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  • Late Heaney

    by Nicholas Allen ...
    Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle, and Human Chain, all set in conversation with his work at large. Heaney's later life was a time of transformative change and achievement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, after which he became a writer of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Archipelago: A Reader

    by Fiona Stafford, Mark Cocker, John Brannigan, Rose Ferraby, David Douglas, Douglas Dunn, Norman Ackroyd, Tim Dee, John Elder, Moya Cannon, Roger Deakin, John Eifion Jones, Peter Davidson, Terry Eagleton ...
    Explore the Isles Through Art and Literature. This collection gathers the best poetry, prose, and visual art from Archipelago, reimagining the relationship between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Journey from the Shetlands to Cornwall, and the Aran Islands to Yorkshire, tracing the cultures of diverse zones through contemporary writing about place and people.Discover the beauty and complexity ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plays of the Mind

    by Nicholas Allen ...
    "Plays of the Mind" is a collection of four short stories that focus on fantasy, adventure, family, making tough decisions, success, and overcoming loss.The first story, "Kept Promises" is about a woman, Mrs. Williams and her husband as they endure the fallout of a crime that was committed against their family."The Hunter's True Mission" is a story about family and the danger they face in a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ireland, Literature, and the Coast

    Seatangled

    by Nicholas Allen ...
    The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead Morrissey. It includes chapters on key historical texts such as ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Ethics and Integrity in British Politics

    How Citizens Judge their Politicians' Conduct and Why It Matters

    by Nicholas Allen, Sarah Birch ...
    Public perceptions of political ethics are at the heart of current political debate. Drawing on original data, this book is the first general account of popular understandings of political ethics in contemporary British politics. It offers new insights into how citizens understand political ethics and integrity and how they form judgments of their leaders. By locating these insights against the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Little Deaths

    22 Tales of Horror and Sex

    by J. Calvin Pierce, Kathe Koja, Barry N. Malzberg, Joel Lane, Joyce Carol Oates, Melanie Tem, Kelley Eskridge, Sarah Clemens, Nicola Griffith, M. John Harrison, Jack Womack, Douglas Clegg, K. W. Jeter, Richard Christian Matheson, Lucius Shepard, Stephen Dedman, Lucy Taylor, Harry Crews, Wayne Allen Sallee, Nicholas Royle, Pat Cadigan ...
    A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others.The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term "la petite mort," a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man's life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breaking the deadlock

    Britain at the polls, 2019

    Edited by John Bartle, Nicholas J. Allen ...
    The 2019 General Election was historic. In one fell swoop it resolved the longstanding stalemate surrounding Brexit and redrew the electoral map of Britain, breaking the deadlock in Parliament and bringing about the fall of Labour’s so-called ‘Red Wall’. Since 2016, Members of Parliament had struggled to reconcile a contested exercise in direct democracy with the established institutions of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • None past the post

    Britain at the polls, 2017

    Edited by John Bartle, Nicholas J. Allen ...
    The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the fascinating 2017 British general election. It explains why the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority and how Theresa May returned at the head of a minority government. Leading experts analyse the Conservatives’ record in government, May’s fateful decision to call an early election, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Neuropsychology of Mental Illness

    Edited by Stephen J. Wood, Nicholas B. Allen, Christos Pantelis ...
    It is widely accepted that most psychiatric disorders are associated with cognitive impairment and that neuropsychological approaches can help unravel the mechanisms underlying brain function and help us develop a better understanding of these disorders. In this book, a panel of the world's leading experts describe the development of neuropsychological approaches to the investigation, description, ... Read more

    $141.09 USD

  • Coastal Works

    Cultures of the Atlantic Edge

    Edited by Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom, Jos Smith ...
    In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation ... Read more

    $81.89 USD

  • Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature

    Edited by Nicholas Peter Legh Allen, Pierre J. Jordaan, József Zsengellér ...
    This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers a scholarly attempt to understand how the ancient Jewish psyche dealt with times of extreme turmoil and how Jewish theology altered to meet the challenges experienced.The volume explores various early Jewish literature, including both the canonical and ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Adolescent Emotional Development and the Emergence of Depressive Disorders

    Edited by Nicholas B. Allen, Lisa B. Sheeber ...
    One of the most striking aspects of the epidemiology of depressive disorders is the rapid rise in incidence observed between the ages of 11 and 14. This book explores the developmental changes occurring during the transition from childhood into early adolescence in order to understand how vulnerability to depression develops. The focus is on emotional development, which serves to encapsulate the ... Read more

    $78.79 USD