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Florence Nightingale At Home (2020)
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Unhomely empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760-1830 (2020)
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Unhomely Empire examines the role of Scottish Enlightenment ideas of belonging in the construction and dissemination of ideologies of imperial rule and racial supremacy. During the eighteenth century, European imperial expansion radically increased p... Read More about Unhomely empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760-1830.
Essential guide to acute care (2020)
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The best-selling Essential Guide to Acute Care contains everything you need to know about acute care that you can’t find in a standard textbook. The third edition has been extensively revised and updated, presenting new oxygen guidelines, updated evi... Read More about Essential guide to acute care.
The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century (2020)
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Baragwanath, N. (2020). The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514085.001.0001How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition,... Read More about The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World (2020)
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This volume presents a range of new research into the experiences, agencies and diverse political identities of Iberian women between the fifteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores how the political identities of Iberian women were represen... Read More about Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World.
The Findern Manuscript : A New Edition of the Unique Poems (2020)
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The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, Ff.1.6): A New Edition of the Unique Poems is the first critical edition of the thirty-four unique and unattributed Middle English poems contained in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.6. This... Read More about The Findern Manuscript : A New Edition of the Unique Poems.
Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition (2020)
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Norwich was second only to London in size and economic significance from the late Middle Ages through to the mid-seventeenth century. This book brings together, for the first time, the rich archaeological evidence for urban households and domestic li... Read More about Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition.
Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (2020)
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Dauncey, S. (2020). Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture. Cambridge University PressSarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese sources, from film and documentary to literature and lif... Read More about Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture.
Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France (2020)
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Over recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profoun... Read More about Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France.
Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic (2020)
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Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos... Read More about Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic.
Relative Change (2020)
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A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Relative change is puzzling because the following three propositions each seem true but ca... Read More about Relative Change.
Warfare in the Roman World (2020)
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Warfare was a recurrent phenomenon of fundamental importance throughout Roman history. Its scale and form varied across time and place, but it had wide-ranging impacts on politics, society and economy. This book focuses on important themes in the int... Read More about Warfare in the Roman World.
Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy (2020)
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Directed motivational currents (DMCs) are goal-directed motivational surges in pursuit of a much-desired personal outcome. This book introduces the reader to cutting-edge theory and research in second language learner motivation and presents empirica... Read More about Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy.
Economic Theology: Credit and Faith II (2020)
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A theological account of the dynamics of contemporary finance-based capitalism.
The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary (2020)
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Unearthed in 1528 at Lyon, the Tabula Lugdunensis preserves the longest speech of a Roman emperor to survive in epigraphic form. In AD 48 Claudius addressed the senate to press a petition by elites of north-western Gaul to hold senatorial rank and of... Read More about The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary.
Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism (2020)
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Goethe’s 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European h... Read More about Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism.
Vocabulary in Language Teaching (2020)
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Internationally recognised as one of the leading texts in its field, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know more about the way vocabulary works. Two leading specialists make research... Read More about Vocabulary in Language Teaching.
De kern van de politiek (2020)
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