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  • Masterless Men

    The Vagrancy Problem in England 1560–1640

    by A.L. Beier ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Masterless Men (1985) examines the nature of vagrancy in Tudor and Stuart England, an issue that many contemporary authorities regarded as their most serious social problems. It looks at why vagrancy was felt to be such a threat to the stability of the country, and the steps the authorities took to overcome the problem. ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • The Problem of the Poor in Tudor and Early Stuart England

    by A.L. Beier ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    This pamphlet examines recent research into the poor laws of Tudor and Stuart England. Dr Beier asks the question ‘who were the poor?’ and in answering it places the ‘problem of the poor’ in its historical context, examining it in relation to medieval provisions for dealing with poverty. He shows how far legislation was influenced by economic changes, by ideas about poverty and by the interests of ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Social Thought in England, 1480-1730

    From Body Social to Worldly Wealth

    by A.L. Beier ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Authorities ranging from philosophers to politicians nowadays question the existence of concepts of society, whether in the present or the past. This book argues that social concepts most definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England, laying the foundations for modern models of society. The book analyzes social paradigms and how they changed in the period. A pervasive medieval model ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Military Sites in the Caribbean

    The Landscapes and Communities of Contested Places and Pasts

    Edited by Todd M. Ahlman, Zachary J.M. Beier, Gerald F. Schroedl ...
    Military sites across the Caribbean have long served as meaningful points of cultural contact and social interaction. Bringing together archival and archaeological evidence from British, Dutch, Danish, French and Spanish Caribbean islands, this volume examines military sites within their wider social and historical contexts. It explores colonialism, globalisation and community relationships, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Cross-Cultural Television Audiences in the Age of Streaming

    Revisiting "The Export of Meaning"

    Edited by Lothar Mikos, Gisela Dachs, Anne Beier, Benjamin Nickl ...
    Series series Televisual Culture
    Cross-Cultural Television Audiences in the Age of Streaming explores how streaming platforms have transformed cross-cultural television audiences, reshaping the production, distribution, and interpretation of global TV dramas in a transcultural and transnational context.The book looks at production and distribution as well as the negotiation of meaning in a transcultural and transnational context. ... Read more

    $85.19 CAD

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  • People Reading

    Control Others

    by Beier ...
    Every time we talk with people we are trying to influence their behavior, and they are trying to influence ours. The words we use, the way we dress and move, are all ways to seek to control one another. Though we may make these attempts unknowingly, they leave us open to dangerous manipulation. People-Reading will teach you how to listen and what to look for in yourself and those around you, so ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Endometrium as a Target for Contraception

    Edited by Henning Martin Beier, M.J.K. Harper, K. Chwalisz ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)

    $64.09 CAD

  • Anthropocene ABCs

    An Epochalyptic Primer

    by jessie beier, Dylan Hall, Danika Jorgensen-Skakum, Chloë Taylor ...
    An illustrated guide to the many names and political stakes of planetary crisisWhat should we call an era marked by climate disruption, mass extinction, wildfire, pollution, and deep social inequality? Since the Anthropocene was popularized as the name for a proposed geological epoch – a name that was ultimately rejected by the scientific community – the term has generated intense debate across ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

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  • Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration

    An artist's guide to illustration on the go!

    by Betsy Beier ...
    Series series Anywhere, Anytime Art
    With the approachable instruction and contemporary approach to drawing featured in Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration, aspiring creatives of all backgrounds can learn how to make illustrative art on the go using pencil, pen, colored pencil, and more.Learn how to make art inspired by your immediate surroundings, wherever you are—whether traveling abroad or exploring at home. Use your art and ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Urban Resettlements in the Global South

    Lived Experiences of Housing and Infrastructure between Displacement and Relocation

    Edited by Raffael Beier, Amandine Spire, Marie Bridonneau ...
    Urban Resettlements in the Global South provides new perspectives on resettlement through an urban studies lens. To date, resettlement has been theorised through development studies and refugee studies, but urban resettlement is also a major dimension of urban development in the Global South and may help to rethink contemporary urban dynamics between spectacular new town developments and rising ... Read more

    $70.08 CAD

  • Childhood and the Production of Security

    Edited by J Marshall Beier ...
    Responding to security scholars’ puzzling dearth of attention to children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the ways in which they not only are already present in security discourses but are actually indispensable to them and to the political projects they make possible. From zones of conflict to everyday life contexts in the (post)industrial Global North, dominant ideas about ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • The Practices of Literary Translation

    Constraints and Creativity

    Edited by Jean Boase-Beier, Michael Holman ...
    In their introduction to this collection of essays, the editors argue that constraints can be seen as a source of literary creativity, and given that translation is even more constrained than 'original' literary production, it thus has the potential to be even more creative too. The ten essays that follow outline ways in which translators and translations are constrained by poetic form, personal ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD