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Climate Governance across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders and Followers (2020)
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Wurzel, R. K., Andersen, . M. S., & Tobin, P. (Eds.). (2021). Climate Governance across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders and Followers. Routledge

This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe. The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders... Read More about Climate Governance across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders and Followers.

Timely Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia Care: Evidence-Based Practice (2020)
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Moniz-Cook, E., & Manthorpe, J. (Eds.). (2020). Timely Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia Care: Evidence-Based Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This new edited volume seeks to meet the growing need for ways to support people with dementia across the whole course and trajectory of dementia care, with a wide scope of expertise. The book addresses how practitioners and carers can apply psych... Read More about Timely Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia Care: Evidence-Based Practice.

Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones (2020)
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Evans, N., & McCarthy, A. (Eds.). (2020). Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

As the British expanded their empire from near colonies such as Ireland to those in remote corners of the world, such as Barbados, Ceylon, North America and Australia, they left a trail of physical remains in every parish where settlement occurred. B... Read More about Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones.

Risk and the Insurance Business in History (2020)
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Pons, J., & Pearson, R. (Eds.). (2020). Risk and the Insurance Business in History. Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE

Definitions of risk and liability vary between cultures, and the boundary between voluntary and involuntary risks is a moveable one that is socially, rather than scientifically, constructed. What is regarded as a normal risk changes not only with tec... Read More about Risk and the Insurance Business in History.

Transforming Teacher Education with Mobile Technologies (2020)
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Burden, K. (2020). A. Naylor (Ed.). Transforming Teacher Education with Mobile Technologies. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350095663

Transforming Teacher Education with Mobile Technologies provides an international, comparative overview of current thinking and research in the field of mobile learning and teaching/teacher education, with case studies from Australia, Germany, Irelan... Read More about Transforming Teacher Education with Mobile Technologies.

Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance (2020)
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Wurzel, R., Liefferink, D., & Torney, D. (Eds.). (2020). Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance. Routledge

Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance focuses on pioneers, leaders and followers as central drivers for international climate change governance innovations. A burgeoning literature has identified pioneers... Read More about Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance.

Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered (2020)
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Petrie, D., Williams, M., & Mayne, L. (Eds.). (in press). Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered. Edinburgh University Press

This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous decade. Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and... Read More about Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered.

Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (2020)
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Baker, C. (Ed.). Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366.../9781474446181.001.0001

This vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of... Read More about Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics.

Hope Walks by Me: Justice & Liberty in the Lands of the Free: Poetry & Prose by Ex-Offenders (2019)
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Litten, R., & Metcalf, J. (Eds.). (2019). Hope Walks by Me: Justice & Liberty in the Lands of the Free: Poetry & Prose by Ex-Offenders. London: Barbican Press

Ex-prisoners in Hull joined together with writer Russ Litten and academic Josephine Metcalf for a series of writing workshops. Hope Walks By Me gathers the fruits of those months – individual poems by men and women, prose pieces, and ‘Group Poems’... Read More about Hope Walks by Me: Justice & Liberty in the Lands of the Free: Poetry & Prose by Ex-Offenders.

Critical policy discourse analysis (2019)
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N. Montesano Montessori, M. Farrelly, & J. Mulderrig (Eds.), (in press). Critical policy discourse analysis

This book provides a series of contemporary and international policy case studies analysed through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and discourse theory. This is the first volume... Read More about Critical policy discourse analysis.

Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre (2019)
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Katritzky, M. A., & Drábek, P. (Eds.). (2019). Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. Its twelve essays compose a complex image of theatre connections as a socially, economically, politicall... Read More about Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre.

Japanese media cultures in Japan and abroad: Transnational consumption of manga, anime, and media-mixes (2019)
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(2019). Japanese media cultures in Japan and abroad: Transnational consumption of manga, anime, and media-mixes. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03921-009-1

Reprinted Special issue of ARTS (2018)

Of essence and context: Between music and philosophy (2019)
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R. Stanevičiūtė, N. Zangwill, & R. Povilionienė (Eds.), (2019). Of essence and context: Between music and philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14471-5

This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing pra... Read More about Of essence and context: Between music and philosophy.

Heritage and Festivals in Europe: Performing Identities (2019)
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(in press). Heritage and Festivals in Europe: Performing Identities

Heritage and Festivals in Europe critically investigates the purpose, reach and effects of heritage festivals. Providing a comprehensive and detailed analysis of comparatively selected aspects of intangible cultural heritage, the volume demonstrates... Read More about Heritage and Festivals in Europe: Performing Identities.

Japón para otakus (2019)
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(2019). Japón para otakus

The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (2018)
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K. Corstorphine, & L. Kremmel (Eds.), (2018). The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97406-4

This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that... Read More about The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature.

The Palgrave Handbook to horror literature (2018)
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K. Corstorphine, & L. Kremmel (Eds.), (2018). The Palgrave Handbook to horror literature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97406-4

This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that... Read More about The Palgrave Handbook to horror literature.

Managing the ageing workforce in the East and West (2018)
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M. Flynn, Y. Li, & A. Chiva (Eds.), (2018). Managing the ageing workforce in the East and West. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781787146389

Managing the Ageing Workforce in the East and the West brings together HRM specialists from both Eastern and Western perspectives in a unique collaboration. Each chapter explores the universal relevance of human resource interventions into extending... Read More about Managing the ageing workforce in the East and West.

Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840 (2018)
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A. M. Fitzer, & A. Culley (Eds.), (2017). Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840

This edited volume is the first to reflect on the theory and practice of editing women’s writing of the 18th century. The list of contributors includes experts on the fiction, drama, poetry, life-writing, diaries and correspondence of familiar and le... Read More about Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840.

Ekphrastic encounters: New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts (2018)
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D. Kennedy, & R. Meek (Eds.), (2018). Ekphrastic encounters: New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally regarded as a form of paragone (competition) between word and image. This interdisciplinary collection of essays see... Read More about Ekphrastic encounters: New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts.