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...

Pride in prejudice

Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to the varied extreme right groups active in Britain today. The book examines the extreme right movement in terms of ideology and appeal, organisational styles, online and offline activism, approaches to leadership, types of supporters and gendered...

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.

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-...

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.

My voice: danny herman

Danny'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. Danny Herman was born in East Prussia and escaped to England with his mother 3 days before war was declared in 1939. He moved to Manche...

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.

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...

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.

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.

Barbara comyns

This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs,...

The black death

This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour.

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to the club

Hacienda resident and Manchester legend DJ Paulette celebrates the highs, lows and lessons of a 30-year career at the forefront of UK dance music as a ground-breaking Black female DJ.

Family romance

A brilliant new account of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the Wertheimers, an eminent Jewish family in Edwardian London.

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...

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.

Timber!

Planting trees is not enough to reduce carbon. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we must also cut them down and start using wood as a construction material. With the built environment responsible for 40 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, Brannen's message is clear: we must change how we build.

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...

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, ...

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...

Art as research

The new practice of art-based research uses art making as a primary mode of enquiry rather than continuing to borrow research methodologies from other disciplines to study artistic processes. Drawing on contributions from arts therapies, education, history, organisational studies and philosophy, ...

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...

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. 

Catastrophe and ­systemic change

Catastrophe and Systemic Change explores the myths, the key challenges and the conditions that inhibit learning, and it identifies opportunities to positively disrupt the status quo.

Suave mechanicals

This volume is dedicated to honor ‘those who participated in the 1966 Florence Flood recovery; those who subsequently studied historical bindings and took lessons from them.

Deir al-ganadla: a unique coptic church in middle egypt

Deir al-Ganadla stands as one of the most extraordinary Coptic monastic sites of Middle Egypt. The church preserves rare architectural elements and mural paintings dating from the sixth to the twelfth centuries, crowned by a painted ceiling unlike any other in Egypt. This book reveals and documen...

My voice: jacques weisser

Jacques’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 Antwerp in 1942 and hidden across orphanages, hospitals and safe houses, Jacques Weisser later rebuilt his life in Belgium, S...

Building defects law

As the Grenfell disaster demonstrated, the results of building defects can be catastrophic. While the civil law provides a range of potential remedies to those affected by the consequences of defects – whether they are those who paid for the work, those who occupy the premises or those who have t...

A manual for the identification of bird bones from archaeological sites

This reprinted manual shows the main skeletal elements of 32 species of birds, all drawn at 1:1 scale and annotated with notes to aid identification. It is intended as an aid to teaching the identification of bird bones from archaeological sites. It can be used by an archaeozoologist unfamiliar w...

Asylum years: back to the future?

Ai with purpose

AI with Purpose is a strategy-first playbook for legal leaders under pressure to "do something with AI" but who don't want to waste money on pilots that never scale.

Future finance

A systematic rethinking of financialization, which explores how financial capitalism – especially the asset management industry – is organised, how the locus of power has shifted from public to private authority, and how its consequences have defined finance’s societal purpose.

British entanglement with brazilian slavery

This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.

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.

The gothic literature and history of new england

The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.

Archipelagothic: studies in the philippine gothic

Archipelagothic: The Gothic in Philippine Culture is an edited volume that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, re...

Ecosystems as models for restoring our economies, 2nd edition

Winner, International Impact Book Award 2026 Emerging from the fields of ecological restoration and economics, this interdisciplinary book delivers a clear path to restoring our economies in a way that speaks well to industry groups and business owners, students and the general public, and to po...

Science advice and global environmental governance

“Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance” examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their co...

Forever

The idea of transferring humans into humanoid bodies has been the theme for many eminent titles. This book’s unique contribution is its exploration of the legal questions and embedded philosophical issues that flow from being able to transfer a copy of a person’s mind into a synthetic body that l...

Becoming an environmental psychologist

This book explores the interdisciplinary pathways that environmental psychologists have taken to become educators, researchers, and consultants in this highly applied and growing field. Individuals with backgrounds in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as in the health sciences ...

The constitution

The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts provides students with a road map through the evolution of the Supreme Court and its decisions involving criminal justice, civil liberties, social justice and federalism, and the balance of powers between the three branches of government placed in a his...

Elementary scat practice tests

This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 2 and 3 to take the Elementary School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 4 and 5 t...

Personal data collection risks in a post-vaccine world

The editors observe that in key texts written to teach international relations less mention is made of personal data collection risks in countries around the globe.

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.

The anthropology of ambiguity

This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories.

Anti-colonial research praxis

This book centres the perspectives of First Nations and majority-world researchers and provides insightful descriptions of anti-colonial research praxis from around the world. By engaging with the diverse examples, reflections, and methodological knowledge in this collection, readers will change ...

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...

