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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British Entanglement with Brazilian Slavery
Masters in Another Empire, c. 1822-1888
Joseph Mulhern
This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984662
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.
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Kripke’s Wittgenstein
Meaning, Rules and Scepticism
Ali Hossein Khani
The book investigates Kripke’s reading of Wittgenstein presented in his eminent book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language(1982). It explores various aspects of Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s view and explicates key criticisms of it offered by numerous leading philosophers since the 80s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990151
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The book investigates Kripke’s reading of Wittgenstein presented in his eminent book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language(1982). It explores various aspects of Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s view and explicates key criticisms of it offered by numerous leading philosophers since the 80s.
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Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Australian Post-Millennial Memoirs
Martina Horáková
This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics, journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990571
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics, journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.
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Colette and the Incest Taboo
That Most Disturbing of Drives
Dr.Carol Mastrangelo Bove
This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2022. It argues that Colette’s fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990489
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2022. It argues that Colette’s fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now.
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Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh
50 Years On
Edited by Nusrat S Chowdhury, Lotte Hoek
‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273414
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.
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Love in India
Politics, Desires, and Sexualities
Henrike Donner, Parul Bhandari
This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988899
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
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Black Hauntologies
Slavery, Modernity and Spectral Re-Vision, Volume II
Kimberly W. Benston
Black Hauntologies is the second volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278709
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Black Hauntologies is the second volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
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The Development of An Art History in the UAE
An Art Not Made To Be Understood
Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
Work by artists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), interviews and first-hand accounts form the core of this book about the development of the country’s art history. Learning about artists and seeing how their practices fit into global art historical discourses can help viewers gain insight into an art not made to be understood.
Hardback
9781839992391
October 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Work by artists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), interviews and first-hand accounts form the core of this book about the development of the country’s art history. Learning about artists and seeing how their practices fit into global art historical discourses can help viewers gain insight into an art not made to be understood.
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Undisciplined: Of Architectural Nomadism and the Rebellious Practice
Eduardo Kairuz
Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. Framing the discussion with narratives that immerse the reader in spaces overshadowed by conflict, Undisciplined posits an unorthodox form of architectural production engaged with the contingent elaboration of new and increasingly necessary spatial narratives.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982606
October 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. Framing the discussion with narratives that immerse the reader in spaces overshadowed by conflict, Undisciplined posits an unorthodox form of architectural production engaged with the contingent elaboration of new and increasingly necessary spatial narratives.
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Our Emotions and Culture
How Modern Life Changes Us
E Doyle McCarthy
In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980732
October 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
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From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism
£110.00 / $110.00Ireland and America, 1960–2023
Stephen Watt
Hardback
9781839992643
October 2024
Forthcoming
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The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance
From Palace to Academy
Emmanuel Cudjoe
This book is an Afrocentric exploration of the royal Indigenous dance known as the Kete dance-music, as an analytical path for reassessing African movement systems in the 21st century. It validates the agency of the Black dancing body as a critical element for the generation and use of Indigenous knowledge systems of the Africans/diaspora and explores critical perspectives on the role dancing plays in the cultural emancipation of African knowledge systems globally.
Hardback
9781839991820
October 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book is an Afrocentric exploration of the royal Indigenous dance known as the Kete dance-music, as an analytical path for reassessing African movement systems in the 21st century. It validates the agency of the Black dancing body as a critical element for the generation and use of Indigenous knowledge systems of the Africans/diaspora and explores critical perspectives on the role dancing plays in the cultural emancipation of African knowledge systems globally.
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The Petersburg Noverre, Volume: 1
Marius Petipa in Russia
Edited by Roland John Wiley
The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984167
September 2024
Forthcoming
£250.00 / $250.00The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
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The Petersburg Noverre, Volume: 2
Marius Petipa in Russia
Edited by Roland John Wiley
The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990762
September 2024
Forthcoming
£250.00 / $250.00The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
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Nordic Terrors
Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature
Robert William Rix
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a place where Gothic terror took place. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition in providing a vocabulary for Gothic texts as well as the cultural significance it had for writers attempting to understand Britain’s northern roots.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839990458
September 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a place where Gothic terror took place. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition in providing a vocabulary for Gothic texts as well as the cultural significance it had for writers attempting to understand Britain’s northern roots.
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Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s
Ameer Chasib Furaih
This book scrutinizes the poetries of Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958–), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934–2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934–) and aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982170
September 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book scrutinizes the poetries of Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958–), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934–2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934–) and aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
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African Cinema and Urbanism
Marie-Paule Macdonald
This work brings together theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and African cinema studies to examine, through African screen media, how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth, and creativity on the continent.
Paperback
9781839991073
September 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This work brings together theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and African cinema studies to examine, through African screen media, how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth, and creativity on the continent.
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Transnational Community Mobilization and Transformation, 2010-2020
Abdulkadir Osman Farah
This book explores transnational community mobilization through local transnational encounters and connections.
Hardback
9781839990885
August 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book explores transnational community mobilization through local transnational encounters and connections.
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Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo
Charlotte Beyer
Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278556
August 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.
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Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume II
Values and Governance
Alice C Helliwell, Alessandro Rossi, Brian Ball
Wittgenstein and AI (Volume II): Value and Governance. This is the second of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on ethics, governance, aesthetics and the law.
Hardback
9781839991394
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Wittgenstein and AI (Volume II): Value and Governance. This is the second of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on ethics, governance, aesthetics and the law.
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Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I
Mind and Language
Alice C Helliwell, Alessandro Rossi, Brian Ball
Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.
Hardback
9781839991363
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.
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Finding the Way to ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill at Tao House
William Davies King
A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated.
Hardback
9781839992490
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated.
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The Scientific Legacy of Har Gobind Khorana
Total Synthesis and the Genetic Code
Sahotra Sarkar
This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize–winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana.
Hardback
9781839992322
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize–winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana.
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How Not to Be Human
The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson Jeffers
Matthew Calarco
This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of “the human” and the development of an inhumanist philosophy.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990397
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of “the human” and the development of an inhumanist philosophy.