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  • The Kings and Queens of England

    by W M Ormrod ...
    An authoritative and accessible history of the kings and queens of England from the warrior kings of the Dark Ages to King Charles III.The lives of the kings and queens of England include some of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Great Britain.Whether it's William the Conqueror's slaying of Harold Godwinson, Henry VIII's readiness to behead his unfortunate wives, Elizabeth I's chastity, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England

    by W. Mark Ormrod ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages. Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women’s access to the highest court of medieval England. Women were active supplicants to the Crown in Parliament, and sometimes appeared there in person to ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • Transition to Professional Nursing Practice

    Edited by Rob Burton, Graham Ormrod ...
    Provides final year nursing students with comprehensive guidance on how to make the leap from student to registered nurse, helping you to master the skills needed to progress from supervised to professional practice.Packed with key information, theory and advice, this book covers essential topics such as leadership and management, decision-making, professional development, assessment, law and ... Read more

    $76.79 CAD

  • Time Travel in Popular Media

    Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games

    Edited by Matthew Jones, Joan Ormrod ...
    In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others by unexplained means. Sometime travelers can alter the timeline, while others are prevented from ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • <I>Winner and Waster</I> and its Contexts

    Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England

    by W Mark Ormrod ...
    The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity (Waster); it ranges widely over a number of major issues in the political life of England during Edward III's reign.This book sets out to re-date the poem from the 1350s to the 1360s, and in so doing to question whether its principal message really revolves (as so much ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Superheroes and Identities

    Edited by Mel Gibson, David Huxley, Joan Ormrod ...
    Superheroes have been the major genre to emerge from comics and graphic novels, saturating popular culture with images of muscular men and sexy women. A major aspect of this genre is identity in the roles played by individuals, the development of identities through extended stories and in the ways the characters inspire audiences. This collection analyses stories from popular comics franchises ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Disney Gothic

    Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse

    by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Murray Leeder, Terry Lindvall, Jay Bamber, Carl H. Sederholm, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Gwyneth Peaty, Kevin J. Wetmore0, J.S. Mackley1, Nancy Johnson-Hunt2, Antonio Sanna3, Christy Tidwell4, Joan Ormrod5, Angelique Nairn6, Simon Bacon7, Blair Speakman8 ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Changing our Environment, Changing Ourselves

    Nature, Labour, Knowledge and Alienation

    Edited by James S. Ormrod ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, a celebration of the work of the sociologist Peter Dickens serves as the catalyst for exploring the relationship between human ‘internal nature’ (our health and psychological well-being) and ‘external nature’ (the environment on which we depend and which we collectively transform). Across contributions from Ted Benton, James Ormrod, Kate Soper, John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Wonder Woman

    The Female Body and Popular Culture

    by Joan Ormrod ...
    Wonder Woman was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and beauty and her near eighty-year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes. In this book, Joan Ormrod analyses key moments in the superheroine's career and views them through the prism of the female body.This book explores how Wonder Woman's body has changed over the years as her mission has shifted from ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Immigrant England, 1300–1550

    by W. Mark Ormrod, Bart Lambert, Jonathan Mackman ...
    Series Book 26 - Manchester Medieval Studies
    This book provides a vivid and accessible history of first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages. Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the kingdom, settling in the countryside as well as in towns, taking work as agricultural labourers, skilled craftspeople and professionals. Often ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Superhero Multiverse

    Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media

    by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Cory Barker, Whitney Hardin, Carl Wilson, Joan Ormrod, James C. Taylor, Forrest Johnson, Matthew Thompson, Angelique Nairn, Carmel Cedro0, Blair Speakman1, Simon Bacon2, Anne Lee3, Sophia Staite4, Demi Schänzel5, Justin Matthews6, Michael Soares7, Julia E. Kiernan8 ...
    Series series Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
    The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative—including the relationship ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Art Markets in Europe, 1400–1800

    by Michael North, David Ormrod ...
    The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline, in ways which can only help economic and social historians in the current drive to study past societies in terms of what they consumed, produced, perceived and imagined. This group of essays focuses on three main issues: the demand for art, ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD