GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Urban Regeneration in the UK: Theory and Practice
By Phil Jones, lecturer in human geography, University of Birmingham, and James Evans, lecturer in geography, University of Manchester. Sage, £22.99. ISBN 9781412934916
Examining key aspects of the process from first principles, this book introduces and contextualises the UK urban regeneration agenda, using case studies of contemporary British projects to link theory and practice.
HISTORY
British Civilian Internees in Germany
By Matthew Stibbe, research fellow in modern European history, Sheffield Hallam University. Manchester University Press, £55.00 and £14.99. ISBN 9780719070846 and 0853
Stibbe examines the arrest of up to 5,000 British men on 6 November 1914 by the German military. They included academics, professional musicians and businessmen, half of whom spent the entire First World War in a prison camp.
LAW
Refugee Law and Practice in Japan
By Osamu Arakaki, professor of foreign studies, Kansai Gaidai University. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN 9780754670094
This volume examines the development of refugee law and policy in Japan, discussing systemic weaknesses and comparing the evolution of law in other states to highlight problems in Japan's refugee determination system.
LITERATURE
Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance
Edited by Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson professor of Shakespeare studies, McGill University, and Patricia Badir, associate professor of English, University of British Columbia. Ashgate, £50.00. ISBN 9780754655855
The contributors strive to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance, broadly defined in social terms.
MUSIC
Dancing with Devtas: Drums, Power and Possession in the Music of Garhwal, North India
By Andrew Alter, senior lecturer in music, University of New England. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN 978075465669
Alter blends a carefully detailed analysis of drumming with the complex ritual and social contexts of this sophisticated and semantically rich musical practice.
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
Personal Identity: Second Edition
Edited by John Perry, professor of philosophy, Stanford University. University of California Press, £13.50. ISBN 9780520256422
This volume brings together the contributions of distinguished past and contemporary philosophers to the important topic of personal identity. The essayists range from John Locke to David Hume and Bernard Williams.
PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
Seeing through Illusions
By Richard Gregory, emeritus professor of neuropsychology, University of Bristol. Oxford University Press, £16.99. ISBN 9780192802859
Interweaving science with reflections on art and philosophy, psychological case studies and amazing visual phenomena, Gregory explains what visual illusion can tell us about how we perceive the world, and about the evolution of the brain.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras
By Adrienne Pine, assistant professor of anthropology, American University in Cairo. University of California Press, £29.95. ISBN 9780520255432
Through an examination of three major subject areas - violence, alcohol and factory work - Pine explores the daily relationships and routines of urban Hondurans.
Biological sciences
How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to Oceanography
By Mark Denny, John B. and Jean DeNault professor in marine sciences and biomechanics, Stanford University
Princeton University Press, £59.95
ISBN 9780691126463
Denny explains key concepts in oceanography in detail accessible to students and general readers, exploring early scientific knowledge of oceans, photosynthesis, trophic interactions and energy flow, and the impacts of human activities on marine and atmospheric systems.
Education
Reflective Teaching and Learning: A Guide to Professional Issues for Beginning Secondary Teachers
By Sue Dymoke, senior lecturer in education, University of Leicester and Jennifer Harrison, senior lecturer in education, University of Leicester
Sage, £22.99
ISBN 9781412946476
An introduction for secondary teachers to the art of critical reflective teaching throughout their professional work, this book is designed as a flexible resource, combining theoretical background with practical reflective activities.
Geography and environmental studies
Sustainable Rural Systems: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Communities
Edited by Guy Robinson, professor of geography, Kingston University
Ashgate, £55.00
ISBN 9780754647157
Drawing on a range of case studies, this volume provides an analysis of the progress made so far towards sustainability within rural systems. Focusing specifically on sustainable agriculture and rural communities, the studies also suggest positive directions for future policy practice.
Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale
By Michael K. Goodman, lecturer in geography, King’s College London, Maxwell T. Boykoff, research fellow, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford and Kyle T. Evered, assistant professor of geography at Michigan State University
Ashgate, £55.00
ISBN 9780754649717
Bringing together a range of global case studies to illustrate the broad range of current theories on this relationship, the authors present significant cutting-edge research into the continuing redefinition of political ecology as it relates to environmental contestation.
Key Texts in Human Geography
Edited by Phil Hubbard, professor of geography, Loughborough University, Rob Kitchin, professor of human geography and director of the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Gill Valentine, professor of geography, University of Leeds
Sage, £22.99
ISBN 9781412922616
This book serves as a primer and companion to the key texts in human geography published over the past 40 years. It is not a reader, but a volume of 26 interpretive essays highlighting the significance of the texts, how they should be read, reactions and controversies surrounding them, and long-term legacies.
History
Feast: Why Humans Share Food
By Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers professor of archaeology, University of Cambridge
Oxford University Press, £12.99
ISBN 97801995335
Jones uses archaeological methods to reconstruct the development of the human meal, spanning half-a-million years, giving an account of how the history of the meal has a huge impact on this planet.
“The Better Class” of Indians
By A. Martin Wainwright, associate professor of history, University of Akron
Manchester University Press, £60.00
ISBN: 9780719076664
This study focuses primarily on the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism, emphasising the importance of class as the register through which British polite society interpreted other social distinctions such as race, gender, and religion.
