University Of Plymouth Press imprint: 10 books
City as a Political Idea
Citizenship, Sovereignty and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
The question of citizenship is becoming one of the central social and political problems, where sovereignty is being challenged by globalisation and militarisation. The old model of citizenship is no longer valid in the contemporary reality of mass migrations and ethnic, religious and cultural integration....
Everything Gardens and Other Stories
Growing Transition Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
The Transition movement is more than an instrumental strategy to address climate change and fossil fuel shortage. It is a collective form of life. Against the tendency to reduce social movements to mission statements and policy solutions, this book insists on de-strategising the development of Transition....
Message Communication Arts Research
Mapping Eclecticism through Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Mapping Eclecticism Through Practice brings together a range of graphic design practices and approaches that include the use of socially responsible design and persuasion, as well as collaboration with other disciplines, to improve safety; framing theory and ideograms within architectural pedagogy...
by Dr. Jane Grant, Dr Ian Crawford, Dr Katherine Joy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
As an artist Jane Grant is curious working with sound, moving images and drawings. She asks questions. Questions that investigate human behaviour, experimenting through sound and vision, in order to record and draw attention to everyday movement, gesture, noise. This is brought together with Scientific...
Message Communication Arts Research
Mapping Eclecticism through Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Mapping Eclecticism Through Practice brings together a range of graphic design practices and approaches that include the use of socially responsible design and persuasion, as well as collaboration with other disciplines, to improve safety; framing theory and ideograms within architectural pedagogy to...
Bismarck
The Chase and Sinking of Hitler's Goliath
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Sunk on her first and only war cruise, 27 May 1941, this great victory for the Royal Navy was also a human tragedy. Only 114 of her 2,200 crew survived the Royal Navy’s final storm of shells and torpedoes. Despite her short career, the story of Bismarck and the precise reasons for her loss have...
Dark Seas
The Battle of Cape Matapan
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The most decisive engagement between surface ships in the Mediterranean during World War II was undoubtedly the Battle of Cape Matapan (27–29 March, 1941). The Battle Summary, written post war, draws on reports of action on both sides. Reproduced in full in Dark Seas, this is a detailed and thoughtful...
Greek Military Intelligence and the Crescent
Estimating the Turkish Threat - Crises, Leadership and Strategic Analyses 1974-1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
During the 1987 Greek-Turkish crisis, Greek military intelligence provided essential information on Turkey’s limited military preparations, so helping to prevent an escalation to confrontation. In the 1996 crisis, Greek military intelligence failed to provide tactical information and details of...
Turning the Tide
The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College’s Archive. These documents have been published in an accessible format, with specially commissioned commentary by expert military historians, forming an important source...
Raiding Support Regiment
The Diary of a Special Forces Soldier 1943-45
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Second World War in Yugoslavia is an area neglected by historians and other commentators. This is perhaps surprising as Yugoslavia was the only country in Europe to be conquered by the Germans and then, later, to free itself solely as a result of guerrilla activity. Other countries had to be liberated...