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Achieving sustainable cultivation of coffee

Contributions by Dr Philippe Lashermes, Marie-Christine Coombes, Prof. Fábio M. DaMatta, Dr Thierry Joët, Stéphane Dussert, Dr Sarada Krishnan, Dr Herbert A.M. van der Vossen, Dr N. Surya Prakash, Dr Alan Carvalho Andrade, Dr Chifumi Nagai, Jean-Jacques Rakotomalala, Dr Charles Lambot, Juan Carlos Herrera, Michael N. Clifford, Iziar A. Ludwig, Prof. Alan Crozier, Ningjian Liang, Kaiwen Mu, Dr David Kitts, Dr Claudine Campa, Arnaud Petitvallet, Prof. Adriana Farah, Dr Robert Buffo, Dr Noël Durand, Angélique Fontana, Dr Mario R. Fernández-Alduenda, Sastia P. Putri, Prof. Eiichiro Fukusaki, Dr Louis Bockel, Laure-Sophie Schiettecatte Edited by Dr Philippe Lashermes

Coffee is one of the most widely-traded commodities in the world. This volume summarises research addressing key challenges in coffee cultivation, including genetic diversity and breeding improved varieties. Other chapters discuss how to measure and improve quality traits. View details
Publication date: 09 January 2018
Hardback: £170.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £170.00

Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1

Contributions by Dr P. Bramel, Dr Kellye Eversole, Jane Rogers, Prof Beat Keller, Rudi Appels, Catherine Feuillet, Dr Alison R. Bentley, Ian Mackay, Dr Jacques Le Gouis, Dr Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Prof. Martin A. J. Parry, João Paulo Pennacchi, Luis Robledo-Arratia, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Xinguo Mao, Delong Yang, Dr Rulian Jing, Dr D. Z. Skinner, Prof. A. S. Ross, Dr Ian Batey, Victoria Ndolo, Dr Trust Beta, Albrecht Serfling, Doris Kopahnke, Antje Habekuss, Fluturë Novakazi, Prof Frank Ordon, Prof. Z. A. Pretorius, M. Ayliffe, R. L. Bowden, L. A. Boyd, R. M. DePauw, Y. Jin, R. E. Knox, R. A. McIntosh, R. F. Park, R. Prins, E. S. Lagudah, Prof. Hermann Buerstmayr, Volker Mohler, Mohan Kohli, Prof. James Anderson, Dr Indu Sharma, Pramod Prasad, Subhash C. Bhardwaj, Prof Stephen Wegulo, Dr Marion O. Harris, J. Jacob, Dr P. R. Brown, Guiping Yan, Kirk Anderson, M El-Bouhssini, Frank Peairs, Gary Hein, Steven Xu, Prof. Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Sarina Macfadyen, Dr Abie Horrocks, Melanie Davidson, Paul Horne, Jessica Page, Dr Neil Harker, John O'Donovan, Breanne Tidemann Edited by Prof. Peter Langridge

This book reviews advances in breeding techniques as well as their application to produce drought-resistant and other improved varieties. It also discusses wheat nutritional quality. Finally it reviews developments such as disease-resistant varieties and other techniques to combat pests and diseases. View details
Publication date: 30 June 2017
Hardback: £190.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £190.00

Mon Coeur Pleure D'Autrefois

By (author) Grégoire Le Roy Edited by Professor Richard Bales


Grégoire Le Roy was at school with Maeterlinck and Van Leberghe, and grew up in the same atmosphere of intellectual ferment. His first published collection pre-dates Maeterlinck’s Serres chaudes. This is the first edition since their original publication of the three collections of poems by a significant member of the Belgian Symbolist school.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £60.00

Marketing Modernity

By (author) Dr. Joe Kember


In this study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic lantern lecture to the fairground and variety theatre.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Green Screen

By (author) Dr David Ingram


This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'greenwashing' of ecological discourses.

 

 

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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Les Mains Jointes Et Autres Poèmes (1905-1923)

By (author) François Mauriac Edited by Dr Paul Cooke


Les Mains Jointes (1909) was the collection of poetry that launched the long career of Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac (1885-1970). This critical edition provides the first ever overview of the volume’s complex textual history (spanning four decades).


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £60.00

The Great Art Of Light And Shadow

By (author) Laurent Mannoni Edited by Dr Richard Crangle Translated by Dr Richard Crangle

Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth.

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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £30.00

Bewnans Ke / The Life of St Kea

By (author) Mr Graham Thomas, Dr Nicholas Williams

In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales. This eagerly awaited edition of the play offers a text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original text at the foot of the page.

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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Legitimate Cinema

By (author) Dr. Jon Burrows


This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Making Theatre in Northern Ireland

By (author) Dr. Tom Maguire


This book examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern Ireland since 1969. It explores key theatrical performances which deal directly with this context. The book is aimed at a student readership: it is largely play-text-based, and it contains useful contextualising material.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1

Contributions by Dr Jeff Dahlberg, Dr D. T. Rosenow, Dr Elizabeth A. Cooper, Prof. Stephen Kresovich, Prof. Hari Upadhyaya, Dr Mani Vetriventhan, Dr Cleve Franks, Dr Joseph E. Knoll, Dr Tesfaye Tesso, Dr Dereje D. Gobena, Dr Dechassa O. Duressa, Dr Kraig Roozeboom, Dr Krishna Jagadish, Dr R. Perumal, Dr Desalegn D. Serba, Dr Dilooshi Weerasooriya, Dr Clint W. Magill, Dr Gary C. Peterson, Dr Louis K. Prom, Dr Elfadil M. Bashir, Dr Chris Little, Dr John Burke, Willmar L. Leiser, H. Frederick Weltzien-Rattunde, Dr Eva Weltzien, Prof. Bettina I.G. Haussmann, Dr Roger L. Monk, M. Djanaguiraman, Prof. P. V. V. Prasad, I. A. Ciampitti, Prof. David Mengel, J. Bell, Dr Robert C. Schwartz, Dr Kevin McInnes, Dr Q. Xue, Dr Dana Porter, Prof. Bonnie Pendleton, Dr A. Y. Bandara, Dr T. C. Todd, Dr Muthu Bagavathiannan, Dr W. Everman, Dr P. Govindasamy, Prof. Anita Dille, Dr M. Jugulam, Dr J. Norsworthy, Dr Bruno Tran, Dr R. Hodges Edited by Prof. William Rooney

Sorghum is the fifth most important cereal crop (after rice, maize, wheat and barley). The first volume in this two-volume collection reviews advances in understanding sorghum physiology and genetics as well as developments in breeding new varieties and their more efficient cultivation. View details
Publication date: 09 July 2018
Hardback: £160.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £160.00

Mining in a Medieval Landscape

By (author) Professor Steve Rippon, Peter Claughton, Dr Christopher Smart


This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

The Voice Of A Giant

Contributions by A. D. P. Briggs, Dr Roger Cockrell, Malcolm V. Jones, W. J. Leatherbarrow, R. A. Peace, David Richards Edited by David Richards, Dr Roger Cockrell


The Voice of a Giant looks at seven masterpieces of Russian nineteenth-century prose fiction. Each chapter concentrates primarily on a detailed analysis of one of these works but reference is also made to historical background, the seven author’s general attitudes and the distinguishing characteristics of Russian literature.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £52.50

John Mcgrath - Plays For England

By (author) John McGrath Introduction by Dr. Nadine Holdsworth


This is an edition of nine of McGrath's plays for the English 7:84 theatre company. It covers McGrath's work for the company spanning four decades, from the 1960s through to the 1990s. The book has a substantial contextualising introduction and commentary on the plays by Nadine Holdsworth, one of the leading specialists in the work of John McGrath.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £52.50

Italian Cityscapes

Contributions by Halldóra Arnardóttir, Enrica Capussotti, Pippo Ciorra, Nicholas Dines, Dr John Foot, Mary Louise Lobsinger, Abele Longo, Prof. Robert Lumley, Laura Maritano, Claudia Nocentini, Sergio Pace, Gianfranco Petrillo, Giuliana Pieri, Sandra Ponzanesi Edited by Prof. Robert Lumley, Dr John Foot


This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture. It shows how major demographic movements and cultural shifts threw into relief new conceptions of the city in which old boundaries had become problematic.

 

 

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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Unity And Variety

Contributions by Dr Jonathan Barry, B. I. Coleman, Professor Christopher Holdsworth, Professor Nicholas Orme, J. A. Thurmer, M. Winter Edited by Professor Nicholas Orme


A collaborative history of the Church in a large, diverse and interesting region of England by six historians, ranging from Celtic and Saxon times, through the middle ages, Reformation, rise of Nonconformity and the Victorian era, down to the present day and encompassing all the main Christian denominations.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £60.00

Symbolism, Decadence And The Fin De Siècle

Contributions by Scott Ashley, Jennifer Birkett, Richard A. Cardwell, Ian Christie, Peter Cooke, Peter Dayan, Alison Finch, Michael Holland, Patrick Laude, Dr Patrick McGuinness, Dee Reynolds, Prof. Clive Scott, Jeremy Stubbs, Robert Vilain, Shirley W. Vinall Edited by Dr Patrick McGuinness

This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870-1914.

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Publication date: 01 April 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Multimedia Histories

By (author) James Lyons, Dr. John Plunkett Contributions by Isobel Armstrong, Kaveh Askari, Patrizia Di Bello, James Bennett, William Boddy, Jonathan Bollen, Ian Christie, Charlie Gere, Richard Grusin, Michelle Henning, James Lyons, Laura Mulvey, Dan North, Dr. John Plunkett, Dr Andrew Shail, Damian Sutton, Andrea Zapp


Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £22.50

Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 2

Contributions by Dr David S. Buchanan, Prof. Jack C. M. Dekkers, Prof. Glen W. Almond, Emily Mahan-Riggs, Dr M. L. W. J. Broekhuijse, Duy Ngoc Do, Prof. Haja N. Kadarmideen, Prof. R. J. van Barneveld, R. J. E. Hewitt, D. N. D'Souza, Prof. J. F. Patience, Dr Sung Woo Kim, Charlotte Lauridsen, Dr J. Jacques Matte, Dr Ludovic Brossard, Jean-Yves Dourmad, Florence Garcia-Launay, Jaap van Milgen, Dr M. R. Bedford, C. L. Walk, Dr John M. Brameld, David M. Brown, Tim Parr, Ms Ingunn Stensland, John R. Pluske, Dr Candido Pomar, Ines Andretta, Luciano Hauschild Edited by Prof. Julian Wiseman

Pig production faces many hurdles in meeting increasing global demand sustainably. This volume discusses advances in breeding to improve both productivity and quality. It also reviews key developments in improving animal nutrition. View details
Publication date: 09 October 2017
Hardback: £160.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £160.00

Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2

Contributions by Alam Sher, Xiaoli Liu, Jincai Li, Dr Youhong Song, Prof. Charles Wortmann, Patricio Grassini, Roger W. Elmore, Dr Peter S. Setimela, Dr Alpha Y. Kamara, Dr Wade E. Thomason, Bee Khim Chim, Mark S. Reiter, Dr Bram Govaerts, Isabelle François, Nele Verhulst, Louis Longchamps, Dr Rajiv Khosla, Dr Kaushik Majumdar, Shamie Zingore, Fernando García, Adrian Correndo, Dr Jagadish Timsina, Adrian M. Johnston, Dr Bao-Luo Ma, Zhigang Wang, Mr Abeya Temesgen, Shu Fakai, Dr Daniel Rodriguez, Caspar Roxburgh, Claire Fansworth, Ariel Ferrante, Joseph Eyre, Stuart Irvine-Brown, James McLean, Martin Bielich, Dr Tadele Tefera, Prof. William D. Hutchinson, Theresa M. Cira, Prof. T. L. Niblack, Dr Loth S. Mulunga, Dr George Mahuku, Dr P. Lava Kumar, Dr Amaere Ayalew, Martin Kimanya, Limbikani Matumba, Dr Ranajit Bandyopadhayay, A. Menkir, Dr Peter J. Cotty, Khawar Jabran, Mubshar Hussain, Dr Bhagirath Singh Chauhan, Vasileios P. Vasileiadis, Maurizio Sattin, Dr Per Kudsk Edited by Dr Dave Watson

Volume 2 covers methods for improving maize cultivation, from seed selection to nutrition, irrigation and techniques such as intercropping. It also reviews research on key pests and diseases and methods for their control in making cultivation more efficient and sustainable. View details
Publication date: 31 July 2017
Hardback: £170.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £170.00

An American in Victorian Cambridge

Edited by Dr. Christopher Stray


"An American in Victorian Cambridge" is a richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £60.00

Achieving sustainable production of eggs Volume 2

Contributions by Dr Y. Nys, Teresa Casey-Trott, Krysta Morrissey, Michelle Hunniford, Dr Tina Widowski, Dr Andrew Butterworth, Claire A. Weeks, Isabelle Ruhnke, Sarah L. Lambton, Dr Dana L. M. Campbell, Dr Dorothy McKeegan, Prof. Richard Fulton, Dr Thea van Niekerk, Hamed M. El-Mashad, Prof. Ruihong Zhang, Anthony Pescatore, Dr Jacquie Jacob Edited by Prof. Juliet R. Roberts

Welfare and sustainability are now major issues in egg production. This book reviews nutrition and other aspects of husbandry affecting laying hens as well as the environmental impact of egg production and how it can be made more sustainable. View details
Publication date: 28 February 2017
Hardback: £130.00 Ebook (VitalSource): £130.00

The Big Show

By (author) Dr. Michael Hammond


The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the War, and contends that the War’s significant effect was to expedite the cultural acceptance of cinema into the fabric of British social life.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Theatre Workshop

By (author) Dr. Robert Leach


Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which made its success so important.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

Theatres of the Troubles

By (author) Dr. Bill McDonnell


The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain.


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Publication date: 02 March 2015
Ebook (VitalSource): £75.00

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