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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.
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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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The law of international organisations
Substantially updated for its third edition, this book provides a concise account of the principles and norms of international law applicable to inter-governmental organisations, with a focus on the UN and its associated bodies.
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Culture in Manchester
Brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution.
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The Scottish witch-hunt in context
A collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. Includes studies of particular witchcraft panics such as a reassessment of the role of King James VI. Covers a wide ra...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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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The Historian's Craft
This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the writings of the Annales school.
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Intelligence and espionage in the English Republic c. 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.
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The Jacobites and the Grand Tour
Investigating the functioning of travel in political culture by using early modern small states as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between Jacobitism, educational travel, and small state diplomacy.
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Hincmar of Rheims
Brings together the latest international research on a key medieval writer and thinker
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Me, not you
Phipps argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence embodies a political whitenesswhich both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential.
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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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An unorthodox history
This up-to-date history of Britain’s Jewish community focuses on the experiences of Jewish people themselves. It offers insight into the lives of queer Jews, Jews married to non-Jews, Israel-critical Jews, Messianic Jews and others.
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Settlers at the end of empire
Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study highlighting the connections between the racial politics of migration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia in the second half of the twentiet...
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White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages
This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the ‘before’ of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and ...
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Slaves of Fashion: Art of the Singh Twins
This art book presents the award-winning portrait-based series 'Slaves of Fashion' by British artists The Singh Twins.
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Jamaican volunteers in the First World War
A groundbreaking study that uncovers the expereince of black Jamaican soldiers to provide a fresh historical insight into the First World War. A book that will appeal to undergraduates and general readers interested in warfare, Imperial and black history.
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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.
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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
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Presence
This book charts a psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone. A tour-de-force through contemporary psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and philosophy, Presence is the story of who ...
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Law, society and political culture in late medieval and Reformation Germany
A sourcebook illustrative of the legal, political, social and cultural history of the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire in the late medieval and Reformation era (c. 1350–1550). It includes translations of all the major laws issued in the Empire in this period, as well as sources focused on lo...
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After-affects | after-images
In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, Vera Frenkel, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman to explore trauma and bereavement, fatal illness, Holocaust experience, migration, exile and the enc...
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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.
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Mancunians
Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the authentic account of Manchester at the turn of the Millennium, told through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known local figures from music and sports.
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Foundational Economy
This book shows how the foundational economy – public services, infrastructure, education and health care – was built up between 1880 and 1980 so that they were collectively paid for, collectively delivered and collectively consumed. This system of provision has been undermined in the age of priv...
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My Voice: Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines
Lady Milena'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. Milena lived in Prague as a young child and left for England on the Kindertransport in 1939 with her sister. She was depicted in ...
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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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The spatial contract
This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter – the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home.
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Ireland in crisis
This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches,...
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My Voice: Eva Neumann
Eva'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. Eva appears in some of the photographs that are the only visual evidence of the mass murder at Auschwitz. After the war, she moved to Man...
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The trouble with freedom
In The trouble with freedom, Melissa Butcher explores America's divide over the concept of freedom, interviewing people across political, racial and cultural lines. She reveals how political conflict stems from personal experiences with cultural change and uncovers opportunities for empathy amid ...
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Doing digital history
A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focus...
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Tea on the terrace
Offering a history of travel, tourism and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace follows Egyptologists between home and field sites, revealing how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline.
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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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The lure of violence
This book offers a novel interpretation of conservative and right-wing responses to the Edwardian crisis in Britain (1901-1914). It stresses how the upsurge of right-wing extremism within and outside the Conservative party materialized into the formation of a myriad of organisations which conceiv...
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The Levellers
Offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Foxley challenges received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalization of parliamentarian thought.
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Ecocide
This is the first book to argue comprehensively that unless we destroy the legal and political basis for the corporation, we are unlikely to reverse the decline of the eco-system, and therefore we will hasten the end of the species.
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Afterlives of war
This book documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations in Australia, Britain and Germany who grew up in the shadow of the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, through the intimate experience of coming after, they have played a key role in sha...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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My Voice: Marianne Philipps
Marianne'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. Marianne Phillips began life in Berlin in 1924, came to England on the Kindertransport, and went on to run a dressmaking business an...
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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...
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Mathematics for economists
Self-contained treatment of all the mathematics needed by undergraduate and masters-level students of economics starting from a very low level. Topics covered include calculus, matrix algebra, probability, dynamics and static and dynamic optimisation, all illustrated by examples and problems from...
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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.
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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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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,...
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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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Family Romance
A brilliant new account of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the Wertheimers, an eminent Jewish family in Edwardian London.
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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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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.
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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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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, ...
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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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Dirty Play
Mud, muck and microbes are not hazards to be scrubbed from childhood; they are some of its most powerful ingredients. Dirty Play makes the science-backed case that contact with soil, plants and microbes is essential for healthy development.
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Nonrandom
Darwin doubted that chance alone explains the variation of life — and new research is proving him right. Nonrandom reveals the hidden structure behind DNA mutations: why they occur, how cell type and genome shape them, and what this means for evolution, cancer and the genetic science.
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Twenty-five years of policing in Northern Ireland
A critical examination of the radical reform of policing in Northern Ireland after the Belfast-Good Friday Agreement and in the context of wider efforts at establishing peace, legitimacy and stability.
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Psychedelics
This book offers an expert-reviewed, authoritative overview of the current knowledge and evidence for the use of psychedelics in practice. It explores the history of psychedelic research and treatment and tackles the clinical application for disorders such as depression, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, and s...
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Leonora Carrington
A survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). It provides an overview of this intriguing artist's rich body of work and considers Carrington's preoccupation with alchemy and the occult.
