Bookfest 2012
a celebration of books published within 2012
from authors within the faculties of Arts & Social Sciences
University of Nottingham
Law
AmCan
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Sue Arrowsmith: Competitive Dialogue in EU Procurement
Edited by Sue Arrowsmith and Steen Treumer
Competitive dialogue was introduced into the EU procurement
system in 2004 to provide an improved method for awarding
complex contracts, such as those for public infrastucture and
major IT systems. This book provides a critical examination of the
legal rules on this new procedure, focusing in particular on grey
areas such as availability of the procedure and the scope for
negotiations after 'final tenders'. It considers both the EU-level
rules and the way in which those rules have been applied in
national systems. The examination draws on extensive evidence of
the way in which the procedure has been operated and
interpreted across Europe, including from several studies
commissioned specifically for this volume. It also includes an
extensive chapter co-authored by the volume editors which
provides a thorough analysis of the EU-level rules, a comparative
reflection on national experiences, and significant critical
commentary and recommendations.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
John Ashworth: The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861
The Republic in Crisis, 1848–1861 analyses the political climate in
the years leading up to the American Civil War, offering for
students and general readers a clear, chronological account of the
sectional conflict and the beginning of the Civil War. Emerging
from the tumultuous political events of the 1840s and 1850s, the
Civil War was caused by the maturing of the North and South's
separate, distinctive forms of social organisation and their
resulting ideologies. John Ashworth emphasises factors often
overlooked in explanations of the war, including the resistance of
slaves in the South and the growth of wage labour in the North.
Ashworth acquaints readers with modern writings on the period,
providing a new interpretation of the American Civil War's causes.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
History
Ross Balzaretti: Dark Age Liguria. Regional Power and Local
Identity
Dark Age Liguria surveys the history of the Liguria region from
c.400 to c.1050 AD, to provide a detailed case study of what
happened here as Roman imperial rule ended. The book pulls
together all the surviving evidence, written, archaeological, artistic
and ecological, to propose that, in contrast with later periods,
Ligurians looked north as much as they gazed out to sea. The book
draws also on more than fifteen years of fieldwork in and around
the small town of Varese Ligure (La Spezia province) to suggest
some new methods for investigating the Dark Age past.
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
Sociology &
Social Policy
Saul Becker: Understanding Research for Social Policy and Social
Work: Themes, methods and approaches, Second Edition
Edited by Saul Becker, Alan Bryman and Harry Ferguson
This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition of the
acclaimed international bestseller, which now also includes a
focus on social work, will enable readers to understand the
importance of research, interpret research evidence and findings,
and carry out and report good-quality research of their own.
Comprehensive in scope, and written by 80 leading
contributors in an accessible and engaging style, this landmark
book, includes more than 40 new contributors and dozens of new
sections which highlight developments since the first
edition. It also combines theoretical and applied discussions and
case examples to provide the essential one-stop guide to research
methods, approaches and debates.
Policy Press, 2012
Mark Bradley: Rome, Pollution and Propriety: Dirt, Disease and
Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity
Edited by Mark Bradley
Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a
range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of
dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the
development and transformation of these ideas alongside major
chapters in the city's history, such as early Roman urban
development, Roman pagan religion, the medieval Church, the
Renaissance, the Unification of Italy, and the advent of Fascism.
This volume sets out to identify the defining characteristics,
functions and discourses of pollution in Rome in such realms as
disease and medicine, death and burial, sexuality and virginity,
prostitution, purity and absolution, personal hygiene and morality,
criminality, bodies and cleansing, waste disposal, decay, ruins and
urban renovation, as well as studying the means by which that
pollution was policed and controlled.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Classics
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Music
Mervyn Cooke: DĚJINY FILMOVÉ HUDBY
Mervyn Cooke
A Czech-language translation of Professor Cooke’s History of Film
Music
Casablanca: Prague, 2012
Music
Mervyn Cooke: Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters of
Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976. Volume Six: 1966-1976
Edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke
The sixth and final volume of the annotated selected letters of
Benjamin Britten, edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke, covers
the composer's last decade. The genesis, composition and
premieres of major stage works such as Owen Wingrave,
commissioned by BBC Television, and Death in Venice are fully
documented, as are the church parables, The Burning Fiery
Furnace and The Prodigal Son.
Boydell & Brewer, 2012
Politics
Phillip Cowley: The Bumper Book of Coalition Rebellions
Phillip Cowley and Mark Stuart
Or: Dissension amongst the Coalition's Parliamentary Parties,
2010-2012: A Data Handbook.
Revolts.co.uk/University of Nottingham
Theology
Carly Crouch: Mediating between Heaven and Earth:
Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East
Edited by C. L. Crouch, Jonathan Stokl and Anna Elise Zernecke
This volume originated in the 2010 meeting of the Israel in the
Ancient Near East research group of the European Association of
Biblical Studies in Tartu, Estonia, and includes a number of the
papers presented to the group on that occasion as well as several
further contributions
T&T Clark, 2012
Education/
Engineering
Classics
Classics
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Aran Eales: Sustainability & Engineering
Aran Eales/Mike Clifford/Learning Technology Team/Sarah
Speight
This eBook is intended to provide a broad understanding of issues
related to sustainability in the context of engineering. The world is
facing very real and imminent environmental and social challenges
associated with the exponential population growth and
unsustainable consumption of resources. In their role of problem
solvers for society, engineers have an important part to play in
addressing these problems, and this book is intended to give an
overview of how they can.
University of Nottingham 2012
Apple iTunes info about part 1 of the book:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/sustainabilityengineering/id572912964?mt=11
Apple iTunes info about part 2 of the book:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sustainabilityengineering/id573166431?mt=11
Andrew Goffey: Evil Media
Andrew Goffey and Matthew Fuller
Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the
concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of
meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the grey zones in
which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data
structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and
pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to
explore and understand the abstract infrastructure of the present
day. From search engines to flirting strategies, from the value of
institutional stupidity to the malicious minutiae of databases, this
book shows how the devil is in the details.
MIT Press, 2012
Andrew Goffey: Guattari: Schizoanalytic Cartographies
Translated by Andrew Goffey
Schizoanalytic Cartographies is a visionary yet highly concrete
work, providing a powerful vantage point on the upheavals of our
present epoch, powerfully imagining a future 'post-media' era of
technological development. This long overdue translation of this
substantial work offers English-speaking readers the opportunity
finally to fully assess Guattari's contribution to European thought.
Bloomsbury Academic
Education/
Geography
Cultures,
Languages and
Area Studies
Sociology &
Social Policy
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Simon Gosling: Sustainability: the geography perspective
Simon Gosling/Learning Technology Team/Sarah Speight
“Sustainability” is a word that is being used more and more in the
news, by politicians, scientists, and businesses, and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs). Yet, surprisingly, few people
have a basic understanding of what it means “to be sustainable”.
In some ways, the word has been adopted by some groups to be
indicative of being “environmentally friendly” or “socially
responsible”. With the word being used ever more, there is a risk
that its true meaning becomes lost, to the point where it becomes
simply a “buzz word” with little context or meaning. To this end,
this module examines the core pillars of sustainability, with aid of
everyday examples, in order to develop a holistic understanding of
what sustainability means. The module has been written by a
Geographer but it is aimed at all people interested in learning
about sustainability from the local to the global scale.
University of Nottingham 2012
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/resource.aspx?hid=6b51
401f-d00f-c72b-fad6-319393a548ca
Dirk Göttsche: Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft 2012
Dirk Göttsche
Yearbook of the Raabe Society 2012
The Raabe Society Yearbook was founded in 1960, and since its
30th volume (1989) has been published by Max Niemeyer
publishers in Tubingen. It not only provides a forum for specialists
working on the extraordinarily extensive narrative writings of
Wilhelm Raabe himself (1831-1910) but has also developed as a
conduit for general work on German Realism. Each volume
contains papers and miscellaneous articles, a review section and
an annual bibliography of the latest research in Raabe studies. The
language of publication is German.
De Gruyter, 2012
Reiner Grundmann: The Power of Scientific Knowledge: From
Research to Public Policy
Reiner Grundmann and Nico Stehr
This book examines how political decisions relate to scientific
knowledge and what factors determine the success of scientific
research in influencing policy. The authors take a comparative and
historical perspective and refer to well-known theoretical
frameworks, but the focus of the book is on three case studies:
the discourse of racism, Keynesianism and climate change. These
cases cover a number of countries and different time periods. In
all three the authors see a close link between 'knowledge
producers' and political decision makers, but show that the
effectiveness of the policies varies dramatically. This book will be
of interest to scientists, decision makers and scholars alike.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2012
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History
Sheryllynne Haggerty: 'Merely for Money'?: Business Culture in
the British Atlantic, 1750-1815
In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked 'merely
for money'. However, rather than being a criticism, this was
recognition of the important commercial role that merchants
played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants
desired and often made profits, but they were strictly bound by
commonly-understood socio-cultural norms which formed a
private-order institution of a robust business culture. In order to
elucidate this business culture, this book examines the themes of
risk, trust, reputation, obligation, networks and crises to
demonstrate how contemporary merchants perceived and dealt
with one another and managed their businesses. Merchants were
able to take risks and build trust, but concerns about reputation
and fulfilling obligations constrained economic opportunism. By
relating these themes to an array of primary sources from ports
around the British-Atlantic world, this book provides a more
nuanced understanding of business culture during this period.
Liverpool University Press, 2012
Built
Environment
Jonathan Hale: Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures,
Exhibitions
Edited by Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hanks and Jonathan Hale
Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions explores
the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its
potential to connect on the deepest levels with human perception
and imagination. Through this uniting theme, the chapters explore
the power of narratives as structured experiences unfolding in
space and time as well as the use of theatre, film and other
technologies of storytelling by contemporary museum makers to
generate meaningful and, it is argued here, highly effective and
affective museum spaces. Contributions by an internationally
diverse group of museum and heritage professionals, exhibition
designers, architects and artists with academics from a range of
disciplines including museum studies, theatre studies,
architecture, design and history cut across traditional boundaries
including the historical and the contemporary and together
explore the various roles and functions of narrative as a
mechanism for the creation of engaging and meaningful
interpretive environments.
Routledge: Abingdon, 2012
Archaeology
Jon Henderson: Beyond Boundaries: The 3rd International
Congress on Underwater Archaeology, IKUWA 3 London 2008
Edited by J C Henderson
The IKUWA 3 proceedings features sections on managing
underwater cultural heritage, nautical archaeology, maritime
landscapes, freshwater archaeology, new methods, and finishes
with new approaches in training, education and public outreach.
The end result is an exceptional snapshot of the diversity,
ingenuity and sheer scope of research into underwater and
maritime archaeology at the beginning of the 21st century.
Nautical Archaeology Society/Römisch-Germanische Kommission,
Frankfurt, 2012
Politics
Classics
Classics
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Miwa Hirono: China’s Evolving Approach to Peacekeeping
Edited by Marc Lanteigne and Miwa Hirono
China has become an enthusiastic supporter of and contributor to
UN peacekeeping. Is China’s participation in peacekeeping likely to
strengthen the current international peacekeeping regime by
China’s adopting of the international norms of peacekeeping? Or,
on the contrary, is it likely to alter the peacekeeping norms in a
way that aligns with its own worldview? And, as China’s
international confidence grows, will it begin to consider
peacekeeping a smaller and lesser part of its international security
activity, and thus not care so much about it? This book aims to
address these questions by examining how the PRC has developed
its peacekeeping policy and practices in relation to its
international status. It does so by bringing in both historical and
conceptual analyses and specific case-oriented discussions of
China’s peacekeeping over the past twenty years.
London: Routledge, 2012
Stephen Hodkinson: Slaves and Religions in Graeco-Roman
Antiquity and Modern Brazil
Edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Dick Geary
This volume presents papers from a conference of the University
of Nottingham's Institute for the Study of Slavery - the only UK
centre studying its history from antiquity to the present. It breaks
new ground by juxtaposing slave strategies wihtin the diverse
religious cultures of Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil.
After a wide-ranging historiographical survey, eleven experts
examine how in both societies slave religious activities involved
both constraints and opportunities, shedding particular light on
the neglected religious strategies of Graeco-Roman slaves.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2012
Stephen Hodkinson: Sparta in Modern Thought: Politics, History
and Culture
Edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Ian Macgregor Morris
This book is the first in over 40 years to examine the subject eleven ancient historians and experts in the history of ideas
discuss Sparta's changing role in Western thought from medieval
Europe to the 21st century, with a special focus on Enlightenment
France, Nazi Germany and the late-20th-century USA.
Classical Press of Wales, 2012
Law
John Jackson: The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence:
beyond the Common Law and Civil law Traditions
John D Jackson and Sarah J Summers
By considering the extent to which a coherent body of common
evidentiary standards is being developed in both domestic and
international jurisprudence, John D. Jackson and Sarah J. Summers
chart this development with particular reference to the
jurisprudence on the right to a fair trial that has emerged from the
European Court of Human Rights and to the attempts in the new
international criminal tribunals to fashion agreed approaches
towards the regulation of evidence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012
Culture, Film & Catherine Johnson: Transnational Television History: A
Media
Comparative Approach
Edited by Andreas Fickers and Catherine Johnson
Transnational Television History asks us to re-evaluate the
function of television as a medium of nation-building in its
formative years and to reassess the historical narrative that insists
that European television only became transnational with the
emergence of more commercial services and new technologies
from the 1980s. It also questions some common assumptions in
television historiography by offering some alternative
perspectives on the complex processes of transnational circulation
of television technology, professionals, programmes and
aesthetics.
London and New York; Routledge, 2012
Cultures,
Languages and
Area Studies
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Toni Kapcia: Literary culture in Cuba: Revolution, nation-building
and the book
Par Kumaraswami and Antoni Kapcia
This book brings an original and innovative approach to a muchmisunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of
literature and the creation of a literary culture. Based on over 100
interviews with a wide range of actors involved in the structures
and processes that produce, regulate, promote and consume
literature on the island, the book breaks new ground by going
beyond the conventional approach (the study of individual
authors and texts) and by going beyond the canon of texts known
outside Cuba. It thus presents a historical analysis of the evolution
of literary culture from 1959 to the present, as well as a series of
more detailed case studies (on writing workshops, the Havana
Book Festival and the publishing infrastructure) which reveal how
this culture is created in contemporary Cuba. It thus contributes a
new and complex vision of revolutionary Cuban culture which is as
detailed as it is comprehensive.
Manchester University Press, 2012
Theology
Theology
Archaeology
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Karen Kilby: Balthasar: A (Very) Critical Introduction
The enormously prolific Swiss Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs
von Balthasar (1905-1988) was marginalized during much of his
life, but his reputation over time has only continued to grow. He
was said to be the favourite theologian of John Paul II and is held
in high esteem by Benedict XVI. It is not uncommon to hear him
referred to as the great Catholic theologian of the twentieth
century.
In Balthasar: A (Very) Critical Introduction Karen Kilby argues that
although the low regard in which Balthasar was held from the
1950s to 1960s was not justified, neither is the current tendency
to lionize him. Instead, she advocates a more balanced approach,
particularly in light of a fundamental problem in his writing,
namely, his characteristic authorial voice -- an over-reaching
"God's eye" point of view that contradicts the content of his
theology.
Eerdmans, 2012
Karen Kilby: Faithful Reading: New Essays in Theology in Honour
of Fergus Kerr
Edited by Simon Oliver, Karen Kilby and Tom O'Loughlin
The essays in this collection cover the two key areas of Fergus
Kerr’s contribution: the relationship between theology and
philosophy, focusing particularly on Thomism; and twentieth
century Catholic thought. These themes provide the volume’s
coherence. A key strength of this volume lies in the stature of its
contributors. These include the Canadian Catholic philosopher and
Templeton-laureate Charles Taylor, Stanley Hauerwas, John
Milbank, David Burrell and Denys Turner. A number of younger
contributors, representing the influence of Kerr over several
generations, are also represented.
T+T Clark, 2012
Chris King: The Archaeology of Post-Medieval Religion Edited by
Edited by Chris King and Duncan Sayer
The post-medieval period was one of profound religious and
cultural change, of sometimes violent religious conflict and of a
dramatic growth in religious pluralism. The essays collected here,
in what is the first book to focus on the material evidence,
demonstrate the significant contribution that archaeology can
make to a deeper understanding of religion. They take a broad
interdisciplinary approach to the spatial and material context of
religious life, using buildings and landscapes, religious objects and
excavated cemeteries, alongside cartographic and documentary
sources, to reveal the complexity of religious practices and
identities in varied regions of post-medieval Britain, Europe and
the wider world. Topics covered include the transformation of
religious buildings and landscapes in the centuries after the
European Reformation, the role of religious minorities and
immigrant groups in early modern cities, the architectural and
landscape context of eighteenth and nineteenth-century
nonconformity, and the development of post-medieval burial
practices and funerary customs.
Boydell & Brewer, 2012
Cultures,
Languages and
Area Studies
English
Art History
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Katya Krylova: Walking Through History: Topography and Identity
in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard
Katya Krylova
Winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in
German Studies
This book investigates Bachmann's and Bernhard's treatment of
two fundamental aspects of the Austrian historical legacy: the
trauma of the war and the desire to return to an ideal homeland,
known as 'Haus Österreich'. Following a methodology based on
Freud and Benjamin, this comparative study demonstrates that
the confrontation with Austria's troubled history occurs through
the protagonists' ambivalent encounter with the landscape or
cityscape that they inhabit, travel or return to. The book
demonstrates the centrality of topography on both thematic and
structural levels in the authors' prose works, as a mode of
confronting the past and making sense of the present.
Peter Lang, 2012
Michaela Mahlberg: Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction
Michaela Mahlberg
This book presents an innovative approach to the language of one
of the most popular English authors. It illustrates how corpus
linguistic methods can be employed to study electronic versions of
texts by Charles Dickens. With particular focus on Dickens’s
novels, the book proposes a way into the Dickensian world that
starts from linguistic patterns. The analysis begins with clusters,
i.e. repeated sequences of words, as pointers to local textual
functions. Combining quantitative findings with qualitative
analyses, the book takes a fresh view on Dickens’s techniques of
characterisation, the literary presentation of body language and
speech in fiction. The approach brings together corpus linguistics,
literary stylistics and Dickens criticism. It thus contributes to
bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies and will be
a useful resource for both researchers and students of English
language and literature.
Routledge: New York & London, 2012
Spencer Mawby: Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in
the Anglophone Caribbean 1947-1969
Spencer Mawby
This new publication analyses the conflicts and controversies
which accompanied the gradual transfer of power away from
British politicians and officials to locally elected representatives in
the Caribbean during the middle years of the 20th century, and
includes coverage of disputes between the British government
and local nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War,
immigration policy and financial aid. The central argument of the
book challenges those accounts which attribute the postindependence problems of the Anglophone Caribbean to the
inadequacies of nationalist leadership and provides a new
assessment of the failures of British policy. Based on research in
British, Caribbean and American archives, Ordering Independence
offers the first comprehensive account of the end of empire in
Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, St. Kitts, Grenada and British Guiana.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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IMH
Jane McGregor: Drink and the City: Alcohol and Alcohol Problems
in Urban UK, since the 1950s
J E McGregor
This book uses Nottingham as a case study to examine changing
attitudes and responses to drinking and alcohol problems in the
UK from the 1950s to early 2000s. Based on original research
drawn from local archives and oral histories, it examines
responses to drink and drink problems over time, comparing local
developments with those nationally. This book suggests local
definitions are important, and should be taken account of in the
process of policymaking. The book also offers insights into the
changing nature of Britain's drinking culture in recent times.
Nottingham University Press, 2012
English
Jon McGregor: Even the Dogs
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012
Intense, exhilarating, and shot through with hope and fury, Even
the Dogs is an intimate exploration of life at the edges of society-littered with love, loss, despair, and a half-glimpse of redemption.
