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The Churchill Myths (2020)
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This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion... Read More about The Churchill Myths.
Deep Song: The Life and Work of Federico Garcia Lorca (2020)
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This is a new literary biography of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca.
Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin (2020)
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Stalin-era cinema was a technology of emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called on to help forge the emotions and affects that befitted the New Soviet Person—ranging from happiness and victorious laughter to hatred f... Read More about Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin.
George Alexander and the Work of the Actor-Manager (2020)
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In the first book-length study of the work and legacy of West End actor-manager George Alexander since the 1930s, George Alexander and the Work of the Actor-Manager examines the key part this figure played in presenting new drama by authors including... Read More about George Alexander and the Work of the Actor-Manager.
The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (2020)
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How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good. Drones are famous for doing bad things: weaponized, they implement remote-control war; used for surveillance, they threaten civil liberties... Read More about The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance.
Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688 (2020)
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Explores how loyalty to the British monarchs was cultivated, maintaine and expressed in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Approaches the concept of loyalty from different perspectives: from the legislature, from the government and from relig... Read More about Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688.
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes (2020)
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The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is the longest surviving hymn from early Greece, our fullest source for the god Hermes, and an entertaining narrative of theft, invention, cheekiness, and learning to get along. This study contains a new text of the poem, b... Read More about The Homeric Hymn to Hermes.
Corpus discourse and mental health (2020)
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Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and health communication, Corpus, Discourse and Mental Health provides insights into the linguistic practices of members of three online support communities as they describe their experiences of living... Read More about Corpus discourse and mental health.
Professional Communication: Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism (2020)
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This edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professional settings, drawing on the contributions of a set of internationally-renowned authors. The book takes a critical approach to understanding profe... Read More about Professional Communication: Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism.
Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales (2020)
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Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations. He spent... Read More about Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales.
The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict (2020)
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The negative legacy of the British empire is often thought of in terms of war and economic exploitation, while the positive contribution is associated with the establishment of good governance and effective, modern institutions. In this new analysis... Read More about The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict.
Religion and Sexualities: Theories, Themes and Methodologies (2020)
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This book examines key themes and concepts pertaining to religious and sexual identities and expressions, mapping theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions. It explores the ways in which debates around sexuality and religion have been fra... Read More about Religion and Sexualities: Theories, Themes and Methodologies.
Drones for Good: How to Bring Sociotechnical Thinking into the Classroom (2020)
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What in the world is a social scientist doing collaborating with an engineer, and an engineer with a sociologist, and together on a book about drones and sociotechnical thinking in the classroom? This book emerges from a frustration that disciplinary... Read More about Drones for Good: How to Bring Sociotechnical Thinking into the Classroom.
Petitions from Lincolnshire, c. 1200 - c. 1500 (2020)
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When the normal channels for righting wrongs or asking favours were unavailable, the people of medieval England petitioned their kings - in parliament, council, or chancery. Lincolnshire's inhabitants took full advantage of these opportunities, and t... Read More about Petitions from Lincolnshire, c. 1200 - c. 1500.
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (2020)
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This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these d... Read More about Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism.