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Representative Volume Elements and Unit Cells: Concepts, Theory, Applications and Implementation (2020)
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Li, S., & Sitnikova, E. (2020). Representative Volume Elements and Unit Cells: Concepts, Theory, Applications and Implementation. Elsevier/Woodhead Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2017-0-03559-0

Numerical methods to estimate material properties usually involve analysis of a representative volume element (RVE) or unit cell (UC). The representative volume element (RVE) or unit cell (UC) is the smallest volume over which a measurement can be ma... Read More about Representative Volume Elements and Unit Cells: Concepts, Theory, Applications and Implementation.

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine (2020)
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Holland, B. (2020). Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19333-1

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine provides a detailed exegesis of the analogy between the self (as body and soul, always in relation to other such beings) and the city (or political society) in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo (354... Read More about Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine.

Writing Black Scotland (2020)
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Jackson, J. (2020). Writing Black Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness. The book reads blackness in Scottish writing from the 1970s to the early 2000s, a period of history defined... Read More about Writing Black Scotland.

A short history of revolutionary Cuba: revolution, power, authority and the state from 1959 to the present day (2020)
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Kapcia, A. (2021). A short history of revolutionary Cuba: revolution, power, authority and the state from 1959 to the present day. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

A study of the evolution of the Cuban Revolution from 1959, which (a) puts the changing system into a historical perspective which highlights both its nationalist roots, the pre-1959 weaknesses of a colonial and then neo-colonial state, and the role... Read More about A short history of revolutionary Cuba: revolution, power, authority and the state from 1959 to the present day.

The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred (2020)
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Baker, J., & Carroll, J. (2020). The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society

his Part covers an area of approximately 140 square miles in the south of the county, between the Franchise of Wenlock and the Hundred of Stottesdon to the east and the Hundred of Clun to the west. The introduction provides an overview of information... Read More about The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred.

Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue (2020)
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Taylor, J. E. (Ed.). (2021). Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350167513

Asking what does foreign occupation look like and how does occupation shape visual expression and cultures, this edited collection explores how the occupied and occupiers have responded to their circumstances through visual culture. Contributors stud... Read More about Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue.

Annihilating Noise (2020)
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Hegarty, P. (2020). Annihilating Noise. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in 16 essays how noise offers a way of thinking critical resistance, disrupt... Read More about Annihilating Noise.

Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988 (2020)
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Blackburn, D. (2020). Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988. Manchester University Press

Founded in 1935 by a young publisher disillusioned with the class prejudices of the interwar publishing trade, Penguin Books set out to make good books available to all. The 'Penguin Specials', a series of current affairs books authored by leading in... Read More about Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988.

Essential guide to acute care (2020)
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Cooper, N., Cramp, P., Forrest, K., & Patel, R. (2020). Essential guide to acute care. (3rd edition). London: Wiley

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 (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514085.001.0001

How 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.