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This book presents a compelling exploration of how business schools can tackle global challenges such as economic disparities, AI and climate change through essays by leading academics and business leaders looking at the future of management, policy, and economic growth.

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This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.

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This book is the definitive study of how skin was debated, understood and misunderstood in Europe between 1500 and 1700. It is based on deep historical research and includes hundreds of colour images from the period.

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Rethinking Right-wing Women traces the mobilization of women for the UK Conservative Party from the period before their enfranchisement to Theresa May. As party workers and organisers, MPs and leaders, and as voters, women have been fundamental to the success of the Conservative Party.

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Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. It argues that there is a thematic unity--the pursuit of pleasure--underlying his work, that this pursuit is religiously motivated and reflects Rochester's preoccupation with and, finally, acceptance of Christianity.

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An English translation and study of the 'Minor Histories' of Toledo's archbishop Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada, including his important work History of the Arabs.

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The book analyses Russia's political and economic interests in the Middle East and North Africa, its relations with the MENA countries and its diplomatic engagement with the Western powers. It examines Russia's strategy in the region, including its role in the Syria conflict, in the context of its broader foreign policy and war with Ukraine.

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This book-length study of Sally Wainwright's television, including analysis of globally recognised television series such as Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, and Gentleman Jack, considers Wainwright's work in terms of genre, melodrama and through the concept of emotion.

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Re-evaluates the mechanics and decline of serfdom in medieval England, casting new light on the nature of its economy and society, and the impact of the Black Death.

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This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English Revolution (164060) and argues for the long-term significance of that development for the political culture of late Stuart England and beyond.

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The book examines the distinction between revision and rewriting in Early New English literature, analysing over 50 poems and plays from the sixteenth to seventeenth century. Focusing on A Lover's Complaint, Double Falsehood, and adaptations of Richard II and The Duchess of Malfi, it explores how texts evolved through revision and reinterpretation.

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Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the 'signs' of the maturation used to construct Shakespeare's many adolescent characters.

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This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the celebrated works of William Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures.

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Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as 'dismemorial', the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which contemporary Ireland draws on Shakespeare's England.

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Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work music. She played and sang draws on the music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influences that shaped her literary masterpieces.

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This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through an enhanced glossary and expanded commentary covering book history, reception history, and Sidney's contribution to the English language.

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Social democracy and urban politicsdelves into the changing relationship between social democratic, radical left and green parties within the political space of European cities, reflecting upon the formation and dilemmas of a broader progressive alliance.

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Centring on a 1927 libel trial, this book tells the story of the cosmopolitan London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 1920s and 1930s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today.

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Adjudicators have struggled, not all successfully, with one of the persistent puzzles that the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea presents - the limits to dispute settlement jurisdiction in respect of sovereignty disputes. This book argues for an approach that better accords than decided cases so far with the text, judicial method, and public order.

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This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.

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This book focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society, and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital.

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A detailed exploration of key documentary sources relating to the end of Edmund Spenser's time as a planter in Ireland in the midst of a dangerous Irish revolt that reveals a lot about the colonial and religious mentalities involved in Elizabethan England's imperial venture in Ireland. It makes novel use of stylometric tests to delve deeper into the authorship of these controversial texts.

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This book explores the Stiliagi, the Soviet Union's first youth subculture from the late 1940s to the 1960s. It examines their Western-influenced fashion, love of jazz, and defiance of Soviet norms, revealing how they challenged traditional masculinity and reshaped Soviet cultural identity. Through rigorous research, it offers insight into their lasting impact on Soviet and Post-Soviet culture.