Humanities, Literature and Arts
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
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Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth
Andrew L. Jenks
The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980428
December 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.
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Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature
Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez
The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278310
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
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Wittgenstein, Human Beings and Conversation
David Cockburn
These papers develop, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgenstein’s treatment of mind and language. The approach is distinctive in giving central place to the individual’s relations with others in a way that involves detailed attention to the human bodily form and to conversation, and a significant ethical dimension.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279270
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00These papers develop, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgenstein’s treatment of mind and language. The approach is distinctive in giving central place to the individual’s relations with others in a way that involves detailed attention to the human bodily form and to conversation, and a significant ethical dimension.
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The World as It Goes
A Comedy
William D. Brewer
Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley’s works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contemporaneous reviews.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980480
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley’s works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contemporaneous reviews.
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The Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare
Robert Appelbaum
This study looks at key Renaissance texts in the novelle collection, the humanist satire, epic-romance, and vernacular tragedy. It places both violence and its representations in the context of major historical events, like the Sack of Rome, and developments in the history of violence per se.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981470
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This study looks at key Renaissance texts in the novelle collection, the humanist satire, epic-romance, and vernacular tragedy. It places both violence and its representations in the context of major historical events, like the Sack of Rome, and developments in the history of violence per se.
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The Dark Side of News Fixing
The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Syed Irfan Ashraf
This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981371
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book provides a local journalist’s perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers’ risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror.
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Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s
Rachael Alexander
Offering the first comparative study of 1920s’ US and Canadian print cultures, ‘Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s’ comparatively examines the highly influential ‘Ladies’ Home Journal’ (1883–2014) and the often-overlooked ‘Canadian Home Journal’ (1905–1958), revealing how they constructed their imagined audience as readers, consumers and citizens.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273476
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Offering the first comparative study of 1920s’ US and Canadian print cultures, ‘Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s’ comparatively examines the highly influential ‘Ladies’ Home Journal’ (1883–2014) and the often-overlooked ‘Canadian Home Journal’ (1905–1958), revealing how they constructed their imagined audience as readers, consumers and citizens.
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Doing Gender in Heavy Metal
Perceptions on Women in a Hypermasculine Subculture
Anna S. Rogers, Mathieu Deflem
This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplished reality.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981333
October 2021
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£95.00 / $95.00This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplished reality.
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Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era
Crafting a New Normal
John H. Scanzoni
Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era follows the evolution of genders/sexualities and so on away from their Old Normal pattern, which prevailed during the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, and into the New Normal pattern which is currently surfacing in concert with an emerging Digital Era.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277436
October 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era follows the evolution of genders/sexualities and so on away from their Old Normal pattern, which prevailed during the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, and into the New Normal pattern which is currently surfacing in concert with an emerging Digital Era.
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A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema
David A. Cook
A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980121
September 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.
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Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters: Volume 3 – Letters from Germany
Edited by Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Nikolai GretschNikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980879
September 2021
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£140.00 / $140.00Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
Edited by Gary Fisher, David Robinson
foreword by M. Randal OwainTravel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278044
September 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.
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International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults
Edited by B.J. Epstein, Elizabeth Chapman
This edited collection investigates LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, including picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279843
August 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This edited collection investigates LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, including picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers.
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Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters: Volume 1 – Letters from England
Edited by Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Nikolai GretschNikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980817
August 2021
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£140.00 / $140.00Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
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Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters: Volume 2 – Letters from France
Edited by Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Nikolai GretschNikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980848
August 2021
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£140.00 / $140.00Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
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Taiwan Straits Standoff
70 Years of PRC–Taiwan Cross-Strait Tensions
Bruce A. Elleman
Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu). Twice in the 1950s tensions peaked, during the first (1954–55) and second (1958) Taiwan Strait crises. Today, relations between the ROC and PRC depend on quelling tensions over the Taiwan Strait. This work provides a short, but highly relevant, history of the Taiwan Strait, and its significance today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980909
August 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu). Twice in the 1950s tensions peaked, during the first (1954–55) and second (1958) Taiwan Strait crises. Today, relations between the ROC and PRC depend on quelling tensions over the Taiwan Strait. This work provides a short, but highly relevant, history of the Taiwan Strait, and its significance today.
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Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science
Daniela Danna
The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277160
August 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor.
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Religion, Neuroscience and New Physics in Dialogue
Stone Age Souls in Modern Minds
Darren Marks
Can we live with being merely a brain with a history of being souls? Can our supra-nature, learnt in the crucible of religion and expressed in theology, survive without being exiled to the quantum mysteries of consciousness? Our very survival depends on these questions being answered in this non-expert conversational work.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980091
August 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Can we live with being merely a brain with a history of being souls? Can our supra-nature, learnt in the crucible of religion and expressed in theology, survive without being exiled to the quantum mysteries of consciousness? Our very survival depends on these questions being answered in this non-expert conversational work.
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Raymond Federman and Samuel Beckett
Voices in the Closet
Nathalie Camerlynck
This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277955
July 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.
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Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater
S. E. Gontarski
Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn’t, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of masculinities and the queering of theater, the struggle for a literate, literary theater, and the place of the theatrical experience in his contemporary culture.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785276873
July 2021
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£24.99 / $24.99Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn’t, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of masculinities and the queering of theater, the struggle for a literate, literary theater, and the place of the theatrical experience in his contemporary culture.
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The Tämpiṭavihāras of Sri Lanka
Elevated Image-Houses in Buddhist Architecture
Kapila D. Silva, Dhammika P. Chandrasekara
foreword by Amos RapoportThe Ṭämpiṭavihāras of Sri Lanka focuses on one distinctive Buddhist architectural practice from pre-modern Sri Lanka – the construction of Buddha image-houses on elevated wooden platforms supported by stone pillars.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277498
July 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The Ṭämpiṭavihāras of Sri Lanka focuses on one distinctive Buddhist architectural practice from pre-modern Sri Lanka – the construction of Buddha image-houses on elevated wooden platforms supported by stone pillars.
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Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind”
Graley Herren
This book studies Bob Dylan’s album Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams. These dreams work on three distinct levels: as murder ballads about a killer awaiting execution, as religious allegory about a protagonist torn between salvation and damnation, and as meditation on race and music in America.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278464
July 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book studies Bob Dylan’s album Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams. These dreams work on three distinct levels: as murder ballads about a killer awaiting execution, as religious allegory about a protagonist torn between salvation and damnation, and as meditation on race and music in America.
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Dream and Literary Creation in Women’s Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Edited by Isabelle Hervouet, Anne Rouhette
This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277528
June 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film
Transnational Perspectives
Keith McDonald, Wayne Johnson
This book examines contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach by focusing on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic. The study will invoke its literary and filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed the modern filmic Gothic.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277733
June 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach by focusing on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic. The study will invoke its literary and filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed the modern filmic Gothic.