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Gas and lng price arbitrations
This practical new edition contains contributions from leading international arbitration practitioners and arbitrators in the field, in-house counsel and industry experts and covers the various stages of a gas pricing dispute, from drafting the clause to triggering a review, all the way through t...
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Advances in precision poultry farming technologies
The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the use of precision livestock farming technologies in the poultry sector, focussing on technologies designed to monitor poultry behaviour and welfare, as well the wider farm environment.
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Digital flâneurs
This ethnography explores how young people in Vienna inhabit digital time and space amid boredom, unemployment, migration, school pressures and fragmented life trajectories. It reveals how digital devices are entangled with experiences of sociality, waiting, and boredom, offering an alternative t...
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Materializing migrants’ emotions
By tracing the stories and emotions that emerge through the objects with which migrants associate, this book offers a deep ethnographic account of the social and cultural life of Syrian migrants in Turkey, mapping the emotional landscape of displacement.
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Weather signs
Drawing on ethnography, historical sources, and folklore, this book examines how fishermen and coastal communities in Japan read winds, clouds, seas, animals, and celestial signs to anticipate change and manage risk.
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Jane ellen harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison transformed the study of Greek religion with her discovery of a religious system predating that of the Olympic gods and goddesses familiar to the modern world. This book introduces her work and ideas, which have influenced and profoundly shaped scholarship, primarily in the cl...
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Becoming advocate
Tracing the emergence of autism in Portugal, from its early recognition in child psychiatry to the rise of parent-led advocacy and digital activism, this book examines how families confront inadequate services, challenge outdated paradigms and advocate for educational and social reforms.
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Designing jewels
France has a long-standing, distinguished and highly influential history of jewelry making. The exhibition Designing Jewels: 200 years of French Savoir-Faire (1770–1970), along with its accompanying catalogue, explains individual achievements by showcasing the culture of developing jewelry design...
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The naguib mahfouz centennial library
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the AUC Press, which has been publishing English translations of Mahfouz’s work since 1978, presents all his novels, three collections of short stories, and his autobiographical writings in a...
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Literature for change
Literature for Change explores the impact literary research has made to areas including the museums and heritage sector, the environmental and medical humanities and the digital world, at a time of transformation. The book highlights efforts to address today’s most pressing social challenges thro...
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Asian expansionism in the eastern mediterranean and greek-egyptian relations (3000-332 bc) (greek language text)
This book throws light on aspects of the history of the Eastern Mediterranean peoples, presenting Greek-Egyptian relations as a positive stabilizing factor in the region. It analyses economic transactions and cultural exchanges from the Bronze Age onwards.
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Intercultural zhu xi
Revisits Zhu Xi's philosophy from a broader intercultural perspective and considers the relevance of his thought to our contemporary moment.As the chief architect of Neo-Confucian thought, the philosopher Zhu Xi (1130–1200) brought about a momentous transformation in Chinese philosophy, drawing s...
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The 1812 doctrine of right and other late political writings of j. g. fichte
The first translation of a major work of political philosophy by J. G. Fichte, as well several additional works that help contextualize some of his other widely misunderstood translated work.After moving from Jena to Berlin, J. G. Fichte continued to develop and revise his political philosophy. T...
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Partisan genealogy
Presents a partisan model of genealogy by reinterpreting Foucault in the context of anti-prison struggles and his engagement with Marxism.Michel Foucault has exerted enormous influence on our understanding of power and penal systems, above all with his work Discipline and Punish. However, the lat...
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Educating for equality
Chronicles the history of two schools seeking to change the world through democratic education.Educating for Equality chronicles the histories of two New York City schools that made social justice their highest priority: New York City's Ethical Culture School (ECS) and Downtown Community School (...
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Divine representations
Explores how Edwardian era writers used the mystical novel as a way to represent transcendent experiences within the tradition of the English realist novel.Divine Representations examines the development of a unique form of "mystical novel" in the early twentieth century by a loose fellowship of ...
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The virtue of sōphrosunē in plato's gorgias and phaedrus
A unique interpretation of Plato's account of moderation and the contemporary relevance of Plato's ethical thought.Sōphrosunē is one of the four moral virtues—along with wisdom, courage, and justice—that Plato discusses most frequently, though it is perhaps the most difficult one for modern reade...
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The lights around the shore
"Back to the Future" meets Travels With Charley, collides with Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, and then drinks a beer with Max Goldman from "Grumpy Old Men"… all of it happening simultaneously and serially.When grumpy 75 year old Charlie Messina wakes from a coma after a cardiac event on Cape...
