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This interdisciplinary edited volume studies practices and representations of urban violence from a spatiotemporal perspective. It discusses how the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban can produce and shape violence, and how practices as well as memories of violence transform spatialities and temporalities of cities.

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This deeply researched book offers a unique history of Londons most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day.

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An interesting companion for students of cultural theory, concentrating on the four most influential thinkers - Adorno, Bourdieu, Foucault and Jameson

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This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the Mexican born directors Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron. The book examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films. -- .

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This book is about the impact of European governance on the time of national policymakers and institutions. It shows how European policymaking changes over time, how a new temporal logic has developed and the effect of this on EU institutions. -- .

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The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one hundred documents. It serves both to introduce topics, to illustrate themes through primary material and to indicate further relevant reading. After a general introduction, the book is divided into five sections on physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics.

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A much needed, fully annotated and modernized text of a long neglected play used by Shakespeare as the principal basis of King John. Published anonymously in 1591, it can now be attributed definitively to Peele and ranks as the most important Elizabethan history play after Shakespeare and Marlowe's Edward II. -- .

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The second entry in the Pocket Politics series provides an accessible account of the ideas and shifts that propelled Donald Trump to victory in the 2016 US presidential election and looks at the likely consequences of the result. -- .

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This volume surveys the range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period c. 1050-c. 1250.

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Explores the normative dimension of the evolving role of the United Nations in peace and security and, ultimately, in governance. -- .

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This book presents a comprehensive history of the modern Middle East and Arab-Israeli conflict through the Cold War, focusing on relations between the region and the two superpowers. -- .

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An essential introduction to American economic history from 1929 to the present. -- .

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An accessible survey of Sino-American relations in Asia, which analyses the complex interactions between the two powers and asks whether conflict is inevitable. -- .

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This book shows that beyond the fossil fuel industry, it is the lesser-known but vastly more powerful world of asset managers and shadow banking which is inhibiting our ability to pursue climate and environmental justice. Those with the influence to effect global change increasingly see commodifying nature as the only way to do so.

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This is the first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes. Revealing how China has used the US-led War on Terror as cover for its brutal suppression of the Uyghur people, it provides a lucid and far-reaching analysis of a cultural genocide, while allowing the voices of those caught up in the tragedy to be heard.

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This is the first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes. Revealing how China has used the US-led War on Terror as cover for its brutal suppression of the Uyghur people, it provides a lucid and far-reaching analysis of a cultural genocide, while allowing the voices of those caught up in the tragedy to be heard.

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The wolves are coming back moves beyond stereotypic representations of East Germany, and shines light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses. It seeks to explain the extraordinary success of new far right parties in a vivid ethnographic recounting of the local politics of fear, hope and national identity.

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The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland -- .

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The world turned upside down interrogates the claim that contemporary globalization has ended the centrality of the state in world affairs and is effectively irreversible. It offers definitions of globalization, internationalization and international interdependence and demonstrates the difficulties generated by these concepts.

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This volume investigates the mass detention of Uyghurs in China, exploring the regimes of surveillance to which they are subjected both inside and outside the detention centres of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It offers new insights into the future of the CCPs domestic governance strategies and troubling international behaviour.

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Theatre and drama studies, film studies, cultural studies -- .

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'What can literature and music do for each other' In This man and music, novelist and composer Anthony Burgess explores the topic, touching on composition, poetry, prose, and his own personal experiences. -- .

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Addresses the 'global turn' in art history by way of the transnational Carribbean, 'Timed Out' is a comprehensive study of the art of the Atlantic world in relation to the mainstream history of art. -- .

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This is an introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction focusing on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. Jill Matus approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history.