Bloomsbury, 2012
Nursing,
Midwifery and
Physiotherapy
Tania McIntosh: A social history of maternity and childbirth: key
themes in maternity care
Tania McIntosh
A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth considers the
significance of the regulation and training of midwives and
doctors, exploring important aspects of maternity care including
efforts to tackle maternal deaths, the move of birth from home to
hospital, and the rise of consumer groups. Using oral histories and
women’s memoirs, as well as local health records and
contemporary reports and papers, this book explores the
experiences of women and families, and includes the voices of
women, midwives and doctors.
At a time when the midwifery profession, and the wider structure
of maternity care, is a matter for popular and political debate, this
book is a timely contribution. It will be an invaluable read for all
those interested in maternity care in England.
Routledge: New York & London, 2012
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English
Alison Moore: The Lighthouse
Shortlisted for the Booker prize
The Lighthouse, Alison Moore’s first novel, tells the tense, gripping
story of a man trying to find himself, but becoming lost.
‘Melancholy and haunting. The sense of loneliness and discomfort
and rejection is compelling, the low-key prose carefully handled.
It’s a serious novel with a distinctive and unsettling atmosphere.’
Margaret Drabble
Salt Publishing, 2012
Philosophy
Stephen Mumford: Metaphysics, A Very Short Introduction
This Very Short Introduction goes right to the heart of the matter,
getting to the basic and most important questions of metaphysical
thought in order to understand the theory: What are objects? Do
colours and shapes have some form of existence? What is it for
one thing to cause another rather than just being associated with
it? What is possible? Does time pass?
By using these questions to initiate thought about the basic issues
around substance, properties, changes, causes, possibilities, time,
personal identity, nothingness and emergentism, Stephen
Mumford provides a clear and simple path through this analytical
tradition at the core of philosophical thought.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
Music
Nanette Nielsen: Music and Ethics
Marcel Cobussen and Nanette Nielsen
Music and Ethics examines different ways in which music can 'in
itself' – in a uniquely musical way – contribute to theoretical
discussions about ethics as well as concrete moral behaviour. We
consider music as process, and music-making as interaction.
Fundamental to our understanding is music's association with
engagement, including contact with music through the act of
listening, music as an immanent critical process that possesses
profound cultural and historical significance, and as an art form
that can be world-disclosive, formative of subjectivity, and
contributive to intersubjective relations. Music and Ethics does
not offer a general musico-ethical theory, but explores ethics as a
practical concept, and demonstrates through concrete examples
that the relation between music and ethics has never been
absent.
Ashgate: Farnham, 2012
Law
Cultures,
Languages and
Area Studies
Theology
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Aoife Nolan: Children's Socio-Economic Rights, Democracy and
the Courts
Winner of the Kevin Boyle Prize
Shortlisted for the SLS Birks Prize for outstanding legal
scholarship
“Children's rights were often thought to be synonymous with
economic and social welfare prior to the adoption of the
convention of the Rights of the Child in 1989. Ironically, since that
time, remarkably little scholarship has been devoted to the vitally
important economic and social rights dimensions of children's
rights. Nolan's book singlehandedly remedies that neglect and
does so in a sophisticated, nuanced and balanced way. It provides
a superb account of the pros and cons of judicial activism in
promoting these rights." Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy
Professor, NYU Law School
Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012
Maike Oergel: (Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment,
Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and
France
The essays in this volume discuss the overlap between
philosophical, aesthetic, and political concerns in the 1790s either
in the work of individuals or in the transfer of cultural materials
across national borders, which tended to entail adaptation and
transformation. What emerges is a clearer understanding of the
fate of the Enlightenment, its radicalization and its overcoming in
aesthetic and political terms, and of the way in which political
paranoia, generated by the fear of a spreading revolutionary
radicalism, facilitated and influenced the cultural transfer of the
radical.
De Gruyter, 2012
Thomas O'Loughlin: Making the Most of the Lectionary: A User's
Guide
What is the point of the Lectionary? What are the problems and
opportunities that it presents to those who use it? What are its
strengths and weaknesses as an aid to worship? How can it be
used and communicated most effectively today? These are among
the key questions that Thomas O'Loughlin explores in this
stimulating and much-needed guide. Full of tried and tested
advice for all involved in liturgical preparation and celebration,
and a valuable resource for enhancing the liturgical understanding
and experience of both preachers and hearers of the Word.
SPCK, London, 2012
Culture, Film & Tracey Potts: Kitsch! Cultural Politics and Taste
Media
Ruth Holliday and Tracey Potts
From bottle gardens, the bachelor pad and Batman to designer
gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a diverse range of
objects to explore the changing significance of kitsch. With its
unique approach to its subject, Kitsch! Cultural politics and taste
promises to advance debates in cultural studies and sociology
around taste, while providing an invaluable introduction for
students and interested readers. Kitsch! examines how the idea of
kitsch is mobilised - progressively, as bad taste, as camp and as
cool - to inform notions of identity and sensibility. Where most
studies proceed from the kitsch object, this book takes the
moment of aesthetic judgement as its starting point and attempts
to identify the ideological work performed by the category itself.
