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Public private partnerships in Ireland
Failed experiment or the way forward for the state?
Rory Hearne
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British Communism
A documentary history
John Callaghan and Ben Harker
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Julian Barnes
Peter Childs
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BOOK GIVEAWAY: Bertrand Tavernier
Subtitledonline.com is running a competition to win a copy of the brand new Bertrand Tavernier, the latest title to be released in the French Film Director's series.
Test your knowledge of the renowed Bertrand Tavernier.
Transforming folk
This title has been made freely available as a proof copy eBook to allow readers to evaluate it in advance of its release in print form. The book has been peer reviewed, copy-edited and typeset. The proof copy presented here may contain typesetting errors and does not include the author's final corrections or the index.
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Ford Madox Brown
Manchester Art Gallery is currently staging the first major exhibition of Ford Madox Brown’s work since 1964. The show, which brings together 140 works from public and private collections, will run until 3rd June 2012.
The artist received even more coverage on last nights The One Show, when Phil Tufnell visited the Ford Madox Brown murals.
The art of Ford Madox Brown is distributed on behalf of Penn State University Press by Manchester University Press in the UK.
The transformation of European football
The transformation of European football, a brand new title from Arne Niemann, Borja Garcia and Wyn Grant features on the International Political Science Association (IPSA) website.
Julian Barnes has been named the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Sense of an Ending, published by Jonathan Cape. Earlier this year Manchester University Press published Peter Childs's book on the author as part of the Contemporary British Novelists series.
Abandoning Historical Conflict? wins the prestigious Brian Farrell book prize
The Political Studies Association of Ireland has just announced Abandoning Historical Conflict? is this years winner of The Brian Farrell book prize for the best book on politics by a member of the Political Studies Association of Ireland.
Previous winners include The Irish Voter: The Nature of Electoral, Competition in the Republic of Ireland by Michael Marsh, Richard Sinnott, John Garry and Fiachra Kennedy, Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland by Richard English and The Lost Revolution: The Story of The Official IRA and The Workers’ Party by Brian Hanley and
Scott Millar.
The Wanderers and critical realism in nineteenth century Russian painting
New exhibition at Stockholm's National Museum opens to rave reviews. Read more details on the MUP blog.