The no-nonsense guide to research support and scholarly communication

This accessible and highly practical book provides an introductory guide to the world of research support in the academic library.

Creating a school library with impact

Creating a School Library with Impact: A Beginners Guide is an introductory manual for anyone entering or looking to enter the exciting world of school librarianship in primary or secondary school settings.

The special collections handbook

Based on practical experience and the latest ideas in the heritage sector, The Special Collections Handbook is a no-nonsense companion to help librarians with limited resources care for unique and distinctive collections and share them with wider audiences.

Wild for austen

Wild for Austen is the ultimate tribute to one of the world’s most beloved novelists. Devoney Looser explores the author's published and unpublished work and digs into her family history and legacy, revealing an Austen far wilder than the one we know.

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.

Information science

What is Information Science? This comprehensive book answers this key question and explains how information science differs from data science and library science.Using a range of practical examples, the book explores how information science cuts across disciplines and integrates a range of inform...

Cricket, fiction and nation

Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day to explore matters such as national identity, class, sexuality, murder, suicide, obsession, empire, race, migration and the global post-colonial world.

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.

Iraq's shi'a warriors

This book explores how Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units have evolved from battlefield actors into powerful political and social stakeholders, crafting legitimacy across Iraq’s political, religious, and civic spheres. It challenges the proxy warfare narrative, offering a nuanced analysis of their...

Quick structured clinical interview for dsm-5® disorders (quickscid-5)

QuickSCID-5 is a briefer, more time-efficient version of the SCID designed to be administered usually in 30 minutes or less. The shorter administration time results from the fact that QuickSCID-5 consists almost entirely of closed-ended questions that can be answered "YES" or "NO" by the patient.

Advanced scat practice tests

This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 6 and above to take the Advanced School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 9 to 12...

Migrating borders and citizenship in law

Devyani Prabhat’s groundbreaking book examines the multifarious ways in which law operates with borders, demarcating not only nations and territories, but people and migrants, residents and foreigners. From worldwide to the nation, family to the workplace, this interdisciplinary study explores th...

Postcards, translators and esperanto pioneers

Esperanto has a rich and multifaceted history. Delving into a fascinating microhistory of a Scottish family and the ways in which they used Esperanto to build transnational networks across Europe, this book shows how ordinary Esperanto speakers used the language in its early decades. It explores ...

Natural dyes

Amid growing ecological concerns, this volume documents natural dye sources used globally from antiquity to today. Covering over 300 plants and 30 animals, it combines botanical and zoological insights with chemical analyses of dyes. Historical uses across civilizations are explored through recip...

Cennino cennini's il libro dell'arte

This volume offers a new, critically revised translation of Il Libro dell’Arte, deepening our understanding of Cennino Cennini’s life, context, and the artistic practices of 14th-century Italy. Correcting over 400 errors in the earlier Thompson edition, it includes the original Italian text, deta...

Coronations and defenestrations

How do Tory leadership elections work? Lee Evans takes a lively look at how the Conservatives appoint (and depose) their leader, from the early history of the party to the present day.

Essay film and narrative techniques

The collection explores various methods of screen-writing for essay film, through a diverse set of reflections and analyses of canonical and unconventional approaches of essay filmmaking and includes contributions from filmmakers and practice-led researchers. 40 illus.

Rebel women between the wars

An original history of thirteen interwar women who successfully challenged male dominance in a wide range of occupations, from mountaineering to motoring and humanitarian activism. Through their diaries, letters and other personal writings, we see the strategies they used to break free from domes...

Punk rock ruined my life

John Robb has been at the forefront of musical culture since the 1980s. In this compelling memoir, he looks back on a life lived through and for music.

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

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Developing talent and managing people in the family enterprise

Developing Talent and Managing People in the Family Enterprise explores the unique people-related challenges that families and their advisers face.

Current crop models

Whilst crop models have made significant progress in recent years, different models still diverge and struggle to predict the complex effects of genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables in optimising crop production in the face of climate change.Current crop models: State-of-th...

Family offices

Prepared in association with STEP, the world’s leading organisation for private wealth professionals, this new edition of Family Offices has been fully updated and features a number of new chapters, all written by the leading experts in the field.

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...

Partner retirement in law firms

In this 2025 edition, edited by partnership and employment specialist Ronnie Fox, expert contributors offer up-to-date guidance to navigating the difficult aspects of retirement in the broad context of career planning

Practicing legal design

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

The outperformers

Through candid, first-hand accounts from top law firm leaders, the book explores how visionary management, detailed planning, consensus-building and disciplined execution have driven extraordinary performance and enduring success compared to their competition.

The non-executive directors' handbook, 5th edition

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 victoria history of essex: southend

This new history of Southend describes its growth as a town and resort in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its thematic chapters chart Southend’s expansion and developments in its infrastructure and economy, determined both by the impact of seasonal visitors and the year-round movement of ...

Transport for humans

This is the moment. Climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and changing work–life priorities are shaking up long-held assumptions. There is a new way forward. This book maps out how to design transport for humans.

