Bookfest 2012
a celebration of books published within 2012
from authors within the faculties of Arts & Social Sciences
University of Nottingham
Edited by Sue Arrowsmith and Steen Treumer
Competitive dialogue was introduced into the EU procurement system in 2004 to provide an improved method for awarding complex contracts, such as those for public infrastucture and major IT systems. This book provides a critical examination of the legal rules on this new procedure, focusing in particular on grey areas such as availability of the procedure and the scope for negotiations after 'final tenders'. It considers both the EU-level rules and the way in which those rules have been applied in national systems. The examination draws on extensive evidence of the way in which the procedure has been operated and interpreted across Europe, including from several studies commissioned specifically for this volume. It also includes an extensive chapter co-authored by the volume editors which provides a thorough analysis of the EU-level rules, a comparative reflection on national experiences, and significant critical commentary and recommendations.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
/ AmCan / John Ashworth: The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861
The Republic in Crisis, 1848–1861 analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War, offering for students and general readers a clear, chronological account of the sectional conflict and the beginning of the Civil War. Emerging from the tumultuous political events of the 1840s and 1850s, the Civil War was caused by the maturing of the North and South's separate, distinctive forms of social organisation and their resulting ideologies. John Ashworth emphasises factors often overlooked in explanations of the war, including the resistance of slaves in the South and the growth of wage labour in the North. Ashworth acquaints readers with modern writings on the period, providing a new interpretation of the American Civil War's causes.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
/ History / Ross Balzaretti: Dark Age Liguria. Regional Power and Local Identity
Dark Age Liguria surveys the history of the Liguria region from c.400 to c.1050 AD,to provide a detailed case study of what happened here as Roman imperial rule ended. The book pulls together all the surviving evidence, written, archaeological, artistic and ecological, to propose that, in contrast with later periods, Ligurians looked north as much as they gazed out to sea. The book draws also on more than fifteen years of fieldwork in and around the small town of Varese Ligure (La Spezia province) to suggest some new methods for investigating the Dark Age past.
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
/ Sociology & Social Policy / Saul Becker: Understanding Research for Social Policy and Social Work: Themes, methods and approaches, Second Edition
Edited by Saul Becker, Alan Bryman and Harry Ferguson
This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition of the acclaimed international bestseller, which now also includes a focus on social work, will enable readers to understand the importance of research, interpret research evidence and findings, and carry out and report good-quality research of their own. Comprehensive in scope, and written by 80 leading
contributors in an accessible and engaging style, this landmark book, includes more than 40 new contributors and dozens of new sections which highlight developments since the first
edition. It also combines theoretical and applied discussions and case examples to provide the essential one-stop guide to research methods, approaches and debates.
Policy Press, 2012
/ Classics / Mark Bradley: Rome, Pollution and Propriety: Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity
Edited by Mark Bradley
Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the city's history, such as early Roman urban development, Roman pagan religion, the medieval Church, the Renaissance, the Unification of Italy, and the advent of Fascism. This volume sets out to identify the defining characteristics, functions and discourses of pollution in Rome in such realms as disease and medicine, death and burial, sexuality and virginity, prostitution, purity and absolution, personal hygiene and morality, criminality, bodies and cleansing, waste disposal, decay, ruins and urban renovation, as well as studying the means by which that pollution was policed and controlled.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
/ Music / Mervyn Cooke: DĚJINY FILMOVÉ HUDBY
Mervyn Cooke
A Czech-language translation of Professor Cooke’s History of Film Music
Casablanca: Prague, 2012
/ Music / Mervyn Cooke: Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976. Volume Six: 1966-1976
Edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke
The sixth and final volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten, edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke, covers the composer's last decade. The genesis, composition and premieres of major stage works such as Owen Wingrave, commissioned by BBC Television, and Death in Venice are fully documented, as are the church parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son.
Boydell & Brewer, 2012
/ Politics / Phillip Cowley: The Bumper Book of Coalition Rebellions
Phillip Cowley and Mark Stuart
Or: Dissension amongst the Coalition's Parliamentary Parties, 2010-2012: A Data Handbook.
