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Strip the Willow

By: Colin Belk

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Over the summer of 1911 in the vast outer reaches of the Ukraine, a place where few people live, a wild eighteen-year-old Gypsy girl named Natasha is allowed to run free. She meets Nick Rostov, a Russian boy, and falls in love with him in the simmering summer heat. He is two years her senior, but still just a boy. Running wild together, they become intimate during their summer of love. It isn't long before Natasha becomes pregnant and marries Nick. Natasha is forced to leave Russia and her own family behind when Nick's family decides to immigrate to America for a better life. They walk to France and cross the Channel to England, arriving to the news of the Titanic sinking. Natasha is by now heavy with child and very frightened. She wants to go back home to her mother, but is convinced that it is better for all the Rostovs to stick together and continue on to America. Natasha's baby is born at sea, two days out of New York. She arrives in New York and is terrified of the big city. When Nick runs into trouble holding down a job, and is eventually murdered, Natasha finds herself running from her husband's killers.This young mother tries to flee from all her troubles, but discovers that eventually you have to face your fears and fight back. Strip the Willow is epic storytelling at its best.

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HEADS I WIN tails you loose

By: COLIN BELK

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HEADS I WIN tails you loose

By: COLIN BELK

When two worlds collide who will survive? Its 2015... A plane has crashed over London during a early January storm leaving two women fighting for their lives. One a survivor from the wreck the other recruited by the hospital to help save her. But which one will survive? That paper boy Scott Miller and his friends from the CCA discover a way to help them but are the woman strong enough to help themselves? Will Scott and his friends succeed? And who owns that stolen money Scott found? Scott must act now and return the money to its rightful owner before the thieves find him first.

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1490734368

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The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism

New Extended Edition

By: Colin Campbell

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The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism

New Extended Edition

By: Colin Campbell

Originally published in 1987, Colin Campbell’s classic treatise on the sociology of consumption has become one of the most widely cited texts in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and the history of ideas. In the thirty years since its publication, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism has lost none of its impact. If anything, the growing commodification of society, the increased attention to consumer studies and marketing, and the ever-proliferating range of purchasable goods and services have made Campbell’s rereading of Weber more urgent still. As Campbell uncovers how and why a consumer-oriented society emerged from a Europe that once embodied Weber’s Protestant ethic, he delivers a rich theorization of the modern logics and values structuring consumer behavior. This new edition, featuring an extended Introduction from the author and an Afterword from researcher Karin M. Ekström, makes clear how this foundational work aligns with contemporary theory in cultural sociology, while also serving as major influence on consumer studies.

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3319790668

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The Shell Builders

Tabby Architecture of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands

By: Colin Brooker

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The Shell Builders

Tabby Architecture of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands

By: Colin Brooker

Beaufort, South Carolina, is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells. Tabby itself has a storied history stretching back to Iberian, Caribbean, Spanish American, and even African roots—brought to the United States by adventurers, merchants, military engineers, planters, and the enslaved. Tabby has been preserved most abundantly in the Beaufort area and its outlying islands, (and along the Sea Islands all the way to Florida as well) with Fort Frederick in 1734 having the earliest example of a diverse group of structures, which included town houses, seawalls, planters' homes, barns, agricultural buildings, and slave quarters. Tabby's insulating properties are excellent protection from long, hot, humid, and sometimes deadly summers; and on the islands, particularly, wealthy plantation owners built grand houses for themselves and improved dwellings for enslaved workers that after two hundred-plus years still stand today. An extraordinarily hardy material, tabby has a history akin to some of the world's oldest building techniques and is referred to as "rammed earth," as well as " tapia" in Spanish, "pisé de terre" in French, and "hangtu" in Chinese. The form that tabby construction took along the Sea Islands, however, was born of necessity. Here stone and brick were rare and expensive, but the oyster shells that were used as the source for the tabby's lime base were plentiful. Today these bits of shell, often visible in the walls and forms constructed long ago, give tabby its unique and iconic appearance. Colin Brooker, architect and expert on historic restoration, has not only made an exhaustive foray into local tabby architecture and heritage; he also has made a multinational tour as well in search of tabby origins, evolution, and diffusion from the Bahamas to Morocco to Andalusia, which can be traced back as far as the tenth century. Brooker has spent more than thirty years investigating the origins of tabby, its chemistry, its engineering, and its limitations. The Shell Builders lays out a sweeping, in-depth, and fascinating investigative journey—at once archaeological, sociological, and historical—into the ways prior inhabitants used and shaped their environment in order to house and protect themselves, leaving behind an architectural legacy that is both mysterious and beautiful. Lawrence S. Rowland, a distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and past president of the South Carolina Historical Society, provides a foreword.

