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      • Bradt Travel Guides Ltd

        Bradt Travel Guides have a reputation as the pioneering publisher for tackling ‘unusual’ destinations, and producing colourful guidebooks which are entertaining as well as useful.

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      • Beatnik Publishing

        Founded in 2007, Beatnik Publishing is a NZ independent publisher that works alongside authors and artists to create beautiful, time-enduring books with international appeal. They publish cookbooks, children’s, poetry, lifestyle & self-help books.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2017

        Visions of empire

        Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870–1939

        by Andrew Thompson, Brad Beaven, John M. MacKenzie

        The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians. This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Beaven shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from three representative English cities. These case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.

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        Social & cultural history
        July 2012

        Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century Britain

        by Allison Abra, Brad Beaven, Brett Bebber, Kelly Boyd

        This collection of essays addresses research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women's leisure, dance, football and drug culture. It provides an excellent entry to leisure studies and history, while addressing the contributions of other disciplines and exploring key historiographical trends. Three broad topics structure the collection; cultural contestation and social conflict in leisure; regulation and standardisation; and national identity embodied in leisure and popular culture. The book will be useful to students and educators of twentieth-century and British history, as it offers accessible and topical studies that pique historical curiosity. In addition, historians, sociologists and cultural analysts of the twentieth century will find it essential for understanding pleasure and recreation in twentieth-century British society.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2016

        Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century Britain

        by Jeffrey Richards, Brett Bebber, Allison Abra, Brad Beaven, Brett Bebber, Kelly Boyd

        This collection of essays addresses research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women's leisure, dance, football and drug culture. It provides an excellent entry to leisure studies and history, while addressing the contributions of other disciplines and exploring key historiographical trends. Three broad topics structure the collection; cultural contestation and social conflict in leisure; regulation and standardisation; and national identity embodied in leisure and popular culture. The book will be useful to students and educators of twentieth-century and British history, as it offers accessible and topical studies that pique historical curiosity. In addition, historians, sociologists and cultural analysts of the twentieth century will find it essential for understanding pleasure and recreation in twentieth-century British society. ;

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        April 2004

        Troja

        by Gustav Schwab, John Flaxman, Manfred Lemmer

        Bis heute haben Mythen nichts von ihrer Faszination verloren, im Gegenteil: Sie sind aktueller denn je; davon zeugt nicht zuletzt die mit sagenhaftem Staraufgebot gedrehte dreistündige Verfilmung des Trojanischen Kriegs von Wolfgang Petersen, die am 20. Mai in die deutschen Kinos kommt. In den Hauptrollen sind neben Brad Pitt, Peter O'Toole auch Orlando Bloom und Julie Christie zu sehen. Wer mehr über den Raub der schönen Helena, die List mit dem hölzernen Pferd, den Zweikampf zwischen Achilles und Hektor wissen will, sollte Gustav Schwabs Troja lesen.

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        March 2020

        Das Haus am Orangenhain

        Roman

        by Sheila O’Flanagan, Susann Urban

        Für Juno Ryan bricht eine Welt zusammen, als sie erfährt, dass ihr Freund Brad bei einem tragischen Unglück ums Leben gekommen ist. Und als wäre das nicht schon schlimm genug, stellt sich heraus, dass der Mann, den sie liebte und mit dem sie von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft träumte, verheiratet war und einen Sohn hat. In ihrer Verzweiflung flüchtet sie nach Spanien in das Ferienhaus einer Freundin, in die idyllische Villa Naranja. Der blaue Himmel, ein streunender Kater und nicht zuletzt Pep, der attraktive Sohn des benachbarten Weinbauern, sind Balsam für ihre Seele.Nach und nach scheint sie die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen zu können, doch als eines Tages Max, der Bruder ihres Geliebten, in ihr kleines Refugium einbricht, muss Juno sich ihren Gefühlen stellen und herausfinden, was sie im Leben wirklich will …

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        March 2020

        Das Haus am Orangenhain

        Roman

        by Susann Urban, Sheila O’Flanagan

        Für Juno Ryan bricht eine Welt zusammen, als sie erfährt, dass ihr Freund Brad bei einem tragischen Unglück ums Leben gekommen ist. Und als wäre das nicht schon schlimm genug, stellt sich heraus, dass der Mann, den sie liebte und mit dem sie von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft träumte, verheiratet war und einen Sohn hat. In ihrer Verzweiflung flüchtet sie nach Spanien in das Ferienhaus einer Freundin, in die idyllische Villa Naranja. Der blaue Himmel, ein streunender Kater und nicht zuletzt Pep, der attraktive Sohn des benachbarten Weinbauern, sind Balsam für ihre Seele.Nach und nach scheint sie die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen zu können, doch als eines Tages Max, der Bruder ihres Geliebten, in ihr kleines Refugium einbricht, muss Juno sich ihren Gefühlen stellen und herausfinden, was sie im Leben wirklich will …

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2012

        The Library and archive collections of the University of Aberdeen

        An introduction and description

        by Edited by Iain Beaven, Peter Davidson and Jane Stevenson

        This volume commences with the the books and manuscripts given at the foundation of King's College in 1495, continues with the collections which accrued to Marischal College from its foundation in 1593, and comes together with the fusion of the two colleges in 1860 in the modern University of Aberdeen. From the beginning, the scope and focus of the University was international, and its developing collections represent a microcosm of the world of knowledge as it changed over the centuries. The University Colleges of Aberdeen have a distinct intellectual tradition: pragmatically tolerant in times of persecution; dissident from the religious and political policies of the Lowlands; looking outwards to the world of northern Europe and to the territories of the Jacobite diaspora. The book introduces one of the oldest continually-evolving academic library collections of the Anglophone world, surveys its history and includes a series of studies of items or collections of particular interest. ;

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        January 2021

        Plant Cells, Third Edition

        by Kristi Lew and Brad Fitzpatrick

        Plants may seem like simple organisms, but their complex systems for food production, reproduction, and protection make them some of the most highly adapted living things on the planet. From the arctic tundra to the tropical rainforests, plants dominate the land and produce the energy necessary to sustain life on Earth.  Plant Cells, Third Edition investigates these amazing organisms and explores how they have provided cures for some of today's deadliest diseases. Plants may also play a vital role in helping to solve some of the world's most pressing problems, such as air pollution, nonrenewable resource consumption, and food shortages. From low-lying mosses to massive redwoods more than 30 stories high, plants all have one thing in common: They all began life as a single cell.

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