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Paulus hector mair's ars athletica volume i
To those who study the physical culture of arms in medieval Europe, the German Fechtbücher—treatises on combat arts—are among the most important surviving documentary sources: no other region in Europe produced such an extensive body of writings on the techniques of medieval combat. Among thes...
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Paulus hector mair's ars athletica volume 2
To those who study the physical culture of arms in medieval Europe, the German Fechtbücher—treatises on combat arts—are among the most important surviving documentary sources: no other region in Europe produced such an extensive body of writings on the techniques of medieval combat. Among thes...
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Visible language
Current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each writing system and its uses. This richly illustrated volume, issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute, provides a perspective on, and appreciation of, an i...
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A dictionary of cuneiform luvian
Luvian was a language spoken in second millennium B.C. ancient Anatolia, now Turkey,. It is preserved in documents written in cuneiform script important for our knowledge of religion and culture during the Hittite Empire. The dictionary includes definitions as well as a grammatical introduction, ...
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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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Power, politics and influence at work
Argues that the changing world of work cannot be divorced from several overlapping power dynamics that have resonance to wider societal debates: issues of labour market inclusion and exclusion or marginalisation, profit and wealth distribution, political influence and employment regulation, unio...
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Crafted with pride
This collection explores queer craft and the material cultures of LGBTQ+ activism in Britain since the 1980s. It includes contributions from academics, artists, activists, curators, and heritage professionals. The first book of its kind, it weaves together an important web connecting queerness, c...
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Fighting for the soul of general practice
A view of contemporary general practice from two practising GPs. Themes include industrialisation versus craftsmanship; the effect of protocol; and the breakdown of relational care. The theoretical perspectives introduced are illustrated through a series of anonymised anecdotes. 15 b/w illus. Fr...
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Socially engaged creative practice
This collection is the second in the Performance and Communities series. Contributions from academics and artists engage with both these notions of performance – that of identities in and through time and space - and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances (textual/ embodie...
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Global culture after gombrich
The volume presents essays by 10 eminent historians of art and culture provoked by the work of Ernst Gombrich. The collection shows Gombrich’s concerns to have initiated lines of enquiry that spread beyond Europe and across the globe, and makes a vital contribution to the contemporary debate arou...
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Popular music ethnographies
This interdisciplinary book takes the reader on global journeys from the UK to China, from Ecuador to Jamaica, through a melange of music genres. In doing so, it raises key questions as the contributors reflect upon doing and communicating ethnographic research on popular music. 14 b&w illus.
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Architecture, film, and the in-between
Architecture, Film, and the In-Between: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt brings together some of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary architectural discourses with an investigation of the filmic imagination of architectural in-betweenness, as well as the in-between spaces within the architectural ...
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Becoming a visually reflective practitioner
Considers how self-study using arts-based methods can enable purposeful reflection toward understanding and envisioning professional practice. Presents a self-study model highlighting arts-based methods for examining areas of professional practice: professional identities, work cultures, change a...
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Fashion projects
This book collects together the best articles from the long-running journal Fashion Projects, most issues of which are now unavailable. Through detailed interviews with designers, critics and curators, the book chronicles the ascent of fashion as a critical force across media, the museum and the ...
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Designing and conducting practice-based research projects
A practical guide to conducting practice-based research projects in the arts, specifically aimed at undergraduates and new researchers. This is a textbook aimed primarily at upper undergraduate and Master’s students, including practical guidance, examples, exercises, and further resources. 10 b&a...
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Schechner plays
A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most recent to earliest Schechner's work as a "writer" and a "wrighter" -- the author of plays and the conceptualizer and leader of teams of artists. 20 b&w illus.
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Applied theatre, third edition
Applied Theatre is recognized as the key text in the field of applied theatre and has been adopted by teaching programs around the world. Recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre Education in 2010. Third edition includes refreshed case studies, providing ex...
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Disrupting white mindfulness
Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives and norms that shape the Mindfulness Industry. Mindfulness is now common throughout the West, but this book reveals how the industry is infused with whiteness and late capitalism.
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The value of a whale
This book shows that beyond the fossil fuel industry, it is the lesser-known but vastly more powerful world of asset managers and shadow banking which is inhibiting our ability to pursue climate and environmental justice. Those with the influence to effect global change increasingly see commodify...
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On trial
The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger s...
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David bowie, enid blyton and the sun machine
A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton
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Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations
This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power. It explores the nature of power relations between children and adults and provides a critical analysis of kid power, considering inequalities...
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Rda and serials cataloging
Reflecting the new modelling for serials introduced by IFLA’s Library Reference Model in the most recent revisions to RDA, this up-to-date resource is an important tool for day-to-day practice as well as a reference manual for unusual or difficult cases.
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The no-nonsense guide to research support and scholarly communication
This accessible and highly practical book provides an introductory guide to the world of research support in the academic library.
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Librarianship
Every profession needs an introductory text to its core body of knowledge. This book provides an introduction to librarianship for students and new entrants to the profession. It offers an overview of various aspects of professional librarianship in the 21st century, and an analysis of modern lib...
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Let's roll
This book guides school and public librarians on how to run tabletop roleplaying games in a library setting.
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Criminality, political power and conflict
This volume brings together contributions from various scholars working on the intersections between political power, criminality and conflict in three continents. Through qualitative methods and rich empirical data, the volume contributes to the understanding of politicisation and criminalisatio...
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The library in the 21st century
Focusing on the library as a vehicle for encouraging creativity as well as a provider of information resources, this book offers a model of how traditional and electronic sources can co-exist in the library. It emphasizes that beyond the intermediary role of libraries is the vital requirement to ...
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Developing and maintaining practical archives
'This really is a book that is difficult to find serious fault with; it presents clearly and concisely, covering the topic in around 300 pages. It will be valuable for many businesses, most librarians, and all library science, archival, and business study tertiary education libraries.'
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A practical guide to privacy in libraries
This groundbreaking book considers how privacy issues can arise in a library context and what library and information professionals can do to protect the privacy of their users.
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School libraries supporting literacy and wellbeing
Drawing on recent research, this book explores the connection between libraries, literacy, reading engagement and wellbeing, providing powerful advocacy support for school library professionals seeking to illustrate the role they play in supporting students’ literacy learning and wellbeing.
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Padfield on copyright for archivists and records managers
As an archivist or records manager, it is essential to keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation, and Padfield on Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers has been described as an ‘unparalleled’ resource for that purpose.This comprehensive manual uniquely outlines copyri...
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The new politics of poland
This book offers a multi-layered analysis of how and why Poland has changed over the past thirty years and how this is relevant for its recent political crisis.
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Sonic ethnography
Through a combination of text, colour photographs and sound recordings, Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound in the performance of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book makes a compelling argument for taking sound seriously as a crucial component of socia...
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Changing france
Focusing on cultural areas such as exhibitions, transport, food, dress and photography, ‘Changing France’ shows how apparently trivial aspects of modern life provided Second Empire writers with a versatile means of thinking about deeper issues.
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The british empire through buildings
Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all studen...
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British queer history
Takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to queer autobiographical accounts, to oral histories of Scottish lesbians, and much else besides.
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The english constitution
This book centres constitutional reform in discussions of England and Englishness, and centres England in debates on constitutional reform. It includes the text of a constitution that builds on the heritage and tradition of Westminster Model democracy, combining long-overdue reforms with the rest...
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Scottish society 1707–1830
Scottish Society, 1707-1830 challenges much conventional wisdom and provides readers with many new insights into Scottish social and economic history.. Argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked.. Contests received wisdom on issue...
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Film modernism
An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film.
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Diaspora diplomacy
This book examines the reasons behind the Turkish state’s unprecedented recent interest in its diaspora, details new political activism in Europe among the Turkish diaspora and explores how Turkey’s growing sway over its overseas population has affected intra-diaspora politics and Turkey’s diplom...
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Medicine, patients and the law
The seventh edition of this much respected accessible book provides an enlightening and comprehensive account of the intersections between medicine, patients and the law.
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The breakup of india and palestine
These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power.
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The james bond phenomenon
Sean Connery’s tuxedo, Ursula Andress’ bikini, Oddjob’s bowler hat, and Q’s gadgets are just a few defining features of the 007 world examined in The James Bond phenomenon. Drawn from the fields of literary, film, music, and cultural studies, the essays in this collection range from revitalised r...
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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...
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Becoming a mother
This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and contin...
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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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Thomas more's utopia in early modern europe
Thomas More's Utopia in Early Modern Europe provides the first complete account of all the editions of Utopia, whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of all the prefatory materials they contain. The reception of the idea of Utopia in early modern Europe h...
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Anthem test papers 11+ and 12+ verbal reasoning book 1
Written in multiple-choice format and covering a wide range of questions, the test papers in this pack emulate the style and content of questions featured in actual verbal reasoning assessments, and are the perfect exam-preparation tool.
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Dirty books
The fascinating story of fearless and innovative publishers and authors who wrote their own sexual revolution before the sexual revolution.
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Plays and performance texts by women 1880–1930
An exciting new anthology of plays and performance texts by British and American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Written in an accessible style for students it contains an overview and two introductory essays, as well as biographical materials on each of the writers.
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