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Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth
Encounters, Creativity and Female Agency
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Tongan barkcloth, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, still features lavishly in Polynesian ceremonies all over the world. Yet despite the attention paid to this textile by anthropologists and art historians alike, little is known about its history. Providing a unique insight into...
Accent and Teacher Identity in Britain
Linguistic Favouritism and Imposed Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
In British society, we celebrate diversity and champion equality across many areas, such as race and religion. However, where do British accents stand? Do notions such as 'common' or 'posh' still exist regarding certain accents, to the extent that people are deemed fit, or not, for certain professions,...
Sport and Social Movements
From the Local to the Global
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, resistance and activism have been present...
The World Since 1945
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
A masterly synthesis of the history of the contemporary world, The World Since 1945 offers the ideal introduction to the events of the period between the end of the Second World War and the present day. P. M. H. Bell and Mark Gilbert balance a clear narrative with in-depth analysis to guide the reader...
by Dr. A. J. Tebble
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, was an influential economist and political philosopher. The increased attention he received in the late 20th century with the rise of conservatism in the US and UK, led him to publish "Why I Am Not a Conservative,"...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
How can school leaders shape organisations that offer consistently high quality, rounded and equitable education in the context of rapid change?
How can wider school systems support and encourage all schools to succeed in this way?
School Leadership and Education System Reform considers the...
Digital Technologies in Early Childhood Art
Enabling Playful Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Through art children make sense of their experiences and the world around them. Drawing, painting, collage and modelling are open-ended and playful processes through which children engage in physical exploration, aesthetic decision-making, identity construction and social understanding. As digital...
Museums and Communities
Curators, Collections and Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising...
Modern South Africa in World History
Beyond Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication. South African modernity is understood in terms of the interplay between internal and external forces. Key historical themes, including the emergence of an industrialised economy, the development...
by John Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The Welfare Revolution of the early 20th century did not start with Clement Attlee's Labour governments of 1945 to 1951 but had its origins in the Liberal government of forty years earlier. The British Welfare Revolution, 1906-14 offers a fresh perspective on the social reforms introduced by these...
The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2)
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating.
In...
Jonathan Coe
Contemporary British Satire
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In novels such as What A Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the great satirical writers of our time. Covering all of his major novels, including his most recent book Number 11, Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satireincludes chapters by leading and emerging...
Popular Modernism and Its Legacies
From Pop Literature to Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Popular Modernism and Its Legacies reconfigures modernist studies to investigate how modernist concepts, figures, and aesthetics continue to play essential--though often undetected--roles across an array of contemporary works, genres, and mediums.
Featuring both established and emerging scholars,...
Sexuality and Gender at Home
Experience, Politics, Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality...