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  • The Lure of the North

    Series Book 2 - The London Library
    The 19th-century boom in mass tourism, fuelled by the introduction of the railways, brought with it the rise of travel writing. Guided excursions such as "Cook's Tours" (the first of which was led by Thomas Cook in 1841, and went from Leicester to Loughborough) were not for everyone. Many preferred to strike out alone into the depths of foreign lands. Of these foreign lands, Norway appealed to the ... Read more

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  • A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger

    Enriched edition. A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved / in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

    A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger offers a profound exploration into the literary and historical fabric of late antiquity. Bridging classical scholarship and medieval manuscript studies, the anthology presents a meticulous assembly of works that illuminate the enduring influence of Pliny's epistles on early medieval intellectual thought. The collection's diverse array of ... Read more

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  • Signposts

    New Directions in Southern Legal History

    In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology

    Edited by Edward Lowe ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
    Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever ... Read more

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  • Comparing Cultures

    Innovations in Comparative Ethnography

    A new and important contribution to the re-emergent field of comparative anthropology, this book argues that comparative ethnographic methods are essential for more contextually sophisticated accounts of a number of pressing human concerns today. The book includes expert accounts from an international team of scholars, showing how these methods can be used to illuminate important theoretical and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Student Belonging in Higher Education

    Perspectives and Practice

    Providing sector leading, scholarly informed critical explorations on students’ sense of belonging in higher education settings, this key text explores invaluable considerations for contemporary issues to inform institutional policy, pedagogic practice, student education support, and diversity and accessibility practices.Drawing on the research and practical expertise of an international ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Improvisation, Inc.

    Harnessing Spontaneity to Engage People and Groups

    by Robert Lowe ...
    Narrated by Edward Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 50 min

    Performers have been doing it for centuries. Now, for the first time, Robert Lowe, a pioneer in the field of improvisation, hands you the techniques you need to think on your feet and shows you how to apply them in your workplace or classroom. The business world may be changing at breakneck speed, but this ancient form of theater is as effective as ever. The same techniques that improvisational ... Read more

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    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

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  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

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  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... Read more

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

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