Edinburgh University Press

Published in France in 2018, Henri Atlan's book Cours de philosophie biologique et cognitiviste: Spinoza et la biologie actuelle (Odile Jacob, 2018) represents a turning point in Spinoza's...

Examines the multi-layered construction of film couples as a characteristic of Philippine stardom and cinema.Author: Chrishandra SebastiampillaiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date:...

This book collects 8 thoroughly revised articles and book chapters, together with a new introductory theoretical chapter, based on P?l Kolst 's 30 years of study of nationalism and ethnic conflict in...

Discusses the ways in which post-independence novels and films understand the relationship between subjectivity and decolonisationAuthor: Sarah JilaniPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication...

What happens after you die? You can't take it with you, so succession law governs how your property is passed on after your death. Succession Law Essentials teaches you all you need to know about the...

Establishes the existence of an important school of Sufi thought developed by Ibn ?Arabi This book is not about Sufism. It is about the nature of the Shari?a. In the first three centuries of Islam,...

Explores the relationship between television and deathAuthor: Helen WheatleyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Apr 30, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This book engages with the long-overlooked bicycle as a crucial literary and cultural object. In a selection of turn-of-the-century fiction, travel writing and non-fiction, cycling is revealed to be...

Focuses on the California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Author: Bernice M MurphyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Moving beyond border studies paradigms dominated by the Mexico-US border, this collection aims to contextualise cultures and communities within a wider global understanding of border thinking. It...

The Cultural Politics of Veterans' Narratives investigates the role of veterans' stories in our collective cultural and political life. Drawing on contemporary narrative theory, it offers a...

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first timeAuthor: Peter D McDonaldPublisher:...

Examines state-middle class reciprocities in the making, persistence and failure of the Egyptian social contract The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the...

The Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 amends, updates and improves various aspects of Scottish family law, as well as introducing important new provisions for cohabiting couples. This book contains the...

Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international lawAuthor: Edwin BikundoPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Explores the ways in which affect, colonial histories and militarism organise global security workforces within private military and security companies This book locates its analysis with Gurkhas: a...

Explores the relationship between geography and David Foster Wallace's novels The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels takes a fresh look at David Foster Wallace's novels through the lens of...

Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms A lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell...

This book collects 12 previously untranslated lectures by Castoriadis from 1982 to 1983. Castoriadis focuses on the interconnection between philosophy and democracy and the way both emerge within a...

[headline]The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as...

Poking fun at Victorian social clubs became a way of asserting and redefining social belonging. At the turn of the century, amid intense social change, the club became the subject of sustained humour...

Shows how digital capitalism has shaped human rights practices What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed into data, and...

Advances the method of isnad-cum-matn analysis for unravelling complex aspects of early Islamic historyAuthor: Seyfeddin KaraPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Jul 31, 2024Number...

The Jacobite Wars is a detailed exploration of the Jacobite military campaigns of 1715 and 1745, set against the background of Scottish political, religious and constitutional history.The author has...

The first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries In December 1840, Charlotte Brontë wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished...

Using the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships; between commodity and community, abstraction and context, and private enclosure...

Argues that contemporary slasher films embody a turn towards the metamodern sensibilityAuthor: Steve JonesPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

[headline]Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the...

Explores how nahda translations of the Bible transformed Arabic language and literatureAuthor: Rana IssaPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Provides the first comprehensive history of the politics of film finance in Britain from the end of the Second World War to 1985Author: James ChapmanPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication...