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How to Play the Piano - A Novel

By: Alan Coghlan

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How to Play the Piano - A Novel

By: Alan Coghlan

With a one-way ticket, his studies behind him and the knowledge amassed, Devlin Doyle travels to Vienna to deepen his commitment to the piano. This story follows the events of his stay where practice and preparation play an integral part in a dramatic arc that ends with Devlin dying a figurative death which will leave you wondering what could possibly come next. You will finally experience how Devlin, upon his resurrection, discovers the greater significance of the piano method sketch left by Chopin and how it reveals to him the true nature of music and virtuosity.

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Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence

By: Alan S. Kaufman,Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger

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Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence

By: Alan S. Kaufman,Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger

The classic text--now updated with a new interpretive approach tothe WAIS?-III Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, the classic text fromAlan Kaufman and Elizabeth Lichtenberger, has consistently providedthe most comprehensive source of information on cognitiveassessment of adults and adolescents. The newly updated ThirdEdition provides important enhancements and additions thathighlight the latest research and interpretive methods for theWAIS?-III. Augmenting the traditional "sequential" and "simultaneous"WAIS?-III interpretive methods, the authors present a new approachderived from Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory. This approachcombines normative assessment (performance relative to age peers)with ipsative assessment (performance relative to the person's ownmean level). Following Flanagan and Kaufman's work to develop asimilar CHC approach for the WISC?-IV, Kaufman and Lichtenbergerhave applied this system to the WAIS?-III profile of scores alongwith integrating recent WAIS?-III literature. Four appendices present the new method in depth. In addition to adetailed description, the authors provide a blank interpretiveworksheet to help examiners make the calculations and decisionsneeded for applying the additional steps of the new system, andnorms tables for the new WAIS?-III subtest combinations added inthis approach. Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence remains the premierresource for the field, covering not only the WAIS?-III but alsothe WJ III?, the KAIT, and several brief measures of intelligence,as well as laying out a relevant, up-to-date discussion of thediscipline. The new, theory-based interpretive approach for theWAIS?-III makes this a vital resource for practicing psychologists,as well as a comprehensive text for graduate students.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471746886

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Irish Poetry of the 1930s

By: Alan Gillis

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Irish Poetry of the 1930s

By: Alan Gillis

Irish Poetry of the 1930s offers a provocative new take on Irish literary history and modern poetry. It gives detailed and vital readings of the major Irish poets of the period, including exciting new analyses of Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W. B. Yeats.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199277095

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LIV and Let Die

By: Alan Shipnuck

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LIV and Let Die

By: Alan Shipnuck

Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insider reporting on the battle for the soul of professional golf between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf League. Over the past two years, professional golf has been at war, and Alan Shipnuck is our most trusted correspondent. Following closely on the heels of his New York Times bestselling sensation, Phil, Shipnuck turns to LIV Golf’s controversial – and belligerent – storming of the professional golf world. In LIV and Let Die, Shipnuck delivers the inside story in real time, with fly-on-the-wall reporting from the yachts where LIV was hatched and within the corridors of power as the PGA Tour flailed to fend off the threat. Shipnuck has travelled seamlessly between both tours – having countless conversations with players, caddies, CEOs, agents, financiers, lawyers, flaks, fans, and Instagramming wives – to deliver a no-holds-barred account of the most chaotic moment in golf history. Anyone who has a stake in professional golf lined up for an interview with Shipnuck – because they knew everyone else was talking to him, too.The disruption to an old, proud sport was largely conducted in the shadows, but LIV and Let Die delivers numerous revelations about what really happened, and why. It also provides the previously unknown background and crucial context to understand the armistice between the tours that shocked the world in June 2023. Long known as the most fearless writer on the golf beat, Shipnuck has delivered another hotly anticipated book packed with juicy nuggets and in-the-room-where-it-happened action... think Bob Woodward moonlighting on the sports desk. LIV and Let Die is the definitive account of the biggest (non-Tiger) golf story this century and a lively page-turner that in places reads like a spy thriller.

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Simon and Schuster

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1398530484

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The Unnatural

By: Alan Nayes

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The Unnatural

By: Alan Nayes

he first victim, brutally assaulted, literally dies of fright in the ER, and Dr. Julie Charmaine must find out why. Psychiatrist, advocate for battered women and noted sleep researcher, Dr. Charmaine has just two clues to the beautiful young woman's death: she reeks of city sewers, and her last word is the Spanish slang for monkey. Meanwhile, Vicki Zambisi, tormented by twin memories of terror and lost love, begins an odyssey of vengeance. But when her nightmares keep her from destroying her betrayer, she turns to Dr. Charmaine. Eager investors have rewarded Dr. Wesley Kovacs lavishly for his groundbreaking cryonics research. Now, publicly supporting a form of immortality, Dr. Kovacs will let nothing stand between him and the Nobel Prize. Certainly not Vicki Zambisi, who could topple all he's worked to build. Or Julie Charmaine, now Vicki's therapist, who sees her dreams as evidence of a nightmarish plot. For in an experiment gone horribly awry, Kovacs himself holds the key to the 'Sewer Stalker,' the bizarre hybrid creature who lusts insatiably for beautiful women . . . and who now pursues both Julie and her patient. A gripping, edge of your seat thriller by the acclaimed author of Gargoyles.

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Macmillan

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0765306131

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Answers

By: Alan Kohls

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Answers

By: Alan Kohls

Who is Andrew Elric, and whats he doing here? Says hes here with answers. As Andrew would explain it, We live our lives shrouded with mysteries. Were compelled to show faith in explanations that we really dont believe inthe origins of our being, the nature and existence of God, are we alone in the universe? Less weighty issues as well as stuff wed just like to knowwho really shot Kennedy? What happened to Jimmy Hoffa? You think about it and know there really are answers to all of it, but you dont have access to them. Ive got those answers and, more importantly, proof for all of it. Some of it you can hold in your hand. You follow the news, you know this place is going to blow. Im here to try and stop it. Religion, race, nationalism . . . We all come from the same place. But the world has suffered through too many charlatans and false prophets. Im going to use these proofs to get you savages to settle down. Andrew has recruited renowned attorney, author, and sports agent Aron Samuelson to help him get the word out. Aron, in the throes of a midlife crisis, is looking for the next big thing in his life. As they say, be careful what you wish for.

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1503574121

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9781503574120

Reforming Antitrust

By: Alan J. Devlin

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Reforming Antitrust

By: Alan J. Devlin

Industrial consolidation, digital platforms, and changing political views have spurred debate about the interplay between public and private power in the United States and have created a bipartisan appetite for potential antitrust reform that would mark the most profound shift in US competition policy in the past half-century. While neo-Brandeisians call for a reawakening of antitrust in the form of a return to structuralism and a concomitant rejection of economic analysis founded on competitive effects, proponents of the status quo look on this state of affairs with alarm. Scrutinizing the latest evidence, Alan J. Devlin finds a middle ground. US antitrust laws warrant revision, he argues, but with far more nuance than current debates suggest. He offers a new vision of antitrust reform, achieved by refining our enforcement policies and jettisoning an unwarranted obsession with minimizing errors of economic analysis.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009006266

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Business Communication

By: Marty Brounstein,Arthur H. Bell,Connie Isbell,Dayle M. Smith,Alan Orr

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Business Communication

By: Marty Brounstein,Arthur H. Bell,Connie Isbell,Dayle M. Smith,Alan Orr

In order to succeed in today′s competitive environment, it′s imperative that students learn how to speak and write effectively for the business world. Presented in clear, everyday language, Business Communication, Canadian Edition takes the basic concepts that every business professional must know and conveys them in an accessible, easy to understand format. Students will also learn strategies and tools, for successfully applying their communication skills to achieve their goals. To meet the needs of a diverse student population, Business Communication, Canadian Edition focuses on the fundamentals, identifies core competencies and skills, and promotes independent learning. The book is organized using a four–step learning process called the CASE Learning System (Content, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation). Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning, CASE presents key business communication topics in easy–to–follow chapters. As a result, students not only achieve academic mastery of business communication topics, but they master real–world business communication skills.

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John Wiley & Sons

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047067816X

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Crime, Reason and History

A Critical Introduction to Criminal Law

By: Alan Norrie

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Crime, Reason and History

A Critical Introduction to Criminal Law

By: Alan Norrie

Many books seek to explain the general principles of the criminal law. Crime, Reason and History stands out and alone as a book that critically and concisely analyses these principles and comes up with a different viewpoint: that the law is shaped by social history and therefore systematically structured around conflicting elements. Updated extensively to include two new chapters on loss of control and self defence and with an extended treatment of offence and defence, this new edition combines challenging and sophisticated analysis with accessibility.

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1316060438

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Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800

By: Alan O'Day,Neil Fleming

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Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800

By: Alan O'Day,Neil Fleming

This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern Irish history from the passing of the Act of Union to the premiership of Bertie Ahern. Offering a full chronology , this book gives the reader a full insight on major aspects of modern Irish history. The book explores population, education, social structure and religion; economic statistics covering agriculture, trade, prices and wages, transport and unemployment and a further wealth of material on Irish women's history, treaties, elections, law, communications, a glossary and biographical information.

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Routledge

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1317897110

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J.S. Mill (Routledge Revivals)

By: Alan Ryan

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J.S. Mill (Routledge Revivals)

By: Alan Ryan

First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the author does full justice to the range of Mill’s achievements, providing an introductory guide to his most important and best known writings including Autobiography, A System of Logic, Utilitarianism, Liberty, and The Subjugation of Women. In their treatment of his works, the author seeks to emphasise Mill’s approach to those issues — education, the conflict between social order and individual freedom, the unresolved state of the social sciences, rights and duties of citizens in a democratic state — which remain most alive to us today. At the same time Mill is seen as part of his own age, responding to the anxieties that beset his contemporaries. This book will be of interest to students of politics and philosophy.

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1134834004

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Street of Tall People

By: Alan Gibbons

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Street of Tall People

By: Alan Gibbons

Set in the East End of London in 1936, this is the story of an unlikely friendship between a Jewish and a Gentile boy during the upsurge of fascist violence ledby Oswald Moseley and his Blackshirts. Jimmy and Benny are adversaries in a boxing match before they become friends. Jimmy lives in a tenament with his newly widowed mother; Benny comes from a large Orthodox Jewish family. The discovery that Jimmy's mother's new friend Mr Searleis a Blackshirt has a profound effect on their relationship and places Jimmy in an agonizing dilemna. A vivid and compelling story that raises issues that have many parallels today.

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1444003909

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Punishment and Freedom

By: Alan Brudner

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Punishment and Freedom

By: Alan Brudner

This book sets out a new understanding of the penal law of a liberal legal order. The prevalent view today is that the penal law is best understood from the standpoint of a moral theory concerning when it is fair to blame and censure an individual character for engaging in proscribed conduct. By contrast, this book argues that the penal law is best understood by a political and constitutional theory about when it is permissible for the state to restrain and confine a free agent. The book's thesis is that penal action by public officials is permissible force rather than wrongful violence only if it could be accepted by the agent as being consistent with its freedom. There are, however, different conceptions of freedom, and each informs a theoretical paradigm of penal justice generating distinctive constraints on state coercion. Although this plurality of paradigms creates an appearance of fragmentation and contradiction in the law, the author argues that the penal law forms a complex whole uniting the constraints on punishment flowing from each paradigm.

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OUP Oxford

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0191633283

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Political Power and Colonial Development in British Central Africa 1938-1960s

By: Alan H. Cousins

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Political Power and Colonial Development in British Central Africa 1938-1960s

By: Alan H. Cousins

This book focuses on the late colonial history of Zambia and Malawi, which between 1953 and 1963 were part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Although there were many links in their history and between their populations, the two territories (British protectorates under Colonial Office control) contrasted greatly in power structures, in their economies, and in their development. Europeans living in Northern Rhodesia, with a power base in the mining economy, were able to establish a dominant position in the territory after the Second World War. By the 1950s it looked as though they would have, with Southern Rhodesian Europeans, a long hegemony, gaining independence from Britain as a new Dominion, which would mean control over both Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland through the Federation. Thus, white ethnicity and ideology are essential factors in this book relating to the struggle for power from just before the Second World War up to the 1960s. However, crises in 1959 and 1960 led to the collapse of the Federation. A second focus is on issues of social and economic development. For Africans in Nyasaland, and in rural parts of Northern Rhodesia, there was a relatively weak economy in this period, a pattern of limited cash crop production, while many people became caught up in labour migration, subordinate to powerful European-dominated economic forces within southern Africa. This meant that colonial policies aimed at rural development were fundamentally flawed. The book also looks at the actual nature of rural economic change (as opposed to colonial policies) and discusses alternative visions of the future which were put forward. The argument is put that historians have often concentrated on the activities of the main nationalist movements in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, seeing them as bringing progress away from colonialism and towards independence. Here there is an attempt to draw out the complexities of life, and a variety of responses in the colonial situation, progress coming in a number of forms, but not always being achieved.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000828719

