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PN Literature (General) (3737)
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Number of items at this level: 131.
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Book review:research impact and the early career researcher: lived experiences, new perspectives edited by Kieran Fenby-Hulse, Emma Heywood and Kate Walker.
Aldaz Pena, Raul
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Book review: EU climate diplomacy towards the IMO and ICAO. By George Dikaios, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 244 pp, ISBN:978–3-031–51123-3.
Angelou, Angelos
Remaindered life:by Neferti X. M. Tadiar Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022, 456 pp., $31.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478017769.
Antona, Laura
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Nationalism and decolonisation in Singapore:the Malayan generation, 1953-1963, by Thum Ping Tjin, Abingdon, Routledge, 2023, 350 pp., £140.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781032484259.
Azra Bin Azlira, Armand
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Africa.
Barber, Karin; Jeyifo, Biodun; Julien, Eileen; Vinson, Steve
There’s no public benefit in BBC programmes being ‘distinctive’.
Barwise, Patrick
Motivating public employees.
Belardinelli, P
Reading Algorithmic reason:the new government of self and other, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2022), 288 pp., Open Access, ISBN: 9780192859624.
Bellanova, Rocco; Burns, Ryan; Mignot-Mahdavi, Rebecca; Plantin, Jean-Christophe; Aradau, Claudia; Blanke, Tobias
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Peer Schouten, Roadblock politics:the origins of violence in Central Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £64.99 – 978 1 108 49401 4; pb £22.99 – 978 1 108 71381 8). 2022, 299 pp.
Benson, Matthew Sterling
Knowing science, by Alexander Bird.
Birch, Jonathan
Filmmakers/educators/facilitators? Understanding the role of adult intermediaries in youth media production in the UK and the USA.
Blum-Ross, Alicia
John Bellamy Foster:The dialectics of ecology: socialism and nature. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2024, 352pp.
Bokes, Jakub
Why communism failed. Jasper Becker. London. Hurst & Co., 2022, vi + 334pp., £20.00 h/b.
Breen, Gareth
Blut und Eisen:Wie Preußen Deutschland erzwang 1864–1871. By Christoph Jahr. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2020. Pp. 368. €26.95 (cloth); €19.99 (e-book).
Breuilly, John
Patronage at work:public jobs and political services in Argentina. By Virginia Oliveros, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280 pp. $29.99 (paperback) ISBN: 9781009082525.
Brierley, Sarah
Confined freedom and free confinement:the ethics of captivity in Life of Pi.
Browning, Heather; Veit, Walter
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The shining path in Huancavelica, Peru:conflict and the legacy of exclusion, by Nicholas A. Robins.
Cant, Anna
Peasants making history:living in an English region 1200-1540. Christopher Dyer, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. pp. 396. 55 figs and tabs. ISBN: 9780198847212, Hbk. £81).
Claridge, Jordan
Book review: imagining the third world war. Ghost fleet: a novel of the next world war.
Coker, Christopher
Stubble and breath.
Colley, Linda
Book review: Reading new India: post-millennial Indian fiction in English.
Coolidge Toker, Emily
Cold peace: avoiding the new Cold War. By Michael W. Doyle. London: Liveright. 2023. 336pp. £23.99. ISBN 978 1 63149 606 6. Available as e-book:A life in the American century. By Joseph S. Nye. Cambridge, UK: Polity. 2024. 254pp. £25.00. isbn 978 1 50956 068 4. Available as e-book.
Cox, Michael
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Luca Mavelli. Neoliberal citizenship. Sacred markets, sacrificial lives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; 304 pp.: ISBN: 9780192857583, £81.00 (hardcover).
Gaudino, Ugo
Hybrid sovereignty in world politics.
Gill-Tiney, Patrick
Only for you.
Glendinning, Simon
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Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham:Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk.
Glennerster, Howard
Book review: Renegotiating patriarchy by Naila Kabeer.
Green, Duncan
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Concepts of culture and technology in Germany, 1916-1933:Ernst Cassirer and Oswald Spengler.
Gusejnova, Dina
Embedded cosmopolitanism:Tolstoyan and Goethean ideas of world literature during the Two World Wars.
Gusejnova, Dina
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The struggles and divisions of Indian healthcare workers.
Hanrieder, Tine Hanrieder
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Lorenz M. Lüthi, Cold Wars:Asia, the Middle East, Europe. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,2020, ix + 756 pp.; £26.99 pbk; ISBN 9781108407069.
Harder, Anton
Rebecca Cassidy, Vicious games:capitalism and gambling. London: Pluto Press 2020. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780745340395.
Hassan, Wesam Adel
Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard. 2023. The politics of evaluation in international organizations (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Heinzel, Mirko
Hegemony. By James Martin. Cambridge, UK: Polity. 2022. 140pp. £45.00. ISBN 978 1 50952 160 9. Available as e-book.
Herten-Crabb, Asha
Global regulatory standards in environmental and health disputes:regulatory coherence, due regard, and due diligence.
Heyvaert, Veerle
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The platform's glitch:workers, algorithms and resistance.
Hidalgo-Cordero, Kruskaya
Book review: Being property once myself:blackness and the end of man by Joshua Bennett.
Hiraide, Lydia Ayame
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Book reviews: Annika Skoglund and Steffen Böhm. Climate activism:how communities take renewable energy actions across business and society/ New York: Cambridge University Press. 2022. $110.00 (hardcover).
Hollenhorst, Johannes
Adrian Howe:Crimes of passion since Shakespeare: red rage mist unmasked. London: Routledge, 2023, ISBN 978- 1-032-29518-3 (HB).
Horder, Jeremy
A political sociology of education policy, by Helen M. Gunter, Bristol, Policy Press, 2023,216 pp., £85.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1447363330.
Hossain, Mobarak
Imagining global futures. Edited by Adom Getachew. Cambridge, MA: Boston Review. 2023. 216pp. Pb.: £17.99. ISBN 978 1 94651 174 4. Available as e-book.
Huju, Kira
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Review of periodical literature for 2023:(v) 1850-1945.
Husain, Tehreem
Trade unions and the industrial relations crisis:an intellectual biography of Hugh Clegg, By Peter Ackers, London: Routledge, 2024, 239 pp, £13500.
Hyman, Richard
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The uncertainty doctrine:narrative politics and US hard power after the Cold War. By Alexandra Homolar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 220pp. £85.00. ISBN 978 1 00935 511 7. Available as e-book.
Kaldor, Sophie
The geopolitics of shaming:when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires. By Rochelle Terman. Princeton University Press, 2023. 216p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.
Keen, David
African refugees.
Kelecha, Mebratu
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Ideas in conflict: the nationalism literature and the comparative study of civil war.
Kissane, Bill; Sitter, Nick
Democratism:explaining international politics with democracy beyond the state by Hans Agné. Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 360 pp., £104. ISBN9781802204247. Ebook: free of charge, ISBN9781802204254, open access at https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204254.
Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias
How are vulnerability and violence governed? - Poulami Roychowdhury, Capable women, incapable states. Negotiating violence and rights in India (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 252 p.).
Krause, Monika
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McKersie, R. B. (2018). A field in flux: sixty years of industrial relations.
Lamare, J. Ryan
Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum. Ungoverning. The attack on the administrative state and the politics of chaos. Princeton University Press, 2024, 264 pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-25052-6.
Laver, Michael
Susan Neiman, Left is not woke.
Laver, Michael
Ben Ansell, Why politics fails:the five traps of the modern word – and how to escape them.
Laver, Michael
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George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson, The invisible doctrine:the secret history of neoliberalism (and how it came to control your life).
Laver, Michael
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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Tyranny of the minority:how to reverse an authoritarian turn and forge a democracy for all.
Laver, Michael
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Book review: Women, welfare and productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu.
Lee, Youngcho
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Company law:a real entity theory. By Eva Micheler. [Oxford University Press, 2021. xxxv + 282 pp. Hardback £80.00. ISBN 978-0-19885-887-4.].
Leow, Rachel
Lionel Smith, The law of loyalty, Oxford:OUP, 2023, 496 pp, hb £97.00.
Leow, Rachel
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Losing hearts and minds:race, war, and empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–1960, by Kate Imy, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2024, 342pp., ISBN 9781503634626 (hbk, £108.00).
Liew, Zhen Hao
Aziz Rana, The constitutional bind:how Americans came to idolize a document that fails them. University of Chicago Press, 2024, 824 pp., ISBN: 978-022635072.
Loughlin, Martin
Victims of commemoration:the architecture and violence of confronting the past in Turkey. By Eray Çayli (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2022), 264 pp.,Paperback, $29.95.
Lypp, Jacob
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The future and come and gone: managing change in the aging suburbs.
Mace, Alan
Engineering Vulnerability:in pursuit of climate adaptation, by Sarah E. Vaughn, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2022, xiv + 256 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4780-1810-0.
Madden, Rhys Anil
Book review | Erased:a history of international thought without men. (2025)
Manocha, Shireen
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Susan Grayzel, The age of the gas mask:how British civilians faced the terrors of total war. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2022; xiv + 273 pp.: 9781108868068, £25.00 (Hardback).
Mayhew, Alex
An impressive overview of European patent law in the UPC era.
McDonagh, Luke
A mystery from the world of book reviewing.
McGovern, Patrick
Corporate attribution in private law. By Rachel Leow. [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022. xxxiv + 246 pp. Hardback £85.00. ISBN 978-1-50994-135-3.].
Micheler, Eva
Deploying feminism:the role of gender in NATO military operations. By Stéfanie von Hlatky. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 248p. $34.95 cloth.
Millar, Katharine M.
Стихотворение Хармса «на смерть Казимира Малевича» = The poem of Daniil Kharms “on the death of Kazimir Malevich”.
Milner-Gulland, Robin; Sobolev, Olga
R. Barry Levis. Render unto Caesar:ecclesiastical politics in the reign of Queen Anne.
Mitchell, William H.F.
Is Prussian militarism a myth?
Motadel, David
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Bronwen Manby, Citizenship in Africa:the law of belonging.
Pailey, Robtel Neajai
How much does material determination explain in Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans?
Parry, Jonathan
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Resisting inequality:the turn towards history.
Phillips, Anne
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Book review: Bakhtin Reframed.
Phillips, Jacob
Orientalism:in review.
Potter, Naomi
Marcin Zaremba. Entangled in fear:everyday terror in Poland, 1944-1947. Translated by Maya Latynski. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. Pp. 366. Paper $37.00.
Prazmowska, AJ
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Review of Vincent Chiao, Criminal law in the age of the administrative state.
Ramsay, Peter
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Equal partners?:how dual-professional couples make career, relationship, and family decisions.
Rao, Aliya
Virtual Holocaust memory by Matthew Boswell and Antony Rowland.
Ravia, Gal
Bright lights, big city:the links between freedom, citizenship and urbanization.
Rogers, Ben
Merchants, bankers, governors:British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 1786-1920.
Roy, Tirthankar
Peter Robb, Ideas matter:debating the impact of British rule on India. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2020, 305 pp.
Roy, Tirthankar
India is broken:a people betrayed, independence to today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp.
Roy, Tirthankar
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Resisting sectarianism:queer activism in postwar Lebanon by John Nagle and Tamirace Fakhoury, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 196 pp., £16,79 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-7869-9799-9.
Rønn, Anne Kirstine
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Jean-Yves Frétigné. To live is to resist:the life of Antonio Gramsci. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 328. Paper $19.95.