Construction law

Now in its fourth edition, Construction Law by Julian Bailey is the definitive work of reference for construction law practitioners internationally. In three volumes, spanning more than 3,300 pages, it provides the most comprehensive treatment of the major issues arising out of construction and e...

Unhappy mothers

How did the experiences and emotions of unhappy mothers come to light in postwar Britain? This history looks at the role of five communities in drawing attention to the struggles of early mothering, unpicking the professional, political and social motivations that drove efforts to break silences ...

A trade in dreams

A lavishly illustrated cultural history of print advertising in EgyptAt the tail end of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was shifting economies and redrawing global power maps. In this changing world, advertising became more than just a way to sell products—it was a powerful tool...

Advances in sheep production

While sheep production has an important place in many farming systems across the world, sheep products face an increasingly competitive market. In addition to traditional concerns about product quality, consumers are also increasingly motivated by issues such as livestock welfare, greenhouse gas ...

Land and labour

This book is a history of the Potters’ Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significan...

Reanimating grief

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning. Combining expressive and analytical writing, it offers a critical poetics of loss to show how ghosts, scenes of mourning, memories of reading or viewing, and acoustic fragments, all...

Aegean bronze age rhyta

This comprehensive study of Bronze Age rhyta from the Aegean addresses questions of typology, function, context, and the uses of these vessels. Rhyta are among the most appealing yet enigmatic classes of artefacts from the Aegean Bronze Age, produced in a wide range of forms and media with a cons...

Working in the suburbs

Excavations at the ancient Egyptian archaeological site of Amarna identified a workshop for glass and faience. This book presents a record of the workshop site, offering an archaeological and architectural evaluation alongside in-depth analyses of material culture, including archaeobotany, charc...

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...

The early iron age

This volume, the first of two dealing with the Early Iron Age deposits from the Athenian Agora, publishes the tombs from the end of the Bronze Age through the transition from the Middle Geometric to Late Geometric period.

Understanding displacement aesthetics

Understanding displacement aesthetics explores how visual culture and art shape and challenge ideas about forced displacement. Bridging cultural and art history with curatorial studies, it offers a new framework for ‘displacement aesthetics’ and highlights artistic and institutional responses to ...

The intellect handbook of popular music methodologies

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies provides a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. The volume includes a wide range of methodologies, including semiotics, ethnography, psychology, intersectionality, archeology, livestrea...

Under the counter

Tells the undocumented story of Britain’s trade in 8mm hardcore pornography, exploring how entrepreneurs circumvented obscenity laws to produce and distribute hardcore films. Draws on extensive archival research, including the use of legal records, police files, media reportage, and interviews wi...

The being of relation

Brings together Glissant’s poetics of relation and Deligny’s errant lines to study the structures holding whiteness and neurotypicality in place. Moves beyond the confines of pathology and psychological assessment to look into how blackness and neurodiversity emerge at the very site of relation –...

The value of a whale

This book shows that beyond the fossil fuel industry, it is the lesser-known but vastly more powerful world of asset managers and shadow banking which is inhibiting our ability to pursue climate and environmental justice. Those with the influence to effect global change increasingly see commodify...

David bowie, enid blyton and the sun machine

A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton

Saga emotions

A wide ranging discussion of emotions in the key historically oriented prose genres of medieval Iceland, explored through a range of case studies.

Restless justice

Amid the global migration crisis, the UK has created an increasingly hostile policy environment for asylum seekers that has pushed many into unnecessary hardship and homelessness. Based on several years of ethnographic research in emergency night shelters and on the streets of Manchester, UK, Res...

Monarchy in the age of liberty

Does monarchy need a king? Historical investigations generally treat monarchy as a source of power only. When kings are stripped of their powers, historical interest in monarchy is lost and focus shifts elsewhere. This book takes a different approach. When studying Sweden during the Age of Libert...

Monasticism and renewal in southern italy

The Chronicle of Montecassino is a crucial source for the history of monasticism and that of southern Italy in the early Middle Ages, as well as for the art and architecture of the period.

The information literacy handbook

This comprehensive and subject-defining handbook draws together the work of an international group of researchers and educators to collectively recognize information literacy (IL) as a maturing soft applied discipline.Showcasing current and historical scholarly research and including contribution...

Let's roll

This book guides school and public librarians on how to run tabletop roleplaying games in a library setting.

The freedom of information officer's handbook

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the practical management of freedom of information compliance, including interpretation of the Act as well as the Environmental Information Regulations.

Rda essentials

This concise guide to cataloguing with RDA: Resource Description and Access is essential for those seeking a simplified path to creating basic RDA records.

Information law

This fully up-to-date guide adopts a practical hands-on approach to information law, which is viewed from both an operational and strategic perspective.

Galatea

A brand new Revels Student Edition of John Lyly's most popular and enchanting play

My voice: ike alterman

Ike Alterman's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Ike was born in Poland in 1928, survived forced labour camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau, and went on to live in Manchester and...

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.

Rethinking the carolingian reforms

This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio (correction), reform or renaissance. When we consider authors who operated outside the direct sphere of influence of the court, a much more dynamic image of Carolingian culture c...

Walking in the dark

This beautiful and deeply personal book blends memoir and biography with literary criticism to offer a new perspective on the legendary American writer James Baldwin.

The art of darkness

This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, drawing on his own experience and interviews with a host of bands, from Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure to Throbbing Gristle.

Beginning theory

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and tec...

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...

The return of the housewife

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025An illuminating look at the world of cleanfluencers that asks why the burden of housework still falls on women. Housework is good for you. Housework sparks joy. Housework is beautiful. Housework is glamorous. Housework is key to a happy family. Housework sh...

The making of german democracy

This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. Over 160 commented sources describe the political, social and economic developments that changed Germany from the abyss of Nazism into a prosperous ally of the West and into one of the driving forces of Euro...

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.

The academic teaching librarian's handbook

The Academic Teaching Librarian’s Handbook is a comprehensive resource on teaching and professional development for information professionals and instructors at all career stages. It explores the current landscape of teaching librarianship, and highlights and discusses the important developments,...

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...

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.

Stage rights!

Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a picture of this diverse, exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement, and of politica...

Wild colonial boys

In this compelling memoir, Thomas Paul Burgess recounts his time as a member of Ruefrex, one of Northern Ireland’s most successful punk rock bands. Through a series of revealing vignettes, he traverses strife-torn Belfast and bohemian London, revealing another side of the punk rock story.

Frankland

Commemoration of work by Professor Nelson on early medieval history, Frankish culture and its effect on Europe.

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.

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.

Framing

This cutting-edge book draws on the latest ideas from economics and evolutionary theory to provide a toolkit for understanding how issues are framed in the media, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size.

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.

Men and masculinities in modern britain

Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men’s lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy i...

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.

The sea in russian strategy

This book brings together leading specialists from public policy and academia to reflect on historical and contemporary aspects of Russian maritime power.

The fairy tales of jim henson

This book provides a new perspective on the work of Jim Henson, the important but often overlooked creator of screen fairytales.

Hands, wrists, fingers

Hands, Wrists, Fingers is a practical book offering concepts and tools to help musicians of all abilities become comfortable using their hands in healthy and expressive ways.

Reimagining the public library

Library and Information Science has always been a contested space. This book captures some of the major debates that have taken place within the profession over the past 25 years and suggests how these can be used to inform the future development of libraries.

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.

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.

Legal leadership

Drawing on the author’s 30 years of experience in the field, Legal Leadership: A Practical Guide for In-house Lawyers analyses the pivotal role legal leaders play in shaping high-performing teams, both as culture architects and strategic thinkers.

Settler/colonialism in kashmir

This book examines India’s settler/colonial rule in Kashmir through historical and contemporary settler/colonial geopolitics. Analysing Kashmir’s place in the geopolitical settler/colonial world order and ecological catastrophe, the book contributes to pressing debates regarding current planetary...

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition, text revision (dsm-5-tr®)

DSM-5-TR is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers. With contributions from over 200 subject matter experts, this must-have updated volume boasts the most current text updates based on the current ...

The ai matrix

Artificial intelligence counts as today’s great transformational force reshaping our societies and economies. A perspective that is as common as it is wrong. Corporate profit-seeking and competitive politics have moulded AI from its inception, which serves to reinforce hierarchies between industr...

Kripke's wittgenstein

This book offers a comprehensive examination of Kripke’s influential reading of the later Wittgenstein presented in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982), together with the principal objections raised by more than twenty philosophers. It introduces the key ideas that frame Kripke’s sc...

Wittgenstein and artificial intelligence, volume ii

Wittgenstein and AI (Volume II): Value and Governance. This is the second of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on ethics, governance, aesthetics and the law.

For the love of bombs

The truism that history is written by its winners reflects the literature about how the bomb came about, with apologetic books most often written by U.S. scholars. The physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the nuke’s ‘father’, is repeatedly centre stage, as in the case of the recent film about him. These...

Islamic bookbinding

14 essays on Islamic bookbinding by scholars and instructors who have taught at the Montefiascone Conservation Project. Authors include Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom, Jim Bloxam, Marco Di Bella, Alison Ohta, Cheryl Porter, and Kristine Rose-Beers. All royalties earned on the sale of this book supp...

Empirical art

This edited volume is an exploration of what the craft of filmmaking brings to social science research. It invites readers to appropriate and critically examine the power of imagery and sound in narrating (beyond) human experience across cultures and societies around the world.

International law in europe, 700–1200

Was there international law in the Middle Ages? This book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. Taking treaties as its main source, it challenges traditional interpretations of the history of international law and how it functioned i...

Coming in

This book reconceptualises Europeanisation and studies how the EU Enlargement has shaped LGBT politics in Serbia. Questioning our ability to reduce LGBT liberation to rights and policies, the book moves beyond legal and institutional change to consider the political consequences the Europeanisati...

Qubuild

A new classroom approach for primary teachers to teach the explicit knowledge of scientific question-asking.