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By: Rina Arya

ISBN: 9780719096297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender. -- .


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By: Jenny Lin

ISBN: 9781526132604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A counter-touristic guide to one of the world's fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by exploring the cross-cultural histories and creative conflicts buried beneath Shanghai's glamorous cosmopolitan facades. -- .


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By: Jenny Lin

ISBN: 9781526151575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A counter-touristic guide to one of the world's fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by exploring the cross-cultural histories and creative conflicts buried beneath Shanghai's glamorous cosmopolitan facades. -- .


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By: Phil McCluskey

ISBN: 9780719087165
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book deals with the French military occupations of Lorraine and Savoy during the personal rule of Louis XIV (1661-1715). It investigates the aims and intentions of the French monarchy in occupying these regions, the problems of administering them, and French relations with key local elite groups. -- .


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By: Peter Hallward

ISBN: 9780719061264
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides an incisive critique of well-established positions in postcolonial theory and a dramatic expansion in the range of interpretative tools available


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By: Alice Garner

ISBN: 9781526128973
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers a critical appraisal of Fulbright achievements and limitations in avoiding political influence, integrating gender and racial diversity, absorbing conflict and dissent, and responding to economic fluctuations and social change. -- .


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By: Jeffrey Wainwright

ISBN: 9780719067556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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'Acceptable words' comprises a series of highly individual essays covering the whole of Geoffrey Hill's poetry to date, including the remarkable late flowering of the years since 1996. The essays offer detailed readings of many poems whilst making many - often surprising - associations with history, philosophy, religion, art and music. -- .


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By: Axel C. Hntelmann

ISBN: 9781526135162
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Linking calculative practices and medicine, this book suggests a broader understanding of accounting. With a longue duree perspective the book investigates how calculative practices have affected medical knowing and how these practices changed over time in various countries of the Western world. -- .


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By: Common Sense Policy Group

ISBN: 9781526180759
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Written by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more.


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By: Common Sense Policy Group

ISBN: 9781526180766
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th June 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Written by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more.


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By: Elizabeth Tomlin

ISBN: 9781784993764
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority. -- .


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By: Stephen Copley

ISBN: 9780719039430
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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First published in 1776, this book is more than a handbook on the principles of free-marketing economics; it is a text for the organisation of Western society in its broadcast sense. To understand the impact of Smith's text, this volume brings together scholars from the fields of economics, politics, history, sociology and literature.


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By: Pascale Aebischer

ISBN: 9781526172402
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Eight teams share their research about live performing arts during the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting on digital innovations and analogue adaptations in dance and theatre, accessibility and community-building, and on how the pandemic impacted on artists and companies.


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By: Sarah Cardwell

ISBN: 9780719060465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Offering a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, this text also brings new material into the broader field of television studies. It surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing assumptions and misconceptions, and explores the problems of previous approaches.


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By: Dennis R. Cutchins

ISBN: 9781526108913
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation studies. -- .


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By: Dennis R. Cutchins

ISBN: 9781526108906
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation studies. -- .


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By: Catherine Constable

ISBN: 9780719075322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents ways in which "The Matrix Trilogy" adapts Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation". This book draws on adaptation theory and feminist philosophy in order to create a fresh methodology for interlinking philosophical and filmic texts.


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By: Catherine Constable

ISBN: 9780719075315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents ways in which "The Matrix Trilogy" adapts Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation". This book draws on adaptation theory and feminist philosophy in order to create a fresh methodology for interlinking philosophical and filmic texts.


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By: Stefan Ganzle

ISBN: 9780719079016
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume offers up-to-date, comprehensive and theoretically-informed analysis of the effects of European integration on various aspects of contemporary political, social and economic life in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. -- .


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By: Kimberly Lamm

ISBN: 9781526182531
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book analyses how three artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.


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By: Kimberly Lamm

ISBN: 9781526121264
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book analyses how three artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.


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By: Sarita Malik

ISBN: 9781526100986
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume looks at a range of texts and practices that address race and its relationship with television. It explores television policy and the management of race, how transnationalism can diminish racial diversity, historical questions of representation, the myth of a multicultural England and more. -- .


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By: Sarita Malik

ISBN: 9781526143600
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume looks at a range of texts and practices thataddress race and its relationship with television. It explores televisionpolicy and the management of race, how transnationalism can diminish racialdiversity, historical questions of representation, the myth of a multiculturalEngland and more. -- .


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By: Andrew Klevan

ISBN: 9781784991241
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. Suitable for students of films studies and philosophical aesthetics, undergraduates and postgraduates, it also provides a supportive framework for academics researching or teaching in the area. -- .

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