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Modern french visual theory
Offers approachable, clear and original accounts of French thinkers who specialise in visual theory, with connections explained and explicated between chapters; looks at those thinkers who have been neglected in the Anglo-American world thereby expanding and diversifying the perception that reade...
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R. k. narayan
A comprehensive study of Narayan’s fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels
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Ephemeral city
Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance
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The 1922 committee
The 1922 Committee is seen as the kingmaker in Conservative politics. This book provides a comprehensive account of its history, structure and influence.
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Classical hollywood cinema
A focused and well-written study of classic Hollywood films which zeroes in on close analysis.
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History and politics in late carolingian and ottonian europe
This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European history in the period c.850-c.950. This period, which is widely taught in European and North American universities, saw the collapse of the Carolingian Empire and the rise in Germany of the ‘First...
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Mobilising classics
Revisiting classic texts by writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, James Connolly and Paulo Freire, this book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between radical ideas and political action in Ireland.
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Refugee women in britain and france
This is an accessible and readable synthesis of all available knowledge about refugee women in Britain and France, which offers a unique comparative perspective.
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Rethinking the south english legendaries
Rethinking the South English legendaries offers theoretically fresh approaches to the major vernacular collection of saints’ lives in the English Middle Ages, combining leading scholars and new voices in the field. The volume creates a new platform for thinking about this richly dynamic but so fa...
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The ira 1956–69
An in depth study of the IRA in the years leading up to the conflict that broke out in 1969. This book explores the internal divisions that existed within the IRA and Sinn Fein in this period.
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Global politics in the information age
Global Politics in the Information Age presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet.
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The english diaspora in north america
This deeply researched new book questions this assumption. It shows that English associations once were widespread, taking hold in colonial America, spreading to Canada and then encompassing all of the empire.
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Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market
This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outcomes and racial inequality in the labour market. The pages guide students interested in CRT and investigating racism, discrimination and inequality.
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Mobilizing nature
Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known conflicts whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside.
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The library and archive collections of the university of aberdeen
A lavishly illustrated, expertly written and perspicaciously edited volume that showcases one of the oldest continually-evolving academic library collections of the Anglophone world. From papyri to modern first editions, Renaissance portraits to C20th abstracts, this book will be a benchmark in ...
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French reflections in the shakespearean tragic
Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with reference to specific French texts and contexts
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Alejandro amenábar
Known for his spectacular imagery, memorable soundtracks and challenging subject matter, Alejandro Amenábar makes a serious and socially aware ‘middlebrow’ cinema designed for global audiences. This is the first full-length study in English of the director's shorts and feature films, including Ab...
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Salvage ethnography in the financial sector
A historical ethnography of banking practices during the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland. Provides insight into the 2008 economic crisis through review of the role of national identities, different styles and ethos of business, tension and unrest prevalent during the merger, and implicatio...
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European empires and the people
The first book to survey, in a comparative form, the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries. It provides fascinating parallel studies of France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, examining the media and the content through which events in coloni...
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Gothic kinship
Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family
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Falling from grace
This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls’ Revolt of...
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The entangled city
This book tells the story of the ‘world of crime’ in São Paulo. In so doing, it presents a new framework to understand urban conflict in many other contexts.
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On the uses of history in recent irish writing
Drawing on recent debates in Irish literary and cultural criticism, the study of cultural memory, as well as on radical models of time and history, this book explores the varied, creative, and often critically challenging forms of rewriting Ireland's troubled past in contemporary prose, drama an...
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The women's suffrage movement
Available in paperback for the first time, this important collection of essays illustrates the complexity, richness and diversity of the suffrage movement.Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women’s suffrage movement, this volume offers a unique focus. It i...
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The law of the sea
The law of the sea provides an up to date and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the subject. Based on extensive research, it combines clarity of expression with depth of analysis.
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Labour, state and society in rural india
Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a ‘class-relational’ approach that focuses on ‘the poor’s’ iniquitous relations with others.
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Killing men & dying women
This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-wo...
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The hippie trail
Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, mapping their everyday interactions with locals and the joys and hardships of independent budget travel.
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The eu and its neighbours
The book argues that what is often considered a fundamental dilemma of EU foreign policy - a choice between the EU’s values and its quest for security - misrepresents a much more complex reality in which values and security interplay to shape the European Neighborhood Policy.
