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  • A Different Dragon

    by Nick Gill ...
    Illustrated by Luma Wildish ...
    A heartwarming rhyming picture book about a little dragon who wishes he was special like his friends … but soon discovers that he’s special in his own way.Donny is desperate to learn how to breathe fire, but he just doesn’t have the spark! While his friends are shooting flames everywhere, Donny can only breathe water. He wishes he was special like them, until the day he encounters a problem that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pandemic Legalities

    Legal Responses to COVID-19 – Justice and Social Responsibility

    by Kathleen Lahey, Katie Bales, Sally Wheeler, Alison Struthers, Ed Kirton-Darling, Helen Carr, Rowan Alcock, Rosie Harding, Mark Flear, Ivanka Antova, Tamara Hervey, Albert Sanchez-Graells, Joe Tomlinson, Jed Meers, Suhraiya Jivraj, Foluke Adebisi, Linda Mulcahy, Nick Gill, Kathryn Hollingsworth ...
    Series series Law, Society, Policy
    The effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged.This important text maps out ways in which those already disadvantaged have been affected by legal responses to COVID-19. Contributors tackle issues including virtual trials, adult social care, racism, tax and spending, education and more. They reflect on the implications of COVID-19 and express concerns with ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Trial

    by Franz Kafka, Nick Gill ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Josef K’s thirtieth birthday begins with a knock on his door from two sinister agents. They’re from an unidentified agency, here to arrest him for unidentified crimes.But this is no birthday prank - this is life or death. So begins K’s dark descent into a waking nightmare of bizarre humiliations and compulsive procedures. The Olivier Award-winning Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Skyfall) leads the cast of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Carceral Spaces

    Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention

    by Nick Gill ...
    This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with a growing interest in carceral geography: the geographical study of practices of imprisonment and detention. It combines work by geographers on 'mainstream' penal establishments where people are incarcerated by the prevailing legal system, with geographers' recent work on migrant detention centres, where irregular migrants and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Nothing Personal?

    Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System

    by Nick Gill ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    In this groundbreaking new study, Nick Gill provides a conceptually innovative account of the ways in which indifference to the desperation and hardship faced by thousands of migrants fleeing persecution and exploitation comes about.Features original, unpublished empirical material from four Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projectsChallenges the consensus that border controls ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Mobilities and Forced Migration

    Edited by Nick Gill, Javier Caletrío, Victoria Mason ...
    Whether precipitated by political or environmental factors, human displacement can be more fully understood by attending to the ways in which a set of bodily, material, imagined and virtual mobilities and immobilities interact to produce population movement. Very little work, however, has addressed the fertile middle ground between mobilities and forced migration. This book sets out the ways in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Cherlin’s Conjecture for Finite Primitive Binary Permutation Groups

    by Nick Gill, Martin W. Liebeck, Pablo Spiga ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book gives a proof of Cherlin’s conjecture for finite binary primitive permutation groups. Motivated by the part of model theory concerned with Lachlan’s theory of finite homogeneous relational structures, this conjecture proposes a classification of those finite primitive permutation groups that have relational complexity equal to 2.The first part gives a full introduction to Cherlin’s ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    A Different Dragon

    by Nick Gill ...
    Narrated by Nick Gill ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    Donny is desperate to learn how to breathe fire, but he just doesn’t have the spark! While his friends are shooting flames everywhere, Donny can only breathe water. He wishes he was special like them, until the day he encounters a problem that only he can help with … A moving, gently funny story about ‘specialness’ and celebrating our strengths, even if they’re wetter than we’d like them to be! ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Inside Asylum Appeals

    Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe

    by Nick Gill, Nicole Hoellerer, Jessica Hambly, Daniel Fisher ...
    Series series Law and Migration
    Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness and accessibility. Drawing on hundreds of ethnographic observations of appeal hearings, as well as ... Read more

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  • Asylum Determination in Europe

    Ethnographic Perspectives

    Edited by Nick Gill, Anthony Good ...
    Series series Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
    Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided. The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they ... Read more

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  • Justice and Security in the 21st Century

    Risks, Rights and the Rule of Law

    Edited by Barbara Hudson, Synnove Ugelvik ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
    This book examines the question of whether justice or security is the primary virtue of 21st-century society.The issue of enhancing security without undermining justice – managing risk without undermining the rule of law – has always been problematic. However, recent developments such as new counter-terrorism measures, the expanding scope of criminal law, harsher migration control and an ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts

    by Anthony Good ...
    Although asylum has generated unparalleled levels of public and political concern over the past decade, there has been astonishingly little field research on the topic. This is a study of the legal process of claiming asylum from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the role of expert evidence from 'country experts' such as anthropologists. It describes how such evidence is used in ... Read more

    $110.99 USD