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Forthcoming Books (37)

After the Miners’ Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain - cover image

    After the Miners’ Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain

    • Paul Farmer
    FORTHCOMING
    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.
    A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice - cover image
    Biologie de la conservation en Afrique subsaharienne: 2ème édition - cover image
    • Environmental Studies
    • Textbooks and Learning Guides

    Biologie de la conservation en Afrique subsaharienne: 2ème édition

    • John W. Wilson
    • Richard B. Primack
    FORTHCOMING
    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.
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      Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the 19th Century

      • Patricia Auspos
      FORTHCOMING
      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.
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        Characters in Film and Other Media: Theory, Analysis, Interpretation

        • Jens Eder
        FORTHCOMING
        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.
        Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa: 2nd Edition - cover image
        • Environmental Studies
        • Textbooks and Learning Guides

        Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa: 2nd Edition

        • John W. Wilson
        • Richard B. Primack
        FORTHCOMING
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        Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence - cover image

          Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence

          • Montserrat Gomendio
          • José Ignacio Wert
          FORTHCOMING
          Responding to an ‘educational emergency’ generated largely by the difficulties of implementing education reforms, this book compares education policies around the world in order to understand what works where. To address the key question of why education reforms are so difficult, the authors take into account a broad range of relevant factors, such as governance, ideology, and stakeholder conflicts of interest, and their interactions with one another. Drawing on their experiences as policymakers in the Spanish government and as governmental advisors worldwide, Montserrat Gomendio and Jose Ignacio Wert produce a publication like no other, shifting the usual Eurocentric narrative and shedding light on frequently overlooked educational policies from elsewhere. In this context, they dive deeper into details of educational failures and successes, the processes of implementation and investment priorities in different countries. They provide revealing accounts of stakeholder conflicts of interest and the challenges of implementing educational reform during a financial crisis. The authors also investigate why the evidence from international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) has, contrary to expectation, not generated improvements in most education systems. Gomendio and Wert investigate the evolution of different education systems, closely examining their advances or declines. Gomendio and Wert’s expert voices illuminate the current state of global education systems and the necessary changes to ensure long-awaited improvements. This is a revelatory and informative resource for policymakers, teachers and academics alike.
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            Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island

            • Lee Haring
            FORTHCOMING
            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.
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              Genetic Inroads into the Art of James Joyce

              • Hans-Walter Gabler
              FORTHCOMING
              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.
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                Health and Care in the Information Society: From Adventure of Ideas to Programme for Reform

                • David Ingram
                FORTHCOMING
                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.
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                  Hexapla Hebrew

                  • Benjamin Kantor
                  FORTHCOMING
                  Human Evolutionary Demography - cover image

                    Human Evolutionary Demography

                    • Oskar Burger
                    • Ron Lee
                    • Rebecca Sear
                    FORTHCOMING
                    Il 'Gabinetto Armonico' di Filippo Bonanni - cover image

                      Il 'Gabinetto Armonico' di Filippo Bonanni

                      • Cristina Ghirardini
                      FORTHCOMING
                      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.
                      Introduction to Systems Biology: Handout for Flipped-classroom Teaching - cover image

                        Introduction to Systems Biology: Handout for Flipped-classroom Teaching

                        • Thomas Sauter
                        • Marco Albrecht
                        FORTHCOMING
                        This book is an introduction to the language of systems biology, which is spoken among many disciplines, from biology to engineering. Authors Thomas Sauter and Marco Albrecht draw on a multidisciplinary background and evidence-based learning to facilitate the understanding of biochemical networks, metabolic modeling and system dynamics.
                        Learning Statistics with jamovi: A Tutorial for Beginners in Statistical Analysis - cover image

                          Learning Statistics with jamovi: A Tutorial for Beginners in Statistical Analysis

                          • Danielle Navarro
                          • David Foxcroft
                          FORTHCOMING
                          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 - cover image
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                            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 - cover image

                              Play in a COVID Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation

                              • Anna Beresin
                              • Julia Bishop
                              FORTHCOMING
                              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 - cover image

                                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
                                FORTHCOMING
                                Rāgs Around the Clock: A Handbook for North Indian Classical Music, with Online Recordings in the Khayāl Style - cover image

                                  Rāgs Around the Clock: A Handbook for North Indian Classical Music, with Online Recordings in the Khayāl Style

                                  • David Clarke
                                  • Vijay Rajput
                                  FORTHCOMING
                                  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.
                                  Reshaping Food Systems to improve Nutrition and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region - cover image
                                  Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné - cover image

                                    Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné

                                    • Bendi Tso
                                    • Marnyi Gyatso
                                    • Naljor Tsering
                                    • Mark Turin
                                    • Members of the Choné Tibetan Community
                                    FORTHCOMING
                                    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.
                                    Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children - cover image

                                      Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children

                                      • Philip Graham
                                      FORTHCOMING
                                      This revised and expanded edition of Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children by Philip Graham, provides a comprehensive biography of a highly influential educationist and psychoanalyst. The book covers Isaacs’ childhood through to the end of her life, making it of great interest to historians of British education and of psychoanalysis as well as to practicing early years teachers and psychoanalysts.
                                      The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 2: 1891–1912 - cover image

                                        The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 2: 1891–1912

                                        • Andrew Hobbs
                                        FORTHCOMING
                                        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 - cover image

                                          The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies

                                          • SJ Beard
                                          • Martin Rees
                                          • Catherine Richards
                                          • Clarissa Rios Rojas
                                          FORTHCOMING
                                          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 European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000 - cover image

                                            The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000

                                            • Jan Hansen
                                            • Jochen Hung
                                            • Jaroslav Ira
                                            • Judit Klement
                                            • Sylvain Lesage
                                            • Juan Luis Simal
                                            • Andrew Tompkins
                                            FORTHCOMING
                                            The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000.
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                                              The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of the Hebrew Bible

                                              • Aaron D. Hornkohl
                                              FORTHCOMING
                                              This volume explores an underappreciated feature of the Tiberian Masoretic Biblical tradition, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition’s written (consonantal) and reading (vocalic) components, the study shows that, though related, interdependent, and largely in harmony, the Tiberian spelling and pronunciation traditions at numerous points reflect distinct oral realisations of the biblical text.
                                              The Nordic Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition - cover image

                                                The Nordic Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition

                                                • Egil Bakka
                                                • Anne Fiksvik
                                                • Petri Hoppu
                                                FORTHCOMING
                                                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 Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition - cover image

                                                  The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition

                                                  • Edward Pettit
                                                  FORTHCOMING
                                                  This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Elder Edda or Poetic Edda.
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                                                    The Present State of Music in France and Italy

                                                    • Robert Fraser
                                                    FORTHCOMING
                                                    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 - cover image

                                                      Thinking Blue / Writing Red: Marxism and the (Post)Human

                                                      • Stephen Tumino
                                                      FORTHCOMING
                                                      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 - cover image

                                                        Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts: Volume 1: Officials and Their Books

                                                        • Kathryn M. Rudy
                                                        FORTHCOMING
                                                        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 Skin.
                                                        Two Priors and a Princess: St Frideswide in Twelfth-Century Oxford - cover image

                                                          Two Priors and a Princess: St Frideswide in Twelfth-Century Oxford

                                                          • Andrew Dunning
                                                          FORTHCOMING
                                                          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.