Drifting north

Scotland is closely tied to climate change and fossil capitalism, having played a pivotal role in its spread. Journalist Dominic Hinde travels between its Highlands, islands and cities, drawing parallels between his personal recovery and the uncertain transition from fossil fuels. He asks: can pa...

The royal and russian navies

A definitive history of cooperation between the Royal Navy and Russian Navy from 1988 to 2014. It provides lessons learned by both sides and recommends a pathway to military dialogue, as political circumstances dictate. The book enhances our understanding of both the Russians and the Russian Navy...

Trust laws in the united states

This title provides a series of state-specific chapters cover key aspects of each state’s trust laws in the most populous states, as well as key jurisdictions like Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

Mastering legal pricing

Mastering Legal Pricing: Strategies for Profit, Value, and Innovation explores the evolving landscape of legal pricing, addressing the challenges and opportunities that law firms face in adapting to modern economic demands.

Amelia b edwards

Amelia B Edwards , author of the hugely successful and still widely-read illustrated travelogue, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, was so much more than a pioneer of Egyptology: writer, musician, artist, activist and explorer. This book offers new revelations about her life, and the founding of the E...

The palace of nestor at pylos in western messenia, volume iv (2 vols)

In 1939, on the first day of excavation at the archaeological site that he called The Palace of Nestor, Carl W. Blegen uncovered a Mycenaean palace. Its archives contained clay tablets inscribed in the so-called Linear B script, a syllabary employed to record the Greek language. These documents h...

Industrial memory in north east england

Industrial memory in North-East England examines how the region’s industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness. The book offers a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North, and introduces the concept of the PopCultural...

Hospital aesthetics

Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultane...

The myth of good ai

This book offers a new approach to artificial intelligence and its implications for human security.

She played and sang

Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influences that ...

Unburied

This book tells the true story of Hannah Beswick, the so-called ‘Manchester Mummy’. Debunking the legends that have sprung up around this unusual case of modern mummification, it sheds light on the history of museums and the collection of human remains.

Private equity

Featuring fully updated chapters by leading private equity practitioners, the book includes high-level analysis of private equity fund structures, equity and debt finance, acquisition documentation, due diligence, tax structuring, pensions issues and public-to-privates.

Early medieval militarisation

This volume is the first to study the phenomenon of early medieval militarisation from a wide geographic and disciplinary perspective. It explores the impact of an enhanced role attributed to warfare and the military as characteristic features of a European world in the process of becoming medieval.

Medieval women and urban justice

This is the first in-depth, comparative study of women’s access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of women’s legal status in actions that arose from the complex, me...

Conflict, peace and mental health

What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book provides answers to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

Dssat crop modeling ecosystem

This chapter describes the DSSAT Crop Modeling ecosystem, its history, creation of multiple crop models, and tools for data preparation, analysis and applications. The chapter provides an overview of the structure and science of the crop simulation models that are included in DSSAT, as well as th...

Effective science communication (third edition)

This book is a practical guide for scientists to articulate their research compellingly to both their peers and other audiences, bridging the communication gap in the scientific community.

Company secretary's checklists, 11th edition

Global mobility of ultra-high-net-worth individuals, second edition

Co-published with STEP, this comprehensive new edition features insights from leading private client advisers across key jurisdictions worldwide.

The eu ai act

It is without any doubt that artificial intelligence is transforming the way we work, the way we live, and how we perceive the world. It is, however, less clear whether – and to what extent – the law can and should respond, and has the potential to shape these changes. This invaluable commentary...

Forging fraternity in late medieval society

Departing from traditional guild studies, Forging Fraternity crosses conventional historiographical boundaries to reconceptualise guild membership as both a structure for complex social relations and identities. With over 18,000 members recorded in the guild’s massive extant archive, the Palmers ...

A gift of geology

An introduction to the geology of Egypt and its influence on ancient Egyptian cultureWhile much is known about Egypt’s towering pyramids, mighty obelisks, and extraordinary works of art, less is known about the role played by Egypt’s geological history in the formation of pharaonic culture’s arti...

Becoming couture

Becoming couture explains how post-war Italian fashion reinvented itself through the persuasive strategies of intermediaries in Italy and the United States, beyond the myth of Giovanni Battista Giorgini and the Sala Bianca.

Faith, folk and the far right

This book offers the first extended examination of extremist Heathenry and occultism in the UK and explores how anti-racist Heathens act to counter this discourse, making an important contribution to the intersecting fields of new religious movements, nationalist history and racist politics.

Reimagining business schools for the 21st century

What will business schools look like in the future and ensure that their research has true societal impact? And how will they respond to the huge technological changes that are transforming education? These are just some of the questions posed in this special collection of essays to mark the 60th...

Culture is bad for you

This book paints an unflinching portrait of the situation for arts and culture workers in Britain today. Revised and updated with the latest figures, it exposes how minorities continue to be marginalised in the post-COVID era.

New labour, new britain?

New Labour, new Britain? reassesses Tony Blair’s governments, offering a balanced view of their policies and impact. Exploring New Labour’s successes in public services and social liberalism while acknowledging its shortcomings, the book provides a nuanced perspective on New Labour’s lasting infl...

Championing your school library

This book is a comprehensive guide to practical strategies for advocating, marketing, and promoting your library by targeting diverse and specific stakeholder groups. It is becoming an essential read as libraries increasingly need to demonstrate their value and impact.

Deglobalization

Edward Ashbee guides the reader through the intricate web of processes and forces of globalization that have shaped the world’s politics and economics over the last 40 years. This is an invaluable overview of one of the most important phenomena of our age.

Impact of sociocultural factors on women smallholder farmers: middle east and north africa

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Charity handbook, 4th edition

Legal operations in the age of ai and data

Combining both theory and practice from industry leaders, insight is provided from legal tech, in-house legal departments, law firms, and academia. Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data is your guide to navigating the fast-evolving landscape of AI in the legal field with step-by-step practic...

Building an outstanding legal team

In this practical “how to” guide, Bjarne P Tellmann, General Counsel and SVP of Pearson, draws upon more than 20 years of leading top legal organisations across Europe, Asia and the United States to provide a structured plan for upgrading your legal team in an age of disruption.

Preparing lawyers for technology transformation

As AI adoption increases, there has been less focus on the human-centred skills that are needed to thrive. Preparing Lawyers for Technology Transformation: The Exponential Age Mindset focuses on how legal departments and law firms can ensure their employees have the mindset and the skill set to o...

Practicing legal design

Drawing on extensive experience in legal design, innovation, and transformation, this book blends strategic vision with hands-on experience.

Victoria county history of cumbria: kirkoswald and renwick

This volume details the developments from premodern times to the present day of Kirkoswald and Renwick. Kirkoswald township was anciently a market and small industrial centre, and until 1566 Kirkoswald Castle was the principal seat of the powerful Barons Dacre of the North. The economy, largely d...

British working-class and radical writing since 1700

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas are more important than ever, this collection examines the intersection of British working-class and radical writing from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the obstacles facing writers, ...

The climate majority project

The successful climate movement won’t be radical or moderate. It has to be both – and it has to be now. The Climate Majority Project calls for a new wave of urgent, inclusive, citizen-led climate action; making space for a diversity of people to show up just as they are, and protect what they lov...

The law of net zero and nature positive

This book is the first that provides a comprehensive overview of the law of net zero and nature positive across England and Wales. It sets out the law on net zero, including consideration of the principal domestic legislation, the Climate Change Act 2008, and how legal obligations in respect of n...

Howard carter

Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, began his career as an artist working for the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1891. By shining a spotlight on Carter’s watercolour painting of a scene from the shrine to Anubis in Hatshepsut’s temple, Carl Graves uncovers the life and legacy of one...

A thousand miles up the nile

A chance visit to Egypt in 1873 by Amelia B. Edwards changed the future of British Egyptology forever. Her travelogue, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, would inspire generations to take up her message to support Egyptian cultural heritage. While the way this is done has changed a lot since Amelia's ...

The athenian agora museum guide

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora - the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and the newly ope...