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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2022Distant sisters
Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880–1914
by James Keating
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for the expansion of women's electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial suffrage campaigns, Distant Sisters uncovers the personal and material networks that transformed feminist organising. Considering intimate and institutional connections, well-connected elites and ordinary women, this book argues developments in Auckland, Sydney, and Adelaide-long considered the peripheries of the feminist world-cannot be separated from its glamourous metropoles. Focusing on Antipodean women, simultaneously insiders and outsiders in the emerging international women's movement, and documenting the failures of their expansive vision alongside its successes, this book reveals a more contingent history of international organising and challenges celebratory accounts of fin-de-siècle global connection.
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Children's & YAThings. My 200 Picture Book
by Magdalena Skala
The very smallest children can identify and name objects from their homes in this award-winning, large-format board book. Magdalena Skala’s fantastic illustrations use bright colours and clear forms to depict the most important objects from the nursery, kitchen, garden, lounge, bathroom – in short from children’s everyday worlds: a great start into the world of words – and books! Magdalena Skala was awarded the 2019 Meefisch Prize and the Marktheidenfeld Prize for picture book illustration for THINGS. MY 200-PICTURE BOOK.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureMarch 1905The First Book of Farming
by Charles L. Goodrich
This book is a result of the author's search for these facts and truths as a student and farmer and his endeavor as a teacher to present them in a simple manner to others. The object in presenting the book to the general public is the hope that it may be of assistance to farmers, students and teachers, in their search for the fundamental truths and principles of farming.
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2023The Island Book of Records Volume I
1959-68
by Neil Storey
The Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life. A fifteen-year labour of love, the volumes will fully document the analogue era of Island. Offering a comprehensive archive of album cover design and photography, together with the voices of the musicians, designers, photographers, producers, studio engineers and record company personnel that worked on each project, the volumes show in unique depth the workings of the label, covering every LP. Featuring material from recent interviews and from media interviews of the time, and each including a comprehensive discography of 45s, the books are lavishly illustrated with gig adverts (very many at venues which no longer exist), concert tickets, flyers, international LP variants, labels, LP and 45 adverts and other ephemera. These LP-sized editions are a collector's dream, offering a truly unparalleled resource for those interested in music history and a perfect gift for any music lover.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2021Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
by Laura Kalas, Laura Varnam, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz
This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe, characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses, including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to come.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2023Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
by Laura Kalas, Laura Varnam
This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe, characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses, including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to come.
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Business, Economics & LawNovember 2024
The Island Book of Records Volume II
1969-70
by Neil Storey
The second volume of this highly collectable series, covering the pivotal years of 1969-70. The Island Book of Records Volume II documents the years 1969-70, during which Island sought to build on its success with the Spencer Davis Group by seeking out new British rock talent. By the end of the period, Island was emerging as a major British label, one that could boast releases from Jethro Tull, Nick Drake, King Crimson, John and Beverley Martyn, Fairport Convention and Cat Stevens. Featuring material from recent interviews and from media interviews of the time, and including a comprehensive discography of 45s, The Island Book of Records Volume II is lavishly illustrated with gig adverts (very many at venues that no longer exist), concert tickets, flyers, international LP variants, labels, LP and 45 adverts and other ephemera collector's dream.
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February 2023Book Love
Eine Liebeserklärung an das Lesen - Ein Muss für alle, die Bücher lieben (deutsche Hardcover-Ausgabe)
by Debbie Tung, Debbie Tung, Katharina Hartwell
Jeder Tag ist ein guter Tag für Bücher. Zumindest für Debbie, die an keiner Buchhandlung vorbeigehen kann, ohne einen großen Bücherstapel mitzunehmen. Debbie genießt Bücher mit allen Sinnen. Sie kann an ihnen riechen, sie streicheln, sogar Sport damit machen. Und manchmal kann sie sie hören. Dann ruft ein Buch: „Lies mich!“, wenn Debbie eigentlich gerade etwas ganz anderes tun wollte. Vor allem aber gilt für Debbie: Bücher können zaubern und uns in andere Welten versetzen. Denn wer ein Leseleben führt, lebt viele Leben auf einmal. Book Love ist eine einzige Liebeserklärung an das Medium Buch und das Lesen und ein Must-have für alle Buchliebhaber*innen.
