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Riley Cars 1896-1969

By: Rob Malpas

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Riley Cars 1896-1969

By: Rob Malpas

Accompanied by superb colour photographs of all the Riley models, this book tells you all you need to know about this great British motoring name.

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1445688611

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Spatial Questions

Cultural Topologies and Social Spatialisation

By: Rob Shields

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Spatial Questions

Cultural Topologies and Social Spatialisation

By: Rob Shields

Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this book will surely become the standard work on cultural and spatial topology" - John Urry, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University Our understanding of space is crucial to the way in which we understand major social problems and issues and the way we develop and maintain our worldviews. Building from a history of philosophical and geographical theories of space, Shields presents the importance of spatialisation and cultural topology in social theory and the possibilities that lie within these theoretical tools. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book goes beyond traditional ideas of spatiality and temporality to understand the multiplicity of spatialisations and relates them to everyday life.

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SAGE

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1446286738

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9781446286739

Digital Timescapes

Technology, Temporality and Society

By: Rob Kitchin

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Digital Timescapes

Technology, Temporality and Society

By: Rob Kitchin

Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the click of a button and have them delivered within hours, while time management apps and locative media have altered how everyday scheduling and mobility unfolds. Digital Timescapes makes the case that we have transitioned to an era where the production and experience of time is qualitatively different to the pre-digital era. Rob Kitchin provides a synoptic account of this transition, charting how digital technologies, in a wide range of manifestations, are reconfiguring everyday temporalities. Attention is focused on the temporalities associated with six sets of everyday practices: history and memory; politics and policy; governance and governmentality; mobility and logistics; planning and development; and work and labour. Critically, how to challenge and reorder digitally mediated temporal power is examined through the development of an ethics of temporal care and temporal justice. Conceptually and empirically rich, Digital Timescapes is an essential guide to our new temporal regime. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Human Geography, and History and Memory Studies, as well as those who are interested in how digital technologies are transforming society.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509556427

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The English Studies Book

An Introduction to Language, Literature and Culture

By: Rob Pope

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The English Studies Book

An Introduction to Language, Literature and Culture

By: Rob Pope

The English Studies Book is uniquely designed to support students and teachers working across the full range of language, literature and culture. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, it has rapidly established itself as a core text on a wide variety of degree programmes nationally and internationally. Revised and updated throughout, features of the second edition include: * a new prologue addressing changes and challenges in English Studies * substantial entries on over 100 key critical and theoretical terms, from 'absence' and 'author' to 'text' and 'versification' - with new entries on 'creative writing', 'travel writing' and 'translation' * practical introductions to all the major theoretical approaches, with new sections on aesthetics, ethics, ecology and sexuality * a rich anthology of literary and related texts from Anglo-Saxon to Afro-Caribbean, with fresh selections representing the sonnet, haiku, slave narratives and science fiction, and with additional texts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Darwin, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan and others * handy frameworks and checklists for close reading, research, essay writing and other textual activities, including use of the Internet.

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Routledge

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1134795440

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9781134795444

Australian Wine Vintages

2012

By: Rob Geddes

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Australian Wine Vintages

2012

By: Rob Geddes

The 29th edition of Australian Wine Vintages, or the 'Gold Book' as it is affectionately known, offers more than ever before to wine drinkers and collectors. This new edition has over 4000 wine reviews and focuses on the highest quality producers and wines which represent excellent value.

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UNSW Press

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0980607159

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9780980607154

Creativity

Theory, History, Practice

By: Rob Pope

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Creativity

Theory, History, Practice

By: Rob Pope

Seeking throughout to bridge the gap between the creative and the critical, and to span disciplinary boundaries, this book offers a significant intervention in the theory of creativity and the practice of criticism.

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328

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Psychology Press

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041534915X

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9780415349154

John Oxley

A New Perspective

By: Rob Tickle

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John Oxley

A New Perspective

By: Rob Tickle

This immaculately and painstakingly researched book, through its biographies of Oxley, Evans, Fraser and Harris explains the impulses that drove these men to explore and map the colony, to collect, identify and categorise its flora. But it succeeds in doing more than that because it also elucidates the motivations that drove them to become colonial entrepreneurs, farmers and businessmen, who in the pursuit of individual wealth advanced colonial prosperity. This important book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Australia's European origins. - Emeritus Professor Richard Waterhouse

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ETT Imprint

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1925706842

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The Management

Scotland's Great Football Bosses

By: Michael Grant,Rob Robertson

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The Management

Scotland's Great Football Bosses

By: Michael Grant,Rob Robertson

an outstanding piece of work . . . utterly compelling' - Scotland on Sunday Why has Scotland produced so many of the best football managers in the world? Based on exclusive interviews with the men themselves, their players or close friends and family, Michael Grant and Rob Robertson delve into the very heart of Scottish life, society and football to reveal the huge contribution that managers such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Matt Busby, Bill Shankly, Jock Stein, Jim McLean, Kenny Dalglish, Walter Smith and a host of others have made to the world game. This original, brilliantly-realised and critically acclaimed study profiles the character and methods of each of the great Scottish managers, analysing their strengths and weaknesses, and examines their impact on both club and international football. It is a deeply-researched and compelling story which presents new material on many of the greats, particularly Busby and Stein, and highlights the enormous Old Firm contributions of, among others, Willie Maley, Bill Struth and Graeme Souness.

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Birlinn

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0857900846

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9780857900845

Studying English (Pope)

By: Rob Pope

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Studying English (Pope)

By: Rob Pope

Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed The English Studies Book. This third edition features: fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in English—from close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay-writing, participating in seminars, presentations and revision an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject updated introductions to the major theoretical positions and approaches taken by scholars in the field, from earlier twentieth century practical criticism to the latest global and ecological perspectives extensive entries on key terms such as ‘author, ‘genre’, ‘narrative’ and ‘translation’ widely current in debates across language, literature and culture coverage of both local and global varieties of the English language in a range of media and discourses, including news, advertising, text messaging, rap, pop and street art an expansive anthology representing genres and discourses from early elegy and novel to contemporary performance, flash fiction, including writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, J.M. Coetzee, Angela Carter, Russell Hoban, Adrienne Rich and Arundhati Roy a comprehensive, regularly updated companion website supplying further information and activities, sample analyses and a wealth of stimulating and reliable links to further online resources. Studying English Literature and Language is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the study of English language, literature and culture.

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Routledge

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1135696209

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9781135696207

The Geography of the Everyday

Toward an Understanding of the Given

By: Rob Sullivan

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The Geography of the Everyday

Toward an Understanding of the Given

By: Rob Sullivan

Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the “everyday,” the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this slippery aspect of reality. Now, Rob Sullivan makes the case for geography as a powerful conceptual framework for seeing the everyday anew and for pushing back against its “givenness”: its capacity to so fade into the background that it controls us in dangerously unexamined ways. Drawing on a number of theorists (Foucault, Goffman, Marx, Lefebvre, Hägerstrand, and others), Sullivan unpacks the concepts and perceived realities that structure everyday life while grounding them in real-world cases, such as Nigeria’s troubled oil network, the working poor in the United States, China’s urban villages, and ultra-high-end housing in London and Cairo. In examining the everyday from a geographical perspective, Sullivan ranges widely across time, space, history, geography, Marxian reproduction, the body, and the geographical mind. The everyday, Sullivan suggests, is where change occurs and where resistance to change can begin. By locating the everyday through geography, we can help to make change possible. Whatever the issue, be it struggles over race, LGBT rights, class inequality, or global warming, the transformations required to achieve social justice all begin with transformation of the everyday order.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820351660

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9780820351667

Raising the Bar

The Story of One Man's Vision and Dedication

By: Rob Lloyd

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Raising the Bar

The Story of One Man's Vision and Dedication

By: Rob Lloyd

A rags to riches story, twice over – as featured on Channel Four’s The Secret Millionaire. Raising the Bar documents Rob Lloyd's life growing up on a farm in Cheshire, his years at boarding school, his close relationship with his father and distant relationship with his mother, as well as the problems he had landing his first job (having failed his English Language O level six times). His appearance on The Secret Millionaire is also described in detail.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848761597

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9781848761599

Twenty-First Century Urbanism

A New Analysis of the City

By: Rob Sullivan

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Twenty-First Century Urbanism

A New Analysis of the City

By: Rob Sullivan

This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, sentient, and the phenomenological with all of them cast in new theoretical configurations and combined into one methodological entity. Rather than focusing on any one city or abstract analytical model, this book instead takes a multipronged theoretical and methodological approach to present the city as an intelligent affective organism – a sentient being. It proposes that cities operate on a relational, mobile, and phenomenological basis through the mode of efficiency, calibrated by a profoundly complicated division of labor. Its starting point is that the city is a mobile unit of analysis, from its economic status to its demographic makeup, from its cultural configuration to its environmental conditions, and therefore easily evades our quantitative and qualitative methods of computation and comprehension. Twenty-First Century Urbanism provides planning and urban design academics and students with a multifaceted approach to understanding the development of cities, encouraging the examination of cities through a myriad, non-linear approach.

