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City Walls in Late Antiquity

An empire-wide perspective

Edited by Emanuele Intagliata, Simon J. Barker, Christopher Courault ...

The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefined the urban landscape. Their appearance and monumental scale, as well as the cost of labour and material, are easily comparable to projects from the ... Read more

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The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefined the urban landscape. Their appearance and monumental scale, as well as the cost of labour and material, are easily comparable to projects from the
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The Eye in the Door

by Pat Barker ...

Narrated by Simon Russell Beale ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Regeneration Trilogy
Unabridged

8 hours 11 min

In this haunting second installment of the Regeneration Trilogy, a World War I officer grapples with the complex realities of PTSD, identity, sexuality, and society’s perceptions of mental illness.It is the spring of 1918, and Britain is faced with the possibility of defeat by Germany. A beleaguered government and a vengeful public target two groups as scapegoats: pacifists and homosexuals. Many ... Read more

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In this haunting second installment of the Regeneration Trilogy, a World War I officer grapples with the complex realities of PTSD, identity, sexuality, and society’s perceptions of mental illness.It is the spring of 1918, and Britain is faced with the possibility of defeat by Germany. A beleaguered government and a vengeful public target two groups as scapegoats: pacifists and homosexuals. Many
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The Ghost Road

Booker Prize Winner (A Novel)

by Pat Barker ...

Narrated by Simon Russell Beale ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Regeneration Trilogy
Unabridged

6 hours 53 min

The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker PrizeThe Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist William ... Read more

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The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker PrizeThe Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist William
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Lock&Load

by Freya Barker ...

Narrated by Simone Gayuma, Tor Thom ...

Series Audiobook 3 - PASS
Unabridged

7 hours 56 min

Juggling two jobs is nothing new for registered nurse, Hillary Glenwood, she’s been doing it for most of her adult life. She has an objective she intends to meet. But, just months before reaching her goal, she witnesses a violent attack outside her apartment that rattles her determination.However, her carefully controlled life runs completely off the rails when she recognizes the new neighbor ... Read more

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Juggling two jobs is nothing new for registered nurse, Hillary Glenwood, she’s been doing it for most of her adult life. She has an objective she intends to meet. But, just months before reaching her goal, she witnesses a violent attack outside her apartment that rattles her determination.However, her carefully controlled life runs completely off the rails when she recognizes the new neighbor
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Regeneration

by Pat Barker ...

Narrated by Simon Russell Beale ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Regeneration Trilogy
Unabridged

8 hours 52 min

"The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts" –Pat BarkerThe first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nomineeIn 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified ... Read more

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"The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts" –Pat BarkerThe first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nomineeIn 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified
... Read more

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Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms

by Simon Barker ...

Series series SOAS Studies in Music
For over a century, drummers have been turning to a variety of percussive traditions as prompts for the creation of new expressive possibilities on the drumset. In this book, Simon Barker sets out in detail the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational language for the drumset utilizing Korean rhythm/sticking cells, aesthetic conceptions, improvisatory codes, and ... Read more

$64.99 USD

For over a century, drummers have been turning to a variety of percussive traditions as prompts for the creation of new expressive possibilities on the drumset. In this book, Simon Barker sets out in detail the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational language for the drumset utilizing Korean rhythm/sticking cells, aesthetic conceptions, improvisatory codes, and
... Read more
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Edge Of Tomorrow

by Freya Barker ...

Narrated by Simone Gayuma ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Arrow's Edge MC
Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

Solitude and motor oil meets soul food and wariness.I’m a grease-stained enigma.A watcher, a protector, an ex-con, and a mechanic.My name is Brick.I’m old enough to know good things come to those who wait, and hungry enough to go after what I want.I am a proud independent.A nurturer, a cook, a casualty, and a grandparent.My name is Lisa.I’m cautious enough to keep my distance, and too wise to... ... Read more

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Solitude and motor oil meets soul food and wariness.I’m a grease-stained enigma.A watcher, a protector, an ex-con, and a mechanic.My name is Brick.I’m old enough to know good things come to those who wait, and hungry enough to go after what I want.I am a proud independent.A nurturer, a cook, a casualty, and a grandparent.My name is Lisa.I’m cautious enough to keep my distance, and too wise to...
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Preventing Crises at Your University

The Playbook for Protecting Your Institution's Reputation

by Simon R. Barker ...

Series series Higher Ed Leadership Essentials
A new playbook for effective crisis management in higher education.Unlike other industries, in higher education an institution's most important asset is its reputation. Yet as fundamental as it is, many leaders continue to view managing reputation as dishonest and counterproductive, a suspect process that undermines the very idea of reputation as an organic outcome of reality. When leadership ... Read more

$25.99 USD

A new playbook for effective crisis management in higher education.Unlike other industries, in higher education an institution's most important asset is its reputation. Yet as fundamental as it is, many leaders continue to view managing reputation as dishonest and counterproductive, a suspect process that undermines the very idea of reputation as an organic outcome of reality. When leadership
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The Gentle Craft

By Thomas Deloney

Edited by Simon Barker ...

Although it was probably conceived as a trilogy, only the first two parts of Thomas Deloney's prose romance were completed, dealing with the origins of the shoemaker's trade and how it succeeded in London. The Gentle Craft is best known as the principal source of Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday. But Deloney's tale of Simon Eyre, who founded Leadenhall, the centre of the leather trade, and ... Read more

$33.99 USD

Although it was probably conceived as a trilogy, only the first two parts of Thomas Deloney's prose romance were completed, dealing with the origins of the shoemaker's trade and how it succeeded in London. The Gentle Craft is best known as the principal source of Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday. But Deloney's tale of Simon Eyre, who founded Leadenhall, the centre of the leather trade, and
... Read more
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

Edited by Simon Barker, Hilary Hinds ...

This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon.)* Edward II (Christopher Marlowe)* A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood)* The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary)* The Masque of Blackness (Ben J.. ... Read more

$61.99 USD

This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon.)* Edward II (Christopher Marlowe)* A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood)* The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary)* The Masque of Blackness (Ben J..
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Private Law and Power

Edited by Professor Kit Barker, Professor Simone Degeling, Dr Karen Fairweather, Ross Grantham ...

Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
The aim of this edited collection of essays is to examine the relationship between private law and power – both the public power of the state and the 'private' power of institutions and individuals. It describes and critically assesses the way that private law doctrines, institutions, processes and rules express, moderate, facilitate and control relationships of power. The various chapters of this ... Read more

$55.99 USD

The aim of this edited collection of essays is to examine the relationship between private law and power – both the public power of the state and the 'private' power of institutions and individuals. It describes and critically assesses the way that private law doctrines, institutions, processes and rules express, moderate, facilitate and control relationships of power. The various chapters of this
... Read more
Shakespeare's Problem Plays

All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida

Edited by Professor Simon Barker ...

Series series New Casebooks
This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem plays': All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Trolius and Cressida. Together, they reflect the diversity of late twentieth-century theory and the controversy that continues to be generated by the plays, and discuss a variety of key issues. These include the meaning of ... Read more

$30.99 USD

This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem plays': All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Trolius and Cressida. Together, they reflect the diversity of late twentieth-century theory and the controversy that continues to be generated by the plays, and discuss a variety of key issues. These include the meaning of
... Read more

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Lock&Load

Regeneration

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Edge Of Tomorrow

Preventing Crises at Your University

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The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

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