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Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency (2015)
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Seymour, J. (2015). A. Hackett, L. Procter, & J. Seymour (Eds.). Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137464989

Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, architecture and geography, and international contributors, this volume offers both students and scholars with an interest in the interdisciplinary study of childhood a rang... Read More about Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency.

The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V Volume 20 - Hester (2015)
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Sanders, V. (2015). V. Sanders (Ed.). The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V Volume 20 - Hester. Routledge

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and mor... Read More about The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V Volume 20 - Hester.

Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance (2015)
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Pearson, R., & Yoneyama, T. (Eds.). (2015). Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198739005.001.0001

Throughout history humans have commonly organized to prevent or mitigate risks, or to compensate for losses caused by risk events. Given the infinite variety of risks that existed, it is unsurprising that insurance—the primary modern risk mitigation... Read More about Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance.

Hayton, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes (2015)
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Woodhouse, H., Millett, M., & Halkon, P. (Eds.). (2015). Hayton, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society

This volume presents the results of fieldwork and artefact research that began in 1993 and continued until 2011. It is the third volume from a long term research programme focussed on East Yorkshire that has also produced two other major publications... Read More about Hayton, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes.

Socially just, radical alternatives for education and youth work practice: Re-imagining ways of working with young people (2015)
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Cooper, C., Gormally, S., & Hughes, G. (Eds.). (2015). Socially just, radical alternatives for education and youth work practice: Re-imagining ways of working with young people. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137393593

Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, a... Read More about Socially just, radical alternatives for education and youth work practice: Re-imagining ways of working with young people.

Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue (2015)
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Blanton, V., O’Mara, V., & Stoop, P. (Eds.). (2015). Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue. Turnhout: Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC-EB.5.108474

The present volume is the second in a series of three integrated publications, the first produced in 2013 as Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue. Like that volume, this collection of essays, focused on various aspects of nuns' lite... Read More about Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue.

Commun(icat)ing bodies: Body as a medium in religious symbol systems (2015)
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Ornella, A. (2015). A. Höpflinger, A. D. Ornella, & S. Knauss (Eds.). Commun(icat)ing bodies: Body as a medium in religious symbol systems. Nomos

As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system of religion. This innovative and ground-breaking volume studies these systems and the role that the bo... Read More about Commun(icat)ing bodies: Body as a medium in religious symbol systems.

Before the Volunteer State: New thoughts on early Tennessee history, 1540-1800 (2015)
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Ray, K. (2015). K. Ray (Ed.). Before the Volunteer State: New thoughts on early Tennessee history, 1540-1800. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press

Most general studies of Tennessee history begin with the arrival of Anglo-American settlers in the 1760s, with only a brief overview of the state’s “prehistory.” This welcome volume rethinks this narrative by placing Tennessee’s origins firmly in the... Read More about Before the Volunteer State: New thoughts on early Tennessee history, 1540-1800.

Focus on festivals: Contemporary European case studies and perspective (2015)
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Bianchini, F. (2015). C. Newbold, C. Maughan, J. Jordan, & F. Bianchini (Eds.). Focus on festivals: Contemporary European case studies and perspective. Goodfellow publishers

This book presents a contemporary overview of our most ubiquitous cultural phenomena - festivals. It is able to do so by taking a powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach. It comes from a hugely expert... Read More about Focus on festivals: Contemporary European case studies and perspective.

The Conservative-Liberal Coalition: Examining the Cameron-Clegg Government (2015)
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Beech, M., & Lee, S. (2015). M. Beech, & S. Lee (Eds.). The Conservative-Liberal Coalition: Examining the Cameron-Clegg Government. Bassingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137461377

This book offers a unique full term analysis of the Cameron-Clegg Government. From austerity to gay marriage, the Scottish referendum to combating IS, it brings together expert academic voices to provide rigorous yet readable insights on the key area... Read More about The Conservative-Liberal Coalition: Examining the Cameron-Clegg Government.

Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 (2014)
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Richardson, D. (2014). D. Richardson, & F. Ribeiro da Silva (Eds.). Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280588

Studies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portuguese-Brazilian traders and other agents and their... Read More about Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867.

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

© Josephine Metcalf and Will Turner and the contributors 2014. 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 musici... Read More about Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player : Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production.

Politics UK (2013)
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Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2013). Politics UK. Routledge