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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

    $42.99 USD

  • Military Sites in the Caribbean

    The Landscapes and Communities of Contested Places and Pasts

    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

    $23.99 USD

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  • 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

    $73.99 USD

  • 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

    $58.99 USD

  • Urban Resettlements in the Global South

    Lived Experiences of Housing and Infrastructure between Displacement and Relocation

    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

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  • The Confessions of Jonathan Flite

    Series series The Jonathan Flite Series
    Jonathan Flite claims to have memories he can’t explain. Seven layers of them, to be exact, all belonging to a group of teenagers who disappeared from a place called Idle County in 2010—ten years before his birth. Seventeen years of anxiety, violent outbursts, and refusal to admit he is lying have landed him at Crescent Rehabilitation Center, a seaside juvenile center for rich kids, and nobody has ... Read more

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  • Childhood and Governance

    This edited volume offers in-depth analyses of childhood as a social technology of governance. Contributions explore the ways in which dominant ideas about childhood bear on governance in a range of specific contexts, spanning the personal, the local and the global.Each chapter reveals important insights into how ‘imagined childhood’ functions as an ubiquitous and powerful social technology of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Cross-Cultural Television Audiences in the Age of Streaming

    Revisiting "The Export of Meaning"

    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

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  • Anthropocene ABCs

    An Epochalyptic Primer

    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

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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

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  • Growing Up at Work

    How to Transform Personally, Evolve Professionally, and Lead Authentically

    Do your best “inner work” while you work.The workplace—whether in-person or remote—is a unique laboratory where personal and interpersonal growth are tightly intertwined. What better place is there to explore who you are and who you want to be?For nearly two decades, therapists and executive coaches Yael Sivi and Yosh Beier have advised hundreds of employees, managers, and leaders on how to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus