authority and the textual construction of meaning. These essays examine resistance to the sacred feminine in religious, cultural, and literary histories.

Assaulting the Past

Violence and Civilization in Historical Context

Edited By: Katherine D. Watson

£39.99

This interdisciplinary book offers a comparative history of interpersonal violence since the early modern period. Drawing on records from five countries, it explores Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilizing process to offer new insights on violence and society.

The Traveling and Writing Self

Edited By: Marguerite Helmers, Tilar Mazzeo

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These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.

The Global Literary Field

Edited By: Anna Guttman, Michel Hockx, George Paizis

£39.99

This collection of articles explores globalization's impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today's literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.

This collection of articles explores globalization’s impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today’s literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.

Beyond Nature And Nurture

Conceiving a Better Way to Understand Genes and Memes

By: Peter Baofu

£34.99

Why are some individuals and countries more successful than others? The nature-nurture debate is misleading. Dr. Baofu shows how the two are intertwined and reveals a tremendous future: a "post-human" world where human genes will no longer exist.

Why are some individuals and countries more successful than others? The nature-nurture debate is misleading. Dr. Baofu shows how the two are intertwined and reveals a tremendous future: a “post-human” world where human genes will no longer exist.

Interrogating the War on Terror

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Deborah Staines

£34.99

Is the so-called war on terror justified? This book presents a critique of contemporary war culture, bringing together international political, philosophical, legal, and artistic perspectives to explore the devastating effects of this global conflict.

Pedagogical Reflections On Learning Languages In Instructed Settings

Edited By: Maria Noelia Ruiz-Madrid, Esther Usó-Juan

From £19.99

This volume provides the latest pedagogical reflections from research to help language teachers update their teaching methodology. It covers key concepts, new directions like ICT, learner variables, the four skills, and a student-centred approach.

Narrating the Past

(Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating

Edited By: Nandita Batra, Vartan P. Messier

From £16.99

Narrative is an integral part of human existence, challenging the supremacy of empirical fact and our ability to know the past as it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, the essays in this volume reveal that all representations of the past are situated.

Order and Disorder under the Ancien Régime

By: Jeffrey Merrick

£39.99

This collection explores monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the private and public weakness of sovereigns and husbands undermined their legitimacy, challenging simplistic assumptions about absolutism and Revolution.

Versions Of Ireland

Empire, Modernity And Resistance In Irish Culture

By: Eóin Flannery

£34.99

Versions of Ireland brings a postcolonial optic to Irish cultural studies, highlighting imperial modernity and resistance. More than just theory, it offers rich analyses of republican murals, poetry, gothic fiction, and nineteenth-century photography.

Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations

Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction

Edited By: Per Cornell, Fredrik Fahlander

From £17.99

This collection provides a theoretical and methodological platform for studying social encounters in archaeology. A social encounter focuses on the confusion, tension, and social change that emerge when people and things interact, with often unpredictable effects.

Open Book

Essays from the Vermont College Postgraduate Writers Conference

Edited By: Kate Fetherston, Roger Weingarten

£34.99

This book of essays is a meeting of minds passionate about tempting language from imagination onto the page. For writers at all levels, it will inspire your imagination and tune your craft as you make that leap from “What if?” to the page.

Crossing Places

New Research in African Studies

Edited By: Charlotte Baker, Zoë Norridge

£34.99

A new generation of scholars offers fresh approaches to African history and culture. This collection explores themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations, and the renegotiation of identity, with a geographical range from Algeria to Zimbabwe.

Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse

Edited By: Kjersti Fløttum

From £19.99

From the “Academic Voices in Contrast” symposium, this book features research by distinguished scholars on the academic author's voice. It explores interlingual and interdisciplinary differences, constituting a clear advancement in academic discourse research.

From the “Academic Voices in Contrast” symposium, this book features research by distinguished scholars on the academic author’s voice. It explores interlingual and interdisciplinary differences, constituting a clear advancement in academic discourse research.

Assessing Social Capital

Concept, Policy and Practice

Edited By: Rosalind Edwards, Jane Franklin, Janet Holland

From £19.99

Social capital is a key concept in policymaking, but does it hide more than it illuminates? Is it even harmful? This collection assesses the theory and its policy drawbacks. Renowned researchers reveal its flaws and offer alternatives, while others adapt it.

A Self-divided Poet

Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood

By: Rodney Stenning Edgecombe

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Long regarded as a minor comic poet, this first book on Thomas Hood’s verse reveals his true range. It analyzes his serious poems, uncovering a debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, while also giving his comic genius its due in his light-hearted oeuvre.

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.

The Many Worlds of Circus

Edited By: Robert Sugarman

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This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. "This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings." —Janet M. Davis

This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. “This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings.” —Janet M. Davis

Political Islam and Human Security

Edited By: Shahram Akbarzadeh, Fethi Mansouri

From £19.99

Leading international scholars examine the uneasy relationship between the Muslim world and the West in the context of the 'war on terror'. This volume deals with Islamism, militancy, and the vicious cycle of mutual insecurity through theory and case studies.

Leading international scholars examine the uneasy relationship between the Muslim world and the West in the context of the ‘war on terror’. This volume deals with Islamism, militancy, and the vicious cycle of mutual insecurity through theory and case studies.

The Many Facets of Love

Philosophical Explorations

Edited By: Thomas Jay Oord

£34.99

We might think philosophers have thoroughly analyzed love, but this is not the case. This book takes a step toward rectifying that neglect, bringing together fifteen philosophical perspectives to explore love’s facets, most with religious concerns.