Ucl Press imprint: 50 books

by Professor Dilly Fung, Professor of Higher Education Development & Academic Director UCL Centre for Advancing Learning and
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017

Is it possible to bring university research and student education into a more connected, more symbiotic relationship? If so, can we develop programmes of study that enable faculty, students and ‘real world’ communities to connect in new ways? In this accessible book, Dilly Fung argues that it...

Why Icebergs Float

Exploring Science in Everyday Life

by Dr Andrew Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016

From paintings and food to illness and icebergs, science is happening everywhere. Rather than follow the path of a syllabus or textbook, Andrew Morris takes examples from the science we see every day and uses them as entry points to explain a number of fundamental scientific concepts – from understanding...
by Jeremy Bentham, Professor J.H. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to...
by Dr Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015

The role of fossil planktonic foraminifera as markers for biostratigraphical zonation and correlation underpins most drilling of marine sedimentary sequences and is key to hydrocarbon exploration. The first - and only - book to synthesize the whole biostratigraphic and geological usefulness of planktonic...

Sustainable Food Systems

The Role of the City

by Dr Robert Biel, PhD, Senior Lecturer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions. This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today’s global food crisis. By...

Brexit and Beyond

Rethinking the Futures of Europe

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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018

Brexit will have significant consequences for the country, for Europe, and for global order. And yet much discussion of Brexit in the UK has focused on the causes of the vote and on its consequences for the future of British politics. This volume examines the consequences of Brexit for the future...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

This book provides a broad overview of the key concepts in public archaeology, a research field that examines the relationship between archaeology and the public, in both theoretical and practical terms. While based on the long-standing programme of undergraduate and graduate teaching in public archaeology...

Developing the Higher Education Curriculum

Research-Based Education in Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017

A complementary volume to Dilly Fung’s A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education (2017), this book explores ‘research-based education’ as applied in practice within the higher education sector. A collection of 15 chapters followed by illustrative vignettes, it showcases approaches to engaging...

Memorandoms by James Martin

An Astonishing Escape from Early New South Wales

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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017

Among the vast body of manuscripts composed and collected by the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), held by UCL Library’s Special Collections, is the earliest Australian convict narrative, Memorandoms by James Martin. This document also happens to be the only extant first-hand...

An Anthropology of Landscape

The Extraordinary in the Ordinary

by Kate Cameron-Daum, Professor Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous...

Social Theory after the Internet

Media, Technology, and Globalization

by Professor Ralph Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018

The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations....
by Professor Daniel Miller, Professor of Anthropology, Dr Elisabetta Costa
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impact...

Social Media in an English Village

(Or how to keep people at just the right distance)

by Professor Daniel Miller, Professor of Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post...
by Edward King, Joanna Page
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017

Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic...
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