Developing alternative animal feed ingredients

This book provides a detailed overview of the range of alternative animal feed ingredients, ranging from plant co-products and food waste, to single-cell proteins and seaweed and algae. The book also addresses the key issues and challenges facing their development, such as the need to meet nutrit...

Ai-powered cataloguing

This practical guide instructs on how to build AI-powered cataloguing apps using Power Apps, with a focus on creating inclusive bibliographic records. It will enable the readers to train AI models and develop tools to effectively catalogue and manage their collections.

Managing soil health for sustainable agriculture volume 2

Soil health is critical to a successful agriculture. This second volume reviews ways of classifying and measuring soils and their properties. It then discusses ways soil health can be maintained or enhanced to ensure sustainable agricultural production, as well as regional case studies of managin...

Optimising bio-based fertilisation for a more sustainable agriculture

This book reviews the wealth of research on optimising bio-based approaches to improve soil health, looking particularly at the differing types of soil amendments and how they can contribute to improving different elements of soil health, including soil organic matter content and soil nutrient av...

Activities for evidence-based practice in healthcare

This essential resource provides numerous tried-and-tested practical activities to empower healthcare professionals to enable evidence-based practice in healthcare settings.

The local studies toolkit

The Local Studies Toolkit is the ultimate practical resource to help support and inspire local studies professionals to provide an excellent local studies service within their community.

Decolonising the public library

Decolonising the Public Library describes the main practical, methodological and theoretical approaches to decolonising public libraries. Using case studies and best practice from Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, the book provides a thorough understanding of the impact and legacy of imp...

From broadway to the bronx

A fascinating and vibrant depiction of New York City in song across a variety of different genres, focusing on Broadway, musical theatre, hip hop, punk, folk, and jazz genres, as well as the work of New York born artists and those who are intimately connected with the city. 

Medievalism, popular culture and politics in metal music

This book explores how metal's medievalizing epicism connects with pop culture and politics. Focusing on medieval Hispanic epic themes, it examines whether and how bands address the sexist, racist, nationalist, and exclusionary undertones tied to medievalizing epicism, and what this means for the...

Digital content in museums

This book provides a comprehensive grounding in the skills, best practice, and tools needed for digital content editors and managers to succeed in the sector.

Reports on the vrokastro area, eastern crete, volume 3

The thousand and one churches

This new edition includes over 250 digitized images from the Gertrude Bell Archive, offering a unique glimpse into travel and archaeology in the early 20th century. Supported by the Joukowsky Family Foundation, the book provides invaluable documentation of Anatolian monuments, many of which have ...

New theories on the ancient maya

Papers from the 1987 Maya Weekend conference at the University of Pennsylvania Museum present current views of Maya culture and language. Also included is an article by George Stuart summarizing the history of the study of Maya hieroglyphs and the fascinating scholars and laypersons who have help...

Visions of a huichol shaman

Algerian national cinema

This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic, detailed and up to date analysis of how film ...

Animals, politics and morality

How do we treat animals? How ought we to treat them? These are the two central questions tackled in the extensively re-written and up dated second edition of this well-regarded and much-cited text. It remains the only book which combines in a single volume, not only a concise and accessible accou...

Emotions in liberal writing, c.1790–c.1920

This volume from a selection of distinguished international scholars is the first of its kind to explore in depth the emotional dimensions of liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century. Addressing liberal writing in the public sphere rather than high political or parliamentary li...

Vulnerability

This volume explores how the language of ‘vulnerability’ transforms social policy and national security programmes, through case studies drawn from Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East.

Solidarity: nature, grounds, and value

Andrea Sangiovanni presents a ground-breaking essay on the important but contested concept of solidarity, which is then critiqued by a group of leading philosophers and political theorists.

Showing resistance

This study charts how exhibitions were used for propaganda and political intervention during the two decades from 1933: giving urgent warnings against the rise of fascism, providing practical information about how to live frugally and signalling international political alignments, beliefs and aff...

Researching animal research

Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century.

Publics and their health

Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of ‘problem publics’ and their relationship with public health authorities.

Posters, protests, and prescriptions

The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and represe...

Personalised cancer medicine

Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the w...

Performing the jumbled city

Collectively written with indigenous artists and activists, this book engages with subversive representations of the (post)colonial city. At the intersection of ethnography, art, performance, and the urban space, the book elaborates on the epistemological and creative possibilities arising from c...

Motherhood confined

When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, we conjure up scenes where strict regulation prevailed to control people in body and in mind. An image that poses something o...

Living the urban periphery

An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on th...

Medical histories of belgium

Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Histories of hiv/aids in western europe

This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertis...