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Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy (2020)
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Muir, C. (2020). Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy. Multilingual Matters

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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Lee, A. (2020). Warfare in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139013680

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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Goodchild, P. (2020). Economic Theology: Credit and Faith II. London: Rowman & Littlefield

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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THOMSON, P. (2020). School scandals: blowing the whistle on the corruption of our school system. Bristol, UK: Policy Press

The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary (2020)
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Emperor of Rome, 10 B.C.-54 A.D., C. (2020). The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108682091

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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Pupavac, V., & Pupavac, M. (2020). Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield

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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Schmitt, N., & Schmitt, D. (2020). Vocabulary in Language Teaching. (2nd). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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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VAN DER EIJK, C. (2020). De kern van de politiek. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From the Ancient Greeks to the Reformation, Volume 1 (2020)
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BURNS, T. (2020). Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From the Ancient Greeks to the Reformation, Volume 1. Rowman and Littlefield International

Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From the Reformation to the French Revolution, Volume II (2020)
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Burns, A. (2020). Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From the Reformation to the French Revolution, Volume II. London: Rowman and Littlefield International

The Churchill Myths (2020)
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Fielding, S., Schwarz, B., & Toye, R. (2020). The Churchill Myths. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851967.001.0001

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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Roberts, S. (2020). Deep Song: The Life and Work of Federico Garcia Lorca. London: Reaktion Press

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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Toropova, A. (2020). Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831099.001.0001

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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Sutherland, L. (2020). George Alexander and the Work of the Actor-Manager. Palgrave Macmillan

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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Fitzpatrick, A. (2020). The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance. Cambridge, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press). https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11739.001.0001

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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Ward, M., & Hefferan, M. (Eds.). (2020). Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688. Palgrave Macmillan

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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(2020). O. Thomas (Ed.), The Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511997792

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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Hunt, D., & Brookes, G. (2020). Corpus discourse and mental health. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

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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Mullany, L. (2020). L. Mullany (Ed.). Professional Communication: Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism. London: Palgrave Macmillan

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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Andrews, J. (2020). Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press

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.