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Muscle
Family man Freddie Weston, who supplies bouncers for London clubs, lives by night and on the edge. He is seeking vengeance for a 40-year-old wrongdoing to his family, which means tangling with one of the most dangerous East End villains. And time is running out.
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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...
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The old world, the new world, and the creation of the modern world, 1400–1650
This book provides a unique look at the early years of European discovery and colonization, analyzing the impact of this period on the historical development of both the New and Old Worlds.
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An immigrant nation seeks cohesion
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion' is based on years of studying and teaching Australian politics and an active interest and involvement in immigration and settlement policies since the 1950s. This was a period of mass immigration from Britain and Europe, organised and mainly subsidised by the B...
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Quakernomics
Combining commercial success with philanthropy and social activism, ‘Quakernomics’ offers a compelling model for corporate social responsibility in the modern world.
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Reading song lyrics
Popular song is an art form which reaches far beyond the music itself, and to fully appreciate its impact, the modern critic needs to analyse the elements that we find outside the song as well as those they find within it.
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Britain in india, 1858–1947
‘Britain in India, 1858–1947’ examines the last ninety years of British India, from the establishment of Crown rule after the Mutiny to withdrawal and partition in 1947.
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Lest we lose love
Few are aware that since antiquity, there has always been the philosophy of love at the core of Western culture. It articulates what makes life meaningful and worthwhile, and how we can live a good life together through an ethic of love. This book fills this significant gap, not only reconnecting...
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In the name of security – secrecy, surveillance and journalism
‘In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism’ investigates the effects of the increased number of anti-terror laws, new mass surveillance technologies and a global fear- driven security paradigm have had on in-depth public interest journalism since 11 September 2001 in a number...
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War, genocide and cultural memory
This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.
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Poetry and the idea of progress, 1760–90
‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural, verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human development. That is, the aesthetics of verse ...
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The spectral west
This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrati...
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Resolving land and energy conflicts
Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of ‘Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts’ provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.
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Aesthetics and the cinematic narrative
‘Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative’ examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the conception, creation and reception of cinematic narrative while placing film, as an art form, in a wider historical and aesthetic context.
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The impact of coincidence in modern american, british, and asian history
In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.
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Exploring animal crossing
An exploration of the Animal Crossing virtual world, bringing together insights about law, commerce, psychology, sociology and creativity for scholars and non-specialist readers.
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Memory, place and aboriginal-settler history
Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants’ historical consciousness as a starting point, ‘Memory, Place and Settler‒Aboriginal History’ combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate the multitudi...
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The plight of potential
Drawing on an international body of case studies from leading millennial networks, "The Plight of Potential" shows how millennials can live deeper and more enriching lives by reflecting on the self, placing value on solitude and resisting the feeling that they must constantly connect and share.
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The “slumdog” phenomenon
Featuring a dynamic combination of landmark essays by leading critics and theorists, “The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology” addresses multiple issues relating to “Slumdog Millionaire,” providing new ways of looking at this controversial film.
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Diagnosing the indonesian economy
‘Diagnosing the Indonesian Economy: Toward Inclusive and Green Growth’ analyzes the critical development constraints facing the country, and proposes policy options to help overcome these constraints and set the country on a path of high and sustained inclusive economic growth in the medium term.
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The anthem companion to hannah arendt
The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt describes and appraises Hannah Arendt’s principal works and their bearing on sociology, social thought and the predicaments of modern society.
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Norah hoult’s ‘poor women!’
“Norah Hoult’s ‘Poor Women!'’: A Critical Edition” reintroduces a significant yet critically-neglected 20th-century Irish author. Hoult’s stories capture the restrictions imposed on women by society and its institutions. Often compared to writers such as Sean O’Faolain, Frank O’Connor, Kate O’Bri...
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Social thought and rival claims to the moral ideal of dignity
‘Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity’ deals with the legacy from the classical literature of philosophy and sociology of the theorization of the idea and ideal of dignity, which is explored in the wider context of morality, ethics and the basis of the normative order.
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Karl marx's 'capital': a guide to volumes i–iii
This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
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Australian media and the politics of belonging
Containing contributions by leading scholars, ‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia.
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The anthem companion to pierre bourdieu
'The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologist’s thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives.
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Caste, entrepreneurship and the illusions of tradition
This ethnographic study is an empirical exploration of caste through the story of Indian potters who have transformed caste into a marketable brand in the business of selling sculptures. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and independent artist...
