Arts, Literature and Humanities

Two plays exploring the dark side of power and the human cost of injustice. What is the fate of justice when morality is subservient to power? Wh...

What would it take to have a world where everyone had enough? How can we eliminate poverty, leave enough for nonhuman nature, and increase well-bei...

Diversity in the United States: A Cultural History of the Past Century is a cultural history of diversity in the United States over the past 100 ye...

In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity’s ...

An intensely personal and profoundly moving review of Bonnefoy’s childhood memories. In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 9...

Review ‘Nahal’s work will take its place as one of the rare tragic narratives in Indian fiction…intensely felt and poignant.’ – Mulk Raj Anand ‘A c...

This book addresses whether the "gendering" of constitutions promotes women’s equality. The authors use a mixed-methods approach to explore how co...

We are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and ea...

The best-known dramatic works of Paula in its first English translation. This volume brings together the best-known dramatic works of Argentine pl...

This concise and accessible textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the key historical aspects of translation. Six chapters cover essential con...

Political Legitimacy: Realism in Political Theory and Sociology explores the concept of political legitimacy, the nature of the normative foundatio...

One of the three major women writers in Kannada in the early 20th century, Gouramma's career was only about eight years and 21 short stories long. ...

Translation: The Basics is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the study of translation. This revised edition includes two new chapters...

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon...

This illuminating book offers a unique view into the art of sound design and the post production audio process. It was written for filmmakers and d...

A bold and adventurous work of literature that explores the relationship between reading, writing, sex, and death. The first book in Pascal Quign...

Black Matters presents an anthology of stories of African American and African undergraduate and graduate students’ experiences at college, offerin...

Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier discuss Homelessness in the 21st Century with Ari Barbalat on the New Books Network An accessible and engag...

Chanchal Mitra wakes up in a far-off desert town, sharing a dingy hotel room with the flamboyant Mr. Kapoor, who is planning to abduct a billionair...

The second volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland’s most prominent and prolific men of letters. One of Europe’s finest contempora...

Poems from a boisterously out and open queer voice from Taiwan. Ko-hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry was the first explicitly queer book of poems pub...

Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of ...

Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture. Although beginning with...

From khat to kava to ketamine, drugs are constitutive parts of cultures, identities, economies and livelihoods. This much-needed book is a clear in...

The role of experts and their expertise, in our personal and social lives, has taken centre stage in the debates about our post-COVID-19 world. Sci...

With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generate...

Activated Script Analysis engages theatre students in traditional formative script analysis through a fusion of devised theatre and various modes o...

A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Fit explores the concept of fit in theatrical costumes - what it is, how to assess it, and how to achieve it....

This book explores the history of the debate about academic freedom, particularly in the classroom. Introducing the origins of the modern research ...

Inequality lies at the heart of many of the challenges you will face as a social worker as you prepare to work with some of the most excluded, disa...

Working with Sound is an exploration of the ever-changing working practices of audio development in the era of hybrid collaboration in the games in...

This book provides photographers with the foundation to craft more compelling photos from concept all the way through to creation and distribution.

The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music introduces readers to the key theoretical principles, concepts, and research findings about learning ...

From refugees fleeing wars or natural disasters to economic migrants pursuing better paid jobs abroad, international migration is an inescapable pa...

Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world through a decolo...

This book explores: · What is meant by communication skills · What communication skills are · What they look like in practice ...

The construction industry is undergoing great change particularly with the introduction of digital technologies and the increasing emphasis on sust...

A critical intervention on the relationship between language and matter. If the twentieth century was the century in which language was at the cen...

Do you want to use longitudinal data in a research project? This book provides a strong foundation in the fundamentals of longitudinal research, he...

Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-sutra is one of classical India's most important philosophical works. This Guide offers both a map and interpr...

This book traces and explores the evolution of taste from a design perspective: what it is, how it works, and what it does. Karin Tehve examines t...

Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Race, Ethnicity & Society, offers a thoughtful and critically engaging exploration of some of t...

"A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars… It introduces an insightful, inspiring, and inviting way of making ...

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of u...

As a cutting-edge overview of the diverse range of religious traditions and their complex interaction with science, this book primes undergraduate ...

This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho. ...

This book, a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south, brings together academics and activists...

Fictionality offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this field of increasing critical and theoretical interest. Bringing together t...