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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Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance
created by Yip Siu Hing
Edited by Josh StenbergKunqu is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or “Chinese opera”). This book consists of translated performer narrations that illuminate how one of the major Chinese theatrical forms has been taught and transmitted over the past century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278075
September 2022
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£195.00 / $195.00Kunqu is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or “Chinese opera”). This book consists of translated performer narrations that illuminate how one of the major Chinese theatrical forms has been taught and transmitted over the past century.
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Classical Edinburgh
A City Divided
Alan H Balfour
This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland with a focus on Edinburgh.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781839987892
September 2022
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£39.95 / $39.95This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland with a focus on Edinburgh.
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Theory of Categories
Key Instruments of Human Understanding
Dr. Patrick Grim, Dr. Nicholas Rescher
This book offers a revisionist approach to categories, arguing that the standard philosophical approach is substantially correct in some respects, but markedly mistaken in others. The result is a distinctly pragmatic approach to categories and categorization, with implications regarding philosophical problematic and paradox in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, social philosophy and ethics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988134
September 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book offers a revisionist approach to categories, arguing that the standard philosophical approach is substantially correct in some respects, but markedly mistaken in others. The result is a distinctly pragmatic approach to categories and categorization, with implications regarding philosophical problematic and paradox in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, social philosophy and ethics.
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Resourcing Hope for Ageing and Dying in a Broken World
Wayfaring through Despair
Ashley Moyse
For those captive to the broken world of late modernity, wherein ageing and dying persons become vulnerable to despair, this book not only offers a diagnostic of such despair but also resources the practices of a realistic, humanising hope that might enable a strength for person to journey with and for others, together, through such despair, now liberated to become hopeful wayfarers in living and dying.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278617
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00For those captive to the broken world of late modernity, wherein ageing and dying persons become vulnerable to despair, this book not only offers a diagnostic of such despair but also resources the practices of a realistic, humanising hope that might enable a strength for person to journey with and for others, together, through such despair, now liberated to become hopeful wayfarers in living and dying.
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Essays on Philosophy, Praxis and Culture
An Eclectic, Provocative and Prescient Collection
Lou Marinoff
introduction by Rick RepettiThis collection provides a panoramic view of practical philosophical insight, ranging across a spectrum of humanistic themes. These essays cast light on our perennially imperfect human condition.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980572
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This collection provides a panoramic view of practical philosophical insight, ranging across a spectrum of humanistic themes. These essays cast light on our perennially imperfect human condition.
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Voices of Women Writers
Using Language to Negotiate Identity in (Trans)migratory Contexts
Elena Anna Spagnuolo
This book investigates the link between migrating, self-translating and identity in migrant narratives, by analysing a corpus of texts written by authors who were born in Italy and them moved to English-speaking countries.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987984
August 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book investigates the link between migrating, self-translating and identity in migrant narratives, by analysing a corpus of texts written by authors who were born in Italy and them moved to English-speaking countries.
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The Spectral West
Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film <correctly represents the book and is appropriate and accessible>.
Keith McDonald, Wayne Johnson
This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987922
August 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.
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On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:
Figurative Invention In Cinema
translated by Ted Fendt
Nicole BrenezA collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film’s formal and plastic qualities in all their multifaceted materiality and aesthetics. Brenez reconsiders what a body on film can be and what constitutes a figure in cinema.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987809
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00A collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film’s formal and plastic qualities in all their multifaceted materiality and aesthetics. Brenez reconsiders what a body on film can be and what constitutes a figure in cinema.
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Intercultural Understanding After Wittgenstein
Edited by Carla Carmona, David Perez-Chico, Chon Tejedor
This volume addresses, from a Wittgensteinian perspective, the philosophical question of how to understand other cultures. We approach this question in a manner that emphasises the connection between its epistemological, ethical and political aspects, bringing into discussion Wittgensteinian and other cultural and philosophical traditions, notably from the West African Yoruba community, Japan, China and India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987830
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This volume addresses, from a Wittgensteinian perspective, the philosophical question of how to understand other cultures. We approach this question in a manner that emphasises the connection between its epistemological, ethical and political aspects, bringing into discussion Wittgensteinian and other cultural and philosophical traditions, notably from the West African Yoruba community, Japan, China and India.
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Sub-Saharan African Immigrants’ Stories of Resilience and Courage
Mariam Konate, Fredah Mainah
This book seeks to produce a more specific description of Sub-Saharan African immigration in the US by recording our reflections, experiences, and strategies of coping, as well as those of the participants.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987861
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book seeks to produce a more specific description of Sub-Saharan African immigration in the US by recording our reflections, experiences, and strategies of coping, as well as those of the participants.
