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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A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
Seventeen Lectures and Dialogues on the Philosophical Investigations
Peter Hacker
In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning, the analysis of necessity and its roots in convention, the relation of thought and language, the nature of the mind and its relation to behaviour, self-consciousness, and knowledge of other minds. This unique form of introduction will capture the interest of all readers with an enquiring mind.
Hardback
9781839991134
April 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning, the analysis of necessity and its roots in convention, the relation of thought and language, the nature of the mind and its relation to behaviour, self-consciousness, and knowledge of other minds. This unique form of introduction will capture the interest of all readers with an enquiring mind.
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Revolution and the Global Struggle for Modernity
Volume 1 - The Atlantic Revolutions
Frank Jacob
The present book provides a comparative ten-step model for revolutions and will show that these must be considered a global phenomenon of modernity.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278402
March 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00The present book provides a comparative ten-step model for revolutions and will show that these must be considered a global phenomenon of modernity.
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Language, Mind, and Value
Essays on Wittgenstein
Severin Schroeder
This book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as linguistic normativity, the concepts of understanding, reasons, and knowledge, questions of value in aesthetics, ethics, and religion.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990229
March 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as linguistic normativity, the concepts of understanding, reasons, and knowledge, questions of value in aesthetics, ethics, and religion.
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Developing Africa?
New Horizons with Afrocentricity
Lehasa Moloi
The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990823
March 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.
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Samuel Richardson as Anonymous Editor and Printer
Recycling Texts for the Book Market
John A. Dussinger
This study offers a comprehensive account of Samuel Richardson’s numerous editorial interventions in producing books and pamphlets from his press.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273537
March 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This study offers a comprehensive account of Samuel Richardson’s numerous editorial interventions in producing books and pamphlets from his press.
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The Crossroads of Crime Writing
Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces
Edited by Meghan P. Nolan, Rebecca Martin
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural memory and/or deep mapping to facilitate this process.
Hardback
9781839991172
March 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural memory and/or deep mapping to facilitate this process.
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Black ‘race’ and the White Supremacy Saga
Kehbuma Langmia
This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? This book debates that concept.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989964
February 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? This book debates that concept.
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Montesquieu’s ‘The Spirit of the Laws’
A Critical Edition
Edited and translated by W. B. Allen
The Spirit of the Laws is the canonical text of modern republicanism and the English translation – always deficient heretofore – is critical to an appreciation of those deliberations that led to adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The present update recovers the sense of the original French.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982941
February 2024
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£165.00 / $165.00The Spirit of the Laws is the canonical text of modern republicanism and the English translation – always deficient heretofore – is critical to an appreciation of those deliberations that led to adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The present update recovers the sense of the original French.
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California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream
Charles L. Crow
California has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the state’s rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.
Anthem Press
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9781839983795
January 2024
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£24.95 / $24.95California has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the state’s rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.
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Wollstonecraft and Religion
Brenda Ayres
This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of “the Mother of Feminism,” many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990182
January 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of “the Mother of Feminism,” many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.
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A Historical and Theoretical Guide to Studying Religion
Wesley Kort
The book is a historical and theoretical account of the development and present situation of what has come widely to be known as Religious Studies. This account emphasizes the complexity of the field due both to its origins and the uncertain and even conflicted position today of the academic study of religion.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990540
January 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00The book is a historical and theoretical account of the development and present situation of what has come widely to be known as Religious Studies. This account emphasizes the complexity of the field due both to its origins and the uncertain and even conflicted position today of the academic study of religion.
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Law and Humanities
Edited by Russell Sandberg, Daniel Newman
This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990366
January 2024
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£195.00 / $195.00This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field.
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American Horror Story and Cult Television
Narratives, Histories and Discourses
Edited by Richard Hand, Mark O’Thomas
This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other disciplines.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279331
November 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other disciplines.
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A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton’s Love in “The World”
Edited by Ross Nelson, Marie Mulvey-Roberts
A late-1820s unpublished fashionable novel describing the romantic adventures of teenage Alixe St Clair during her first two seasons in London Regency society.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987281
October 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00A late-1820s unpublished fashionable novel describing the romantic adventures of teenage Alixe St Clair during her first two seasons in London Regency society.
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Satire, Comedy and Tragedy
Sterne’s “Handles” to Tristram Shandy
Richard C. Raymond
This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne’s greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne’s recurring themes.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988639
October 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne’s greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne’s recurring themes.
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Scenes of Bohemian Life
Henry Murger
translated by Robert HoltonThis book is a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988806
October 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book is a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851.
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Fashioning the Dandy
Style and Manners
Olga Vainshtein
translated by Sofia Horujaya-CookThe book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.
Anthem Press
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9781839984440
September 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.
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The Cædmon Manuscript
The Beginnings of English Religious Poetry, I
Bernard J. Muir
The Cædmon Manuscript is one of three extant anthologies of English Christian poetry produced in England before 1000 CE.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989742
September 2023
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£195.00 / $195.00The Cædmon Manuscript is one of three extant anthologies of English Christian poetry produced in England before 1000 CE.
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Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, Princess Isabel and the Ending of Servile Labour in Russia and Brazil
Shane O'Rourke
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel were key players in the political struggle ending servile labor in the empires of Russia and Brazil. This book chronicles the political activity of the two royal women to end servile labor in their respective countries
Anthem Press
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9781839983160
September 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel were key players in the political struggle ending servile labor in the empires of Russia and Brazil. This book chronicles the political activity of the two royal women to end servile labor in their respective countries
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Captain Philip Beaver’s African Journal
Edited by Carol Bolton, Christopher Brown
Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983405
September 2023
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£165.00 / $165.00Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary.
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Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition
A History of Motifs and Motives in South Asia
Aaron Sherraden
This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambūka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984693
August 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambūka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.
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Cultural Theory in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Gary McCarron
This book considers several aspects of Alfred Hitchcock’s filmmaking from philosophical and social scientific points of view. Its principal aim is to place Hitchcock’s films in the context of debates in various philosophical and cultural traditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988462
July 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book considers several aspects of Alfred Hitchcock’s filmmaking from philosophical and social scientific points of view. Its principal aim is to place Hitchcock’s films in the context of debates in various philosophical and cultural traditions.
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Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834
Sam Hirst
Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981531
July 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican.
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Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era
Ronald Bruce St John
Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.
Anthem Press
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9781839982231
July 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.