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The Gift of Logos

Essays in Continental Philosophy

Edited By: David Jones, Michael Schwartz, Jason M. Wirth

£39.99

The Continental tradition emphasizes the Logos, which these essays celebrate as a gift that overcomes existential alienation. To give a gift is to befriend. This collection argues that true transformation is our greatest gift, and giving it voice is the gift of Logos.

The Politics of Cultural Programming in Public Spaces

Edited By: Robert Gehl, Vicki Watts

£34.99

In our digital world, it can be easy to forget public spaces. This book interrogates cultural programs, from festivals to museums, to discover how these bodily experiences affect us. It argues that both events and institutions are caught in political webs.

Documents on the Balkans – History, Memory, Identity

Representations of Historical Discourses in the Balkan Documentary Film

By: Margit Rohringer

£44.99

This book explores how Balkan films produce identities based on memory, often in response to the 1990s conflicts. Case studies connect the 'private space' of everyday lives to macro-debates, making this a powerful contribution to cultural and visual history.

This book explores how Balkan films produce identities based on memory, often in response to the 1990s conflicts. Case studies connect the ‘private space’ of everyday lives to macro-debates, making this a powerful contribution to cultural and visual history.

Holocaust Persecution

Responses and Consequences

Edited By: Wendy Koenig, Nancy Rupprecht, Nancy E. Rupprecht

£39.99

This anthology uniquely approaches Holocaust Studies by focusing on the responses to and consequences of persecution. Essays by renowned scholars explore topics from Arab rescuers of Jews to the legal precedents set by the Nuremberg trials.

Nuclear Proliferation and the Dilemma of Peace in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: David A. Valone

£34.99

President Jimmy Carter recalls the imminent nuclear threat he faced in the White House. He is joined by experts and a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb in this collection of talks on nuclear disarmament and the ongoing struggle for peace.

Matter and Meaning

Is Matter Sacred or Profane?

Edited By: Michael Fuller

From £19.99

What is matter? Can it point us towards meanings outside itself? This book offers new historical, scientific and theological insights from leading figures, exploring the complex dialogue between these disciplines beyond its presentation in the popular media.

Comparative Patriarchy and American Institutions

The Language, Culture, and Politics of Liberalism

Edited By: Francis Feeley

£44.99

This book oscillates between analysis, which tries to explain what man is, and anecdote, which teaches what he is capable of becoming. By examining diverse gender relationships, we may gain wider perspectives on our own prejudices and become more fully human.

Single-Voice Transformations

A Model for Parsimonious Voice Leading

By: Brandon Derfler

£39.99

This study models smooth voice leading with abstract algebra via the single-semitone transformation (SST). The model yields 3D graphical lattices and serves as a versatile analytical tool for music from Chopin and Webern to Paul Lansky and John Adams.

Au Naturel

(Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism

Edited By: Lara Anderson, J. P. Spicer-Escalante

£44.99

The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.

The Future of Post-Human War and Peace

A Preface to a New Theory of Aggression and Pacificity

By: Peter Baofu

£49.99

The fickle conventional wisdom on war and peace has blinded us to the dark sides of both. This book offers a new theory to transcend existing approaches, fundamentally changing the way we think about war, peace, and the future of humanity.

Dublin Castle and the Anglo-Irish War

Counter Insurgency and Conflict

By: Eamonn T. Gardiner

£24.99

This book examines why the British, with a modern army and vast empire, were unable to suppress an infant Irish insurgency. It probes the operational failures and complex animosities within the British security apparatus to find the answer.

On the Red Horse, Peter and Paul—A Small Book about a Big War (Diary Entries, Articles, Letters, 1991–1998)

By: Helena Peričić

£24.99

Helena Peričić's brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s. This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.

Helena Peričić’s brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s.

This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.

Revisiting Decadence

A Behavioral Interpretation of Fifteenth-Century Historical Narrative

By: Lia Ross

£39.99

An introduction to the fifteenth century through the chronicles and personal recollections of its writers. It examines how their pessimistic conclusions about the conduct of their contemporaries contributed to the era's reputation for decadence.

NeoLiberal Scotland

Class and Society in a Stateless Nation

Edited By: Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty

£24.99

Contrary to popular belief, neoliberalism has become institutionalised in Scotland. This book details for the first time its negative effects on society and democracy, and serves as a case study of neoliberalism in a “stateless nation” of the West.

Emblems of Adversity

Essays on the Aesthetics of Politics in W. B. Yeats and Others

By: Rached Khalifa

£39.99

These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats's poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.

These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats’s poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.

Discrimination in Northern Ireland, 1920-1939

Myth or Reality?

By: John O’Brien

£19.99

This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland's Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.

This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland’s Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.

The Medieval Empire in Central Europe

Dynastic Continuity in the Post-Carolingian Frankish Realm, 900-1300

By: Herbert Schutz

£44.99

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe's strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe’s strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of African States in the 21st Century

By: E. Ike Udogu

£39.99

Africa, arguably the world’s richest continent, lags in development and is politically marginalized. This book debates strategies to advance a Union of African States, arguing it is critical to provide the clout needed to spur development and gain global relevance.

L’Intime épistolaire (1850-1900)

genre et pratique culturelle

By: Jelena Jovicic

£39.99

Through the private letters of authors like Flaubert, Zola, and Sand, this study casts fresh light on intimacy in Nineteenth-Century French culture. It interprets letter writing as a unique genre, distinct from diaries or memoirs, with its own rules.

Mary Shelley

Her Circle and Her Contemporaries

Edited By: L. Adam Meckler, Lucy Morrison

£39.99

This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.

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