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Peter Childs, Marc Masen
Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook, Third Edition discusses the mechanical engineering skills that are essential to power generation, production, and transportation. Machine elements such as bearings, shafts, gears, belts, chains, clutches…
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Peter O Childs
With climate change alone now actually threatening life as we know it on this wonderful but so badly abused planet, and with multiple additional crises adding to the rapidly increasing…
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Kathleen Kelley-Laine
An evocative and lyrical exploration of ‘Peter Pan’ syndrome, which demonstrates how an understanding of historical childhood issues can assist in helping emotional problems in adults. The author examines J…
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G K Osei Shanton, Peter Osei
This is a story about a man named King who transformed an abusive childhood into a criminal enterprise worth millions. He left home with his younger brother when they were…
Peter Childs
Witty Riddles for Witty Kids is a fun riddle book that contains 511 tough riddles and tricky brain teasers of medium to hard difficulty.
This book is great for children…
This Sourcebook introduces readers not only to Forster’s text, but to the contexts within which the novel was written and to crucial trends in the interpretation of the work.
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This book takes eight texts and gives students some of the post-colonial readings of them published in the last fifteen years. Topics covered include slavery, cannibalism, the harem, missionary work…
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Texts is a new kind of book which shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural and media texts of the kind studied…
The Twentieth Century in Poetry examines both ‘English’ poetry through the events of the twentieth century and British history through its representations in recent poetry.
Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of Ian McEwan’s haunting novel providing a guide to the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it.
Explores the intricacies of Ian McEwan’s haunting novel, aiming to provide a guide to the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it.
A succinct but authoritative analysis of the most important literary innovations of the last hundred years, which explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes which occurred in the…
A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George. Approachable, student friendly and comprehensive analysis of all Barnes’s novels
A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George. Approachable, student friendly and comprehensive analysis of all Barnes’s novels – .
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After the singularity of Astral Weeks in 1968, the 1970s were the formative years for the solo career of one of the acknowledged giants of modern music. Van Morrison was…
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Peter Childs (Newman University, Birmingham, UK)
A historical overview that explains what modernist literature was by taking the reader through the major figures, ideas and movements, focusing particularly on the core years of 1890-1930 but also…
Focusing on what it means to study English in higher education, this book guides students through key aspects of English Studies including major topics and approaches, subject-specific study skills and…
A historical overview explains what modernist literature was by taking the reader through the major figures, ideas and movements, focusing particularly on the core years of 1890-1930 but also looking…
Professor Peter Childs (University of Gloucestershire)
Our national and global affairs are in perilous disarray, to the point where extremely sober observers are saying that we have brought imminent catastrophe upon ourselves and that it is…
Considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism’s high point. This title argues that modernist literary writing…
