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      The Arts
      March 2026

      Acting and performance in Hitchcock

      by Adrian Garvey, Victoria Lowe

      Hitchcock's professed disdain for actors is belied by the extraordinary range and depth of performances featured in his films. It might even be argued that many stars gave their richest and most complex performances in his work. Hitchcock's films are also imbued with the theme of performance, as when his fugitive men and errant women assume fragile new identities and move between roles. Actors and other performers also often feature as characters. However, the exhaustive academic literature on Hitchcock has to date produced surprisingly little work about acting and performance in his films. The collection includes contributions from a range of leading scholars on Hitchcock, performance, stardom, and British Cinema, including Charles Barr, David Greven, Mark Glancy, Lucy Bolton, Lawrence Napper and Michael Williams, and an interview with leading composers/accompanists Neil Brand and Stephen Horne on scoring performance in Silent Hitchcock.

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      Biography & True Stories
      November 2024

      Walking in the dark

      James Baldwin, my father and I

      by Douglas Field

      A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.

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      Agricultural science
      October 2012

      Economics of Regulation in Agriculture

      Compliance with Public and Private Standards

      by Edited by Floor Brouwer, Glenn Fox, Roel Jongeneel.

      This work debates and investigates the cross-compliance system - whereby farmers comply with certain standards relating to the environment, food safety and animal and plant health. It discusses cross-compliance in the context of existing standards, on-farm costs and the competitiveness of farm businesses. Analysing the economics of regulation both within the internal market of the EU and the broader world market by examining a broad range of agricultural products. This resource will be of value to agriculture and resource economists, policy makers, researchers and students in environmental and agricultural policy and modelling.

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      June 2022

      Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1

      The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now

      by Douglas Field

      This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake's work from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture. Opening with two articles by the late Michael Horovitz, an important figure in the 'Blake Renaissance' of the 1960s, the issue goes on to investigate the ideological struggle over Blake in the early part of the twentieth century, with particular reference to W. B. Yeats. This is followed by articles on the artistic avant-garde and underground of the 1960s and on Blake's significance for science fiction authors of the 1970s. The issue closes with an article on the contemporary Belgian art collective maelstrÖm reEvolution.

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      Plant pathology & diseases
      November 2014

      Diseases of Temperate Horticultural Plants

      by Raymond A T George, Roland T.V. Fox

      Containing an extensive range of photographs and authored by leading horticultural experts, 'Diseases of Temperate Horticultural Plants' is an indispensable reference work for horticultural professionals, academics, students, crop producers as well as amateur horticulturists. The diseases of major crops are presented according to their classification, and the symptoms of each disease, causal pathogen and control measures for each condition are described. The crops covered include the major temperate horticultural crops, organised into easy to navigate sections divided into fruits, vegetables and ornamentals. Within fruits, apples and pears are discussed, as well as ribes and berries, cherries, peaches and plums, nut crops and rhubarb. The vegetable section covers salad crops, brassicas and crucifers, cucurbits, root vegetables, bulb crops, solanaceous vegetables and some herbs. The section on ornamental plants includes a wide range of ornamental garden plants, while a further section discusses diseases of turf grass and ornamental lawns. The book is user-friendly with practical, accessibly written entries organised into discrete sections. The comprehensive nature of this work makes it an invaluable addition to any horticulturist’s library with content that will remain current for years to come.

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      September 2010

      Der goldene Thron

      Historischer Roman

      by Fox, Katia

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      January 2002

      Comeback

      Parkinson wird nicht siegen

      by Fox, Michael J

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      March 2009

      Der silberne Falke

      Historischer Roman

      by Fox, Katia

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      1995

      Das Leuchten im Stein

      Oder Justin ist kein Hasenherz

      by Fox, Paula

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      1991

      Der Schattentänzer

      Vaterbild mit Schrammen

      by Fox, Paula

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      May 2006

      Von Engeln begleitet

      88 Übungen für ein erfülltes Leben

      by Fox, Sabrina

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      March 2002

      Wie Engel uns lieben

      Wahre Begebenheiten mit Schutzengeln

      by Fox, Sabrina

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      Von Mut und Meer

      Roman

      by Fox, Phoebe

      Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Sonja Fehling

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