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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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.

Kurdish armour against ISIS : YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-2019 (2021)
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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.

The COVID Clay Diary (2021)
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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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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.

Global Standard Setting in Internet Governance (2020)
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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 legacy of Mad Men : cultural history, intermediality and American television (2019)
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McNally, K., Marcellus, J., Forde, T., & Fairclough, K. (2019). The legacy of Mad Men : cultural history, intermediality and American television. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31091-2

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.

The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939 (2019)
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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.

Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future (2019)
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McMurtry, L. (2019). Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future. Intellect Books

This book is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. This volume examines the aesthetic, cultural and technical elements of audio drama along with its context within the literary canon. It pr... Read More about Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future.

Intelligence and espionage : secrets and spies (2019)
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Lomas, D., & Murphy, C. (2019). Intelligence and espionage : secrets and spies. Routledge

Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence – a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security. Separating fact from fiction, the book draws on past examples to expl... Read More about Intelligence and espionage : secrets and spies.

Regulation, Governance and Convergence in the Media (2018)
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With digital technologies blurring media boundaries, this book provides a detailed analysis of how the Internet is producing a convergence of the press, audio-visual and online media. Based on extensive empirical analysis, the authors analyse over 25... Read More about Regulation, Governance and Convergence in the Media.

Gender, institutions and political representation : reproducing male dominance in Europe’s new democracies (2017)
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Chiva, M. (2017). Gender, institutions and political representation : reproducing male dominance in Europe’s new democracies. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-01177-0

This book traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout... Read More about Gender, institutions and political representation : reproducing male dominance in Europe’s new democracies.

The concise Scots dictionary (2nd edition) (2017)
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The Concise Scots Dictionary (second edition) is the ideal reference work for readers, learners, speakers and students of the Scots language. Updated in 2017 from the first edition in 1985, it is the single most authoritative volume on the history, p... Read More about The concise Scots dictionary (2nd edition).

Poems for the dance (2017)
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Containing an essay, and poems, occasioned by the author’s engagement with Five Rhythms and other improvised dance and movement practices over more than a decade, Poems for the Dance is a multi-faceted enquiry into the relationship between poetry and... Read More about Poems for the dance.

The changing spaces of television acting : from studio realism to location realism in BBC television drama (2017)
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Spanning the 1950s to the present day, The changing spaces of television is both a historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. By examining changing acting styles from distinct eras of television prod... Read More about The changing spaces of television acting : from studio realism to location realism in BBC television drama.

Music/video : histories, aesthetics, media (2017)
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(2017). G. Arnold, D. Cookney, K. Fairclough, & M. Goddard (Eds.), Music/video : histories, aesthetics, media. Bloomsbury Academic

This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains... Read More about Music/video : histories, aesthetics, media.

The story of Manchester (2017)
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Manchester is noted for the ‘Industrial Revolution’ – its factories, working-class people and urban development all based around its production of cotton textiles. But this is not the complete story. Manchester has always been a more vibrant place wh... Read More about The story of Manchester.

Applied theatre : creative ageing (2017)
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McCormick, S. (2017). M. Balfour, & S. Preston (Eds.), Applied theatre : creative ageing. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the complex social, political and cultural needs of a diverse group in our society and asks how contemporary applied theatre responds to those needs. For the first time, this publication allows an examination... Read More about Applied theatre : creative ageing.