Society & Social Sciences books

Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in the north-eastern borderlands of Bangladesh, this book focuses...  Read More >>

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary...  Read More >>

This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including...  Read More >>

This book examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged...  Read More >>

Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place is an ethnography of culture and...  Read More >>

This book offers an up-to-date and broad analysis of the contemporary state of Malaysian politics and society.  Read More >>

Bas von Benda-Beckmann explores how German historical accounts reflected debates on postwar identity and looks at...  Read More >>

In Minor Platforms in Videogame History, Benjamin Nicoll argues that 'minor' game histories are anything but insignificant....  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the portant challenge of the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants....  Read More >>

BookScaffolding the Language of Power: An Apprenticeship in Doctoral Level Writing offers an accessible, practical,...  Read More >>

This workbook is a supplement to the textbook Scaffolding the Language of Power: An Apprenticeship in Doctoral-Level...  Read More >>

Integrating action research with systems thinking, this work fuses reflective inquiry and systemic tools such as...  Read More >>

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow's wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants...  Read More >>

This is the first monograph to thoroughly analyse Benjamin’s film writings, contextualizing them within his oeuvre...  Read More >>

This book explores the changes to native senses of place, the conception of border - simultaneously as limitations...  Read More >>

This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg...  Read More >>

An accomplished linguist and writer, A.B. Mitford was the outstanding chronicler of the Meiji Restoration, complementing...  Read More >>

This text explores issues related to the global crises of our time: reason, science, and the environment by revisiting...  Read More >>

Exploring the history of several important collections from the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, Bregt Lameris shows...  Read More >>

Sonic Time Machines presents a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence:...  Read More >>

For the first time, this book lays a solid foundation for the understanding of mail armour and its context through...  Read More >>

The book casts new light on the relation between religion and modernity in Southeast Asia and beyond.  Read More >>

In this book, the sublime is understood as a complex and culturally specific meeting point between philosophical...  Read More >>

This book explores the political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce, two French intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Digital Gaming and the Advertising Landscape explores the different ways advertising messages can be embedded within...  Read More >>