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The Dual Artist Novel: Subverting Genre and Gender by Orla Siobhán Flock 9783662671276
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £61.04The artist novel occupies a prominent place in literary history. Although research into this genre, which is usually perceived as especially rigid, may seem to be exhausted at a first glance, a... -
Thomistic Tradition and Human Rights by Carlos Isler Soto 9783662680674
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £65.96The present book verses on the current discussion, between authors writing within the Thomistic tradition, on the issue of human rights, and pretends to adjudicate that discussion. The positions of... -
Beyond the Great Forgetting: Narrative Resistance in American Literature on Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease by Patrick Gruener 9783662660287
Booksplease Price: £46.28Drawing on a selection of carefully curated autobiographical and fictional portrayals of the dementia experience, this book gives voice to some of the most pressing ethical issues that commonly arise... -
Literary Rooms: The Room in Contemporary US Fiction by Auster, Hustvedt, Powers, and Foer by Katharina Christ-Pielensticker 9783662630884
Booksplease Price: £70.88The four prose texts discussed in Literary Rooms position themselves in a literary tradition which highlights the manifold purposes the private room may serve: it is a mirror of the inhabitant, a... -
Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready to Be Challenged?: How Scientific Evidence Shapes Our Understanding and Use of Medicine by Marie-Caroline Schulte 9783476057051
Booksplease Price: £90.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783476057051Author Marie-Caroline SchulteFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint J.B. MetzlerPublisher... -
Good Relationships in Schools: Teachers, Students, and the Epistemic Aims of Education by Monika Platz 9783662641361
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £61.04The relationship between teacher and student is an important element of school education and as such irreplaceable: If we want schools to be good places for those who teach and learn there, we must... -
Universal Localities: The Languages of World Literature by Galin Tihanov 9783662623312
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56The volume features the work of leading scholars from the US, UK, Germany, China, Spain, and Russia and presents an important contribution to current debates on world literature. The contributions... -
Leibniz and the Consequences: An Essay on the Great European Universal Scholar by Joerg Zimmer 9783476058096
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £15.05Leibniz was probably the last universal scholar in modern times who made original and innovative achievements in all the essential fields of knowledge of his time: as a reform-oriented lawyer, a... -
Gender Identity and Gender Relations Redefined: Muller’s and Grafton’s Female Countertradition to Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction Stephanie Bernhard 9783662698662
Booksplease Price: £80.72The present study compares the depiction of female as well as male characters and their identities in American detective fiction at different times. In detail, it analyzes to what extent American... -
On the Discursive Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Europe by Sabine Heinemann 9783662648926
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56Europe is the name for a scintillating variety of historically emerged concepts, constantly developed and discussed over time. Its complexity and fuzziness is reflected in a multitude of myths,... -
The Knights of Modernism: The Chivalric Ideal in the World Novel of the 20th Century by Branko Vraneš 9783662619315
Booksplease Price: £90.56According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention... -
World Literature and the Postcolonial: Narratives of (Neo) Colonialization in a Globalized World by Elke Sturm-Trigonakis 9783662617847
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £61.04This volume approaches literary representations of post and neocolonialism by combining their readings with respective theoretical configurations. The aim is to cast light upon common characteristics... -
Panpsychism and the Emergence of Consciousness: A Proposal for a New Solution to the Mind-Body Problem by Fabian Klinge 9783662622575
Booksplease Price: £61.04In this book Fabian Klinge develops a novel approach for explaining phenomenal consciousness. He defends a version of panpsychism, that is the theory, that (some of) the fundamental physical entities... -
Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged?: How Scientific Evidence Shapes Our Understanding And Use Of Medicine by Marie-Caroline Schulte 9783476057020
Booksplease Price: £46.28This open access book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, Marie-Caroline Schulte discusses the importance of evi-dence in... -
Mao's Images: Artists and China's 1949 transition by Yang Geng 9783658208240
Booksplease Price: £46.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783658208240Author Yang GengFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint J.B. MetzlerPublisher J.B... -
Neuro-ProsthEthics: Ethical Implications of Applied Situated Cognition by Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs 9783662683613
Booksplease Price: £70.88The volume focusses on the ethical dimensions of the technological scaffold embedding human thought and action, which has been brought to attention of the cognitive sciences by situated cognition... -
Evolving Business Ethics: Integrity, Experimental Method and Responsible Innovation in the Digital Age by Christoph Lutge 9783476058447
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80Business ethics as a discipline has been evolving rapidly, and indeed needs to evolve constantly. This evolution is mandated more urgently than ever before as we plunge headlong, and with increasing... -
Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture: Self-Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia in Film and Television by Eleonora Ravizza 9783662618738
Booksplease Price: £46.28In this book, Eleonora Ravizza analyzes how contemporary American popular culture has represented and reproduced the fifties. By investigating the cultural work of films and TV series from the last... -
Skin Colour Politics: Whiteness and Beauty in India by Nina Kullrich 9783662649213
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £65.96The global practice of skin bleaching is predominantly understood as an internalized legacy of colonialism and an embodiment of Western ideals of beauty. This book offers a new perspective on fair... -
Investigating Teachers’ Perspectives of Critical Literacies: A Comparison of Case Studies in Canada and in Europe by Eleni Louloudi 9783662685471
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This book focuses on exploring and reconstructing teachers’ perspectives of critical literacies comparatively. More specifically, the book highlights similarities and differences in the way teachers... -
