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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Wittgenstein on Other Minds
Strangers in a Strange Land
Constantine Sandis
This book brings together Constantine Sandis’s essays on Wittgenstein’s approach to understanding others.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986703
May 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book brings together Constantine Sandis’s essays on Wittgenstein’s approach to understanding others.
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Early Buddhism as Philosophy of Existence
Freedom and Death
Susan E. Babbitt
This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983344
May 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.
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Reading Kenneth Frampton
A Commentary on 'Modern Architecture', 1980
Gevork Hartoonian
This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton’s Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an unprecedented insight into the significance of Frampton’s historiography of modern architecture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983498
May 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton’s Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an unprecedented insight into the significance of Frampton’s historiography of modern architecture.
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Tasos Leivaditis’ Triptych
Battle at the Edge of the Night, This Star Is for All of Us, The Wind at the Crossroads of the World
Edited and translated by N.N. Trakakis
Tasos Leivaditis made his stunning literary debut in 1952-53 with three poetry books, counteracting the violence and oppression of his times with the values of eros and solidarity, freedom and justice.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785278822
May 2022
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£24.99 / $24.99Tasos Leivaditis made his stunning literary debut in 1952-53 with three poetry books, counteracting the violence and oppression of his times with the values of eros and solidarity, freedom and justice.
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A Genealogy of Method
Anthropology’s Ancestors and the Meaning of Culture
Sondra L. Hausner
This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diversity.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839986482
April 2022
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diversity.
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Yeats and Revisionism
A Half Century of the Dancer and the Dance
Daniel O'Hara
The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years, even as it opens the prospects for the future of critical reading of Yeats and modern poetry.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986550
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years, even as it opens the prospects for the future of critical reading of Yeats and modern poetry.
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Microtravel
Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection
Edited by Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley, Kate Walchester
This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’, a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with travellers slowing down their journeys and readjusting their relationship to the proximate and nearby.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986581
April 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’, a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with travellers slowing down their journeys and readjusting their relationship to the proximate and nearby.
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Military Memories
Draft Era Veterans Recall their Service
Edited by Donald Zillman
This book describes eight American military veterans of the Vietnam/Cold War era and describes their service and its influence on their lives.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986451
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book describes eight American military veterans of the Vietnam/Cold War era and describes their service and its influence on their lives.
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Towards a New Art of Border Crossing
Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, Arnab Roy Chowdhury, David Blake Willis
The new art of border-crossing is inspired by a new politics, art, and a spirituality of shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. This border-crossing challenges us to do creative, aesthetic, ethical, political and spiritual work in the fields of not only physical borders and bounded territories but also cultural, social, intellectual and civilizational borders.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986383
April 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The new art of border-crossing is inspired by a new politics, art, and a spirituality of shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. This border-crossing challenges us to do creative, aesthetic, ethical, political and spiritual work in the fields of not only physical borders and bounded territories but also cultural, social, intellectual and civilizational borders.
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Individuals and Small Groups in Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
A Case Study of a Young Couple and their Friends
Ben Braber
This book aims to increase our knowledge and deepen the understanding of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust by examining personal circumstances and characteristics of Jewish resistance members and the formation of small Jewish resistance groups.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983580
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book aims to increase our knowledge and deepen the understanding of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust by examining personal circumstances and characteristics of Jewish resistance members and the formation of small Jewish resistance groups.
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The importance of sentiment in promoting reasonableness in children
£24.95 / $24.95Michael S. Pritchard
Anthem Press
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9781839986277
April 2022
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School Journey as a Third Place
Theories, Methods and Experiences Around The World
Edited by Zoe Moody, Ayuko Berchtold-Sedooka, Sara Camponovo, Philip D. Jaffé, Frédéric Darbellay
Journeys to school are important time and space transitions between homes and schools for children worldwide. This book provides insights into children’s experiences of this essential aspect of their lives and schooling experience. From an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, leading international scholars focus on how children from very different contexts travel between their homes and their schools and how this transitional space (Third place) impacts their daily lives and interactions with their environment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986314
April 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00Journeys to school are important time and space transitions between homes and schools for children worldwide. This book provides insights into children’s experiences of this essential aspect of their lives and schooling experience. From an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, leading international scholars focus on how children from very different contexts travel between their homes and their schools and how this transitional space (Third place) impacts their daily lives and interactions with their environment.
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Practical Rationality, Learning and Convention
Essays in the Philosophy of Education
Christopher Winch
This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981913
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.
