Pageant
Covering examples from the middle ages, early 20th century and the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer students a critical overview of pageantry as a dramatic form.
Joan FitzPatrick Dean (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA); Simon Shepherd (The Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK)
Published: August /
2021
Methuen Drama
9781350144521
200 Pages
€45.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Street theatre
On Every Tide
Sean Connolly
Published: August /
2021
Little, Brown
9781408709511
448 Pages
€25.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
History
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe. History regularly brought these two peoples into contact, most prominently with the Viking invasion of Ireland.
DR. ENG Emily Lyle
Published: August /
2021
Amsterdam University Press
9789463729055
302 Pages
€100.00
€99.00
Hardback
Netherlands
European history
The Making of Oliver Cromwell
The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history
Ronald Hutton
Published: August /
2021
Yale University Press
9780300257458
400 Pages
€27.50
£25.00
Hardback
United States
British & Irish history
Literature and Class: From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution
This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants' Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. -- .
Andrew Hadfield
Published: August /
2021
Manchester University Press
9781526125835
352 Pages
€96.00
£80.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Literature: history & criticism
Learning and Development Effectiveness in Organisations: An Integrated Systems-Informed Model of Effectiveness
This book offers an integrated and contextualised framework for learning and development (L&D) effectiveness that addresses both the nature of L&D and its antecedents and outcomes in organisations.
Thomas N. Garavan; Fergal O'Brien; James Duggan; Claire Gubbins; Yanqing Lai; Ronan Carbery; Sinead Heneghan; Ronnie Lannon; Maura Sheehan; Kirsteen Grant
Published: August /
2021
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
9783030489021
178 Pages
£44.99
Paperback / softback
Switzerland
Personnel & human resources management
Jackie Nickerson: Salvage
With her photographic examination of old masters and modern paintings, Jackie Nickerson (* 1960) illuminates the way in which artists over centuries interpret the observed world in their own way.
Jackie Nickerson
Published: August /
2021
Kerber Verlag
9783735607553
104 Pages
€39.60
£33.00
Hardback
Germany
Individual photographers
Is There a British Chalcolithic?: People, Place and Polity in the later Third Millennium
The Chalcolithic, the phase in prehistory when the important technical development of adding tin to copper to produce bronze had not yet taken place, is not a term generally used by British prehistorians and whether there is even a definable phase is debated.
Michael J. Allen; Julie Gardiner; Alison Sheridan
Published: August /
2021
Oxbow Books
9781789256864
368 Pages
£29.95
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Archaeology by period / region
Ireland’s Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered
An original and irreverent retelling of overlooked stories from Irish history, hailed by Sebastian Barry as 'a stirring atlas of Irishness'
Turtle Bunbury
Published: August /
2021
Thames & Hudson Ltd
9780500296363
224 Pages
£9.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
British & Irish history
The impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer’s estates in Mayo, 1840-69
This book examines the impact of the Famine on Sir William Palmer’s Mayo estates, one of the largest in the county.
David Byrne
Published: August /
2021
Four Courts Press Ltd
9781846829734
64 Pages
€9.95
£9.95
Paperback / softback
Ireland
British & Irish history