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The Sequential Imperative: General Cognitive Principles and the Structure of Behaviour by William Edmondson 9789004342897
Booksplease Price: €79.21In The Sequential Imperative William Edmondson explains how deep study of linguistics - from phonetics to pragmatics - can be the basis for understanding the organization of behaviour in any organism... -
Intervening Spaces: Respatialisation and the Body by Nycole Prowse 9789004362994
Booksplease Price: €67.03Intervening Spaces examines the interconnectedness between bodies, time and space - the oscillating and at times political impact that occurs when bodies and space engage in non-conventional ways... -
Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon by Avner Falk 9789004425422
Booksplease Price: €86.70Agnon's Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was... -
Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices by Jorunn Svensen Gjerden 9789004395206
Booksplease Price: €139.58Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the... -
A Writer's Topography: Space and Place in the Life and Works of Albert Camus by Jason Herbeck 9789004298231
Booksplease Price: €104.51A Writer's Topography examines French-Algerian Nobel Prize laureate Albert Camus's intimate yet often unsettled relationship with natural and human landscapes. Much like the Greek hero Sisyphus about... -
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect by Adeline Patard 9789004399334
Booksplease Price: €114.81The volume proposes original semantic analyses on items marking grammatical aspect. The contributions deal with structurally divergent languages, setting to the fore some less studied forms coding... -
Integrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science by Robert C. Trundle 9789004299740
Booksplease Price: €78.28Integrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science relates an existential phenomenology to modal reasoning. By this reasoning, rooted in a... -
A Long the Krommerun: Selected Papers from the Utrecht James Joyce Symposium by Onno Kosters 9789004314450
Booksplease Price: €117.62A LONG THE KROMMERUN offers a selection of the best papers delivered at the XXIV International James Joyce Symposium hosted by Utrecht University, the Netherlands, June 2014. The essays offer fresh... -
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Torture by Lon Olson 9789004405707
Booksplease Price: €82.01This volume offers diverse insights on how the practice of torture has impacted society and how we view human nature. After the Second World War, it was hoped that torture had been permanently... -
Religious Pluralism and Pragmatist Theology: Openness and Resistance by Jan-Olav Henriksen 9789004412323
Booksplease Price: €75.46Inspired by pragmatism, this book addresses religious plurality with the aim of bringing forth how it may be approached constructively by Christian theology. Accordingly, not doctrine, but practices... -
Lessons in Exile by Carlos Pereda 9789004385146
Booksplease Price: €79.21This book, winner of the 2007 Siglo XXI International Essay Prize, is unique in its approach to exile and offers remarkable insights into the subject. It discusses both human nature and the... -
Gender under Construction: Femininities and Masculinities in Context by Ewa Glapka 9789004350762
Booksplease Price: €67.03Gender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the... -
How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices by Ernst van Alphen 9789004397699
Booksplease Price: €111.06How to Do Things with Affects develops affect as a highly productive concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of aesthetic forms. Shifting the focus from individual experiences and the... -
Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, and the Baha'i Faith by Mikhail Sergeev 9789004300033
Booksplease Price: €83.90In Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Baha'i Faith Mikhail Sergeev offers a new interpretation of the Soviet period of Russian history as a phase within the religious evolution... -
Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature: A Phenomenological Account by Wojciech Chojna 9789004357129
Booksplease Price: €67.03In Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature Wojciech Chojna discusses Ingarden's theory of literary works and develops a phenomenological account of identity which accommodates differences in... -
Forest Family: Australian Culture, Art, and Trees by John C. Ryan 9789004368644
Booksplease Price: €79.21Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and... -
The Philosophy of Spirituality: Analytic, Continental and Multicultural Approaches to a New Field of Philosophy by Heather Salazar 9789004376298
Booksplease Price: €99.82The essays in The Philosophy of Spirituality explore a new field in philosophy. Until recently, most philosophers in the analytic and continental Western traditions treated spirituality as a... -
Censorship, Translation and English Language Fiction in People's Poland by Robert Looby 9789004293052
Booksplease Price: €93.26This book studies the influence of censorship on the selection and translation of English language fiction in the People's Republic of Poland, 1944-1989. It analyses the differences between originals... -
The Forgotten Film Adaptations of D.H. Lawrence's Short Stories by Jason Mark Ward 9789004309043
Booksplease Price: €129.54This book looks beyond fidelity to emphasize how each adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's short stories functions as a creative response to a text, foregrounding the significance of its fluidity,... -
Re-visiting Female Evil: Power, Purity and Desire by Melissa Dearey 9789004350397
Booksplease Price: €67.03Reflecting current trends in scholarly analysis of evil and the feminine, the chapters contained in Re-visiting Female Evil focus upon various 're-interpretations' of evil femininities as a cultural... -
Twenty-First Century Theologies of Religions: Retrospection and Future Prospects by Paul Hedges 9789004322462
Booksplease Price: €104.86Within Christian theology, debates on the theology of religions have intensified over the last thirty or so years. This volume surveys the field and maps future directions in this expanding and... -
Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination by Stephanos Stephanides 9789004300644
Booksplease Price: €87.64This collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices... -
What Happened? Re-presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries: Processing Individual and Collective Trauma by Elspeth McInnes 9789004383197
Booksplease Price: €86.70Traumatic experiences with an overwhelming life-threatening feel affect numerous people's lives. Death and disablement through accident, illness, war, family violence, natural and human-induced... -
Pragmatic Nonviolence: Working toward a Better World by Andrew Fitz-Gibbon 9789004445987
Booksplease Price: €88.57Written in dialog format, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon's Pragmatic Nonviolence argues that nonviolence is the best hope for a better world. Human violence in all its forms-physical, psychological and... -
Clinical Trials and the African Person: A Quest to Re-Conceptualize Responsibility by Ike Iyioke 9789004366602
Booksplease Price: €67.03Clinical Trials and the African Person aims to position the African notion of the self/person within the clinical trials context. As opposed to autonomy-based principlism, this... -
Communication and Conflict in Multiple Settings by Peter Bray 9789004371255
Booksplease Price: €79.21Communication decisively impacts upon all our lives. This inherent need to connect may either be soothing or painful, a source of intimate understanding or violent discord. Consequently, how it is... -
Simone de Beauvoir -- A Humanist Thinker by Tove Pettersen 9789004294400
Booksplease Price: €93.26This book is a novel contribution to contemporary research on Simone de Beauvoir, and a defense of the importance of the humanities. It reveals previously unexplored dimensions of Beauvoir's work by... -
Dostoevsky's Legal and Moral Philosophy: The Trial of Dmitri Karamazov by Raymond Angelo Belliotti 9789004325418
Booksplease Price: €100.76The trial of Dmitri Karamazov embodies Dostoevsky's general legal and moral philosophy. This book explains and critically analyses such notions as the rule of law, the adversary system of... -
The Subject of Aesthetics: A psychology of art and experience by Tone Roald 9789004308718
Booksplease Price: €69.84How does art influence us? In The Subject of Aesthetics, Tone Roald approaches aesthetics as a psychological discipline, showing how works of art challenge our habitual ways of perceiving the world... -
Where To From Here? Examining Conflict-Related and Relational Interaction Trauma by Elspeth McInnes 9789004350809
Booksplease Price: €93.26This work provides an inter-disciplinary exploration of the aftermath of trauma arising from social conflict and the wounds dealt through interpersonal relations of loss, abuse and torture... -
Writing Spaces: Writing as Transformative, Scholarly and Creative Practice by Esthir Lemi 9789004394308
Booksplease Price: €79.21This collection of papers invites the reader to look deeply at traditional and contemporary forms of writing, their implications for teaching and pedagogy, and their use of space as a strategy and as... -
Topography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurations by Danielle Schaub 9789004405431
Booksplease Price: €104.51This volume addresses trauma not only from a theoretical, descriptive and therapeutic perspective, but also through the survivor as narrator, meaning maker, and presenter. By conceptualising... -
Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education: Experiments in Empathy by Najeeba Syeed 9789004420021
Booksplease Price: €75.46The editors of Experiments in Empathy: Critical Reflections on Interreligious Education have assembled a volume that spans multiple religious traditions and offers innovative methods for teaching and... -
On Fear, Horror, and Terror: Giving Utterance to the Unutterable by Pedro Querido 9789004397989
Booksplease Price: €79.21This volume brings together essays that examine a vast gamut of different contemporary cultural manifestations of fear, anxiety, horror, and terror. Topics range from the feminine sublime in American... -
Piercing the Shroud: Destabilizations of 'Evil' by Rallie Murray 9789004384538
Booksplease Price: €99.82Our world has become inundated with images of a reality in which 'evil' thrives, and 'good' seems to be a naive, utopian fantasy. 'Good' is reserved for superheroes and children's stories, while the... -
A Future without Borders? Theories and practices of cosmopolitan peacebuilding by Eddy Souffrant 9789004325371
Booksplease Price: €100.76A Future without Borders (FWB) offers an explanation of why the recent, but by now distant, movements of the "Occupy Wall Street" activists have repeated themselves across the globe. The... -
Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic: Subverting Gender and Genre by Lydia Brugue 9789004418981
Booksplease Price: €118.56Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic, edited by Lydia Brugue and Auba Llompart, studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how... -
Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing by Elisabeth Punzi
Booksplease Price: €118.56The Spatial Practices series is premised on the observation that places are inscribed with cultural meaning, not least of all in terms of collective constructions of identity. Such space-based... -
The Selected Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle: A Victorian and a Contemporary Jane Welsh Carlyle 9781399557207
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €36.95This book is a modern edition of an Anglo-Scottish epistolary classic, drawn from the authoritative scholarly edition. The letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle are works of art in themselves but also shed... -
Foucault's Snails by Diana Medlicott 9781789631487
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €8.19These poems deal with some ordinary and not so ordinary facets of a rich life, and they will appeal to those who enjoy words and value the ways in which they can help us to experience life with a...