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Theology in the early british and irish gothic, 1764–1834
Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theol...
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African memoirs and cultural representations
In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual, including the dynamic processes of African cultu...
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Colonial australian women poets
This book considers the political and feminist significance of non-canonical women poets, particularly those who were writing in newspapers and periodicals, in colonial Australia.
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Spirituality for the independent thinker
Spirituality for the Independent Thinker is a companion and guide for individualists who resist being told what to think about religion.
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Shifting the spotlight in the law of rape
We need a new law of rape –. One one which puts the focus on the defendant, rather than the victim. Many survivors of rape report that their experience of the criminal courts is that they are on trial. This book argues we need to redefine rape so the focus is on the defendant and his respon...
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Consumer nationalism in china
This book will be the first book that systematically analyzes the different waves of consumer nationalism in China, the types of its nationalistic consumer actions, and the critical impact of the new wave which has increased the possibility of a consumer base that could turn hostile at any moment.
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British encounters with syrian-mesopotamian overland routes to india, 1751-1795
This book argues that eighteenth-century British travel writings about the Arabian Overland Routes to India offered fascinating anecdotes of encounters that allow us to rethink Enlightenment understanding of the meaning of improvement. Travelling among and writing about the inhabitants, governmen...
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Reading robin hood
Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice.
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The sound of difference
The sound of difference examines how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism.
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Screen borders
A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders.
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European erotic romance
European Erotic Romance casts new light on the publication, translation and politicisation of three ancient Greek novels, Daphnis and Chloe, Leukippe and Kleitophon and An Ethiopian Story, and their impact in Renaissance England.
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Keeping the faith
This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene. I...
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Derek jarman
This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema rather than merely being a cult figure within a particular subculture.
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Private property and the fear of social chaos
What do people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and what are their fears about living in a future world where it has disappeared? This book studies the recurring nightmare that various lumpen mobs could demolish private property. That threatened social chaos...
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Framing post-cold war conflicts
This book examines how the media interprets contemporary conflicts and international interventions. It compares British press coverage across six different crises (Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq), examining how conflict is explained and how far Western military intervention...
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The british musical film
"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to use this text as a general resource."Christine Etherington-Wright, Studies in Musical Theatre"Mundy ...
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Britain alone
Ten years after it was initiated, this book provides the definitive account of the 'age of austerity' from high politics to everyday life and how it is permanently altering British society. It shows how scarcity in the name of national survival is intensifying social conflict over who gets what, ...
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American government in ireland, 1790–1913
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America’s foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism
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Africa 2.0
Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies – mobile calling and internet – were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and privatisation that needed to be ...
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Democracy in latin america
This book addresses the nature of "democracy" in contemporary Latin and Central America. It offers insight into the processes and institutions of the different types of political systems and the challenges to them from the Left and popular movements. Lievesley questions how embedded democracy is ...
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Raoul wallenberg
This book tells the story of how a Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary became a symbol after his disappearance in January 1945. A variety of aspects are analysed, including secret diplomacy and representations of Wallenberg on film and television as well as in mon...
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Thomas hood and nineteenth-century poetry
This, the first modern critical study of a lyricist, humorist and social protest poet who was a household name throughout the Victorian period, explores the relationship between Thomas Hood’s playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary...
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Photography and memory in mexico
This study explores a range of photographic images made during the 1910 revolution. Repeatedly reproduced across a range of media in the aftermath of the conflict, the analysis of this select handful of photographs brings to light compelling stories about cultural memory and identity in the twent...
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New frontiers
Examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese colonial subjects from Korea, Taiwan and India, and at Chinese Christians and White Russian refugees.
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Jacopo da varagine's chronicle of the city of genoa
This is the first English translation of Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa. It broadens the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life, providing an engaging introduction to medieval Genoa, civic culture, Dominican composition and the ‘historical Jacopo’.
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Kazuo ishiguro
How Japanese is Ishiguro?What role does memory and unreliability play in his narratives?Why was The Unconsoled (1995) perceived to be such a radical break from the earlier novels?. The first complete study to consider all of Ishiguro's work from A pale view of the hills (1982) to When we were Orp...
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Learning femininity in colonial india, 1820–1932
WINNER of the Anne Bloomfield Triennial book prize awarded by the HES (UK) for best history of education book published between 2014 and 2017This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework t...
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Early medieval militarisation
This volume is the first to study the phenomenon of early medieval militarisation from a wide geographic and disciplinary perspective. It explores the impact of an enhanced role attributed to warfare and the military as characteristic features of a European world in the process of becoming medieval.
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De-centering queer theory
This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.
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Balancing the self
Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume’s wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and profes...
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Negotiating nursing
The mobility of the Second World War, brought on by ‘technological advances in destructive capabilities’ needed new type of medical service. Success meant that expert care was needed near the frontline.
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The case of the initial letter
Tracing the dual alphabet from its intervention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus printers, Edwards shows how Charles Dickens and other nineteenth century writers used the distinction between upper and lower case letters in unconventional ways and in the i...
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No solution
No solution demonstrates the naivety of claims that a solution to the Northern Ireland conflict could have been imposed by the British state two decades before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. While there is a tremendous volume of material written on the Northern Ireland conflict, areas remain whe...
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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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Deirdre madden
This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.
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Community and identity
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and ...
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Robert guédiguian
Considers Guédiguian's career, both as a filmmaker and producer, as a valid response to a crisis in post-Communist Leftist political movements in France
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Tv antiquity
This is the first comprehensive overview of Greek and Roman historical dramas on television. It traces the development of fictional representations of antiquity from the 1950s to the present, exploring how broader cultural, political and economic issues have influenced the representation of antiq...
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Cricket and community in england
Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game.
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Framing narratives of the second world war and occupation in france, 1939–2009
Brings together an internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and films to be studied, and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area.
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Occupational health and social estrangement in china
This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers.
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Elizabeth gaskell
This augmented edition of Patsy Stoneman’s pioneering Elizabeth Gaskell presents the original 1987 text unchanged (apart from bibliographical updating) together with an extensive new ‘Afterword’ surveying Gaskell criticism over the last twenty years.
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The food companions
The introduction of rationing ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and comme...
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British culture after empire
This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of loc...
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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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The art of the observer
A personal perspective on documentary filmmaking, based on the author’s own experiences and reflections on the genre, with a particular emphasis on observational cinema. It includes both practical insights into filmmaking methods and discussions of the intellectual, ethical and emotional challeng...
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Popular television in authoritarian europe
Brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two
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From victory to vichy
Explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans’ associations during the interwar years, the Union fédérale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC).
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Roger ii and the creation of the kingdom of sicily
This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily.
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Imperialism and the development myth
China and other Third World societies cannot 'catch up'. Much of the world’s work has moved to the poor countries, yet – through dominating critical aspects of labour process – a few rich, imperialist countries monopolise the benefits. China and the Third World will remain poor and the vast globa...
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Approaches to popular film
An invaluable introduction to popular film and the way in which it is studied, this book brings together the critical approaches and issues that have sought to define popular film from the 1950s to the present day.
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Hand of the prince
This book enterprises a quest to crack open the secrets of diplomatic knowledge production by building and applying the tools to map, assess, and trace the impact of descriptions of international actors that inform policy.
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A history of british sports medicine
A comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century.
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Identities, discourses and experiences
The 2005 rioting in France’s suburbs caught the world’s attention and exposed the limits of the Republic’s integration policies concerning its ‘immigrant-origin’ populations. This book focuses on one of these groups – the French-born descendants of North African immigrants.
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Sanctuary cities and urban struggles
This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration.
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Photographic subjects
This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80).
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In defence of councillors
By using qualitative research from a number of related projects, the book examines the roles, functions and responsibilities of councillors and the expectations placed upon them by citizens, communities and government.
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The debate on the french revolution
This book surveys a cross-section of historians of the Revolution from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. From liberals to conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists, this books focuses on major figures across the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with t...
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Turning up the heat
The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change.
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Ottonian germany
Translated in its entirety here for the first time, The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire.
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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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Popular television drama
A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama
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Literature and psychoanalysis
Students and lecturers in English and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature
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The open university
This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical a...
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Silvio berlusconi
This book is about one of the most remarkable European politicians of recent decades, Silvio Berlusconi, and about his contribution to the dramatic changes that have overtaken Italian politics since the early 1990s.
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From jack tar to union jack
In this pioneering study, Conley examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy’s long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture.
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The sense of early modern writing
Offers a new and challenging account of the relationships between rhetoric and aesthetics, informed by literature, critical theory and philosophy. Offers readings of familiar and unfamiliar early modern texts by Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson and others that will be of interest to researchers and st...
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Children’s rights in crisis
This book explores the intricacies of contemporary children's rights on a global scale, scrutinizing the challenges they face from a multidisciplinary perspective.
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