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Ten Years of New Labour (2008)
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Beech, M., & Lee, S. (2008). Ten Years of New Labour. Palgrave Macmillan

Drawing upon the expertise of a team of established researchers, Ten Years of New Labour provides a detailed and comprehensive evaluation of the ideas, institutions and policies that shaped the Blair Governments' decade in office. The reader is provi... Read More about Ten Years of New Labour.

Eric Rohmer: Film as theology (2008)
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Tester, K. (2008). Eric Rohmer: Film as theology. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780230582040

Eric Rohmer has been a major figure in French cinema as a critic, writer and director since the 1950s. The films that he has directed and written are well-known for their sense of place, their conversations andmisunderstandings, and their focus on th... Read More about Eric Rohmer: Film as theology.

A Ned Kelly Hymnal (2008)
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(2008). A Ned Kelly Hymnal. Cherry on the Top Press

Chapbook collection of poems.

Shakespeare and his collaborators over the centuries (2008)
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Kolinská, K., Nicholls, M., Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2008). Shakespeare and his collaborators over the centuries. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

An edited volume of essays on the collaborative nature of Shakespeare's works, originating in the eponymous conference held at Masaryk University (Brno, CZ) on February 8-11, 2006.

In Search of Adam (2007)
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Smailes, C. (2007). In Search of Adam. London: HarperCollins Publishers

From the publisher: A taut and beautifully written debut novel by an exciting and accomplished new author. Motherless, rootless and unprotected, Jude Williams' childhood is fractured by the horror and experience of sexual abuse, forcing her to ex... Read More about In Search of Adam.

Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade (2007)
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Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2007). Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade. Routledge

The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence". This boo... Read More about Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade.

Tradition and change in administrative law: An anglo-german comparison (2007)
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Künnecke, M. (2007). Tradition and change in administrative law: An anglo-german comparison. Springer: Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48689-3

Administrative legal systems are based on national constitutional legal traditions and cultural values. English judges have for centuries applied the common law. In Germany, judges have developed administrative legal principles for the protection of... Read More about Tradition and change in administrative law: An anglo-german comparison.

Neo-liberalism, state power and global governance (2007)
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Lee, S., & Mcbride, S. (Eds.). (2007). Neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6220-9

The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring p... Read More about Neo-liberalism, state power and global governance.

Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier (2007)
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Ray, K. (2007). Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier. University of Tennessee Press

During its early years, the frontier region of Middle Tennessee developed from thinly settled outposts to a premier destination for thousands of land-hungry immigrants. The resulting population explosion led to a shift in political power from a small... Read More about Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier.

Place and Native American Indian history and culture (2007)
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Porter, J. (2007). J. Porter (Ed.). Place and Native American Indian history and culture. Bern; Oxford: Peer Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Review «Place remains a native concept rich with political meaning for North American culture as a whole, and for the world as a whole. This volume undertakes a broad and deep exploration of what the sense of place has meant in specific Indian cultu... Read More about Place and Native American Indian history and culture.

'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery (2007)
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Oldfield, J. (2007). 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. Manchester: Manchester University Press

How should we as Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? 'Chords of freedom' sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed int... Read More about 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery.

Theatrum legale mundi: Symbola Cs. Varga oblata (2007)
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H. Szilágyi, I., Könczöl, M., Paksy, M., Takács, P., Tattay, S., & Cserne, P. (2007). Theatrum legale mundi: Symbola Cs. Varga oblata. Budapest: Societas Sancti Stephani

A Festschrift for Professor Csaba Varga with contributions in English, German and French

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811 (2006)
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Ray, K., Looney, J., Perdue, S., Haggard, R., & Lautenschlager, J. (2006). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. Princeton, USA: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv301fsm

Volume Three of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death presents 567 documents covering the period from 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. Jefferson is now firmly ensconced in retirement at Mont... Read More about The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811.

‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Italian language learning and literary imitation in Early Modern England (2006)
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Lawrence, J. (2006). ‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Italian language learning and literary imitation in Early Modern England. Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781847794390

This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. It is the first study to suggest a fundamental connection between langua... Read More about ‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Italian language learning and literary imitation in Early Modern England.

Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition (2006)
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Tyler, C. (2006). Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition. Continuum

The central claim of this book is that previous scholars have not appreciated the depths and complexities of the relationships between British idealist radicalism and the earlier idealist tradition of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Carlyle. Colin Tyler expl... Read More about Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition.