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Examines the importance of place in shaping nationalism. This book argues for the need to explore how various people - embedded within particular places and operating across different scales - contribute to its reproduction. It seeks to re-energise both geographical and social constructivist understandings of nationalism.

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Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what or who plant life may be while exploring how we understand ourselves in relation to the complex world of flora

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This book takes a journey around the world to demonstrate how plants influence peoples lives. From mealtimes to belief systems, from addictions to medical support, plants are instrumental in organising what people do, and what it means to be human.

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Comprises of a study of poetry produced in Austria between the demise of the Third Reich and Austria's re-attainment of sovereignty in 1955. This book demonstrates the problems for modern poetry in the handing of historical events. It offers the understanding of Austrian poetry and the reworking of an Austrian literary identity.

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This text provides a discussion of poetry's relation to place, and its role in the self-definition of communities as the monolithic ideologies of the nation-states fragment into a mosaic of peoples, languages, cultures and between-cultures. The text ranges from the Elizabethan period to the 1990s.

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Post of Modern Ireland discusses the work of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Austin Clarke, Padraic Fallon, Louis MacNeice, and Ciaran Carson . The author constructs a critical account of the poets work, putting it in context to the contemporary debate surrounding their work.

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Through the lens of South Wales Police, this volume reflects upon the changing role of the police in society. Written by police officers and researchers working collaboratively, it covers key topics including neighbourhood policing; major crime investigation and violence prevention; gender and policing; police technologies; and leadership.

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The author discusses the texts and performances in the context of the time. He relates the Spanish theatre to the various ideologies and war conditions. He also links the Spanish theatre tradition to the wider context of European political theatre.

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A collection of essays that uses questions, hypotheses and concepts drawn from postcolonial theory to understand the culture and politics of post-devolution Wales.

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'Postcolonialism Revisited' examines the ways in which postcolonial theory may be usefully adopted and adapted in order to provide an illuminating reading of Welsh writing in English, and how the Anglophone literature in Wales challenges many of the assumptions and dogmas of postcolonial theory.

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This text explores the theme of praise in the Welsh poetic tradition. It reveals a persistence in the appearance of this theme in writings ranging form the ninth century to the present day.

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This work represents a detailed, researched attempt to investigate the role which the Probation Service might play in the field of trial and probation. Using an on-th-ground investigation of current practise, it looks at those services which can assist courts to release defendants on bail.

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Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics examines filmmakers' 'return to work' by the late 1990s, focusing on how they positioned the practice as a privileged point of articulation between aesthetics, politics and ethics, where work, precarity and activism could be addressed anew.

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This work looks at the impact of five "archetypal" figures on literature and culture of the 1790s in Britain. The figures covered are: Tewdrig, the hermit-king; Vortigen, the Dark-Age traitor, the Polish General Kosciusko; Iolo Morganwg; and the Jacobin demagogue John Thelwall.

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