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J.F.C. Fuller's assessment of Winston Churchill as grand strategist, 1939-1945 (2015)
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Searle, D. (2015). J.F.C. Fuller's assessment of Winston Churchill as grand strategist, 1939-1945. Global war studies (Online), 12(3), 46-81. https://doi.org/10.5893/19498489.120302

It is generally well known that Major-General J.F.C. Fuller was a strong critic of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's grand strategy and strategic decision-making during the Second World War. Historian's of Fuller's life, military theories an... Read More about J.F.C. Fuller's assessment of Winston Churchill as grand strategist, 1939-1945.

The Virtual Worlds Project: geological mapping and field skills (2015)
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Houghton, J. J., Lloyd, G. E., Robinson, A., Gordon, C. E., & Morgan, D. J. (2015). The Virtual Worlds Project: geological mapping and field skills. Geology Today, 31(6), 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12117

The Virtual Worlds Project is a UK collaboration between the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, and the Leeds College of Art, to build a virtual environment in which to learn and practice basic geological mapping skills. Using the... Read More about The Virtual Worlds Project: geological mapping and field skills.

ArcGIS to Unity: a design pipeline for creation of 3D terrain in serious egames for geology (2015)
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Robinson, A., Gordon, C. E., Houghton, J., Lloyd, G. E., & Morgan, D. J. (2015). ArcGIS to Unity: a design pipeline for creation of 3D terrain in serious egames for geology. Geology Today, 31(6), 237-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12121

One of the key challenges during the development of the Virtual World Project ‘egame environment’ discussed in this issue was the creation of the digital virtual landscape from an original 2002 base map of a field area. In this [online] paper we will... Read More about ArcGIS to Unity: a design pipeline for creation of 3D terrain in serious egames for geology.

Graphic design educators’ network : re-establishing the purpose and value of a graphic design subject association (2015)
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Burns, J., Corazzo, J., Hardie, K., Harland, R., & Raven, D. (2015). Graphic design educators’ network : re-establishing the purpose and value of a graphic design subject association. Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, 14(2), 199-205. https://doi.org/10.1386/adch.14.2.199_3

This report discusses the Graphic Design Educators’ Network (GDEN): a fledgling subject association that has pedagogic practice, research and scholarship at its heart. The rationale and impetus for creating the network – its origins, development, aim... Read More about Graphic design educators’ network : re-establishing the purpose and value of a graphic design subject association.

Here[…] there : a game of childhood (2015)
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Carson, J., & Miller, R. (2015). Here[…] there : a game of childhood. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37(5), 641-649. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2015.1075702

A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change) (2015)
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Peters, L. (2015). A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change). Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 14(4), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022215591102

The Radio 4 comedy-drama A Higher Education was written in 1999 to present a satire of a dysfunctional and cash-strapped university (Northfield) led by the egotistical and amoral Head of Drama Don Crookfield (Rik Mayall). For those of us passionately... Read More about A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change).

Spitalfields Life (2015)
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Yates, M. (2015). Spitalfields Life. #Journal not on list, 2, 225-228

Between the democratisation of international relations and status quo politics : Russia's foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme (2015)
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This article sheds light on Russia’s foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme and analyses to what extent Russia’s Iran policies are indicative of a security culture that resists hegemony. Following a two-level model between a discursive... Read More about Between the democratisation of international relations and status quo politics : Russia's foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme.

Re-writing Protestant History in the novels of Glenn Patterson (2015)
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Magennis, C. (2015). Re-writing Protestant History in the novels of Glenn Patterson. Irish Studies Review, 23(3), 348-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2015.1058143

This article considers the representation of the history of Belfast in Glenn Patterson's 2012 novel The Mill for Grinding Old People Young. It situates this novel within the context of Patterson's previous work and the history of the Northern Irish n... Read More about Re-writing Protestant History in the novels of Glenn Patterson.

The fatal attraction of civil war economies: foreign direct investment and political violence. A case study of Colombia (2015)
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Maher, D. (2015). The fatal attraction of civil war economies: foreign direct investment and political violence. A case study of Colombia. International Studies Review, 17(2), 217-248. https://doi.org/10.1111/misr.12218

Civil war acutely inhibits economic growth, according to a prominent set of civil war literature. However, recent scholarship observes that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), considered a central vehicle of growth, is entering countries with internal a... Read More about The fatal attraction of civil war economies: foreign direct investment and political violence. A case study of Colombia.

Italian political science and Italian politics : the (Curious) elephant in the room (2015)
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Bull, M. (2015). Italian political science and Italian politics : the (Curious) elephant in the room. Contemporary Italian Politics, 7(2), 185-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2015.1033927

Using as a starting point the 40th anniversary of Italian political science in 2013 and the volume published to mark this occasion (Pasquino, G., M. Regalia and M. Valbruzzi. Eds. Quarant’anni di scienza politica in Italia. Bologna: il Mulino, 2013),... Read More about Italian political science and Italian politics : the (Curious) elephant in the room.