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Situating Racism

The Local, National and the Global

By: Hurriyet Babacan, Narayan Gopalkrishnan

£34.99

This book uncovers the complex causes and manifestations of contemporary racism in a globalized world. It analyzes how its boundaries shift, the impact of factors like nationalism and politics, and the challenges of building an anti-racist future.

Of Mice and Men

Animals in Human Culture

Edited By: Nandita Batra, Vartan P. Messier

From £24.99

This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.

Pinter Et Cetera

Edited By: Craig N. Owens

£39.99

PINTER ET CETERA collects essays arguing that Harold Pinter was not merely a unique writer, but an artist influencing and influenced by painters, filmmakers, and poets. This bold volume expands our understanding of Pinter's importance beyond the absurdist stage.

Ta(l)king English Phonetics Across Frontiers

Edited By: Biljana Čubrović, Tatjana Paunović

£39.99

This book explores English phonetics from a wide spectrum of perspectives. As a global language, the very notions of native/non-native and standard/non-standard have changed. This collection covers varieties, L2 teaching, language contact, and change.

Modern John Buchan

A Critical Introduction

By: Nathan Waddell

£34.99

This book claims John Buchan as a key interpreter of modernity whose diverse work complicates the divide between “low” and “high” literature. It situates him as an intellectual figure and discusses his most famous work, The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Dimensions of Social Exclusion

Ethnographic Explorations

Edited By: Eswarappa Kasi, K. M. Ziyauddin

£39.99

This book revolves around the societal institutions that exclude, discriminate, and deprive groups based on identities such as caste or ethnicity. It examines social exclusion as a complex, multi-dimensional process across a wide spectrum of societies.

Not So Innocent Abroad

The Politics of Travel and Travel Writing

Edited By: Ulrike Brisson, Bernard Schweizer

£39.99

Travel and travel writing are never innocent. This book offers a fresh approach, arguing that journeying always occurs within political systems. It reveals the political implications and dissimulated messages in travelogues from the 18th to 21st century.

Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse

Edited By: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Renata Povolná

£39.99

This volume provides new insights into the dynamic nature of coherence in spoken and written discourse. Combining theoretical insights with practical analyses, it will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and students of English.

Power in the EFL Classroom

Critical Pedagogy in the Middle East

Edited By: Phyllis Wachob

£39.99

Critical Pedagogy is a way of ‘doing’ learning. In these studies, teachers from across the Middle East address questions of power in education, arguing that we must respect students and enable their empowerment by providing space and honoring their dignity.

The Jurisprudence of Lord Denning

A Study in Legal History, in Three Volumes

By: Charles Stephens

£99.99

This definitive trilogy explores the jurisprudence of Lord Denning, the 20th century's most pivotal judge. It reveals his shaping of the common law, his view of English identity, and his response to an era of immense social change.

This definitive trilogy explores the jurisprudence of Lord Denning, the 20th century’s most pivotal judge. It reveals his shaping of the common law, his view of English identity, and his response to an era of immense social change.

Talking Drama

Edited By: Judith Roof

£34.99

What is the relation between drama and its critics? Drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the problems of human existence. Plays critique society and themselves, while also spurring critique from the audiences and reviewers who are intrinsic to theatre.

Migration and Development

Factoring Return into the Equation

By: Savina Ammassari

£44.99

This book finds that highly-skilled Ghanaian and Ivorian return migrants can be key development agents. Bringing back financial, human, and social capital, they create new businesses and community initiatives, supporting the idea of 'brain circulation'.

Perspectives on Lexicography in Italy and Europe

Edited By: Marina Foschi Albert, Silvia Bruti, Roberta Cella

£44.99

This volume offers an overview of state-of-the-art lexicographical research in Europe, with contributions on historical and synchronic dictionaries for major European languages and the profound effects of information technology on designing and using them.

Crossing Cultural Boundaries

Taboo, Bodies and Identities

Edited By: Lili Hernández

£39.99

What are the consequences of transgression? This collection of essays explores how cultural boundaries are challenged and redefined through the intricacies of taboos, bodies, and identities. Deconstructing boundaries becomes part of the project of redefining the self.

Pursuits and Joys

Great Victorian Antiquarians and Intellects

Edited By: Heather Sebire

£39.99

This volume is a collection of updated papers exploring the remarkable Lukis family and their contemporaries. It examines their pioneering work and the evolution of archaeology as a discipline in the nineteenth century across Britain and Europe.

Banaras

Making of India’s Heritage City

By: Rana Singh

£64.99

Narrating the making of Banaras, the Hindus’ most sacred city, this book is an insightful guide to the cultural complexities, ritualscapes, and vivid heritagescapes that maintain India’s pride of history and culture.

Building Cultures of Peace

Transdisciplinary Voices of Hope and Action

Edited By: Randall Amster, Elavie Ndura-Ouédraogo

From £24.99

In a world torn apart by conflict, from families to nations, how do we build a culture of peace? This volume of essays presents multiple perspectives from scholars and practitioners on fostering hope and creating peace in a conflict-ridden world.

Generations in Towns

Succession and Success in Pre-Industrial Urban Societies

Edited By: Finn-Einar Eliassen, Katalin Szende

£39.99

This book fills a gap in urban history with twelve studies of generations in late medieval and early modern European towns. Dealing with topics like succession, inheritance, and conflict, the articles demonstrate the importance of generational studies on pre-modern towns.

Musical Islands

Exploring Connections between Music, Place and Research

Edited By: Katelyn Barney, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Klisala Harrison, Elizabeth Mackinlay

£49.99

Islands are imagined as unique places where unexpected treasures can be found. This collection applies this powerful metaphor to musicology, showcasing innovative research from Australia and New Zealand in both established and uncharted territories.

Cinemas, Identities and Beyond

Edited By: D. H. Fleming, Cheung Ruby

From £19.99

Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines how film represents and constructs identities, transcending national and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays challenges ideological paradigms and contributes to contemporary debates in film studies.

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