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Shakespeare the reviser
Shakespeare as a reviser of others' work is an area of growing scholarly interest. Marina Tarlinskaya draws a formal distinction between editing, revision, and rewriting. The poem A Lover's Complaint serves as an example of revision. Based on linguistic–statistical analysis, Tarlinskaya suggests ...
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Liberal realism
The first comprehensive overview of the resurgence of interest in realist political theory, and a defence of liberal politics in realist terms
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Women in italy 1350–1650
This enlightening book aims to fill the gap in the literature on women's lives from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, a time in which Italian urban societies saw much debate on the nature of women and on their roles, education and behaviour. Indeed these were debates which would ...
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Health, disease and society in europe, 1800–1930
Provides readers with unrivalled access to a comprehensive range of sources on the provision of medical care during the nineteenth centrury
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A vision of battlements
A new edition of Anthony Burgess’s first novel, set in Gibraltar during the Second World War. Loosely based on Virgil’s Aeneid, the book describes the anti-heroic army career of Richard Ennis, a thwarted composer. The introduction and notes describe the publishing history and the autobiographical...
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Spoiling the peace?
Assesses the security threat and political challenges offered by dissident Irish republicanism to the Northern Irish peace process.
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Loud and proud
This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right.
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Agricultural policy in europe
A unique comparative analysis of agricultural policy throughout Europe.
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Rethinking norman italy
This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000–1200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been understood, addressing subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identitie...
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Political responsibility and the european union
This book addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the point of view of political responsibility, going beyond current debates that focus on the 'Democratic deficit'.
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The eu and crisis response
A state-of-the-art consideration of the European Union’s crisis response mechanisms based on comparative fieldwork in a number of cases.
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Beginning postmodernism
This second edition of Beginning postmodernism offers clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects.
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Spilling the beans
Spilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women’s consumption and production are manifest in novelists’ and novels’ accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food.
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Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750–2015
Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions.
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Genteel women
This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food.
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World bank group interactions with environmentalists
This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world’s largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development.
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Marian maternity in late-medieval england
Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts. This results in revisionist readings that consider maternity as a literate pr...
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The bible onscreen in the new millennium
With contributions from major scholars such as Mikel J. Koven and Martin Stollery, and a preface by Adele Reinhartz, this collection looks at the new wave of Biblical adaptations from The Passion of the Christ (2004) onwards, taking a range of theoretical positions.
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Auto/biography and identity
This book looks at how a range of women in the theatre - actors, managers, writers and live artists - have used, and still use, autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth century...
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Aesthetics and subjectivity
Reconsiders the path of German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, in relation to consciousness, aesthetics and language. The book traces the beginning of modern debates on aesthetics and politics, as well as hermeneutics, paying attention to the significance of music in modern philosophy.
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Blackmail, scandal, and revolution
This important study, newly available in paperback, examines the activities, adventures, publications, and influence of the most venomous critics of the late Bourbon monarchy. These were the French exile libellistes who flocked to London to publish scandalous or sexually salacious pamphlets in t...
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The european conservatives and reformists (ecr)
This study argues that the political activities of the ECR ought to be recognised as the main voice for conservatism in Strasbourg promoting 'Anglosphere' free market values and the role of NATO in international relations.
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An ethnography of english football fans
Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation
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Governing the dead
Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity. This volume is a significant contribution to studies of death, power and politics.
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Citizenship, nation, empire
Details contemporary debates about the purpose of history teaching and the influence of late-Victorian and Edwardian educational culture, and goes on to examine how pedagogical developments shaped the content of early-years reading books and textbooks.
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Insular christianity
This focused collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the evolution of post-reformation religious communities within Britain and Ireland.
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Elizabeth wolstenholme elmy and the victorian feminist movement
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian women’s movement.
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Rethinking right-wing women
Rethinking Right-wing Women traces the mobilization of women for the UK Conservative Party from the period before their enfranchisement to Theresa May. As party workers and organisers, MPs and leaders, and as voters, women have been fundamental to the success of the Conservative Party.
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The european union's fight against terrorism
This book presents a discourse analysis of the European Union's counter-terrorism policy and explores the societal effects of the 'fight against terrorism'
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Black resistance to british policing
Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain.
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British art cinema
This is the first book to provide a direct and comprehensive account of British art cinema. It brings together original essays arguing that British filmmakers have a long tradition of experiment and artistry, both within and beyond the mainstream.
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Emilio fernández
This book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernández, (1906-1986), one of Mexico’s and Latin America’s most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernández’ most significant fi...
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My voice: werner conn
Werner'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. Werner Conn spent his early childhood in Berlin and was sent to the UK on the Kindertransport when life became very difficult for Jews...
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Modern movements in european philosophy
In this now classic textbook, Richard Kearney surveys the work of nineteen of this century’s most influential European thinkers, and acts as an introduction to three major movements: phenomenology, critical theory and structuralism.This edition includes a chapter devoted to Julia Kristeva, whose ...
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The clockwork testament or: enderby's end
Semi-autobiographical reflection on the author’s experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971.
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Gas, oil and the irish state
Gas and oil are pivotal to the functioning of modern societies, yet the ownership, control, production and consumption of hydrocarbons often provokes intense disputes with serious ramifications. Gas, oil and the Irish state examines the dynamics and conflicts of state hydrocarbon management and p...
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The feminine public sphere
This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-c...
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German politics today
A comprehensive overview of the structures and influences of politics in Germany, which covers both historical and recent events
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Five irish women
The book offers five interlinked portraits of Irish women artists and political figures: Edna O’Brien, Sinéad O’Connor, Nuala O’Faolain, Bernadette McAliskey and Anne Enright.
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Power and reputation at the court of louis xiii
A study of the impact of power politics on the historical reputation of Charles D’Albert, duc de Luynes, a royal favourite at the court of Louis XIII in early seventeenth-century France
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The becoming of bodies
Thinking through original empirical research, this book explores the relations between girls' bodies and images from a Deleuzian perspective. Holding in suspension models of cause-and-effect and of subject(ivity)/object(ivity) it asks, what do images make possible for the becoming of bodies?
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The scots in early stuart ireland
This book charts key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish experience down to the Restoration and greatly improves understanding of that complex and troubled relationship.
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Engels and the formation of marxism
The paperback release of this classic work.
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Bordering intimacy
Bordering intimacy explores how borders are used to police who can be ‘family’ and how ‘family’ is used to legitimate, justify and naturalise state borders. Family and borders were central to the architecture of European colonialism and imperialism, and they continue to organise the racialisation...
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Epic / everyday
This collection explores the presence within television of the epic and the everyday, with reference to a range of fictional television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, spy dramas, children’s TV and detective shows.
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Beautyscapes
Beautyscapes is the first book to focus specifically on cosmetic surgery tourism. It draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers interested in globalisation and mobility, such as gender and class, neoliberalism, social media, conviviality and care, to explain the nature and growin...
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Houses built on sand
This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues that to understand the events of the uprisings we must look at relations between rulers and ruled along with the strategies used by regimes to exert sovereign power.
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The ethics of war
A new edition of the leading book on this subject that takes a serious account of the most recent developments, with new entries on terrorism and counterterrorism.
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The encyclopedia of british film
The fifth edition of this highly successful reference guide features more than 6,500 articles on the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema.
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Humboldt and the modern german university
This study shows how the Humboldt gave direction to debates around higher education in Germany and investigates the ways in which his ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in different historical contexts and epochs.
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Centre-left parties and the european union
This book investigates how the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party (PS), and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) deal with the European Union (EU).
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Collections xvii
The latest in the Malone Society’s series which prints materials bearing on the study of Renaissance and early modern drama.
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Migration diplomacy in the middle east and north africa
The first major examination of the interplay between migration and foreign policy in the Middle East, this study analyses the ways through which key Arab and non-Arab states instrumentalised cross-border mobility from the mid-1950s until today. Migration diplomacy paints a complex picture of how ...
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The new politics of russia
This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine.
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Chronicles of the investiture contest
The first English translation of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages.
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Empire careers
This book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854-1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influen...
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Women of letters
Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in t...
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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...
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Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare sketches a clear and sobering picture of the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the digitized battlefield, broadening our understanding of critical questions facing decisions-makers today.
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Hincmar of rheims
Brings together the latest international research on a crucial figure for all those interested in early medieval European history in general, and Carolingian history in particular.
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