The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture
Edited by Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson research chair and associate professor of English, Ryerson University
Ashgate, £50.00
ISBN 9780754661566
This collection addresses not only the roles assigned to children in the context of nineteenth-century consumer culture, but also children themselves as agents in the formation of that culture.
Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks
Edited by Julia Barrow, reader in history, University of Nottingham and Andrew Wareham, director, Centre for Hearth Tax Research, Roehampton University
Ashgate, £55.00
ISBN 9780754651208
The editors bring together a number of essays written by leading early medieval English history scholars. Focusing on three specific themes – myths, charters and warfare – each contribution presents a balance of both sources and interpretations.
Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe
Edited by Stephanie Tarbin, research fellow in history, University of Western Australia and Susan Broomhall, associate professor of history, University of Western Australia
Ashgate, £50.00
ISBN 9780754661849
Exploring the contradictory forces shaping women’s identities and experiences, this collection examines the possibilities for commonalities and the forces of division between women in early modern Europe.
Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon
By Steven Matthews, assistant professor of history, University of Minnesota Duluth
Ashgate, £50.00
ISBN 9780754662525
This monograph contributes possible answers to the questions of what Bacon believed and how it may have affected the development of his programme for scientific reform, the “Great Instauration”.
Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Identities and Influences
By Richard Hitchcock, professor emeritus of Arab and Islamic studies, University of Exeter
Ashgate, £50.00
ISBN 9780754663140
Hitchcock considers Mozarabism in León and Toledo, and the issues that arose when Mozarabs were relocated in twelfth-century Aragón, and then, in sixteenth-century Toledo, when they were striving to retain their identity.
Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor
By Larry Silver, Farquhar professor of northern renaissance art, University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University Press, £29.95
ISBN 9780691130194
This book explores how the Emperor Maximilian used illustrations and other visual arts to shape his image, strengthen the power of the Hapsburg dynasty, and help establish the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Law
Living Law: Studies in Legal and Social Theory
By Roger Cotterrell, anniversary professor of legal theory, Queen Mary, University of London and fellow, British Academy
Ashgate, £85.00
ISBN 97807546104
This text presents a comprehensive overview of relationships between legal and social theory, and of current approaches to the sociological study of legal ideas.
Literature
Djuna Barnes’ Consuming Fictions
By Diane Warren, English literature subject leader, University of Portsmouth
Ashgate, £50.00
ISBN 9780754639206
Warren argues that Barnes’ writings were significant in their immediate early twentieth-century context, in which gender boundaries were being effectively redrawn, and continue to contribute to present-day debates on identity.
Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee’s Supernatural Tales
By Patricia Pulham, senior lecturer in Victorian literature, University of Portsmouth
Ashgate, £45.00
ISBN 9780754650966
Pulham combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism in her study of Lee’s fantastic tales, arguing that the past in Lee’s tales signifies not only an historical but a psychic past.
Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives: From Ethiopia Unbound to Things Fall Apart, 1911–1958
By Donald R. Wehrs, associate professor of English, Auburn University
Ashgate, £50.00
ISBN 9780754660880
Wehrs explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in texts by Casely Hayford, Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, Paul Hazoumé, D.?O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and Chinua Achebe.
Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot
By Elizabeth Sabiston, professor of English, York University
Ashgate, £50.00
ISBN 9780754661740
Sabiston looks at works by Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, offering a fresh perspective on the transition of women writers from the private to the public sphere.
Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation
By Abigail Brundin, lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge
Ashgate, £55.00
ISBN 9780754640493
The first full-length study of Vittoria Colonna in English for a century, this book provides a background and contextualisation for anyone wishing to read Colonna’s writings, or to know more about her role as a mediator between the worlds of courtly Petrachism and religious reform.
Media and communication studies
The Internet and the Mass Media
Edited by Lucy Kung, assistant professor at the Media Management and Transformation Centre, Jönköping International Business School, Robert G. Picard, director of the Media Management and Transformation Centre and professor of economics, Jönköping International Business School and Ruth Towse, reader in cultural industries, Erasmus University
Sage, £21.99
ISBN 9781412947350
Reviewing the developments of the first internet era and investigating its actual outcomes, this work brings together analyses from leading scholars, and explores the far-reaching implications of the internet from economic, regulatory, strategic and organisational perspectives.
Music
l Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy
By Lucy Green, professor of music education, Institute of Education, University of London
Ashgate, £16.99
ISBN 9780754665229
Green reveals how the music classroom can draw upon the world of popular musicians’ informal learning practices, so as to recognise and foster a range of musical skills and knowledge that have long been overlooked within music education.
Philosophy and theology
A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria
By Daniel Jordan Smith, associate director, population studies and training centre, Stanley J. Bernstein, assistant professor in the social sciences and assistant professor of anthropology and population studies, Brown University
Princeton University Press, £23.95
ISBN 97806911224
The author presents a sympathetic attempt to understand the dilemmas average Nigerians face every day as they try to get ahead, or just survive, in a society riddled with corruption.
Social sciences
Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship
Edited by Charles R. Hale, associate professor of anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
University of California Press, £17.95
ISBN 9780520098619
In this wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary volume, leading scholar-activists map the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigour meet and detail what ethical, political, and practical tensions arise in the course of scholarly work.