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Reading by right
This book focuses on the importance of reading for pleasure and the difference that it can make to a person’s life chances, with a focus upon how libraries and librarians help reluctant and struggling readers.
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Us public diplomacy in socialist yugoslavia, 1950–70
A fascinating historical account of how and why the U.S. cultural penetration in Yugoslavia became a key feature for the attainment of Washington’s short, middle and long-term policy goals there.
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100 years of european cinema
Cinema provides entertainment, but it also communicates a set of values, a vision of the world or an ideology. European cinema has dealt with the tension between these two functions in a variety of ways. Diverse and entertaining, this book explores the complex relationship between entertainment, ...
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Sound / image
This collection interrogates how sound/image aesthetics can enhance our critical appreciation of television, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.
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The saint bartholomew's day massacre
A new English translation. Looks at the most notorious massacre in early modern European history and rejects most of the established accounts, especially those privileging conspiracy. Based on extensive research and a careful examination of existing interpretations, this is the most authoritative...
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West indian intellectuals in britain
A book of the moment - nothing comparable on the Carribean influence on Britain.. Discusses the influence, amongst others, of C. L. R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V. S. Naipaul.
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The cinema of oliver stone
An insightful study of the master filmmaker's work, enriched by unprecedented access to the director himself.
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The life of mise-en-scène
Offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the postwar period
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Cromwell's major-generals
The first full-scale study of the rule of Cromwell’s major-generals over England and Wales during 1655 and 1656. This is a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the present day. Contains chapters on the three most import...
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The art of record
Documentary is a controversial and important area of media production. The art of record is a fascinating insight into the function of documentary in film and television. Its attempts to depict reality, and to comment on it, have provoked disagreement from the 1920s to the present day. Recent deb...
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United nations peace operations and international relations theory
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of how International Relations theories - liberal, rational choice, feminist, and sociological institutionalism, realism, constructivism, practice theories, critical security studies, and complexity theory - can help us understand UN peace operations.
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Sport and the making of britain
The British love of sport is legendary. In this lively and stimulating book Derek Birley looks at the part it played in shaping British society.The book traces the development of sporting conventions from medieval chivalry to modern notions of sportsmanship and fair play. Particular sports from...
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Contemporary french cinema
This introductory text analyzes 25 years of popular French film including recent developments in all genres. Reflecting French cinema's diversity since the new Wave, chapters include the Heritage film; thrillers; war movies; Cinema-du-Look; representations of sexuality; women film-makers; and oth...
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Queenship in britain 1660–1837
Queenship in Britain 1660–1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book br...
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'the tempest' in context
How did the court audience of 1611 respond to this unusual play? Situating ‘The Tempest’ in its time, this guide explains the Christian ethics, contemporary political scene, literary atmosphere and requirements of tragi-comedy that inform the background of this magical and mysterious play.
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The transformation of capacity in international development
"The Transformation of Capacity in International Development” exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approa...
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Surgical simulation
This book provides an overview of the current status of simulation in various surgical disciplines and explains the science of surgical education.
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Csr and sustainability
CSR and Sustainability promotes the need for social responsibility and sustainability and highlights their link with the big issues of society. It shows how science and positive thinking by humankind can prevent oft-vouched disasters due to human rights violation, global warming, growing income i...
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Linked data for libraries, archives and museums
This highly practical handbook teaches you how to unlock the value of your existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linking and how to streamline the process of new metadata creation.
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Supranational citizenship
Offers a new theory of citizenship applicable beyond the nation-state. It brings political and moral philosophy together with current debates in citizenship, European integration, and international relations.
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Living with poverty and dependence in england
This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods.
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The academic teaching librarian's handbook
The Academic Teaching Librarian’s Handbook is a comprehensive resource on teaching and professional development for information professionals and instructors at all career stages. It explores the current landscape of teaching librarianship, and highlights and discusses the important developments,...
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Formations
Formations is a comprehensive textbook designed for students moving to a deeper engagement with the media studies. The original essays are organized around the broad themes of public knowledge, cultural identity, broadcasting, film, and pop tech. An introductory section explores the fundament...
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Christian responses to islam
This is the only book currently on the market that attempts to construct a global perspective of Christian-Muslim interaction in a post-9/11 world.