The book poses the strongest challenge to those who argue that
taste is democratised in contemporary culture, offering ample
evidence that judgements of taste have shifted ground rather
than relaxed.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012
Politics
Sue Pryce: Fixing Drugs: the politics of drug prohibition
Drug use is an inherent part of our culture. Since the Sumerians
wrote of the 'joy of the poppy plant' in 3000BC to the crack dens
of today, people in every society have wanted to use drugs. Drug
policy cannot be effective until this basic fact is acknowledged and
incorporated into policy-thinking. Until we recognize that drug use
is an integral feature of society, it cannot be eliminated. In this
unique and engaging new book, the former chair of DrugScope
Sue Pryce tackles the major issues surrounding drug policy. Why
do governments persist with prohibition policies, despite their
proven inefficacy? Why are some drugs criminalized, and some
not? And why does society care about drug use at all?
Macmillan, 2012
Politics
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Vanessa Pupavac: Language Rights: From Free Speech to
Linguistic Governance
Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and
international context, this book brings together debates from law,
sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The
author argues that international language rights advocacy
supports global governance of language and questions freedoms
of speech and expression.
Palgrave, 2012
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Nursing,
Midwifery and
Physiotherapy
Maureen Raynor: Midwifery Practice: Critical Illness,
Complications and Emergencies Case Book
Edited by Maureen Raynor, Jayne Marshall and Karen Jackson
This case book for student midwives is essential reading and
contains 14 common emergency birthing scenarios. Each case
explores and explains the pathology, pharmacology and key care
principles using test questions and answers to link theory to
practice and this grounding in reality will really help bring
midwifery topics to life. Open University Press, 2012
Law
Paul Roberts: Communicating and Interpreting Statistical Evidence
in the Administration of Criminal Justice: 2. Assessing the
probative value of DNA evidence
Edited by Roberto Puch-Solis, Paul Roberts, Susan Pope and Colin
Aitken
Royal Statistical Society, 2012
Law
Paul Roberts: Criminal Evidence and Human Rights: Reimagining
Common Law Procedural Traditions
Edited by Paul Roberts and Jill Hunter
This edited collection showcases the latest theoretically informed,
methodologically astute and doctrinally rigorous scholarship in
criminal procedure and evidence, human rights and comparative
law, and will be a major addition to the literature in all of these
fields
Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012
English
Julie Sanders: The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama
1620-1650
Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape,
space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within
an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and
performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key
playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed
by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh
look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and
Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and
habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and
snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country
estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages
readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and
physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key
contribution to early modern scholarship.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Geography
Classics
Sociology &
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Matthew Smallman-Raynor: Atlas of Epidemic Britain: A
Twentieth Century Picture
Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew Cliff
Using over 300 new maps, charts, photographs and associated
text, this full-colour Atlas views a century of change - the ebb and
flow of infection - in Britain's epidemic landscape. It maps and
interprets the complex time-space tapestry woven in twentieth
century Britain by the uneven retreat of some infectious diseases,
the emergence of new infections and the re-emergence of certain
historical plagues. In each chapter, representative maps are
accompanied by micrographs of the biological agents of the
diseases mapped, illustrations of the environments in which they
occur, the impacts they have had, and the pioneers who
unravelled their complex life and death cycles. The accompanying
text summarizes the epidemics each pathogen has caused in the
British Isles, its current status, and the probability of future
control. Oxford University Press, 2012
Alan Sommerstein: Oath and State in Ancient Greece
Alan H. Sommerstein and Andrew J. Bayliss
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a
wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek
world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and
harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated
scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a
two-volume study explores how oaths functioned in the working
of the Greek city-state (polis) and in relations between different
states as well as between Greeks and non-Greeks.
De Gruyter, 2012
Nick Stevenson: Freedom
Seeking to affirm the importance of freedom, this book provides a
compelling argument for linking it to other values such as equality
and responsibility. Drawing upon a range of critical thinkers and
perspectives, Stevenson asks what freedom will come to mean in
the future, in a world that seems increasingly fragile, uncertain
and insecure.
Routledge, 2012
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Midwifery and
Physiotherapy
Theo Stickley: Qualitative Research in Arts and Mental Health:
Context, meaning and evidence
Edited by Theo Stickley
The last two hundred years have seen the medicalisation of
mental distress, and although it is evident that people want
services that are more hopeful, creative and recovery-focused, the
notion of providing mental health care that focuses less upon
medical interventions and more upon creativity is complex. This is
the first book published in the UK that brings together a range of
key qualitative research studies providing evidence for the
assertion that involvement in participatory arts can be specifically
beneficial to people with a variety of mental health difficulties.
This book presents eleven key examples of arts-based research
projects that have used various qualitative methods to capture
the contexts and meanings of arts practice that in their own ways,
sought to promote mental health. The methods are varied, but
most have endeavoured to reflect the voice of the participant
whether through narratives, ethnography or participatory action
research.
PCCS Books : Ross-on-Wye, 2012
Cultures,
Languages and
Area Studies
Judith Still: Women, Genre and Circumstance: Essays in Memory
of Elizabeth Fallaize
Edited by Margaret Atack, Diana Holmes, Diana Knight and Judith
Still
Women, Genre and Circumstance brings together a series of
challenging essays which explore the complex intersections of
feminism, narrative and genre. Drawing on a wide range of 19th
and 20th century texts - novels, short stories and films - they
interrogate the relationship between women’s situation and
writing practice, and representations of history, memory, love, old
age: they pursue questions of narrative form and its meanings,
particularly the distinctive features of the short story. The essays
were written as tributes to the leading feminist scholar Elizabeth
Fallaize.
Oxford: Legenda, 2012
Education/
Archaeology
Naomi Sykes: Sustainability in the Arts and Humanities
Naomi Sykes /Learning Technology Team/Sarah Speight
The aim of this book is to introduce students to the concept of
‘sustainability’ as perceived from within the Arts and Humanities,
in particular within the disciplines of archaeology, classics, history
(including art history and landscape history), music, philosophy
and theology. The book reviews a number of topical issues – such
as climate change, food, security, water and waste management,
landscape, environment and biodiversity – through the lens of the
Arts and Humanities to consider how our disciplines can
contribute to current debates and offer new routes to sustainable
futures.
University of Nottingham 2012
Apple iTunes info about part 1 of the book:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sustainability-in-artshumanities/id570700324?mt=11
Apple iTunes info about part 2 of the book:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sustainability-in-arts-
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Mark Storey: Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of
Gilded Age American Literature
This study of late nineteenth-century American literature begins
with a simple question: how did the rise of an urban society affect
the ways in which the nation's writers represented the
countryside? In offering an answer, Rural Fictions, Urban Realities
remaps our understanding of American literature by examining
the period through its 'rural fictions'. From the coasts of Maine to
the ranches of Wyoming, and from the farms of the Midwest to
the small towns of the South, tales of rural life reveal the
profound and sometimes problematic connections between rural
America and its growing urban centres between the 1870s and the
1900s. Rural Fictions, Urban Realities proposes a new literary
geography of Gilded Age America, and in the process contributes
to our understanding of how we represent and register the
cultural complexities of modernization.
Oxford University Press, 2012
Pat Thomson: Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals: Strategies for
getting published
Pat Thomson and Barbara Kamler
An insider's perspective on the business of academic publishing,
making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all
writers, but rarely discussed. Its unique approach is both theorised
and practical. It offers a set of steps for writing a journal article
that are structured and practical but also attend to the identity
issues that manifest on the page and in the politics of academic
life.
Routledge, 2012
Zoe Trodd: Civil War America: A Social and Cultural History with
Primary Sources
Edited by Maggi M. Morehouse and Zoe Trodd
Civil War America reveals how Americans, both Northern and
Southern, lived during the Civil War—the ways they worked,
expressed themselves artistically, organized their family lives,
treated illness, and worshipped. Written by specialists, the
chapters in this book cover the war’s impact on the economy, the
role of the federal government, labour, welfare and reform
efforts, the Indian nations, universities, healthcare and medicine,
news coverage, photography, and a host of other topics that flesh
out the lives of ordinary Americans who just happened to be living
through the biggest conflict in American history. Along with the
original material presented in the book chapters, the website
accompanying the book is a treasure trove of primary sources,
both textual and visual, keyed for each chapter topic.
Routledge, 2012
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Chinese
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History
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Zoe Trodd: The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the
Harpers Ferry Raid
Edited by John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd
When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal
arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a
biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the
nation of the scourge of slavery. The insurrection did not happen,
and Brown and the other surviving raiders were quickly captured
and executed. This landmark anthology, which collects
contemporary speeches, letters, newspaper articles, journals,
poems, and songs, demonstrates that Brown’s actions
nonetheless altered the course of American history. The editors
have assembled an impressive and wide-ranging collection of
responses to Brown’s raid: Brown’s own words, northern and
southern reactions, international commentary, and reflections
from the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
Harvard University Press, 2012
Steve Tsang: The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics, Society
and Culture
Edited by Steve Tsang
Taiwan is one of the most vibrant societies in the world. No one
who has visited can fail to be taken by its dynamism,
contradictions, colour, excitement and, above all, vitality. But
what is really behind this vibrant appearance? Examining a range
of topics from the political to the cultural and even the economic,
the contributors describe and explain the many dimensions
underpinning the vitality of Taiwan. In doing so, they demonstrate
how the combination of innovation and competitive strategy in
aspects of society from the government to the media and even in
national industries, is forging Taiwan's unique position in the
global economy.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Maiken Umbach: Heimat, Region, and Empire: Spatial Identities
under National Socialism
Edited by Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann and Maiken Umbach
This collection brings together an exciting mixture of international
scholars who are currently pursuing cutting-edge research on
spatial identities under National Socialism. The chapters uncover
more differentiated spatial imaginaries at the heart of Nazi
ideology than were previously acknowledged, and will fuel a
growing scepticism about generic national narratives.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Nursing,
Midwifery and
Physiotherapy
Denis Walsh: Evidence and Skills for Normal Labour and Birth: A
Guide for Midwives, 2/e
This new edition emphasises the importance of translating
evidence into skilful practice. It updates the evidence around what
works best for normal birth, aspects of which still remain hidden
and ignored by some maternity care professionals. Beginning with
the decision about where to have a baby, through all the phases
of labour to the immediate post-birth period, it systematically
details research and other evidence sources that endorse a low
intervention approach. Using evidence drawn from a variety of
sources, Evidence and Skills for Normal Labour and Birth critiques
institutionalised, scientifically managed birth and endorses a more
humane midwifery-led model. Packed with up-to-date and
relevant information, this text will help all students, practising
midwives and doulas keep abreast of the evidence surrounding
normal birth and ensure their practice takes full advantage of it.
