Dr Nicola Wilson's Books

Home in British Working-Class Fiction

By: Dr Nicola Wilson

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Home in British Working-Class Fiction

By: Dr Nicola Wilson

Home in British Working-Class Fiction offers a fresh take on British working-class writing that turns away from a masculinist, work-based understanding of class in favour of home, gender, domestic labour and the family kitchen. Examining key works by Robert Tressell, Alan Sillitoe, D. H. Lawrence, Buchi Emecheta, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson and James Kelman, among many others, Nicola Wilson demonstrates the importance of home's role in the making and expression of class feeling and identity.

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1409432416

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Women, Infanticide and the Press, 1822–1922

News Narratives in England and Australia

By: Dr Nicola Goc

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Women, Infanticide and the Press, 1822–1922

News Narratives in England and Australia

By: Dr Nicola Goc

In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal both the broader patterns and the particular rhetorical strategies journalists used to report on young women who killed their babies. Her study takes Foucault’s perspective that the production of knowledge, of 'facts' and truth claims, and the exercise of power, are inextricably connected to discourse. Newspaper discourses provide a way to investigate the discursive practices that brought the nineteenth-century infanticidal woman - known as ‘the Infanticide’ - into being. The actions of the infanticidal mother were understood as a fundamental threat to society, not only because they subverted the ideal of Victorian womanhood but also because a woman’s actions destroyed a man’s lineage. For these reasons, Goc demonstrates, infanticide narratives were politicised in the press and woven into interconnected narratives about the regulation of women, women's rights, the family, the law, welfare, and medicine that dominated nineteenth-century discourse. For example, the Times used individual stories of infanticide to argue against the Bastardy Clause in the Poor Law that denied unmarried women and their children relief. Infanticide narratives often adopted the conventions of the courtroom drama, with the young transgressive female positioned against a body of male authoritarian figures, a juxtaposition that reinforced male authority over women. Alive to the marked differences between various types of newspapers, Goc's study offers a rich and nuanced discussion of the Victorian press's fascination with infanticide. At the same time, infanticide news stories shaped how women who killed their babies were known and understood in ways that pathologised their actions. This, in turn, influenced medical, judicial, and welfare policies regarding the crime of infanticide and created an acceptable context for how society viewed these women. Alive to the marked differences between various types of newspapers, Goc's study offers a rich and nuanced discussion of the Victorian press's fascination with infanticide.

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1472402820

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Evils III

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and the London School of Economics and Political Science

By: Dr. Dennis Peng

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Evils III

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and the London School of Economics and Political Science

By: Dr. Dennis Peng

This book investigates the alleged fabrication of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's doctoral degree. Since 2015, scholars have raised questions about her academic credentials and the whereabouts of her doctoral dissertation. Through actual email records and detailed timelines, the reader is taken through contradictions and cover-ups surrounding how Tsai, Ing-Wen obtained her Ph.D. in Law from the renowned London School of Economics and Political Science in 1984. This book documents how the London School of Economics responded to the scandal, how internal discussions and strategies within the school evolved, and how representatives of Taiwan's Presidential Office colluded with the members of the university members. It also details how Tsai reissued multiple graduation certificates and translated her thesis from a Chinese journal article. This controversy has impacted not just Tsai personally, but also the reputation of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Thesis7ting LLC

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Acronyms and Synonyms in Medical Imaging

By: David Allison,Dr Nicola Strickland

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Acronyms and Synonyms in Medical Imaging

By: David Allison,Dr Nicola Strickland

With over 3,200 entries this fast and easy to use reference provides a guide to the common abbreviations and technical jargon used in medical imaging. Cross referenced entries, over 100 illustrations, and comprehensive search facilities make this book an essential system for all medical personnel.

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CRC Press

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1899066101

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9781899066100

Publishing from Your PhD

Negotiating a Crowded Jungle

By: Dr Nicola F Johnson

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Publishing from Your PhD

Negotiating a Crowded Jungle

By: Dr Nicola F Johnson

There is consistent pressure on all academics to publish, publish, publish. But not unless they have been awarded their PhD – considered by most to be the starting step of an academic career. So while the pressure is on to obtain the title, and then obtain a permanent position, and then publish journal articles, there is little support available to researchers in the nascent stage of their careers. Publishing from Your PhD precisely focuses on providing early career researchers with emotional and collegial support that is often not available in academe. It seeks to dispel nepotistic notions of superiority that places Professors and such on a pedestal. It specifically clarifies the difficulty in having written the PhD thesis and then rewriting it to suit the genre of journal articles. It does not deal with the 'how' of academic writing in general. This book endeavours to shed light on the path one must take to navigate the jungles of academia. This is an untrodden path which is unique to every researcher – especially those who employ abstract or critical theories in their research – and each journey through the jungle is different. However, because there is little literature about this embryonic journey, this book illuminates the processes and difficulties of publishing in journals and culling one's finely honed thesis into small chunks – a difficult task to which few admit.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1409486524

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Human Shields

A History of People in the Line of Fire

By: Dr. Neve Gordon,Nicola Perugini

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Human Shields

A History of People in the Line of Fire

By: Dr. Neve Gordon,Nicola Perugini

A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and environmental protests, and even computer games. The phenomenon, however, is by no means a new one. Describing the use of human shields in key historical and contemporary moments across the globe, Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini demonstrate how the increasing weaponization of human beings has made the position of civilians trapped in theaters of violence more precarious and their lives more expendable. They show how the law facilitates the use of lethal violence against vulnerable people while portraying it as humane, but they also reveal how people can and do use their own vulnerability to resist violence and denounce forms of dehumanization. Ultimately, Human Shields unsettles our common ethical assumptions about violence and the law and urges us to imagine entirely new forms of humane politics.

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0520972287

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9780520972285

Popular Music and the Myths of Madness

By: Dr Nicola Spelman

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Popular Music and the Myths of Madness

By: Dr Nicola Spelman

Studies of opera, film, television, and literature have demonstrated how constructions of madness may be referenced in order to stigmatise but also liberate protagonists in ways that reinforce or challenge contemporaneous notions of normality. But to date very little research has been conducted on how madness is represented in popular music. In an effort to redress this imbalance, Nicola Spelman identifies links between the anti-psychiatry movement and representations of madness in popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, analysing the various ways in which ideas critical of institutional psychiatry are embodied both verbally and musically in specific songs by David Bowie, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, The Beatles, and Elton John. She concentrates on meanings that may be made at the point of reception as a consequence of ideas about madness that were circulating at the time. These ideas are then linked to contemporary conventions of musical expression in order to illustrate certain interpretative possibilities. Supporting evidence comes from popular musicological analysis - incorporating discourse analysis and social semiotics - and investigation of socio-historical context. The uniqueness of the period in question is demonstrated by means of a more generalised overview of songs drawn from a variety of styles and eras that engage with the topic of madness in diverse and often conflicting ways. The conclusions drawn reveal the extent to which anti-psychiatric ideas filtered through into popular culture, offering insights into popular music's ability to question general suppositions about madness alongside its potential to bring issues of men's madness into the public arena as an often neglected topic for discussion.

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1409495450

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The Faith Lives of Women and Girls

Qualitative Research Perspectives

By: Revd Dr Anne Phillips

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The Faith Lives of Women and Girls

Qualitative Research Perspectives

By: Revd Dr Anne Phillips

Identifying, illuminating and enhancing understanding of key aspects of women and girls' faith lives, The Faith Lives of Women and Girls represents a significant body of original qualitative research from practitioners and researchers across the UK. Contributors include new and upcoming researchers as well as more established feminist practical theologians. Chapters provide perspectives on different ages and stages of faith across the life cycle, from a range of different cultural and religious contexts. Diverse spiritual practices, beliefs and attachments are explored, including a variety of experiences of liminality in women’s faith lives. A range of approaches - ethnographic, oral history, action research, interview studies, case studies and documentary analysis - combine to offer a deeper understanding of women’s and girls' faith lives. As well as being of interest to researchers, this book presents resources to enhance ministry to and with women and girls in a variety of settings.

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1472402960

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Professionalism, Professional Values & Ethics Including Bioethics

e-Book for B.Sc Nursing 4th Semester as per INC Syllabus

By: Dr. R. Francis Moses ,Dev Prakash Malav

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Professionalism, Professional Values & Ethics Including Bioethics

e-Book for B.Sc Nursing 4th Semester as per INC Syllabus

By: Dr. R. Francis Moses ,Dev Prakash Malav

Explore the e-Book version of 'Professionalism, Professional Values & Ethics Including Bioethics' for B.Sc Nursing 4th Semester, precisely aligned with the INC Syllabus. Dive into the world of professionalism, ethical principles, and bioethics with this digital edition. Published with meticulous attention to detail, this e-Book offers a comprehensive exploration of the subject. Upgrade your learning experience with the convenience and affordability of an e-Book. Get your copy today and embark on a journey of enhanced understanding and ethical nursing practices.

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9357552480

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The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook

By: Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos

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The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook

By: Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos

This is a specially formatted fixed layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book. The Mediterranean Diet is the diet to end them all. Scientifically backed by decades of rigorously peer-reviewed research, the results of the Mediterranean Diet speak for themselves. Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos has devoted her life to studying this World Heritage diet and now brings you more recipes, tips and facts to improve your health as well as brighten your home. From longevity and sustained weight-loss, to the prevention of heart disease and dementia, for long, happy life of healthy eating, the Mediterranean Diet is the one to follow. Gorgeously photographed, this companion to Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos' The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook features the latest research on the benefits of the diet, clear instructions on how to fast safely and effectively, mythbusting on food fads and 'superfoods' and more than 80 all-new delicious recipes the whole family will enjoy. Sustainable and satisfying, The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook is a celebration of good health and hearty eating.

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1743539797

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Digital Cultures: Age of the Intellect

By: Dr. Ganesh Shermon

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Digital Cultures: Age of the Intellect

By: Dr. Ganesh Shermon

Comments by global thought leaders on Business of Staffing: A Talent Agenda: "Your section on how HR needs to change in a digital context is spot on with those twenty points" (M. S. Krishnan, Associate Dean, Global Initiatives, Accenture Professor of Computer Information Systems, Professor of Technology and Operations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan). "Ganesh Shermon has really nailed it. He really knows this area well. Well worth reading for anyone interested in this field" (Mark Smith, National Industry Leader, Financial services, KPMG LLP; earlier Global Head of People & Change Practice). "A must-read for today's HR professionals as they seek to learn evidence-based practices as they transform their talent management performance" (Laura Croucher, Americas leader, KPMG HR, Transformation Centre of Excellence).

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1483464164

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The United States of America

Facts, Analysis, and Strategy

By: Dr. Wenyi Yu

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The United States of America

Facts, Analysis, and Strategy

By: Dr. Wenyi Yu

The US will have a 1-billion population by 2061. The author believes that an active and open immigration policy is beneficial to the United States in the long run. The bipartisan duopoly must be broken in order to incubate a more competitive election ecology. Five hundred regional economy engines (REE) are proposed to be built across the United States to revitalize the community economy. A New Marshall Plan is recommended to expand the whole-spectrum presence of the US globally. For the benefits of the people of both the US and China and world peace, the author boldly conceived that the USA and China to form a union to create a trans-Pacific “Pacific Union” by peaceful negotiation, not war. The author does not consider that the pandemic, protests, mass looting, two-party struggles, vote-counting, Occupying the US Capitol, bias media, economic difficulties, illegal immigration, and international rivals, and so on pose a real threat to the United States. The various “symptoms” that have manifested indicate that the United States is facing an unprecedented, comprehensive transition period. However, the nation has not fully awakened, so it is necessary to have a reminder. The book has eleven chapters, including (1) The Mirror of History, (2) The United States in 1946, (3) Korean War, Vietnam War, and Star Wars, (4) President Donald John Trump, (5) President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., (6) Cultural transformation, (7) US Economy, (8) US Foreign Affairs in 2020 and Comments, (9) The US during 1944–2020, (10) Strategy, (11) Script: Dreams, and Outlook. There are descriptions of and comments on events in 2020 from brand-new perspectives. The starting point of the book is to place the interests of the country and the people of the United States first. The book will be a good friend to those who are serious about the future of the United States, whether they are voters, the US presidents, or members of Congress, governors, mayors, members of nonpartisan political organizations, teachers and students in political science, researches in American studies, and anyone who cares about world peace. You will surely get unprecedented inspiration and useful advice from it. This is the book that deserves every American to read. It will help you in the next forty years.

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1665521759

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The Mediterranean Diet

By: Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos

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The Mediterranean Diet

By: Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos

This beautifully photographed book is your complete guide to the world's most famous, effective and sustainable diet by one of Australia's leading researchers. The Mediterranean Diet is the diet on which others are based. Its positive health effects have been rigorously tested for more than 60 years, and the results are clear. The diet has been proven to prevent heart disease and diabetes, help with weight management, slow the progress of Alzheimer's and promote longevity. Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos has spent her working life researching the diet. Drawing on the food traditions of her Greek heritage, Dr Itsiopoulos provides 80 delicious recipes, eating plans and nutritional advice, as well as sharing the evidence as to why this diet is the gold standard of healthy eating. Sustainable, satisfying and suitable for the whole family, this is a diet for life, one that celebrates the pleasures of food as much as it promotes long-term good health and wellbeing.

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1743539444

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synthesis of antibiotics

By: DR MOHAMMAD MAHMOUD

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synthesis of antibiotics

By: DR MOHAMMAD MAHMOUD

DESCRIBE HOW THE THE DRUG STRUCTURE BEING IS GIVE I AFOCUS ON ANTIBIOTIC METHODS OF SYNTHESIS

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1365693864

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The Brain Sell

When Science Meets Shopping

By: Dr. David Lewis

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The Brain Sell

When Science Meets Shopping

By: Dr. David Lewis

Science has made the leap from the lab to come to a store near you and the effects on us are phenomenal. Corporations in hyper-competition are now using the new mind sciences to analyze how and when we shop, and the hidden triggers that persuade us to consume. From bargains in the Big Apple to the bustling bazaars of Istanbul, from in-store to interactive and online to mobile, neuromarketing pioneer Dr. David Lewis goes behind the scenes of the persuasion industry to reveal the powerful tools and techniques, technologies and psychologies seeking to stimulate us all to buy more often without us consciously realizing it.

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Nicholas Brealey

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1473644992

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Landscapes of Care

Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving

By: Dr Andrew Power

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Landscapes of Care

Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving

By: Dr Andrew Power

Given the increasing shift of care from state residential services to community-based support, this book examines the complex geographies of family caregiving for young adults with intellectual disabilities. It traces how family ‘carers’ are directly and indirectly affected by a broad array of law and policy, including family policy, disability legislation, and health and community care restructuring policy. Each of these has material and institutional effects and is premised on the discourses, ideologies, and interactions in the state over time. Focusing on the welfare models of England, the US and Ireland, this book compares the welfare ideologies in each country and examines how the specific historical, cultural, and political contexts give rise to different landscapes of care and disability. Further, the book explores the unique lifeworlds of family carers of young adults with intellectual disability within the broader landscape of care in which they are situated.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409488705

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Reconceptualising Penality

A Comparative Perspective on Punitiveness in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand

By: Dr Claire Hamilton

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Reconceptualising Penality

A Comparative Perspective on Punitiveness in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand

By: Dr Claire Hamilton

Drastic increases in the use of imprisonment; the introduction of ‘three strikes’ laws and mandatory sentences; restrictions on parole - all of these developments appear to signify a new, harsher era or ‘punitive turn’. Yet these features of criminal justice are not universally present in all Western countries. Drawing on empirical data, Hamilton examines the prevalence of harsher penal policies in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand, thereby demonstrating the utility of viewing criminal justice from the perspective of smaller jurisdictions. This highly innovative book is thoroughly critical of the way in which punitiveness is currently measured by leading criminologists. It is essential reading for students and scholars of criminology, penology, criminal justice and socio-legal studies, as well as criminal lawyers and practitioners.

