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Professor Kim Wilkins, Dr Helen Marshall, Dr Lisa Bennett
In the 21st century, the rapid advance of technology and the existential threat of climate breakdown mean the real world increasingly resembles something out of fiction, filled with ambiguity and…
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Explains the new requirements of the Artificial Intelligence Act in an understandable and practical manner, including technical and ethical principles, and obligations on providers and commercial users of AI systems.
Investigating the trajectories of economic nationalisms in Cold War Europe, this open access book explores the scope and limits of small (nation-)state actors pursuing and defending national economic interests in…
The Beatles are known for cheeky punchlines, but understanding their humor goes beyond laughing at John Lennon's memorable "rattle your jewelry" dig at the Royal Variety Performance in 1963. From…
While all oppressions are equal, some are more equal than others.
This statement, borrowed from George Orwell's Animal Farm and written and marinated to fit within and without our call…
Alice Pelton, Dr Frances Yarlett, Dr Melanie Davis-Hall
The definitive, mythbusting book on female contraception from the experts behind The Lowdown, the world's first contraceptive review platform and community
Prof. or Dr. Sunayani Bhattacharya
"Examines a history of reading practices in 19th-century Bengal at the intersection of Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic aesthetics, British colonial pedagogy, and the rise of Bengali novels"--
Dr Boris B. Gorshkov
The Civil War and early Soviet food policies left millions of children homeless and starving in Russia in the first half of the 20th century. Child mortality rates reached 95%…
Dr Jonathan T. Pennington
The Gospel of Luke is one of the longest and most well-written pieces of literature within the New Testament canon. Its contribution to the four-fold Gospel book as well as…
Dr Alistair Bryce-Clegg
This fully updated new edition of Best Practice in the Early Years, from award-winning author Dr Alistair Bryce-Clegg, is the must-have guide for anyone working in the Early Years Foundation…
Revd Dr Philip Hobday
For some, Hooker and Anglicanism are basically reformed; for others, fundamentally Catholic; for some embodying a 'middle way' between Roman Catholic and Protestant extremes; and for others simply confused and…
Dr E. Dawson Varughese
Exploring expressions of 'Indianness' buried within and scattered across post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English, this book asks questions around what it means to 'belong' to an India of 'now'…
Dr. Arianne Des Rochers
"Challenges and contextualizes the standard language used in translation theory and comparative literature within the unique linguistic and translational context of the Canadian nation-state"--
Dr Mark S. Gignilliat
In this International Theological Commentary on the book of Micah, Mark S. Gignilliat begins by reflecting upon the nature of such commentary in relation to biblical interpretation, before situating Micah…
Dr Amit K. Suman
The book delves into the educational challenges that indigenous groups faced during the late 18th and 19th centuries and examines how they responded to these challenges and threats. It centres…
Prof. or Dr. Ulf Schulenberg
"This book presents pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism and sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism"--
The essential, updated step-by-step guide to getting ready to write from bestselling Early Years expert Dr Alistair Bryce Clegg.
Getting Ready to Write contains all the crucial developmental stages before…
The essential companion to Continuous Provision in the Early Years, the popular guide to getting continuous provision right in your setting from bestselling Early Years expert Dr Alistair Bryce-Clegg
Newly…
Dr Hannah-Marie Chidwick
Taking at its centre Lucan's violent and subversive military epic on the Roman Civil War, this volume responds to an emergent interest in approaching ancient war narratives with critical theory…
Dr Elizabeth Stubbins Bates
This book grapples with international humanitarian law's long-standing compliance problem.
It asks why international humanitarian law is often violated, partially implemented and under-enforced; and what this reveals about its normativity…
Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith
A weaving of biblical wisdom, keen insights into human behavior, and personal reflection prompts, Being Fully Known tackles the negative self-talk and limiting beliefs that leave women stuck in lives…
Dr Steven J. Duby
Steven J. Duby provides a close verse-by-verse exegesis of the book of Habakkuk, setting forth the important literary and historical considerations with a view to their bearing on the theological…
Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann
"A systematic analysis of contemporary verse novels and how textual gaps serve as symbolic interventions into current debates on the planetary and the post-national"--
Dr Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
Based on twenty years of research, a Yale University scientist explains how to make ideas into realities and dispels the myth that creativity is a trait that you're born with…
Dr Timothy S. Murphy
The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book examines the Weird novels and stories upon which his…
Dr Matthew Thomas Payne
This book explores the influential work of Eugene Jarvis, designer of the wildly-successful arcade games Defender, Robotron: 2084, NARC, Smash TV, and Cruis'n USA, among others.
Embracing a variety of…
Dr. or Prof. Michael Chapman
A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically contentious content.
Rather…
Dr. or Prof. Adeline Soldin
An intersectional investigation of identity formation in Marcel Proust's magnum opus.
As metonyms for broader categories such as class, sexuality, and ethnicity, the three most discussed identity groups in Proust's…
Prof. or Dr. Jeff Smith
"Connecting several crucial developments in America's nationally formative period, this book shows how seemingly separate debates and movements in literature, religion, and politics reflect shared anxieties over the problem of…
Dr Lucy R. Nicholas
Roger Ascham is often classified as 'a great mid-Tudor humanist' and he is perhaps best known for his role as tutor to Elizabeth I. His most famous works, The Scholemaster…
Dr Thomas L Muinzer
Introduces readers to the major rulings from around the world that centre on climate change as a core focus.
Dr Toni Viva Munoz
As a ninth-generation Bordercana, Toni and her family are a mestizo mix of Native American and Mexican American heritage. They never left the Border. Growing up, she was never made…
Dr Jeffrey F. Keuss
Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role that literature…
This book makes available Ronald Knox's hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil's Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knox's…
Dr David W.F. Stifler
This book focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian writer of the Greek language in the second century CE, and his engagement with contemporary debates regarding the form and register…
Dr Anne Sophie Refskou
This book shows that Shakespeare's dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages a conflicted emotion available to be solicited, manipulated and at times even monopolized…
Dr. Carolyn Owen-King
British Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema explores the Hollywood careers and stardom of British male actors who had fought in the first World War.
In an apparently incongruous development in the…
Dr Wim Van Mierlo
As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce's oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces that shaped him and that he in turn shaped in…
Dr Elizabeth S. Dodd
In this book, Elizabeth S. Dodd traces the contours of a lyric theology through the lens of English lyric tradition. She addresses the dominance of narrative and drama in contemporary…
Revd Dr Sam Ashton
"A theological assessment of the sexed body as it moves from creation to consummation, to explore whether the phenomenon of intersex embodiment disrupts the traditional interpretation of 'male and female'…
Dr Diwakar Kumar Singh
This book encapsulates the various historical contexts within which Nalanda assumed its significance and attained its mahavihara (mega-monastery) status. By examining sources ranging from textual to archaeological it reveals the…
Professor Dr Dieter Grimm
This collection of essays from Dieter Grimm, Germany's most renowned constitutional scholar, shines a light on the jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court and constitutional adjudication in general.
Established in…
'An essential resource for all Key Stage One teachers' - Martin Burrett @ICTmagic, Editor of UKEd Magazine
This new edition of the bestselling Effective Transition into Year One is essential…
Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book demonstrates that the art and materiality of…
Dr. or Prof. Richard Sperber
Examines how Imperial Germany's loss of Oceania after the First World War and its post-war crises of national identity played out in a body of German exoticist literature about Oceania…