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Routledge

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1317005767

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9781317005766

Gary Mackay's Hearts Dream Team

By: Gary Mackay,Rob Robertson

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Gary Mackay's Hearts Dream Team

By: Gary Mackay,Rob Robertson

Gary Mackay is a Hearts legend who has played more games for the Tynecastle club than anyone else in history. He fulfilled his boyhood dream of turning out for the boys in maroon in the early 1980s and continues his love affair with Hearts to this day. Here he selects his Hearts Dream Team made up of the greatest players ever to pull on the famous maroon jersey. Packed full of stories from his time at the club and other Tynecastle tales, it is a fascinating read for Hearts fans of all ages. There is serious debate about Gary's choices from some well-known Hearts fans such as actor Ken Stott, the man who played Ian Rankin's Edinburgh detective Rebus and appeared in the movie The Hobbit; respected ITN reporter Martin Geissler who has reported from some of the world's most dangerous wars; 1990 Grand Slam rugby hero John Jeffrey and senior political figures such as First Minister Alex Salmond; Tory MSP David McLetchie; Lord George Foulkes of Cumnock and Charlie Falconer, who was the Lord Chancellor in the Labour Government of Tony Blair.

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Black & White Publishing

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1845024559

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9781845024550

Counterfeit Culture

Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960

By: Rob Turner

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Counterfeit Culture

Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960

By: Rob Turner

Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108428487

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9781108428484

The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall

By: Rob Andrews

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The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall

By: Rob Andrews

The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall is the ultimate handbook for discovering the region, from the wilds of Dartmoor to the rocky Atlantic coast, and from Lundy Island to the “English Riviera” of Torbay. For outdoor activities enthusiasts or beach bums, The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall tells you everything you need to know for a weekend away or an extended break. Discover the best walks, rides, dives and surf breaks in Devon and Cornwall together with biking and hiking trails and specialist holiday operators. Foodies are directed to the regions best restaurants and most authentic pubs with all the region’s diverse food and drink highlights explored and explained, not to mention festivals and local fairs. Whether you’re looking for the best camping or the most stylish hotels rely on accommodation suggestions for every budget and taste. You'll find practical advice on travelling around the region from bus routes to rail passes as well as the clearest maps of any guide. Explore all corners of this region with authoritative background on everything from Devon & Cornwall's varied landscapes and diverse wildlife to its literary connections. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Devon & Corwall

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Penguin

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1405386053

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Riley Cars 1896-1969

By: Rob Malpas

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Riley Cars 1896-1969

By: Rob Malpas

Riley is one of the most famous British car manufacturers and this book covers the entire history of the company, from its early beginnings as a bicycle manufacturer to ownership by the British Motor Corporation (BMC). The author describes each of the Riley models during its long development, from the pre-1926 models, through the Riley 9 light sporting car, the straight-six models, the Specials and the BMC Rileys. The book covers the various engineering firsts that were achieved by Riley, including engine innovations such as mechanically operated cylinder valves, and which helped Riley to become not only an established car manufacturer but also successful in rallies and on the racing circuit. The book shows that, despite having made its mark in the history of British car manufacturing, Riley suffered from badge engineering under BMC, losing its identity in Austin and Morris designs and also against MG and Wolseley. Despite this, it continues to be a treasured marque, now owned by BMW. Accompanied by superb colour photographs of all the Riley models, this book tells you all you need to know about this great British motoring name.

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Riley Cars 1896-1969

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The English Studies Book

The English Studies Book

Australian Wine Vintages

Australian Wine Vintages

Creativity

Creativity

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John Oxley

The Management

The Management

Studying English (Pope)

Studying English (Pope)

The Geography of the Everyday

The Geography of the Everyday

Raising the Bar

Raising the Bar

Twenty-First Century Urbanism

Twenty-First Century Urbanism

Gary Mackay's Hearts Dream Team

Gary Mackay's Hearts Dream Team

Counterfeit Culture

Counterfeit Culture

The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall

The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall

Riley Cars 1896-1969

Riley Cars 1896-1969

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