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1409463184

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Screening For Good Health

The Australian Guide To Health Screening And Immunisation

By: Dr Kerry Kirke,Dr Nicola Spurrier,Mr Martin Bray

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Screening For Good Health

The Australian Guide To Health Screening And Immunisation

By: Dr Kerry Kirke,Dr Nicola Spurrier,Mr Martin Bray

Screening for Good Health is a practical guide to help you make sense of the hundreds of health messages that we are bombarded with each year. Whether or not there is a family history of a particular illness, screening and immunisation are smart, simple steps anyone can take to counter preventable diseases. Prepared by experts in their field, Screening for Good Health gives an overview of the stages in life, the screening tests and immunisations that are relevant to each age bracket, and the importance of your own record-keeping. An alphabetical listing covers every illness from Alzheimer’s Disease through to Osteoporosis to Tuberculosis. For each preventable illness, the entry provides up-to-date information on: - its symptoms - risk factors - disease progression - protective lifestyle choices an individual may consider - the screening tests available - the health services at your disposal, and - the treatment available. Also included is a comprehensive travel health section, with a convenient checklist covering all aspects of health protection during travel, and a first-aid guide.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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052285933X

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9780522859331

Doctor Who-Guide 2/3

By: Compiled from Wikipedia pages and published by Dr Googelberg

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Doctor Who-Guide 2/3

By: Compiled from Wikipedia pages and published by Dr Googelberg

Almost everything about the good doctor, his companions and travels, his enemies and friends. Additionally the actors etc. Part three contains all summaries of all TV episodes.Compiled from Wikipedia pages and published by Dr Googelberg.

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1291079807

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Doctor Who-Guide 1/3

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Doctor Who-Guide 1/3

By: compiled from Wikipedia pages and published by Dr Googelberg

Almost everything about the good doctor, his companions and travels, his enemies and friends. Additionally the actors etc. Part three contains all summaries of all TV episodes. Compiled from Wikipedia pages and published by Dr Googelberg.

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1291079815

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Anxiety and Evil in the Writings of Patricia Highsmith

By: Dr Fiona Peters

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Anxiety and Evil in the Writings of Patricia Highsmith

By: Dr Fiona Peters

Drawing on an impressive range of secondary material, including many elusive reviews, interviews and articles from the under-explored Highsmith Archive, Fiona Peters suggests that the usual generic distinctions -crime fiction, mystery, suspense - have been largely unhelpful in elucidating Patricia Highsmith's novels. Peters analyzes a significant selection of Highsmith's works, chosen with a view towards demonstrating the range of her oeuvre while also identifying the main themes and preoccupations running throughout her career. Adopting a psychoanalytic approach, Peters proposes a reading of Highsmith that subordinates murder as the primary focus of the novels in favor of the gaps between periods of activity represented through anxiety, waiting, lack of desire and evil. Her close readings of the Ripley series, This Sweet Sickness, Deep Water, The Tremor of Forgery, and The Cry of the Owl, among others, reveal and illuminate Highsmith's concern with minutiae and the particular. Peters makes a strong case that the specific disturbances within her texts have resulted in Highsmith's writing remaining resistant to explication and to the more sophisticated interpretative strategies that would seek to position her within a specific genre.

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1409478912

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Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman's Liberation Movement

Independence, War, Masculinity, and the Novel, 1778–1818

By: Dr Megan A Woodworth

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Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman's Liberation Movement

Independence, War, Masculinity, and the Novel, 1778–1818

By: Dr Megan A Woodworth

In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary political debates, particularly those relating to the French Revolution. Megan Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about their own liberty are also present in their treatment of male characters. In positing a 'Gentleman's Liberation Movement,' she suggests that Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen all used their creative powers to liberate men from the very institutions and ideas about power, society, and gender that promote the subjection of women. Their writing juxtaposes the role of women in the private spheres with men's engagement in political structures and successive wars for independence (the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars). The failures associated with fighting these wars and the ideological debates surrounding them made plain, at least to these women writers, that in denying the universality of these natural freedoms, their liberating effects would be severely compromised. Thus, to win the same rights for which men fought, women writers sought to remake men as individuals freed from the tyranny of their patriarchal inheritance.

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1409479080

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Biography in Early Modern France, 1540-1630

Forms and Functions

By: Dr. Katherine MacDonald

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Biography in Early Modern France, 1540-1630

Forms and Functions

By: Dr. Katherine MacDonald

When the famous Royal Professor of Philosophy and Eloquence, Petrus Ramus (1515-1572), gave a lecture, one of his most promising pupils stood by, ready to tug on his coat if he made a mistake. That pupil was Ramus' future biographer Nicolas de Nancel (1539-1610), who recounted this anecdote in his Vita Rami (1599). Nancel's insertion of himself into his portrayal of Ramus' life is typical of early modern biographies of men of letters. The first study of biography in 16th-century France, this groundbreaking book offers valuable insights into biography's role as a form of social and cultural negotiation geared to advance the biographer's career.

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1905981112

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Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

Literacy, Textiles, and Activism

By: Dr Christine Bayles Kortsch

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Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

Literacy, Textiles, and Activism

By: Dr Christine Bayles Kortsch

In her immensely readable and richly documented book, Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable relationship with the material culture of dress and sewing. Even as the Education Acts of 1870, 1880, and 1891 extended the privilege of print literacy to greater numbers of the populace, stitching samplers continued to be a way of acculturating girls in both print literacy and what Kortsch terms "dress culture." Kortsch explores nineteenth-century women's education, sewing and needlework, mainstream fashion, alternative dress movements, working-class labor in the textile industry, and forms of social activism, showing how dual literacy in dress and print cultures linked women writers with their readers. Focusing on Victorian novels written between 1870 and 1900, Kortsch examines fiction by writers such as Olive Schreiner, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Margaret Oliphant, Sarah Grand, and Gertrude Dix, with attention to influential predecessors like Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Periodicals, with their juxtaposition of journalism, fiction, and articles on dress and sewing are particularly fertile sites for exploring the close linkages between print and dress cultures. Informed by her examinations of costume collections in British and American museums, Kortsch's book broadens our view of New Woman fiction and its relationship both to dress culture and to contemporary women's fiction.

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1409475492

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Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England

Literary and Cultural Representations

By: Dr Bridget Walsh

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Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England

Literary and Cultural Representations

By: Dr Bridget Walsh

Examining novels, trial transcripts, medico-legal documents, broadsides, criminal and scientific writing, illustration and, notably, Victorian melodrama, Bridget Walsh focuses on the relationship between the domestic sphere, so central to Victorian values, and the desecration of that space by the act of murder. Her book tackles crucial questions related to Victorian ideas of nationhood, national health, inequality, newspaper coverage of murder, contested models of masculinity and the portrayal of the female domestic murderer at the fin de siècle.

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1472421035

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Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Ottoman-Venetian Encounters

By: Dr Stephen Ortega

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Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Ottoman-Venetian Encounters

By: Dr Stephen Ortega

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing principally on Ottoman Muslims who came to Venice and its outlying territories, and using sources in Italian, Turkish and Spanish, this study examines the different types of power relations and the social geographies that framed the encounters of Muslim travelers. While Stephen Ortega does not dismiss the idea that Venetians and Ottoman Muslims represented two distinct communities, he does argue that Christian and Muslim exchange in the pre-modern period involved integrated cultural, economic, political and social practices. Ortega's investigation brings to light how merchants, trade brokers, diplomats, informants, converts, wayward souls and government officials from different communities engaged in similar practices and used comparable negotiation tactics in matters ranging from trade disputes, to the rights of male family members, to guarantees of protection. In relying on sources from archives in Venice, Istanbul and Simancas, the book demonstrates the importance of viewing Mediterranean history from a variety of perspectives, and it emphasizes the importance of understanding cross-cultural history as a negotiation between different social, cultural and institutional actors.

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1472405579

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