Humanities, Literature and Arts
Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
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Fashion as Cultural Translation
Signs, Images, Narratives
Patrizia Calefato
The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272424
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.
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The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978)
Geography, Money and War
Philip Boobbyer
This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978), who during World War II became an important figure in wartime military administration. In 1943, during the Allied invasion of Italy, he was head of AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories).
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276620
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978), who during World War II became an important figure in wartime military administration. In 1943, during the Allied invasion of Italy, he was head of AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories).
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Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy
Tudor and Stuart Black Legends
Victoria Muñoz
By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273308
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.
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Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970
A Semiology and Sociocultural History
David Scott
Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920–1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive image/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images constituting an essential part of the overall argument.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276286
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920–1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive image/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images constituting an essential part of the overall argument.
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W. H. Davies
Essays on the Super-Tramp Poet
Edited by Rory Waterman
This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the ‘tramp-poet’ and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871–1940).
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274565
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the ‘tramp-poet’ and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871–1940).
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Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA
Reading the Archives against the Grain
Andrekos Varnava
This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. It places the event into its broadest possible context and sifts through all the evidence in order to reach a plausible answer to this mysterious cold case.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785275524
January 2021
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£24.99 / $24.99This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. It places the event into its broadest possible context and sifts through all the evidence in order to reach a plausible answer to this mysterious cold case.
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Colonial Australian Women Poets
Political Voice and Feminist Traditions
Katie Hansord
This book considers the political and feminist significance of non-canonical women poets, particularly those who were writing in newspapers and periodicals, in colonial Australia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272691
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book considers the political and feminist significance of non-canonical women poets, particularly those who were writing in newspapers and periodicals, in colonial Australia.
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Tribunal
A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts
Vladimir Voinovich
Edited and translated by Eric D. MeyerVladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist.’ Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276682
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist.’ Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.
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Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Karl Erik Schollhammer
This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275562
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.
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Classroom 15
How the Hoover FBI Censored the Dreams of Innocent Oregon Fourth Graders
Edited by Peter Laufer
foreword by Ann CurryA result of an investigative report by tenacious University of Oregon journalism students, Classroom 15 tells the story of how the dreams of fourth-grade students at the Riverside School, Roseburg, in rural Oregon timber country, were crushed by the prevailing Red Scare, McCarthyism, state and societal censorship, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. The book is a remarkable example of experiential learning techniques and successes and is a prime tool to teach by specific example the pragmatic processes of student-conceptualized research, employment of the FOIA, and shoe-leather journalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275975
December 2020
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£38.00 / $38.00A result of an investigative report by tenacious University of Oregon journalism students, Classroom 15 tells the story of how the dreams of fourth-grade students at the Riverside School, Roseburg, in rural Oregon timber country, were crushed by the prevailing Red Scare, McCarthyism, state and societal censorship, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. The book is a remarkable example of experiential learning techniques and successes and is a prime tool to teach by specific example the pragmatic processes of student-conceptualized research, employment of the FOIA, and shoe-leather journalism.
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Reading as a Philosophical Practice
Robert Piercey
This book asks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276071
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book asks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.
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Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985–2015
Heath A. Diehl
The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276132
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered.
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Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures
Ryan Johnson
Drawing on the latest work in comparative philosophy and comparative literature, this book presents an innovative model of transnational literary exchanges.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274343
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Drawing on the latest work in comparative philosophy and comparative literature, this book presents an innovative model of transnational literary exchanges.
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The Varieties of Joycean Experience
Tim Conley
A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274596
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.
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Big Research Questions about the Human Condition
A Historian's Will
Arne Jarrick
Ask bigger, fewer, and clearer questions! This is the major message of this book, comprising a set of issues to focus on, hereby suggesting a way to overcome the fragmentation characterising the humanities today. It also urges humanists to regard humanities research as an integral part of science, although uniquely dealing with humans as decision making, meaning seeking and self-reflecting agents.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275678
November 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Ask bigger, fewer, and clearer questions! This is the major message of this book, comprising a set of issues to focus on, hereby suggesting a way to overcome the fragmentation characterising the humanities today. It also urges humanists to regard humanities research as an integral part of science, although uniquely dealing with humans as decision making, meaning seeking and self-reflecting agents.
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Emerging Dynamics in Audiences’ Consumption of Trans-media Products
The Cases of Mad Men and Game of Thrones as a Comparative Study between Italy and New Zealand
Carmen Spano
The book investigates the new forms of agency possessed by national audiences with reference to two television texts: Mad Men (AMC, 2007–2015) and Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011–2019). Structured as a comparative study between two countries, Italy and New Zealand, the research aims to provide insights into the culturally specific similarities and differences that distinct audiences disclose in consuming the same texts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275142
November 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The book investigates the new forms of agency possessed by national audiences with reference to two television texts: Mad Men (AMC, 2007–2015) and Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011–2019). Structured as a comparative study between two countries, Italy and New Zealand, the research aims to provide insights into the culturally specific similarities and differences that distinct audiences disclose in consuming the same texts.
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The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism
Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points
H. Aram Veeser
A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274374
November 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects.
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Invented History, Fabricated Power
The Narrative Shaping of Civilization and Culture
Barry Wood
This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presented in literary works and forged doctrines.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274756
November 2020
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£150.00 / $150.00This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presented in literary works and forged doctrines.
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Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding
Peter Winch
Edited by Michael Campbell, Sarah Tropper
introduction by David CockburnThis volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch's original interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history's most difficult and admired philosophers from a different perspective.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275432
November 2020
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£140.00 / $140.00This volume collects together Peter Winch’s previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch’s original interpretation of Spinoza’s Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history’s most difficult and admired philosophers from a different perspective.
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Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid
Benjamin W. Redekop
Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid brings to light the dynamic and evolving relationship between common sense and scientific thinking that stretches from Aristotle to the present day.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275494
November 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid brings to light the dynamic and evolving relationship between common sense and scientific thinking that stretches from Aristotle to the present day.
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The Vanishing Indian Upper Class
Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan
Terry Williams, Raza Mohammed Khan
The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is based on a life-narrative [true-life story] and contains various elements of history, politics, religion, literature and poetry. In anonymized form it dramatizes a personal family history focused around a continuing and unresolved family inheritance and property dispute, which provides the story with its dramatic tension. The main subjects in the narrative which speaks beyond the life story itself are: the human spirit; honor; betrayal; violence; love; politics; and those bonds beyond kith and kin known as comradeship and engagement. The work covers two continents involving the Indian upper class and describes how Raza Mohammed Khan and his family legacy is revealed.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274435
October 2020
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£49.00 / $49.00The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is based on a life-narrative [true-life story] and contains various elements of history, politics, religion, literature and poetry. In anonymized form it dramatizes a personal family history focused around a continuing and unresolved family inheritance and property dispute, which provides the story with its dramatic tension. The main subjects in the narrative which speaks beyond the life story itself are: the human spirit; honor; betrayal; violence; love; politics; and those bonds beyond kith and kin known as comradeship and engagement. The work covers two continents involving the Indian upper class and describes how Raza Mohammed Khan and his family legacy is revealed.
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Minutes to Midnight, 2nd Edition
Paul Dukes
The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785274985
October 2020
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£24.95 / $24.95The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.
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Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism
A Study in Quantitative Reporting
Alessandro Martinisi, Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando
This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275333
October 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.
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American Literary Naturalism
Late Essays
Donald Pizer
The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275463
October 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.