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Jewish sage, muslim sage, hindu sage
A critical study of this highly venerated yet religiously complex mystic.Sa'īd Sarmad (c. 1590–1661), sometimes referred to as Sarmad Kāshānī, was a Sufi mystic-poet of Jewish Persian origin. He was active in India, had dealings with royalty, and was executed as part of political power games in t...
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The world of cecil taylor
A major contribution to the study of all aspects of this jazz master, from his groundbreaking compositions to his performance style and poetry.Cecil Taylor (1929–2018) was one of the most influential pianists and composers in contemporary jazz. A pioneer as a leader/composer in the free jazz move...
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Don't lose your good thing
The people, politics, and preservation battles behind saving America's most storied music sites.Don't Lose Your Good Thing explores how the places that shaped American popular music are essential to understanding the nation's broader history. From the Gennett and King Records buildings in the Mid...
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The phenomenology of belonging
Brings together essays engaging with the phenomenological tradition to explore the lived experience of belonging and what it means "to belong," exploring aspects of its embodied, interpersonal, social, political, geographical, national, and temporal dimensions.The Phenomenology of Belonging bring...
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Ululating from the underground
Analyzes the creative activism of women and youth in Syria from 2011 to 2024.Ululating from the Underground examines the gendered, artistic, and cultural creations of Syrian women from the 2011 uprisings, through the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, and until the summer of 2025. Identif...
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Mirrors of empire
Approaches the history of the Mughal Empire at the level of human experience, through a diverse group of autobiographical narratives.Starting from 1526, the Mughals ruled over much of India for three centuries, perhaps the most important Islamic empire in the early modern world. This period saw t...
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The poetics of josiah royce
Recovers and dissects a large corpus of writings on literature by the American philosopher, Josiah Royce, that have languished, undeservedly so, in obscurity for over a century.Josiah Royce is not known for his contributions to literary theory and criticism particularly or aesthetics more general...
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Nomadic thinking
An invitation to rethink our place in the world from the perspective of nomads.Sedentary-state civilizations have historically degraded nomadic people as primitive or barbaric and sought to "civilize" them; however, the nomads have resisted this and tried to maintain their way of life. What is th...
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How lesbians saved poetry
A conversational, nerdy, funny, and sexy contribution to the history of feminist and lesbian movements and the practice and criticism of poetry.Conversational, nerdy, funny, and sexy, How Lesbians Saved Poetry asks: "Why are so many of our great feminist and queer studies icons poets?" Incorporat...
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The resistible crisis of italian thought
Offers a more complex picture of Roberto Esposito's notion of "Italian Thought" in order to examine the persisting crisis of contemporary Italian philosophy.The present volume intends to offer new insight into Roberto Esposito's seminal notion of "Italian Thought." In Esposito's understanding, It...
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Ludic pleasures
Incisive observations on popular music, poetry, and culture, and on the ways that gender, race, class, and contemporary politics shape artistic production.Poet and critic Tyrone Williams (1954–2024) was a prolific reviewer of poetry, poetics, and culture, publishing nearly 150 reviews between 197...
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Borges between singularity and sovereignty
A fresh look at how Borges's most celebrated stories critique various forms of sovereignty, from philosophical ideals of mastery to historical instances of fascism.Jorge Luis Borges was one of the principal writers of the twentieth century to bring literature to bear on the relationship between t...
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Wine and ecstasy in plato
Examines inebriation as a culturally informed metaphor employed by Plato to defend the mind-altering effects of philosophy and its reception to the second-century CE.Wine and Ecstasy in Plato examines Plato's use of inebriation as a metaphor for the experience of transcendence and traces its rece...
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Italian/american fantastika
Delves into Italian contributions to these genres and what those contributions mean to global Italian cultural and political identity.Diverse and minority populations worldwide have often embraced horror, science fiction, and fantasy narratives as a means of coming to terms with the multigenerati...
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Anatomophilia
Reimagines the human body as a site of theory, relational care, ethics, and political knowledge rather than an inert object to be regulated, corrected, or erased.Drawing from South Asian, Indigenous, feminist, and queer philosophies of Kālī’s body, at once beautiful and abominable, wounded and re...
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International school librarianship
Jacques presents a collection of essays on the essential themes of International School Libraries, written by experienced and award-winning librarians. Each chapter uses a narrative style to unpack an important issue or practice, then explores it through theory and vignette. Joyous and profession...
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Improving biodiversity monitoring of agricultural landscapes
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the range of national and regional farmland biodiversity monitoring schemes, as well as developments in techniques used to collect and analyse data for more effective biodiversity monitoring.
