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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2022Class, work and whiteness
Race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79
by Nicola Ginsburgh
This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and nationally heterogeneous formation comprised of both men and women, and emphasises the active participation of white workers in the ongoing and contested production of race. White wage labourers' experiences, both as exploited workers and as part of the privileged white minority, offer insight into how race and class co-produced one another and how boundaries fundamental to settler colonialism were regulated and policed. Based on original research conducted in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK, this book offers a unique theoretical synthesis of work on gender, whiteness studies, labour histories, settler colonialism, Marxism, emotions and the New African Economic History.
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2024Walking in the dark
James Baldwin, my father and I
by Douglas Field
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Class, work and whiteness
by Nicola Ginsburgh, Alan Lester
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November 2025Reimagining business schools for the 21st century
Alliance Manchester Business School
by Kenneth McPhail, James Pendrill
Whether it's dealing with regional economic disparities, global geopolitical upheaval, climate change, or the impact of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, we are living in pivotal times. To mark its 60th anniversary in 2025, this accessible book from Alliance Manchester Business School outlines in detail how business schools can play a significant role in confronting these huge challenges, and equip the next generation of business leaders with the skills they need to embrace them. Informing public and political debate on the role of business in both the causes and solutions to our biggest challenges the book offers a rethinking of the role of business in society. It will also discuss specific examples of how collaborations with business are leading to impact and change in society. Featuring a range of thought-provoking essays co-authored by eminent academics and business leaders, this collection will challenge the status quo and outline how business and management research is helping address grand challenges, generate economic growth, inform policy development, and define business thinking over the next generation.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2022Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1
The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now
by Douglas Field
This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake's work from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture. Opening with two articles by the late Michael Horovitz, an important figure in the 'Blake Renaissance' of the 1960s, the issue goes on to investigate the ideological struggle over Blake in the early part of the twentieth century, with particular reference to W. B. Yeats. This is followed by articles on the artistic avant-garde and underground of the 1960s and on Blake's significance for science fiction authors of the 1970s. The issue closes with an article on the contemporary Belgian art collective maelstrÖm reEvolution.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2024Culture is bad for you
by Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien, Mark Taylor
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2022Inside the English education lab
by Christy Kulz, Kirsty Morrin, Ruth McGinity
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August 2021Escape School 4. Achtung, Zombies!
by Jule Ambach, Timo Müller-Wegner, Stefanie Wegner
Die Zombies sind los! Halloween in der Escape School: Die Schülerinnen und Schüler feiern in gruseligen Kostümen und mit dabei sind natürlich auch die Leser:innen. Doch was ist das? Plötzlich stürmen echte Zombies die Party auf der Suche nach etwas Essbarem. Jetzt gilt es, die gruseligen Kreaturen wieder loszuwerden, bevor sie noch Appetit auf Menschen entwickeln. Wer hilft mit? Spannendes Escape-Rätsel für Kinder ab 7 Jahren. Packende Storyline und viele Rätsel, inklusive Rätsel-Postkarte. Perfekt geeignet, um Leseanfänger für das Lesen zu begeistern. In der Escape-School-Reihe sind bisher fünf Bände erschienen. Gelistet bei Antolin.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2020Christmas in nineteenth-century England
by Neil Armstrong
Whether for reasons of family, food, shopping or religion, it's hard to imagine a British winter without Christmas, or to think of a more traditional national festival. But how and when did Christmas cards, pantomimes and advertising become part of that tradition? This book looks at how people in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries experienced Christmas and how today's priorities and rituals began and endured. It explores the origins of our deeply held notions around Christmas traditions and demonstrates how those ideas were in fact shaped by the fast-paced modernisation of English life. A fascinating account of the development of many things we now take for granted, the book touches on the history of childhood and the family, philanthropy and work, and the beginnings of consumerism that shaped the Christmas we know today.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2023Politics, performance and popular culture
Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain
by Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey, Jeffrey Richards
This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.
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The ArtsApril 2025Beautiful doom
The work of Dennis Kelly on stage and screen
by Jacqueline Bolton, Nicholas Holden
Dennis Kelly's award-winning plays have been translated into over thirty languages and produced on six continents. His endlessly inventive vision has produced a diverse body of work for a variety of audiences across a range of forms, genres, and media, from the Olivier and Tony Award-winning Matilda the Musical (2010), to the Channel Four cult-classic series Utopia. His 2008 play DNA, written for National Theatre Connections, is a set text on the AQA GCSE English Literature syllabus. This collection of essays written by leading scholars, teachers, and practitioners of theatre provides the first multi-authored study of Kelly's critically acclaimed oeuvre. Featuring an original interview with Kelly himself, this volume captures the full range and scope of his writing for stage and screen, from the quirky fringe debut Debris (2003) to the globally-distributed film adaptation of Matilda the Musical (2022).
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August 2025Escape School 3. Der Schrumpf-Kristall
by Anne Scheller, Timo Müller-Wegner, Stefanie Wegner
Lesen lernen mit Escape Room-Rätseln Eigentlich ist alles ganz normal im Internat, auch wenn das alte schlossähnliche Gebäude ein wenig gruselig aussieht. Doch dann verschwindet eine Schülerin spurlos und gemeinsam mit den Freunden Tom und Anni machen sich die Leser*innen auf die Suche. Als zu allem Überfluss auch noch Tom plötzlich geschrumpft wird, wissen die „Ermittler“: Die Zeit wird knapp!Eine spannende Escape-Geschichte mit coolen Rätseln, die auch größere Kids fesselt. Mit packender Storyline und vielen Geheimnissen – jetzt endlich als Taschenbuch. Perfekt geeignet, um Leseanfänger*innen für das Lesen zu begeistern. In der Escape-School-Reihe sind bisher fünf Bände erschienen. Gelistet bei Antolin. Escape School 3. Der Schrumpf-Kristall: Ein interaktives Kinderbuch für Escape-Fans Spurlos verschwunden: Spannendes Escape Room-Buch für Leseanfänger*innen ab 7 Jahren in einer handlichen Taschenbuchausgabe. Ein mysteriöser Kristall: Tom und Anni versuchen, das Geheimnis um ihre verschwundene Mitschülerin und den schrumpfenden Tom zu lösen. Rätselspaß pur: In dem spannenden Mitmachbuch treffen kleine Escape-Fans aktiv Entscheidungen und beeinflussen so den Verlauf der Geschichte. Lesen lernen mit Kindern: Die geniale Kombination aus gruseliger Story und Escape Room-Spiel motiviert Erstleser*innen zum Lesen und Rätseln. Lesekompetenz fördern: Das Escape-Buch ist ein tolles Geschenk für 7-Jährige Kinder, das ganz nebenbei spielerisch Kreativität und logisches Denken trainiert. Die Reihe „Escape School“ verbindet packende Abenteuer mit kniffligen Escape Room-Rätseln und einem Hauch Magie. Kinder ab 7 Jahren werden durch die Geschichte geführt und müssen aktiv Entscheidungen treffen, die den Verlauf beeinflussen und sie zu einem Teil der Bücher werden lassen.Die gruselig-rätseligen Erstlesebücher gibt es jetzt als günstige Taschenbuchausgaben zum Lesestart.
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August 2025Escape School 2. Der unheimliche Nebel
by Jule Ambach, Timo Müller-Wegner, Stefanie Wegner
Lesen lernen mit Escape Room-Rätseln Das gibt’s doch nicht: Im Schulgebäude sind alle Kinder und Lehrer erstarrt – als ob sie in einen Dornröschenschlaf gefallen wären. Was ist passiert? Hat jemand etwas ins Frühstück gemischt? Und kann der Lügende Spiegel den entscheidenden Hinweis geben? Mithilfe verschiedener Rätsel liegt es an dir als Leser*in herauszufinden, was geschehen ist. Denn nur du kannst die Schule retten!Spannendes Escape-Rätsel für Kinder ab 7 Jahren. Packende Storyline und viele Rätsel, jetzt endlich als Taschenbuch. Perfekt geeignet, um Leseanfänger*innen für das Lesen zu begeistern. In der Escape-School-Reihe sind bisher fünf Bände erschienen. Gelistet bei Antolin. Escape School 2. Der unheimliche Nebel: Ein interaktives Kinderbuch für Escape-Fans Ein Internat im Tiefschlaf: Spannendes Escape Room-Buch für Leseanfänger*innen ab 7 Jahren in einer handlichen Taschenbuchausgabe. Der mysteriöse Schlaf: Tom und Anni und Äffchen Katta müssen herausfinden, warum die ganze Schule in einen tiefen Schlaf gefallen ist. Rätselspaß pur: In dem spannenden Mitmachbuch treffen kleine Escape-Fans aktiv Entscheidungen und beeinflussen so den Verlauf der Geschichte. Lesen lernen mit Kindern: Die geniale Kombination aus gruseliger Story und Escape Room-Spiel motiviert Erstleser*innen zum Lesen und Rätseln. Lesekompetenz fördern: Das Escape-Buch ist ein tolles Geschenk für 7-Jährige Kinder, das ganz nebenbei spielerisch Kreativität und logisches Denken trainiert. Die Reihe „Escape School“ verbindet packende Abenteuer mit kniffligen Escape Room-Rätseln und einem Hauch Magie. Kinder ab 7 Jahren werden durch die Geschichte geführt und müssen aktiv Entscheidungen treffen, die den Verlauf beeinflussen und sie zu einem Teil der Bücher werden lassen.Die gruselig-rätseligen Erstlesebücher gibt es jetzt als günstige Taschenbuchausgaben zum Lesestart.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2007Martha Gellhorn: The war writer in the field and in the text
by Kate McLoughlin, Martin Hargreaves
Martha Gellhorn was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. Opinionated, honest and unafraid, she covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Reagan's wars in Central America in the 1980s. Martha Gellhorn: the war writer in the field and in the text is the first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism. Often overlooked in accounts of war literature is the writer's precise position in relation to battle and his or her resultant standing in the text. Kate McLoughlin traces Gellhorn's daring attempts to access the war zone and her constructions of the woman war correspondent in her despatches, novels, short stories and play. Drawing on unpublished letters, close attention is given to Gellhorn's rivalry with Ernest Hemingway (the two were married from 1940 to 1945) over reaching the Normandy beaches on D-Day and its textual outcome in the pages of Collier's magazine. McLoughlin goes on to examine Gellhorn's increasingly negative portrayals of the glamorous female war reporter and to suggests why such disillusionment might have set in. ;
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The ArtsFebruary 2019Contemporary Korean cinema
Culture, identity and politics
by Hyangjin Lee
The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of contemporary Korean culture and cinematic representation of the society and people in both North and South Korea. Covers the introduction of motion pictures in 1903, Korean cinema during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45) and the development of North and South Korean cinema up to the 1990s. Introduces the works of Korea's major directors, and analyses the Korean film industry in terms of film production, distribution and reception. Based on this historical analysis, the study investigates ideological constructs in seventeen films, eight from North Korea and nine from South Korea.
