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  • Princess

    A Private Novel

    Series Book 5 - Private Europe
    A secret and the British crown make a murderous combination in this page-turning suspense novel in the #1 bestselling Private series.Private, the best investigation unit in the world, has agents who are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world—and they always uncover the truth. No wonder the most influential men and women on the planet seek their help on a daily basis ... Read more

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  • Hôtel Amour

    "This is simply extraordinary writing, laced with wonder and devastation…" Joanna KlinkA sequel to her T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Erato, Deryn Rees-Jones' remarkable new collection sees her returning to ongoing preoccupations: the complexities of memory and memorialisation, desire and the body, and poetry's place in a hostile world.The book begins with a woman checking into Hôtel Amour, a space ... Read more

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  • Civil Society in an Age of Uncertainty

    Institutions, Governance and Existential Challenges

    Edited by Paul Chaney, Ian Rees Jones ...
    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    This book explores how the uncertainties of the 21st century present existential challenges to civil society. These include changing modes of governance (through devolution and Brexit), austerity, migration, growing digital divides, issues of (mis)trust and democratic confidence, welfare delivery and the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary threat to minority languages and cultures.Presenting ... Read more

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  • Peter Hammill on track

    Series series On Track
    The British singer, songwriter and musician Peter Hammill is one of the key figures in the history of progressive rock. As the leader and main creative force of Van der Graaf Generator, he was behind some of the most powerful and compelling rock music of the 1970s, and since VdGG reformed in 2005 has continued to lead the group down a unique musical path.But Van der Graaf Generator are only part ... Read more

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  • Bent Street 5.1

    Soft Borders, Hard Edges

    In this midyear 2021 edition of Bent Street, guest editors Sam Elkin and Yves Rees from the Spilling the T Collective bring a special trans and gender diverse community focus: essays, poetry, polemic, memoir, fiction, and imagery that explores and celebrates gender diversity. In this edition, trans creatives bring an acute understanding of how embodied subjects construct and perform gendered ... Read more

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  • Medical Sociology and Old Age

    Towards a sociology of health in later life

    Series series Critical Studies in Health and Society
    The nature of health in later life has conventionally been studied from two perspectives. Medical sociologists have focused on the failing body, chronic illness, infirmity and mortality, while social gerontologists on the other hand have focused on the epidemiology of old age and health and social policy. By examining these perspectives, Higgs and Jones show how both standpoints have a restricted ... Read more

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  • City Regions and Devolution in the UK

    The Politics of Representation

    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.In recent years, the ‘city region’ has seen a renaissance as the de facto spatial centre of governance for economic and social development.Rich in case study insights, this book provides a critique of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes the political, economic, social and cultural geographies of ... Read more

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  • Burying the Wren

    In Burying the Wren Deryn Rees-Jones returns to familiar preoccupations but with a new clarity and maturity of vision. With intense lyricism she calls on the Roethkean 'small things' of the universe -- truffles, slugs, trilobites, birds, stones, feathers, flowers, eggs -- which, mysterious, and magical as well as ordinary -- she sets up against loss. Her sequence of 'Dogwoman' poems, which draws ... Read more

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  • York

    Art, Architecture and Archaeology

    Series series The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions
    York explores the archaeology, art, architecture and cultural heritage of the city in the late Middle Ages.In the years since the resurrection of the British Archaeological Association conference in 1976, the association has met in the city only once (in 1988), for a conference that celebrated Yorkshire Monasticism. As a consequence, the secular and vernacular architecture as well as the ... Read more

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  • Erato

    Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize Poetry Book Society Recommendation Named after the Greek muse of lyric poetry, Erato combines documentary-style prose narratives with the passionate lyric poetry for which Rees-Jones is renowned. Here as she experiments with form, particularly the sonnet, Rees-Jones questions the value of the poet and poetry itself. What is the difference, asks one poem, ... Read more

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  • Chromatic Monitoring of Complex Conditions

    Series series Series in Sensors
    Explaining the chromatic methodology for the intelligent monitoring of complex systems, Chromatic Monitoring of Complex Conditions demonstrates that chromatic processing is analogous to human vision yet also extends into a wide range of nonoptical domains.Taking a practical approach that utilizes many examples and graphs, the book presen ... Read more

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  • The Foundational Economy and Citizenship

    Comparative Perspectives on Civil Repair

    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    The principles of the modern foundational economy and its role in renewing citizenship and informing public policy are explored for the first time in this instructive collection.Challenging mainstream social and economic thinking, it shows how foundational economy experiments at different scales can foster radical social innovation through collective, rather than private, consumption.An ... Read more

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