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Blue carbon audit of Orkney waters (2020)
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Porter, J., Austin, W., Burrows, M., Clarke, D., Davies, G., Kamenos, N., …Want, A. (2020). Blue carbon audit of Orkney waters. Aberdeen: Marine Scotland Science. https://doi.org/10.7489/12262-1

In May 2019, the Scottish Government declared a global climate emergency in response to climatic change linked to elevated CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The most obvious effects of climate change include increased atmospheric and sea surface temperat... Read More about Blue carbon audit of Orkney waters.

Uncertainty in teacher education futures: Scenarios, politics and STEM (2018)
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Schuck, S., Aubusson, P., Burden, K., & Brindley, S. (2018). S. Schuck, P. Aubusson, K. Burden, & S. Brindley (Eds.), Uncertainty in teacher education futures: Scenarios, politics and STEM. Springer Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8246-7

This book discusses the use of futures methodologies to examine and critique teacher education and investigate drivers of change in teacher education contexts, providing readers with futures tools that they can use to explore curricula and pedagogies... Read More about Uncertainty in teacher education futures: Scenarios, politics and STEM.

Working-class community in the age of affluence (2017)
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Ramsden, S. (2017). Working-class community in the age of affluence. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462936

It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity. Social investigators documented how the relative aff... Read More about Working-class community in the age of affluence.

The accession of James I: Historical and cultural consequences (2016)
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Burgess, G., Wymer, R., & Lawrence, J. (2016). The accession of James I: Historical and cultural consequences. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501584

This book analyzes the consequences of the accession of James I in 1603 for English and British history, politics, literature and culture. Questioning the extent to which 1603 marked a radical break with the past, the book explores the Scottish, Wels... Read More about The accession of James I: Historical and cultural consequences.

Common good politics: British Idealism and social justice in the contemporary world (2016)
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Tyler, C. (2016). Common good politics: British Idealism and social justice in the contemporary world. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32404-3

© The Editor(s) and The Author(s) 2017. This book examines the British tradition of common good politics, both historically and in the contemporary world. We live in a time when many anti-Conservative parties and voters feel a profound sense of crisi... Read More about Common good politics: British Idealism and social justice in the contemporary world.

Classical Hollywood cinema: Point of view and communication (2015)
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Zborowski, J. (2015). Classical Hollywood cinema: Point of view and communication. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

© James Zborowski 2016. All rights reserved. This book offers a new approach to filmic point of view by combining close analyses informed by the tools of narratology and philosophy with concepts derived from communication studies. Each chapter stages... Read More about Classical Hollywood cinema: Point of view and communication.

Estuarine Ecohydrology: An Introduction (2015)
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Wolanski, E., & Elliott, M. (2016). Estuarine Ecohydrology: An Introduction. (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2013-0-13014-0

© 2016, 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Estuarine Ecohydrology, Second Edition, provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components, the river, the estuarine waters, the sediment, the nutri... Read More about Estuarine Ecohydrology: An Introduction.

The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (2015)
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(2015). R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

© Manchester University Press 2015. All right reserved. This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early moder... Read More about The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

African American culture and society after Rodney King: Provocations and protests, progression and “post-racialism” (2015)
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Metcalf, J., & Spaulding, C. (2015). African American culture and society after Rodney King: Provocations and protests, progression and “post-racialism”. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565989

1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversa... Read More about African American culture and society after Rodney King: Provocations and protests, progression and “post-racialism”.

Victorians on screen: The nineteenth century on British television, 1994-2005 (2014)
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Kleinecke-Bates, I. (2014). Victorians on screen: The nineteenth century on British television, 1994-2005. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316721

© Iris Kleinecke-Bates 2014. All rights reserved. Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British televisi... Read More about Victorians on screen: The nineteenth century on British television, 1994-2005.

Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius (2014)
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Rorato, L. (2014). Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius. Maney Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315095967

© Modern Humanities Research Association and Taylor and Francis 2014. All rights reserved. The idea of writing a book about fictional representations of Caravaggio came to me as far back as 2004 when I was writing a paper on art as inauguration in Pi... Read More about Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius.

Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government (2014)
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Farrelly, M. (2014). Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777948

In this new study, Farrelly gives a critical examination of democracy as it is conceived and practiced in contemporary advanced liberal nations. The received wisdom on democracy is probelmatized through a close analysis of discourse in combination wi... Read More about Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government.

Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player: Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production (2014)
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Metcalf, J., & Turner, W. (2014). Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player: Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603612

This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle th... Read More about Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player: Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production.

The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs (2012)
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Metcalf, J. (2012). The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi. https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781617032813.001.0001

The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles-New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a "shocking and galvanic book"-and set off a... Read More about The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs.

Cultures of desistance: Rehabilitation, reintegration and ethnic minorities (2012)
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Calverley, A. (2012). Cultures of desistance: Rehabilitation, reintegration and ethnic minorities. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203105658

© 2013 Adam Calverley. In contrast to the widespread focus on ethnicity in relation to engagement in offending, the question of whether or not processes associated with desistance – that is the cessation and curtailment of offending behaviour – vary... Read More about Cultures of desistance: Rehabilitation, reintegration and ethnic minorities.