Remembering World War II: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Memory Practices on an Online Forum by Anastasia Glawion 9783662667071
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £65.96The book demonstrates an evidence-based approach to online memory practices of World War II. Network analysis is applied to reduce a massive and unreadable dataset of forum texts and user relations... -
When Documentaries Meet New Media: Interactive Documentary Projects in China and the West by Le Cao 9783662674055
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £70.88New media and digital technologies open up numerous possibilities to document different versions of reality, which makes it essential to examine how they transform the logic behind the creation and... -
Tools, Techniques and Strategies for Reflective Second & Foreign Language Teacher Education: Insights from Contexts Around the World by Paul Voerkel 9783662687406
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £79.49Essential questions about the skills teachers need for effective classroom practice have raised by researchers such as Shulman, Schön, Altrichter & Posch and Hattie, and discussions still continue... -
Theorizing Music Videos of the Late 2010s: A Prosumer's Study of a Medium by Leo Feisthauer 9783662650486
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £65.96The work formulates a status quo of the music video medium in the late 2010s and shows which trends, aesthetics and (new) standards have established themselves. Particularly the role of the prosumer... -
There Is an Alternative: With Herbert Marcuse and Mark Fisher Towards a Political Aesthetics of Neoliberalism by Lukas Schutzbach 9783662662366
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £61.04The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory... -
Remembrance - Responsibility - Reconciliation: Challenges for Education in Germany and Japan by Lothar Wigger 9783662641842
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12Germany and Japan have taken different ways of dealing with the past of the traumatic events of World War II and their own role. Even after 75 years, the battles for remembrance are not over in both... -
Perceptual Dialectology in Central Wisconsin: 'You Must Be from Wisconsin Because of Your Accent and Because You Know How to Drink' by Sarah Braun 9783662634455
Booksplease Price: £90.68This book investigates the complex interplay of language discourse and variation in Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA. The combination of different research methods such as ethnographic observations,... -
The Four Gods Figurines as Tomb Guardians: Their Function, Circulation, and Disappearance in Tang China (618–907 AD) by Lok Man Yang 9783662681565
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book employs a biographical approach to comprehensively study a set of Tang era-tomb guardian figurines, known as the Four Gods (Sishen), comprising a pair of warriors (Dangkuang and Dangye) and... -
The Representation of REFUGEES and MIGRANTS in European National Media Discourses from 2015 to 2017: A Contrastive Approach (Corpus Linguistics) by Annamária Fábián 9783662667743
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £90.56Though the refugee crisis was discussed in many countries e.g. in Greece, Hungary, Italy and Spain long before 2015, it began to receive cross- European press coverage only after Angela Merkel’s... -
Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama by Eric Baudner 9783662626238
Booksplease Price: £56.12The present book deals with Sarah Kane's dramatic text Cleansed to show a specific negotiation of violence, pain, life and death - one that is not necessarily causal or dichotomous. Instead, a new... -
Law and Literature in Europe and Beyond Klaus Stierstorfer 9783662698501
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.66This book aims to contribute to an understanding of the processes in which law and literature combine in conceptualizing Europe. This can take place with regard to important national and local issues... -
Jubuntu: Giving and Belonging in the Jewish Diaspora of Cape Town by 9783662668863
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This study investigates the nexus between giving, belonging and Jewishness in South Africa. Charitable interactions are as much manifestations of inequalities as an expression of the giving... -
The Value of Belief: On the Epistemological and Practical Importance of doxa in Plato Lee Klein 9783662719244
Booksplease Price: £75.80As the first monograph to specifically focus on the positive evaluation of belief (doxa) as a crucial concept in Plato's epistemology, this work contributes significantly to scholarly research by... -
African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective by Anke Graness 9783476058317
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £65.96African philosophy under the specific conditions of a colonial and postcolonial world is - at least since the 20th century if not even earlier - inherently intercultural. The aim and target of the... -
Hemispheric Ecological Citizenship: Sustainable Alternative Societies in Recent Utopian Fiction from the Americas Claudia Pereira de Jesus 9783662729380
Booksplease Price: £90.56In times of global crisis and uncertainty, narrative literary works serve not only as sources of pleasure but also as catalysts for social and political transformation. Across the American... -
The Reader, the Body, and the Book: Visceral Reading Experiences in the Victorian Novel Natasha Anderson 9783662708507
Booksplease Price: £91.38How do books dazzle, disgust, or delight audiences? What entices readers to track characters' trials and tribulations? Why do stories echo across the ages with their intensity? Books with vibrant,... -
On the Critique of Identity Ivo Ritzer 9783662694466
Booksplease Price: £90.56With the rise of 'identity politics' both in right-wing extremism as well as in activist academia, arts and feuilleton, major differences between the traditional left and the right have become... -
Re-defining Children's Participation in the Countries of the South by Graciela Tonon
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £40.76The focus of this book is centered on the participation of children in countries of the South. In this sense, it will review the possibilities of children's participation, as well as their forms of... -
Conversation Analysis and Classroom Management: An Investigation into L2 Teachers' Interrogative Reproaches by Revert Klattenberg 9783662646816
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56Strategies for successful classroom management have been readily available to practitioners for at least half a century. However, despite the vast body of knowledge available, there appears to be a... -
Migrant Lives: Experiences of ʿAlawiness in Germany by Erkan Tümkaya 9783662684474
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £70.88The 'Alawi community constitutes one of the oldest secret communities originating in what is known today as the Middle East. Today, the community members are scattered over many different countries...