Books published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The brilliant new Joseph Spector locked-room mystery. Spector investigates paranormal goings-on and murder at a former World War One hospital.

This book explores twelve themes that reflect Beethoven's compositional development and thought. The result is a fascinating new portrait of the composer and his music, and a panorama of the world of thought, norms, and values that he navigated.

This book analyzes the impact of white Christian nationalism on American society, using a quantitative-statistical approach. It argues that citizens are more likely to support nationalist, inequitable, and oppressive philosophies when they are presented in racialized and religious terms, justified by fear, and linked to religious beliefs.

This book explores the building of political voice of young South Sudanese Australians to resist racialising discourses, particularly through Hip Hop.

The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South argues that the claim that human reason-not inherited social institutions-is the ultimate source of justification is a universalizable principle whose actualization would make progress possible in Egypt and elsewhere in the Global South.

This book argues for an underlying congruity in the epistemological programs of Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga. Through detailed engagement with their distinctive philosophical contexts, a reading is developed that contributes to the prevailing discourse on the theory of knowledge put forward by both thinkers.

Focusing on the early months of the war in Ukraine, this book presents quantitative and qualitative analyses of the main television news coverage in 11 countries across the geopolitical world. Contributors reveal both common and nation-specific themes and angles, indicative of an unfettered relationship between news media and government.

In this book, Jessica Neu explores how to advance the discussion of deliberative democracy in an era defined by widespread social polarization and identity politics. By utilizing the communication ethics scholarship of Ronald C. Arnett as a theoretical framework and reference point for analysis, Neu analyzes several pop culture artifacts to demonstrate how communication ethics and narrative-driven perspectives can be applied pragmatically in order to reach dialogic civility in a post-truth era. Through recognizing each artifact's relationship with rhetoric, Neu highlights how they each represent ways in which discursive environment in physical space can be utilized to promote depolarization. Ultimately, this book provides a paradigmatic model that demonstrates how any individual can utilize this framework of communication ethics and deliberative democracy to enter a space of dialogic civility to depolarize our current post-truth world.

This book explores new critical methods for interpreting the emergent, cross-genre counter-narrative techniques of trans* authors and allies. Jack outlines the roles that archives, exclusionary feminisms, medical rubrics, and national surveillance protocols have played in shaping the representation of gender-transing subjects.

Using Kenya as a case study, this book demonstrates the effects and limitations of foreign aid on development and human security in poor countries to reshape the processes for the benefit of both the donors and the intended beneficiaries.

Judy D. Whipps delves into the untold legacy of early twentieth-century feminist pragmatists who reshaped American legislative and legal history. As advocates for working women, children, immigrants, and racial justice, they fought for an interpretation of the Constitution that included social rights.

Devaluing Public Apologies in the Age of Social Media argues that apologies are losing their meaning because people treat them as strategical tools while ignoring their ethical implications. Recent apologies by celebrities, politicians, and brands are examined to show how apologies need to be rooted in values to be effective.

Religions and brands address fundamental human needs and motivations and their societal functionalities exhibit certain parallels. This book explores this proposition through an analogical abstraction, in accompany with four case studies to assess the hypothetical aspect of this comparative approach in a real-world context.

The Yemenite Children Affair was a tragic crisis in which about 1,000 children died between 1949 and 1954. Over the years, rumors spread that the kids were not dead, but kidnapped. This book tells the story from the health crisis to the investigations and the conspiracy theories that have developed ever since.

This book explores the tumultuous relationships between gender and national identities during the formative period of East Central European nation-building.

This book combines hard science, technology, and progressive planning to reverse climate change, and offers a bold yet practical vision for sustainable living.

Chronicling the forgotten history of Europe's early Muslim communities across the continent, this book reconceptualizes the "age of empire" through the interconnected lives of imperialists, journalists, and Muslim activists who attempted to establish a place for Islam in European society.

This volume explores the human-technology relations that both shape modern educational settings and have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future. The contributors present empirical evidence to challenge and reframe the goal of education in relation to technology.

This book focuses on the rhetorical dimensions, power, potentialities, and constraints of silent protest.

This book offers a new obstetric quality paradigm to address violations of physical and emotional safety during childbirth hospitalization. It's a vital call for prioritizing Black mothers' expressions, expectations, and experiences in clinical practice, decision-making, and care delivery.

The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the newborn patient within the medical context and provides a nuanced understanding of the newborn's experience and the challenges faced by neonatal medical professionals.

Ethics in Contact Rhetoric re-orients communication theory by centering touch and de-centering symbolic acts. Inspired by MLK's tradition of nonviolent power, a contact orientation highlights the incarnate and immediate ground of communication ethics. Ethical interactions are defined as bio-relational dances arcing steps of nurture, respect, justice, and too often, violence. Centering humanity's physical mutuality is a vital move today. Communication is a thoroughly interactive art, but the West's ancient "instrumental" tradition of rhetoric and its accompanying utilitarian ethic valorize individual agency over joint action. This book re-balances rhetorical theory by enabling critique of embodied relational patterns. Special emphasis is placed on engaging material injustice and discerning the role of rhetoric in social transformation. Critical case studies demonstrate contact rhetoric's rich heuristic and diverse applications.

Built in 1900 near Havana's harbor, Triscornia stood as one of the first migratory centers in the Americas and a symbol of the first U.S. military occupation. This book focuses on this overlooked institution and emphasizes its relevance to understanding the Cuban Republican period and its relationship with the U.S.

This book links the stories, lived and fictional, of Catherine Dickens, Marie Corelli, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to demonstrate the trans-imperial dimensions of gender-based oppression and to trace the emergence of trans-imperial feminist consciousness between England and India.

Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport brings martial arts and Eastern philosophical wisdom together with the competitive world of sports as games. This exploration goes beyond the conventional view of martial arts as fighting skills, delving into their evolution as competitive Olympic sports and profound ways of self-cultivation.

This book provides a historically informed perspective of First Lady of China Soong Mayling's legacy within the context of World War II history, international cultural and military affairs, and transnational geopolitics inflected through gender.

This book provides perspectives from different refugee groups and the resettlement agencies that smooth their transition into a new life context. It discusses how they overcome displacement and cope with trauma and how they remain vulnerable to marginality and delays in economic independence.

This book assesses the prevalence and intensity of intersecting security threats on the small island developing states of the Caribbean Community and explores the various ideologies and responses that impact Caribbean security.

Through extensive ethnography, We are Coast Salish examines the cultural and political responses deployed by the Coast Salish First Nations in response to changes at the Canada/US border after the events of 9/11.