False prophets of economics imperialism

In this deeply researched and wide-ranging intellectual history, Matthew Watson exposes the essential flaw in the claims of economics imperialists. Their market models reveal mathematical truths only about themselves, not social truths related to the world of directly lived experiences.

Sustainable development and water security

This book uses Sustainable Development Goal 6 to consider the concept of sustainable water resources management and how to improve global water security. It provides a critical synthesis of water resources planning and management issues across all water-using sectors.

Serious play

Slapstick comedy is the primary mode of performance for clowns, and in Serious Play, drama scholar Louise Peacock explores the evolution over the past fifty years of this unique brand of physical comedy. Though an analysis of clowning in a range of settings—theaters, circuses, hospitals, refugee...

Equity and trusts

Equity and Trusts is written for students on LLB and law conversion courses and will also be useful for those on any SQE pathway. The book provides students with all they need to understand the complexities of the English law of equity and trusts in principle and in practice.

Pollyanna

Suave mechanicals

This volume is dedicated to the work of Bernard C. Middleton, MBE, who died in January 2019. In the dedicatory section, the voices of numerous friends and colleagues are present, and they, in various ways, tell us a lot about Middleton and his contributions to the history and practice of hand boo...

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 ...

My voice: susan pollack

Susan’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 Hungary in 1930, Susan Pollack was deported to Auschwitz as a teenager and after liberation rebuilt her life in Britain, becomi...

Achieving net zero dairy farming: weighing the options arising from new understanding

This concluding chapter to the book Achieving net zero dairy farming takes stock of the key insights provided by individual chapters in the book. It reviews the evidence relating to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and other pollutants, approaches to their mitigation, and the potential for ...

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...

Building community choirs in the twenty-first century

This book explores how five diverse community choirs build their collective identity within the complex setting of Northern Ireland. The case studies investigate the ways in which singers engage in their choral practice and demonstrates how this engagement can move beyond sectarian identity const...

Folklore

This is the definitive guide to British folklore. Written by two of the country's leading experts, it covers everything from wizards and witches to UFOs and internet fanfiction.

Decentralised digital security

An ethnographic investigation of how digital security is practiced and coordinated within blockchain communities, revealing insights from decentralised technologies about online security more broadly.

The genotype-by-environment interaction on crop growth simulator model

The Genotype-by-Environment interaction on CROp growth Simulator (GECROS) is a generic crop model that specifically addresses carbon-nitrogen, root-shoot, and source-sink interactions to predict crop responses to weather variables and soil water and nitrogen supply. GECROS uses relatively few, ea...

The light interception and utilisation family of crop models

There is a wide range of models in the LINTUL family of crop growth models. All are based on a simple relationship between leaf area index and light interception and the concept of light or radiation use efficiency to convert intercepted radiation into dry matter. This chapter provides an overvie...

The wofost (world food studies) cropping system model

The WOFOST cropping system model is a process-based model developed by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) for a wide array of applications such as yield forecasting, climate impact assessments, yield gap analysis and agronomic decision support. The latest versions, WOFOST 7.3 and 8.1, int...

Assessing microplastics and nanoplastics in food

The environmental impact of macroplastics in the sea and soil has become a global problem, resulting in their entry into the food chain. Macroplastics become microplastics and nanoplastics over time through abrasion and degradation mechanisms. Current analytical measurements show that micro- and ...

Harnessing the power of grasslands in mixed farming/crop– livestock systems

The escalating demand for food, driven by population growth and urbanization, threatens global agricultural systems. Traditional agricultural policies emphasizing specialization and intensification often degrade ecosystems and heighten pollution risks. In response, sustainable intensification of ...

Grasslands and one health: the human health component

The evolution of Homo as habitual consumers of inside- (marrow, brains) and outside-bone (meat, liver, fat) nutrients within grassland ecosystems, coupled with the infrequency of cardiometabolic diseases in modern hunter-gatherer communities, suggests that ancestral-type diets (although variable)...

Feminist librarianship

Alive and aloud with women’s own voices, this is the UK’s first comprehensive celebration of library-led feminism: capturing the underrated yet radical work taking place across our female-centric sector to catalyse gender justice through social, political, environmental and intergenerational change.

Once a mother, always a mother

From the author of A Wedding in the Family, Annette Byford continues her examination of how mothers experience life changes in family contexts and how it impacts their sense of who they are.  The book picks up the theme of family transitions and moves it to the wider focus of what happens to a fa...

Governing the soul

The caesarean

Performance and purpose in dying and death

This book addresses the dying process and the nature of death itself with the intention that it might help us to accept and embrace both these things as a part of life. Intended to provide a shift in perception, this book aims to alleviate some of the fear, resistance and denial surrounding death...

The studio

The scientification of love

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.

Structured clinical interview for the dsm-5® alternative model for personality disorders (scid-5-ampd) module iii

Module III provides a comprehensive assessment of each of the six specific personality disorders of the Alternative Model.

Principles and techniques of trauma-centered psychotherapy

This is not a general text, then, but one focused on building competence and confidence in trauma-centered interventions, providing methods that should be readily and widely applicable to clinical practice.

Competency in combining pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy

The rapid transformation of clinical care models in new health systems means that competence in integrated and split/collaborative care is vital for both long-established clinicians and psychiatric professionals in the early stages of their careers.

Concise guide to psychodynamic psychotherapy

This compact guide's 15 densely informative chapters—complete with glossary, indexes, illustrations, and references—not only provide clinicians with an updated introduction to the concepts and techniques of psychodynamic psychotherapy but also convey the excitement and usefulness, as well as the ...

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 updated volume boasts the most current text updates based on the current ...

Clinical manual for the assessment and treatment of suicidal patients

Challenging the underlying assumption that suicidal behavior can be predicted and controlled, the authors conceptualize suicidality as problem-solving behavior to which an individual resorts when other options seem to have failed.

User's guide for the structured clinical interview for the dsm-5® alternative model for personality disorders (scid-5-ampd)

Trained clinicians with a basic knowledge of the concepts of personality and personality psychopathology will find the SCID-5-AMPD a valuable tool in the assessment and study of personality disorders.

Interviewer's guide to the structured clinical interview for dsm-iv® dissociative disorders (scid-d)

Designed to accompany the SCID-D, this guide instructs the clinician in the administration, scoring and interpretation of SCID-D interview. The Guide describes the phenomenology of dissociative symptoms and disorders, as well as the process of differential diagnosis. This revised edition includes...

The practice of electroconvulsive therapy

This third edition captures the body of knowledge accumulated over the past 20 years, citing and explaining the most recent literature on the safety and efficacy of ECT.

Structured clinical interview for the dsm-5® alternative model for personality disorders (scid-5-ampd) module i

Trained clinicians with a basic knowledge of the concepts of personality and personality psychopathology will benefit from the myriad applications and insights offered by the SCID-5-AMPD.

Compulsive sexual behavior disorder

The book describes CSBD, instructs clinicians on how to address it effectively in their practices and exploring areas for further research. The book is replete with clinical vignettes that illustrate the concepts addressed in the chapter.

Wittgenstein, scepticism and naturalism

The essays in Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism cover the later Wittgenstein’s thought on scepticism about the external world; scepticism about other minds; knowledge and belief; meaning and rule-following; and the nature of psychological concepts. Focusing on topics in the later philosophy...

Algerian national cinema

This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s.

Knowledge diplomacy

Knowledge Diplomacy addresses the fascinating field of study and practice in knowledge diplomacy. It captures this emerging field of Knowledge Diplomacy at a key juncture, asking questions of its meaning and application in twenty-first century global affairs.

Feminist substances

In the art of the 1960s and 1970s, many women artists worked extensively with industrial materials such as plastics, challenging assumptions shaped by the dominant discourse of the period. Feminist Substances shows how their practices offered distinct, gender-aware approaches to synthetic materia...

Voltairine de cleyre’s transnational anarchism

This study of Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to reveal the originality of her thought. Close reading of her writing, including personal correspondence, provides new insight into a key, unjustly neglected and altogether contemporary f...

Climate change and the future of boston

An in-depth analysis of the climate impacts facing Boston and the city’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.

The persistent poverty of african americans in the united states

This book sheds light on American politics and power that has disadvantaged African Americans through the implementation of public policies, causing them to remain poor and underprivileged in the United States.

Our emotions and culture

In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.

Translation theory for literary translators

This book analyses how practicing literary translators can benefit from translation theory.

Line endings in renaissance poetry

This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems. 

Contemporary black urban music

This course will examine Contemporary Black Urban Music and its historical development by tracing the evolution of soul and funk music into rap and hip-hop.

Creativity and "the paris review" interviews

In Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices, author Ronda Leathers Dively explores contexts, behaviors, and composing practices that generated some of the world’s most significant literary works. Her analysis ultimately leads to concr...

Taiwan straits standoff

Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu...

British battles 493–937

British Battles 493–937 revolutionizes our understanding of early British history by correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.

The economic turn

‘The Economic Turn’ brings together many of the world’s leading historians of early political economy to recast the very origins of the discipline in light of the Europe-wide critical reaction to the school of Enlightenment economic thought known as Physiocracy.

The brics and the financing mechanisms they created

An insider’s account of the BRICS process and of the negotiation and implementation of the monetary fund and development bank BRICS created

Intermediate scat practice tests

This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 4 and 5 to take the Intermediate School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 6 to 8 ...

Charles de foucauld’s reconnaissance au maroc, 1883–1884

Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld’s adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883–84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways. This book is a translation of Foucauld’s memoir into English, with an extensi...

Fundamentals of market access for pharmaceuticals

This book provides a conceptual and pragmatic approach to the complexity of market access for pharmaceuticals across different types of economies and health care systems around the world, providing a comprehensive toolbox with key concepts and methods for students, executives from companies, publ...

Genocide: a thematic approach

The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so freque...

Isee middle level practice tests

Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Middle Level. The Middle Level ISEE Exam is for students...

Suburban space, the novel and australian modernity

‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of Australian fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of subu...

A guide to trade credit insurance

This compact volume is a practical guide for anyone interested in Trade Credit Insurance. The International Credit Insurance & Surety Association (ICISA) presents an approachable but detailed guide written collaboratively by carefully selected industry experts. The guide describes the ‘lifeli...

Portuguese and amsterdam sephardic merchants in the tobacco trade

Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade is a history of the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the tobacco industry and trade of Amsterdam. It focuses on the contraband trade with Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the early seventeenth century as documented in th...

Horror and the horror film

‘Horror and the Horror Film’ is a vivid, compelling, insightful and well-written study of the horror film and its subgenres from 1896 to the present, concentrating on the nature of horror in reality and on film.

Graphic law and drawn justice

The book explores how comics, manga, animated series and pop music influenced by comic books represent law, reflecting and shaping public perception. It uses a comparative international law approach, including diverse scholars, and extends beyond Anglo-American culture to enrich the legal debate....

Climate uncertainty and risk

In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond.

The content machine

‘The Content Machine’ outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishers to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis. This ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, fuses history, media theory and business experience in a defiant answer to those who contend that publishing has ...

From broadway to the bronx

A fascinating and vibrant depiction of New York City in song across a variety of different genres, focusing on Broadway, musical theatre, hip hop, punk, folk, and jazz genres, as well as the work of New York born artists and those who are intimately connected with the city.  Read the introductio...

Photographic afterlives

This book explores the resurfacing of photographs from the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) in contemporary art and photobooks by tracing some of the unexpected paths along which photographs travel and argues that contemporary archival art can equip viewers with the necessary tools for read...

Resisting olympic evictions

Resisting Olympic evictions explores how one favela mobilised urban space to contest the logic underpinning removals in the glare of the mega-event’s spotlight. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, it provides instructive lessons on building democratic and just cities across th...

Tainted tools

Tainted Tools offers a provocative intervention into the tense relationship between new materialist and decolonial thought. Although both seek to challenge dominant European categories and hierarchies, they are often treated as incompatible. New materialisms, in particular, have been criticised f...

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...

Public information films

The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors’ demands and the anxieties of the time as well as providing the foundations for the post-w...

Flappers and the jazz age

This book offers fascinating new insights into women’s leisure in 1920s-30s Ireland and Northern Ireland. Using a feminist, intersectional lens, it challenges stereotypes of these women's lives as insular and passive, instead presenting more complex images of agentic, pleasure-seeking subjects wh...

Democratizing ai

Democratizing AI argues that AI deployment is a political act requiring democratic control. Zimmermann offers a practical playbook for reclaiming public power from tech elites and shaping AI’s future through civic participation, regulation, and justice.

Developments in spray technologies for precision agriculture

This chapter reviews recent developments in crop sprayer technology. It adds to the content in a previous chapter in Precision agriculture for sustainability edited by John Stafford and published in 2019. This chapter particularly considers nozzle control on a boom, spray drift control, methods o...

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...

Organised militarism in interwar britain

While militaristic and patriotic organisations formed an important part of Edwardian political culture, 1918 often marks a terminus for histories of organised militarism in Britain. Taking the end of the First World War as its starting point instead, this book is the first full-length study of mi...

Let the dead speak

Let the dead speak explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism, the religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography.

Law and justice in the 1950s

Written for historians and legal specialists alike, this book reveals the stories behind the laws of 1950s England and Wales. Drawing on a range of fascinating case studies, it examines the social, political and economic contexts surrounding the considerable breadth of legal developments in the d...

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 ...

The false one

This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One, with an introduction that offers new insights on the date and the theatre of the play’s first performance, freshly examines its sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that...

Elites in civil society

Challenging the assumption that civil society is inherently egalitarian, this book investigates the formation of a distinct civil society elite, its integration with political and business leaders, and the paradoxes this presents for a civil society striving to offer a counter balance to society’...

The art of decolonisation

The art of decolonisation examines how artists challenged colonial legacies and reconfigured power through transnational networks of art and diplomacy. Adopting a global and transhistorical perspective, it explores artistic, political, and institutional relations between France and Senegal during...

Towards a theology of liturgical reconciliation

More than fifty years after the liturgical reform, tensions remain in the Catholic Church over the Old and New Rites – tensions that theologians and liturgists have not been able to resolve. Following Pope Francis’s calls to liturgical unity and synodal listening, in 2022 the Centre for Ecclesial...

Theory and practice in the conservation of modern and contemporary art

This volume, based on the Hildesheim symposium Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art, examines the theoretical, ethical, and aesthetic foundations of conserving contemporary artworks.

Q is for garden

A bold, tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine – and what happens when we step beyond the binaries that fence us in. There is a Q in garden, but you can’t always see it. When Jenny Chamarette faced a devastating health crisis, they found themselves unmoored from the rules of gende...

Studying old master paintings

The papers in this volume constitute a substantial body of work that provides a wide-ranging overview of current research on the technology and practice of Old Master paintings, covering some 700 years of European painting, from the thirteenth century to the early twentieth century, including wor...

Hamilton kerr institute bulletin no. 10, 2024

This volume is the tenth in this biennial series which presents the recent research into the conservation, structure, materials, history etc. of paintings carried out by past and present staff and students of the Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Microanalysis of parchment

Parchment in the form of manuscripts, scrolls, charters, book covers and substrata for artworks, makes a major contribution to the most valuable objects of European cultural heritage. Large collections exist in varying degrees of preservation in public and private libraries, archives, museums and...

Standards in architectural paint research

The implications of globalisation include the growing necessity for people everywhere to be working in a more ‘global’ way. The increased international cooperation between professionals and clients in the field of Architectural Paint Research has highlighted the necessity to agree on standards in...

Trade in artists' materials

An exploration of the supply, trade, and use of artists’ materials in Europe up to 1700, drawing on international, interdisciplinary research from historians, conservators, scientists, and economists.

Conservation and maintenance of contemporary public art

A collection of papers from leading artists, conservators, administrators, and critics to address the urgent challenges of preserving public artworks. Based on a 2001 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the volume explores theoretical questions of permanence, public engagement, funding, legal...