Bookshop

Judicial Activism in Bangladesh

A Golden Mean Approach

By: Ridwanul Hoque

£44.99

This book reframes judicial activism as a balance between over-assertion and passivity. With particular reference to Bangladesh, it reveals judicial under-activism and argues that pragmatic intervention is critical for good governance and social justice.

Being Reconfigured

By: Ian Leask with Eoin Cassidy

£34.99

This book challenges contemporary phenomenology’s denegation of Being. It provides a fruitful alternative through a reassessment of Edith Stein’s ontology, considering Being in Steinian terms of support and safety to overcome this critical impasse.

Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnological Interrelations In and Around Armenia

Edited By: Uwe Bläsing, Jasmine Dum-Tragut

£39.99

Armenia has long been a cultural bridge in the Southern Caucasus. While preserving its unique identity, it has been shaped by its neighbors. This volume offers an interdisciplinary view of the linguistic and cultural properties Armenians share with them.

Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous

Edited By: Janka Kaščáková, Janka Kaščăkovă

£39.99

The unifying factor of these essays is ambiguity. The volume explores this essential feature of the postmodern age—its definition, purpose, and historical use by writers—and its appearance not only in literature, but in wider social issues.

Rethinking the Racial Moment

Essays on the Colonial Encounter

Edited By: Barbara Brookes, Alison Holland

£39.99

This collection of essays re-energises the debate on race by focusing on its intersections with colonialism. It shifts our historical understanding, offering invigorating new approaches to cultural encounters via the interpretive frame of ‘the moment.’

Olde New Mexico

By: Robert D. Morritt

From £19.99

This history of New Mexico covers early Pueblo societies, Spanish incursions, and the fortitude of indigenous people as they faced conquistadors and American “Frontier” soldiers.

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

Fra Diavolo

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£39.99

The product of one of musical history's most successful partnerships, Auber and Scribe's opéra-comique Fra Diavolo is a masterpiece of thrilling plot and brilliant music. Based on a real Italian bandit, it is Auber's most enduring opera.

The product of one of musical history’s most successful partnerships, Auber and Scribe’s opéra-comique Fra Diavolo is a masterpiece of thrilling plot and brilliant music. Based on a real Italian bandit, it is Auber’s most enduring opera.

The Lure of Olde Arizona

By: Robert D. Morritt

From £29.99

This book affords an in-depth history of Arizona from the Paleographical era up until Statehood. The book examines the early roots of the indigenous people, together with contemporary accounts of early settlers.

To Define and Inform

An Analysis of Information Provided in Dictionaries Used by Learners of English in China and Denmark

By: Saihong Li Rasmussen

£44.99

This path-breaking study advances a radical argument about how learner's dictionaries are used and should be improved. Supported by comparative research with learners of English, it makes a vital contribution to lexicographical theory and practice.

This path-breaking study advances a radical argument about how learner’s dictionaries are used and should be improved. Supported by comparative research with learners of English, it makes a vital contribution to lexicographical theory and practice.

L’épuisement du biographique?

Edited By: Vincent Broqua, Guillaume Marche

£49.99

Le biographique n'est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.

Le biographique n’est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.

Carver Across the Curriculum

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver

Edited By: Katherine Ashley, Paul Benedict Grant

£34.99

Carver Across the Curriculum presents innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching Raymond Carver’s work. Drawing on international scholars, this collection is a guide and inspiration for instructors, offering new insights into his fiction and poetry.

Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects

Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

This collection explores women's identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

The Willow’s Whisper

A Transatlantic Compilation of Poetry from Ireland and Native America

Edited By: Micheal Ó'hAodha

From £24.99

The Willow’s Whisper brings poets from Irish and Native American communities together. In this collection, mother-earth comes to life, reawakening our senses. Reconnect with the part of you linked to nature and hear a whisper of hope.

Cinema and Intermediality

The Passion for the In-Between

By: Ágnes Pethő

£54.99

This book investigates what the “inter-” of “intermediality” entails in cinema. Essays explore how film positions itself “in-between” media and arts through analyses of directors like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda.

Anti-Tales

The Uses of Disenchantment

Edited By: David Calvin, Catriona McAra

£44.99

The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.

Masculinities in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Edith Biegler Vandervoort

£44.99

As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.

The Yields of Transition

Literature, Art and Philosophy in Early Medieval China

Edited By: Jana S. Rošker, Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

£44.99

This volume on the Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220–589 AD) opens new pathways in sinological studies. It reveals a new image of this period, undermining common historical interpretations and showing its decisive achievements.

Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning

Settings of the Theophanic

By: Frederic Will

From £39.99

This book harvests the author’s work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlying nature of historical accounts.

Iris Murdoch, Philosopher Meets Novelist

Edited By: Sofia de Melo Araújo, Fátima Vieira

£34.99

This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.

The Search for Wholeness and Diaspora Literacy in Contemporary African American Literature

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego

£39.99

This volume explores the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings of contemporary African American women. Across fiction, drama, and poetry, this search is analyzed as a source of creativity and agency, healing spirit and body by reconciling past and present.

Verify to Download