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The transatlantic reconsidered
The Atlantic community seems to be in crisis and it is time to critically rethink past narratives and traditional frameworks of transatlantic relations. Exploring the historiography and legacies of the Atlantic World, contributors open up new, transnational, and global perspectives, helping us to...
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Library services from birth to five
Practical guidance on setting up and running pre-school library services and understanding about early language and literacy development.
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Hollywood hype and audiences
A fascinating multi-dimensional investigation of popular film as a commercial, cultural and social phenomenon, focusing on well known and controversial films, and on important - and marketable - issues such as sex and violence. Traces the circulation in Britain of three Hollywood films – Basic In...
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Mexican muralist, international marxist
This book interprets the later murals of the Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros in light of his Marxist internationalism.
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Beckett's afterlives
Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett’s ...
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Foundations of natural gas price formation
‘Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation’ analyzes market pricing for natural gas as a unique and controversially priced commodity. Natural gas is a critical foundational fuel that will not be supplemented by renewables for many years. Sergei Komlev explains why and how correct market price si...
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Good hope
When Cape Town is chosen for the World G8 Summit on AIDS, Scimitar – a militant Islamic cell based on the tip of Africa – plans to raze the hotel where the world’s leaders are scheduled to gather for their final press conference. The National Intelligence Agency’s best officers, Tau Molepe and Ge...
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Angus & robertson and the british trade in australian books, 1930–1970
This volume details the history of Australia’s oldest and most nationally iconic publishing firm, Angus & Robertson, and its long-term investment in establishing and maintaining a viable commercial arm in London from 1930 to 1970.
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Inside australian culture
‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors...
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Rent from the land
'Rent from the Land' examines the effects of the massive political and economic changes of postsocialism on rural society and environment in Albania.
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Mabo’s cultural legacy
This book examines the broader impacts on Australian culture and cultural practice of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992. It considers how history, linguistics and anthropology as well as film, fiction, poetry and memoir writing have been challenged or transformed by Mabo.
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The anthem guide to short fiction
Containing 20 classic short stories by renowned authors, ‘The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction’ has been designed to offer students and instructors both inspiration and guidance when thinking critically about literary texts and their construction.
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Caring for someone with a long-term illness
This is the first book in the Support for Friends and Family series. Aiming to help friends, family and carers to understand both the practical and personal issues that can arise from the task of caring, this book provides useful suggestions on ways to make the experience easier for the carer and...
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The uneven path of british liberalism
A historical study of the development of British Liberalism within the Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats, from 1956 to 2016.
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The right formula
In the corner of a Manchester laboratory in 2004, two scientists stumbled on a major discovery while pulling pieces of Sellotape apart - graphene. This is the story of those scientists, Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev, their eureka moment, subsequent Nobel Prizes and investigation into...
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Trevor griffiths
In his outstanding career, Trevor Griffiths has negotiated the issues of genre, politics, identity, class, history, memory and televisual form with a sustained creativity and integrity second to none.
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Absence and ruin in hanaa malallah's 'the god marduk'
Conceived as an object biography, this book contextualizes Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s art book The God Marduk (2008) and investigates her use of the ancient past as a conduit for aesthetic and emotive expression offering an in-depth analysis through the methodology of phenomenology.
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Éirinn & iran go brách
Approaching Irish nationalism through the historical lens of “Iran,” this book investigates patterns of Irish nationalist self-configuration and uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia by means of worlding Ireland from the late eighteenth century until Ireland’s partition and the f...
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The free speech wars
This book is a timely intervention into the apparently growing culture wars around free speech as a political and social issue. These debates take form on university campuses, social media, mainstream press and elsewhere. The book will focus on the weaponisation of the concept in these areas, as ...
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How america was tricked on tax policy
How America was Tricked on Tax Policy explains how regular citizens were “tricked” by the outdated view of economists that much heavier taxation of labor rather than capital is economically justifiable. The truth is that workers pay their taxes while the rich pay very little. Based on reputable s...
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Blood on the stone
'Blood on the Stone' is a gripping account of the cartel, warlords, gun runners and shadowy traders who populated Africa’s bloody diamond wars, and the faltering, decade-long effort to clean up an entire industry.
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The anthem companion to thorstein veblen
“The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen” offers a collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field of Veblen studies. Contributions span a wide range of Veblen’s concerns, with a special emphasis on Veblen’s significance for contemporary debates about epistemology, social evolutio...
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Churchill, eden and indo-china, 1951-1955
'Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955' provides a historical analysis of the administrations of Churchill and Eden, focusing on the broad international context of decolonized Indo-China.
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Sophisticated interdependence in climate policy
With the US as the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw, “Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy” offers a unique combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive federal–state partnership for climate...
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The anthem companion to talcott parsons
The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons offers the best contemporary work on Talcott Parsons, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Parsons’s students and scholars alike.
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Invented history, fabricated power
This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presente...
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The anthem companion to alexis de tocqueville
‘The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville’ contains original interpretations of Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. Each chapter compares Tocqueville’s ideas on a given subject with those of other...
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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...
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Religion and rights
In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence.
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On reading the history of philosophy
An exploration of the value of the history of philosophy as a reading practice—that is, as a practice through which words from a philosophical past can give rise to wonder, can alienate, can lead to transformational breakthroughs or can animate a will to create anew.
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Colonialism as civilizing mission
A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia.
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Cosmopolitan dystopia
Cosmopolitan Dystopia evaluates cosmopolitan liberalism and shows In their effort to avoid the terrible fate of twentieth century utopias, cosmopolitan liberals have nonetheless created a new global dystopia of permanent war and authoritarian power embodied in ‘sovereignty as responsibility’.
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Picturing shakespeare
This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare’s texts – obviously destined for stage performances – to generate mental images and mental colours. Jean-Louis Claret, both a Shakespeare professor at Aix-Marseille University and an illustrator, proposes to shed light on the process that leads ...
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The anthem companion to alfred schutz
This book examines various concepts in Schutz’s philosophical theory and considers issues in theory of knowledge, social science, and the theory of society.
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The city as fulcrum of global sustainability
This book finds short- and long-term solutions to twenty-first century global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for introducing sustainability around the world.
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Basics of nonlinearities in mathematical sciences
This book is primarily an attempt to familiarize the reader with nonlinear systems, in particular qualitative characteristics in a variety of systems amenable to mathematization. Differential equations form the bulk of the book, while the basics of nonlinearities are presented through theorems an...
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Anthropology after gluckman
This book places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but also the force of creative difference in the ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and travelling theories of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman.
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Contemporary black urban music
The examination of CBUM/Hip-Hop as a global-force factors highly in this course. A wide range of topics will be presented to the student in preparation for written essays, philosophical flexibility and assessment.
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The invisible flâneuse?
This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France – painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters – resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ...
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Negotiating cultures
Eugenio Barba is one of the world's leading theatre artists and theorists working across cultures. Examines three major strands of Barba's work; his research at the International School of Theatre Anthropology, his use of performance as a means of exchange, and his ongoing relationship with Latin...
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Political corruption in ireland 1922–2010
The only scholarly account of Irish corruption from 1922-2010. It empirically maps the decline in standards since Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of economic sovereignty in 2010.
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Microtravel
This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’, a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with trav...
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South american perspectives on cultural diversity
This book delves into the evolution of cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It highlights the struggles of marginalized groups for equality and explores how these policies challenge the monocultural narratives imposed by nation-states over the last 15 years.
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Men in reserve
Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials.
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Chinese tv in the netflix era
Subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) services are available on many online video-streaming platforms (VSPs) in China, such as iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video, backed by Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent groups (BAT), respectively. The video content on these platforms can be the same shows as those broadca...
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The blunt affair
The Blunt Affair examines a range of literary and filmic texts on the Cambridge spies and related topics – including British intelligence’s betrayal of Alan Turing, the Profumo Affair and the Portland spy case – in the context of the culture and politics of the late Cold War.
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Gothic television
This book is the first in-depth study of the Gothic on television. It defines and explores key instances of the genre across the history of television drama in the UK and US. The book builds a strong argument for the fact that the Gothic, in its various guises, is well-suited to television as a d...
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Dreams and atrocity
This volume examines the relationship between oneiric and historical episodes of atrocity in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, film, literature and theatre. Examining the political and aesthetic power harnessed by dreams in dark times, it takes as its subject the significance granted to th...
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Shakespeare and the supernatural
This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches.
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Destination europe
"Destination Europe" interprets and interrelates the major political, economic and security developments in Europe--including transatlantic relations--from the end of World War II up until the present time, and looks ahead to how the continent may evolve politically in the future.
