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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.

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.

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.

Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration (2024)
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McKay, A., Thomson, P., & Blackmore, J. (Eds.). (2024). Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003279334

This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities. The book... Read More about Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration.

Dream of the Orchid Pavilion (2024)
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Bao, H. (2024). Dream of the Orchid Pavilion. Big White Shed Press

Informed by his life experience as a queer Chinese migrant living in the UK, Hongwei Bao’s book ruminates upon love, intimacy, memory, heritage and identity. On a late spring day of 353 CE, to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, a group of... Read More about Dream of the Orchid Pavilion.

Abortion and Catholicism in Britain: Attitudes, Lived Religion and Complexity (2024)
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Page, S., & Lowe, P. (2024). Abortion and Catholicism in Britain: Attitudes, Lived Religion and Complexity. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54692-1

This book details how British Catholic communities view abortion, highlighting the diversity of positions which often contrast with the official line of Catholic Church doctrine. The authors’ extensive qualitative investigation involving various Cath... Read More about Abortion and Catholicism in Britain: Attitudes, Lived Religion and Complexity.

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality (2024)
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Jamie J., Z., & Bao, H. (Eds.). (2024). Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003273943

This Handbook offers a rich survey of topics concerning historical, modern and contemporary Chinese genders and sexualities. Exploring gender and sexuality as key dimensions of China’s modernisation and globalisation, this Handbook effectively si... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality.

Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North (2024)
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van Rooyen, H., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2024). Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North. HSRC Press

Poetic Inquiry for the Human and Social Sciences: Voices from the South and North enriches human and social science research by introducing new voices, insights, and epistemologies. Poetic inquiry, or poetry as research, is a literary and performance... Read More about Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North.

Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda (2024)
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Collord, M. (2024). Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191945335.001.0001

Through an analysis of the recent political history of Tanzania and Uganda, Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions offers a novel explanation of why authoritarian parties and legislatures vary in strength, and why this variation matters. Micha... Read More about Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda.

Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development: A Firm and Household Perspective (2024)
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Morrissey, O., Semboja, J., & Were, M. (Eds.). (2024). Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development: A Firm and Household Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192885746.001.0001

The book addresses the progress and resilience of firms and households in Tanzania. How has growth, access to (export) markets and interlinkages helped establish resilience for firms? What are the key variations in households’ income sources and how... Read More about Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development: A Firm and Household Perspective.

The politics of crime, punishment and justice: Exploring the lived reality and enduring legacies of the 1980's radical right (2024)
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Farrall, S., & Gray, E. (2024). The politics of crime, punishment and justice: Exploring the lived reality and enduring legacies of the 1980's radical right. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328339

This book explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the criminal justice system, and attitudes towards punishment in Britain. Grounded in a rigorous analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys such as the British Social Attitude... Read More about The politics of crime, punishment and justice: Exploring the lived reality and enduring legacies of the 1980's radical right.

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

Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law: A Comparative Study (2024)
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Beheshti, R. (2024). Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law: A Comparative Study. Hart Publishing

An authoritative, in-depth examination of remedies in international sales of manufactured goods, this book provides a detailed analysis of the remedies available to a commercial buyer. The book concentrates on four prominent legal regimes, namely the... Read More about Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law: A Comparative Study.

Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility (2024)
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Baron, T., & Cowley, C. (2024). Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility. Bloomsbury Publishing

Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life. But what exactly is a 'family'? What is a 'family tie'? We use the general concept of 'family' in many contexts – in fiction, in talk shows, in law, in politi... Read More about Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility.

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

Making the 'Invisible' Visible? Reviewing Translated Works (2024)
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Gray, M. (in press). Making the 'Invisible' Visible? Reviewing Translated Works. Peter Lang Group

In his 1995 seminal work, The Translator’s Invisibility, Lawrence Venuti examines the impact of the reviewing of translations on the (in)visibility of the translator. The American scholar contends that a fluent translation approach, which ultimately... Read More about Making the 'Invisible' Visible? Reviewing Translated Works.