Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was \"Cool Britannia.\" Records sold in the millions, a new celebrity elite emerged, and Tony Blair\'s Labour Party found itself returned to government. Drawing

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This book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the \'ethical turn\' in skateboarding today. Insights shared by key change-makers and industry insiders cover themes including First Nations, Black and People of Color, skater-run creative innovations, anti-colonialism, anti-racism initiatives, and a growing focus on equity and empowering skaters historically

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The Handbook to Literary Research is a practical guide for students embarking on postgraduate work in Literary Studies. It introduces and explains research techniques, methodologies and approaches to information resources, paying careful attention to the differences between countries and institutions, and providing a range of key examples. This fully updated second edition is divided into five sections

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This wonderfully silly young graphic novel from Graphix Chapters about fin-tastic friends from Graphix Chapters is perfect for fans of The Bad Guys and Narwhal and Jelly!It\'s time for Seaweed Elementary annual talent show, but Squizzard can\'t decide on an act. He\'s too distracted by the fact that it\'s also prank week! And he has some fin-tastically silly pranks planned. But his friends have a few

This volume has been designed as a key resource in the field of international political leadership research. Written by a team of distinguished leadership scholars from three continents and nine countries, the original chapters gathered in this volume cover all the major fields of political leadership, from executive, legislative and party leadership to leadership in social movements and international

From the depths of their existential angst, these profound pooches ask some of the most pertinent questions of their time. \'What if I never find out who\'s a good boy?\' \'Is it better to have eaten something and thrown it up, and then eaten it again, than never to have eaten it at all?\' \'What if the tail I\'ve been chasing all these years is really chasing me?\' These are just a few of the philosophical

A stunning biography of history\'s most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the Roman Empire and the future of all Europe in his hands. He created the greatest of barbarian forces, and his empire briefly rivaled Rome\'s. In numerous raids and three major campaigns against the Roman Empire, he earned himself an instant and undying

We Saw Spain Die is about the courage and the skill of the men and women who wrote about what was happening in Spain during the Civil War, by the world\'s leading

Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in \"their place.\" Tracing how African

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