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Global Literature and the Environment (2024)
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Whittle, M., & Munslow Ong, J. (in press). Global Literature and the Environment. London and New York: Routledge

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of imperialist-c... Read More about Global Literature and the Environment.

States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s (2024)
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Hayward, R., Smith, E., & Willis, A. (Eds.). (2024). States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s. Manchester UK: Manchester University Press

States of danger and deceit places key films (Z (1969), The Mattei Affair (1972), State of Siege (1972), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Illustrious Corpses (1976)) and filmmakers (Costa-Gavras, Elio Petri, Francesco Rosi, Volker Schlöndorf... Read More about States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s.

Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image (2024)
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Smith, P. B. (2024). Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association. https://doi.org/10.59860/mi.b69945a

State and corporate violence has always been waged on material space. However, with the escalation of late-capitalist and neocolonial modes of extraction, incarceration, and bordering, these processes of spatial exploitation are accelerating and morp... Read More about Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image.

Olive Schreiner: writing networks and global contexts (2023)
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Munslow Ong, J., & van der Vlies, A. (Eds.). (2023). Olive Schreiner: writing networks and global contexts. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press

This collection of essays considers the significance of South African-born writer, activist and thinker Olive Schreiner in international and multidisciplinary contexts in her time – and the ongoing relevance of her work to our own. A leading writer o... Read More about Olive Schreiner: writing networks and global contexts.

Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender representations, creative labour and global histories (2023)
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Chan, F., Elliott, F., & Willis, A. (Eds.). (2023). Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender representations, creative labour and global histories. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Examines the work of women in East Asian Cinema in front of and behind the screen Highlights understudied areas on women’s contributions to film – East Asian film in particular Highlights importance of re-historicising women’s creative labour in fi... Read More about Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender representations, creative labour and global histories.

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

2023 SPARC Book Of Abstracts (2023)
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Salihu, Y., Idegbekwe, D., Ige, H., Rafati, P., Scanlan, J., Alhasso, B., …Usman, N. (2023). T. Ireland (Ed.), 2023 SPARC Book Of Abstracts. University of Salford

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.

Communicating linguistics: language, community and public engagement (2023)
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(2023). H. Price, & D. McIntyre (Eds.), Communicating linguistics: language, community and public engagement. Routledge

Increasingly, academics are called upon to demonstrate the value of linguistics and explain their research to the wider public. In support of this agenda, Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement provides an overview of th... Read More about Communicating linguistics: language, community and public engagement.

Newspaper building design and journalism cultures in Australia and the UK, 1855-2010 (2022)
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O'Reilly, C., & Vine, J. (2022). Newspaper building design and journalism cultures in Australia and the UK, 1855-2010. London: Routledge

Because of rapid change in journalism, mostly caused by digital technology, the newsroom appears to be becoming obsolete. The book is, in part, a response to the increasing scrutiny of journalism and the framework of general distrust in which the pro... Read More about Newspaper building design and journalism cultures in Australia and the UK, 1855-2010.

Divergent women: interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent (2022)
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(2022). L. Rumson, & A. Bentham (Eds.), Divergent women: interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent. Emerald

A ‘good woman’ is hard to find. To be ‘good’, after all, women face expectations that are shifting, internally contradictory, emotionally extreme, and prospectively even deadly. To be divergent, on the other hand, is an expansive position, encompassi... Read More about Divergent women: interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent.

Terrorist recruitment, propaganda and branding : selling terror online (2022)
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Kruglova, A. (2022). Terrorist recruitment, propaganda and branding : selling terror online. UK: Routledge

This book analyses the marketing techniques that terrorist organisations employ to encourage people to adopt their ideology and become devoted supporters. The book’s central thesis is that due to the development of digital technologies and social... Read More about Terrorist recruitment, propaganda and branding : selling terror online.

Rethinking horror in the new economies of television (2022)
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Gaynor, S. (2022). Rethinking horror in the new economies of television. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97589-0

This book explores the cycle of horror on US television in the decade following the launch of The Walking Dead, considering the horror genre from an industrial perspective. Examining TV horror through rich industrial and textual analysis, this book r... Read More about Rethinking horror in the new economies of television.

The Babel Lexicon of Language (2022)
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McIntyre, D., Jeffries, L., Evans, M., Price, H., & Gold, E. (2022). The Babel Lexicon of Language. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886062

What's the word that describes the process of making supportive noises when you're listening to someone? What is syntax and how does it differ from grammar? Do you know what a morpheme is? And did you know that it's not only an atom that has a nucleu... Read More about The Babel Lexicon of Language.

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.

Northern Irish writing after the Troubles : intimacies, affects, pleasures (2021)
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Magennis, C. (2021). Northern Irish writing after the Troubles : intimacies, affects, pleasures. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350074750

The period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has seen a sustained decrease in violence and, at the same time, Northern Ireland has undergone a literary renaissance, with a fresh generation of writers exploring innovative literary forms. This bo... Read More about Northern Irish writing after the Troubles : intimacies, affects, pleasures.

Terminology translation in Chinese contexts - theory and practice (2021)
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Li, S., & Hope, W. (2021). S. Li, & W. Hope (Eds.), Terminology translation in Chinese contexts - theory and practice. Abingdon, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003006688

Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice investigates the theory and practice of terminology translation, terminology management, and scholarship within the distinctive milieu of Chinese and explores the complex relationship b... Read More about Terminology translation in Chinese contexts - theory and practice.