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Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new and expanded third edition continues to offer students and readers the best one-volume...

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Rebels in government

The February 2020 general election in the Republic of Ireland sent shockwaves through the countrys political system. Sinn Féin, ahead of all other parties in terms of first preference votes, secured its place as a potential coalition...

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Expansion rebellion

This is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis. For many people concerned about global warming, the 2018 vote by UK parliamentarians to proceed with the plans for a third runway at Heathrow...

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Beef, Bible and bullets

Backed by Brazils wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened military and police force, Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019. Driven by the former army captains brand of controversial, aggressive...

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Cheap Street

Cheap street is a lively and scholarly account of Londons street markets, which were an overlooked site of urban modernity and the most vigorous outgrowth of the informal economy that flourished below and beyond the recognised...

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Mummified

Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern...

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Held in contempt

If MPs do not take responsibility for reforming the House of Commons - the cornerstone of our democracy it will be held in contempt by the British public. In this timely book, Hannah White offers a perceptive critique of the internal...

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Britain alone

When Britain left the European Union in January 2021, it set out on a new journey. Shorn of empire and now the EU too, Britains economy is as national as it has ever has been. A decade or so since globalisation seemed inevitable, this is...

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Queer beyond London

Where exactly is queer England? There has been much discussion of London as a queer city, but what about the many thousands of queer lives lived elsewhere? In Queer beyond London, two leading LGBTQ+ historians take you on a journey...

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Pride in prejudice

Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to the varied extreme right groups active in Britain today. It looks to the past, in order to explore the roots of this complex movement, while focusing on the numerous groups and...

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Odd Men Out

Odd men out examines the transformation of homosexual men from odd to normal during the tumultuous decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Using new and original research, John-Pierre Joyce explores contemporary attitudes to gay men and the...

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Body Work

In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storytellers life and the...

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