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Ralph Ellison and Cinema
Sam Halliday
The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).
Anthem Press
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9781785279638
June 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).
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What was the First Bible Like?
The Emergence of Christian Texts, Scripture, and Canon
Tomas Bokedal
This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839989308
March 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.
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Doing Sociology Through Film and Literature
Imaginings of the Social World
John Goodwin, Laurie Parsons
This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983894
February 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
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Postal Data Analysis and US Economic History in the 19th Century
Measuring Business Cycles and Social Mobility
Robert Dimand, Michael O'Reilly, Emily Sanders, Thomas Velk, Mengyue Zhao
This book uses unexploited postal data to explore regional economic fluctuations in the nineteenth-century United States and to study social mobility and status among postmasters, particularly women and African Americans.
Paperback
9781839990731
December 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book uses unexploited postal data to explore regional economic fluctuations in the nineteenth-century United States and to study social mobility and status among postmasters, particularly women and African Americans.
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Defining Hybrid Heroes
The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint
Inge Brokerhof, Stephan Sonnenburg, Greg Stone
Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic, but also as a series of heroic acts within a given situation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274312
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic, but also as a series of heroic acts within a given situation.
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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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Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment
Aneira J. Edmunds
How have human rights been entangled with state control of the body? And how have they failed to intervene effectively on tipping points such as the US’s endorsement of torture that removes the victim’s control over their own body? This book explores the way institutional human rights have glossed over such abuses and been complicit in security politics which see the Muslim body, especially the Muslim woman’s body, as an object of control.
Anthem Press
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9781839984471
December 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95How have human rights been entangled with state control of the body? And how have they failed to intervene effectively on tipping points such as the US’s endorsement of torture that removes the victim’s control over their own body? This book explores the way institutional human rights have glossed over such abuses and been complicit in security politics which see the Muslim body, especially the Muslim woman’s body, as an object of control.
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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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Balancing Work and New Parenthood
A Comparative Analysis of Parental Leave in Australia, Canada, Germany and Sweden
Zarah Denese Ramoso, Dr Guzyal Hill
This book examines Australian parental leave provisions and compares them with their counterpart provisions in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Following comparison and analysis, recommended amendments to the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 (Cth) are provided.
Anthem Press
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9781839989278
August 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95This book examines Australian parental leave provisions and compares them with their counterpart provisions in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Following comparison and analysis, recommended amendments to the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 (Cth) are provided.
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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.
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Crowds in American Culture, Society and Politics
A Psychosocial Semiotic Analysis
Arthur Asa Berger
This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society and politics.
Anthem Press
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9781839988608
May 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society and politics.
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The Origin and Development of Dougong and Zaojing in Early China
Jing Xie
This book inquiries about the origin of dougong and zaojing in Chinese Bronze Age, and their heavenly interpretations in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220), with an aim to remind people the rich cultural meanings embodied in these two important architectural elements in early China.
Anthem Press
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9781785279423
April 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95This book inquiries about the origin of dougong and zaojing in Chinese Bronze Age, and their heavenly interpretations in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220), with an aim to remind people the rich cultural meanings embodied in these two important architectural elements in early China.
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The Impact of Coincidence in Modern American, British, and Asian History
Twenty-One Unusual Historical Events
Bruce A. Elleman
In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.
Anthem Press
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9781839989605
March 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.
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The Dao of Civilization
A Letter to China
Freya Mathews
The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.
Anthem Press
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9781839984853
February 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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Uncertainty Bands: A Guide to Predicting and Regulating Economic Processes
Ashot Tavadyan
This book explores and formulates the principles necessary for forecasting the economic processes and decision-making under uncertainty. It presents the minimal uncertainty interval to solve the issue of inflexible programs.
Anthem Press
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9781839983986
June 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book explores and formulates the principles necessary for forecasting the economic processes and decision-making under uncertainty. It presents the minimal uncertainty interval to solve the issue of inflexible programs.
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Occupational Devotion: Finding Satisfaction and Fulfillment at Work
Robert Stebbins
The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, skilled trades, and small business proprietors. Devotee work roots in serious leisure.
Anthem Press
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9781839983139
May 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, skilled trades, and small business proprietors. Devotee work roots in serious leisure.
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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
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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
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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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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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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
Active
£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.