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Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (2025)
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Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (Eds.). (2025). Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

This book explores the ambivalent relationship between China and the Global South from literary, media and cultural perspectives. It underlines the rich histories and complex processes of cultural exchange, cross-cultural communication, and transcult... Read More about Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture.

The Anglo-American military relationship: arms across the ocean (2024)
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Rees, W. (2024). The Anglo-American military relationship: arms across the ocean. Oxford University Press

This book focuses on Anglo-American military cooperation since the end of the Cold War. It argues that military cooperation has been an important source of ballast underpinning the broader ‘Special Relationship’. This cooperation has been relatively... Read More about The Anglo-American military relationship: arms across the ocean.

The Engineer’s Guide to Materials: An Applications-Focused Introduction to Materials Science (2024)
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Voisey, K. T. (2024). The Engineer’s Guide to Materials: An Applications-Focused Introduction to Materials Science. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62937-2

Why do engineers need to know about materials? Metals, polymers, ceramics, composites — what are the key characteristics of each class of material and which is best suited for a given industrial application? How can service conditions change the perf... Read More about The Engineer’s Guide to Materials: An Applications-Focused Introduction to Materials Science.

Queering the Asian Diaspora (2024)
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Bao, H. (in press). Queering the Asian Diaspora. SAGE Publications

The current COVID-19 pandemic has exuberated global geopolitical tensions and led to rising Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism worldwide. At the same time, there has been a nascent Asian diaspora consciousness emerging in the West, celebrating Asian id... Read More about Queering the Asian Diaspora.

The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Seven: 1824-1826 (2024)
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Southey, R. (2024). L. Pratt, & I. Packer (Eds.), The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Seven: 1824-1826. Romantic Circles

Part Seven focuses on the years when the ‘Lake Poet’, biographer, historian and social commentator Robert Southey was one of the most high-profile, and controversial, authors working in Britain. Drawing on manuscripts from over 100 international arc... Read More about The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Seven: 1824-1826.

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (2024)
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Bao, H., & Ma, Y. Z. (Eds.). (2024). Queer Literature in the Sinosphere. Bloomsbury Publishing

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary bo... Read More about Queer Literature in the Sinosphere.

Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security (2024)
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Kumar, M., Agarwal, V., Gomes, R. L., & Prasad Panday, D. (Eds.). (2024). Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security. Elsevier

Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security presents a study for the mitigation of hydrological extremes through case studies. The focus is on the effect of extremes on water quality and the fate of geogenic, micro... Read More about Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security.

River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD (2024)
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Panato, M. (2024). River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048558810

This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy in the post-Roman period. Through the study of the relationship between river and society over time, it... Read More about River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD.

Postdigital play and global education: reconfiguring research (2024)
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Dixon, K., Murris, K., Peers, J., Giorza, T., & Lawrence, C. (2024). Postdigital play and global education: reconfiguring research. Routledge

Postdigital Play and Global Education: Reconfiguring Research is a re-turn to a large-scale, international project on children’s digital play. Adopting postqualitative and posthumanist theories, research practices are reconfigured, all the way down f... Read More about Postdigital play and global education: reconfiguring research.

Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art (2024)
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Julius, C., Green, M., & Holman, M. (2024). M. Green, & M. Holman (Eds.). Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art. Manchester University Press

Showcasing new scholarship by emerging and established art historians, Cases of Citation tracks a history of artists who incorporated literature into their work. In doing so, this collection investigates why literary citation emerged as a viable and... Read More about Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art.

Arts-based educational research narratives of academic identities: Perspectives from higher education (2024)
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Naicker, I., Pillay, D., Pithouse-Morgan, K., Masinga, L., Chisanga, T., & Hiralaal, A. (Eds.). (2024). Arts-based educational research narratives of academic identities: Perspectives from higher education. Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6422-8

Arts-Based Educational Research Narratives of Academic Identities: Perspectives From Higher Education makes a unique contribution to the arts-based educational research (ABER) field, by focusing on the complexities of academic identities in higher ed... Read More about Arts-based educational research narratives of academic identities: Perspectives from higher education.

Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money (2024)
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Wojcik, D., Iliopoulos, P., Ioannou, S., Keenan, L., Migozzi, J., Monteath, T., Pazitka, V., Torrance, M., Urban, M., Cheshire, J., & Uberti, O. (2024). Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18427134

From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. This atlas uses graphics and maps to bring the c... Read More about Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money.

The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It (2024)
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Korczynski, M. (2024). The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It. Bristol University Press

This book injects a burst of energy into the sociology of work, offering a perspective that is both innovative and deeply informed.

Leading sociology of work scholar, Marek Korczynski, praises the discipline’s comprehensive approach to theory, its... Read More about The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It.

Rancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education (2024)
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Lane, J. F. (2024). Rancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59880-7

Jacques Rancière is almost unique amongst contemporary thinkers in his consistent hostility to sociologically informed modes of interpretation. This hostility is not limited to his detailed critiques of Pierre Bourdieu—it characterises his thinking a... Read More about Rancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education.

The Passion of the Rabbit God (2024)
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Bao, H. (2024). The Passion of the Rabbit God. Valley Press

Hongwei Bao’s debut collection charts an emotional journey through centuries and between nations, with the poet’s own migration from Inner Mongolia to Nottingham offering a unique, fascinating perspective through which to examine Asian and queer iden... Read More about The Passion of the Rabbit God.

Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers (2024)
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Bloomfield, J. (2024). Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58339-1

This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists na... Read More about Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers.

Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse: From Field to Application (2024)
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Chałupnik, M. (2024). Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse: From Field to Application. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54722-5

This book presents a comprehensive examination of how leadership and collaboration are discursively performed in professional communication, using real-world data from a UK public sector IT team. Taking an auto-ethnographic approach to workplace talk... Read More about Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse: From Field to Application.