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  • Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance

    Architectures of Wonder in Melusine

    by Jan Shaw ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who desires a full human life—and death—within a literary tradition that is more friendly to women’s agency than its continental ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Power of Place-Based Leadership in Social Value Creation

    Leading Places, Shaping Futures

    by Geena Whiteman, Rafaela Neiva Ganga, Christine Spriggs, John Eastwood, Hueiming Liu, Robin Miller, Jo Pretty, Emma Hill, Fiona Shaw, Jan Brown, Liz Edwards, Gerwyn Jones, Lisa Newson, Lucy Bridge, John Ghader, Paul Anderson ...
    This book explores the role of leadership in shaping places and driving sustainable urban and regional development. Moving beyond the traditional organizational focus of leadership studies, it uses inspiring case studies to show how place-based leadership can become more attuned to local needs, across sectors such as housing, healthcare, creative industries and environmental sustainability ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

    by Victoria Flood, Dr. Rebecca Newby, Venetia Bridges, Cory Rushton, Dr. Aisling Byrne, Dr. Jan Shaw, Laura Ashe, Megan G. Leitch, Helen Fulton0, Dr Jessica J. Lockhart1, Helen Cooper2, Carl Phelpstead3, Professor Neil M.R. Cartlidge4 ...
    Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned itself. The essays collected in this volume explore the subject of translation, both linguistic and cultural, in relation to the composition, reception, and dissemination of romance across the languages of late medieval Britain, Ireland, and Iceland. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Vampire, The

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Jan Neruda ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    9 min

    The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centu-ries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the Czech writer Jan Neruda. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geographies of Transport and Mobility

    Prospects and Challenges in an Age of Climate Change

    by Stewart Barr, Jan Prillwitz, Tim Ryley, Gareth Shaw ...
    Series series Transport and Mobility
    Geographies of Transport and Mobility aims to provide a comprehensive and evidenced account of the intellectual and pragmatic challenges for personal mobility in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it argues that geographers have a key role to play in shaping academic and policy debates on how personal mobility can become more sustainable.The book is structured in three parts. Part I explores ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature

    From Fen to Greenwood

    by Sarah Harlan-Haughey ...
    Series series Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture
    Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughey examines the figure of the outlaw in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Old English exile lyrics such as Beowulf, works dealing with the life and actions of Hereward, the Anglo-Norman romance of Fulk Fitz Waryn, the Robin Hood ballads, and the Tale of Gamelyn. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Cities and Consumption

    by Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the private, the political and the personal, the individual and the social. It is considered to be a means ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

    Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the nineteenth ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Medieval Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elaine Treharne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1

    by David Bown, Laura Pountney, Tomislav Maric ...
    Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.- Develop the knowledge required to master Year 1 topics with clear a... ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture

    Edited by Andrew Galloway ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD