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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”.

The Traveling and Writing Self

Edited By: Marguerite Helmers, Tilar Mazzeo

From £14.99

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.

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 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.

Feminism and Multiculturalism

How Do They/We Work Together?

Edited By: Joyce W. Warren

£24.99

This book explores cultural pluralities and their effect on women’s lives. Can multiculturalism coexist with feminist principles? Does respect for cultural traditions take precedence over women’s rights? Important voices offer new perspectives on these questions.

The Power of Compassion

An Exploration of the Psychology of Compassion in the 21st Century

Edited By: Marion Kostanski

From £17.99

How do we make sense of our world, a world of increasing angst and despair? The essays in this book provide insight from health professionals as they discuss their ideas on compassion, offering you an opportunity to reflect and go forward with a sense of shared humanity.

Cultures of Trade

Indian Ocean Exchanges

Edited By: Stephen Muecke, Devleena Ghosh

£39.99

The pre-colonial Indian Ocean hosted the first global economy, a history repeated today. Contributors narrate the cultures of exchange, showing how culture adds value to commodities and how trade created the complex religions and ethnicities of the region.

TechKnowledgies

New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences

Edited By: Mary Valentis with Tara P. Monastero, Paula Yablonsky

£39.99

This collection of essays, art, and installations explores how science and technology interact with the arts and humanities. This fusion breaks down disciplinary silos to produce new imaginaries and integrated knowledges—what we call new TechKnowledgies.

Music and Literary Modernism

Critical Essays and Comparative Studies

Edited By: Robert P. McParland

£34.99

Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore the place of music in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and the importance of literary art for composers from Messiaen to The Beatles.

American Dreams

Dialogues in U.S. Studies

Edited By: Ricardo Miguez

£39.99

This collection offers contemporary definitions for the "American Dream"—or rather, Dreams. Multidisciplinary selections from international scholars reflect current developments and approaches in US Studies, helping to broaden the scope of the field.

This collection offers contemporary definitions for the “American Dream”—or rather, Dreams. Multidisciplinary selections from international scholars reflect current developments and approaches in US Studies, helping to broaden the scope of the field.

Reflecting Transformation in Post-socialist Rural Areas

Edited By: Maarit Heinonen, Inna Kopoteva

£39.99

Post-soviet rural reforms, intended to create a society of family farmers, instead led to the collapse of production and rural communities. This volume analyzes the transformation of post-socialist agriculture and efforts to revitalize rural areas.

V.M.Chernov

Theorist, Leader, Politician

By: Alexander Trapeznik

£29.99

As leader of Russia's largest revolutionary party, Viktor Chernov was the democratic alternative to the Bolsheviks. Elected President of the Constituent Assembly, his vision for a 'third force' was shattered, leading to a tragic life in exile.

As leader of Russia’s largest revolutionary party, Viktor Chernov was the democratic alternative to the Bolsheviks. Elected President of the Constituent Assembly, his vision for a ‘third force’ was shattered, leading to a tragic life in exile.

Introductions and Translations to the Plays of Sophocles and Euripides

Vol. I

Edited By: Harry Love

£24.99

From twelve years of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences, these translations of Sophocles and Euripides are accessible and speakable. They maintain the poetry of tragedy without being archaic, accompanied by essays on drama, irony, and emotion.

Introductions and Translations to the Plays of Sophocles and Euripides

Vol. II

Edited By: Harry Love

£24.99

Finding the Foreign

Edited By: Suin Roberts, Robert Schechtman

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This collection explores constructions of the “foreign” in German-speaking culture. Articles reveal how cultural works are positioned on a spectrum from familiar to strange, showing how contingent the line between the foreign and the familiar becomes.

Epistemic Evil

By: Joel Tierno

£34.99

This book identifies a third problem of evil: epistemic evil. It arises when our judgments, through no corrigible defect, lead to undeserved human suffering. Tierno forcefully defends this problem, a groundbreaking challenge to theodicy.

Objects, Audiences, and Literatures

Alternative Narratives in the History of Design

Edited By: David Raizman, Carma Gorman

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Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.

Review Journal of Political Philosophy Volume 4

Edited By: J. Jeremy Wisnewski

£19.99

This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.

Creativity, Madness and Civilisation

Edited By: Richard Pine

£34.99

What is the link between creativity and madness? This collection of essays from psychiatrists, artists, and critics explores the question, discussing the work of artists from Robert Schumann and Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace.

Boundaries

Edited By: Jenni Ramone, Gemma Twitchen

£39.99

This collection offers creative and critical responses to making, breaking, and negotiating boundaries. A startling reassessment of its subject, it erases the borders between the critical, the creative, and the cultural with passion and precision.