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Publics, Elites and Constitutional Change in the UK

A Missed Opportunity?

By: Daniel Kenealy,Jan Eichhorn,Richard Parry,Lindsay Paterson,Alexandra Remond

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Publics, Elites and Constitutional Change in the UK

A Missed Opportunity?

By: Daniel Kenealy,Jan Eichhorn,Richard Parry,Lindsay Paterson,Alexandra Remond

This book explores the governance of the UK, and the process of constitutional change, between Scotland’s independence referendum in September 2014 and the UK general election in May 2015. The book contrasts the attitudes of the public, captured through an original survey, with those of politicians, civil servants, and civic leaders, identified through over forty interviews. It pays particular attention to two case studies involving recent changes to the UK’s governing arrangements: the Smith Commission and the transfer of further powers to the Scottish Parliament, and Greater Manchester’s devolution deal that has become a model for devolution across England. It also considers the issue of lowering the voting age to 16, contrasting the political attitudes of younger voters in Scotland with those in the rest of the UK. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of UK politics, devolution, constitutional change, public attitudes, and territorial politics.

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Springer

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3319528181

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9783319528182

Beyond the Box

B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s

By: Alexandra Rutherford

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Beyond the Box

B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s

By: Alexandra Rutherford

B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century psychology. A best-selling author, inventor, and social commentator, Skinner was both a renowned scientist and a public intellectual known for his controversial theories of human behavior. Beyond the Box is the first full-length study of the ways in which Skinner's ideas left the laboratory to become part of the post-war public's everyday lives, and chronicles both the enthusiasm and caution with which this process was received. Using selected case studies, Alexandra Rutherford provides a fascinating account of Skinner and his acolytes' attempts to weave their technology of human behavior into the politically turbulent fabric of 1950s-70s American life. To detail their innovative methods, Rutherford uses extensive archival materials and interviews to study the Skinnerians' creation of human behavior laboratories, management programs for juvenile delinquents, psychiatric wards, and prisons, as well as their influence on the self-help industry with popular books on how to quit smoking, lose weight, and be more assertive. A remarkable look at a post-war scientific and technological revolution, Beyond the Box is a rewarding study of how behavioral theories met real-life problems, and the ways in which Skinner and his followers continue to influence the present.

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395

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University of Toronto Press

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1442692502

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9781442692503

Jean-François Millet

Drawn Into the Light

By: Alexandra R. Murphy,Jean-François Millet,Richard Rand,Brian T. Allen,James A. Ganz,Frick Art & Historical Center,Alexis Goodin

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Jean-François Millet

Drawn Into the Light

By: Alexandra R. Murphy,Jean-François Millet,Richard Rand,Brian T. Allen,James A. Ganz,Frick Art & Historical Center,Alexis Goodin

Examines and discusses the pastels, watercolors, and drawings of the nineteenth-century French painter

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164

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Yale University Press

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0300079257

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9780300079258

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

By: Ruth Alexandra Symes

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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

By: Ruth Alexandra Symes

Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialization, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words.

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281

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Pen and Sword

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1473855438

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9781473855434

Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê

Imagining the Ideal Reader

By: Alexandra Kurmann

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Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê

Imagining the Ideal Reader

By: Alexandra Kurmann

Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê: Imagining the Ideal Reader uncovers the primary textual relationship that Linda Lê (1963– ), the most prolific Francophone author of the Vietnamese diaspora, fosters with a literary precursor of Austrian descent: the feminist writer-in-exile, Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973). This study offers an overdue exploration of the notably European roots of Lê’s writerly formation. It traces an unexamined feminist import in her work to a sixteen-year inter- and intra-textual engagement with Bachmann and positions the latter as an imagined ideal reader of Lê’s oeuvre. Intertextual analyses of Bachmann’s post-war novel, Malina, with Lê’s literary essays, early fiction, and trilogy, reveal that to overcome the challenges of writing in exile Lê adopts an alternative literary fore-bear of the European tradition.

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195

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498514871

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9781498514873

A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant

By: Simon Garner,Alexandra Frith

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A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant

By: Simon Garner,Alexandra Frith

Now in its sixth edition, A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant continues to provide a comprehensive and systematic guide to the principles and practice of landlord and tenant law. Containing coverage of up to date cases, as well as key documents, this book provides a valuable introduction for students and professionals alike.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199589194

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9780199589197

Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life

By: Alexandra Kingston-Reese

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Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life

