project collections

Encounters & Identities Textbooks

Textbooks & Inspection Copies in Religious Studies & Philosophy

AI in 5 Minutes

Katherine Chiou, Lawrence Cappello, Nathan Robert Loewen, all, University of Alabama (Volume Editors)

The Insider/Outsider Debate

New Perspectives in the Study of Religion

George D. Chryssides, University of Birmingham and York St John University, Stephen E. Gregg, University of Wolverhampton (Volume Editors)

The U.S. Constitution in Five Minutes

Joseph L. Smith, University of Alabama, David E. Klein, University of Eastern Michigan (Volume Editors)

New Music Books for 2025

covers shows, a painting called the Jazz Party by William Roberts from the mid-1920s, showing a group of around 18 people dancing energetically in a bar, to music from a gramophone.'

Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs

From the Pleasure Garden to the Discotheque

Bruce J. Lindsay, Music Journalist and Social Historian

Ray Brown

His Life and Music

Jay Sweet, Musician, Educator and Writer
Photo of Kenny playing trumpet

Song for Someone

The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler

Brian Shaw, Performer, Author & Educator, Nick Smart, Royal Academy of Music

Who Do We Think They Are?

Deep Purple and Metal Studies

Andy R. Brown, Independent Scholar

Forthcoming Music

"I'm Used to Playing Lead"

Memoirs by Women in Jazz

Amy Tucker, Queens College CUNY (Emerita)
forthcoming music

Composer

The Changing Face of Music

Anna Beer, Oxford University

Cool Heat

Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life

James Gavin, Author and Journalist

Dragon Headz

Welshness, Identity, and the Hidden Histories of Hip Hop in Wales

Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Plymouth
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Funk, Hip-Hop & Soul

digitally altered photo of smiling James Browb

James Brown

John Scannell, Macquarie University
Richie performing with left hand in air holding mike with left

Lionel Richie

Hello

Sharon Davis, Author and Journalist
drawing of the UK on which is the book title done in a graffiti style typograpy

Provincial Headz

British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism

Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Plymouth
photo of a backing group

Soul Unsung

Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music

Kevin Le Gendre, Journalist and Broadcaster
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Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

smiling girl in mao-style jacket in a factory

About Chinese Women

Julia Kristeva, Philosopher, Psychoanalyst, Semiotician
forthcoming music

Composer

The Changing Face of Music

Anna Beer, Oxford University

Consuming Passions

Judith Williamson, Cultural Critic and Author
photo of two sets of bare legs from knee down, touching at toes

Earogenous Zones

Sound, Sexuality and Cinema

Bruce Johnson, University of Turku & Macquarie University (Volume Editor)
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Social Criticism

This Collection focuses on theoretical as well as creative works related to contemporary social and political issues. They examine the causes and consequences of social injustice, such as the work of Ivan Illich, or document specific situations or institutions; it includes drama, fiction and other non-academic genres.
smiling girl in mao-style jacket in a factory

About Chinese Women

Julia Kristeva, Philosopher, Psychoanalyst, Semiotician

Berji Kristin

Latife Tekin, Novelist

Cathy Come Home

Jeremy Sandford, Screenwriter, (1930-2003)
abstract design

Celebration of Awareness

A Call for Institutional Revolution

Ivan Illich
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Egypt

stylized drawing of three Egyptian-style pyramids

Biography and Presence in Late New Kingdom Egypt

Elizabeth Frood, University of Oxford

Fertile Crossroads

Elites and Exchange in the Southern Levant's Early Iron Age

Sarah Malena. St. Mary's College of Maryland

First Civilizations

Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, 2/e

Robert Chadwick, Bishop's University

High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt

John Baines, University of Oxford
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Mediterranean Archaeology

photo of a statuette in bronze of cattle from bronze age anatolia

Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia

Christoph Bachhuber, University of Oxford
2 sword hilts with pattern-forged grips & blade, two-toned crossguards and double pommels of patterned disks topped with acorns

Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration

Lene Melheim, University of Gothenburg, Håkon Glørstad, University of Oslo, Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad, University of Oslo (Volume Editors)

Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology

Sturt W. Manning, Cornell University (Volume Editor)

Debating Orientalization

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean

Corinna Riva, University College London, Nicholas C. Vella, University of Malta, (Volume Editors)
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