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  • HUMAN SOCIETIES
    MARK Q. SUTTON
    Human Societies: A Brief Introduction succinctly covers the basic concepts of cultural anthropology in a way that is relevant and engaging to the introductory student. Less time is spent on anthropological detail and more time on the relevance of anthropological understanding to the contemporary world. The issues facing the contemporary Western world are also confronting the th...

    $1,099.00

  • NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS IN CITIES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    MASOUMEH MIRSAFA / FABIANO LEMES DE OLIVEIRA
    This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South. NBS are recognized as a key strategy for achieving sustainable development, and they are being implemented in a variety of sectors such as urban planning, agriculture, forestry, and water management. They offer a wide range of benefits, but there is a gap between research and prac...

    $979.00

  • WEIRDING CIVILIZATION
    VESA-PEKKA HERVA / ANTTI LAHELMA
    Weirding Civilization examines the irrational foundations of civilization, from the Bronze Age to the Anthropocene. Inspired by Twin Peaks and Lovecraftian horror, it reveals how weirdness – disorienting, monstrous, and ambivalent – has shaped human society since the rise of the first complex civilizations. Taking ‘weirding’ as its conceptual lens, the book examines hallmarks o...

    $1,099.00

  • THE RESIDENTIAL PATHWAY
    JANE FORSYTH
    The Residential Pathway - APC Essentials was written to facilitate and encourage candidates preparing for the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) to become Chartered Surveyors. This book will help candidates, their Counsellors and supervisors to understand: The requirements of the Residential pathway The detail of the technical competencies How to select suitable c...

    $1,340.00

  • EQUITY AND TRUSTS
    ALASTAIR HUDSON
    Alastair Hudson’s Equity and Trusts is the ideal textbook for undergraduate courses on the law of trusts and equitable remedies. It provides a clear, current and comprehensive account of the subject. The author’s enthusiasm and expertise shine through, helping to bring to life an area of the law which students often find challenging. It has been cited as being authoritative in ...

    $1,000.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW
    PIERFRANCESCO ROSSI
    International Economic Law (IEL) refers to the rules governing economic relations at the international level and involving States, international organizations and private entities. This textbook explores IEL within the broader context of public international law from the ground up, providing all the foundational principles of international law essential for the study of IEL. Th...

    $1,119.00

  • THE STRANGE TOOLS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION
    RUTH FINNEGAN
    The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre is a thought-provoking exploration of the everyday tools of communication that weaves together history, art, and science to reveal how the voice, hand, and mind shape our shared experiences. Through a blend of scholarly research, personal insights, and field experiences – from the oral tales of Sierra Le...

    $1,099.00

  • ADOPTING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    MURUGAN, THANGAVEL
    This edited volume explores the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in higher education, specifically focusing on student assessment. It examines the integration of various AI tools within higher education, discussing the challenges and opportunities they present and the innovative solutions they offer. The chapters explore various issues surrounding the use of AI in...

    $1,299.00

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT PEDAGOGY WORKFORCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
    This is the first book to examine physical education from the perspective of workforce research and development. It adopts a whole system approach—including schools, higher education and public policy—to advance an action‑oriented framework for meeting the needs, challenges and opportunities of the global physical education profession. Presenting a new framework for research an...

    $1,140.00

  • CRITICAL PLANNING FUTURES
    Planning lies at the heart of successful and sustainable places, yet planning scholarship often appears stuck in routinised patterns of thought. Critical Planning Futures brings together an international range of voices from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore new directions in planning theory, interrogate planning’s orthodoxy, and push the boundaries of contemporary th...

    $1,099.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO SALLY ROONEY
    BOLLAS, ANGELOS
    The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, offering valuable insights into her writing and its socio-cultural significance. This comprehensive collection brings together contributions from international scholars who explore Rooney’s novels through a range of interdisciplinary le...

    $1,160.00

  • OTHER SUNS
    GARCIA, ANTERO
    This volume outlines powerful theoretical and methodological approaches for expanding the possibilities of educational research. By illuminating speculative education as an emerging scholarly practice, this collection offers pragmatic guidance for scholarly world-building. It introduces “speculative education” as a critical and hopeful approach to educational research. Through ...

    $1,400.00

  • HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
    ANISSA ROGERS
    Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Perspectives on Development and the Life Course returns for a seventh edition to provide students with an expansive overview of the major theories and issues related to human behavior and the social environment that are important to understand for professional practice across a variety of cases and contexts. Maintaining its clarity a...

    $2,300.00

  • MANAGEMENT EDUCATION IN CANADA
    WILLIAMS, KRISTIN S
    Management Education in Canada: Historical Reflections offers a fresh and critical look at the evolution of management education in Canada. Nearly 25 years after the seminal work Capitalizing Knowledge by Barbara Austin, this edited collection revisits and expands upon the debates that shaped the field, while introducing new perspectives and overlooked histories. Featuring ten ...

    $1,140.00

  • POSTFEMINIST FILM & LITERARY AESTHETICS
    ALYCE CORBETT
    Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze represents a novel and comprehensive study of the aesthetic and affective textual innovations of women in the 21st century from a postfeminist perspective. This book both defines and helps shape the contours of four fast-growing critically and commercially popular modes—millennial film and fiction, metamodern...

    $1,100.00

  • EMOTIONS, CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING AND FEMINISMS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    GABRIELA SILVA LOUREIRO
    This book is about the role of emotions in the creation and dissipation of feminist collectives and grapples with difficult questions that have been circulating for a while in activist circles but are far from answered. What are the emotions involved in building and sustaining solidarity? What can we learn from previous “waves” of feminist activism, and what is worth saving in ...