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The pelagic dictionary of natural history of the british isles
A unique collection of concise information on all 10,000 animals, plants, fungi and algae of the British Isles. Covering the taxonomy, habitat, distribution, abundance, status and, for animals, diet and size of individual species or species groups, with entries on every species that has an Englis...
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Architecture of knowledge
A lavishly illustrated 200-year history of the University of Manchester. For the first time, the story is told in an accessible and visually engaging way through maps of the growing campuses and the architectural plans and historic photographs of scores of the University’s most fascinating buildi...
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The regeneration of east manchester
Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester.
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The political philosophy of jean-jacques rousseau
Rousseau is often seen as a prophet of revolution. Now with a new preface and postscript, this classic study shows he was nothing of the sort. Rather, the Genevan-born writer was a conservative populist who sought to use direct democracy to halt the advance of the ideas of the ‘elites’.
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Iris van herpen
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen (1984) is renowned for her innovative combination of sartorial craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology.
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Atlantic perspectives
Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized t...
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Designing knowledge economies for disaster resilience
Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.
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Estates and constitution
Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, putting ...
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Sensitive subjects
Sensitive Subjects examines how contemporary German-language cinema may be read as seeking to produce greater political sensitivity in audiences through its form—that is, by employing medium-specific devices such as lighting, sound, editing and mise-en-scène in ways that prompt a more critical st...
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Correcting the record
The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.
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Ritual, rapture and rebellion
This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and upper-class Gitanos and their ways of creating a ‘society within society’ based upon distinct cultural, moral and ideological values, notions and practices.
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Working in greece and turkey
The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental,...
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An anthropology of intellectual exchange
This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.
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Roman polanski after the pianist
Roman Polanski after The Pianist examines Polanski’s later films as a distinct and coherent phase in his career. Situating these works within changing industrial, cultural, and political conditions, the book shows how Polanski’s late cinema rethinks genre, sound, work, domestic space and historic...
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The healing machi
This book is an ethnography on Mapuche ritual healing transformations from the perspective of the phenomenology of the body. It explores how people identify a Mapuche shaman, or a “real Machi”, a person who can both see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques, and experience ritual t...
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Lunar calendar
A book-length collection of new prose poems together with selections from the poet's previous works.Lunar Calendar draws together prose poems from Eric Pankey's many collections together with a book-length collection of new poems. While written in prose form, these poems maintain the lively lyric...
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At home in a nursing home
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compas...
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200 years of peace
In the wake of Sweden’s anniversary of 200 years of peace in 2014, this volume brings for the first time a targeted approach to the concept of claimed Swedish exceptionality. Taking on the nation’s policies of neutrality, 200 Years of Peace centers discussion around what it means for a nation to ...
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Between the forest and the road
During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embra...
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Contesting moralities
Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and nonRoma, state and non-state, public and ...
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Approaches to the american musical
Most books on the American musical are little more than exercises in nostalgia. The specially commissioned essays that make up Approaches to the American Musical take a different view of the form, going beyond the common assertion that musicals are simply escapist.
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Petit glossaire pour servir a l'intelligence des auteurs decadents et symbolistes
This glossary is the only work of its kind produced by Decadent and Symbolist writers themselves, and is full of ‘definitions’ as mystifying as the words they claim to define. It offers a scholarly and a humorous examination of linguistic innovation.
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New arabian studies volume 5
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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Ontographies
Traditional models of representation are in crisis, unable to account for the flat, participatory, and event-driven nature of contemporary media-driven existence. This book proposes a radical shift, moving beyond this crisis by embracing a philosophy of immanence, and offering a vital new perspec...
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Toussaint louverture
This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s. It draws a compelling image of Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian Independence.
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Landscape and townscape in the south west
This book examines recent views on the emerging settlement patterns of early medieval Britain and their relation to land use, drawing on both archaeological and documentary sources.
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Making moonta
An investigation of the popular tradition of ‘Australia’s Little Cornwall’: how one town in South Australia gained and perpetuated this identity into the twenty-first century. This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity.
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From mimesis to interculturalism
From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed critique of theatrical theory from its origins in Greek antiquity to the present day.
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Theatres of the troubles
The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain.
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The boggart
The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Using long-forgotten sources as well as social media surveys and personal interviews, this ground-breaking book reveals that almost everything we thought we knew about the boggart is wrong.
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Ramparts of empire
William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston’s extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ramparts of Empire is a detailed and engaging study of his life and works.
