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The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865 (2020)
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Oldfield, J. (2020). The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Monograph on international anti-slavery during the mid-nineteenth century. This ground-breaking book deals with two inter-related themes, opinion-building and transatlanticism, and includes chapters on abolitionist politics, songs, agent and popular... Read More about The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865.

The Impact of Legislatures : A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies (2020)
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Norton, P. (Ed.). (2020). The Impact of Legislatures : A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the mod... Read More about The Impact of Legislatures : A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies.

Mythbusting for Trainee Teachers (2020)
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Glazzard, J., & Stones, S. (2020). Mythbusting for Trainee Teachers. London: SAGE Publications

Teaching and education are awash with myths. This book explores some of them for trainee teachers and asks: - Where does this myth come from? - How do we know that it isn’t true? - Why does it matter that we challenge... Read More about Mythbusting for Trainee Teachers.

Margaret Oliphant (2020)
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Sanders, V. (2020). Margaret Oliphant. Edward Everett Root Publishers

This concise new book provides close readings of both canonical and less familiar novels and articles by the novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828-97). They show how she maintained a spirited dialogue with her age, confronting its ingrained prejudices, wh... Read More about Margaret Oliphant.

Transforming Teacher Education with Mobile Technologies (2020)
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Burden, K., & Naylor, A. (Eds.). (2020). 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.

Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020)
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Burnard, T. (2020). Jamaica in the Age of Revolution. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press)

Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in British America. White Jamaican slaveowners presided over a highly productive economic system, a pr... Read More about Jamaica in the Age of Revolution.

Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered (2020)
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Petrie, D., Williams, M., & Mayne, L. (Eds.). (2020). 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.

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.

Artificial Intelligence in a Throughput Model: Some Major Algorithms (2020)
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Rodgers, W. (2020). Artificial Intelligence in a Throughput Model: Some Major Algorithms. Boca Raton: CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429266065

Physical and behavioral biometric technologies such as fingerprinting, facial recognition, voice identification, etc. have enhanced the level of security substantially in recent years. Governments and corporates have employed these technologies to ac... Read More about Artificial Intelligence in a Throughput Model: Some Major Algorithms.

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/edinburgh/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.

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.

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.

Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit (2019)
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Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2019). Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21317-6

Offers an in-depth discussion of racial and religious hate crime in the UK and also beyond. Focusses on 1945 until present with some additional attention to the 1930s when anti-Semitism was especially prominent in the UK. Devotes particular attenti... Read More about Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit.

The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age (2019)
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Halkon, P. (Ed.). (2019). The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age. Oxford: Oxbow Books

In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses, which became known as the King’s Barro... Read More about The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age.

Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and insight (2019)
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Gale, L., & Ives, B. (Eds.). (2019). Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and insight. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University

The origins of this book lie in a community sports coaching symposium hosted by Cluster for Research into Coaching (CRiC). The event was held at Manchester Metropolitan University in April, 2018 and it sought to share knowledge and insight from scho... Read More about Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and insight.

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.