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 ...

Photo obscura

This book discusses the transformation of post-photography into a significant movement that redefines photography by integrating it with emerging technologies and creative practices, resulting in works that may not even resemble photographs but still retain a photographic influence. 40 illus.

Popular music in leeds

The first academic collection dedicated to the histories, heritage, people and places of popular music in Leeds. It presents critical social and historical case studies exploring Leeds’ music and musical spaces, central players - musicians and music industry figures, and key moments in diverse mu...

Early planning utopias

Interrogating canonical texts and plans written during the nineteenth and early twentieth century on both sides of the North Atlantic, this book explores the role of gender in the visioning of the ideal city.

Ethics, law and the business of being human

7 entrepreneurial leadership workouts

In a world changing faster than ever and as organisations are being reimagined, leaders and their teams need entrepreneurial leadership muscle. This book provides a guide through seven short muscle workouts about how to identify and develop the muscle-power to cope with whatever the world throws ...

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...

Inclusive cataloging

Filling a gap in the literature, this volume provides librarians and catalogers with practical approaches to reparative cataloging as well as a broader understanding of the topic and its place in the technical services landscape. As part of the profession's ongoing EDISJ efforts to redress librar...

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.

Creating a reading culture in primary and secondary schools

This book will help teachers and librarians to develop a whole-school reading culture and advocate for the importance of student reading.

A handbook of history, theory and practice of the dewey decimal classification system

A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System is a comprehensive, practical guide to today’s DDC, used by over 200,000 libraries globally. It is an essential companion for DDC classifiers, and reference for students and educators of classification.

Introduction to information behaviour

This landmark textbook is an essential primer for students and practitioners interested in information seeking, needs and behaviour, user studies and information literacy.

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.

A history of russia volume 2

Moss's engaging historical account includes full treatment of politics, economics, foreign affairs and wars, and also of everyday life, women, legal developments, religion, literature, art and popular culture. This fully-revised edition features new text and illustrations.

Galatea

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

Now that's what i call a history of the 1980s

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

Visualising far-right environments

This book examines the far right’s visual politics of nature, offering original case studies from around the world.

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...

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.

International mathematical olympiad volume 1

A fantastic compilation of mathematical puzzles, this fully updated three-volume series will challenge and engage serious mathematicians and enthusiasts alike.

Russia in the age of alexander ii, tolstoy and dostoevsky

A vibrant, enthralling account of Russia's most fascinating period of history.

Bergen county academies entrance practice tests

The Bergen County Academies (BCA) Entrance Exam is taken by students of grade 8 seeking admission in grade 9 at the BCA. This book will take you through five full-length practice tests that simulate the real BCA test.

Love and anti-judaism in medieval english romance

This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval romance. The book argues that these themes are by nature entangled with the discourse of anti-Judaism, which can be turned inwardly to expose irresolution within Christianity itself.

Law and humanities

This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field.

Intelligence and espionage in the english republic <i>c</i>. 1600–60

This book provides a rich survey of the early-modern ‘secret state’, intelligence gathering espionage, and the work of spies in the British late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth-centuries.

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.

Renaissance skin

This book is the definitive study of how skin was debated, understood and misunderstood in Europe between 1500 and 1700. It is based on deep historical research and includes hundreds of colour images from the period.

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.

Between the salt and the ash

Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal.

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

'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...

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.

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.

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’...

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...

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...

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.

Imperial nostalgia

A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.

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.

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.

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.

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.