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Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect
Philip N. Pregill
Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect focuses on current planning and design priorities and opportunities for the enhancement of future urban landscape contexts. Current priorities include walkability, access, urban greening and climate mitigation. These and other priorities are viewed as challenges for cities and towns, but also as potential opportunities for future urban landscape contexts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986178
March 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect focuses on current planning and design priorities and opportunities for the enhancement of future urban landscape contexts. Current priorities include walkability, access, urban greening and climate mitigation. These and other priorities are viewed as challenges for cities and towns, but also as potential opportunities for future urban landscape contexts.
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Reclaiming the Wicked Son
Finding Judaism in Secular Jewish Philosophers
Stephen Stern, Steven Gimbel
This book takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers and views them through the lens of Jewish thought, thereby understanding their writings as part of the Jewish intellectual tradition.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986147
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers and views them through the lens of Jewish thought, thereby understanding their writings as part of the Jewish intellectual tradition.
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Unfinished Austen: Interpreting “Catharine”, “Lady Susan”, “The Watsons” and “Sanditon”
Joanne Wilkes
Unfinished Austen is the first detailed study of four texts that Jane Austen left incomplete and unpublished: Catharine, or the Bower (1792–3), Lady Susan (1795?), The Watsons (1803–4?) and Sanditon (1817).
Anthem Press
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9781839986024
March 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00Unfinished Austen is the first detailed study of four texts that Jane Austen left incomplete and unpublished: Catharine, or the Bower (1792–3), Lady Susan (1795?), The Watsons (1803–4?) and Sanditon (1817).
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Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History
Mary Orr
This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) on natural history in the first half of the nineteenth century pivotally highlights the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of her work. The fact that she undertook it independently and transnationally over three decadeschallenges approaches to women, gender and national nineteenth-century scientific endeavour that have defined women at work in the period by their secondary roles (to more famous men in science) that also delimit their contributions and discoveries(as domestic). By focusing on how Sarah undertook her science despite the many bars to women in its fields, this study also promotes one woman’s blueprint for non-conformist independent work and, in consequence, an alternative paradigm for the ‘leaky pipeline’ model still informing women’s careers in STEM(M) today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986093
March 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) on natural history in the first half of the nineteenth century pivotally highlights the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of her work. The fact that she undertook it independently and transnationally over three decadeschallenges approaches to women, gender and national nineteenth-century scientific endeavour that have defined women at work in the period by their secondary roles (to more famous men in science) that also delimit their contributions and discoveries(as domestic). By focusing on how Sarah undertook her science despite the many bars to women in its fields, this study also promotes one woman’s blueprint for non-conformist independent work and, in consequence, an alternative paradigm for the ‘leaky pipeline’ model still informing women’s careers in STEM(M) today.
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Shots to the Heart: For the Love of Film Performance
Steven Rybin
This book continues the author’s project, begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love, of exploring the place of film actors in an emotional and thoughtful reception of movies. Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance in viewing cinema.
Anthem Press
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9781839985911
March 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book continues the author’s project, begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love, of exploring the place of film actors in an emotional and thoughtful reception of movies. Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance in viewing cinema.
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Elegy for Literature
Jeffrey T. Nealon
Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do – less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.
Anthem Press
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9781839983955
March 2022
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£24.99 / $24.99Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do – less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.
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Julia Wedgwood, The Unexpected Victorian
The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual
Sue Brown
The first biography of Julia Wedgwood, the leading Victorian female intellect and writer, niece of Charles Darwin, intimate friend of Robert Browning and mentor of E. M. Forster. The book draws on a mass of unpublished family correspondence offering critical consideration of her ambitious range of non-fiction books, articles and novels.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984105
March 2022
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£150.00 / $150.00The first biography of Julia Wedgwood, the leading Victorian female intellect and writer, niece of Charles Darwin, intimate friend of Robert Browning and mentor of E. M. Forster. The book draws on a mass of unpublished family correspondence offering critical consideration of her ambitious range of non-fiction books, articles and novels.
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Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing
Amina Yaqin
This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277559
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
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After Jews
Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man
Piotr Nowak
The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”.
Anthem Press
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9781839981944
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”.
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In Defense of Reason After Hegel
Why We Are So Wise
Richard Dien Winfield
In Defense of Reason After Hegel undermines the assault on truth pervading public life and the academy, showing how we can think objectively about reason, nature, right, and beauty.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982422
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00In Defense of Reason After Hegel undermines the assault on truth pervading public life and the academy, showing how we can think objectively about reason, nature, right, and beauty.
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Victorian Ladies in the Ottoman Empire
Lifting the Veil
Elisabetta Marino
Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985829
March 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.