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Missing, Presumed

By: Alan Bailey

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Missing, Presumed

By: Alan Bailey

Between 1993 and 1998, six Irish women, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty eight, disappeared. The area in which these disappearances occurred became publicly referred to as 'The Vanishing Triangle'. To date, none of the missing females have ever been located. These six unsolved cases resulted in the creation of the specialist Garda task force 'Operation Trace', set up in the hope of finding a connection between the missing women. None was found. The task force investigated dozens of unsolved cases of women gone missing in Ireland. Alan Bailey served as the National Coordinator for the task force for thirteen years, and the revealing stories in Missing, Presumedall come from his personal experiences in this role. Missing, Presumed details, and reports on, the Garda investigations into the case studies of fifteen women who disappeared over a time span of twenty years. In almost half of the cases, the women's badly mutilated bodies were recovered, sometimes months later, buried in shallow graves. Each chapter focuses on one woman's story, and details the timeline of events that led to her disappearance, beginning on the day of her disappearance through to the ensuing investigation, and up to - when lucky - a conviction. These stories are haunting, terrifying, and true. 'It is now sixteen years since Trace was established. The families and friends of both the disappeared and those whose bodies were found still await closure.

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Liberties Press

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1909718971

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9781909718975

The Elizabethan Secret Services

By: Alan Haynes

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The Elizabethan Secret Services

By: Alan Haynes

The England of Elizabeth was a nation under threat, both from factions within and great powers without. Opposition to the Protestant establishment meant that the queen and her court constantly believe themselves menaces by subterfuge and plots. In this fragile climate, spies and spy networks were of cardinal importance. This is an unrivalled and impeccably detailed account of the 'secret services' operated by the great men of Elizabethan England. By stealthy efforts at home and abroad the Elizabethan spy clusters became forces to be feared. Kidnapping, surveillance, conspiracy, counter-espionage, theft and lying were just a few of the methods employed to defeat the ever-present threat of regicide. This book challenges many stale notions about espionage in Renaissance England and presents complex material in an absorbing way, so that the reign of Elizabeth I is shown in a compellingly new and bold light.

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The History Press

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0752473204

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9780752473208

Policing Ireland’S Twisted History

By: Inspector Alan M Wilson

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Policing Ireland’S Twisted History

By: Inspector Alan M Wilson

Ireland has long been a country of conflict. More than 400 years ago, the occupying English planted pre-Celtic Scots in the northern province of Ulster and divested the native Irish Celts of the land their ancestors owned for 2,000 years. This created a deep-seated enmity between the English and Irish, Protestant and Catholicand it finally exploded in the Troubles. Author Alan M. Wilson was on the front lines for the bloodbath that tore Northern Ireland apart from the late 1960s through the first years of the twenty-first century. Policing Irelands Twisted History reveals Wilsons remarkable, true story of growing up in Belfast and serving in the Royal Ulster Constabulary as an inspector and as a member of an elite anti-terrorism unit. Wilsons only goal was to help protect the innocent on both sides. Unfortunately, he became a target himself. Brutally honest and unflinching, Wilson traces his experiences serving Irelands divided society for nearly ten years. From watching friends die to the tit-for-tat murders occurring on the streets to staring death in the eye more than once, Wilson reveals the deep, gut-wrenching search for the meaning of it all in the midst of the worlds longest-running terrorist situation. A firsthand look at the Northern Ireland conflict, Policing Irelands Twisted History offers an eye-opening, intimate examination of this devastating struggle.

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iUniverse

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1462064698

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International Politics and the Northern Ireland Conflict

The USA, Diplomacy and the Troubles

By: Alan MacLeod

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International Politics and the Northern Ireland Conflict

The USA, Diplomacy and the Troubles

By: Alan MacLeod

British troops, which arrived as a temporary measure, would remain in Ireland for the next 38 years. Successive British governments initially claimed the Northern Ireland conflict to be an internal matter but the Republic of Ireland had repeatedly demanded a role, appealing to the UN and US, while across the Atlantic, Irish-American groups applied pressure on Nixon's largely apathetic administration to intervene. Following the introduction of internment and the events of Bloody Sunday, the British were forced to recognise the international dimension of the conflict and begrudgingly began to concede that any solution would rely on Washington and Dublin's involvement. Irish governments seized every opportunity to shape the political initiative that led to Sunningdale and Senator Edward Kennedy became the leading US advocate of American intervention while Nixon, who wanted Britain onside for his Cold War objectives, was faced with increasingly influential domestic pressure groups. Eventually, international involvement in Northern Ireland would play a vital role in shaping the principles on which political agreement was reached - even after the breakdown of the Sunningdale Agreement in May 1974. Using recently released archives in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and United States, Alan MacLeod offers a new interpretation of the early period of Northern Ireland's 'Troubles'.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786730111

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Youth and Social Class

Enduring Inequality in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand

By: Alan France,Steven Roberts

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Youth and Social Class

Enduring Inequality in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand

By: Alan France,Steven Roberts

This book addresses the recent marginalisation of class theory in youth sociology. The authors argue for the importance of reinstating class analysis as central to understanding young people’s lives in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Their analysis recognises that in periods of social change, class relationships and processes can and do get reconfigured, but by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, they show that class, while being dynamic, remains core to shaping the everyday lives of young people. Students and scholars across a range of areas including the sociology of youth, sociology of education, social work and social policy will find this book of interest.

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Springer

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1137578297

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Martyr

By: Alan E. Nourse

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Martyr

By: Alan E. Nourse

Rejuvenation for the millions—or rejuvenation for the five hundred lucky ones, the select ones, that can be treated each year? Tough, independent Senator Dan Fowler fights a one-man battle against the clique that seeks perpetual power and perpetual youth, in this hard-hitting novel by Alan E. Nourse. Why did it have to be his personal fight? The others would fumble it—they'd foul it up. But why was he in the battle, and what was to happen to Senator Fowler's fight against this fantastic conspiracy? Who would win?

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Simon and Schuster

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Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction

By: Alan Burton

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Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction

By: Alan Burton

The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction is a detailed overview of the rich history and achievements of the British espionage story in literature, cinema and television. It provides detailed yet accessible information on numerous individual authors, novels, films, filmmakers, television dramas and significant themes within the broader field of the British spy story. It contains a wealth of facts, insights and perspectives, and represents the best single source for the study and appreciation of British spy fiction. British spy fiction is widely regarded as the most significant and accomplished in the world and this book is the first attempt to bring together an informed survey of the achievements in the British spy story in literature, cinema and television. The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on individual authors, stories, films, filmmakers, television shows and the various sub-genres of the British spy story. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about British spy fiction.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442255870

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Black Cat Weekly #31

By: Ian Watson,Mark Thielman,Tegan Moore,Joe Haldeman,Alan Orloff,Hal Charles,James Holding,Malcolm Jameson,Ward Moore,Nicholas Carter

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Black Cat Weekly #31

By: Ian Watson,Mark Thielman,Tegan Moore,Joe Haldeman,Alan Orloff,Hal Charles,James Holding,Malcolm Jameson,Ward Moore,Nicholas Carter

Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #31. This time, the lineup includes pretty much everything fans look for in fantasy and science fiction—time travel, pyramids, space adventure, alternate history, war, monkeys, and even Nazi spies. Does it get much better than that? Not to forget our mystery readers, for them we have time travel, a private detective, police, international adventure, war, a solve-it-yourself puzzler, and even Nazis. (Did I mention there’s some overlap between the fantastic and the mysterious in this issue? Surprise! There is.) I leave you to sort it out among yourselves. In case you need some help, here’s the breakdown: Non-Fiction: “Speaking with Joe Haldeman,” conducted by Darrell Schweitzer [interview] Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “The Dutiful Rookie,” by James Holding [short story] “A Wee Bit Of Dough,” by Hal Charles [solve-it-yourself mystery] “The Case of the Truculent Avocado,” by Mark Thielman [Barb Goffman Presents short story] Paying the Price, by Nicholas Carter [novel] “Van Goghing, Goghing, Gone,” by Alan Orloff [Michael Bracken Presents short story] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “Van Goghing, Goghing, Gone,” by Alan Orloff [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “How High Your Gods Can Count,” by Tegan Moore [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] “How We Came Back From Mars,” by Ian Watson [Darrell Schweitzer Presents short story] “Death by Proxy,” by Malcolm Jameson[short story] Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore [novel]

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Wildside Press LLC

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1667699881

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The Making of Modern Liberalism

By: Alan Ryan

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The Making of Modern Liberalism

By: Alan Ryan

One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal tradition The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, reflected on the past of the liberal tradition—and worried about its future. This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.

