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John Wiley & Sons Big Loosh The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano
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£23.39
University Press of Mississippi The Hell of War Comes Home
Book SynopsisOwen W. Gilman Jr. stresses the US experience of war in the twenty-first century and argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative responses to it, especially the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since the trauma of September 11, the experience of Americans at war has been rendered honestly and fully in a wide range of texts--creative nonfiction and journalism, film, poetry, and fiction. These responses, Gilman contends, have packed a lot of power and measure up even to World War II's literature and film.Like few other books, Gilman's volume studies these new texts-- among them Kevin Powers's debut novel The Yellow Birds and Phil Klay's short stories Redeployment, along with the films The Hurt Locker, American Sniper, and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. For perspective, Gilman also looks at some touchstones from the Vietnam War. Compared to a few of the big Vietnam books and films, this new material has mostly been read and
£29.21
University Press of Mississippi Black Hibiscus
Book SynopsisExplores Florida's colonial past, focusing particularly on interactions between maroons who escaped enslavement, and on Albery Whitman's The Rape of Florida, which also links Black people and Native Americans. Contributors consider film, folklore, and music, and key Black writers.Trade ReviewConvening a range of scholars of Florida’s African American literary and cultural history, Black Hibiscus offers a unique engagement with contemporary scholarship marked by clarity of vision and conceptual verve." - Keith Cartwright, professor of English at University of North Florida"Through interviews, first-person accounts, and traditional academic essays, Black Hibiscus disrupts typical racial and cultural narratives about Florida and shows the centrality of the Black experience to the state." - Julie Buckner Armstrong, author of Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
£23.70
University Press of Mississippi Greater Atlanta
Book SynopsisArgues that in the years after the widespread hopefulness surrounding Barack Obama's election as president waned, Black satire began to reveal a profound shift in US culture. The book examines more than a dozen novels, films and TV shows that together reveal the ways in which Black satire has developed in response to contemporary cultural dynamics.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi From the Projects to the Presidencies My Journey
Book SynopsisOvercoming his difficult socioeconomic background and the institutional racism that denied educational opportunities to many young Black men, James Lyons prevailed despite the odds. His inspiring story illuminates the success and hard work that lead him to dedicate his life to education and bettering the lives of students across the America.
£21.21
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Southern Women Southern Landscapes Cultural Reflections on the Garden 18701970
£23.39
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Mississippi Notebook
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MB - Cornell University Press The Finnish Front Line Kekkonen Kennedy and Krushchevs Cold War Showdown
£25.19
MB - Cornell University Press Bracketed Belonging Gurkha Migrant Warriors and
Book SynopsisBracketed Belonging addresses how nations and their governance of security determine social constellations and shape socio-political and legal assertions of belonging and allegiance. Kelvin E. Y. Low examines the contours and limits of belonging that underlie the complex social contract between mobile migrants and nations in the context of a global military-security market. He explores these core themes through the case of Nepali Gurkhas and their families as military and paramilitary migrants. Recruited to serve in the military or police force, Gurkhas are trained in jungle warfare skills that other police groups do not possess. There is thus the professional link to military training and the formation of a unique paramilitary police force with the backdrop of colonialism. In these contexts, this book offers fresh perspectives on studying global security, migration and diasporic lives. It sets a new agenda by analytically bridging empire, military and security maneuvers, and migratory pathways and options. In doing so, Bracketed Belonging serves as a novel contribution to current scholarship on migration and transnationalism, and on police and security studies.
£26.99
MB - Cornell University Press The Hard Work of Hope
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£18.04
MB - Cornell University Press Microliteratures
Book SynopsisMicroliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern books. Not always as formal as glosses, sometimes feverish and abbreviated, these marginal writings or, "microliteratures," are the product of readers thinking with the text at the center of the page. Jesús R. Velasco argues that microliteratures are not private annotations but, rather, a humanistic activity performed in the public sphere. These marginal engagements with texts are made public to future readers of the same book. Surveying the microliteratures of a wide range of medieval and early modern Iberian genreslegal, religious, chivalric, and political textsVelasco finds that in the shared space and time of reading, microliterary actions and artifacts are also models of public humanities work that connects texts to contemporary issues. Microliteratures emerge from this ambitious book as a way of understanding the self as a reflective and politically engaged reader in conversation with past, present, and future readers as contemporaries.
£25.19
MB - Cornell University Press Ivan Vyzhigin
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£26.09
MB - Cornell University Press Entangled Alliances
£22.49
MB - Cornell University Press This Body of Death Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric
£22.49
MB - Cornell University Press Surviving Revolution Bourgeois Lives and Letters
£19.79
MB - Cornell University Press Women Will Vote
£16.14
MB - Cornell University Press Intimate Violence AntiJewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
£17.99
MB - Cornell University Press AntiVax Reframing the Vaccination Controversy
£15.19
MP - University Of Minnesota Press On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution Black Power and Capitalism in the 1960s
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Ideal Subjects Volume 76 The Abstract People of AI
£19.94
MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Double Bind of Disability
£70.55
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Paranatures in Culinary Culture
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Invisible Exile The Travel Writing of Displacement
£20.69
John Wiley & Sons PlaceKeepers Latinax Art Performance and Organizing in the Twin Cities
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ME - Fordham University Press Ten Thousand Central Parks A ClimateChange Parable
£26.99
Purdue University Press Ready to Dive
Book SynopsisDescribes the author's role in some of the most daring and consequential deep ocean search and recovery operations of our time. Ready to Dive is a gritty, blunt, and real firsthand subsea account unlike any other.
£22.46
University of Massachusetts Press Conifers of the New EnglandAcadian Forest
Book SynopsisWhy did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does hemlock have to do with making leather? In this book microbiologist Steve Keating explores how conifers influenced the course of human history, writing in a style that is both scientific and accessible.
£19.90
MP-MAS Uni of Massachusetts Gathered into a Church IndigenousEnglish
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Purdue University Press Building Your Epic Life
£14.24
John Wiley & Sons Rational Madness
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John Wiley & Sons Driving Successful Transformations A Leaders Guide to Embracing and Executing Change
£24.99
Highlights brainPLAY Trickiest Puzzles Ever
Book SynopsisWatch kids'' curiosity and confidence soar with this brain-boosting adventure! brainPLAY Trickiest Puzzles Ever features super-challenging versions of Highlights classics, including logic problems, crosswords, mazes, and Hidden Pictures puzzles.Kids will have tons of fun solving the puzzles while improving their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. There's only one difficultythe brain challenges are SO much fun, older siblings and grown-ups may borrow the books for themselves.Unleash your child's inner genius with brainPLAY books, the ultimate collection for puzzle people. Kids ages 7+ can solve a variety of challenging puzzles that offer brain-boosting, screen-free play made especially for puzzle fans.Grown-ups love brainPLAY books because they build kids' brains while being the perfect antidote to I'm soooo bored, there's nothing to do. Like all Highlights products, brainPLAY books are crafted by childhood experts t
£11.69
John Wiley & Sons A Grain of Sand in Lambeth
£12.34
Human Kinetics Publishers Complete Guide to Landmine Training
Book SynopsisComplete Guide to Landmine Training is the ultimate resource for everything you need to know about landmine training. Featuring 82 exercises and 35 workouts, you'll be able to create versatile, efficient, joint-friendly workouts with this popular training device.
£19.79
MG - Human Kinetics The Complete Guide to Yoga Props
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MG - Human Kinetics Foundations of Physical Activity and Public
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£89.10
MG - Human Kinetics Social Issues in Sport
£99.00
John Wiley & Sons Introduction to Kinesiology
£108.90
John Wiley & Sons Introduction to Evidence Based Practice
£52.20
University of Manitoba Press The Honourable John Norquay
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£31.96
GMC Publications Creative Space Journal
Book SynopsisWe all need a creative space: a blank canvas where we can doodle our masterpieces; a white page where we can jot down our innermost thoughts; a secret place where we can unleash our wildest imaginings and let them roam free for a while. And what could be finer than finding that creative space populated by flights of fancy that help stir those very doodles, scribbles and imaginings? The Creative Space Journal is a journal through 100 art projects, offering prompts and projects, sparks and nudges, ideas and inspirations for activities to reflect, enhance or change your mood. Its pages present beautifully illustrated exercises designed to add some art and mischief to your world, and to make your life more imaginative and inventive. They are surrounded by frames and spaces, lines and bullets, where you can record your adventures. The journal provides a safe place where you can retreat and allow your creativity to flourish. Organised to reflect your head space - Happy, Sad, Angry, Relaxed, Playful, Bored, Wired or Sleepy - it's the perfect companion to dip in and out of, explore by mood or fill with your creativity from cover to cover. Travel into your creative space, and create a journal that is uniquely yours.
