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What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these...

The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting ...

This book considers how 'affect', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different pe...

As America has become more racially diverse and economic inequality has increased, American politics has also become more clearly divided by race a...

The impact of digital technologies on music has been overwhelming: since the commercialisation of these technologies in the early 1980s, both the p...

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance examines the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon since the inventio...

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israe...

Once seen as a harbinger of a new enlightened capitalism, Google has become a model of robber baron rapaciousness thanks to its ruthless monetizing...

By assembling original, ethnographically-grounded research in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies, this volume illuminates and unpacks the ...

Journalistic activity crosses national borders in creative and sometimes unexpected ways. Drawing on many interviews and newsroom observation, this...

For almost a century, big-time college athletics has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The chal...

New York Times BestsellerHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment media, the intellig...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad fem...

Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on her doorstep. Can his new-found devotion (and hi...

'A timely bridge for our divided world' - Adam Grant, bestselling author of Give and TakeOpen your mind, heal your relationships, and connect acros...

A 2023 POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR (WATERSTONES) | 'GROUND-BREAKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'UNIVERSAL AND TIMELY' Elif Shafak | 'IMPORTANT' Sathnam ...

This ambitious book provides a new framework for analysing global international society (GIS). In doing so, it also links the English School's appr...

With an eye to the playful, reflexive, self-conscious ways in which global youth engage with each other online, this volume analyzes user-generated...

How social media has become a critical tool for advancing the interests of the Canadian oil industry   Petroturfing presents an incisive look into ...

How social media has become a critical tool for advancing the interests of the Canadian oil industry   Petroturfing presents an incisive look into ...

Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally al...