    $1,100.00

  • IDENTITY-BASED LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD AND ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS
    CHRISTOPHER J. WAGNER
    An essential text in literacy and teaching methods, this book introduces the concept of identity in literacy learning and provides guidance toward designing identity-based literacy instruction in early childhood and elementary classrooms. An identity approach to literacy learning asks teachers to see and engage with the ways that children make and remake ideas about who they ar...

    $1,139.00

  • ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES AND PRACTICES
    DHANANJAY MANDLIK / PARAG KALKAR / CHANDRANI SINGH
    This comprehensive textbook is designed to equip researchers, academics, and students with the essential tools and knowledge needed to conduct advanced research across various disciplines. The book addresses crucial aspects of research dissemination and publication, offering insights into scholarly writing, manuscript preparation, and the peer review process, empowering researc...

    $980.00

  • READING TALCOTT PARSONS
    HELMUT STAUBMANN
    Addressing the neglect of the work of Talcott Parsons, the complexity of whose thought and the opacity of whose writing style can prove daunting, this book provides a comprehensible account of the major theoretical accomplishments in his work and the reasons for which his legacy remains important to contemporary sociological debates. With attention to the unification of theoret...

    $1,100.00

  • DISCRIMINATION AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN AFRICA
    WELLMAN KONDOWE
    There are different forms of discrimination. Among others, people can be discriminated against on the basis of their ethnic grouping, political affiliation, race, gender, age, and language. This book focuses on linguistic discrimination in Africa, acknowledging that language plays a key role in the delivery of justice and much of what transpires in justice systems deals with la...

    $1,100.00

  • ENTREPRENEURS AND INSOLVENCY LAW
    REMIGIJUS JOKUBAUSKAS
    This book analyses the discharge of debts procedure in relation to insolvent entrepreneurs, covering the protection of human rights under insolvency law. The process of discharge of debt is a key mechanism in insolvency law when addressing individual over-indebtedness. This book promotes the “fresh start” principle, which is the primary objective of the debt discharge process f...

    $1,100.00

  • RETHINKING WRITING EDUCATION IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI
    Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, Rethinking Writing Education in the Age of Generative AI offers a timely exploration of pressing issues in writing pedagogies within an increasingly AI-mediated educational landscape. From conceptual and empirical work to theory-guided praxis, the book situates the challenges we face today within the historical evolution of ...

    $1,139.00

  • SIGN LANGUAGE IN MAINSTREAM EDUCATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING STUDENTS IN ASIA
    This book focuses on two means of recruiting sign language to support DHH students in mainstream education in Asia. The first approach is educational sign interpreting, which has been adopted to support signing DHH students in mainstream classrooms in Taiwan. Contributions report on a questionnaire survey with post-hoc interviews examining the reactions of students, parents, a ...

    $1,400.00

  • POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN PAKISTAN’S TRIBAL AREAS
    NAVEED AHMAD SHINWARI
    This book analyses agency and place of youth within the Pashtun tribal social order in Pakistan. It looks at Pashtun youth as a separate social category, analysing their changing trends of political leadership in Pakistan's former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Presenting an in-depth ethnographic inquiry into the intricate dynamics of political leadership manifest ...

    $1,100.00

  • NEOLIBERALISM AND INSECURITY IN ADVANCED CAPITALISM
    MICHAEL A. LONG / ANDREW S. FULLERTON / PAUL B. STRETESKY
    This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post‑World War II period and continuing up through the present. Neoliberalism – the dominant political economic perspective that elevates competition above all else at both the structural and individual levels – has increased the amount of insecurity (e.g., food, energy, job) across the...

    $1,100.00

  • CLASS AND POLITICS IN MALAYSIAN AND SINGAPOREAN NATION BUILDING
    MUHAMAD M. N. NADZRI
    Nadzri explores a range of factors that have influenced nation building in Malaysia and Singapore, with principal emphasis on the importance of social and economic class. In contrast to previous studies on nation building, which overwhelming rely on the explanatory power of culture, race and ethnic community, the book foregrounds the importance of social and economic status. Th...

    $1,100.00

  • AFRICAN-DECOLONIAL INTERCULTURALITIES
    This groundbreaking book brings together scholars to explore African epistemologies as underrepresented and misrepresented sociologies of knowledge in interculturality research, challenging dominant narratives and promoting epistemic justice. The volume affirms the validity of African perspectives based on their originality and non-derivativeness rather than their status of inv...

    $1,100.00

  • WOMEN IN AFRICA
    TOYIN FALOLA / OLAJUMOKE YACOB-HALISO
    This book introduces readers to the rich and diverse experiences of women across the African continent, covering their socio-cultural, political, and economic realities from the precolonial era right up to the modern day. In many precolonial African societies, women were empowered and considered to be important participants in the social structures and political systems that ma...

    $1,099.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF DISABILITY, CRIME, AND JUSTICE
    STEPHEN J. MACDONALD
    Offering an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex relationships between disability, crime, and victimisation, this comprehensive handbook gathers insights from leading scholars across diverse fields, including disability studies, criminology, history, sociology, forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry, and the neurosciences, who have conducted extensive research in thes...

    $1,160.00

  • CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
    HILAIRE BARNETT
    Trusted by generations of students, and consistently reliable and up to date, Hilaire Barnett’s Constitutional and Administrative Law continues to provide accessible and comprehensive coverage of the Public Law syllabus. Mapped to the common course outline, the Sixteenth Edition equips students with a thorough understanding of the UK constitution’s past, present and future by a...

    $1,000.00