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National legal systems and globalization: New role, continuing relevance (2013)
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Larouche, P., & Cserne, P. (2013). P. Larouche, & P. Cserne (Eds.). National legal systems and globalization: New role, continuing relevance. The Hague: TMC Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-885-9

This book sheds a new light on the fate of national legal systems in an era of globalization, with a more optimistic message than elsewhere in the literature This book was written by a team of experts in comparative law and law and economics, two per... Read More about National legal systems and globalization: New role, continuing relevance.

Haggis Hunting: fifty years of new playwrighting in Scotland (2013)
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McKean, K. S. M., & McCartney, N. (2013). N. McCartney, & K. S. Morgan McKean (Eds.). Haggis Hunting: fifty years of new playwrighting in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Guest editors Nicola McCartney and K.S Morgan McKean have created a wonderful theatre-based issue of the Review, which tied in beautifully with the Haggis Hunting: 50 Years of New Playwriting in Scotland conference.

Intimacy across visceral and digital performance (2012)
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Chatzichristodoulou, M., & Zerihan, R. (2012). R. Zerihan, & M. Chatzichristodoulou (Eds.). Intimacy across visceral and digital performance. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283337

Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance is an edited collection designed to address a diverse set of critical responses to and practical interrogations of the notion of being intimate in emergent and hybrid performance practices, aiming to e... Read More about Intimacy across visceral and digital performance.

Embodied selves (2012)
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Lennon, K., Arnal, S. G., & Jagger, G. (2012). S. Gonzalez-Arnal, K. Lennon, & G. Jagger (Eds.). Embodied selves. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283696

This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions. Collectively the papers draw attention to... Read More about Embodied selves.

Flammable cities: Urban conflagration and the making of the modern world (2012)
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Bankoff, G., Lübken, U., & Sand, J. (Eds.). (2012). Flammable cities: Urban conflagration and the making of the modern world. Wisconsin, USA: University of Wisconsin Press

In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume, the first truly global study... Read More about Flammable cities: Urban conflagration and the making of the modern world.

Project Governance: Getting Investments Right (2012)
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Williams, T. M., & Samset, K. (Eds.). (2012). Project Governance: Getting Investments Right. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137274618

Provides essential insight into what it takes to turn an initial idea into a project with successful outcome in the long term. Fills a gap in current literature on project management and is thoroughly grounded in the latest research in this field.

Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction (2012)
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Wynne, C. (2012). C. Wynne (Ed.). Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction. Abingdon, Oxon: The University of Hull

Though best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker’s theatrical reviews from Dublin’s Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, sele... Read More about Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction.

The literary North (2012)
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(Ed.). (2012). The literary North. Palgrave

According to George Orwell, the North was 'a strange country'. In a grim, industrial landscape, its working-class inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world permanently caught in the piercing gaze of 1930s realism. Stereotypes of the North have been t... Read More about The literary North.

Roles of the sea in medieval England (2012)
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Gorski, R. (2012). R. Gorski (Ed.). Roles of the sea in medieval England. Martlesham, UK: Boydell Press

England's relationship with the sea in the later middle ages has been unjustly neglected, a gap which this volume seeks to fill. The physical fact of the kingdom's insularity made the seas around England fundamentally important to its development wit... Read More about Roles of the sea in medieval England.

A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries - Vol. 2: From the 1850s to the Early Twenty-First Century (2012)
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Starkey, D., & Heidbrink, I. (Eds.). (2012). A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries - Vol. 2: From the 1850s to the Early Twenty-First Century. Bremen: Hauschild Verlag

The fisheries have hat a profound influence on the development of human societies in the North Atlantic region. Assuming countless forms over the ages, fishing activity has ranged across the vast expanse of an ocean that comprises a myriad of complex... Read More about A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries - Vol. 2: From the 1850s to the Early Twenty-First Century.

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839) (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M., & Walker, G. L. (Eds.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

This book is about Mrs. Hannah More, who had acted as a controversial patron to Ann Yearsley, and had used her own reputation as a poet in support of the abolitionist cause. It is the collaborative effort of Roberts, Bickersteth and Seeley that testi... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839).

Normandy and its neighbours, 900-1250 : essays for David Bates (2011)
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Crouch, D., & Thompson, K. (2011). K. Thompson, & D. Crouch (Eds.). Normandy and its neighbours, 900-1250 : essays for David Bates. Turnhout: Brepols

Fourteen essays in Anglo-Norman and French history presented to David Bates on the occasion of his retirement.

The politics of nuclear weapons in South Asia (2011)
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Chakma, B. (Ed.). (2011). The politics of nuclear weapons in South Asia. Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315554334

© Bhumitra Chakma 2011. All rights reserved. An important and critical re-evaluation of South Asia's post-tests nuclear politics, in contrast to other books, this volume emphasises the political dimension of South Asia's nuclear weapons, explains how... Read More about The politics of nuclear weapons in South Asia.