Exploring digital cultural heritage

As more of the world’s cultural heritage is digitised and born-digital, the questions posed by new digital archives and collections will bring complexity and challenges, but also opportunities. This book is an accessible starting point for those interested in the past, present and future of digit...

Slave trading in the early middle ages

This book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective, situating it at the core of economic and political development in northern and eastern Europe.

Pandemic culture

Based on the findings of a 15-month study led by the Centre for Cultural Value, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on the UK’s cultural sector. Based on a mixed-methods analysis, it highlights implications for the sector’s future direction and for research in the...

Paper and water

This volume (published by Siegl, Munich) is a revised and expanded edition of the book first published in 2011 by Elsevier-Butterworth-Heinemann. The text and many illustrations are reworked and the contents of all the chapters revised and expanded to reflect recent research and developments. Imp...

English panel paintings 1400-1558

This is a landmark study of East Anglia’s fifteenth-century rood-screen paintings—the largest surviving body of late medieval painting in England. Based on Audrey Baker’s 1937 PhD thesis and newly expanded by conservators Ann Ballantyne and Pauline Plummer, it catalogues over a thousand painted p...

Tempera painting 1800 - 1950

These texts explore the revival of tempera painting between 1800 and 1950 from the perspectives of art history, technical art history, conservation and scientific analysis. They provide an overview on the historical background of tempera painting, its terminologies,commercial production and the r...

Unravelling textiles

This book (first published in the Netherlands as Op de keper beschouwd. Handboek voor het behoud van textielcollecties), sets out to present the basic information necessary for the professional safekeeping of textile collections. Aimed at curators and owners of textile collections, collection ma...

Artists' pigments

This is the fourth volume in the series Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of their History and Characteristics published by National Gallery of Art in association with Archetype Publications Ltd. 

Contemporary issues in book and paper conservation

The papers in this volume were presented at the Icon Book & Paper Group Third Triennial Conference 2021 entitled Mod Cons: Modern Conservation. Modern Conveniences. Modern Constraints. Topics include: decolonisation; new treatments; educational programmes; business models; sustainability init...

Arab paper

This revised edition of Das Arabische Papier offers an English translation of J. von Karabacek’s seminal study on Arab paper, essential for students, historians, conservators, and anyone interested in the historical development of papermaking.

Changing pictures

Changing Pictures is the first major study of the discoloration of 15th–17th-century oil paintings. Combining historical texts, technical research, and reconstructed paints, it reveals how ageing pigments and media have altered the original colours, modelling, and illusions intended by old masters.

Turquoise in mexico and north america

An exploration of the rich history, cultural significance, and enduring appeal of turquoise across regions and time periods. Featuring new scientific research on sourcing, mining, and distribution, the volume also delves into pre-Hispanic mosaics, Aztec symbolism, and the poetic and philosophical...

Coinage and history in the seventh century near east no 4

Proceedings of the 14th Seventh Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table held at The Hive, Worcester, on 28th and 29th September 2013

Volatile organic compounds and the conservation of inorganic materials

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are carbon-based molecules which, in museums and galleries, are often found as indoor pollutants. The result of off-gassing of materials used in the construction of show cases, storage cabinets and containers, and also resulting from methods of exhibit preparatio...

Colour change in paintings

Changes in colour may completely alter the way we see a painting. From blue leaves in a still life, to the blue walls in Van Gogh’s bedroom, our perception of a painting can be informed by an understanding of these changes. When conserving paintings our comprehension of these alterations can infl...

Trading paintings and painters’ materials 1550–1800

An investigation into the international trade in paintings and artists’ materials during the early-modern period, exploring how imported goods shaped local production, taste, and theory. Contributors examine regional preferences, trade conditions, and the movement of materials and artworks across...

Research on early chinese lacquer buddhas

The first holistic study of Buddhist lacquer sculptures, drawing on scientific, historical, and art historical research. Featuring contributions from diverse disciplines, it explores the techniques, context, and cultural significance of these rare works, dating back to the sixth-century Sui dynas...

On the ethics of cultural heritage conservation

On the Ethics of Cultural Heritage Conservation is a collection of previously published papers, original texts based on lectures delivered by the author and several pieces written solely for this publication. Each one of them analyses one of the core notions that shape the traditional conservatio...

Coinage and history in the seventh century near east 7

Proceedings of the 17th Seventh Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table The Syrian Arab-Byzantine coinage has been intensively studied over the last 30 years, perhaps more so than any other Islamic coin series. However, this volume contains more than previous volumes on the Byzantine coinage of th...

Practical gilding

The aim of Practical Gilding is to demystify the processes of gilding. Descriptions and explanations of the materials, equipment and traditional, professional methods of oil and water gilding are clearly set out in a manner that can be understood both by craftsmen and those who wish to understand...

Cultural heritage microbiology

This volume focuses on recent developments in the investigation of the role of microbes associated with historic materials. Contributions from world-renowned scientists describe the latest advancements in the role of microorganisms in the degradation, treatment and protection of cultural heritage...

Coinage and history in the seventh century near east no 6

The Syrian Arab-Byzantine coinage has been intensively studied over the last 25 years, perhaps more so than any other Islamic coin series. However, this volume demonstrates new research, new discoveries and new questions.

Mediaeval painters' materials and techniques

We present the first English translation of the Liber diversarum arcium, a 14th-century manuscript offering the most comprehensive surviving guide to medieval painting techniques. Covering tempera, oil, fresco, manuscript illumination, glass, and ceramics, it includes nearly 600 detailed recipes—...

Blue pigments

Traces the remarkable history of blue pigments, from rare natural sources like lapis lazuli and azurite to ingenious synthetic creations such as Egyptian blue, Maya blue, Prussian blue, and artificial ultramarine. Highlighting the technical challenges and cultural significance of producing blue, ...

The invention of pastel painting

The Invention of Pastel Painting explores the sudden emergence of pastel as a painting medium in the late seventeenth century, firmly situating its development within a social and cultural context.

The renaissance workshop

The papers in this volume illustrate the way in which various types of technical evidence, derived from scientific examination and analysis, can contribute to the understanding of Renaissance workshop practices and the inter-relationships between different artists and artisans. These studies prov...

Drawing archaeological finds

This popular, practical guide offers step-by-step instruction in archaeological artefact illustration, covering tools, techniques, and methods for accurately drawing objects in two dimensions. Ideal for students and beginners, it includes expert advice on depicting metal, ceramics, flint, bone, a...

Biodeterioration and preservation

This volume explores the vital role of microorganisms in both the deterioration and preservation of cultural heritage. Contributors examine how microbial activity, climate change, pollution, and tourism impact monuments, artworks, and archaeological sites. Featuring recent research from conservat...

Big pictures

This volume explores the unique challenges posed by large-scale paintings, from oversized portrait miniatures to vast panoramas, friezes, theatre cloths, and ceiling paintings. It details practical solutions for moving, conserving, displaying, and storing works too large for standard transport an...

Pension saving in a gendered lifecourse

Hayley James seeks to challenge the hetero-patriarchal assumptions in pension provision. She examines how pension systems are not gender-neutral, and argues that, to resolve gendered inequalities in pensions, we need to change pension systems to better suit the realities of lived experience.

Matrescence and performance

Asks what performance can do to expand representations of becoming a mother. Using mimesis, liveness, and digital mediums to render their own matrescent bodies, contemporary mother/artists explore historical pejorative theoretical concepts and aesthetics in new, feminist ways. A valuable and rigo...

Wildly different

For millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men went on epic quests. This book traces the lives of five women who fought against prejudice for their right to work in, enjoy and help save the earth’s wild places.

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.

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.

Challenges facing alpine/mountain grasslands

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Introductory notes on planetary science

This textbook provides a physics-based tour of introductory planetary science concepts for undergraduate students majoring in astronomy or planetary science. It shows how principles and equations learned in introductory physics classes can be applied to study many aspects of planets, including dy...

Astronomical python

Over the past two decades, Python has become the de facto standard language of data science both in industry and astronomy (with the exception of simulations and other extreme scale computing problems). This course text is a full introduction to programming in Python with an explicit focus on ast...

Interstellar flow and star formation

An insightful discussion of the basic physics underlying interstellar cloud formation and evolution, going beyond traditional but incomplete or unrealistic applications and emphasizing the continuum nature of the interstellar medium, followed by a unified account of the life cycle of interstellar...

Analytical lens design using the optical plate diagram

Electrostatics

This book describes the formalism of the electrostatic field in both vacuum and matter, by constructing step-by-step the complete system of Maxwell’s equations, representing the foundation of classical electromagnetism, and is suitable for students taking a general electricity and magnetism (E&am...

Nuclear materials science (second edition)

This book provides an overview of the intersection of nuclear engineering and materials science at a level approachable by advanced students from materials, engineering and physics. The text explains the unique aspects needed in the design and implementation of materials for use in demanding nucl...

An introduction to astrophysics with python

A hands-on introduction to astronomy using Python, this book helps students apply core concepts to realistic problems. With interactive exercises, visualizations, and a focus on stars and planets, it supports active learning through modern computational techniques.

Mastering computer vision with pytorch and machine learning

This book is a valuable resource for professionals, researchers, and students who want to expand their knowledge of advanced computer vision techniques using PyTorch.

Integrating computing into the undergraduate physics curriculum

For decades, physics education has remained largely unchanged, even as computation has become central to modern science. This book highlights how educators around the world are integrating computational thinking into undergraduate physics courses.Through case studies and practical examples, contr...

Magnetic excitations and geometric confinement

Magnetic excitation in geometrically confined systems exhibit many unique and interesting properties. This book reviews magnetic nanoparticles, layered magnets and in quasi-one-dimensional magnets, their properties and applications for data storage or creating engineered composite materials.