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Neurocomputational Poetics
How the Brain Processes Verbal Art
Arthur Jacobs
This book introduces a new thrilling field– neuro computational poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience – that aims at uncovering the secrets of verbal art reception.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987700
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book introduces a new thrilling field– neuro computational poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience – that aims at uncovering the secrets of verbal art reception.
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African Memoirs and Cultural Representations
Narrating Traditions
Toyin Falola
In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual, including the dynamic processes of African cultures, civilizations, and peoples.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987731
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual, including the dynamic processes of African cultures, civilizations, and peoples.
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Lest We Lose Love
Rediscovering the Core of Western Culture
Scherto Gill
Lest We Lose Love is a most timely book that helps the reader to resume confidence in humanity’s future in the light of the present complex global crises. It enables people to find hope in our collective capacity to value what truly matters to our common life, sustain congenial relationships amongst all, and extend our caring to self, other people, and other beings on the planet.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987601
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00Lest We Lose Love is a most timely book that helps the reader to resume confidence in humanity’s future in the light of the present complex global crises. It enables people to find hope in our collective capacity to value what truly matters to our common life, sustain congenial relationships amongst all, and extend our caring to self, other people, and other beings on the planet.
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The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947)
The Paladins of France in America
Jo Ann Cavallo
This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987649
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.
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Popular Iconoclasm in the Public Square
Paul Hardin Kapp
This book is the first theory-informed work in architectural conservation and historic preservation to examine the discordance among the public over controversial historic monuments in the historic landscape and how it should be addressed. It challenges architects, landscape architects, conservationists, preservationists, elected officials, and the public to reconsider the public square and whether or not civic art that memorializes is still relevant or a practice that can be reimagined.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987342
July 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book is the first theory-informed work in architectural conservation and historic preservation to examine the discordance among the public over controversial historic monuments in the historic landscape and how it should be addressed. It challenges architects, landscape architects, conservationists, preservationists, elected officials, and the public to reconsider the public square and whether or not civic art that memorializes is still relevant or a practice that can be reimagined.
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Religion in Schools
Learning Lessons from Wales
Russell Sandberg
Questions of how religion operates within schools are controversial and divisive. This book explores radical changes that are being made in Wales and the lessons that can be learnt.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839984259
July 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Questions of how religion operates within schools are controversial and divisive. This book explores radical changes that are being made in Wales and the lessons that can be learnt.
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Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere
How Extraction Replaced Expression of Opinion
Slavko Splichal
The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984501
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture.
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Meaning, Mind, and Action
Philosophical Essays
Julia Tanney
Julia Tanney’s Meaning, Mind, and Action challenges widely held presuppositions within philosophy in its classical ‘analytic’, ‘naturalist’, and ‘cognitivist’ forms. Beginning with canonical views in the philosophy of language and logic, the arguments are then applied to discussions of knowledge, action, causation, the nature of the mental, consciousness, and thinking.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984822
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Julia Tanney’s Meaning, Mind, and Action challenges widely held presuppositions within philosophy in its classical ‘analytic’, ‘naturalist’, and ‘cognitivist’ forms. Beginning with canonical views in the philosophy of language and logic, the arguments are then applied to discussions of knowledge, action, causation, the nature of the mental, consciousness, and thinking.
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Soccer and Racism
The Beginnings of Futebol in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1895-1933
Rosana Barbosa
This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984754
July 2022
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£80.00 / $80.00This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
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Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback
Andrew Nette
This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback that took place from the late 1950s onwards.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982453
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback that took place from the late 1950s onwards.
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Wittgenstein Rehinged
Annalisa Coliva
This volume brings together several papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva and published after her influential monographs Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010); Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (2015). By mixing together Wittgenstein scholarship and systematic philosophy, they illuminate the significance of hinge epistemology for current debates on skepticism and relativism and beyond.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982798
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This volume brings together several papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva and published after her influential monographs Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010); Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (2015). By mixing together Wittgenstein scholarship and systematic philosophy, they illuminate the significance of hinge epistemology for current debates on skepticism and relativism and beyond.
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The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century
Power, State and Territory
John Rennie Short
Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983030
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.
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Joseph Karo and Shaping of Modern Jewish Law
The Early Modern Ottoman and Global Settings
Roni Weinstein
The book provides a global perspective on the history of Jewish law during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on the codification works of R. Joseph Karo.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278761
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book provides a global perspective on the history of Jewish law during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on the codification works of R. Joseph Karo.
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Reading to Stay Alive
Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence
Christopher Dowrick
This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278914
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.