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Martha Bayless is Professor of Medieval Studies and director of the Folklore and Public Culture Program at the University of Oregon, USA.

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Louise Peacock is Associate Professor of Drama in the School of Arts, Design and Humanities at De Montfort University, UK.

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Ryan Craig is a British playwright, screen, television and radio writer best known for his plays What We Did To Weinstein which earned him a Most Promising Playwright Nomination at the Evening Standard Awards; The Glass Room, which deals with Holocaust denial; the English version of Tadeusz Slobodzianek's Our Class for the National Theatre which has subsequently played all over the world, The Holy Rosenbergs, the semi-autobiographical Filthy Business and the university-set Charlotte and Theodore. He has been Writer-in-Residence at both the National Theatre Studio and BBC Radio Drama and his memoir cum writing handbook, Writing In Coffee Shops; Confessions of A Playwright was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

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Stella Cottrell is an international bestselling author, with over a million sales worldwide. Her other titles include The Study Skills Handbook, Critical Thinking Skills, Skills for Success, The Bloomsbury Student Planner, The Exam Skills Handbook and Mindfulness for Students. Stella was formerly Director of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leeds, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at the University of East London.

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Tevfik Balcioglu is a retired academician; previously he worked as Vice Rector and Professor of Design at Yasar University in Izmir, Turkey. His edited works include Design and Resistance (2014), Gendered Perspectives in Design (2013), Dancing with Disorder (2007) and The Role of Product Design in Post-industrial Society (1998). In 2019, he received the Lifelong Design and Innovation Award in the Service of the European Academy of Design.

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Meaghan Dee is a designer and an Associate Professor (and Chair) of Graphic Design at Virginia Tech, USA. Prior to this role, Meaghan spent three years as Director of a student-run, faculty-led studio, where she gained hands-on experience. Meaghan also spent six years serving on the board (and as co-chair) of the AIGA Design Educators' Community.Jessica Meharry is an Associate Professor and co-Director of Academic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Columbia College Chicago, USA. She is a designer, scholar, and educator with cross-disciplinary research focused on developing inclusive design management pedagogy and designing for equitable economies. She has more than 20 years of experience in higher education.

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Tanya Melendez-Escalante is senior curator of education and public programs at The Museum at FIT. She is a contributing author to the books La comedia y el melodrama en el audiovisual iberoamericano contemporaneo (2015) and Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color (2018). She curated the exhibitions Eterno Femenino (2017) in León, Mexico; Julia y Renata: Moda y Transformación (2020) at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Zapopan, Mexico; and the 2023 exhibition Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today at The Museum at FIT.Melissa Marra-Alvarez is curator of education and research at The Museum at FIT. She curated the exhibitions Minimalism/Maximalism (MFIT, 2019) and Force of Nature (MFIT, 2017) and co-curated Fashion & Politics (MFIT, 2009). Marra-Alvarez is co-curating the 2023 Museum at FIT exhibition Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today. Her publicat

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John Baldacchino is Professor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He is the author of Art and Unlearning (2018) and Educing Ivan Illich (2020). Herner Sæverot is Professor of Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. He is the Editor in Chief of Nordic Studies in Education and the author of Education and the Limits of Reason (2018) and Indirect Education: Exploring Indirectness in Teaching and Research (2022).

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Ingrid E. Mida is an art and dress historian, artist and curator. Responsible for the revival of the Ryerson Fashion Research Collection in Canada, Mida is the author Reading Fashion in Art (Bloomsbury, 2020) and lead author of The Dress Detective (Bloomsbury, 2015). She has also contributed chapters and articles to a variety of scholarly publications and is the Editor of The Journal of Dress History. She holds several board appointments for arts organizations and is the recipient of various grants and awards.

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Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of, amongst other works, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980: 4th edition, 2007; 5th edition in preparation), Modern Architecture in the World of Art series (5th edition, 2020), Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction (1995), Labor, Work and Architecture (2002), A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (2015) and The Other Modernism (2016: in Italian).Miodrag Mitrašinovic is Professor of Urbanism and Architecture, and Co-Chair of Parsons Graduate Urban Programs, at Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA. He is the co-editor of Public Space Reader (2020), Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion: Contemporary Urban Practices and Design Strategies of the Greater Bay Area (forthcoming 2021), 'Cooperative Cities' (Journal of Design Strategies

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Emily Bethell is Senior Lecturer in Primatology and Animal Behaviour at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is co-author of Planning Your PhD and Completing Your PhD.Clare Milsom is Head of Academic Practice at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is responsible for the leading and managing the university's strategic work on promoting student success, achievement and retention.

