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Qualitative Research in Malaysia Bringing Voices from the Margins to the Mainstream

Su Li Chong (St Edmund's 2010)

This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm. It showcases how researchers in Malaysia, who are often expected to acquiesce to mainstream ways of designing, conducting and disseminating research, rise above methodological hegemony to carve out a different but meaningful path in order to represent the voice of the voiceless.

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Hong Kong Private International Law

Wilson Lui (Wolfson 2019) and Anselmo Reyes

This book is a one-stop reference to Hong Kong private international law.

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Humanity

Howard Lack (Jesus 1976)

Over 60 years ago, computer scientists hatched ideas for developing machines capable of performing tasks instead of human intelligence. This fledgling field of AI now risks overwhelming us in a tsunami of technological innovation, generative AI and autonomous robotic agents. As human reliance on AI robotic devices increases, will this weaken our capacity for creativity, diminish our ability to constantly seek to understand and appreciate our world, interpret information, make decisions, and think for ourselves in ways that have driven human ingenuity for millennia?

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Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio

Elizabeth Currie (Trinity 1991)

Uncover the hidden lives of street people depicted by Caravaggio and his followers.

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The Wykehamist

Alexandra Strnad (Homerton 2004)

Bright, handsome, erudite, and charming, Lucian glides without apparent effort through Winchester, Cambridge, and The City. When his life begins to unravel following his arrest in Hong Kong, Clementine, a Cambridge contemporary, cannot resist the urge to rediscover the man with whom she was once obsessed.

A latter-day 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Wykehamist' explores the motivations behind a vicious murder, on a journey which meanders through the May balls and parties of Cambridge, to the glass towers and neon lights of London and Hong Kong.

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Physics versus Philosophy - Which Wins?

Tim Reucroft (Fitzwilliam 1969)

This book is a realist’s attempt to explain modern physics. It deploys a philosophical approach to many of the basic assumptions in quantum physics to determine if they meet the requirements of reality. Many of today’s problems stem from a conflict between reason and reality, so the current treatise seeks to deal with this at the most fundamental level. The checkpoint is an ontology for particle physics that makes working sense. Much of the weirdness of quantum physics disappears, along with a few of its revered principles.

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The Man who Tested Parachutes - Charles Agate and the Development of Britain's Airborne Forces for D-Day and Arnhem

Andrew Colley (Wolfson 2017)

By 1940, the Allies had fallen behind the Axis powers in parachute design and research. Other than as a means of escape from a doomed aircraft, the British regarded parachuting as of little military value. All that changed when the Germans used paratroops to devastating effect in the invasion of the Low Countries, and Churchill demanded immediate action. The call went out for men who would be prepared to risk their lives testing parachutes, equipment, and jumping and landing techniques.

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Human Bloom

William Peskett (Christ's 1971)

Selected sonnets on the themes of human development, evolution, stewardship of our planet, environmental impact, and love.

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Flat 401

Kingsley Pearson (Pembroke 2001)

A man imprisoned for a crime he falsely confessed to is blackmailed about the crime he actually committed. A psychological thriller, shortlisted for the 2022 Joffe Books and Mo Siewcharran Prizes.

All Jay wants is to start again, to set himself up in a small, quiet town where no one knows him. Because here, no one will let him forget what they think he did the day his neighbour died in Flat 401.

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Ethical AI in Marketing: Aligning Growth, Responsibility and Customer Trust

Nicole Alexander (Lucy Cavendish 2023)

Whether you're launching your first AI marketing initiative or scaling existing programs, this practical guide equips senior marketing professionals and aspiring leaders with the strategic insight and tactical expertise needed to navigate the complexities of AI-driven marketing. Offering a comprehensive roadmap for those responsible for implementing AI solutions, it explores how to harness AI’s transformative power while upholding ethical standards and fostering consumer trust.