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Princeton University Press

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0691163685

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Final Judgment

The Last Law Lords and the Supreme Court

By: Alan Paterson

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Final Judgment

The Last Law Lords and the Supreme Court

By: Alan Paterson

Winner of the Inner Temple book prize 2015 and the Socio-Legal Studies Association Book prize 2014/15 The House of Lords, for over 300 years the UK's highest court, was transformed in 2009 into the UK Supreme Court. This book provides a compelling and unrivalled view into the workings of the Court during its final decade, and into the formative years of the Supreme Court. Drawing on over 100 interviews, including more than 40 with Law Lords and Justices, and uniquely, some of their judicial notebooks, this is a landmark study of appellate judging 'from the inside' by an author whose earlier work on the House of Lords has provided a scholarly benchmark for over 30 years. The book demonstrates that appellate decision-making in the UK's final court remains a social and collective process, primarily because of the dialogues which take place between the judges and the key groups with which they interact when reaching their decisions. As the book shows, the forms of dialogue are now more varied, yet the most significant dialogues continue to be with their fellow Law Lords and Justices, and with counsel. To these, new dialogues have been added, namely those with foreign courts (especially Strasbourg) and with judicial assistants, which have subtly altered the tenor and import of their other dialogues. The research reveals that, unlike the English Court of Appeal, the House of Lords in its last decade was only intermittently collegial since Lord Bingham's philosophy of appellate judging left opinion writing, concurrences and dissents largely to individual preference. In the Supreme Court, however, there has been a marked shift to team working and collective decision-making bringing with it challenges and occasional tensions not seen in the final years of the House of Lords. The work shows that effectiveness in group-decision making in the final court turns in part on the stages when dialogues occur, in part on the geography of the court and in part on the task leadership and social leadership skills of the judges involved in particular cases. The passing of the Human Rights Act and the expansion in judicial review over the last 30 years have dramatically altered the two remaining dialogues - those with Parliament and with the Executive. With the former, the dialogue has grown more distant, with the latter, more problematic, than was the case 40 years ago. The last chapter rehearses where the changing dialogues have left the UK's final court. Ironically, despite the oft applauded commitment of the new Court to public visibility, the book concludes that even greater transparency in the dialogue with the public may be required. 'The way appellate judges at the highest level behave to each other, to counsel, with other branches of government and with other courts is brought under closer scrutiny in this book than ever before...The remarkable width and depth of his examination...has resulted in a work of real scholarship, which all those who are interested in how appellate courts work all over the common law world will find especially valuable.' From the foreword by Lord Hope of Craighead KT 'Alan Paterson's knowledge and interest in the Supreme Court, coupled with his expertise as a lawyer who understands the legal system and the judicial process, make him a perfect chronicler and assessor of what the Court's role is and what it should be, and how it functions and how it might improve.' Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court

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Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility

Domestic, Comparative and International Perspectives

By: Alan Reed

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Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility

Domestic, Comparative and International Perspectives

By: Alan Reed

This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility in general. The work includes contributions from leading specialists from different jurisdictions. Divided into two parts, the first provides an analysis from the perspective of the UK, looking at particular concerns such as domestic violence, revenge and mixed motive killings, mistaken beliefs. The second part presents a comparative and international view to provide a wider background of how alternative systems treat issues of human frailty short of full insanity (loss of control, diminished responsibility) in the context of the criminal law.

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Routledge

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1317103300

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The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology

By: Alan F. Schatzberg,Charles B. Nemeroff

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The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology

By: Alan F. Schatzberg,Charles B. Nemeroff

Now updated to keep professionals current with the latest research and trends in the field, this edition covers both basic science and clinical practice, and draws on the talents of 53 new contributors to guarantee fresh, authoritative perspectives on advances in psychiatric drug therapy.

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American Psychiatric Pub

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1585623091

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The Worst Baseball Pitchers of All Time

Bad Luck, Bad Arms, Bad Teams, and Just Plain Bad

By: Alan S. Kaufman,James C. Kaufman

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The Worst Baseball Pitchers of All Time

Bad Luck, Bad Arms, Bad Teams, and Just Plain Bad

By: Alan S. Kaufman,James C. Kaufman

The Worst Baseball Pitchers of All Time" offers a crop of very different players. These are the worst pitchers in major league baseball, according to a scientifically designed set of criteria that includes such statistics as losses minus wins, earned run average, and wins-above-team (well, in this case wins-below-team).

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