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Now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE produced by M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN and starring DAKOTA FANNING. You can't see them. But they can see you.This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams.Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the Watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time.Afraid and trapped among strangers, Mina is desperate for answers. Who are the Watchers, and why are they keeping the humans imprisoned, keen to watch their every move?The nightmare is only just beginning... A spine-chilling debut horror a

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Nahid Massoumeh Assemi is an independent scholar who specializes in the art and architectural history of Qajar Iran. She has published articles in the peer-review journal Iran. She is a Bahari Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries, 2023-24 and a member of the Contemporary Art Council of the Iran Heritage Foundation. She holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and an MA in Fine Arts from Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where she was trained as a classical artist. She is also a miniaturist, illuminator and calligrapher working on commission.

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Andrew Heywood was Vice Principal of Croydon College, UK, having previously been Director of Studies at Orpington College, UK, and Head of Politics at Farnborough Sixth-Form College, UK.Kathy Schindler has been teaching Politics for 30 years, working in a large comprehensive school in London for most of that time. Kathy is part of the Senior Examination Team for a large exam board and was involved in the development of the new linear Politics specification.

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Sarah Laurenson is Principal Curator of Modern and Contemporary History at National Museums Scotland, UK. She is responsible for the Scottish collections representing cultural, social, political, military and domestic history from c.1750 to the present. Her research focuses on the relationship between material culture, landscape and nature from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

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Steven A. Riess is Professor Emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University, USA.

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Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor at the University of Verona, Italy.

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Paul Christesen is Professor at Dartmouth College, USA. Charles H. Stocking is Associate Professor at Western University, Canada.

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David T. Mitchell is Professor of English at George Washington University, USA.Sharon L. Snyder is an independent researcher.Mitchell and Snyder are editors of the Encyclopaedia of Disability, Volume Five: A History of Disability in Primary Sources (2005) and, most recently, The Matter of Disability [with Susan Antebi] (2019). Together they are also co-authors of influential books in Disability Studies including Narrative Prosthesis (2000), Cultural Locations of Disability (2006), and The Biopolitics of Disability (2015).

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Gary G. Porton is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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Peter Ribeaux has been an Alexander Technique teacher for over 45 years. He has given workshops in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Israel, Switzerland and the USA, and has taught the Alexander Technique in a number of different settings, ranging from the performance arts to the aerospace industry. Formerly a university lecturer in organisational psychology at Middlesex University, UK, he has also been a council member of STAT (the Society of Teacher of the Alexander Technique, UK) and is currently a member of the Moderators' Panel and the Training Course Committee at STAT.

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Kevin Mills is Professor of English Literature at the University of South Wales, UK. He has published widely in the field of literary studies, including three monographs and numerous essays and chapters. Three collections of his poetry have been published by Cinnamon Press. He is course leader for the MPhil in Writing and teaches, amongst other things, on Myth and Narrative.

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Andrew Groves is Professor of Fashion Design at the University of Westminster, UK, and the Director of the Westminster Menswear Archive which he established in 2016. It houses over 2500 examples of some of the most significant menswear garments and is used daily by industry and students to inform their design practice.Danielle Sprecher is the curator of the Westminster Menswear Archive at the University of Westminster, UK. She is a historian with a focus on men's clothing and fashion and has worked as a curator of historic dress and textile collections for museums in the United Kingdom.

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J. E. Smyth is Reader in History at the University of Warwick, UK. Smyth is the author and editor of five books, including Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from Cimarron to Citizen Kane (2006) and Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance (2014).

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Transparency describes openness, accessibility and public understanding of the family justice system.The principle of open justice has long been limited by the need for privacy to protect the interests of vulnerable parties, and the balance between privacy and publicity is subject to a complex web of legislation and case law, especially in family courts. This book provides a detailed practical guide to the relevant legislation, case law, policy and procedure, and how the balance between privacy and publicity has changed over time. Written in the context of the outcome of the President's Transparency Review (2021), the Second Edition of this title covers recent case law and procedural changes. This includes:- Press attendance and reporting from pilot courts- Legal blogging developments- Privacy of financial applications - Updated judicial guidance on anonymisation and publication, including the transfer of primary publication from BAILII to TNA The Appendix of case stud

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Julie Wertz is Beal Family Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation Science at Harvard Art Museums, USA.

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Henri Bergson (1859- 1941) was a major French philosopher. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927 and France's highest honor, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur, in 1930.Alexander Lefebvre (translator) is Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.Nils F. Schott (translator) teaches philosophy in the Euro-American Program of the Collège Universitaire de SciencesPo, France.

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In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-commentary on the punk scene and was far more revolutionary musically than the rest of the competition. This book tells about a punk band.

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Explores how a tiny acoustic record has puttered and purred its way into the millennium. This book contains interviews of producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and the marketing team behind the VW commercial.

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The Pixies have had a career unlike any other in alternative rock. "Doolittle" is their knotty masterpiece, the embodiment of the Pixies' abrasive, exuberant, enigmatic pop. Informed by interviews with the band, this book looks at the making of the album and its place in rock history, and studies its influence in light of the Pixies reunion.

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This epoch-making record of the late '80s effortlessly combines dense swathes of guitar noise and dance music. This turned out to be their last record, guitarist and studio maestro Kevin Shields having set their standards so high it was impossible to surpass them. Shields is now playing with Primal Scream.

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Dr Paul Lambert BA LLB LLM, TMA, CTMA, professor, visiting research fellow, qualified lawyer, PhD, CDPO, CIPP/E, CRISC, and editor, has been publishing articles in legal and business journals (including the European Intellectual Property Review) on topics such as data protection, the internet, intellectual property and courtroom broadcasting for many years. He was nominated for the Picasso Privacy Award and the Inner Temple Book Prize.Paul is the author of a number of books, including Data Protection and Data Transfers Law (2023), Gringras: The Laws of the Internet (6th edition, 2022), and Data Protection, Privacy Regulators and Supervisory Authorities (2020), all published by Bloomsbury Professional.

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______________ 'An epic novel' - Telegraph 'A worldly wise delight' - Observer 'Another brilliant accomplishment from one of the country s most indispensable writers' - Texas Observer ______________ From legendary writer Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far grander fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy s land, both girls harbour their own secrets and dreams ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jeric , Colombia. And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radi

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Torsten Kraul is co-head of Noerr's Digital Business practice group in Berlin, Germany.

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The deliciously sharp new novel from Ferdinand Mount, author of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself GoodbyeFerdinand Mount's stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America. We follow the hapless Dickie Pentecost, redundant diplomatic correspondent for a foundering national newspaper, together with his stern oncologist wife Jane, and their daughters Flo, an aspiring ballerina, and the quizzical teenager Lucy.The whole family find themselves entangled in an ever more alarming series of events revolving around the elusive Ethel (full name Ethelbert), dynamic founder of the soaring public relations agency Making Nice.With echoes of Evelyn Waugh and The Thick of It, Making Nice is a masterly take on the madness of contemporary society and the limitless human capacity for self-deception.

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Glenn H. Utter is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, USA. His areas of instruction include American government and politics and classical and contemporary political thought.

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Cristina R. Giambalvo, DNP, CNM, is Director of Midwifery Services at Vally Medical Group in Montvale, New Jersey, USA.

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Prof. Richard Emmert is Professor Emeritus, Musashino University, Tokyo, Japan.Dr Ashley Thorpe is Reader in Theatre, Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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Ginie Servant-Miklos is Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is the founder of FairFight, an international women's empowerment foundation.

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Kathleen Davidson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney, Australia.Molly Duggins is a lecturer in the Department of Art History and Theory at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia.

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Dawn Archer is Professor of Research and Knowledge Exchange Coordinator for Languages, Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama and Director of the Shakespeare Programme in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK.Sean Murphy is a linguist interested in historical English drama. He was a Senior Research Associate on the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language.

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Meira Levinson is Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA.Tatiana Geron is Graduate Fellow in the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, USA.Sara O'Brien is Instructional Designer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA. Ellis Reid is PhD Candidate in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA.

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