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Where there's smoke (2014)
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Grubb, P. (2014). Where there's smoke. Fantastic Books Publishing

Crime novel. Commercial fiction

Special advisers: Who they are, what they do and why they matter (2014)
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Yong, B., & Hazell, R. (2014). Special advisers: Who they are, what they do and why they matter. Bloomsbury Publishing

Viewers of The Thick of It will know of special advisers as spin doctors and political careerists. Several well-known ministers have been special advisers, among them David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Jack Straw and Vince Cable. People also know about the... Read More about Special advisers: Who they are, what they do and why they matter.

Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse (2014)
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Clisby, S., & Holdsworth, J. (2014). Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse. Policy Press

© Policy Press 2014. Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women’s mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older... Read More about Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse.

Disraeli Avenue (2014)
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Smailes, C. (2014). Disraeli Avenue. HarperCollins Publishers

From the publisher:
A novella from Caroline Smailes featuring characters from her critically acclaimed debut, In Search of Adam.

The houses on Disraeli Avenue all looked the same, the same shape, the same size but behind each coloured front door... Read More about Disraeli Avenue.

Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject (2014)
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McCahill, M., & Finn, R. L. (2014). Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203069974

Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a major contribution to current debates on the subjective experience of surveillance. Based on a large research project undertaken in a Northern City in the UK and focusing mainly on the use of surveillance in... Read More about Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject.

Inequality and violence: A re-appraisal of man, the state and war (2014)
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Beyer, A. C. (2014). Inequality and violence: A re-appraisal of man, the state and war. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315588452

With Theory of International Politics Kenneth Waltz established Neo-realism as a major school of thought in IR, which still remains a dominant approach within the discipline in the Anglo-American world and beyond. Man, the State and War - his first c... Read More about Inequality and violence: A re-appraisal of man, the state and war.

Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre (2014)
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Clare, J. (2014). Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626934

Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and comp... Read More about Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre.

Theatre, performance and technology: the development and transformation of scenography (2013)
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Baugh, C. (2013). Theatre, performance and technology: the development and transformation of scenography. Palgrave Macmillan

Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performa... Read More about Theatre, performance and technology: the development and transformation of scenography.

Contract law and contract practice: bridging the gap between legal reasoning and commercial expectation (2013)
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Mitchell, C. E. (2013). Contract law and contract practice: bridging the gap between legal reasoning and commercial expectation. Hart Publishing

An oft-repeated assertion within contract law scholarship and cases is that a good contract law (or a good commercial contract law) will meet the needs and expectations of commercial contractors. Despite the prevalence of this statement, relatively l... Read More about Contract law and contract practice: bridging the gap between legal reasoning and commercial expectation.

Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale (2013)
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Kennedy, D. G., & Kennedy, C. (2013). Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale. Liverpool University Press

The introduction to the recent anthology Infinite Difference: Other poetries by UK women poets noted ‘the still dismissive and gendered critical language often used to describe women's poetry'. This is certainly true in the case of British women's ex... Read More about Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale.

Privateering, piracy and British policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830 (2013)
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McCarthy, M. (2013). Privateering, piracy and British policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830. Boydell & Brewer

Private maritime predation was integral to the Spanish American Wars of Independence. When colonists rebelled against Spanish rule in 1810 they deployed privateers - los corsarios insurgentes - to prosecute their revolutionary struggle at sea. Spain... Read More about Privateering, piracy and British policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830.