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Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance and the Public Space (2025)
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This book examines media, performance, and the public space as sites of intangible cultural heritage—a heritage that moves beyond physical museums and monuments to encompass film and media, performing arts, oral traditions, social practices, rituals,... Read More about Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance and the Public Space.

MAY DAY (2025)
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May Day is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay.

These poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Ka... Read More about MAY DAY.

Intelligence, Security and the State: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community (2025)
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This book uncovers the evolution of Britain's intelligence community from its modern-day origins during the Edwardian spy scares, through two world wars and the Cold War and up to the end of the twentieth century.
Exploring a century of British inte... Read More about Intelligence, Security and the State: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community.

Coorie Doon: A Scottish Lullaby Story (2025)
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The stunning debut picture book from Jackie Kay, one of the UK's foremost poets, rooted in familiar folk songs, and injected with gloriously lyrical old Scots.

When Shona was a wee bit bairn
Her daddy would sing Coorie Doon,
Till she cooried doo... Read More about Coorie Doon: A Scottish Lullaby Story.

Reporting the Courts (2024)
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This book makes a critical intervention into debates about journalism and the crisis in local news. Interrogating the history and current practice of court coverage in the UK, the author argues for its importance as a central feature of both open jus... Read More about Reporting the Courts.

Terrorist Informers in Northern Ireland (2024)
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By using informers to provide intelligence on terrorism, the security and intelligence agencies who handle them gain knowledge of their offences. Charges may then be brought against them, provided evidence supports this course of action. But if impri... Read More about Terrorist Informers in Northern Ireland.

Cultural Encounters in the Age of Globalism (2024)
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This book examines encounters between different cultures during the Global Age, outlining their historical, social, political, and economic contexts. Based around themes including tourism, migration, protest, display of cultures, and the examination... Read More about Cultural Encounters in the Age of Globalism.

Maestri of Political Science : Volume 3 (2024)
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This books fills a gap in reflective political science literature, but adopts a different focus to the usual thematic debates. It captures the people behind the contributions, their careers and their intellectual journeys. Moreover, in focusing on th... Read More about Maestri of Political Science : Volume 3.

Failsafe: a choreography (2024)
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Failsafe: A Choreography by Scott Thurston offers an entrancing fusion of movement and language, inviting readers into a kinetic journey where poetry and dance entwine. Each phrase pulses with energy, unraveling the body in motion, while the rhythm o... Read More about Failsafe: a choreography.

Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy (2024)
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This book explores female authorship in UK television comedy. More specifically, it examines comedy texts produced between 2010 and 2020, a period marked by a proliferation of female-centric and female-created comedy.

In the following order, come... Read More about Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy.

Animal Activism On and Off Screen (2024)
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Herring, L., & Parkinson, C. (2024). Animal Activism On and Off Screen. Sydney University Press. https://doi.org/10.30722/sup.9781743329757

Animal Activism On and Off Screen examines the relationship between animal advocacy and the film and television industries. Leading scholars, activists, and film industry professionals critically analyse the ways in which animal activism has been rep... Read More about Animal Activism On and Off Screen.

2024 SPARC Book Of Abstracts (2024)
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Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2024 SPARC conference. Our conference this year was called “Celebrating your research and growing your networks”, with a focus theme of sustainability.

Sustainability is important for us all, sustaining the... Read More about 2024 SPARC Book Of Abstracts.

Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation: Where Language Thickens (2024)
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Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation: Where Language Thickens breaks new ground, investigating the initiation and furthering of academic thought in creative writing research and practice and in the processes, products and theorie... Read More about Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation: Where Language Thickens.

States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s (2024)
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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.

Global Literature and the Environment (2024)
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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.

Harpy: a manifesto for childfree women (2024)
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Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family' VOGUE 'Harpy made me nod in recognition, and shake my head wi... Read More about Harpy: a manifesto for childfree women.

The Little Book of Design for Policy (2024)
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This Little Book explains what Design Research is and how it can be used in relation to policy making. It includes examples of projects where design research and policy come together and methods which might be used to do more of this in the future.

Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image (2024)
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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.

Hollywood and China in the Post-postclassical Era (2024)
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This book examines the contemporary relationship between Hollywood and China as case studies that help to define a new era in Hollywood film industry, style, and economics, which is termed the ‘post‑postclassical’ period.

Centred around a case stu... Read More about Hollywood and China in the Post-postclassical Era.

Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture (2024)
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Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only recently that the role of gesture during utterance production and comprehension has bee... Read More about Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture.