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Bringing together interviews with some of the most highly esteemed verse novelists writing for young adults and children today, DiVERSE develops an understanding of the poetics of the verse novel…
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Dr Gautam Bhatia
This book provides a new conceptual model for considering constitutional rights from a comparative perspective. A prestigious club bars women from standing for executive positions. A homeowner refuses to rent…
Dr. Michael Oko
This book could save your relationship, your job, your health, and even your life.
Dr Amy Webster
An exploration of the serialization of children's classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of the practice and provides new ways of reading the corpus of British…
Dr Rangan Chatterjee
In his latest book, bestselling author Dr Rangan Chatterjee reveals the secrets to lifelong health- to know ourselves, wake up to what is tying us down and, ultimately, take control…
Tudor Paperwork: accounts revealing the trials and tribulations of church officials during the Reformation period.
Dr Sophie Heywood
Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how…
Dr Namrata Sharma
How do we address teaching for sustainability and global citizenship for social-ecological justice based on alternative paradigms?
This book addresses the implications of the environmental crisis on formal, non-formal and…
Dr Peter Johnson
Opening new ground in neglected aspects of R.G. Collingwood's philosophy, Peter Johnson presents essays on Collingwood as a pre-historian, economist, Christian and commentator of Edward Gibbon together with an investigation…
Dr Adrian Skilbeck
This book explores the themes of seriousness and human voice in education, drawing on the work of the American philosopher Stanley Cavell.
Cavell's views on culture, the arts, politics, morality…
Dr David Garbin
This book draws upon case studies of the Congolese Christian diaspora in the UK and US and an ethnography of religious urbanization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to…
Dr Stuart Weeks
This volume completes Stuart Weeks' commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes, also known as Qoheleth. Weeks draws together all the relevant tools for understanding this complex wisdom book in the…
Dr Gareth Moore
Go on a puzzle adventure with the masterful Sherlock Holmes. Step into the world of the famous sleuth and help him with his detective work by cracking the 38 captivating…
Go on a puzzle adventure through Wonderland with your favourite character, Alice. Step into the topsy-turvy dream world and crack 38 captivating puzzles, codes, riddles and other mind-boggling conundrums. Children…
Dr Lucy Brookes
Offers a nuanced reading of character and subjectivity in medieval romance via an exploration of its conventions.
Dr Faye Begeti
What is really happening in your brain when you use your phone, and how to harness it.
Dr Erik Lundeen
What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'? Recent debates on the Protestant reformers have focused on whether they were stridently literal interpreters or maintained a place for allegorical…
Dr Richard Mills
The Beatles and Black Music discusses the influence that Black music and culture has had over the Beatles throughout their collective and solo careers.
The book adopts a musicological and…
Dr Elizabeth Musgrave
This book addresses the work of architect John Dalton (1927-2007), an important voice in mid-century modernism in Australia whose work, despite his being exhibited and published internationally and also winning…
Dr Rebecca Bennett
This open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening based on the concerns around the welfare of future…
Dr Camilla Annerfeldt
This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods…
Dr Susan Samata
This volume shows that, by moving away from code models that foster restrictive perceptions of language as learned words and rules, and towards an ecolinguistics capable of integrating with concepts…
Dr Catherine Butler
Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children's books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating at Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurants in Tokyo, the Japanese have a close and…
Dr. Yvonne Vissing
This one-stop resource explores the leading child welfare issues facing the USA today, as well as the laws, programs, and policy prescriptions that have been implemented or suggested to address…
Research Methods in Linguistics guides the reader through the key issues, principles, and contributions of core methods in linguistic research. It is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students…
Dr Nicolette A. Pavlides
This book examines the hero-cults of Sparta on the basis of the archaeological and literary sources. Nicolette Pavlides explores the local idiosyncrasies of a pan-Hellenic phenomenon, which itself can help…
A critical deep-drive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, history, and journalism to…
Dr Evan Gottlieb
Eco-theory and Annihilation is part of the Film Theory in Practice series, which blends the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film and provides discrete examples…
Dr Emilien Dereclenne
Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers an alternative concept of imagination to the classical internalist and representationalist theory.
Emilien Dereclenne argues that contemporary conceptions…
Dr Kei Hiramatsu
"Employing an inductive approach, this volume proposes that Paul's second letter to the Corinthians consists of seven major segments which coherently develop Paul's discourse pertaining to ministry"--
Dr. Ahreum Kim
"This book demonstrates that a consistent countercultural narrative permeates the First Epistle of John, and identifies the Johannine community as conquering the polytheism of the Greco-Roman world with their pistis…
Dr. Daniel Stevens
Daniel Stevens analyses the use of the language of divine commitment in the Epistle to the Hebrews, arguing that the author distinguishes promise from the cultic language of covenant to…
Dr Elizabeth Green
A beautifully written and deeply affecting account of a woman raised in the Australian Outback, who then returned there as a doctor in the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Exploring the…
This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and…
Dr Lisa Martin
A blend of memoir and scholarly review, this book explores the kinds of thinking creative writing as a distinctly practical subject makes possible within post-secondary education. Taking the idea that…
Dr. Kat Nelligan
This book is about Lady Gaga's branding-the stories that inform it and the ideas that shape her public image.
Who is Lady Gaga and how does she connect with her…
Dr. Eva Orsmond
A revolutionary and proven approach to losing that fat around the middle - for good!
Dr Janelle Adsit
How can arts-based approaches benefit patients and professionals within the health care system? Can the skills creative writers use to craft their work be applied more broadly to enhance the…
Dr Eleni Lorandou
Bridging the gap between two distinct philosophical traditions, Eleni Lorandou finds consonance in the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Utpaladeva to articulate a radically phenomenal view of embodiment. In an argument…
Dr. James Phillips
Busby Berkeley's big-production numbers are emblematic of the Hollywood dream factory.
Exploring the tensions between escapism and ideological over-coding in the Warner Bros. musical, this book tracks the ways in…
Dr. Nicolas Collins
Written by a composer long immersed in new and experimental music, this book provides a tour of the music, technologies and people that have transformed how we make, hear and…
Dr. Sam Whiting
"Considers the social and cultural value of small live music venues"--
Dr Rod Giblett
What do two white men born in the century before last have to say that could possibly be of any use or value in the current conjuncture of climate collapse…
Dr Valentina Morgana
This book illustrates the developments of task-based language teaching (TBLT) approaches in relation to the evolution of digital technologies. It highlights how technology-mediated TBLT principles can support English as a…
