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By: Christy Kulz

ISBN: 9781526116178
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. -- .


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Andrew Williams

ISBN: 9780719074622
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The main aim of this book is to explain how mainly American, but also British, policy makers have planned and largely managed to create an international order in their own image, the 'New World Order'. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Alana Harris

ISBN: 9781784993658
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society -- .


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By: Dominic Alessio

ISBN: 9781526179470
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers the first extended examination of extremist Heathenry and occultism in the UK and explores how anti-racist Heathens act to counter this discourse, making an important contribution to the intersecting fields of new religious movements, nationalist history and racist politics.


(Paperback)

By: Craig Hight

ISBN: 9780719056413
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the mock-documentary through the specific relationship which the form constructs with documentary. The analysis includes detailed discussions of a number of key mock-documentary texts ranging from "Zelig" and "The Falls" through to examples like "Bob Roberts" and "This is Spinal Tap".


(Hardback)

By: J. S. Bothwell

ISBN: 9780719075216
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses.


(Paperback)

By: J. S. Bothwell

ISBN: 9780719075223
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses.


(Hardback)

By: Claire Parfitt

ISBN: 9781526174246
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is a timely study of an important political economic phenomenon: ESG investing and stakeholder capitalism. This book encourages new ways of thinking about corporate responsibility and how to contest it.


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By: Jane Gray

ISBN: 9780719091513
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This textbook draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time -- .


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By: Jane Gray

ISBN: 9780719091520
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This text draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time -- .


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By: Helen Dell

ISBN: 9781526173959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance, literature, cinema and their reception have worked together to produce and sustain the fantasy of a long-lost, long-mourned paradisal home.


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By: Victoria Flood

ISBN: 9781526164148
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent political uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance, revealing the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality.


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By: Regina Lee Blaszczyk

ISBN: 9781526119315
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the history of design and innovation at Abraham Moon and Sons of Guiseley. It is an exciting story of two families, the Moons and the Walshes, who created one of Yorkshire's longest-living woollen mills that today serves global brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, and Burberry. -- .


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By: Cecilia Brioni

ISBN: 9781526162007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young peoples style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young peoples generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them in the history of 19601970s Italian society.


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By: Jill Kirby

ISBN: 9781526156099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Jill Kirby

ISBN: 9781526123299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Jill Liddington

ISBN: 9781526164414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A new edition of Jill Liddingtons classic work on Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries, which inspired Gentleman Jack


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By: Katie Pickles

ISBN: 9780719063916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organization, formed in 1900, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It sheds light on women's involvement in imperialism, and on the history of 'conservative' women's organizations. -- .


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By: Catherine Hindson

ISBN: 9780719090141
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loie Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. -- .


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By: Kate Mahoney

ISBN: 9781526162267
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England from c.1968-1995. It explores how feminist activists initially rejected Freud before using psychoanalysis to enhance their politics; examines the development of feminist therapy; and charts the influence of feminism on national mental health charities.


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By: John F. Wilson

ISBN: 9780719088391
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The case-study outlines the inherent dangers in international mergers, as well as explaining the acute problems associated with City practices that avoided issues that would bring down Ferranti in spectacular fashion. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Margaret Cook Andersen

ISBN: 9781526177360
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book details the fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an "ideal" family size. The author situates fertility medicine, artificial insemination by donor, and child adoption within larger concerns about the French birthrate.


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By: Stephen Miller

ISBN: 9781526148377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is about the most sweeping reform in the history of the French monarchy: the creation of assemblies at all levels of administration. The resistance of lords and office holders exposed their hereditary power over commoners, who sought to throw off their subordination when the crisis of the monarchy offered the opportunity in 1789.


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By: Jack Holland

ISBN: 9781526134219
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two decades of heightened political controversy. -- .

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