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In the Beginning Was the Worm

Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite

By: Andrew Brown

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In the Beginning Was the Worm

Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite

By: Andrew Brown

The fascinating story of the quest to decode how a creature works in its entirety. A tiny transparent nematode worm only half a millimeter long has been the subject of intensive study by a select group of biologists since the early 1960s culminating in the award of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to the main protagonists. The voyage of discovery has been arguably one of the most important quests in modern biology and has stimulated much of modern thinking about genetics, development and neurobiology.

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260

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Simon and Schuster

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0743415981

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9780743415989

The Blue Book

A History of Western Province Cricket, 1890-2011

By: André Odendaal,Krish Reddy,Andrew Samson

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The Blue Book

A History of Western Province Cricket, 1890-2011

By: André Odendaal,Krish Reddy,Andrew Samson

This book provides the first comprehensive and complete history of Western Province cricket and the Cape Cobras in the 121 years from 1890 to 2011.

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499

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Jacana Media

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1920196404

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9781920196400

Managing People

A Practical Guide for Front-line Managers

By: Rosemary Thomson,Eileen Arney,Andrew Thomson

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Managing People

A Practical Guide for Front-line Managers

By: Rosemary Thomson,Eileen Arney,Andrew Thomson

This updated and exciting fourth edition of Managing People: A Practical Guide for Front-Line Managers addresses the growing needs of front-line managers who are not themselves specialists in personnel management but whose roles require them to have these skills. A growing trend over the last two decades has given these managers an increasing amount of responsibility of direct line management, which can be extremely challenging especially if the correct training is not given. This book examines how the different parts of managing people fit together, whilst acknowledging that different contexts require different approaches and recognizing ongoing organizational, environmental and legal changes that affect the employment framework. It recognizes the rapidly changing context in which modern front-line managers have to operate and acknowledges the increasing expectations of good leadership as a necessity. However, the book also emphasizes the need for front-line managers to understand themselves, their own management styles and attitudes, together with the importance of empathy in appreciating the perspectives of the staff that work under them. Managing People: A Practical Guide for Front-Line Managers is designed for both new managers and for NVQ/SVQ Level 4 students. It is also appropriate for the first stages of Foundation Degrees and for HND courses combining academic study with workplace learning.

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218

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Routledge

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1134680775

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9781134680771

Not As Lean, Not As Mean, Still a Marine!

Even More Marine Corps Sea Stories and Politically Incorrect Common Sense

By: Andrew A. Bufalo

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Not As Lean, Not As Mean, Still a Marine!

Even More Marine Corps Sea Stories and Politically Incorrect Common Sense

By: Andrew A. Bufalo

Not As Lean, Not As Mean, Still A Marine! is the third installment of the Swift, Silent and Surrounded series. If you enjoyed the humorous sea stories, motivating narratives and blunt commentary in the previous volumes, you will love this one!

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344

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All American Books

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0974579335

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9780974579337

Maps: their untold stories

By: Rose Mitchell,Andrew Janes

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Maps: their untold stories

By: Rose Mitchell,Andrew Janes

A map is a snapshot of a place, a city, a nation or even the world at a given point in time - fascinating for what they tell us about the way our ancestors saw themselves, their neighbours and their place in the world. This magnificent collection, drawn from seven centuries of maps held in the National Archives at Kew, looks at a variety of maps, from those found in 14th Century manuscripts, through early estate maps, to sea charts, maps used in military campaigns, and maps from treaties. The text explores who the mapmakers were, the purposes for which the maps were made, and what it tells us about the politics of the time. Great images are accompanied by compelling stories. Featured is a woodcut map of 16th Century London, a map of where the bombs fell during the Second World War, and a map the first American settlers' drew when they were attempting to establish a new empire on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. Richly illustrated with large scale reproductions of the maps, the book also includes some of the more amusing or esoteric maps from the National Archives, such as the map of the Great Exhibition in 1851 that was presented on a lady's glove, a London Underground map in the form of a cucumber, and a Treasure Island map used to advertise National Savings. This is a fascinating and unusual journey through the world of maps and mapmakers.

