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Bloomsbury Pocket Guide To Garden Birds


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English | 31 July 2014 | ISBN: 1472909852 | True EPUB/PDF | 192 pages | 86.6/17.3 MB
This compact title is an essential guide to every aspect of the subject, from when and what to feed the birds to building bird tables and nest boxes and planting a garden that will provide nesting, feeding and roosting places. There is also an ID guide to 83 of the most common garden bird species, including the familiar Chaffinch and Blue Tit and more unusual visitors such as Brambling, Redstart and Tawny Owl.

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Women in Ancient Rome A Sourcebook (Bloomsbury Sources in Ancient History)


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English | September 12, 2013 | ISBN: 1441177493 | 232 pages | EPUB | 1.08 Mb
This sourcebook includes a rich and accessible selection of Roman original sources in translation ranging from the Etruscan period through Republican and Imperial Rome to the late Empire and the coming of Christianity. From Roman goddesses to mortal women, imperial women to slaves and prostitutes, the volume brings new perspectives to the study of Roman women’s lives. Literary sources comprise works by Livy, Catullus, Ovid, Juvenal and many others. Suggestions for further reading, a general bibliography, and an index of ancient authors and works are also included.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence


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English | ISBN: 135025374X | 2024 | 464 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1089 KB + 40 MB
Showcasing the most exciting contemporary scholarship on D. H. Lawrence, this comprehensive collection serves as both an overview of the field at present as well as an examination of new approaches and directions in D. H. Lawrence studies.

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The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability


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English | ISBN: 1350268895 | 2023 | 624 pages | EPUB, PDF | 880 KB + 59 MB
The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has historically been represented and understood in philosophy: it critically undermines the detrimental assumptions that various subfields of philosophy produce; resists the institutionalized ableism of academia to which these assumptions contribute; and boldly articulates new anti-ableist, anti-sexist, anti-racist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-carceral, and decolonial insights and perspectives that counter these assumptions.

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt


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English | ISBN: 1350053295 | 2020 | 688 pages | EPUB | 907 KB
Hannah Arendt’s (1906-1975) writings, both in public magazines and in her important books, are still widely studied today. She made original contributions in political thinking that still astound readers and critics alike. The subject of several films and numerous books, colloquia, and newspaper articles, Arendt remains a touchstone in innumerable debates about the use of violence in politics, the responsibility one has under dictatorships and totalitarianism, and how to combat the repetition of the horrors of the past.

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Bring No Clothes Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion


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English | September 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 0241602750 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 41.28 MB
‘He makes us see a subject we thought we knew so well from a completely different angle; in writing that is deeply researched, but inviting, warm, and full of personality’ Katy Hessel

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation


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English | ISBN: 1350215309 | 2023 | 472 pages | EPUB, PDF | 17 MB + 6 MB
Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective, this handbook provides students, researchers and teachers with a context in which to read and appreciate the effects of linguistic and cultural transfer in Chinese literary works.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth


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English | ISBN: 1501380249 | 2024 | 424 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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