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Useful Art explores how art can be a tool for activism and resistance against neoliberalism. Highlighting projects from urban regeneration to community gardens, it showcases how art can foster inclusion, reclaim local knowledge, and drive real-world change.

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This book studies the science and sexuality of legs during the Victorian period.

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A collection of essays on the nature of cultural pluralism in the Mediterranean and the different ways in which this was managed in various cities during the early modern period.

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This book examines the far right's visual politics of nature, offering original case studies from around the world.

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The book provides a study of the wartime films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their team the Archers between 1938 and 1947, situated within wartime cinema and focussing on national identity explored with the 'Pressburger Touch'.

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As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question, many of our stories are turning to the subject of extinction. This book is about what they are saying and why it demands our attention.

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Hacienda resident and Manchester legend DJ Paulette celebrates the highs, lows and lessons of a 30-year career at the forefront of UK dance music as a ground-breaking Black female DJ.

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This book provides an audit of fourteen years of Conservative government in Britain, from 2010 to 2024. It examines the rise of populism, the politics of Brexit, the UK's response to the pandemic and the steady erosion of public trust.

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This book provides an audit of fourteen years of Conservative government in Britain, from 2010 to 2024. It examines the rise of populism, the politics of Brexit, the UK's response to the pandemic and the steady erosion of public trust.

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In this classic text, one of the leading academic historians of magic presents the first exploration of witchcraft in Britain in the centuries following the witch trials, from 1736 to 1951.

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Women's Troubles sets out to capture the complexities of feminist movement building in the divided society of Northern Ireland, contributing to ongoing analysis of contemporary global feminisms.

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This unique book is the first to show how professional non-fiction writing can benefit from the use of creative writing formats and techniques. It features a wealth of real-life examples, plus exercises to help readers develop their skills.

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This unique book is the first to show how professional non-fiction writing can benefit from the use of creative writing formats and techniques. It features a wealth of real-life examples, plus exercises to help readers develop their skills.

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This is a book about what it is like to live and work with 'the canon' and how this shapes the way we think about intellectuals now. In contemporary global academia, what does it mean to write 'with' the canon and what is at stake if you don't, can't, or won't

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Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive treatment for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.

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This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Rather than provide a conventional military history it will illuminate for the first time the lives, experiences and thoughts of the resistance fighters during their fight against the Occupation.

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Excellent, accessible textbook for courses in general and comparative colonial history. Includes not only overseas empires but also continental colonial expansion (USA, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and Russia). Most recent comprehensive book in the field. -- .

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In A sonnet to science, leading science communicator Dr Sam Illingworth presents a selection of poetry written by well-known scientists, contextualising it with their work and research, in an effort to better understand how poetry might today be used as an effective tool in both the advancement of science and the way it is communicated.

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For writers of Roman historical fiction: a basic guide to family life, food & clothing, housing & travel, law & order, economics, religion, and entertainment. -- .

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In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, Vera Frenkel, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman to explore trauma and bereavement, fatal illness, Holocaust experience, migration, exile and the encounter with political horror and atrocity.

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The first book-length study to address Moore's significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels. -- .

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Presents a short history of artworks at risk of passing unnoticed because they look like trash, or are little more than commonplace objects and fleeting gestures that disappear into the fabric of everyday life -- .

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This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, adoption, creativity and resistance.

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A volume that focuses on the complex and multifaceted answers that the international anarchist movement gave to the outbreak of the First World War and its aftermaths and, in turn, the impact of the Great War on the anarchist movement. -- .