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Thinking about Addiction: Hyperbolic Discounting and Responsible Agency by Craig Hanson 9789042026629
Booksplease Price: £50.82What is addiction? Why do some people become addicted while others do not? Is the addict rational? In this book, Craig Hanson attempts to answer these questions and more. Using insights from the... -
Solo Performances: Staging the Early Modern Self in England by Ute Berns 9789042029521
Booksplease Price: £90.18In this volume an international cast of scholars explores conceptions of the self in the literature and culture of the Early Modern England. Drawing on theories of performativity and performance,... -
English for Professional and Academic Purposes by Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido 9789042029552
Booksplease Price: £83.09English in academic and professional settings has received great attention over the last 50 years, as its use has become a key asset for anyone interested in improving his/her chances of... -
Crossing Frontiers: Cultural Exchange and Conflict by Barbara Burns 9789042029972
Booksplease Price: £90.18This volume brings together two very popular and active research fields: Swiss Studies and Intercultural Studies. It includes contributions on the movement of ideas, literatures, and individuals from... -
The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910 by Marguerite Corporaal 9789042029996
Booksplease Price: £98.35This volume of essays by scholars in the field of English and American studies brings together a variety of perspectives on the utopian literature originating from cultural communities from 1790-1910... -
Memory, Mourning, Landscape by Elizabeth Anderson 9789042030862
Booksplease Price: £78.37This volume sheds twenty-first-century light on the charged interactions between memory, mourning and landscape. A century after Freud, our understanding of how memory and mourning function continues... -
Exit: Endings and New Beginnings in Literature and Life by Stefan Helgesson 9789042032514
Booksplease Price: £112.04If anything is certain in human existence, it is the exit. Before the universal yet radically singular event of death, however, history leaves its mark on us by determining which exits are possible,... -
Writing the Heavenly Frontier: Metaphor, Geography, and Flight Autobiography in America 1927-1954 by Denice Turner 9789042032965
Booksplease Price: £78.37Writing the Heavenly Frontier celebrates the early voices of the air as it examines the sky as a metaphorical and political landscape. While flight histories usually focus on the physical dangers of... -
Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation: Exploring Theological Identities at Home and in Diaspora by Heup Young Kim 9789042032989
Booksplease Price: £82.31The old contrast between "universal" and "local" is now collapsing, but a new paradigm has yet to be defined. The contributors claim that the questions they raise will help redraw... -
Ford Madox Ford, France and Provence by Dominique Lemarchal 9789042033474
Booksplease Price: £106.97The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies... -
Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts by Nikita Basov 9789042034624
Booksplease Price: £74.43Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultures and involves them into a... -
English Corpus Linguistics: Looking back, Moving forward: Papers from the 30th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 30). Lancaster, UK, 27-31 May 2009 by Sebastian Hoffmann 9789042034662
Booksplease Price: £90.48This book showcases sixteen papers from the landmark 30th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) held at Lancaster University in May 2009. The theme... -
Texts beyond Borders: Multilingualism and Textual Scholarship by Wout Dillen 9789042034938
Booksplease Price: £107.77Contacts between languages, especially translations, have always played a crucial role in the making of European culture, from Antiquity until today. Bilingual or multilingual documents, literary... -
Raed and Frofer: Christian Poetics in the Old English <i>Froferboc</i> Meters by Karmen Lenz 9789042035539
Booksplease Price: £54.75This study is the first concentrated investigation of the Old English Book of Consolation Meters, associated with King Alfred's court. These Alfredian poems, which have long been neglected, recapture... -
Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952 by Konstantina Georganta 9789042035638
Booksplease Price: £83.88Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952 presents a panorama of cultures brought in dialogue through travel, immigration and translation set against the... -
Transgressive Transcripts: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Women's Writing by Yu-Hsiang Fu Bennett 9789042035683
Booksplease Price: £66.56Transgressive Transcripts examines the construction of women's subjectivity and the textual production of Canadian female voices orchestrated in history, culture, ethnicity, and sexuality. The book,... -
The Metamorphosis of War by Avery Plaw 9789042035713
Booksplease Price: £99.63In the last few decades the practice, purpose and the very language of warfare have been radically transformed. This volume mobilizes the resources of a range of disciplines across the social... -
Autistic Company by Ruud Hendriks 9789042035751
Booksplease Price: £94.90Social interactions of autistic and non-autistic persons are intriguing. In all sorts of situations people with autism are part of the daily life of those around them. Such interactions exist despite... -
Opting Out: Deviance and Generational Identities in American Post-War Cult Fiction by Ana Sobral 9789042035768
Booksplease Price: £98.05Opting Out explores the theme of deviance as a form of protest in famous cult novels that have left an indelible mark on contemporary American culture - from Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Chuck... -
New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Jessica Cox 9789042035799
Booksplease Price: £105.69Mary Elizabeth Braddon, one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian period, remains best known for her sensation fiction, but over the course of a long career contributed to a multitude of... -