Routledge, 2012
Geography
Charles Watkins: Uvedale Price: Decoding the Picturesque
Charles Watkins and Andrew Cowell
Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the
influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued
that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator
Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be used as models for the
"improvement of real landscape". His attack on the smooth
certainties of Capability Brown sparked off a public controversy,
drawing in Richard Payne Knight and Humphry Repton, which
became a cause célèbre. This is the first biography of Uvedale
Price, bringing out his contradictory and elusive character and
revealing an astonishing cast of friends and acquaintances,
including Gainsborough, Voltaire, William Wordsworth and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The book shows how he developed his
ideas through practical experimentation on his own land and
buildings and provides an understanding of the context of Price's
practices and theories and the key interconnections between his
roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper,
connoisseur and scholar.
Boydell & Brewer, 2012
Tony Watson: Sociology, Work and Organisation, Sixth Edition
Tony Watson
Sociology, Work and Organisation builds on the five popular and
successful editions of Sociology, Work and Industry. The new text
is outstanding in how effectively it explains the value of using the
sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions
of work, organisations, occupations, management and
employment and how they are changing in the 21st century.
Routledge: London, 2012
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Nigel White: Counter-Terrorism: International Law and Practice
Edited by Professor Ana Maria Salinas de Frias, Dr Katja Samuel
and Professor Nigel D. White
A result of a three year multinational project, under the auspices
of both the Club of Madrid and the World Justice Project, with
over 40 contributors, drawn from legal practice, the judiciary,
policy-makers, the military, police, civil society, academic
institutions and international organizations, this book offers a
comprehensive review and assessment of the legal principles
which make up the international rule of law framework for
countering terrorism (international human rights, criminal,
humanitarian and refugee law). Government responses to
terrorism can conflict with the protections provided by human
rights and the rule of law. By comprehensively looking at all
aspects of counter-terrorism, this book identifies best practices
and makes recommendations for the future.
Oxford University Press, 2012
Simon Wright: Sustainability: the business perspective
Simon Wright/Learning Technology Team/Sarah Speight
Looking at a number of case studies, the unit demonstrates how
individual businesses are attempting to align their activities to
address global sustainability challenges such as climate change
and carbon reduction, energy and water scarcity and poverty
reduction.
University of Nottingham 2012
Online materials
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/resource.aspx?hid=09c8
fc5c-4e06-e1a5-8677-9a4828cddc1b
Kathrin Yacavone: Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of
Photography
Kathrin Yacavone
This is a comparative study of Benjamin's and Barthes' writings on
photography in the context of twentieth-century critical theory.
Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography presents
two of the most important literary and cultural critics of the
twentieth century from a new comparative perspective. Pursuing
unexplored aspects of Benjamin's and Barthes' engagement with
photography, it sheds new light on familiar texts and analyses
works which have only recently become available. It argues that
despite the different historical, philosophical, and cultural
contexts of their work, Benjamin and Barthes engage with similar
questions and problems that photography uniquely poses:
including the complex interrelationship between the photograph
and its beholder as a confrontation between self and other, and
the relation between time, subjectivity and memory.
New York and London: Continuum, 2012
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Social Policy
Sociology &
Social Policy
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Languages and
Area Studies
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Andrew Yip: The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary
Religion and Sexuality
Edited by Hunt, S. & Yip, A. K. T.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and
Sexuality provides academics and students with a comprehensive
and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in
the area of sexuality and religion, broadly defined. This collection
of expert essays offers an inter-disciplinary study of the important
aspects of sexuality and religion, calling upon sociological, cultural,
historical and theological contributions to an under-researched
subject. The Companion focuses on the exploration of diverse
religious faiths, spiritualities, and sexualities with contributions
that embrace many contrasting approaches related to the
contemporary context. By adopting a truly inter-disciplinary and
multi-dimensional perspective, the Companion embraces the
complexities of both sexuality and religion.
Ashgate: Farnham, 2012
Andrew Yip: Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life
Edited by Nynäs, P. & Yip, A. K. T.
Exploring the intersection between religion, gender and sexuality
within the context of everyday life, this volume examines
contested identities, experiences, bodies and desires on the
individual and collective levels. With rich case studies from the UK,
USA, Europe, and Asia, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday
Life sheds light on the manner in which individuals appropriate,
negotiate, transgress, invert and challenge the norms and models
of various religions in relation to gender and sexuality, and vice
versa.
Ashgate: Farnham, 2012
Xiaohui Yuan: Politeness and Audience Response in ChineseEnglish Subtitling
This book studies how politeness, and particularly face
negotiation, is dealt with when subtitling between Chinese and
English. Face negotiation refers to the process of managing
relationships across different cultures through verbal and
nonverbal interactions. This research specifically investigates how
British and Chinese audiences respond to face management
through a study focused on film subtitling and viewers' reception
and response.
Bern: Peter Lang, 2012