£9.49
Haynes F1 - Co-edition Ford Transit Diesel 20142019 Owners Workshop
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£31.50
CABI Tropical Fruits Volume 1
Book SynopsisOver the past few years there has been an increase in the variety of tropical fruits available for consumption, due to improved breeding, postharvest management and distribution systems. The production and world trade of fresh tropical fruits is expected to expand further, aided by consumer demand for healthy diets and for trying new foods. The third edition of this book covers major tropical fruits such as avocado, banana, litchi, mango, papaya, and pineapple. The first five chapters describe general aspects of the tropical climate and its soils, fruit production techniques, tree management, and postharvest handling. Following these are self-contained chapters on single fruits that provide in-depth studies of botany, taxonomy, varieties, propagation, orchard management, biotic and abiotic problems, and utilization. The ancient and modern propagation and cultural practices are described to show the regional differences that environmental and biological pressures exert on fruit production and fruit quality. Tropical Fruits 3rd edition is essential reading for students and teachers of horticulture and tropical agriculture, as well as for horticultural industry personnel.
£58.50
CABI Soil Health and Nutrition Management
Book SynopsisA major challenge for agriculture and future crop production is the deterioration in soil health and fertility. We have large areas of barren land across the globe with degraded soil which can only be made fertile by applying proper nutrition and soil health management practices. It is crucial to protect soil health in order to feed the world's ever-growing population.Healthy soil is a dynamic ecosystem containing microbes that aid in the breakdown of organic materials and minerals, increasing the availability of plant nutrients (nutrient recycling) and enhancing soil quality and crop output. Healthy soil also helps mitigate the impact of climate change by maintaining nutrients and sequestering atmospheric carbon.This book summarizes the numerous components of soil health management including cutting-edge technologies such as genome editing and rhizospheric engineering, together with conventional techniques for preserving soil nutrients.
£94.50
CABI Epigenetics for ClimateSmart and Sustainable
Book SynopsisThis book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current achievements and future possibilities for the application of epigenetic and epigenomic techniques to the improvement of crops. Creating crops more resilient to the stresses caused by climate change will be an important part of a climate-smart and sustainable agriculture strategy for the future. All critical environmental stressors are explored: temperature, salt, drought, pollutants, pests, fungi, bacteria, and viruses.The exciting possibilities for the integration of epigenetic resources and technologies with plant functional genomics and the new field of precision molecular breeding in crops are discussed. Examples are shown of crops showing better growth performance, enhanced yields, more efficient nutrient utilization, and higher quality food production.The book reviews all aspects of epigenetics, epigenomics, and emerging RNA technologies and presents fundamental and advanced tools, showing their current applications in plant sciences, plant functional genomics, plant stress physiology, plant biotechnology, plant pathology, and plant breeding.The ethical, moral, and societal issues raised by these new plant breeding technologies are also discussed and future challenges are debated.This book is an ideal complete guide for students, researchers, experts, and professionals to overview this critical topic.
£165.75
CABI High Throughput Plant Metabolomics
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£114.75
CABI Illustrated Garden Glossary
Book SynopsisThe Illustrated Garden Glossary is a comprehensive glossary of over 1000 terms related to gardening and horticulture, each supported by superb colour illustrations to aid understanding.The topics covered include plant classification, morphology and growth; plants from seeds; propagation; soil; compost; planting systems; pruning; pests and diseases; water and more. The glossary also explores terms relating to the history of gardens, from ancient Greece and Egypt, to gardens across Asia and the Middle East, and through to our modern-day urban farms.The Illustrated Garden Glossary is a must-have reference for gardeners, plant scientists, horticulturalists, students, libraries, ecologists and urban farmers.
£30.15
CABI Elephant Welfare in Global Tourism
Book SynopsisAt the centre of the elephant tourism industry lie two profound challenges: the delicate balance between income and compassion, and the severe threats to the survival of all remaining elephant species.Trained elephants exchange hands for staggering sums, reaching up to $100,000 each, yet the colossal appetites of the herds, with each elephant devouring over 100 kilograms of sustenance daily, pose formidable economic challenges for camp owners. An elephant camp's revenue is dependent on tourism, with a complex web of specialist businesses, local and international, large and small, contracted to recruit and enable visitors. This results in competition focused mainly on price and profitability considerations. The inadequacies of these business networks and of the administrative controls within which they operate were demonstrated during the complete shutdown of elephant tourism venues in early 2020 due to COVID-19.This authoritative text analyses elephants' vulnerabilities, providing an inspiring call to action for a more compassionate coexistence between elephants and the stakeholders responsible for their individual and herd welfare and survival.Elephant Welfare in Global Tourism is intended for managers, professionals and administrators of elephant camps, refuges and rescue centres, and for NGOs providing advice and support. Academic researchers on wildlife may find inspiration for suitable topics, and examples of current methodologies.
£58.50
