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Driving with strangers
Driving with strangers is an ambitious, timely and intellectually eclectic contribution to how we think about mobility, the rationale behind its different forms and why our philosophy of travel and societal structures are closely related.
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Slaves of fashion: art of the singh twins
This art book presents the award-winning portrait-based series 'Slaves of Fashion' by British artists The Singh Twins.
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Painting her pleasure
Painters Marie Vassilieff, Émilie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon explored sexuality and questioned gender identity. Working in early twentieth-century Paris, these women contravened social mores, challenged traditional and avant-garde artistic practices and partook in the making of the modern nude.
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Toronto new wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse
This book explores the Toronto New Wave, a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics
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Mummified
The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums.We all know what a mummy is – or do we? In Mummified, Angela Stienne explores the little-known stories behind the ancient Egyptian remains displayed in British and French museums.Taking the reader on a jo...
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The law of the sea
The law of the sea provides an up to date and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the subject. Based on extensive research, it combines clarity of expression with depth of analysis.
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Culture is bad for you
The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a ‘creative class’ in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the...
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Ecogothic
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book's focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films.
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The return of the housewife
Investigating the rise of the social media 'cleanfluencer', this book asks why women are still the ones tidying up in the twenty-first century.
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Leeds and its jewish community
The definitive history of the third-largest Jewish community in the UK, which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and explores the disproportionate influence the community had on the modern history of Leeds.
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Introduction to information science
The second edition of this definitive textbook provides an introduction to the library and information sciences, emphasising their philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual foundations. Updated to cover the changing information environment, it is suitable as a text for college and university stu...
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Mid-century gothic
Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was...
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Performative monuments
Argues the conceptual significance of performance, and of a performative model of art, to the revival of the monument in the wake of the Second World War, the Holocaust and the fall of the Eastern bloc.
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History through material culture
Material culture is central to human experience and represents a vital but under-used source for historians. Written in a lively and accessible style, this guide provides clear and practical guidance on how to incorporate the study of objects into historical practice.
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Markets and power in digital capitalism
Philipp Staab takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the virtual realm, exploring how digital surveillance and evaluation practices have infiltrated every aspect of our lives. Staab's compelling analysis challenges us to confront the realities of surveillance capitalism and the urge...
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Dog politics
Dog politics is a critique of dogs' 'species story,' a scientific story which insists that dogs belong 'naturally' with humans. It asks what evidence exists to support this story, what practical consequences, for dogs, follow from it, and how it is woven into broader scientific shifts in understa...
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'curing queers'
Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality...
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The malleus maleficarum
This accessible English translation of the notorious and highly influential treatise of 1487 offers a glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter.
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Manchester unspun
An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson.
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Mutinous memories
The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France’s naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers.
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Democratic passions
This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions. It changes the way in which we look not only at popular radicalism but also at the affective qualities of politics itself in modern Britain and beyond.
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Country houses and the british empire, 1700–1930
Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries
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The last taboo
This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the ‘cultural’...
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A defence of witchcraft belief
This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary b...
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The hippie trail
Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, mapping their everyday interactions with locals and the joys and hardships of independent budget travel.
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Belfast punk and the troubles: an oral history
This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place them in the context of the Troubles and to draw out the imaginative ways that interviewees evoke the experience of growing up in Northern Ireland and pun...
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Pistols in st paul's
Investigating a series of cutting-edge acoustic experiments in twentieth-century Britain, this unique book reveals how exciting new ideas from science and music had a lasting effect on architectural design.
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Imperial nostalgia
A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.
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The gothic and death
An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.
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Conservatism, christian democracy and the dynamics of transformation
Conservatism, Christian Democracy, and the Dynamics of Transformation compares the centre-right political traditions of Britain, the Nordic countries, France, West Germany, and Austria and looks for evidence of political cooperation and influence across borders during the period 1945-91.
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Sir gawain and the green knight
Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated edition of this Middle English Arthurian romance. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction.
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Clanship to crofters' war
Charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times to the great crofter's rebellion in the 1880s
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Queer beyond london
Looking beyond the London-centric narratives of British LGBTQ life, this exciting book explores the queer dimensions of four English cities – Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth and Brighton.
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Debating medieval europe
This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to medieval historiography, providing an entry point for the dense scholarship on the period. Volume I covers the post-Roman world, from 450 to 1050.
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Carbon colonialism
Outsourcing climate breakdown shows how the impact of climate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.
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Before gender
This ground-breaking book rewrites trans history, presenting the stories of thirty extraordinary trans people who lived between 1850 and 1950. Featuring kids, activists, workers and athletes, it reveals the reality of trans lives in an era before the concept of gender became an everyday term.
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Bedsit land
This is the first in-depth account of the band Soft Cell. Written by a leading music journalist and based on extensive interviews, it traces the band’s remarkably varied roots, from British seaside entertainments and Northern Soul nights to art school experimentation and New York glamour.
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Crafting crime fiction
Whether you are writing a police procedural or a psychological thriller, a contemporary or historically set novel, this book will help you identify the right beginning, middle and end of your crime novel. It will help you recognise your talent and realise your ambition in practical and realistic ...
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Bordering britain
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.
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The black atlantic’s triple burden
This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity.
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In the company of wolves
This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres.
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Mrs dalloway
Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers readers new to Virginia Woolf a lively introduction to this timeless classic, while providing established lovers with a wealth of information about the novel’s writing, publication and reception.
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The campaign for nuclear disarmament
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) began in 1957 with a small group of public figures and grew into a mass movement. Martin Shaw details CND’s rise, the activists involved, the tensions around direct action, and the culture and social groups that the campaign mobilized to "ban the bomb".
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The ai and data revolution
Grounded in theory, this book uses real-life case studies to illustrate how the collection, manipulation and application of data are reshaping businesses. It explains what this means for your organisation and strategies for staying ahead of this data and AI revolution.
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Heterodox economics
Andrew Trigg traces the heterodox tradition in economics from its origins in the anti-capitalism ideas of the first half of the nineteeth century, through to Keynes and the present day and considers the methodological challenge they present to mainstream economics.
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Social preferences
An introdution to one of the key areas of behavioural economics – social preferences – which explains in clear, untechnical language how experimental research in this area has provided economists with much greater understanding of economic behaviour.
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