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Juke box britain
Presents a highly original and detailed investigation into the nature of American visual, musical and cultural influences on British youth between 1945 and 1960. It looks at the spread of youth culture, juke boxes, coffee and milk bars, dress styles and rock ‘n’ roll and the context of these ‘new...
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The debate on the decline of spain
Looks at when, why and how Spain declined in status from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century, examining the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse and how historians’ perceptions have been influenced by time and circumstance.
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Women and museums, 1850–1914
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of ...
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Developing africa
Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule
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Planning and implementing electronic records management
Many organizations are moving away from managing records and information in paper form to setting up electronic records management (ERM) systems. Whatever the whyfor in your organization, this book provides straightforward, practical guidance on how to prepare for and enable ERM.
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The debate on the english revolution
Analyses the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain the causes, course and consequences of the English Revolution
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Small states in world politics
This book focuses on the state level analysing factors that determine small state survival and proliferation. It demonstrates theoretically, quantitatively, and historically that small state survival depends first-and-foremost on the structure and particular features of the states system in which...
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Cameron
This book uses the themes of modernisation and manipulation to provide a new and distinctive analysis of the political strategy of Prime Minister David Cameron. It explores the key issues – coalition, electoral reform, Scottish independence, the Big Society, austerity and Brexit – that defined hi...
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Folk horror on film
This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The chapters consider the artistic styles, historical contexts, cultural tensions and cinematic fears that distinguish folk horror from other forms of horror and from traditional ways of vi...
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The crisis of british protestantism
Focuses on the pivotal years of 1638–44 where debates around non-conformity within the Church of England morphed into a revolution between Parliament and its king
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Songs of protest, songs of love
The book explores the identity of British agricultural labourers during a time of crisis for the British countryside. It looks at how they expressed grievances and celebrated their sexuality and way of life through songs
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Approaching the bible in medieval england
Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England.
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The debate on black civil rights in america
This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day.
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Ireland under austerity
A radical look at the Irish austerity measures and the attempts to prop up business and the banks at the expense of ordinary citizens, left to bear the brunt of conditions they did not cause. Many of these contributors predicted Ireland's rapid cyle of boom and bust, even at the height of the Cel...
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An anatomy of the financial crisis
How did the US financial crisis snowball into USD 15 trillion global losses? This book offers a clear synthesis and original analysis of the various factors that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010, and is intended as a supplementary course text for undergraduate and postgraduate students in...
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International lgbtq+ literature for children and young adults
This edited collection investigates LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, including picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) ...
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The metahistory of western knowledge in the modern era
The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era –from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods to address them develop in a coordinated mann...
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The violent person at work
In The Violent Person @ Work, Laurence Barton, the world’s leading threat assessor, outlines how to prevent, manage, and mitigate persons who may pose a threat to an organization’s people and other assets. theviolentperson.com
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Cities, climate change, and public health
This book examines how cities can use a public health frame of climate change to boost people’s understanding of and concern about climate change and increase policy support for climate adaptation efforts at the local level. It also presents new tools for cities to enhance awareness of and facili...
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William blake as natural philosopher, 1788-1795
William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake’s wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing.
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British women missionaries in bengal, 1793–1861
‘British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861’ looks at the role and contributions of the early British women missionaries in Bengal, in eastern India, between 1793 and 1861. It traces the role of and challenges faced by women missionaries from Hannah Marshman to Hannah Mullens in the context ...
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Developing strategic marketing plans that really work
Many government and other reports stress the need to get public libraries back into the lives of potential users, and this requires significant marketing effort on the part of the libraries. This book de-mystifies the marketing planning process and sets it in the context of modern public library ...
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Passage works
The first English-language book on the work of Viennese artist, film-maker, and writer Ruth Beckermann., addressing all Beckermann’s major works and offering innovative critical readings.
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The blair identity
Why did Tony Blair take Britain to war with Iraq? This book argues that he was following the core political beliefs and style - the Blair identity - manifest and consistent throughout his decade in power. It reconstructs Blair's wars, tracing his personal influence on British foreign policy and i...
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The insider's secrets to getting your school leadership job
What separates The Insider’s Secrets to Getting Your School Leadership Job from other books on this topic is that the author is the ultimate insider. Dr. Laurence Aronstein knows how the hiring process works from the inside. He vividly and simply de-mystifies the inner dynamics of the job search ...
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