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258

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408189690

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9781408189696

Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Also Pioneer Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1866 and 1867

By: James Thomas,Andrew Galatian

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Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Also Pioneer Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1866 and 1867

By: James Thomas,Andrew Galatian

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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426

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752579056

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9783752579055

Employment Law

By: Andrew C. Bell

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Employment Law

By: Andrew C. Bell

The primary focus of this text is the individual employment relationship and associated issues. The second edition has been updated to incorporate recent UK and European case law developments and legislation, including the Employment Act 2002

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286

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Sweet & Maxwell

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0421828900

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9780421828902

Property Investment Appraisal

By: Andrew E. Baum,Neil Crosby,Steven Devaney

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Property Investment Appraisal

By: Andrew E. Baum,Neil Crosby,Steven Devaney

Discover an insightful examination of the property investment appraisal process from leaders in the industry This book explains the process of property investment appraisal: the process of estimating both the most likely selling price (market value) and the worth of property investments to individuals or groups of investors (investment value). Valuations are important. They are used as a surrogate for transactions in the measurement of investment performance and they influence investors and other market operators when transacting property. Valuations need to be trusted by their clients and valuers need to produce rational and objective solutions. Appraisals of worth are even more important, as they help to determine the prices that should be paid for assets, even in times of crisis, and they can indicate market under- or over-pricing. In a style that makes the theory as well as the practice of valuation accessible to students and practitioners, the authors provide a valuable critique of conventional valuation methods and argue for the adoption of more contemporary cash-flow methods. They explain how such valuation models are constructed and give useful examples throughout. They also show how these contemporary cash-flow methods connect market valuations with rational appraisals. The UK property investment market has been through periods of both boom and bust since the first edition of this text was produced in 1988. As a result, the book includes examples generated by vastly different market states. Complex reversions, over-rented properties and leaseholds are all fully examined by the authors. This Fourth Edition includes new material throughout, including brand new chapters on development appraisals and bank lending valuations, heavily revised sections on discounted cash flow models with extended examples, and on the measurement and analysis of risk at an individual property asset level. The heart of the book remains the critical examination of market valuation models, which no other book addresses in such detail.

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320

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118399536

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9781118399538

Corporate Administrations and Rescue Procedures

By: Adam Goodison,Matthew Abraham,Andrew Shaw,Stefanie Wilkins

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Corporate Administrations and Rescue Procedures

By: Adam Goodison,Matthew Abraham,Andrew Shaw,Stefanie Wilkins

Written by authors from South Square, consistently ranked in legal directories as the top set for insolvency and restructuring in the UK this book deals specifically with corporate administration and Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs) in the context of business recovery and rescue. The fourth edition has been fully revised and updated to include coverage and analysis of all case law developments as well as: - a new chapter on the UK government's proposed new Corporate Restructuring Plan - the new UK statutory pre-insolvency moratorium - the cross-border context for corporate administrations and rescue procedures post-Brexit - increased coverage of public sector special administration regimes This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Insolvency Law online service.

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749

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526513269

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9781526513267

Public Or Private Economies of Knowledge?

Turbulence in the Biological Sciences

By: Mark Harvey,Andrew McMeekin

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Turbulence in the Biological Sciences

By: Mark Harvey,Andrew McMeekin

This book embraces a fundamental issue for the modern information economy, namely the creation, negotiation and institutionalization of private and public knowledge. The authors argue that as new biological knowledge develops, the actors must help create and negotiate the boundaries of what can be considered private and public knowledge. By using an Instituted Economic Process approach, the authors come to grips with these dynamics of the economics of knowledge. This approach therefore helps us analyze who is involved, who benefits, and why conflicts occur within an innovation-driven economy. The authors provide very interesting empirical material, as well, because they develop their analytical points, through well-written and thick descriptions of cases from biodata, bioinformatic, and a case of gene sequencing. Hence, this book makes interesting conceptual and empirical contributions, to our understanding of modern biological sciences in the economy. Maureen McKelvey, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden It once was believed that scientific knowledge was public and technological knowledge was proprietary, and this was the way it should be. However, recent developments, particularly in biology, have unsettled this belief. This superb book examines what determines whether a body of knowledge is public or private. The consideration of the theoretical issues is thorough and thoughtful. The study of how things have played out in various fields of biology, and why, is smashing. What the authors have to say is important and fascinating, and makes for a great read. Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University, US The great divide between public and private knowledge in capitalism is an unstable frontier at the core of contemporary economic transformations. Based on research in the USA, Europe and Brazil into the cutting edge of biological science and technology, this book presents a novel framework for understanding this historically shifting fault-line. Over the last quarter of a century, major controversies have accompanied the dramatic developments in biological science and technology. At critical points, leading commercial companies were poised to take ownership over the human genome and much new post-genomic knowledge. The software tools for analysing the deluge of data also appeared, as did expanding new markets for private enterprise. At the same time, huge new public programmes of biological research were accompanied by radical innovation in the institutions and organisation of public knowledge. Would private marketable knowledge dominate over the new public domain or vice versa? Surprisingly, the dynamism and expansion of the public domain, and new forms of differentiation and interdependence between public and private economies of knowledge, now characterise the landscape. This book presents an analytical framework for understanding the shifting great divide in capitalist economies of knowledge. The authors develop a novel economic sociology of innovation, based on the instituted economic process approach. By focusing on economies of knowledge, they seek to demonstrate that capitalism is multi-modal at its core, with interdependent growth of market and non-market modes of production, distribution, exchange and use. Public or Private Economies of Knowledge? will appeal to those with an interest in innovation studies, economic sociology and economic theory.

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225

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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184720869X

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9781847208699

Psyched on Bikes

The Bicycle Owner's Handbook

By: B. Andrew Renton

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Psyched on Bikes

The Bicycle Owner's Handbook

By: B. Andrew Renton

Intended for those who care for their bikes, this book provides money-saving tips and techniques for keeping bicycles in good working condition, as well as for making a variety of everyday and emergency roadside repairs. Renton offers advice on what to look for when buying a bike, guidelines for determining whether it should be fixed by a professional, and explanations of important riding rules and regulations. He also reviews bike accessories which enhance performance, foil thieves, and make riding more enjoyable. Topics discussed include the alignment of bike frames; replacing broken or bent wheel spokes; adjusting seats and handle bars; adjusting calliper and coaster brakes; and maintaining 1-18 speed transmissions.

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188

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Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Tab Books

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0830619879

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9780830619870

Birmingham Shops and Shopping

By: Peter Drake,Andrew Maxam

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Birmingham Shops and Shopping

By: Peter Drake,Andrew Maxam

Illustrated with more than 180 archive photographs, this book captures the commercial heritage of the city and offers a glimpse into Birmingham's past. Capturing the diversity of Birmingham's shops and markets, it provides an important record of life in the city as it used to be. Peter Drake works as head of local studies at Birmingham Central Library. Collecting rare picture postcards has been a long-standing interest for his co-author, Andy Maxam. The images featured in this book are drawn from the extensive archives of Birmingham library as well as the authors' own collections.

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128

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History PressLtd

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075244493X

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9780752444932

Book's by Andrew Maxam

In the Beginning Was the Worm

In the Beginning Was the Worm

The Blue Book

The Blue Book

Managing People

Managing People

Not As Lean, Not As Mean, Still a Marine!

Not As Lean, Not As Mean, Still a Marine!

Maps: their untold stories

Maps: their untold stories

Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Employment Law

Employment Law

Property Investment Appraisal

Property Investment Appraisal

Corporate Administrations and Rescue Procedures

Corporate Administrations and Rescue Procedures

Public Or Private Economies of Knowledge?

Public Or Private Economies of Knowledge?

Psyched on Bikes

Psyched on Bikes

Birmingham Shops and Shopping

Birmingham Shops and Shopping

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