Revolts.co.uk/University of Nottingham
/ Theology / Carly Crouch: Mediating between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East
Edited by C. L. Crouch, Jonathan Stokl and Anna Elise Zernecke
This volume originated in the 2010 meeting of the Israel in the Ancient Near East research group of the European Association of Biblical Studies in Tartu, Estonia, and includes a number of the papers presented to the group on that occasion as well as several further contributions
T&T Clark, 2012
/ Education/ Engineering / Aran Eales: Sustainability Engineering
Aran Eales/Mike Clifford/Learning Technology Team/Sarah Speight
This eBook is intended to provide a broad understanding of issues related to sustainability in the context of engineering. The world is facing very real and imminent environmental and social challenges associated with the exponential population growth and unsustainable consumption of resources. In their role of problem solvers for society, engineers have an important part to play in addressing these problems, and this book is intended to give an overview of how they can.
University of Nottingham 2012
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/ Classics / Andrew Goffey: Evil Media
Andrew Goffey and Matthew Fuller
Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the grey zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to explore and understand the abstract infrastructure of the present day. From search engines to flirting strategies, from the value of institutional stupidity to the malicious minutiae of databases, this book shows how the devil is in the details.
MIT Press, 2012
/ Classics / Andrew Goffey: Guattari: Schizoanalytic Cartographies
Translated by Andrew Goffey
Schizoanalytic Cartographies is a visionary yet highly concrete work, providing a powerful vantage point on the upheavals of our present epoch, powerfully imagining a future 'post-media' era of technological development. This long overdue translation of this substantial work offers English-speaking readers the opportunity finally to fully assess Guattari's contribution to European thought.
Bloomsbury Academic
/ Education/ Geography / Simon Gosling: Sustainability: the geography perspective
Simon Gosling/Learning Technology Team/Sarah Speight
“Sustainability” is a word that is being used more and more in the news, by politicians, scientists, and businesses, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Yet, surprisingly, few people have a basic understanding of what it means “to be sustainable”. In some ways, the word has been adopted by some groups to be indicative of being “environmentally friendly” or “socially responsible”. With the word being used ever more, there is a risk that its true meaning becomes lost, to the point where it becomes simply a “buzz word” with little context or meaning. To this end, this module examines the core pillars of sustainability, with aid of everyday examples, in order to develop a holistic understanding of what sustainability means. The module has been written by a Geographer but it is aimed at all people interested in learning about sustainability from the local to the global scale.
University of Nottingham 2012
/ Cultures, Languages and Area Studies / Dirk Göttsche: Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft 2012
Dirk Göttsche
Yearbook of the Raabe Society 2012
The Raabe Society Yearbook was founded in 1960, and since its 30th volume (1989) has been published by Max Niemeyer publishers in Tubingen. It not only provides a forum for specialists working on the extraordinarily extensive narrative writings of Wilhelm Raabe himself (1831-1910) but has also developed as a conduit for general work on German Realism. Each volume contains papers and miscellaneous articles, a review section and an annual bibliography of the latest research in Raabe studies. The language of publication is German.
De Gruyter, 2012
/ Sociology & Social Policy / Reiner Grundmann: The Power of Scientific Knowledge: From Research to Public Policy
Reiner Grundmann and Nico Stehr
This book examines how political decisions relate to scientific knowledge and what factors determine the success of scientific research in influencing policy. The authors take a comparative and historical perspective and refer to well-known theoretical frameworks, but the focus of the book is on three case studies: the discourse of racism, Keynesianism and climate change. These cases cover a number of countries and different time periods. In all three the authors see a close link between 'knowledge producers' and political decision makers, but show that the effectiveness of the policies varies dramatically. This book will be of interest to scientists, decision makers and scholars alike.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2012
/ History / Sheryllynne Haggerty: 'Merely for Money'?: Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815
In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked 'merely for money'. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants desired and often made profits, but they were strictly bound by commonly-understood socio-cultural norms which formed a private-order institution of a robust business culture. In order to elucidate this business culture, this book examines the themes of risk, trust, reputation, obligation, networks and crises to demonstrate how contemporary merchants perceived and dealt with one another and managed their businesses. Merchants were able to take risks and build trust, but concerns about reputation and fulfilling obligations constrained economic opportunism. By relating these themes to an array of primary sources from ports around the British-Atlantic world, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of business culture during this period. Liverpool University Press, 2012
/ Built Environment / Jonathan Hale: Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions
Edited by Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hanks and Jonathan Hale Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions explores the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potential to connect on the deepest levels with human perception and imagination. Through this uniting theme, the chapters explore the power of narratives as structured experiences unfolding in space and time as well as the use of theatre, film and other technologies of storytelling by contemporary museum makers to generate meaningful and, it is argued here, highly effective and affective museum spaces. Contributions by an internationally diverse group of museum and heritage professionals, exhibition designers, architects and artists with academics from a range of disciplines including museum studies, theatre studies, architecture, design and history cut across traditional boundaries including the historical and the contemporary and together explore the various roles and functions of narrative as a mechanism for the creation of engaging and meaningful interpretive environments.
