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This book tells the story of how the unorthodox liberalism of the public sector svengali Stephen Tallents helped reshape public life for a new social, political and technological age. -- .

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An analysis of the Clarendon Commission (1861-64) and the Public School Acts showing their profound importance to the future and development of education in England. -- .

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Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health How does this change over time and place Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of problem publics and their relationship with public health authorities.

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Brings together chapters on the bestseller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. The text combines an accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction, with readings of authors such as Jackie Collins and Jilly Cooper.

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Puma - published for the first time in its intended format - is Anthony Burgess's lost science fiction novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing of the planet Earth by a heavyweight intruder from a distant galaxy - the dreaded Puma. -- .

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Containing short stories, this title presents a romantic amalgam of elements drawn from fairy-tale and folklore, the fantastic and the society tale, serving didactic, satirical and whimsical purposes.

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How do people make judgments about what food is worth eating and what tastes good; how do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality This book offers some answers to these questions from the perspective of the social sciences.

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A new classroom approach for primary teachers to teach the explicit knowledge of scientific question-asking.

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Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945 -- .

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Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945 -- .

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Looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. This book presents fresh approaches in gender history and court studies.

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Explores and compares the queer dimensions of four English cities - Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth, and Brighton -- .

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Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release.

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Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release.

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A major study of solo performance in the UK and Europe that examines the significance of exceptional lives in neoliberal times. With case studies drawn from theatre, comedy and live art, it combines insights from gender studies, politics and sociology to present a new queer account of subjectivity at the start of the twenty-first century.

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A major study of solo performance in the UK and Europe that examines the significance of exceptional lives in neoliberal times. With case studies drawn from theatre, comedy and live art, it combines insights from gender studies, politics and sociology to present a new queer account of subjectivity at the start of the twenty-first century.

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This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage. . -- .

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A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. -- .

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A multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth century and the present, it explores the relationship between reading Gothically and reading Queerly.

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A critical edition of a modern Mexican classic, Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, with notes, vocabulary, a critical introduction and temas de debate. -- .

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A comprehensive study of Narayan's fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels

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Presents an account of Narayan's development as a writer. This is a comprehensive study of Narayan's fiction, which offers detailed readings of his novels. It is a reassessment of his imaginary small town of Malgudi. It is the part of the bestselling "Contemporary World Writers" series, and written by the eminent editor.

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An ideal companion and introduction to a major figure in world poetry

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The story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. -- .