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By: Philippa Byrne

ISBN: 9781526125347
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to explore how moralists approached questions of judgement and judicial ethics in the foundational period of English common law. -- .


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By: Naomi Head

ISBN: 9781526116987
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Offers a deep engagement with developments at the intersection of Habermasian communicative ethics and international relations. -- .


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By: Naomi Head

ISBN: 9780719083075
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Offers a deep engagement with developments at the intersection of Habermasian communicative ethics and international relations. -- .


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By: Colin Gardner

ISBN: 9780719085666
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This first full-length critical analysis of the Czech-born, British director, Karel Reisz uses recent interdisciplinary methodologies to explore the crisis of political commitment and historical displacement in the context of the 1960s and '70s counter-culture. -- .


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By: Radhika Desai

ISBN: 9781526127884
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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As the neoliberal order decays, we recall Polanyi's warning against market domination and his trademark ideas: commodified money, the double movement, the US exception development, the reality of society, and socialism as freedom in a complex society. The contributors consider the links between Polanyi's ideas and income inequality, world systems theory, and comparative political economy.


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By: Gareth Dale

ISBN: 9781784994259
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Armelle Parey

ISBN: 9781526148520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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From Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Big Sky, this book explores the major themes and formal concerns in Kate Atkinsons fiction (history, memory, feminism, metafiction, genre revision). It situates Atkinson's uvre in terms of an aesthetics of hydridity that runs through her eleven novels, one play and one collection of stories to date.


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By: Barry Lewis

ISBN: 9780719055140
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study considers all of Kazuo Ishiguro's work, exploring the centrality of dignity and displacement in his vision and teasing out the connotations of home and homelessness in his fictions. How Japanese is Ishiguro What role does memory and unreliability play in his narratives


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By: Kristian Shaw

ISBN: 9781526157539
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new thematic and stylistic insights


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By: Keith Gildart

ISBN: 9781526160416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene.


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By: Keith Gildart

ISBN: 9780719097102
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Bill Dunn

ISBN: 9781526154903
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The book develops a sympathetic Marxist critique of Keynes. Keyness insights, particularly into unemployment, money and finance and the importance of state intervention gain greater critical purchase when re-worked on Marxist foundations and doing so also enriches Marxism.


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By: Barry Gunter

ISBN: 9780719097874
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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How do kids become engaged with brands Does their relationship with them change throughout their life Providing a detailed analysis of kids and branding, the author considers specific models of cognitive development throughout childhood. -- .


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By: Barry Gunter

ISBN: 9781784992453
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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How do kids become engaged with brands Does their relationship with them change throughout their life Providing a detailed analysis of kids and branding, the author considers specific models of cognitive development throughout childhood. -- .


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By: Griselda Pollock

ISBN: 9781526164179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe.


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By: Griselda Pollock

ISBN: 9781526164186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe.


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By: Ruth Holliday

ISBN: 9780719066160
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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From bottle gardens, batman and the bachelor pad to garden gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a range of objects to explore the meanings and uses of kitsch. An accessible, comprehensive introduction for students and informed readers, it adds to debates on taste in cultural theory and sociology and provides a review of the literature.


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By: Viv Gardner

ISBN: 9781526138040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the unpublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement. Written in the 1930s, Marions story of activism offers a unique insight into a lifetime dedicated to the improvement of womens lives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.


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By: Fred Cooper

ISBN: 9781526178640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is an edited volume that draws on eight case studies to showcase how researchers in the humanities shone a light on some of the many hidden problems of COVID-19 from the effects of racism to the risks of deploying shame; from how to design an effective instructional leaflet to how to communicate effectively to bus passengers.


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By: Mikael Klintman

ISBN: 9781526135209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon. -- .


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By: Mikael Klintman

ISBN: 9781526151742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon.


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By: Budd L. Hall

ISBN: 9780719089787
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides evidence from 20 case studies around the world on the power and potential of community and higher education based scholars and activists working together in the co-creation of transformative knowledge. The book draws in the experience and insights of 37 scholars and practitioners from the global south and north. -- .


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By: Florence D'Souza

ISBN: 9781526148070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Studies Tod's relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and social customs to British and European readers. -- .


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By: Florence D'Souza

ISBN: 9780719090806
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Studies Tod's relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and social customs to British and European readers. -- .

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