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The 'New' Science of Scientific Writing
A revision and expansion of Gopen’s highly acclaimed and widely influential 1990 American Scientist article “The Science of Scientific Writing,” this book introduces the Reader Expectation Approach—how writers need to understand certain expectations of readers in order to control both the writer’...
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Introduction to Knowledge Organization
‘A mighty introduction to knowledge organization’ - Technical Services QuarterlyFully revised and updated throughout, the new edition of this book provides a complete introduction to the rapidly expanding field of Knowledge Organization (KO), presenting historical precedents and theoretical found...
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Suave Mechanicals
This is the ninth and last volume in the series; it was originally published in 2025. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia.
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Books Will Speak Plain
This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings.
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The regeneration of east Manchester
Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester.
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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...
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Dangerous Animals & Outdoor Hazards in Africa
Overview of Africa’s diverse environments and the real-world dangers faced in the wild. From the behavioural patterns and injury risks of iconic wildlife like elephants, lions and crocodiles, to potential encounters with venomous snakes, spiders and scorpions, it provides crucial practical insigh...
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Moss Safari
This book takes readers on an inspiring journey into the hidden world of moss, revealing the fascinating lives of the Microscopic Big Five, while exploring their vital role within moss, the global ecosystem and in science.
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A Snorkeller’s Guide to the Mediterranean
A snorkeller’s identification guide to the most frequently encountered marine species of the Mediterranean. Presented in an informative yet readable way, includes numerous tips on how to make the most of your snorkelling.
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Traffication
The trillions of miles we drive each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat loss or intensive farming. Traffication does for road traffic what Silent Spring did for agrochemicals: awakening us from our collective road-blindness ...
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Badger Behaviour, Conservation & Rehabilitation
A fascinating insight into the badger’s world. Badger biology, life in the sett, rescue & rehabilitation, consultancy, badgers & farming, and badger-watching with George Pearce, an expert on badgers who has surveyed over 700 sites.
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Habitat Management for Invertebrates
This book is a practical manual covering management for invertebrates: it provides guidelines to enable reserve managers to take account of the vulnerable habitat features so important to invertebrates.
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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...
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Mycology for Architecture
Investigates the potential of mycelium as a sustainable material within architecture and design. It combines theoretical perspectives, practical methodologies and digital fabrication processes to present techniques, critical analysis and emerging applications. The book serves as a comprehensive r...
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Japanese Knotweed
Japanese Knotweed is one of the world’s highest-profile invasive plants. This book traces its global history, distribution and reproductive biology, while delivering a comprehensive overview of the ecological and economic threats it poses and how these have influenced government policy.
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Cold War humanitarians
This book compares Oxfam and MSF’s humanitarian programmes in the 1980s to illuminate how British and French political cultures conditioned their opposing interpretations of ethical action during the Cold War. In so doing, it demonstrates that emerging norms of humanitarian intervention and human...
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Collaborations in Housing Design
Over the past three decades, Baylight Properties have been working in collaboration with some of the finest British architects to develop a series of award-winning housing projects, each one marked by a poetic sensitivity and thoughtful use of materials. This book addresses the particular challen...
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Tal R
This book assesses the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between representation and abstraction, of what the artist has termed 'Kolbojnik', a Hebre...
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Arts & Crafts Chronicler
Lawrence Weaver is best remembered as a critic, journalist, and champion of many country-house architects of his time, including Edwin Lutyens and Robert Lorimer. Surveying some 20 books and more than 500 articles he wrote, this book offers a rich portrait of a remarkably able and charismatic man...
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Hendrick ter Brugghen
Hendrick ter Brugghen’s work forms a key chapter in the history of 17th-century Dutch art. A significant follower of Caravaggio, Ter Brugghen was also important in the development of both Rembrandt and Vermeer. Yet until now there has been no accessible survey of his work. This important book pro...
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Performance in the Museum
Based on original research including interviews with art professionals, Performance in the Museum provides a unique and fresh perspective on the museum's role in the development of performance art.
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The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum
The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum critically examines the growth of private museums in the 21st century, their impact on public institutions and what the future might look like. It is essential reading for museum professionals, art collectors, critics and cultural commentators and anyon...
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Gary Hume
Gary Hume RA (b.1962) is one of the foremost British painters of the last 40 years. In this new book, Martin Gayford explores the evolution of the artist's oeuvre and examines the opportunities and dilemmas that helped to shape Hume's singular pathway. Profusely illustrated, the book underlines H...
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The Artist as Ecologist
How are contemporary artists responding to the climate crisis? Filipa Ramos takes an original approach to the subject by addressing two parallel strands. She looks firstly at pioneering approaches to ecology by key contemporary artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds working i...
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Philanthropy in the Arts
Arts philanthropy is at a crucial moment: many arts organisations are facing a financial crisis, the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of existing funding structures, and various social initiatives and causes have thrown renewed focus on how the arts are funded. Around the world, a ...
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Art Is the Evidence
The practical research guide explores art as both the process of inquiry and the evidence it generates. Universal access across disciplines is encouraged. Artistic intelligence and its sustained personal contributions to human understanding offers a timely complement to science and the exponentia...
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Into being
Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father, presents an essential guide to memoir writing. Demystifying the memoirist's art, she explores why our memories privilege some events over others and offers advice for navigating the challenge of writing truthfully without intruding on the lives of our loved...
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Digital Exhaustion
Daily life in digital culture is exhausting. This timely and urgent edited collection takes the theme of ‘digital exhaustion’ as a starting point for critical inquiry into the ever-expanding presence of digital technologies in our personal and professional lives. 37 b&w illus.
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