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Confession de fe christiana
On 21st January 1561 Casiodoro de Reina, the head of the Spanish Protestant community in London, presented the French Consistory of the Strangers' Churches with a confession of faith, the Confession de Fe Christiana. His purpose was to have the Spanish Church accepted beside the other foreign Chu...
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The exeter english-russian dictionary of cultural terms
The Exeter English-Russian Dictionary of Cultural Terms is a unique work of reference whose aim is to provide English speakers who possess at least some knowledge of Russian with the Russian equivalents of foreign and cultural terms in widespread use.
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Ancient greek and contemporary performance
This collection of essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of ‘the contemporary’. These essays explore historical performance in ancient Greece and link it to wider reflections on cultural theory.
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From ta'izz to tyneside
This book is the first in-depth study of early Arab immigrants to Britain, and provides a unique insight into their everyday lives.
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Our multispecies futures
An urgent call for a paradigm-shift away from human exceptionalism, addressing interconnected global crises of climate change, species extinction and cultural conflict. Proposes the Cybercene as a framework to study how digital technologies accelerate control over all life, while revealing pragma...
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The b&c kinematograph company and british cinema
This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through a history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company in the years 1908-1916, when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. The book provides an account of its films and personalities, and exp...
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Ancient and high crosses of cornwall
A guide to one hundred of the finest early Cornish stone crosses, illustrated with colour photographs. These characteristic features of the Cornish landscape date from around AD 900 to 1300. This accessible, but academically rigorous, work includes an analysis of the decorative designs and techni...
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Music and musicians in early nineteenth-century cornwall
Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held captive aboard ship during the French wars of the 1790s before being abandoned in Falmouth, the story of Joseph Emidy deserves telling in its own right. Emidy became a prominent figure in the musical scene in...
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Empsaël et zoraïde
This new edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s play Empsaël et Zoraïde, presented in a modernised spelling, makes available a text which illustrates his abolitionist stance through its central irony: the masters are black and their slaves white, joining forces in the antislavery debate which rea...
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John hamrick’s blue mouse cinemas
A unique, in-depth case study of regional independent film exhibition in the Pacific Northwest. This book helps us understand the unexplored role and influence of American indie small-chain exhibitors during the height of the studio era.
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The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 1
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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Extraordinary actors
The extraordinary performers collected here have altered the history of popular entertainment in America and Europe. Some have rarely had their story told, others are familiar figures. The essays explore what made these performers extraordinary.
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Nonhuman cinema
This book proposes a radical new nonhuman cinema: it examines how cinema challenges human superiority and the anthropocentric gaze while opening up new sensory, ethical, and material encounters between human and nonhuman, including the cinematic apparatus itself. It raises key ethical questions a...
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Henry francis lyte
Henry Francis Lyte was an Anglican minister, hymn-writer and poet. His best-known hymn, Abide With Me, has been sung at FA Cup Finals since 1927 and at Rugby League Challenge Cup Finals since 1929. It is also said to have been have been on the lips of the British nurse Edith Cavell as she faced ...
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Poesías inéditas u olvidadas
A selection of poems from a poet writing at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Piers plowman
The earliest version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century poet inventing the forms that his life’s work will take. This is the first critically considered edition of the A -text supported by an introduction, side glosses, and on-page ex...
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Going to the movies
This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South ...
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New arabian studies volume 1
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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World war two simulated
This book examines how World War Two is simulated through serious computer games. It argues that a particular dynamic emerges in such ‘simgames’, especially when curious players begin to look beyond gameplay for how to understand the past.
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The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 3
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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British cinema and middlebrow culture in the interwar years
This offers an understanding of British Cinema between 1928 and 1939 through an analysis of the relationship between the British film industry and other ‘culture industries’ such as the radio, music recording, publishing and early television.
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The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 5
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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The censorship of british drama 1900-1968 volume 1
New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This first volume in Steve Nicholson’s important four-part analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 to 1968 is based on previously undocumented material in the Lor...
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Making a christian landscape
Sam Turner’s important new interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development traces landscape change in the South West from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (AD c. 450–1070).
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Freedom's pioneer
This is the first full-length study of John McGrath's work, and illuminates the importance of his role in the development of theatre, film and television in the last four decades of the twentieth century.
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The political economy of small tropical islands
A comparative study of a number of dependent and independent tropical islands and archipelagos. Its contributors seek to answer a number of vital questions affecting the security, political status and economic development of some of the world's smallest and most remote communities.
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God's exiles and english verse
This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts, seen as devout yet cosmopolitan expressio...
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