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Studies the mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. This book explores a range of genres from popular mystery and moral plays to drama written for the court and universities and for the commercial theatres, including history plays, comedies, tragedies, romances and melodrama.

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This book offers a psychoanalytical, Marxist, feminist approach to the way motherhood is portrayed in quality American television series and how that affects the position of mothers in neoliberal American society.

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Concerns about the effects of television on children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. David Buckingham, gives an insight into children's responses to horror films, to 'weepies' and soap operas, to news and 'realty programmes'.

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'Moving through modernity' offers the first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of a critical literary geography, and in stimulating new readings of E.M. Forster, Imagism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates how space and geography were also central concerns for modernists. -- .

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Mozart and the Wolf Gang is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of Anthony Burgess's fictions.. With its sizzying swirl of formal and thematic invention, this slim book may strike one as something even more impossible that any of Burgess' earlier tours de force.

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Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, the collection is a practical, hands-on guide for students and scholars interested in studying the mundane. -- .

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Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, the collection is a practical, hands-on guide for students and scholars interested in studying the mundane. -- .

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This text traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare and how in its broadest definition it has been part of a process of persuasion at the heart of human communication. The third edition has been revised and expanded in the light of recent conflicts.

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Explores the life of Madeleine Smith, who in 1857 was tried for poisoning her secret lover. Charting the course of this illicit relationship and Madeleine's subsequent trial, this title draws on a range of sources to pursue themes such as the nature of gender relations and the extent of women's social and commercial activities.

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Murder Capital is a historical study of unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London.

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Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns.

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Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns.

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At a time when the 'social' analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology.

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At a time when the 'social' analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology.

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Paints a picture of the study of music in eleventh- and early twelfth-century Germany. This book focuses on the activity of a group of prominent intellectuals based in the monastic and cathedral schools of the German Kingdom, charting their sources and shared concerns, while examining their reception and modification of each others' ideas.

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A new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. The first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationship between words and music and between musical and literary forms. -- .

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Examines Italys police in the context of fascisms efforts to modernise and establish ideological control over the state. Presenting an inside perspective on fascist repression, it focuses on recruitment, training and professionalism in the Interior Ministry Police, and their ideological orientation, working conditions and quality of life.

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The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France's naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers. -- .

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The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France's naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers. -- .

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Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of the establishment and operation of hospital contributory schemes and the organisation of voluntary hospitals in Britain before the creation of the NHS. -- .

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Chaim's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Chaim Ferster began life in Poland in 1922, survived several labour camps and Auschwitz in World War II, and went on to live in Manchester.

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