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Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films (2020)
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Fenwick, J., Foster, K., & Eldridge, D. (Eds.). (2020). Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501351624

Filmmakers and cinema industries across the globe invest more time, money and creative energy in projects and ideas that never get produced than in the movies that actually make it to the screens. Thousands of projects are abandoned in pre-production... Read More about Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films.

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.

The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke (2020)
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Smailes, C. (2020). The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke. London: Red Door Press

From the publisher:
Theodora Quirke has no reason to be merry.

It's bad enough that she has to work on Christmas Eve but now there's a drunk bloke dressed as Santa and claiming to be St Nick hanging around outside her flat. Given he's professing... Read More about The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke.

Heat Acclimation for Special Populations (2020)
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Sunderland, C., Garrett, A. T., Maxwell, N. S., & Périard, J. (Eds.). (2020). Heat Acclimation for Special Populations. Frontiers Media. https://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88966-018-6

This Heat Acclimation for Special Populations' Research Topic questions the ‘one size fits all’ approach for heat adaptation and that it may not be appropriate for all populations. Therefore, to highlight these differences we endeavoured to collect a... Read More about Heat Acclimation for Special Populations.

Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self (2020)
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Whiting, D. (2020). Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54682-3

This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what Hume referred to as 'original existences': feeling states that have no intentional or representational properties of their own. In doing so, the book serves as a valuable counterbalance... Read More about Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self.

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 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.

Governing Britain: Parliament, ministers and our ambiguous constitution (2020)
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Norton, P. (2020). Governing Britain: Parliament, ministers and our ambiguous constitution. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526150240

South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation (2020)
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Chakma, B. (2020). South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation. Bristol University Press

The book traces the origins and evolution of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and explores what it tells us about the dynamics of regionalism in regional international relations. Through the perspectives of neorealism, institution... Read More about South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation.

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.

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.

Rethinking Psychopathology: creative convergences (2020)
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Marková, I. S., & Chen, E. (Eds.). (2020). Rethinking Psychopathology: creative convergences. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43439-7

This book presents an original approach to the study of psychiatry that is based on a justified epistemological position, which demands that both the natural and the human/social sciences are necessary in developing our understanding. Psychiatry as a... Read More about Rethinking Psychopathology: creative convergences.

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.

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.). (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.

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. 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.