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Economic aspects of the Sustainability Transition in Europe (2024)
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Fernandez Martin, R. M. (2025). Economic aspects of the Sustainability Transition in Europe. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The EU has been an advocate of more sustainable practices for a long time, and many consider it a world leader. It becomes then justified to look into how the EU has been doing over time and what its plans are for the future in this key issue. The qu... Read More about Economic aspects of the Sustainability Transition in Europe.

Financial Services in Nigeria: The Path Towards Financial Inclusion, Economic Development and Sustainable Growth (2024)
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Soetan, T. O., & Mogaji, E. (2024). Financial Services in Nigeria: The Path Towards Financial Inclusion, Economic Development and Sustainable Growth. Springer Nature Link. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62340-0

This book presents a holistic picture of Nigeria's financial services landscape. This includes identifying service providers and regulatory bodies, understanding consumer behaviour, and examining the unique challenges faced by Nigerian financial inst... Read More about Financial Services in Nigeria: The Path Towards Financial Inclusion, Economic Development and Sustainable Growth.

Electoral Systems: A Global Perspective (2024)
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Carter, E., Farrell, D. M., & Loomes, G. (2024). Electoral Systems: A Global Perspective. (Third edition). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

How do different electoral systems work to translate votes into seats? What effects do they have on the political system, on political actors, and on voters? Does the choice of electoral system always involve a trade-off between strong and stable gov... Read More about Electoral Systems: A Global Perspective.

The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana) (2024)
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Seager, N. (2024). The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana). Oxford University Press (OUP)

Left destitute by her husband, the heroine of Defoe's final novel has to choose between her virtue and her life. Choosing survival, she makes her way as a kept woman and courtesan. The Fortunate Mistress (1724), also known under the title Roxana, tel... Read More about The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana).

The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (Ed. Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears) (2024)
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Shears, J., & Rawes, A. (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (Ed. Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era in English Literature. The volume presents forty-five groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron’s central posit... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (Ed. Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears).

Distrust, Fear, and Science-Denial in Medicine and Healthcare (2024)
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Wrigley, A., & Wolfensberger, M. (2024). Distrust, Fear, and Science-Denial in Medicine and Healthcare. London and New York: Routledge

Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towards many institutions and professionals. This book analyses these developments and looks at their role i... Read More about Distrust, Fear, and Science-Denial in Medicine and Healthcare.

Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy (Ed. by Beverley Clough & Laura Pritchard-Jones) (2024)
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Pritchard-Jones, L., & Clough, B. (2024). Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy (Ed. by Beverley Clough & Laura Pritchard-Jones). Bristol University Press

Questions as to the mental capacity of an individual to consent to sex are an increasingly important aspect of legal scholarship and professional practice for those working in care. Recent case law has added new layers of complexity, requiring that a... Read More about Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy (Ed. by Beverley Clough & Laura Pritchard-Jones).

Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory, and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century (2024)
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Atherton, I. (2024). Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory, and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198912880.001.0001

While much attention has been paid to the commemoration of conflict in the twentieth century, this book is the first to consider conflict memory in the long term, arguing that modern practices were not created out of the mud of the trenches, but evol... Read More about Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory, and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century.

Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine (2024)
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Gokay, B., & Hamourtziadou, L. Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003414827

Human Costs of War documents and analyses the direct and indirect toll that war takes on civilians and their livelihoods, taking a human security approach exploring personal, economic, political and community security in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine... Read More about Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine.

Ground Truth: The Moral Component in British Contemporary Warfare (Ed. by Frank Ledwidge, Helen Parr & Aaron Edwards) (2024)
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Parr, H. (2024). F. Ledwidge, H. Parr, & A. Edwards (Eds.). Ground Truth: The Moral Component in British Contemporary Warfare (Ed. by Frank Ledwidge, Helen Parr & Aaron Edwards). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

After twenty years of almost unbroken wars of choice, the ethical deficiencies in the operational conduct of war by Western armed forces have largely been ignored by scholarly critique. This volume addresses these deficiencies, featuring analysis by... Read More about Ground Truth: The Moral Component in British Contemporary Warfare (Ed. by Frank Ledwidge, Helen Parr & Aaron Edwards).

Emerging Applications of Novel Nanoparticles (Ed. by N Balakrishnan) (2024)
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Bansal, S. A., Khanna, V., Balakrishnan, N., & Gupta, P. (2024). S. Anil Bansal, V. Khanna, N. Balakrishnan, & P. Gupta (Eds.). Emerging Applications of Novel Nanoparticles (Ed. by N Balakrishnan). Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57843-4

This book is a comprehensive and modern guide on emerging nanoparticles and their diverse applications in engineering, medicine, food safety, transportation, energy, agriculture, and environmental sustainability. Written by leading researchers from a... Read More about Emerging Applications of Novel Nanoparticles (Ed. by N Balakrishnan).

Modern Slavery in Global Context Human Rights, Law, and Society (Ed. by E Faulkner) (2024)
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Faulkner, E. (2024). E. Faulkner (Ed.). Modern Slavery in Global Context Human Rights, Law, and Society (Ed. by E Faulkner). Bristol University Press

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This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery.

It illustrates how different disciplinary positions, methodologies and perspectives form and... Read More about Modern Slavery in Global Context Human Rights, Law, and Society (Ed. by E Faulkner).

State Intimacies: Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India (2024)
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Fiks, E. (2024). State Intimacies: Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India. Berghahn Books

The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with provisions of care that are deeply entangled with violence and dis... Read More about State Intimacies: Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India.

Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century (2024)
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Pretsell, D. (2024). Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century. (1). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487555603

In 1864, the German jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the term "urning" as a word for same-sex attracted men. Over the next few years, first anonymously and then publicly, he campaigned against the public persecution of these men. "Urnings" engaged... Read More about Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century.

Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Ed. by S. Jones and S. Talbott) (2024)
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Jones, S., & Talbott, S. (2024). Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Ed. by S. Jones and S. Talbott). Brill Academic Publishers

Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, ‘business news’, within early modern commercial news networks. The volume contains eleven case studies, written by scho... Read More about Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Ed. by S. Jones and S. Talbott).