Forthcoming Books (46)
After the Miners’ Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain
- Paul Farmer
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In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39’s creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change.
- Environmental Studies
- Textbooks and Learning Guides
Biologie de la conservation en Afrique subsaharienne: 2ème édition
- John W. Wilson
- Richard B. Primack
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Ce livre, publié par Open Book Publishers, est disponible gratuitement au format PDF. La décision des auteurs de rendre ce livre en libre accès est remarquable, d’autant plus que cela permet d’attribuer à l’ouvrage une importance majeure dans le domaine de la conservation et de la biodiversité en Afrique et par les africains. Je recommande ce manuel aux étudiants africains, au personnel chargé de la conservation, aux responsables politiques et à toute personne intéressée par la conservation de la nature. La distribution gratuite assure un large lectorat parmi les universitaires, chercheurs et autres professionnels africains de l'environnement. Ce volume offre une rare opportunité d'accès à la recherche sur la biodiversité en Afrique, et les informations fournies peuvent être utilisées non seulement pour améliorer la collaboration intra-africaine en matière de recherche mais également pour renforcer les capacités locales et régionales en matière de recherche sur le continent. Cet ouvrage est actuellement la publication la plus complète sur la conservation en Afrique. Il constitue un point de référence pour les spécialistes de l'environnement, les biologistes de la faune et vie sauvage, les conservateurs et les responsables politiques qui travaillent sur l'environnement ainsi que sur la faune et vie sauvage en Afrique ; il est appelé à devenir un classique.
Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the 19th Century
- Patricia Auspos
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This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples – two British, three American – whose unions defied the conventions of their time and anticipated social changes that were to come in the ensuing century. In all five marriages, both husband and wife enjoyed thriving professional lives: a shocking circumstance at a time when wealthy white married women were not supposed to have careers, and career women were not supposed to marry.Characters in Film and Other Media: Theory, Analysis, Interpretation
- Jens Eder
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Characters are of crucial importance for the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance can hardly be overestimated, but they also raise manifold questions. This book provides a comprehensive theory that guides the analysis and interpretation of characters in four dimensions: as represented beings with physical, psychological, and social characteristics; as artefacts with aesthetic structures; as meaningful symbols; and as symptoms of socio-cultural origins and effects. Integrating insights from film, media, and literary studies as well as philosophy, psychology and sociology, the book offers a variety of means to better understand characters and emotional responses to them.Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
- David Atkinson
- Steve Roud
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This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature.
- Environmental Studies
- Textbooks and Learning Guides
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa: 2nd Edition
- John W. Wilson
- Richard B. Primack
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Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art
- Joanna Page
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In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present.
Digital Transformation: Organisations, Processes, Decisions
- Mathias Cöster
- Mats Danielson
- Love Ekenberg
- Cecilia Gullberg
- Gard Titlestad
- Alf Westelius
- Gunnar Wettergren
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Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island
- Lee Haring
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The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France.
For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group
- Ian Parker
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This book is a collection of lectures written by reputable scholars who offer diverse perspectives on the historical, political and cultural struggles in Palestine. Encompassed in the pages are sixteen chapters produced for the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group. Unlike predecessors of this topic, this book offers a thought-provoking and comprehensive analysis of Palestine, including architectural, cultural, legal, sociological, and psychological questions, providing a larger scope of study that has not yet been done before. Ultimately, this book explores oppression in Palestine and beyond in the Middle East.From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis
- Anne Baillot
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Genetic Inroads into the Art of James Joyce
- Hans Walter Gabler
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This book is a treasure trove comprising core writings from Hans Walter Gabler‘s seminal work on James Joyce, spanning fifty years from the analysis of composition he undertook towards a critical text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through the Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, to Gabler‘s latest essays on (appropriately enough) Joyce’s sustained artistic innovation.Having too Much: Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism
- Ingrid Robeyns
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Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. This concept has deep roots in economic and political thought. One can find similar statements of such limits in thinkers such as Plato, Aquinas, and Spinoza. But Having Too Much is the first time in contemporary political philosophy that limitarianism is explored at length and in detail.
Health Care in the Information Society: From Adventure of Ideas to Programme for Reform
- David Ingram
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In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments.
Human Evolutionary Demography
- Oskar Burger
- Ron Lee
- Rebecca Sear
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Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research for interested readers and researchers in demography, the evolutionary behavioural sciences, biology, and related disciplines.
Il 'Gabinetto Armonico' di Filippo Bonanni
- Cristina Ghirardini
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Nel saggio Il 'Gabinetto Armonico' di Filippo Bonanni, l'organologa ed etnomusicologa italiana Cristina Ghirardini offre una visione senza pari della metodologia di Bonanni. L’idea di fondo dell’autrice, secondo cui il trattato ci consente di storicizzare l'approccio della critica occidentale alla descrizione degli strumenti musicali, e più specificamente della musica dell'"Altro", è supportata dal suo attento esame delle fonti di Bonanni, che rivela una rete di conoscenze sugli strumenti musicali consolidatasi quasi due secoli prima della nascita della moderna organologia.
Learning Statistics with jamovi: A Tutorial for Beginners in Statistical Analysis
- Danielle Navarro
- David Foxcroft
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Based on Danielle Navarro’s widely acclaimed and prize-winning book Learning Statistics with R, this elegantly designed textbook offers undergraduate students a thorough and accessible introduction to jamovi, as well as how to get to grips with statistics and data manipulation.
Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
- Olga Burlyuk
- Ladan Rahbari
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This volume consists of narratives of migrant academics from the Global South within academia in the Global North. The autobiographic and autoethnographic contributions to this collection aim to decolonise the discourse around academic mobility by highlighting experiences of precarity, resilience, care and solidarity in the academic margins.Music and Dances of Central Nepal: Subi Shah’s Works on Pangdure (Maruni) Performance
- Anna Marie Stirr
- Hikmat Khadka
- Lochan Rijal
- Mason Brown
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Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation
- Anna Beresin
- Julia Bishop
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During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed play within the limiting frame of Covid-19.
Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
- Matthew Reynolds
- Andrés Claro
- Annmarie Drury
- Mary Frank
- Paola Gaudio
- Rebecca Ruth Gould
- Jernej Habjan
- Yunte Huang
- Eugenia Kelbert
- Ulrich Timme Kragh
- Abhishek Jain
- Ida Klitgård
- Léa Köves
- Madli Kütt
- Ana Teresa Marques dos Santos
- Cláudia Pazos-Alonso
- Eleni Philippou
- Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
- Céline Sabiron
- Kayvan Tahmasebian
- Giovanni Pietro Vitali
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Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism.
Rāgs Around the Clock: A Handbook for North Indian Classical Music, with Online Recordings in the Khayāl Style
- David Clarke
- Vijay Rajput
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Rāgs Around the Clock is a rich and vibrant compendium for the discovery and study of North Indian classical music. The theory and practice of rāg are explored through two interlinked resources: a handbook of short essays and analyses offering technical, historical, cultural and aesthetic perspectives; and two online albums – Rāg samay cakra and Twilight Rāgs from North India – featuring khayāl singer Vijay Rajput and accompanists.Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field
- Dianne Conrad
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Seabirds in the Noth-East Atlantic: Climate Change Vulnerability and Potential Conservation Actions
- Henry Häkkinen
- Silviu O. Petrovan
- Nigel Taylor
- William J. Sutherland
- Nathalie Pettorelli
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Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné
- Bendi Tso
- Marnyi Gyatso
- Naljor Tsering
- Mark Turin
- Members of the Choné Tibetan Community
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This book contains a unique collection of Tibetan oral narrations and songs known as Shépa, as these have been performed, recorded and shared between generations of Choné Tibetans from Amdo living in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Presented in trilingual format — in Tibetan, Chinese and English — the book reflects a sustained collaboration with and between members of the local community, including narrators, monks, and scholars, calling attention to the diversity inherent in all oral traditions, and the mutability of Shépa in particular.Tener Demasiado: Ensayos Filosóficos sobre el Limitarismo
- Ingrid Robeyns
- Héctor Iñaki Larrínaga Márquez
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'Tener demasiado' es el primer volumen académico dedicado al limitarismo: la idea de que el uso de los recursos económicos o de los ecosistemas no sobrepasen ciertos límites.
The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 2: 1891–1912
- Andrew Hobbs
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Andrew Hobbs’s introduction and footnotes provide background and analysis of these valuable documents. This full scholarly edition offers a wealth of new information about reporting, freelancing, sub-editing, newspaper ownership and publishing, and illuminates aspects of Victorian periodicals and culture extending far beyond provincial newspapers.
The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies
- SJ Beard
- Martin Rees
- Catherine Richards
- Clarissa Rios Rojas
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This innovative and comprehensive collection of essays explores the biggest threats facing humanity in the 21st century; threats that cannot be contained or controlled and that have the potential to bring about human extinction and civilization collapse. Bringing together experts from many disciplines, it provides an accessible survey of what we know about these threats, how we can understand them better, and most importantly what can be done to manage them effectively.
The Last Man who Knew Everything: Thomas Young
- Andrew Robinson
- Martin Rees
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No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773-1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame.
The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 2: On the Eve of Destruction: Essays, 1935-37
- Yankev Leshchinsky
- Robert Brym
- Eli Jany
- Robert Brym
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Ukrainian-born Yankev Leshchinsky (1876-1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of Eastern European Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and “the father of Jewish demography,” Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. Despite heightened interest in interwar Jewish communities in Poland in recent years, these essays (like most of Leshchinsky’s works) have never been translated into English.
The Nordic Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition
- Egil Bakka
- Anne Fiksvik
- Petri Hoppu
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This major new anthology of the minuet in the Nordic countries comprehensively explores the dance as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon. One of the most significant dances in Europe, with a strong symbolic significance in western dance culture and dance scholarship, the minuet has evolved a distinctive pathway in this region, which these rigorous and pioneering essays explore.The Present State of Music in France and Italy
- Robert Fraser
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Robert Fraser follows in the footsteps of the eighteenth-century musicologist Charles Burney (1726-1814) as he travelled across France, Switzerland and Italy in 1770 reporting on the European musical scene.
Thinking Blue / Writing Red: Marxism and the (Post)Human
- Stephen Tumino
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Thinking Blue/Writing Red interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the pandemic (‘Covid’ and ‘Trump Speak’) to high theory (Melville's narratives) and popular culture (Beyoncé's ‘Formation’ and Super Bowl performance, Twin Peaks , metamodern ‘cli-fi’ films).
Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts: Volume 1: Officials and Their Books
- Kathryn M. Rudy
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The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment.
Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness
- Paul Matthews
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Two Priors and a Princess: St Frideswide in Twelfth-Century Oxford
- Andrew Dunning
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Two Priors and a Princess presents a fresh assessment of the manuscript evidence with translations that are easily accessible to non-specialists. It is essential reading for students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as social and religious historians. It will be of particular value to readers interested in medical explanations and mental health in the Middle Ages; in the probative functions and stylistic development of the genres of hagiography and miracle collections; and in the function and definition of the ‘supernatural’ in medieval England.Wisdom and Greatness in one Place: The Alexandrian Trader Moses ben Judah and his Circle
- Dotan Arad
- Esther-Miriam Wagner
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