Final Reflections on Wittgenstein and Other Topics

This book is a collection of P.M.S. Hacker’s most recent papers on Wittgenstein. Some of them have been previously unpublished while others have been revised since their original publication.

Charity Checklists, 2nd edition

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.

Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940

Atlantic Isles examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’ in late-nineteenth century Britain and Ireland. The book reveals how imagined geographies from the Cornish cliffs to the Connemara highlands were spaces of modern enchantment while also central to notions of Brit...

Future perspectives in broiler rearing

This book provides a comprehensive overview of conventional broiler production and considers best practices for managing the needs and maintaining the health of broilers from chick stage through to end of life. The book also reviews key challenges facing broiler production and emerging precision ...

Advances in temperate grassland science and management

This book reviews the wealth of research addressing the key role grasslands play in animal health, product quality and the sustainability of agriculture as a whole. It discusses ways of optimising grassland composition and management, including regional case studies on grassland management in pra...

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.

Wild Renaissance

Offers a new and original way of understanding the current ecological turmoil through the lens of art, philosophy and ecology. Draws on a new concept of renaissance and proposes a 360° vision on how to dwell on Earth. The role of art and design appear of paramount importance and play a crucial ro...

Open graves, open minds

Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change

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.

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.

Musical festival floats of Japan

Based on more than thirty years’ fieldwork, this book aims to increase the understanding of music played on elaborate wooden floats which form vital components in Japanese festivals with a religious dimension. The focus is on float-festivals in Aichi prefecture in central Japan, butinternational ...

Global Marxism

Arguing against the idea that Marxism is a Eurocentric theory with nothing to teach the Global South, this book explores the lives and ideas of a remarkable set of revolutionaries, from Ho Chi Minh to Ali Shariati.

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...

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.

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...

Mummified

Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for racial studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains...

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.

Carbon colonialism

Carbon colonialism 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.

Downward spiral

This book draws on the author's expertise as a KC and original interviews with political insiders to tell the story of declining ethical standards during the government of Boris Johnson and propose concrete reforms.

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.

The making of a status symbol

This book shows how Rolex has become the embodiment of individual success since the 1960s. This brand is much more than a watch: it is a narrative on a triple exceptionality: that of a product, that of an entrepreneur, and that of the wealthy consumers who wear it. A must-read for understanding t...

How Nations Digitise

How Nations Digitise is the definitive guide to digital statecraft, detailing the ten forces that determine whether governments succeed or fail in the digital age.

Systems Play

Systems Play reveals how contemporary art and design use play to navigate complexity and uncertainty in interconnected systems. Through vivid case studies, it showcases how contemporary artists expand perception and offer blueprints for a more adaptable and humane world. 49 col. illus.

What is a thoughtful life?

This book offers a space for thoughtful living – for ways of engaging with the ‘nearness’ of the world – with hesitations, doubts, swerves, crafting another manner of grounding.

Feeling blue

This book is the first historical study of colour in modern British hospitals, examining the use of colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain.

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...

Living with lodgers

For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else’s home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners’ inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses England’s domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portrayal of the lives of the inhabitants.

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 ...

Greener Solvents in Conservation

This handbook, published in association with Sustainability in Conservation focusses on organic solvents, their impact on human health and the environment and how they might potentially affect the materials of the artefacts which are worked on by conservators.

The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators

This comprehensive and richly illustrated volume is the first-ever history of British medieval illuminators’ pigments. It rests on first-hand investigation, with optimal scientific techniques, of a wide selection of manuscripts, ranging in date from the seventh century to the fifteenth.

Lines of Inquiry

Multi-disciplinary edited collection on drawing research and methods. The international group of contributors provides suggestions for developing new ways of knowing, for developing empathy toward things that may lie outside our own experiences, and for seeing alternative perspectives through dra...

Soil biology, soil health and ecosystem services: an overview

This chapter provides an overview of soil biology, health and ecosystem services. The authors present an update on previous work by integrating the chemical and physical components of soil health with that of the biologically mediated processes and further define how environmental conditions may ...

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...

The ICSA Corporate Governance Handbook, 4th 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.

Private Trust Companies

This title's content shines a light on organisational and operational issues such as designing a private trust company’s ownership structure, implementing proper internal controls, outsourcing services and working with professional advisers.

The Partner Remuneration Handbook

Partner compensation and how partners share profits is central to the cohesive fabric of any professional partnership. While one adage says that “there are as many profit-sharing systems as there are partnerships”, there has recently been the emergence of a global practice about what “merit” mean...

AI and the Legal Profession, Second Edition

The second edition of AI and the Legal Profession: Transforming the Future of Law acts as a guide, helping readers navigate this new frontier by delving into the impact of AI on the legal industry and the transformative possibilities it presents.

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...

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.

The Business of History

Why are today’s businesses as they are? Building on WH "Beable’s Romance of Great Businesses", a description of 32 significant companies published a century ago, this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.

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 ...

Temple Ritual at Abydos

The Temple of Seti I at Abydos is is one of the great monuments of the New Kingdom. Rosalie David's book, last printed more than 30 years ago, offers a guide to its magnificent reliefs and wall paintings, explaining the scenes of ritual and worship. This new edition includes watercolours by Amice...

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.

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 –...

Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951

In this classic text, one of the leading academic historians of magic presents the first exploration of witchcraft in Britain in the centuries following the witch trials, from 1736 to 1951.

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.

Delivering the Visitor Experience

Delivering the Visitor Experience is a practical guide to creating and managing the visitor experience in your museum. Whether you are running an established visitor attraction or creating a new experience from scratch, this book combines expert advice, transferable models and diverse case studie...

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.

The Networked Librarian

Effective communication is key for school librarians to build strong and successful teams. This book considers how school librarians can build great teams whether you are a solo librarian or a line manager. Including multiple examples of best practice, all underpinned by robust theory and research.

Galatea

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

Manchester

Using 60 different words that speak of the city, from bees to sewers, Manchester: something rich and strange offers a new way of thinking about this iconic post-industrial city. Twenty-three writers from diverse backgrounds offer their take on the everyday things that inform how we experience Man...

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 The Banshees and The Cure to Throbbing Gristle.

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.

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.

The Simons of Manchester

This book illuminates the history of one of Manchester’s most influential families. Charting the lives of Henry, Emily, Ernest and Shena Simon, it demonstrates their significance through tracing their work in engineering innovation, enriching Manchester’s civic culture, and in shaping local gover...

My Voice: Harry Olmer

Harry'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. Harry experienced harrowing conditions in concentration and labour camps during the war. After liberation, he came to the UK, studied d...

Lying abroad

Lying abroad reconstructs the tumultuous early modern career of a jobbing ambassador, Henry Wotton, the man James I sent to Venice in 1604 to restore Anglo-Venetian relations. It recounts his back-story then follows his daily life in diplomacy, poised between tedium and crisis – a life endlessly ...

Debating medieval Europe

An entirely original textbook format to introduce students to medieval European history: this is the second volume covering the central and later medieval centuries

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.

Textbook of Sleep and Circadian Medicine

This textbook is designed primarily for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatry residents, and other trainees but is broad enough to serve as an indispensable reference for clinicians in any medical specialty. The volume demonstrates how common sleep disorders, such as insomnia, sleep-related br...

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Studio Life

British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) played a key role in the development of modern abstract art in Britain. This new paperback edition of Lynne Green's classic monograph completes the story of the artist's life and work with a new Coda covering Barns-Graham's final years.

Petty Tyranny and Oppression

This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late-eighteenth-century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform...

Conservation of Design

An exploration of the challenges of preserving design objects in contemporary museum practice, where objects ranging from prototypes to digital media present new problems for conservators.

Crossbills and Conifers

Crossbills & Conifers explores their intimate connection to reveal why crossbills have become an exemplar of diversification and coevolution. Craig Benkman takes readers on a journey of discovery, providing context and understanding of a series of unique and interrelated insights into crossbi...

Beginning Irish Studies

An Introduction to the discipline of Irish Studies that will be of use to both students and academics.

My Voice: Rachel Levy

Rachel’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. Born in Czechoslovakia, Rachel Levy was deported to Auschwitz and finally came to Britain as a child refugee, later creating a family ...

Social elites in medieval France

Social élites in medieval France is an account of the profound transformations which occurred in medieval society following the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire. Based on a case study of the Loire valley, this book traces the social and economic origins of the localised élite lordships wh...

Studio Potters

This book celebrates and catalogues the Bell Collection of British studio pottery and is an important resource for all those interested in 20th-century ceramics. The collection is centred on the pioneering work of Bernard Leach and his followers.

Living by the Rule

This unique and bold publication vividly stages an encounter between medieval and contemporary art with many unexpected resonances sounding between recent works and much earlier objects and texts. Taking as their focus the Rule of St Benedict, a book written in the sixth century which provided mo...

London 1870-1914

Conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was arguably at the height of its power, uniqueness and attraction.

Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight

Sir Leslie Martin was a leading post‑war British architect known for the Royal Festival Hall and his Whitehall plan. The book highlights his influence on architectural education and reveals the vital, previously overlooked role of his partner Sadie Speight in their shared work and legacy.

Josefa de Óbidos

The first monograph on the artist to be published in English, this book provides a long-overdue introduction to the life and work of Portuguese painter Josefa de Ayala, known as Josefa de Óbidos (1630-1684). One of the best known and most celebrated artists of the Portuguese baroque, she is the o...

Edinburgh

Romanticism made Scotland famous. It critically shaped the course of Scottish culture, while impacting on cultures elsewhere and inaugurating the country’s still-flourishing and lucrative tourist industry. This book is about Edinburgh’s most emblematic architecture over the long 19th century: the...

The Examined Illness

A philosophical memoir of illness, treatment, and recovery full of pain, suffering, humor, and reflections on how to live well during the ordeal of cancer and trials of a stem cell transplant. Being a patient is part of being alive; sooner or later most of us go through it.

International School Librarianship

Jacques presents a collection of essays on the essential themes of International School Libraries, written by experienced and award-winning librarians. Each chapter uses a narrative style to unpack an important issue or practice, then explores it through theory and vignette. Joyous and profession...

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...

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 an analysis of their comple...

Surplus lives under racial capitalism

This book argues that Roma became a racialised surplus population of post-socialism. It is a critical contribution to the study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe.

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 u...

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 c...

Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I

Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first 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 mind and language.

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.

Sexual violence in racial capitalism

This book explores the relationships between sexual violence and racial capitalism. Sexual violence, Alison Phipps argues, facilitates the enclosure of bodies, the extraction of labour, the expropriation of land and resources, and the disposal of unwanted populations.

Irish townspeople

A work of Irish urban history that studies the society and culture of townspeople, including their integration as citizens, their membership of fraternities, guilds and parishes and their charity. As civic leaders they forged political and confessional identities that set them at odds with church...

The legacy of John Polidori

This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori’s foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy from the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, through further Gothic fictions and horror films, t...

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.