Routledge: Abingdon, 2012
No image available / Archaeology / Jon Henderson: Beyond Boundaries: The 3rd International Congress on Underwater Archaeology, IKUWA 3 London 2008
Edited by J C Henderson
The IKUWA 3 proceedings features sections on managing underwater cultural heritage, nautical archaeology, maritime landscapes, freshwater archaeology, new methods, and finishes with new approaches in training, education and public outreach. The end result is an exceptional snapshot of the diversity, ingenuity and sheer scope of research into underwater and maritime archaeology at the beginning of the 21st century.
Nautical Archaeology Society/Römisch-Germanische Kommission, Frankfurt, 2012
/ Politics / Miwa Hirono: China’s Evolving Approach to Peacekeeping
Edited by Marc Lanteigne and Miwa Hirono
China has become an enthusiastic supporter of and contributor to UN peacekeeping. Is China’s participation in peacekeeping likely to strengthen the current international peacekeeping regime by China’s adopting of the international norms of peacekeeping? Or, on the contrary, is it likely to alter the peacekeeping norms in a way that aligns with its own worldview? And, as China’s international confidence grows, will it begin to consider peacekeeping a smaller and lesser part of its international security activity, and thus not care so much about it? This book aims to address these questions by examining how the PRC has developed its peacekeeping policy and practices in relation to its international status. It does so by bringing in both historical and conceptual analyses and specific case-oriented discussions of China’s peacekeeping over the past twenty years.
London: Routledge, 2012
/ Classics / Stephen Hodkinson: Slaves and Religions in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Modern Brazil
Edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Dick Geary
This volume presents papers from a conference of the University of Nottingham's Institute for the Study of Slavery - the only UK centre studying its history from antiquity to the present. It breaks new ground by juxtaposing slave strategies wihtin the diverse religious cultures of Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil. After a wide-ranging historiographical survey, eleven experts examine how in both societies slave religious activities involved both constraints and opportunities, shedding particular light on the neglected religious strategies of Graeco-Roman slaves.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2012
/ Classics / Stephen Hodkinson: Sparta in Modern Thought: Politics, History and Culture
Edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Ian Macgregor Morris
This book is the first in over 40 years to examine the subject - eleven ancient historians and experts in the history of ideas discuss Sparta's changing role in Western thought from medieval Europe to the 21st century, with a special focus on Enlightenment France, Nazi Germany and the late-20th-century USA.
Classical Press of Wales, 2012
/ Law / John Jackson: The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence: beyond the Common Law and Civil law Traditions
John D Jackson and Sarah J Summers
By considering the extent to which a coherent body of common evidentiary standards is being developed in both domestic and international jurisprudence, John D. Jackson and Sarah J. Summers chart this development with particular reference to the jurisprudence on the right to a fair trial that has emerged from the European Court of Human Rights and to the attempts in the new international criminal tribunals to fashion agreed approaches towards the regulation of evidence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012
/ Culture, Film & Media / Catherine Johnson: Transnational Television History: A Comparative Approach
Edited by Andreas Fickers and Catherine Johnson
Transnational Television History asks us to re-evaluate the function of television as a medium of nation-building in its formative years and to reassess the historical narrative that insists that European television only became transnational with the emergence of more commercial services and new technologies from the 1980s. It also questions some common assumptions in television historiography by offering some alternative perspectives on the complex processes of transnational circulation of television technology, professionals, programmes and aesthetics.
London and New York; Routledge, 2012
/ Cultures, Languages and Area Studies / Toni Kapcia: Literary culture in Cuba: Revolution, nation-building and the book
Par Kumaraswami and Antoni Kapcia
This book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture. Based on over 100 interviews with a wide range of actors involved in the structures and processes that produce, regulate, promote and consume literature on the island, the book breaks new ground by going beyond the conventional approach (the study of individual authors and texts) and by going beyond the canon of texts known outside Cuba. It thus presents a historical analysis of the evolution of literary culture from 1959 to the present, as well as a series of more detailed case studies (on writing workshops, the Havana Book Festival and the publishing infrastructure) which reveal how this culture is created in contemporary Cuba. It thus contributes a new and complex vision of revolutionary Cuban culture which is as detailed as it is comprehensive.
Manchester University Press, 2012
/ Theology / Karen Kilby: Balthasar: A (Very) Critical Introduction