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Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002 (2022)
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Pearson, R. (2022). Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002. Champaign Illinois: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94088-1

Rapid structural change resulting from system collapse is less common in insurance than in the history of other financial institutions. One exception was the crisis at the Lloyd’s insurance market in the late twentieth century. Hitherto, explanations... Read More about Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002.

Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948 (2022)
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Johnston, H., Godfrey, B., & Cox, D. J. (2022). Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948. Montreal; London: McGill-Queen's University Press

Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study to examine the convict prison system that housed all those sentenced to penal servitude during this time. The research details the administration and evolution of the system, from its creation in the 1... Read More about Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948.

Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery (2022)
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Byrne, J. (2022). Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery. Liverpool University Press

Beyond Trawlertown takes a journey through the British distant-water fishery and its port-city connections in an era of disruption. In 1976, defeat in the Anglo-Icelandic Cod Wars saw the British trawling fleet excluded from their traditional hunting... Read More about Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery.

Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe (2021)
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Knudsen, B. T., Oldfield, J., Buettner, E., & Zabunyan, E. (Eds.). (2021). Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100102

Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Euro... Read More about Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe.

A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime (2021)
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O’Leary, N. (2021). A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87679-1

Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map. For politicians, newspapers, the media and the public at large, criminal injury and loss are a source of constant concern and anxiety. Criminologists and media analysts have... Read More about A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime.

Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing (2021)
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(2021). J. Shattock, J. Wilkes, K. Newey, & V. Sanders (Eds.), Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003199861

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume I of four explores the subjects of life-writing, including biography, autobiography, diaries and letters. This volume will be of gre... Read More about Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing.

Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice (2021)
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Ives, B., Potrac, P., Gale, L., & Nelson, L. (Eds.). (2021). Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159063

In many Western nations, community sport coaches occupy a central role in supporting the physical health, mental wellbeing, and wider social development of individuals and communities. However, there is no existing academic textbook that examines the... Read More about Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice.

Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism : Liberalism, Culture and Coercion (2021)
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Cohen-Almagor, R. (2021). Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism : Liberalism, Culture and Coercion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567213

In Just Reasonable, Multiculturalism, Cohen-Almagor develops a comprehensive theory that tackles three major attacks on multiculturalism: that it is bad for democracy, that it is bad for women, and that it promotes terrorism, aiming to show that libe... Read More about Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism : Liberalism, Culture and Coercion.

Dyslexia (2021)
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Glazzard, J., & Stones, S. (Eds.). (2021). Dyslexia. London: IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91069

This book includes a variety of perspectives on dyslexia from different contexts. Chapters provide examples of empirical research; the outcomes of which have the potential to improve the experiences of individuals with dyslexia. The book emphasises t... Read More about Dyslexia.

Evidence Based Primary Teaching (2021)
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Glazzard, J., & Stones, S. (2021). Evidence Based Primary Teaching. London: SAGE Publications

New teachers need to know that the strategies they are implementing are underpinned by robust research evidence. This book gives trainee teachers key knowledge, supports them to develop critical thinking skills, and helps them understand some of the... Read More about Evidence Based Primary Teaching.

Immune Responses to Persistent or Recurrent Antigens: Implications for Immunological Memory and Immunotherapy (2021)
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Pera, A., & Caserta, S. (Eds.). (2021). Immune Responses to Persistent or Recurrent Antigens: Implications for Immunological Memory and Immunotherapy. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. https://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88966-718-5

Immunological memory is considered the hallmark of the adaptive immune response, which is essential for long-term protection against infection throughout life. From the perspective of adaptive immunity, clonally expanded antigen-specific lymphocytes... Read More about Immune Responses to Persistent or Recurrent Antigens: Implications for Immunological Memory and Immunotherapy.

Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (2021)
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Porter, J. (2021). Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett. Bloomsbury Press

This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank "Toronto" Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI. Joy Porter sheds new light on how the First World War affected the Canadian poet, and... Read More about Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett.

This New North (2021)
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Bradley, S., & Chilvers, A. (Eds.). (2021). This New North. Scarborough: Valley Press

Produced by members of the Northern Short Story Festival Academy, this new anthology showcasing the range of talent in the North of England features work by Litro fiction editor Barney Walsh, author & critic Richard Smyth, and poet and academic Halee... Read More about This New North.

Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men (2021)
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Nichols, H. (2021). Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429323850

Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men explores how adult male prisoners interpret and give value to their experiences of education, presenting an opportunity to consider how education can be beneficial to prisoners including and... Read More about Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men.

Geographies of Food: An Introduction (2021)
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Kneafsey, M., Maye, D., Holloway, L., & Goodman, M. (2021). Geographies of Food: An Introduction. Bloomsbury Publishing

What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between foo... Read More about Geographies of Food: An Introduction.