Discourse and language learning across L2 instructional settings by Eva Alcon Soler 9789042035843
Booksplease Price: £118.08Studies on discourse and language learning originated in the field of general education and they focused on first language learning environments. However, since 1980s research on discourse and... -
Dada and Beyond, Volume 2: Dada and its Legacies by Elza Adamowicz 9789042035898
Booksplease Price: £99.63International, iconoclastic, inventive, born out of the institutionalised madness of the First World War, Dada erupted in cities throughout Europe and the USA, creating shock waves that offended... -
Discussing Modernity: A Dialogue with Martin Jay by Dorota Koczanowicz 9789042036642
Booksplease Price: £58.69Martin Jay is one of America's leading intellectual historians. His work spans almost all important questions concerning the subject of modernity. Outstanding Polish scholars engage in a dialogue... -
Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption by David Banash 9789042036819
Booksplease Price: £108.56Collage Culture develops a comprehensive theory of the origins and meanings of collage and readymades in modern and postmodern art, literature, and everyday life. Demonstrating that the origins of... -
Beyond Aesthetics and Politics: Philosophical and Axiological Studies on the Avant-Garde, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism by Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski 9789042036857
Booksplease Price: £66.56The book presents five philosophical and axiological studies devoted to the relationship between aesthetics and politics. It shows this relationship throughout the works of some avant-gardists,... -
Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by David C. Bellusci 9789042036864
Booksplease Price: £66.56Amor Dei, “love of God” raises three questions: How do we know God is love? How do we experience love of God? How free are we to love God? This book presents three kinds of love, worldly, spiritual,... -
German Text Crimes: Writers Accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s by Tom Cheesman 9789042036901
Booksplease Price: £87.82German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950s. Topics range from literary echoes of the "Heidegger... -
Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts by Mara R. Wade 9789042037748
Booksplease Price: £117.59Gender Matters opens the debate concerning violence in literature and the arts beyond a single national tradition and engages with multivalent aspects of both female and male gender constructs,... -
Darwin Becomes Art: Aesthetic Vision in the Wake of Darwin: 1870–1920 by Hugh Ridley 9789042038479
Booksplease Price: £68.92This book analyses Darwin's influence on art and the effect of his science on experiences of beauty. The first chapter discusses Darwin's great forerunner, Alexander von Humboldt, and his... -
Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places by Anna-Margaretha Horatschek 9789042038622
Booksplease Price: £99.63Abstract space becomes concrete place by being bound to individual and historical experience. Sea and coast - in texts from antiquity to the present mostly seen as mere spaces of transit and division... -
Ah, What Is It? ‒ That I Heard: Katherine Mansfield’s Wings of Wonder by Anne Mounic 9789042038646
Booksplease Price: £78.37The spirit of the narrative is mankind’s reflexive consciousness, or poetic genius ‒ our unique access to ourselves, our desperate endeavour “to be REAL”. It brings to light the dark unknown which is... -
In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Fielding, Smollett, Sterne by Jakub Lipski 9789042038899
Booksplease Price: £68.92In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permeating the Age of Reason and as a sign of the... -
Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 by Megan J. Coyer 9789042038912
Booksplease Price: £103.31Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The... -
Interface Design & Document Design by Piet Westendorp 9789042005105
Booksplease Price: £28.78User interfaces and supporting documentation are both supposed to help people when using a complex device. But often, these forms of support seem to come from different worlds. User interface... -
Fifty Years of Quine’s Two Dogmas by Hans-Johann Glock 9789042009486
Booksplease Price: £106.97W. V. Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", first published in 1951, is one of the most influential articles in the history of analytic philosophy. It does not just question central semantic and... -
Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa by David Hardiman 9789042021068
Booksplease Price: £104.89This collection of articles on Asia and Africa uses the extensive archives that exist on medical missions to both enrich and challenge existing histories of the clinic in colonial territories –... -
Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery by Lionel Kelly 9789042007208
Booksplease Price: £50.03For all the disciplined artifice of Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery, the essays in this collection show that panic plays a crucial role in their work, giving substance to Bishop's claim that... -
Rifts in Time and in the Self: The Female Subject in Two Generations of East German Women Writers by Cheryl Dueck 9789042009370
Booksplease Price: £72.07The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 marked the end of East Germany's socialist regime and a new beginning for a unified German Federal Republic. Cultural historians agree that the event... -
Civil Society in Southeast Europe by Dane R. Gordon 9789042009394
Booksplease Price: £60.27Since the fall of communism in 1989 Southeast Europe has been a site of far-reaching societal transformation, much of it marked by political crisis, economic upheaval, ethnic tension, and bitter war... -
Nursing Ethics in Modern China: Conflicting Values and Competing Role Requirements by Samantha Mei-Che Pang 9789042009448
Booksplease Price: £75.22This book follows two lines of inquiry in understanding nursing ethics in the historical-cultural context of modern China. Firstly, it scrutinizes the prescribed set of moral virtues for nurses in...