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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Voices of the Lost Children of Greece
Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption
Edited by Mary Cardaras
introduction by Gonda Van Steen
foreword by Gabrielle GlaserVoices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home the experience of international adoption, whose impact has been lifelong, but has not been properly measured, let alone acknowledged.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983702
January 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home the experience of international adoption, whose impact has been lifelong, but has not been properly measured, let alone acknowledged.
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The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine
Liam Kennedy, Donald M. MacRaild, Lewis Darwen, Brian Gurrin
The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984310
January 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap.
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Gothic Travel through Haunted Landscapes
Climates of Fear
Lucie Armitt, Scott Brewster
This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980213
December 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.
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Joycean Possibilities: A Margot Norris Legacy
Edited by Joseph Valente, Vicki Mahaffey, Kezia Whiting
Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981005
December 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
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Radio Vox Populi
Talk Radio from the Romantic to the Anglo-Saxon
Peter Laufer, Christian Ruggiero
Radio Vox Populi provides an account of ubiquitous talk radio, from its inception to its current overwhelming societal power via a comparison of the Italian manifestation of the medium with that of the United States. The story is told through ten chapters written by radio scholars and practitioners with an introduction and conclusion by Professors Peter Laufer and Christian Ruggiero.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987540
November 2022
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£38.00 / $38.00Radio Vox Populi provides an account of ubiquitous talk radio, from its inception to its current overwhelming societal power via a comparison of the Italian manifestation of the medium with that of the United States. The story is told through ten chapters written by radio scholars and practitioners with an introduction and conclusion by Professors Peter Laufer and Christian Ruggiero.
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Humor 2.0
How the Internet Changed Humor
Salvatore Attardo
The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988561
November 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.
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Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
The World is a Welter
Margarida Cadima
One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988431
November 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
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Roland Barthes Writing the Political
History, Dialectics, Self
Andrew Stafford
Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France’s most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes’s wide-ranging analyses – from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan – can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world, in what he called the writer’s ‘double grasp’.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278976
November 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France’s most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes’s wide-ranging analyses – from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan – can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world, in what he called the writer’s ‘double grasp’.
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War, Genocide and Cultural Memory
The Waffen-SS, 1933 to Today
Claus Bundgård Christensen, Niels Bo Poulsen, Peter Scharff Smith
This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279669
November 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.
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Swedish Gothic
Landscapes of Untamed Nature
Yvonne Leffler
The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839980336
November 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
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Gulf Gothic
Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona’s Undead Voices
Dolores Flores-Silva, Keith Cartwright
Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839980367
November 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
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Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement
Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo, Marjorie Agosin
This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982484
November 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.
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The Influence of José da Silva Lisboa’s Journalism on the Independence of Brazil (1821-1822)
Guilherme Celestino
This work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821–1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985072
November 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821–1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822.
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General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction
Jean Lescure
Edited by D'Maris Coffman, Ali Kabiri, Nicholas Di LibertoJean Lescure’s General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updated periodically through five editions and now appears in English for the first time.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988301
October 2022
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£200.00 / $200.00Jean Lescure’s General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updated periodically through five editions and now appears in English for the first time.
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Nuclear Power Policies in Britain
The Quandaries of Neoliberalism
Lucie de Carvalho
This book analyses Britain’s most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confronts them to the prevailing neoliberal doctrine.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277283
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book analyses Britain’s most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confronts them to the prevailing neoliberal doctrine.
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Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry
Stephen Guy-Bray
This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279096
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems.
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Wildlife Documentaries in Southern Africa
Ian Glenn
This is the first study of wildlife filmmaking in Southern Africa with particular emphasis on the relationship between trends there and elsewhere.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981500
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This is the first study of wildlife filmmaking in Southern Africa with particular emphasis on the relationship between trends there and elsewhere.
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Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema
Alistair Fox
This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984075
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.
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Dramatic Movement of African American Women
The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class
Yuvraj Nimbaji Herode
This book intends to explore the nature, scope, and features of African American women’s theatre and dramas. It exhibits African American women dramatists’ expertise, mechanics, methods, and artistic elements as well as the major themes projected in their dramas. The book is about a dramatic movement of African American women who write plays to protest against racism, sexism, and classism. It challenges the oppressive ideology of white patriarchy and African American male dominance. Therefore, the book enables the audience in understanding the dramas and theatre movements of all the oppressed sections of society from across the globe.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988257
September 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book intends to explore the nature, scope, and features of African American women’s theatre and dramas. It exhibits African American women dramatists’ expertise, mechanics, methods, and artistic elements as well as the major themes projected in their dramas. The book is about a dramatic movement of African American women who write plays to protest against racism, sexism, and classism. It challenges the oppressive ideology of white patriarchy and African American male dominance. Therefore, the book enables the audience in understanding the dramas and theatre movements of all the oppressed sections of society from across the globe.
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A Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern China
Wu Xing Fights the 'Jiao'
Hugh R. Clark
Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839984136
September 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
James Nguyen H. Spencer
This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people can co-create their own equitable and efficient infrastructure.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984013
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people can co-create their own equitable and efficient infrastructure.
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Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine
Legal Chicanery on a World Stage
John Quigley
When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984631
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.
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Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors”
A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis
Arthur Asa Berger
Arthur Asa Berger’s Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839984983
September 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Arthur Asa Berger’s Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies.
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Absolute Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Study
Paul Gordon
A re-evaluation of the notion of “positive” (versus merely “negative”) freedom.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985171
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00A re-evaluation of the notion of “positive” (versus merely “negative”) freedom.