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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.

Keidrych Rhys: The van pool: Collected poems (2012)
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Mundye, C. (2012). Keidrych Rhys: The van pool: Collected poems. Seren Books

This is a scholarly edition of the collected poems of Keidrych Rhys, the Anglo-Welsh modernist poet. It includes an Introduction by Charles Mundye of 8860 words and scholarly apparatus of 8,000 words.

Cultures of desistance: Rehabilitation, reintegration and ethnic minorities (2012)
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Calverley, A. (2012). Cultures of desistance: Rehabilitation, reintegration and ethnic minorities. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203105658

© 2013 Adam Calverley. In contrast to the widespread focus on ethnicity in relation to engagement in offending, the question of whether or not processes associated with desistance – that is the cessation and curtailment of offending behaviour – vary... Read More about Cultures of desistance: Rehabilitation, reintegration and ethnic minorities.

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.

Land and Spirit in Native America (2012)
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Porter, J. (2012). Land and Spirit in Native America. Bloomsbury Publishing

This book accurately depicts Native American approaches to land and spirituality through an interdisciplinary examination of Indian philosophy, history, and literature.

Indian approaches to land and spirituality are neither simple nor monolithic,... Read More about Land and Spirit in Native America.

The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere (2012)
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Kennedy, D. (2012). The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere. Routledge

Examining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than represen... Read More about The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere.

Freaks! (2012)
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Perring, N., & Smailes, C. (2012). Freaks!. HarperCollins Publishers

From the publisher:
The weirdest stories you will ever read.

A bizarre collection of short stories, each featuring a character with an unusual superpower.

Meet The Photocopier, a woman who can reproduce herself at will and who attempts to teac... Read More about Freaks!.

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. Boydell & Brewer

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.

99 Reasons Why (2012)
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Smailes, C. (2012). 99 Reasons Why. London: HarperCollins Publishers

From the publisher:
From the brilliant author of ‘Black Boxes’ comes a gritty and heartfelt novella with a twist: 99 Reasons, 11 endings, your pick.

Kate isn’t like other 22 year olds. She’s got a job to do for her Uncle Phil. Each day, she spies... Read More about 99 Reasons Why.

A Confusion of Tongues: Britain's Wars of Reformation, 1625-1642 (2012)
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Prior, C. W. (2012). A Confusion of Tongues: Britain's Wars of Reformation, 1625-1642. The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199698257.001.0001

A Confusion of Tongues examines the complex interaction of religion, history, and law in the period before the outbreak of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It questions interpretations of that conflict that emphasise either the purely doctrinal roots... Read More about A Confusion of Tongues: Britain's Wars of Reformation, 1625-1642.

Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war decolonization, 1945-1973 (2012)
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Smith, S. C. (2012). Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war decolonization, 1945-1973. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203143728

This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into bot... Read More about Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war decolonization, 1945-1973.