Bookfest 2011
a celebration of books published within 2011
from authors within the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences,
University of Nottingham
A lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics, which both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. This innovative textbook systematically draws on language corpora to illustrate features such as creativity in small talk or how we apologise in English. The authors investigate the pragmatic implications of the globalisation of the English language and focus on the applications of pragmatics for teaching languages. In addition, a practical chapter on researching pragmatics aimed at developing students' research skills is included. With a range of tasks aimed at putting theory into practice and chapter by chapter further reading recommendations, this is the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate or postgraduate students of pragmatics and corpus linguistics within applied language/linguistics or TEFL/TESOL degrees.
/ Music / Nicholas Baragwanath: The Italian Traditions and Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera (Indiana University Press, 2011)
In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th century, Nicholas Baragwanath explores the compositional significance of tradition in Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking account of some 400 primary sources, Baragwanath explains the varying theories and practices of the period in light of current theoretical and analytical conceptions of this music. The Italian Traditions and Puccini offers a guide to an informed interpretation and appreciation of Italian opera by underscoring the proximity of archaic traditions to the music of Puccini.
/ Geography / Jon Beaverstock: The Globalization of Advertising: Agencies, Cities and Spaces of Creativity. J. Faulconbridge, J. Beaverstock, P.J. Taylor and C. Nativel (Routledge, 2011)
The role of advertising in everyday life and as a major employer in post-industrial economies is intimately bound up with processes of contemporary globalization. At centre of the advertising industry are the global advertising agencies which have an important role in developing global brands both nationally and internationally. This book indentifies and addresses questions on the globalization of advertising through detailed study of the contemporary advertising industry in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York City and the way advertising work has changed in the three cities over recent years.
/ Geography / Jon Beaverstock: International Business Travel in the Global Economy. Edited by J. Beaverstock, B. Derudder, J. Faulconbridge and F. Witlox (Ashgate, 2011)
London Business travel has become indispensable to the global economy, not only due to its necessity in the maintaining of corporate networks, but also because of the associated economies that cater to the daily requirements of the business traveller. Underlying these developments are concerns over the environmental impact of increasing air travel, which are likely to generate new challenges for the future of business travel. From a team of international experts comes this analysis of the role, nature and effects of modern business travel. Issues addressed include the relationships between airlines and business travellers, the role of mobility in business, and the opportunities and challenges created by mobile workforces.
/ Culture, Film & Media / Mike Berry: More Bad News from Israel. Greg Philo and Mike Berry (Pluto Press, 2011)
Building on research from the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. The book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever in this area, the authors focus on television news. They illustrate major differences in the way Israelis and Palestinians are represented, including how casualties are shown and the presentation of the motives and rationales of both sides. They combine this with extensive audience research involving hundreds of participants from the USA, Britain and Germany. It shows extraordinary differences in levels of knowledge and understanding, especially amongst young people from these countries.
/ Theology / Agata Bielik-Robson: The Saving Lie: Harold Bloom and Deconstruction (Northwestern University Press, 2011)
Harold Bloom’s wide-ranging critical writings have plumbed the depths of Romanticism (The Visionary Company), explored the anxiety caused by the influence of one generation of poets on another (Agon, The Anxiety of Influence), wrestled with the idea of a literary canon (The Western Canon), introduced Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to America (Deconstruction and Criticism), and explored the relationship between religion, especially Judaism, and literature (Kabbalah and Criticism, The Book of J). The Saving Lie brings all these “Blooms” together and, despite their own tendencies toward dissociation, lets them speak unisono: in one almost harmonious voice that will clearly utter the principles of a new speculative position—Bloom’s antithetical vitalism. This study of Bloom and his contributions will not soon be surpassed.
/ Archaeology / Will Bowden: Butrint 3: Excavations at the Triconch Palace. Will Bowden and Richard Hodges (Oxbow, 2011)
This engaging and well-illustrated volume describes the excavations of a large urban sector, the so-called Triconch Palace, of the Adriatic seaport of Butrint. In so doing it adds to the new paradigm for the development of Roman towns in the Mediterranean. The book traces the changing nature of this rich and varied area - from 2nd-century Roman townhouses, to a 4th-century elite domus, to a Mid Byzantine trading area to late medieval allotments - and reveals the rhythms of Butrint and its Mediterranean connections. This is accompanied by discussions of the elaborate mosaic decoration of the palatial phase and their articulation of elite living, as well as of in-depth discussions of the implications of elite and domestic architecture in late antiquity and the Mid Byzantine period.
/ Politics / Tony Burns: Aristotle and Natural Law. Continuum Ancient Philosophy Series (Continuum, 2011)
A new theoretical approach which distinguishes between the notions of 'interpretation,' 'appropriation,' 'negotiation' and 'reconstruction' of the meaning of texts and their component concepts. These categories are then deployed in an examination of the role which the concept of natural law is used by Aristotle in a number of key texts. The book argues that Aristotle appropriated the concept of natural law, first formulated by the defenders of naturalism in the 'nature versus convention debate' in classical Athens. Thereby he contributed to the emergence and historical evolution of the meaning of one of the most important concept in the lexicon of Western political thought. Aristotle and Natural Law argues that Aristotle's ethics is best seen as a certain type of natural law theory which does not allow for the possibility that individuals might appeal to natural law in order to criticize existing laws and institutions. Rather its function is to provide them with a philosophical justification from the standpoint of Aristotle's metaphysics.
/ Jerome Carroll, Jerome, Steve Giles and Maike Oergel (Eds): Aesthetics and Modernity from Schiller to the Frankfurt School (Peter Lang, 2011)
The essays in this book investigate the complex and often contradictory relationships between aesthetics and modernity from the late Enlightenment in the 1790s to the Frankfurt School in the 1960s and engage with the classic German tradition of socio-cultural and aesthetic theory that extends from Friedrich Schiller to Theodor W. Adorno. While contemporary discussions in aesthetics are often dominated by abstract philosophical approaches, this book embeds aesthetic theory in broader social and cultural contexts and considers a wide range of artistic practices in literature, drama, music and visual arts.
/ Politics / Phil Cowley: Developments in British Politics 9. Edited by Richard Heffernan, Philip Cowley and Colin Hay (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Developments in British Politics9 continues its tradition of providing accessible state-of-the-art coverage, but with an all-new set of chapters by leading authorities. A new feature is a concluding chapter on key theories and debates by Colin Hay.
Review of previous edition:"The Developments in British Politics series is excellent...The rapid production of new editions allows consideration of the latest analytical approaches and empirical events... [U]ndoubtedly provides the best textbook for undergraduates" M. J. Smith,British Journal of Politics & International Relations.
/ Education / Chris Day: How School Principals Sustain Success over Time. Edited by Lejf Moos, Olof Johansson and Christopher Day (Springer, 2011)
This groundbreaking work is the result of longitudinal research from five nations over five years. The authors set themselves an unprecedented task: to analyze how it is that successful school principals sustain positive outcomes over a significant period of time. To find out, they initiated the International Successful School Principal Project (ISSPP) assembling 30 multinational case histories and numerous comparative analyses. In doing so, they recorded fresh perspectives on the influence school principals can have on their schools, the quality of teaching in their classrooms, and student outcomes. Revisiting the subject schools in 2007, they found many principals still in place, having steered their organizations through various minefields of political, governance and educational reform.
/ Education / Chris Day: New Understandings of Teacher’s Work: Emotions and Educational Change. Edited by Christopher Day and John Chi-Kin Lee (Springer, 2011)
In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between teaching, teacher education, teacher emotions, educational change and school leadership. New Understandings of Teacher’s Work: Emotions and Educational Change is divided into four themes: educational change; teachers and teaching; teacher education; and emotions in leadership. The chapters address the key basic and substantive issues relative to the central emotional themes of the following: teachers’ lives and careers in teaching; the role emotions play in teachers’ work; lives and leadership roles in the context of educational reform; the working conditions; the context-specific dynamics of reform work; school/teacher cultures; individual biographies that affect teachers’ emotional well-being; and the implications for the management and leadership of educational change, and for development, of teacher education.
/ Education / Chris Day: Successful School Leadership: Linking learning with achievement. Edited by Christopher Day, Pam Sammons, Ken Leithwood, David Hopkins, Qing Gu, Eleanor Brown and Elpida Ahtaridou (McGraw Hill, 2011)
This book is based on the largest and most extensive empirical study of contemporary leadership in primary and secondary schools in England. The results demonstrate that heads of successful schools improve the quality of student learning and achievement through who they are – their values, virtues, dispositions and competencies – as well as their timely use of change and improvement strategies.
Successful School Leadership provides a comprehensive analysis of the values and qualities of head teachers. It assesses the strategies they use and how they adapt these to their particular school context in order to ensure positive increases in the learning, well being and achievement of their students.
/ Theology / Roland Deines: Martin Hengel. Die Zeloten: Untersuchungen zur jüdischen Freiheitsbewegung in der Zeit von Herodes I, Third revised and expanded edition. Edited by Roland Deines and Claus-Jürgen Thornton (Mohr Siebeck 2011)
This new edition of Martin Hengel’s classic Die Zeloten (ET The Zealots, 1989) makes a seminal work in the field of Ancient Judaism available again, in German, fifty years after its first appearance. The new edition contains the original text with corrections. An additional appendix by Roland Deines describes the impact this book has had on the study of the Jewish freedom movement in the first century AD that led to the outbreak of the first Jewish revolt against Rome, and how the scholarly debate has developed since its initial publication. Die Zeloten represents the origin of Hengel’s lifelong interest in Jewish messianism and the study of the messianic claims of Jesus.
/ Theology / Roland Deines: Neues Testament und hellenistisch-jüdische Alltagskultur. Wechselseitige Wahrnehmungen: III. Internationales Symposium zum Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti Edited by Roland Deines, Jens Herzer and Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr (Mohr Siebeck, 2011)
In New Testament research, the exploration of the witnesses of everyday life in antiquity has again attracted remarkable interest. However, interpreting the remains of material culture or documentary papyri raises complex methodological issues. The Third International Symposium of the Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Project focused on the Hellenistic-Jewish perspectives on the conditions of everyday life. Once again, the main interest was the question of how the research on the Hellenistic-Jewish culture could contribute to the understanding of the New Testament and vice versa. This volume documents the interdisciplinary discourse between New Testament research and the fields of epigraphy, numismatics, archaeology, papyrology, iconography, geography and the history of culture.
/ Politics /
Andrew Denham: From Crisis to Coalition: The Conservative Party, 1997-2010. Peter Dorey, Mark Garnett and Andrew Denham (Palgrave McMillan 2011)
Why did the Conservative Party take so long to recover from its landslide defeat in the 1997 General Election? Why, despite the best efforts of its charismatic leader David Cameron, did the party still fail to win an overall parliamentary majority in the 2010 General Election? Why did it form a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, and what are the prospects for both parties?This book is the first full-length attempt to answer these questions. Written by three leading specialists on the Conservative Party, From Crisis to Coalition provides detailed analysis of key developments within the party since 1997. It is essential reading for all students of British Politics, and for anyone with an interest in contemporary British political history.
/ Law / Estelle Derclaye:Intellectual Property Overlaps: A European Perspective. Estelle Derclaye and Matthias Leistner (Hart Publishing, 2011)
Intellectual Property Overlaps aimsto find appropriate rules to regulate overlaps and thereby avoid regime conflicts and undue unstructured expansion of IPRs. The book studies the practical consequences of each overlap at the international, European and national levels (where the laws of France, the UK and Germany are reviewed). It then analyses the reasons for the prohibition or authorisation of overlaps. This analysis enables the determination of criteria and principles that can be used to (re)map the overlaps to achieve appropriateness and legitimacy.
/ Culture, Film & Media / Elizabeth Evans: Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media and Daily Life (Routledge, 2011)
Transmedia Television considers how the television industry has exploited emergent technologies and the extent to which audiences have embraced them. How has television content been transformed by shifts towards multiplatform strategies? What is the appeal of using game formats to lose oneself within a narrative world? How can television, with its ever larger screens and association with domesticity, be reconciled with the small portable, public technology of the mobile phone? Transmedia Television considers how the relationship between television and daily life has been altered as a result of the industry’s development of emerging new media technologies, and what ‘television’ now means for its audiences.
/ Harry Ferguson: Child Protection Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2011)
When it comes to child protection, who is showing social workers exactly what they should be doing? In this book, Harry Ferguson guides you through the day-to-day realities of child protection practice, outlining its deep complexities along with the knowledge, skills, values and organizational supports necessary to do this difficult job.
"Different, fresh and arresting. What Harry Ferguson does better than anyone else is capture the actualité of front-line child protection work. The book is so unlike any other in the busy market place of child protection books, it should have no difficulty sticking its head above the crowd. It is utterly distinct in terms of its willingness and ability to talk about the job in terms of how it looks, feels, smells and sounds as practitioners move between office, car and home." - David Howe, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia, UK.
/ Politics / Rhiannon Firth: Utopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice (Routledge, 2011)