Digital Towns: Accelerating and Measuring the Digital Transformation of Rural Societies and Economies
This open access book explores the digital transformation of small and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and development of digital towns.
Theo Lynn; Pierangelo Rosati; Edel Conway; Declan Curran; Grace Fox; Colm O'Gorman
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- 9783030912468
- 234 pages
- Hardback
- Switzerland
- Business & management
Digital Towns: Accelerating and Measuring the Digital Transformation of Rural Societies and Economies
This open access book explores the digital transformation of small and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and development of digital towns.
Theo Lynn; Pierangelo Rosati; Edel Conway; Declan Curran; Grace Fox; Colm O'Gorman
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- 9783030912499
- 234 pages
- Paperback / softback
- Switzerland
- Business & management
Denis Burkitt: A Cancer, the Virus, and the Prevention of Man-Made Diseases
This biography of Dr. Denis Parsons Burkitt, after whom the childhood cancer Burkitt's lymphoma was named, and who was a pioneer of the dietary fiber movement, paints a personal but holistic portrait of both the man and his life's work.
John H. Cummings
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- 9783030885625
- 290 pages
- Hardback
- Switzerland
- History of medicine
Cult of a Dark Hero: Nicholson of Delhi
In September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died. Nikal Seyn was, in fact, John Nicholson, the leader of the British assault that recovered Delhi at the turning-point of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Stuart Flinders
- Bloomsbury Academic
- 9781350254862
- 256 pages
- Paperback / softback
- United Kingdom
- Biography: historical, political & military
Complete Gentlemen: Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750
This is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Based on deep archival research, it explores the meanings of continental travel for social mobility, elite formation, landed identity, masculinity and Englishness.
Richard Ansell (University of Leicester)
- Oxford University Press
- 9780197267271
- 312 pages
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- British & Irish history
Civilisations, Civilising Processes and Modernity – A Debate: Documents from the Conference at Bielefeld, 1984
In 1984, the celebrated sociologist and historian Norbert Elias convened a major conference on 'Civilisations and civilising processes' at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of Bielefeld). This conference brought together eminent and internationally reputed scholars of macro-history and historical sociology including Johann P.
Artur Bogner; Stephen Mennell
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- 9783030803780
- 285 pages
- Hardback
- Switzerland
- Social theory
City Limits: Filming Belfast, Beirut and Berlin in Troubled Times
Belfast, Beirut and Berlin are notorious for their internal boundaries and borders. As symbols for political disunion, the three cities have inspired scriptwriters and directors from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Dr Stephanie Schwerter (Universite Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France)
- Bloomsbury Academic USA
- 9781501380457
- 312 pages
- Hardback
- United States
- Film theory & criticism
Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care: Training and Implementing Change
This book addresses the problems faced by people and hospitals dedicated to providing optimal end-of-life care and asks whether ethicists can function as experts on this subject.
Pierre Mallia; Nathan Emmerich; Bert Gordijn; Francesca Pistoia
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- 9783030863852
- 248 pages
- Hardback
- Switzerland
- Bio-ethics
Butcher’s Dozen
To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet proudly publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's House of Commons apology, and a new author's note.
Thomas Kinsella
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- 9781800171657
- 40 pages
- Paperback / softback
- United Kingdom
- Poetry by individual poets
The Burning Boy
A murder that no-one wants to solve…
Nicola White
- Viper
- 9781788164146
- 336 pages
- Paperback / softback
- United Kingdom
- Crime & mystery