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Refugees, Capitalism and the British State

Implications for Social Workers, Volunteers and Activists

By: Dr Tom Vickers

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Refugees, Capitalism and the British State

Implications for Social Workers, Volunteers and Activists

By: Dr Tom Vickers

Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important tools for social workers and service users to understand the structures of oppression they face and devise effective means of resistance. This book uses Marxism's lost insights and reinterprets them in the current context by focussing on one particular section of the international working class - refugees and asylum seekers in Britain. Vickers' analysis demonstrates the general utility of a Marxist approach, enabling an exploration of the interplay between state policies, how these are experienced by their subjects, and how conflicts are mediated. The substantive focus of the book is twofold: to analyse the material basis of the oppression of refugees in Britain by the British state; and to examine the means by which the British state has 'managed' this oppression through the cultivation of a 'refugee relations industry', within a broader narrative of 'social capital building'. These questions demand answers if social workers and other practitioners are to successfully work with refugees and asylum seekers, and this book provides these through a detailed Marxist analysis.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409461602

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9781409461609

The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002

By: Dr Claire Parfait

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The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002

By: Dr Claire Parfait

Uncle Tom's Cabin continues to provoke impassioned discussions among scholars; to serve as the inspiration for theater, film, and dance; and to be the locus of much heated debate surrounding race relations in the United States. It is also one of the most remarkable print-based texts in U.S. publishing history. And yet, until now, no book-length study has traced the tumultuous publishing history of this most famous of antislavery novels. Among the major issues Claire Parfait addresses in her detailed account are the conditions of female authorship, the structures of copyright, author-publisher relations, agency, and literary economics. To follow the trail of the book over 150 years is to track the course of American culture, and to read the various editions is to gain insight into the most basic structures, formations, and formulations of literary culture during the period. Parfait interrelates the cultural status of this still controversial novel with its publishing history, and thus also chronicles the changing mood and mores of the nation during the past century and a half. Scholars of Stowe, of American literature and culture, and of publishing history will find this impressive and compelling work invaluable.

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290

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409489981

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9781409489986

The Kingfisher Dinosaur Encyclopedia

One Encylopedia, a World of Prehistoric Knowledge

By: Dr. Michael Benton,Michael J. Benton

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The Kingfisher Dinosaur Encyclopedia

One Encylopedia, a World of Prehistoric Knowledge

By: Dr. Michael Benton,Michael J. Benton

Discusses the discovery and classification of dinosaurs and examines individual species.

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173

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Macmillan

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0753464403

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9780753464403

Dinosaurs Aren't Dead

By: Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki

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Dinosaurs Aren't Dead

By: Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki

From things that fall from the sky (great green globs!) to the birth of the moon, exploding stars, wooden spaceships, life in deep space, this bird's eye view of the universe takes us all the way to the end of the solar system and back again. Dr Karl is one of the most dynamic and enthusiastic popular scientists in Australia. His adult titles are anecdotal, fascinating and informative. His quirky and contagiously accessible take on science and the amazing world around us is now available for children aged 8 years and over. The first title, Dinosaurs Aren't Dead, exposes an amazing truth:while practically all of the many species of dinosaurs died out spectacularly 65 million years ago – one species did survive, and still lives today – the birds. The book will be highly illustrated with lots of black and white cartoons to explain the Big Bang theory, shifting Tectonic plates and dinosaur evolution.

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Macmillan

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1466825812

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9781466825819

The Refractive Thinker

An Anthology of Higher Learning

By: Dr Tom Woodruff,Judy Blando,Cynthia Roundy,Elmer Hall,Laura D. Grandgenett

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The Refractive Thinker

An Anthology of Higher Learning

By: Dr Tom Woodruff,Judy Blando,Cynthia Roundy,Elmer Hall,Laura D. Grandgenett

The Refractive Thinker series hightlights the ability of doctoral scholars to challenge conventional wisdom and bend thought. These doctoral scholars--10 in all--each offer their own chapter that includes their wisdom under the umbrella of leadership.

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186

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Lentz Leadership Institute

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0982303610

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9780982303610

The Greek-Turkish Relationship and NATO

By: Dr Fotios Moustakis

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The Greek-Turkish Relationship and NATO

By: Dr Fotios Moustakis

This publication shows that the Eastern Mediterranean, having been transformed from a region of secondary importance during the Cold War to one of greater importance for the western interests in the post-Cold War era, is in a state of flux. Despite sporadic periods of rapprochement, tensions between Greece and Turkey still exist. Therefore, one must question the grounds behind the lack of normal relations that exist between these two NATO members and its effects on the NATO organisation as a whole. Hence, this volume has two purposes first, to examine Greek and Turkish foreign, security and defence policies during and after the post-Cold War period and second, to investigate why these policies have been formulated.

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Routledge

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1135760292

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9781135760298

Tragic Coleridge

By: Dr Chris Murray

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Tragic Coleridge

By: Dr Chris Murray

To Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tragedy was not solely a literary mode, but a philosophy to interpret the history that unfolded around him. Tragic Coleridge explores the tragic vision of existence that Coleridge derived from Classical drama, Shakespeare, Milton and contemporary German thought. Coleridge viewed the hardships of the Romantic period, like the catastrophes of Greek tragedy, as stages in a process of humanity’s overall purification. Offering new readings of canonical poems, as well as neglected plays and critical works, Chris Murray elaborates Coleridge’s tragic vision in relation to a range of thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle to George Steiner and Raymond Williams. He draws comparisons with the works of Blake, the Shelleys, and Keats to explore the factors that shaped Coleridge’s conception of tragedy, including the origins of sacrifice, developments in Classical scholarship, theories of inspiration and the author’s quest for civic status. With cycles of catastrophe and catharsis everywhere in his works, Coleridge depicted the world as a site of tragic purgation, and wrote himself into it as an embattled sage qualified to mediate the vicissitudes of his age.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472408241

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9781472408242

Christopher Smart and Satire

'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife

By: Dr Min Wild

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Christopher Smart and Satire

'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife

By: Dr Min Wild

Christopher Smart and Satire explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopted personae to engage with debates taking place during the British Enlightenment. Taking Christopher Smart's audacious and hitherto underexplored Midwife, or Old Woman's Magazine (1750-1753) as her primary source, Min Wild provides a rich examination of the prizewinning Cambridge poet's adoption of the bizarre, sardonic 'Mary Midnight' as his alter-ego. Her analysis provides insights into the difficult position in which eighteenth-century writers were placed, as ideas regarding the nature and functions of authorship were gradually being transformed. At the same time, Wild also demonstrates that Smart's use of 'Mary Midnight' is part of a tradition of learned wit, having an established history and characterized by identifiable satirical and rhetorical techniques. Wild's engagement with her exuberant source materials establishes the skill and ingenuity of Smart's often undervalued, multilayered prose satire. As she explores Smart's use of a peculiarly female voice, Wild offers us a picture of an ingenious and ribald wit whose satirical overview of society explores, overturns, and anatomises questions of gender, politics, and scientific and literary endeavors.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409489957

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9781409489955

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Refugees, Capitalism and the British State

Refugees, Capitalism and the British State

The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002

The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002

The Kingfisher Dinosaur Encyclopedia

The Kingfisher Dinosaur Encyclopedia

Dinosaurs Aren't Dead

Dinosaurs Aren't Dead

The Refractive Thinker

The Refractive Thinker

The Greek-Turkish Relationship and NATO

The Greek-Turkish Relationship and NATO

Tragic Coleridge

Tragic Coleridge

Christopher Smart and Satire

Christopher Smart and Satire

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