Salem, Sara
Glamorizing sick bodies: how commercial advertising has changed the representation of HIV/AIDS.
Scalvini, Marco
Ofcom’s Plurality Framework: Protecting the Status Quo?
Schlosberg, Justin
Plagues upon the earth:disease and the course of human history. By Kyle Harper, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. pp. 1–686. ISBN 9780691192123. Hbk £30.00.
Schneider, Eric B.
Teaching social policy:international, comparative and global perspectives. By Zoë Irving (ed.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. 240 pp. £90 (hardback) and £23.35 (softback). ISBN: 978-1-03530-200-0.
Seckinelgin, Hakan
Resisting the backlash:street protest in Italy by Donatella della Porta, Niccolò Bertuzzi, Daniela Chironi, Chiara Milan, Martín Portos and Lorenzo Zamponi (2024).
Sen, Rishiraj
Balbi, G. (2023). The digital revolution:a short history of an ideology (B. McClellan-Broussard, Trans.). Oxford University Press, 159 pp.
Seuferling, Philipp
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Partition's legacies by Joya Chatterji. 550 pp. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2019.
Sherman, Taylor C.
The drama of dictatorship:martial law and the communist parties of the Philippines, by Joseph Scalice.
Sidel, John
Dynastic democracy:political families in Thailand by Yoshinori Nishizaki, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2022, 304 pp., US$79.95; £79.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780299338305.
Sidel, John T.
The sovereign trickster:death and laughter in the age of Duterte.
Sidel, John T.
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Worthy of freedom:indenture and free labor in the era of emancipation. By Jonathan Connolly. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2024, 272pp., $115 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-2268-3362-0.
Singh, Pritam
J M Barrie and the ballets russes.
Sobolev, Olga
The symbol of the symbolists: Aleksandr Blok in the changing Russian literary canon.
Sobolev, Olga
From Orientalism to cultural capital: the myth of Russia in British literature of the 1920s.
Soboleva, Olga; Wrenn, Angus
Transnational lawmaking coalitions for human rights, by Nina Reiners, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 216 pp, £ 85.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781108845540.
Squatrito, Theresa
Abortion ecologies in Southern African fiction:Transforming reproductive agency. By Caitlin E.Stobie, Bloomsbury. 2023. £85.00 (cloth); £28.99 (pbk); £76.50 (ebk). ISBN: 9781350250192.
Strong, Joe; Nandagiri, Rishita
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Media freedom and the law:the regulation of a common European idea, by Andras Koltay, Abingdon, Routledge, 2025, 314pp., £145 (hbk)/£35.99 (e-book), 9781003321569.
Tambini, Damian
10 of the best books of 2019 recommended by LSE blog editors. (2019)
Taylor, Rosamund; Taster, Michael; Vieira, Helena; Brown, Stuart A.; Deller, Rosemary
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How to lose a war:the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan. By Amin Saikal. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press. 2024. 320pp. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 30026 624 5. Available as e-book.
Theros, Marika
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Digital timescapes:technology, temporality and society by R. Kitchin, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023, 232 pp, £17.99, ISBN 9781509556403.
Wajcman, J
Apprenticeship, work, society in early modern Venice. Eds Anna Bellavitis and Valentina Sapienza, (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 304. 66B/W illustrations. ISBN 9781032053516 HbK £125).
Wallis, Patrick
Attacking Hitler in England: patriarchy, class and war in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas.
Wilson, Peter
Global discord:values and power in a fractured world order.
Wilson, Peter
Power, morality and the remaking of international order: E.H. Carr’s the The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939.
Wilson, Peter
Angle of elevation: social class, transport and perception of the city in "The Soul of London".
Wrenn, Angus
Syllogistic logic and mathematical proof by Paolo Mancosu and Massimo Mugnai, pp. 240, £60 (hard), ISBN 978-0-19887-692-2, Oxford University Press (2023).
Wrigley, Wesley