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Platformland
Platformland describes the types of interaction we should expect from the next generation of public services, the digital platforms and infrastructure they will be built with, and the public sector design values needed to make them a reality. It includes 30 illustrated design patterns, 10 strateg...
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Feeling blue
Feeling blue is the first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals. It examines colour in relation to six key themes – hygiene, emotion, humanisation, homeliness, play, consumerism – which are tied together by the idea of the ‘modern’ hospital. The book does not simply describe changes t...
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The agora bone well
Even though Dorothy Thompson excavated the Agora Bone Well in 1938, the well and its remarkable finds have never been fully studied until now. Located outside the northwest corner of the Athenian Agora and dating to the second quarter of the 2nd century B.C.
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A sanctuary of zeus on mount hymettos
This is the final publication of a small open-air sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Hymettos above Athens, excavated between the World Wars by Carl Blegen and Rodney Young.
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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...
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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...
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The sanctuary of demeter and kore: greek lamps and offering trays
This volume continues the publication of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth. It incorporates two bodies of material: Greek lamps and offering trays.
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Vrysaki
Central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition in the 1930s of the Vrysaki neighbourhood at the foot of the Acropolis, to facilitate the excavation of the ancient Agora. This book details the expropriations, as well as the history of the neighbourhood, providing a vivid recrea...
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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...
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The kind librarian
This pioneering guide explores kindness and wellbeing in library workplaces. It is a must-read for anyone looking to create a supportive and empathetic workplace culture, providing library-specific insights and showing how positive workplace cultures benefit both staff and the wider community.
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Practical tips for equality, diversity and inclusion in libraries
Increasing diversity and inclusion is key to helping libraries serve their communities better. Readers of this book will be equipped to assess their own library, talk about challenges with more confidence, and make concrete changes to improve diversity and inclusion.
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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.
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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.
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Visualising far-right environments
This book examines the far right’s visual politics of nature, offering original case studies from around the world.
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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...
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Modern european cinema and love
Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors working from the 1950s onwards whose films contain stories about and reflections on romantic love and marriage.
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The battle of britishness
Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner’s volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards.
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Dr faustus: the a- and b- texts (1604, 1616)
Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, who edited the ...
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Hincmar of rheims
Brings together the latest international research on a key medieval writer and thinker
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Dress and globalisation
The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. The book also examines international western style dress, headwear, ethnicity, traditional dress, ‘alternative’ dressing, and T...
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Crank it up
Jason Statham is Britain’s most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming.
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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...
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Global london on screen
Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious or extraordinary circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city.
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Cinematic ethnography
Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect.
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Dust
Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world, and suggests that, like dust, the 'matter of history' can never go away or be erased.
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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.
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Frankland
Commemoration of work by Professor Nelson on early medieval history, Frankish culture and its effect on Europe.
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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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Remembering refugees
At a time of growing refugee crises across the modern world, this is the first book that examines how Britain remembers its past refugees, from the Huguenots through to the many groups who came in the twentieth century. It looks at how that memory has shaped treatment of contemporary asylum seekers.
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Transnational solidarity
This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-...
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The english manor c.1200–c.1500
This book provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records.
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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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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...
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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
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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.
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The future of employment in africa
The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare explores the major socio-economic trends that will define the face of the sub-Saharan continent in the next three decades. It mainly focuses on the need to massively create jobs due to unseen demographic growth. The book c...
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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, migration and the global post-colonial world.
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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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World film locations: los angeles
World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-c...
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Singing for our lives
Exploring the role of street choirs in political culture, and based on oral histories from more than 40 members of UK street choirs, this book introduces this neglected world to a wider public, including activists and academics. The title is taken from a song by musician and activist Holly Near, ...
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World film locations: rome
This volume explores the city of Rome, which has served as the setting for countless memorable films, spanning all genres and emotions. Readers are taken on a journey through the city with stops at key locations. A carefully selected compilation of films is complemented by essays that further exa...
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Kurt kren
Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films—often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams—have influenced filmmakers for decades, even as Kren himself remained a nomadic and obscure public figure. Kurt Kre...
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Performance art in ireland
This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics. Co-published with Live Art Development Agency.
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The ai matrix
Artificial intelligence (AI) is heralded as a revolutionary force in the global economy. But the transformation it brings is not simply about new technology as a driver of change. It is about who owns it, what they want to do with it, who can pay for it, and how other economic actors around the w...
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Reframing failure in digital scholarship
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the digital humanities community. Through a series of reflections on failed, broken or challenging aspects of digital scholarship and practice, the book normalises failur...
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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...
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Archaeological footwear
This comprehensive survey delves deep into the cutting patterns, shoe style and chronology revealed by the author�s interpretation of archaeological and other discoveries of recovered remains of shoes and shoemaking tools. �Much light has been shed on the materials, design and construction of sho...
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