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    • Shakespeare-land 

      Holderness, G. (Routledge, 2016-02-17)
      The title Shakespeare-land derives from a pictorial guide-book to Stratford-upon Avon, published around 1912, in a series called Beautiful England. The familiar iconic images of Stratford- ‘the Birthplace’, Anne Hathaway’s ...

    • Lifetime prevalence of infertility and infertility treatment in the UK: results from a population-based survey of reproduction 

      Oakley, L.; Doyle, P.; Maconochie, N. (2008-02)
      BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of infertility and the use of infertility treatment among women aged 40-55 years. METHODS: Population-based postal questionnaire survey of UK women. Over ...

    • Disordered eating cognitions and behaviours among slimming organization competition winners 

      Green, G. C.; Buckroyd, J. (2008-02)
      Background: Long-term success in weight loss treatments for obesity is elusive. The most widely used approach after diet books is slimming clubs. A percentage of members achieve dramatic and lasting weight losses. The study ...

    • Reasoning in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder 

      Simpson, Jane; Cove, Jennifer; Fineberg, Naomi; Msetfi, Rachel M.; Ball, Linden J. (2007-11)
      Objectives. The aim of this study was to investigate the inductive and deductive reasoning abilities of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Following previous research, it was predicted that people with OCD ...

    • On acoustic measurement-based condition monitoring of internal combustion engines 

      Albarbar, A.; Ball, A.; Starr, A. (2008-01)
      Internal combustion engine acoustic signatures are rich in information about the engine's operating parameters and physical condition. Unfortunately, these signatures are very complex and highly corrupted by background ...

    • The chronicle history of Henry the fift 

      Holderness, G.; Loughrey, B. (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994)
      This text is one piece of a highly-discussed and debated new series that highlighted fundamental questions about the authenticity of Shakespeare's texts as moderns readers have come to know them. Making an extreme departure ...

    • The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (1603) 

      Shakespeare, William; Holderness, G.; Loughrey, B. (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)
      In this book Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey present another re-issue of one of Shakespeare’s plays, with a view to present a previously un-seen original or authentic version to the time of original publication. Part ...

    • M. William Shak-speare, his true chronicle historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three daughters 

      Holderness, G. (Prentice Hall Trade, 1995-04-01)
      This series, the "Shakespearean Originals," seeks to give the reader of modern drama examples of 16th and 17th-century playtexts in a form that are published in as close as mirror-image form as possible to the original ...

    • Shakespeare remembered 

      Holderness, G. (2010)
      The continuous active presence within contemporary culture of a body of work such as Shakespeare's induces that form of amnesis encapsulated in Ben Jonson's phrase 'not for an age, but for all time': that the past may be ...

    • “Strangers ... with vs in Venice” 

      Holderness, G. (Ashgate Publishing, 2011)
      If Marco Polo, in his imagined conversations with Kublai Khan, really was speaking, as Italo Calvino insists, always and only of Venice, he cannot have been talking about his real home town, that city of Venice that stretches ...

    • Towards the Evolution of Multicellularity: A Computational Artificial Life Approach 

      Buck, Moritz (2011-09-13)
      Technology, nowadays, has given us huge computational potential, but computer sciences have major problems tapping into this pool of resources. One of the main issues is how to program and design distributed systems. Biology ...

    • Introduction to this edition, by Graham Holderness 

      Holderness, G. (Open University Press, 1991)
      Introducing a re-issue of Raymond Williams’ Drama in Performance, first published in 1954 and revised in 1968, involves at the outset two major shifts of orientation. First, Williams is customarily associated with studies ...

    • The politics of theatre and drama 

      Holderness, G. (Palgrave Macmillan, 1991)
      In this text the authors all explore ideas about drama and the Falklands conflict, in the light of popular films, for example "Tumbledown" and "Born on the Fourth of July." This is read in the socio-political context of ...

    • "Taming of the Shrew" (Shakespeare in performance) 

      Holderness, G. (Manchester University Press, 1991)
      This text is a grounded introduction to "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare. It features traditional methods for performance analysis - criticism of the theatrical text and empirical descriptions of instances in its ...

    • Shakespeare and terror 

      Holderness, G.; Loughrey, B. (Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 2011)
      In Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson’s burlesque novel The Dynamiter, a terrorist plot is hatched to plant a bomb in Leicester Square. The objective of the terrorists is carnage and fatality: ‘the seats in the immediate ...

    • Experiencing youth poverty: a case study 

      Green, R.; Curran, Bonnie (2008)
      Presents a case study about youth poverty, which relates to a small housing estate in Hackney, London. It offers an insight into what the authors believe are the realities of New Labour's failed youth policies and the ...

    • The Possibility of Over the Phone Traumatisation: A Repertory Grid Study Investigating Secondary Traumatic Stress in Samaritan Crisis Line Volunteers 

      Warner, Claire Georgina (2011-09-13)
      Background: The literature suggests a consensus that individuals can become traumatised through listening to another’s trauma. Much of this research, however, has focused on individuals who have had direct, face-to-face ...

    • Receiver Architectures for MIMO Wireless Communication Systems based on V-BLAST and Sphere Decoding Algorithms 

      Tade, Foluwaso Olunkunle (2011-09-13)
      Modern day technology aspires to always progress. This progression leads to a lot of research in any significant area of improvement. There is a growing amount of end-users in the wireless spectrum which has led to a need ...

    • Enfranchising the water consumer: lessons from England/Wales and Ireland 

      Jenkins, James O. (2011-09)
      The following discussion is in response to the discussion article by Professor Richard Ashley concerning the below-mentioned paper published in the September 2010 edition of the Water and Environment Journal: Jenkins, J. ...

    • The importance of perceiving social contexts when predicting crime and antisocial behaviour in CCTV images 

      Grant, Dawn; Williams, David (2011-09)
      Purpose: The aim of this study was to establish which visual cues are used within CCTV images to accurately predict a criminal act and to investigate observer descriptions of the meaning of such cues. This study also tested ...