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Students

Welcome to our Students area, a source of information for students in the areas we publish – the humanities and social sciences – covering undergraduate, post-graduate and higher-level textbooks, coursebooks and monographs, along with single and multi-volume reference works.

Continuum publishes a range of books that are designed specifically for students, to help them gain a better understanding of a subject, often as supplementary reading material for a course.

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Textbooks

We publish textbooks in all of our major academic lists and have an extensive program both for publishing new editions of current books and for commissioning new titles. Below are a selection of our most popular textbooks:

Biblical Studies, Theology

Textbook of Christian Ethics
Christian Origins
The New Testament in Context
Pentecostal Theology

Education

A Sociology of Educating
Reflective Teaching

Film & Media Studies, Music

Audio Culture
The Power of Comics
History of Italian Cinema
Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach

Linguistics

An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Linguistics: An Introduction
Understanding Language

Literary Studies

Studying English Literature

Philosophy

The Philosophy of the Social Sciences
The Philosophy of History

Politics

Deviant Globalization
Intercultural Communication

Companion Websites and Online Resources

Our key textbooks often have Companion Websites, or Online Resources. These are dedicated microsites containing detailed information about the book, together with an extensive range of teaching and learning resources for download.

For more information about these sites, and to see which titles have them, click here.

Student Guides

In addition to textbooks, we publish a wide range of other titles aimed specifically at students. These include introductory guides, readers and handbooks, designed to provide students with accessible, reliable and supportive one-stop resources. Each series is based on careful research into the problems that students encounter on their courses: our aim is simply to provide the best solutions available. Please click the links below to be redirected to our key student series pages:

Guides for the Perplexed
Reader’s Guides
Key Terms
Continuum Contemporaries
Starting With
Key Concepts in Philosophy
Continuum Contemporary American Thinkers
T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies
Philosophy and Theology
Continuum Histories
Introductions to British Literature and Culture
Continuum Renaissance Drama
Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
Literature and Culture Handbooks

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Research Series - Postgraduate

Our scholarly publishing itself focuses extensively on monographs, major works and titles designed primarily for postgraduate and academic readership. All of our major subject lists comprise scholarly publishing of these types. Please see below for a selection of our key research series:

Education

Continuum Library of Educational Thought

Biblical Studies

Library of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Library of the New Testament Studies
Library of Second Temple Studies
Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings
Bible and Postcolonialism

History

Birmingham War Studies

Linguistics

Corpus and Discourse
Continuum Discourse
Collected Works of MAK Halliday
Advances in Sociolinguistics
Advances in Applied Linguistics

Literary Studies

Shakespeare Now!
Continuum Literary Studies
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Texts and Contexts
New Directions in Religion and Literature

Philosophy

Continuum Philosophy Dictionaries
Continuum Studies in Philosophy
Continuum Studies in British Philosophy
Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Politics

Key Studies in Diplomacy

Religious Studies

Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies

Theology

Ecclesiological Investigations
T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology

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Reference Works

Continuum publishes major reference works in key subject areas. These titles can be recommended to your lecturer or library to stock a copy. A selection is highlighted below:

Linguistics

Collected Works of MAK Halliday
Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis
Continuum Companion to Phonology
Continuum Companion to Second Language Acquisition
Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics

Literary Studies

Coleridge's Responses
Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First Line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603
Great Shakespeareans
The Continuum Encyclopedia of Young Adult Literature
European Romanticism
The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Continuum Reception Studies

Philosophy

Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy
Continuum Companion to Locke
Continuum Companion to Philosophy of Mind
Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy
Cambridge School of Pragmatism
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers
Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
Dictionary of British Classicists
Bibliography of Modern American Philosophers
Biographical Encyclopedia of British Idealism
Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers
Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers

Politics

Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill
Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series

Religion

Church Dogmatics – 31 Volumes
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

Religious Studies

Continuum Companion to Religion and Film

Theology

T&T Clark Companion to Methodism
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Recommend to your professor

Many Continuum textbooks are available as desk or examination copies to professors and teachers in the US. If there is a title that you think would be useful for your professor to see, or your library to stock, you should encourage them to request an examination or desk copy.

Please click here to see a list of our textbooks that we recommend for adoption.

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Social networking – ‘Follow Continuum’

Continuum is particularly active online, with most of the areas in which we publish having lively blogs as well as twitter and facebook pages. These are a good way to find out about new titles and home to competitions, notices of events and other places featuring our books.

Click on any of the links below to follow our subject editors and marketers online:

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Education
Film & Media Studies
History
Linguistics (twitter)
Literary Studies
Philosophy
Politics
Religious Studies
T&T Clark (Theology & Biblical Studies)

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Contact Us

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