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Christian America and the Kingdom of God: White Christian Nationalism from the Puritans through January 6, 2021

Richard T. Hughes and Christina Littlefield (Trinity Hall 2007)

The myth of a Christian America fuels a powerful political force sure of its moral superiority and intent on implementing a Christian nationalist agenda. Richard T. Hughes and Christina Littlefield draw on discussions of civil religion and forms of nationalism to explore the complex legal and cultural arguments for a Christian America. The authors also provide an in-depth examination of the Bible’s words on the “chosen nation” and “kingdom of God” that Christian nationalists quote to support the idea of the US as a Christian nation.

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The Secretary

Deborah Lawrenson (Trinity 1980)

Moscow, 1958. At the height of the Cold War, MI6 secretary Lois Vale is on a deep cover mission to identify a diplomatic traitor. She can trust only one man: Johann, a German journalist also working covertly for the British secret service. As the trail leads to Vienna and the Black Sea, Lois and Johann begin an affair but as love grows, so does the danger to Lois.

A tense Cold War spy story told from the perspective of a bright young working class woman recruited to MI6 at a time when men were in charge of making history and women were expendable.

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Scouse Republic: An Alternative History of Liverpool

David Swift (Girton 2006)

Liverpool is a unique city within the United Kingdom; its dialect, hedonism, friendliness, rejection of 'Englishness' and, most pertinently, its politics, all make for a rich cultural landscape. Yet, many of the things that make Liverpool the city it is today were not always at the fore. Furthermore, the complexity of the city, and an investigation into all aspects of its past, has not been readily available - until now.

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Getting (more out of) Graphics

Antony Unwin (Queen's 1969)

Data graphics are used extensively to present information. Understanding graphics is a lot about understanding the data represented by the graphics, having a feel not just for the numbers themselves, the reliability and uncertainty associated with them, but also for what they mean. This book presents a practical approach to data visualisation with real applications front and centre.

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Women Are Angry: Why Your Rage Is Hiding And How To Let It Out

Jennifer Cox (King's 1996)

What if you aren't depressed?
What if you don't have chronic fatigue?
What if you are just... angry?

In a world where patience is a virtue and being a good girl is for life, women are never allowed to truly express their anger - and it is making us ill. After a lifetime of being told to repress it, to hide it away and fear it, anger has begun to manifest in female bodies in myriad ways we can't control. And the results are alarming.

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Physics Fixes All the Facts

Liam Graham (Robinson 1986)

Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts. A whirlpool emerges from water molecules. A living cell from organic molecules. You emerge from the cells of your body. Not since chaos has a concept from physics spread like wildfire to other disciplines. Emergence can be found from chemistry to economics; from psychology to ecology. At its heart is the alluring idea that there’s more to the world than physics, that there is a holistic component to nature, an edge of mystery.

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These Mortal Bodies

Elspeth Wilson (Girton 2014)

"I’m ready to be part of something bigger", I told myself, whispering the words over and over, visualising myself at the centre of things, never alone again.

Leaving behind her childhood in coastal Scotland, neurodivergent Ivy Graveson arrives at a prestigious university and throws herself into the deep end of life on campus.

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Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War

Edward Fishman (King's 2011)

Globalisation was once hailed as the great leveller, bringing prosperity to all. But the world has changed. As Russia, China and Iran have sought to upend the international order, America and its allies have mounted unprecedented economic retaliation. The global economy is now a weapon of war.

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Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500: Fuzzy Geographies

Natalia I. Petrovskaia (Peterhouse 2003)

This is the first book to examine the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago Mundi – a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the age of print. The Imago Mundi was translated into most European vernaculars and extracts from it were adapted into vernacular works ranging from encyclopedias to literary fiction, verse and prose. This is the first study to examine this tradition as a unified whole.

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Medieval Statistics: Accounting, Record-Keeping and Financial Management, 1066-1525

Mark Casson and John Lee (Corpus Christi 1997)

This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics. It will be useful as a handbook for researchers in financial and cultural history, as a history of financial record-keeping, and as a review of recent research into medieval finance and accounting based on statistical sources.

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