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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.

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.

Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (2020)
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Sarah 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.

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.

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.

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.

Economic Theology: Credit and Faith II (2020)
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A theological account of the dynamics of contemporary finance-based capitalism.

School scandals: blowing the whistle on the corruption of our school system (2020)
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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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Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From the Reformation to the French Revolution, Volume II (2020)
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Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From the Ancient Greeks to the Reformation, Volume 1 (2020)
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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.