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A cross-border-only regulation for consumer transactions in the EU : a fresh approach to EU consumer law (2012)
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Twigg-Flesner, C. (2012). A cross-border-only regulation for consumer transactions in the EU : a fresh approach to EU consumer law. Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2047-7

For almost three decades, the European Union (EU) has adopted measures to regulate consumer transactions within the internal market created by the EU Treaties. Existing legislation is largely based on directives harmonizing aspects of national consum... Read More about A cross-border-only regulation for consumer transactions in the EU : a fresh approach to EU consumer law.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 2 Volume 5: Literary Criticism 1887-97 (2012)
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(2012). V. Sanders, J. Shattock, & J. Wilkes (Eds.), The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 2 Volume 5: Literary Criticism 1887-97. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513186

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 2 Volume 5: Literary Criticism 1887-97.

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.

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. 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.

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. 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.

Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives (2012)
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Arya, R. (Ed.). (2012). Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives. Peter Lang Ltd. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0389-6

This collection of essays on Francis Bacon (1909-1992) pays tribute to the legacy, influence and power of his art. The volume widens the relevance of Bacon in the twenty-first century and looks at new ways of thinking about or reframing him. The cont... Read More about Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives.

Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012)
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Kelly, M., & Baker, C. (2012). Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Palgrave Macmillan

Interpreting the Peace is the first full-length study of language support in multinational peace operations. Building peace depends on being able to communicate with belligerents, civilians and forces from other countries. This depends on effective a... Read More about Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Records of girlhood volume two: an anthology of Nineteenth-Century women's childhoods (2012)
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Sanders, V. (2012). Records of girlhood volume two: an anthology of Nineteenth-Century women's childhoods. Routledge

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodg... Read More about Records of girlhood volume two: an anthology of Nineteenth-Century women's childhoods.

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. 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.

Hand exoskeleton robotic systems - Role and deriving the design requirements (2012)
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Iqbal, J. (2012). Hand exoskeleton robotic systems - Role and deriving the design requirements. Lambert Academic Publishing

This book presents an expert’s view of the hand exoskeleton robotic systems. A systematic and thorough analysis of the subject matter helps to identify research lacks in this area. Design of such systems demands careful investigation of the associate... Read More about Hand exoskeleton robotic systems - Role and deriving the design requirements.

Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s (2012)
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Bielby, C. (2012). Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s. Camden House

As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger's 2008 feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany's terrorist period, which reached its height in the "German autumn" of 1977, is still a fascinating -... Read More about Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s.

Panic (2012)
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Tester, K. (2012). Panic. Routledge

Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cu... Read More about Panic.

Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (2012)
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Mottram, S., & Prescott, S. (2012). S. Prescott, & S. Mottram (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Routledge

Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century. T... Read More about Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism.

Drugs (2012)
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Dalgarno, P., & Hammersley, R. (2012). Drugs. Dunedin Academic Press

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.

Legging It (2012)
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Chilvers, A. (2012). Legging It. Bradford: Pennine Prospects

The Pennine Watershed landscape is filled with signs of our need; for power, water, transport, food, stone. The land which seems so wild and remote is actually made and marked by us. These stories look at the interaction between the landscape and the... Read More about Legging It.

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. 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.