By: Alexandra Kingston-Reese

Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life gives us a new way to view contemporary art novels, asking the key question: How do contemporary writers imagine aesthetic experience? Examining the works of some of the most popular names in contemporary fiction and art criticism, including Zadie Smith, Teju Cole, Siri Hustvedt, Ben Lerner, Rachel Kushner, and others, Alexandra Kingston-Reese finds that contemporary art novels are seeking to reconcile the negative feelings of contemporary life through a concerted critical realignment in understanding artistic sensibility, literary form, and the function of the aesthetic. Kingston-Reese reveals how contemporary writers refract and problematize aesthetic experience, illuminating an uneasiness with failure: firstly, about the failure of aesthetic experiences to solve and save; and secondly, the literary inability to articulate the emotional dissonance caused by aesthetic experiences now.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609386760

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9781609386764

Casting Aluminum Alloys

Their Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy

By: Michael V Glazoff,Alexandra Khvan,Vadim S Zolotorevsky,Nikolai A Belov,Alan Dinsdale

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Casting Aluminum Alloys

Their Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy

By: Michael V Glazoff,Alexandra Khvan,Vadim S Zolotorevsky,Nikolai A Belov,Alan Dinsdale

Casting Aluminum Alloys, Second Edition, the follow up to the fall 2007 work on the structure, properties, thermal resistance, corrosion and fatigue of aluminum alloys in industrial manufacturing, discusses findings from the past decade, including sections on new casting alloys, novel casting technologies, and new methods of alloys design. The book also includes other hot topics, such as the implementation of computational technologies for the calculation of phase equilibria and thermodynamic properties of alloys, the development of software for calculation of diffusion processes in aluminum alloys, computational modeling of solidification microstructure and texture evolution of multi-component aluminum materials. In addition to changes in computational predictive abilities, there is a review of novel casting aluminum alloy compositions and properties, as well as descriptions of new casting technologies and updates to coverage on the mechanical properties of aluminum casting alloys. - Presents a discussion of thermodynamic calculations used for assessing non-equilibrium solidifications of casting aluminum alloys - Expands coverage of mathematical models for alloy mechanical properties, helping facilitate the selection of the best prospective candidate for new alloy development - Contains a new section that describes the self-consistent evaluation of phase equilibria and thermodynamic properties of aluminum alloys

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0128121149

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9780128121146

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

By: Alexandra Harris

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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

By: Alexandra Harris

Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties. In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops. Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately, wittily, urgently, English artists were exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. They showed that “the modern” need not be at war with the past: constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré László Moholy-Nagy was beguiled into taking photos for Betjeman’s nostalgic An Oxford University Chest. A rich network of personal and cultural encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance. This great imaginative project was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, and composers. Piper abandoned purist abstracts to make collages on the blustery coast; Virginia Woolf wrote in her last novel about a village pageant on a showery summer day. Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, and the Sitwells are also part of the story, along with Bill Brandt and Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500778434

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9780500778432

Summer Rain

By: Pink Kayak Press LLC,Ruthie Knox,Molly O'Keefe,Cecilia Tan,Charlotte Stein,Mary Ann Rivers,Amy Jo Cousins,Audra North,Shari Slade,Alexandra Haughton

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Summer Rain

By: Pink Kayak Press LLC,Ruthie Knox,Molly O'Keefe,Cecilia Tan,Charlotte Stein,Mary Ann Rivers,Amy Jo Cousins,Audra North,Shari Slade,Alexandra Haughton

What happens when love gets caught in the rain?In this romance anthology, RITA-Award winning author Molly O?Keefe shows us the power of a city thunderstorm from the top of a skyscraper, while Amy Jo Cousins soaks us in a rain in Spain. New York Times bestselling author Ruthie Knox?s heroine is devastated by a winter storm, while a summer thunderstorm grants Alexandra Haughton?s hero and heroine a second chance at love. Rain sparks self-awareness in the robot in Charlotte Stein?s story and allows Mary Ann Rivers?s heroine to fall in love with her hero and her own art. Rain causes romance between the college students in Audra North?s and Shari Slade?s stories, while romance causes rain in Cecilia Tan?s myth-inspired tale of a sacrifice to a demi-god. Nine romance novelettes, edited by Sarah Frantz.All proceeds from the volume will be donated to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (www.rainn.org), the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the United States.

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1941361005

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9781941361009

Scarlett

The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

By: Alexandra Ripley

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The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

By: Alexandra Ripley

Dès les premières pages, les lecteurs et lectrices du chef-d'oeuvre de Margaret Mitchell s'apercevront de la rupture de ton, de style et surtout de la perspective différente de la psychologie des protagonistes. Une suite ratée, ce qui ne l'empêchera pas d'être lue.

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2714427286

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Publics, Elites and Constitutional Change in the UK

Publics, Elites and Constitutional Change in the UK

Beyond the Box

Beyond the Box

Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê

Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê

A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant

A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant

Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life

Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life

Casting Aluminum Alloys

Casting Aluminum Alloys

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

Summer Rain

Summer Rain

Scarlett

Scarlett

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