Real Ghost Stories

Jamie King

Filled with terrifying tales of ghosts and ghouls, poltergeists and other unexplained encounters, this bone-chilling compendium of paranormal phenomena is sure to haunt you long after you have turned the final pageDid you hear about the ghost who solved her own murder?...

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens

Emma Gooch

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and Attica, the city's surrounding hinterland. The book presents...

Teaching Gender

Samuel Rutherford

In Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, universities were one of many institutional state structures wherein gender difference, the male breadwinner ideal, and heterosexuality were central to a conception of citizenship. But while the state...

Refugee Voices in Modern Global History

Lauren Banko , Peter Gatrell , Anindita Ghoshal , Katarzyna Nowak

Across modern history, refugees have articulated their experiences and wishes against the backdrop of mass displacement brought about by world wars, civil war, revolution, population exchange, decolonisation, and state formation. Men and women displaced in different...

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens

Emma Gooch

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and Attica, the city's surrounding hinterland. The book presents...

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Machine learning, renowned for its ability to detect patterns in large datasets, has seen a significant increase in applications and complexity since the early 2000s. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology ofMachine Learning offers a state-of-the-art and forward-looking...

Teaching Gender

Samuel Rutherford

In Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, universities were one of many institutional state structures wherein gender difference, the male breadwinner ideal, and heterosexuality were central to a conception of citizenship. But while the state...

The Great Return

Jamie Franklin

The decline in Secular Western morality can only be halted and reversed by a full return to Christianity.Many people have a sense that the Western World is in decline and that our society is fragmenting around us. Many people have an ominous sense that we are living at...

Back from the Brink

Peter Moskos

With crime of heightened concern in the country's largest cities, Peter Moskos brings readers behind the Blue Wall of the NYPD, offering insight into policing solutions directly from the law enforcement officers who went to war against crime in New York in the 1990s,...

Waste as a Critique

Hervé Corvellec

Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society. Drawing on growing interdisciplinary concerns for discards, it contextualizes waste in cultural, symbolic, historical, spatial,...

Funny Moves

Marta E. Savigliano , Hannah Schwadron

Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a...

Intersectional Listening

Allie Martin

Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood change are observed. But what does gentrification sound like? In Intersectional Listening, author Allie Martin engages this question in Washington, DC, asking how...

Woman's Hour

Una Mccormack

For 75 years, Woman’s Hour has brought us the most iconic and inspirational women from all over the world, delving into their lives and opinions, desires and lessons to others. Now, their wise words are brought to you each day in this daily guide.Woman’s Hour: Daily...

Between Two Rivers

Moudhy Al-Rashid

Greek Mythology

Carolina López-Ruiz

This volume provides an introduction to ancient Greek mythology through the theme of cosmogonies and theogonies —myths of origins that told the creation of the world and the birth and succession of the gods. Greek Mythology additionally features important...

Lady Killers

Jamie King

Cunning, sadistic and deadly - the world's most notorious lady killers are brought together in this shocking true crime compendiumWhat drives women to kill? Is it love, power, revenge? There is something both disturbing and fascinating about female murderers - how those...

Waste as a Critique

Hervé Corvellec

Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society. Drawing on growing interdisciplinary concerns for discards, it contextualizes waste in cultural, symbolic, historical, spatial,...

Fetal Positions

Amy Adamczyk

In many countries, abortion is a contentious public opinion issue.In nations like the United States, advocates on both sides of the debate have actively worked to amplify their voices and change legislation.In other parts of the world, such as China, abortion is not a...

Tropical Leviathan

Aaron Graham

The colonial Jamaican state was immensely wealthy, but it was a society consumed by fear.The White population feared the possibility of enslaved rebellion and foreign invasion, and the Black population feared their cruel treatment as overworked labourers on Jamaica's...

Tropical Leviathan

Aaron Graham

The colonial Jamaican state was immensely wealthy, but it was a society consumed by fear.The White population feared the possibility of enslaved rebellion and foreign invasion, and the Black population feared their cruel treatment as overworked labourers on Jamaica's...