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In Hidden Depths, Professor Penny Spikins explores how our emotional connections have shaped human ancestry. She explains how the emotional sensitivities of our earliest ancestors drove them to care for vulnerable members of their group, and how new connections based on generosity, trust and inclusion made early groups of humans resilient to ecological changes. These deep-seated emotional capacities then provided the basis to allow later human ancestors to further reach out beyond their local group and care about distant allies. At each stage emotional capacities to collaborate in new ways also brought with them increasing sensitivities and vulnerabilities which continue to influence our world today. Our close relationships to animals, and even to cherished possessions, as well as our need for a sense of belonging can be explained through new human vulnerabilities and ways of seeking comfort.
This new narrative moves away from one in which our evolutionary journey is a simple progress to some better form, and instead demonstrates different evolutionary pathways and key transitions which bring us nearer to, rather than away from, other animals. Our close cousins, the Neanderthals, are revealed as equally caring yet emotionally different humans, and who might, if things had been different, have been in our place today.
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Lancelot “Capability” Brown was one of the most influential landscape designers of the eighteenth-century. The extent and nature of his influence are, however, fiercely debated. Lack of primary material has hindered attempts to provide a rounded account of the man and his works. Capability Brown, Royal Gardener explores for the first time Brown’s business methods, working methods and European influence. Edited by Professor Jonathan Finch and Dr Jan Woudstra, it brings together a number of perspectives, and throws new light on Capability Brown and his impact on the business of place-making, not just in Britain but across Northern Europe.
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This book presents an original perspective on an urban castle, resurrecting from museum archives a building that, for over 350 years, has resided largely on the horizons of the imagination, but which once made Sheffield a nexus of power in medieval England.
Sheffield Castle presents the first comprehensive analysis of the archaeological evidence for the castle, and the medieval landscape within which it sat. It brings to publication for the first time all the major excavations carried out on the site, and at the neighbouring deer park, in the 20th and 21st centuries, and includes the first modern analysis of the artefacts excavated. Importantly, the detail of the archive has allowed the authors to tell the stories of those who rediscovered the castle, the circumstances in which they worked, their archaeological methods, and the scholarly and political influences that shaped their narratives. It situates their endeavours within contemporary discussions about the place of the past in the present – debates which continue in the ongoing attempts to situate the castle site at the heart of a heritage-led urban regeneration initiative.
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An edited collection discussing the continued and evolving influence of Charles Dickens and the nature of his legacy. Dickens After Dickens traces Dickensian resonances across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries in areas from architecture and Norwegian literature to video games and neo-Victorian fiction.
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Voices and Practices in Applied Linguistics comprises a selection of original applied linguistics-based research on the theme of the diversity of Applied Linguistics and in Applied Linguistics.
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Translated by Christopher Pilling
Edited by Richard Hibbitt and Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe
This bilingual edition brings together some of French poet Tristan Corbière’s less well-known pieces, some early versions of published poems, and others handwritten into his own copy of his published collection Les Amours jaunes.
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This unique diary details everyday life in Occupied Paris from the perspective of a young, female academic, and provides an unprecedented day-by-day account of the material, physical and mental struggles of the Occupation.
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This first volume of Star Carr provides an interpretation of the occupation and use of the Star Carr site, one of the most important Mesolithic sites in Europe.
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This second volume of Star Carr provides detail on specific areas of research around the Star Carr site, one of the most important Mesolithic sites in Europe.
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