Society & culture: general books

Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954....  Read More >>

This book explores the history of the interrelationship between the bodily senses and the world of luxury, through...  Read More >>

Presents diverse, crowdsourced visions of unconventional fictional fashion systems, and explores the unexpected...  Read More >>

""Deeply reported and persuasively told,Roamis a gorgeous testament to the habitats that sustain life on earth-and...  Read More >>

Explores stained and bloody cloth, textiles and materials in Ireland’s last 100 years, since partial independence...  Read More >>

A comparative history of aromatics, cosmetics and adornment and how they shaped civilisation across the Ancient...  Read More >>

An in-depth analysis how men and masculinity are represented in contemporary science fiction television.  Read More >>

Recovering the rarely heard voices of immigrant soldiers, Indigenous women, and Mexican women alongside officers'...  Read More >>

This Element is about historical practice and genetics that seeks to understand what is at stake in presenting,...  Read More >>

This Element analyses issues of abuse in new religious movements (NRMs). It argues that certain factors can be intensified...  Read More >>

By analysing how queer and ethnically Chinese-identified individuals navigate ideological influences, this Element...  Read More >>

This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson, one of the most produced US playwrights...  Read More >>

Utilizing theories and exemplars from multiple disciplines, the authors discuss how food relates to four dimensions...  Read More >>

Argues that 18th-century British literary writers deployed melancholic feeling to draw a complex web of relations...  Read More >>

The first volume to combine African and Western philosophical approaches to current issues in language, logic, metaphysics...  Read More >>

An eco-feminist intervention on the rift between current ecosocialist agendas and the often unseen, undertheorized...  Read More >>

A deeply researched account of Wittgenstein’s wartime experiences and reading during 1914 and 1917 that reveals...  Read More >>

Covering all aspects of Japanese society, culture, politics, economy, geography and history, this book guides readers...  Read More >>

Examines the connection between auditory perception and the formation of subjectivity and identity in 20th-century...  Read More >>

This book explores and challenges the ways in which scientific discourses about the brain have been used ideologically...  Read More >>

She never went to Prom. Never got married. Never had kids. Instead, Sandy Shaw, at fifteen was labeled as the ""Show...  Read More >>

This book argues that the notions of happiness, unhappiness, and chance in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur offer...  Read More >>

Examines Chilean singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet and ethnographer Violeta Parra (1917–1967)  Read More >>

This book presents essays that investigate religious themes in anime and use anime as thinking partners for constructive...  Read More >>

Examines historical, cultural, and theological experiences of Anglican Church members, lay and ordained, in the...  Read More >>