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Turning : selected poems 1995-2020 (2023)
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Thurston, S. (2023). Turning : selected poems 1995-2020. Shearsman Books

A selected poems volume covering 25 years of work

Dry River (2023)
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Rouverol, A. (2023). Dry River. Manchester, UK: Bridge House Publishing

Sara Greystone’s career as a public defender is spiraling after a disastrous court case, and now her husband’s IT career is also in jeopardy. A move to California is supposed to get them both back on their feet, but the state is in the midst of a cri... Read More about Dry River.

Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture (2023)
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Freeman, M., & Smith, A. (2023). Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture. Palgrave Macmillan

This book brings genre back to the forefront of the current transmedia trend. Genres are perhaps the most innately transmedial of media constructs, formed as they are from all kinds of industrial, technological and discursive phenomena. Yet very few... Read More about Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture.

The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press (2022)
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Price, H. (2022). The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Mental health is a matter of vital importance in today's society, with the news media reporting on the topic on an almost daily basis. Despite this, the language associated with mental health has to date been relatively under-explored. Using methods... Read More about The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press.

Kurdish armour against ISIS : YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-2019 (2021)
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Nash, E., & Searle, D. (2021). Kurdish armour against ISIS : YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-2019. Oxford: Osprey

One of the most remarkable mechanized campaigns of recent years pitted the brutal and heavily armed jihadists of the Islamic State against the improvised Kurdish force, the YPG (later the SDF). While some Kurdish vehicles originated from Syrian Army... Read More about Kurdish armour against ISIS : YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-2019.

SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2021)
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Thomas, A., Ibrahim, A., Abraham, A., Halilu, A., Adeosun, A., Court, A., …Whitehead, H. (2021). H. Bury, S. Gowda, T. Ireland, L. Mitchell, E. Oginni, T. Poppelreuter, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, United Kingdom: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2021 SPARC conference. Our conference is called “Against All Odds” as we celebrate the achievements of our PGRs and their supervisors, who have continued to excel despite the most challenging circumstances. Fo... Read More about SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

The COVID Clay Diary (2021)
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Tait, A. (2021). The COVID Clay Diary. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Wednesday 10.38am

I’m afraid...

Well, maybe not afraid, but disconcerted, unsettled, a little
perturbed. The ground beneath my feet feels unstable, a bit like one of those fairground attractions I remember from my childhood
with the slidin... Read More about The COVID Clay Diary.

The Spazju Kreattiv Art Collection (2020)
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Sant, T. (2020). The Spazju Kreattiv Art Collection. Malta: Fondazzjoni Kreattività

This book captures the essence of the Spazju Kreattiv Art Collection as it stood on the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the organization entrusted with the legal remit to operate Malta’s national centre for creativity since 2000. It is... Read More about The Spazju Kreattiv Art Collection.

Phrases towards a Kinepoetics (2020)
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Thurston, S. (2020). Phrases towards a Kinepoetics. Brighton: Contraband

This sequence of twenty-five poems is the latest product of a sixteen-year process of integrating dance and movement into my poetic practice. The poems draw on the practice of Five Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Authentic Movement, Alexander Technique,... Read More about Phrases towards a Kinepoetics.

Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful (2020)
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Miah, A. (2020). Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful. Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781838679859

Against the backdrop of an increasingly dynamic world, driven by rapid digital innovation and technological advances, drones are becoming prolific within society. In this book, Andy Miah delivers a comprehensive analysis of the wide-reaching applicat... Read More about Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful.

Global Standard Setting in Internet Governance (2020)
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Harcourt, A., Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2020). Global Standard Setting in Internet Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841524.001.0001

The book addresses representation of the public interest in Internet standard developing organisations (SDOs). Much of the existing literature on Internet governance focuses on international organisations such as the United Nations (UN), the Internet... Read More about Global Standard Setting in Internet Governance.

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader (2019)
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Wilkie, I. (2020). I. Wilkie (Ed.), The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429057526

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcos20">Comedy Studies</a> in the decade since its inception in 2010.

The Reader illustr... Read More about The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader.

Purple reign : A collection of poetry and prose inspired by the life and music of Prince (2019)
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by the life and music of Prince. Liverpool: Erbacce Press

This work is presented as a collection of practice-based
research, responding to the academic questions posed by
“Purple Reign: an interdisciplinary conference on the life
and legacy of Prince” (24th - 26th May 2017) organised
by The University o... Read More about Purple reign : A collection of poetry and prose inspired by the life and music of Prince.

White masculinity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema (2019)
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Deakin, P. (2019). White masculinity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema. Lexington

At the turn of the millennium, cultural and gender commentators were announcing that an apocalypse was under way. Men were changing. Patriarchy was crumbling. Masculinity, in short, was in crisis. Inaugurating a collective of what I would like to lab... Read More about White masculinity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema.

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
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Aarons, T., Abduljawad, S. A. S., Aboelkheir, A., Addis, M. C., Adeboye, O., Adeniyi, I. A., …Yusup, N. H. (2019). E. M. Barnes, D. Greensmith, M. Griffiths, U. Hurley, T. Ireland, C. Starbuck, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art (2019)
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Crawford, G., & Hancock, D. (2019). Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15966-5

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.


Drawing on new and original ethnographic data, as well as the in... Read More about Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art.

The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939 (2019)
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O'Reilly, C. (2019). The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315866840

Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteent... Read More about The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939.