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Tax Evasion and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and USA (2024)
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Bourton, S. (in press). Tax Evasion and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and USA. Routledge

Following the global financial crisis, and a number of tax evasion scandals, there has been an increased public demand for countries to tackle tax evasion. In response, the past two decades have seen the diffusion of international cooperation in tax... Read More about Tax Evasion and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and USA.

Collective Self-Defence in International Law (2024)
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Green, J. A. (2024). Collective Self-Defence in International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009406420

Collective self-defence can be defined as the use of military force by one or more states to aid another state that is an innocent victim of armed attack. However, it is a legal justification that is open to abuse and its exercise risks escalating co... Read More about Collective Self-Defence in International Law.

Emerson's Metaphors (2023)
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Greenham, D. (2023). Emerson's Metaphors. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Book

Emerson's Metaphors provides a radical reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson's figurative language, demonstrating that Emerson's metaphors should be understood as ways of thinking. Covering the full range of Emerson's writings, this book offers a reinterpre... Read More about Emerson's Metaphors.

The Theory and Practice of Creative Coaching - Analysis and Methods (2023)
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Turner, A. (2023). The Theory and Practice of Creative Coaching - Analysis and Methods. London UK: Anthem Press

This is a monograph based largely on my D.B.A. studies between 2008 & 2012 and the decade since that I have spent putting the practical knowledge gained into my work within coaching and coaching development.

Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences (2023)
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Bouzanis, C. (2023). Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201349

This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at whi... Read More about Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House (2023)
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Sobers, S. (2023). Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House. Oxon: Routledge

This book is an exploration of everyday life as experienced through the lens of Black British cultural history and creative practice. The structure of Black Everyday Life, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings In The House examines everyday life... Read More about Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House.

Bad Blood in Georgian Bristol: The Murder of Sir John Dineley (2023)
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Poole, S., & Rogers, N. (2023). Bad Blood in Georgian Bristol: The Murder of Sir John Dineley. Bristol: Redcliffe Press

In 1741, Sir John Dineley, a gentleman with substantial west country land holdings was abducted on the streets of Bristol in broad daylight, rowed down the Avon to the Channel and forced onto a warship captained by his own brother, Samuel Goodere. Th... Read More about Bad Blood in Georgian Bristol: The Murder of Sir John Dineley.

Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream (2022)
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Nartey, M. (2023). Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana’s independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah’s constructio... Read More about Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream.

Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces (2022)
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Lanci, G. (2022). Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature)

This book presents an original study on how contemporary artists are exploring urban spaces through mapping. Despite a long history of representations of cities in maps, and the relationships that can be envisaged between art maps and cities in the c... Read More about Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces.

Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times (2022)
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Waller, R., Bradley, H., & Bentley, L. (2022). Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times. Bingley: Emerald

Selling Our Youth explores how the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage. It shows how class and gender combine to influence these young adults’ oppor... Read More about Selling our Youth: Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times.

Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity (2022)
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Spicer, A. (2022). Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This study provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the career of one of one modern cinema’s most distinctive stars, an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular cu... Read More about Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity.

Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939 (2022)
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Harrison, L. (2022). Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press

In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'. The beginnings of a distinct youth culture can be traced to the late nineteenth... Read More about Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939.

Remedy for Human Rights Abuses under Tort and International Law (2022)
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Nartey, M. (2022). Remedy for Human Rights Abuses under Tort and International Law. (2). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press

This second volume examines laws relating to the civil liabilities of corporations and states in connection with torts or other breaches of international law and human rights law. It illustrates how particular legal principles or rules can be applied... Read More about Remedy for Human Rights Abuses under Tort and International Law.

Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa (2022)
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Anosike, P. (2022). Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa. London: SAGE Publications (UK and US)

High foreign aid dependence, poor human capital, rising high youth unemployment and poverty are just some of the reasons that Africa represents a striking symbol of global inequality today. In this book, the author draws on his research and experi... Read More about Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa.

Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars The Politics of Sex (2021)
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Mackay, F. (2021). Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars The Politics of Sex. London: Bloomsbury

Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical background and context to the 'gender wars' or 'TERF wars' – the violent feminist fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female mascul... Read More about Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars The Politics of Sex.

Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth: Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture (2021)
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Wåhlin, N., Kapsali, M., Nasholm, M. H., & Blomquist, T. (2021). Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth: Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783479382

Over the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understanding and inter... Read More about Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth: Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture.

Accountability and Corporate Human Rights Violations in Tort and International Law (2021)
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Nartey, M. (2021). Accountability and Corporate Human Rights Violations in Tort and International Law. (1). Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This volume identifies a coherent legal principle in order to establish a novel duty of care for corporate human rights violations and environmental damages. It examines whether tort and civil law offer better accountability and remedies for victims... Read More about Accountability and Corporate Human Rights Violations in Tort and International Law.