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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility: Corporate Activities, the Environment and Society by Robert Kudłak 9781032021904
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility: Corporate Activities, the Environment and Society adds to the current debate on the societal-level impacts of corporate social responsibility (CSR)... -
Building an Academic Community: Challenges for Education Quality Management by Justyna M. Bugaj 9789004689053
Booksplease Price: £107.77Both HEIs and academic communities are affected by global trends that pose many challenges. This raises dilemmas related to community building and the cooperation between academic community members,... -
Football, Fandom and Collective Memory: Global Perspectives Przemysław Nosal 9781032449234
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This book examines the topic of identity and collective memory in football fandom. Drawing on global research in history, sociology and political science, the book looks at how, where and why... -
Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences by Ruth Wodak 9780230019874
Booksplease Price: £41.78What can language tell us about society? Looking at a range of genres, from political speeches to internet chat, this book shows how qualitative methods are used to analyse discourses throughout the... -
Emotional Appeals in Argumentation: From Rhetoric to Psychology and Artificial Intelligence Barbara Konat 9783032063311
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £100.92This book offers an investigation of emotional appeals (pathos) in natural language argumentation. Building on rhetorical theory, psychology, and computational linguistics, it introduces an... -
Festivals and Values: Music, Community Engagement and Organisational Symbolism by Waldemar Kuligowski 9783031397516
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £110.98This is an original book, covering all the past areas of research anyone would need to know about festivals and 'event-based culture'. It is based on academic research but written in a way relevant... -
Music, Analysis, Experience: New Perspectives in Musical Semiotics by Costantino Maeder 9789462700444
Booksplease Price: £57.78Transdisciplinary and intermedial analysis of the experience of music. Nowadays musical semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitive sciences, ethology, or linguistics... -
Chopin's Polish Ballade Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom by Jonathan Bellman 9780195338867
Booksplease Price: £47.94Chopin's Second Ballade, Op. 38 is frequently performed, and takes only seven or so minutes to play. Yet the work remains very poorly understood--disagreement prevails on issues from its tonic and... -
Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences Samuel Bennett 9780197747216
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £65.33Nations all have stories about themselves--where they came from, what it means to be a citizen of that nation, what its values are. In Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration... -
Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language Literature in East Central Europe and the Balkans, 1945–1990 Professor or Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht 9798765113745
Booksplease Price: £90.57The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during the restrictive era of socialist and totalitarian political systems.In nearly all... -
Pregnant Bodies from Shakespeare to Ford: A Phenomenology of Pregnancy in English Early Modern Drama by Katarzyna Burzyńska 9780367756468
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores how the pregnant body is portrayed, perceived and enacted in Shakespeare's and his contemporaries' drama by means of a phenomenological analysis and a recourse to early modern... -
The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix by Alain Mabanckou
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events... -
Juliusz Slowacki`s Agamemnon`s Tomb - A Polish Oresteia Catherine O`neil 9781587310171
Booksplease Price: £14.88The importance of Juliusz Slowacki (1809-1849) as Poland's second greatest Romantic poet, after Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1856), is a platitude. Yet, in the English-speaking world, Slowacki receives... -
Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19: How the Pandemic Has Changed the World Jędrzej Skrzypczak 9781032773681
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world.The COVID-19 pandemic... -
Quantum Optics for Beginners by Zbigniew Ficek
RRP: £97.99Booksplease Price: £85.88Atomic correlations have been studied in physics for over 50 years and known as collective effects until recently when they came to be recognized as a source of entanglement. This is the first book... -
Chinese Language(s): A Look through the Prism of The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects by Maria Kurpaska 9783110219142
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £100.12The major aim of the book is to trace the current structuring of the Chinese language(s) on the ground of Chinese linguistics. The research presented is based on the newest and most renowned sources,... -
Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe: Landscape of Power Network, Military Organisation and Commerce by Gregory Leighton 9781032212838
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis, and historical research. What they all have in common are zones that lie in... -
The Kashubs: Past and Present: Past and Present by Krzysztof Jaskulowski 9783039119752
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £39.04The Kashubs, a regional autochthonous group inhabiting northern Poland, represent one of the most dynamic ethnic groups in Europe. As a community, they have undergone significant political, social,... -
The Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Imagery in South-Central Anatolia Patrycja Filipowicz 9783032027573
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £100.92This book provides a synthesis of Late Neolithic / Early Chalcolithic imagery from South-Central Anatolia, encompassing both Central Anatolia and the Lake District. It explores the nature of... -
Demotivation in Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Japan by Keita Kikuchi 9781783093946
Booksplease Price: £91.11SLA literature tends to focus predominantly on what motivates language learners, but what demotivates them has not been widely discussed. This book, focusing exclusively on demotivation, will help... -
Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 by Tamara Trojanowska 9781487524593
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.94Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of... -
Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films by Artur Skweres 9783319838694
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study Homo... -
Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present by Dr Andrzej Rozwadowski
Booksplease Price: £31.53Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present sets out a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. In recent... -
Binomials in the History of English: Fixed and Flexible by Joanna Kopaczyk 9781107118478
RRP: £124.00Booksplease Price: £114.02Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical category and linked by a semantic relationship. They are... -
Psalms by Julia Fiedorczuk 9780299346942
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Fiedorczuk was inspired by her readings of the original Hebrew Psalms, as well as by the process of learning to sing. In her poems she captures the heartache and joy of the Biblical Psalms, but in... -
John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century by Christopher Joby 9781843846147
Booksplease Price: £111.62The first book-length biography of John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), a second-generation migrant poet, translator and military author, that explores ideas and practices of identity formation in the... -
Chinese Philosophy of History: From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Dr Dawid Rogacz 9781350215344
Booksplease Price: £33.84Challenging the Eurocentric misconception that the philosophy of history is a Western invention, this book reconstructs Chinese thought and offers the first systematic treatment of classical Chinese... -
Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet Oscar Pérez de la Fuente 9781032228488
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet explores the regulation of free speech online and offline.Views are divided as to how much regulation of the Internet is appropriate. Some argue that it... -
Women Sport Fans: Identification, Participation, Representation Kim Toffoletti 9780367233303
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Women worldwide are making their presence felt as sport fans in rapidly increasing numbers. This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of sport fandom by exploring the... -
Machine Learning for Small Bodies in the Solar System Valerio Carruba 9780443247705
Booksplease Price: £111.13Machine Learning for Small Bodies in the Solar System provides the latest developments and methods in applications of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to different aspects of... -
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love by Joanna Bourke
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.84Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abhorrent, it is remarkable how many books, films, plays, paintings, and photographs depict the subject... -
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, The Public Years, Volume II by Charles Capper 9780195063134
Booksplease Price: £62.51Winner of the 1993 Bancroft Prize and praised in The Nation as 'the richest account we have yet of Fuller's formative years,' the first volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life was... -
New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe by Katharina Bluhm
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around market reforms, democratization, and rule... -
Christian Doctrines for Global Gender Justice by Grace Ji-Sun Kim 9781137475459
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines. Chapters show the effectiveness of Latina/mujerista, evangelica, womanist, Asian American, and white feminist imaginings in the... -
From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius 9780815399629
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of... -
Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet by Oscar Pérez de la Fuente
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £119.99Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet explores the regulation of free speech online and offline.Views are divided as to how much regulation of the Internet is appropriate. Some argue that it... -
Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland: Linguistic Practice and Ideology by Stuart S. Dunmore
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Situated within the interrelated disciplines of sociolinguistics and sociology of language, this book explores the language use and attitudinal perceptions of a sample of 130 adults who received... -
Living Politics in the City: Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space by Marion Hohlfeldt 9789462703599
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.59In recent decades, architecture has been seen as a field of practice that contributes greatly to the performativity of public space. In spite of the explosion of virtual communities through social... -
The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century by Sarah Ogilvie 9780190913199
Booksplease Price: £40.38Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America,... -
Quantum Physics for Beginners Zbigniew Ficek 9789814669382
RRP: £70.99Booksplease Price: £63.44The textbook covers the background theory of various effects discussed from first principles, as clearly as possible, to introduce students to the main ideas of quantum physics and to teach the basic...