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Gender, Politics, News: A Game of Three Sides explores the role of gender in the broader processes of political communication The only contemporary bo…

Sustainable Steel Buildings reviews steel and its potential as a sustainable building material and shows how steel can be used to deliver buildings an…

Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but th…

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, enga…

Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship …

Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing an…

The bestselling graphic design reference, updated for the digital age Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the industry's unparalleled, award-winning r…

A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story pa…

A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical rece…

Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empir…

For the student and general reader, a tour of the digital universe that offers critical observations and new perspectives on human communication and i…

Written by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that provid…

The 34 essays of this collection by leading international scholars reassess Truffaut's impact on cinema as they locate the unique quality of his thema…

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and geneal…

A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America’s most prominent contemporary f…

1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England explores issues of authority, gender, and language within and across the variety of lite…

The most comprehensive volume on one of the most controversial directors in American film history A Companion to D.W. Griffith offers an exhaustive lo…

A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as «satiric successors»; detailed individual contributions …

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey avail…

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can cont…

This comprehensive guide on historic garden and landscape conservation will help landscape professionals familiarise themselves with what the conserva…

Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This book covers the aesthetic traditions of…

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore …

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of t…

Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of Engl…

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations. Uses an interdisciplinary a…

Presented in a single volume, this engaging review reflects on the scholarship and the historical development of American broadcasting A Companion to …

The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business servic…

A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin…

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original…

Balancing provocative criticism with clear explanations of complex ideas, this student-friendly introduction investigates the crucial role global ente…

A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current r…

A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers wi…

Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-…

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the deve…

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Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A groun…

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Scienc…

This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approx…

Sustainable environmental control through building design Heating, Cooling, and Lighting is the industry standard text on environmental control system…

Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins fr…

Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This book examines social sustainability and analyses its meaning. The authors …

A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritati…

This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature – from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of …

A complete examination of the men and forces that created and shaped the modern state of Israel over the last hundred years Walls of Jerusalem is a st…