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1643360728

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Tourism in South and Southeast Asia

Issues and Cases

By: Colin Michael Hall,Stephen Page

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Tourism in South and Southeast Asia

Issues and Cases

By: Colin Michael Hall,Stephen Page

[This book] is the first tourism book to deal comprehensively with the implications of the Asian economic crisis for tourism ...

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Routledge

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0750641282

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Strategic Marketing Planning

By: Colin Gilligan,Richard M.S. Wilson

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Strategic Marketing Planning

By: Colin Gilligan,Richard M.S. Wilson

Strategic Marketing Planning concentrates on the critical 'planning' aspects that are of vital importance to practitioners and students alike. It has a clear structure that offers a digest of the five principal dimensions of the strategic marketing planning process. Leading authors in this sector, Wilson and Gilligan offer current thinking in marketing and consider the changes it has undergone over the past few years. Issues discussed include: * Emarketing, strategic thinking and competitive advantage * The significance of vision and how this needs to drive the planning process * Hypercompetition and the erosion of competitive advantage * The growth and status of relationship marketing * Each chapter contains a series of expanded illustrations

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1136362444

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A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy

By: Colin C. Williams

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A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy

By: Colin C. Williams

This Modern Guide presents a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary thought on the informal economy, which, as the author demonstrates – far from being a peripheral feature of the global economy – is a system in which the majority of the global workforce are employed and which has pervasive detrimental effects. Formalising it is therefore a priority for most governments.

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1788975618

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Essentials of DAS-II Assessment

By: Ron Dumont,John O. Willis,Colin D. Elliott

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Essentials of DAS-II Assessment

By: Ron Dumont,John O. Willis,Colin D. Elliott

Essentials of DAS-IIƠAssessment is the best source of information on the new edition of the DASƠinstrument, providing you with illuminating case reports, expert assessment of the test?s relative strengths and weaknesses, and valuable advice on its clinical applications. Written by Ron Dumont, John Willis, and Colin Elliott, this book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing customizable Excel worksheets, PDF files, and Microsoft Word documents to conveniently allow you to add your own DAS-II evaluation results. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470225203

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Strategic Marketing Management

By: Richard M.S. Wilson,Colin Gilligan

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Strategic Marketing Management

By: Richard M.S. Wilson,Colin Gilligan

This third edition of Strategic Marketing Management confirms it as the classic textbook on the subject. Its step- by- step approach provides comprehensive coverage of the five key strategic stages: * Where are we now? - Strategic and marketing analysis * Where do we want to be? - Strategic direction and strategy formulation * How might we get there? - Strategic choice * Which way is best? - Strategic evaluation * How can we ensure arrival? - Strategic implementation and control This new revised and updated third edition has completely new chapters on 'The Nature and Role of Competitive Advantage' and 'The Strategic Management of the Expanded Marketing Mix', and extensive new material covering: * The changing role of marketing * Approaches to analysing marketing capability * E-marketing * Branding * Customer relationship management * Relationship management myopia * The decline of loyalty The book retains the key features that make it essential reading for all those studying the management of marketing - a strong emphasis on implementation, up to date mini cases, and questions and summaries in each chapter to reinforce key points. Widely known as the most authoritative, successful and influential text in the sector, the new edition remains an irreplaceable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of business and marketing, and students of the CIM Diploma.

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Almanac of American Demographics

By: Colin Nagengast

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Almanac of American Demographics

By: Colin Nagengast

Almanac of American Demographics contains a wealth of information and highlights the demographic makeup of the United States. Did you know.... * Hildale, Utah has an average household size of more than eight persons * 95% of adults over age 25 in Stanford, California are college graduates * 72% of residents in Hialeah, Florida were born in a foreign country * Residents of Tatums, Oklahoma spend an average of 109 minutes driving to work * The median household income in McNary, Arizona is under $5,000 * 78% of residents in Pittsburgh were born in Pennsylvania, while only 20% of residents in Las Vegas were born in Nevada Those facts and many, many more can be found in the more than 500 pages of demographic rankings of American cities and towns; in fact, more than 13,000 American cities and towns are listed within this book. The demographic topics and data come from the United States' Census Bureau and include age, race, income, employment, education, language, ancestry, population growth, marital status, place of birth, home values and many others. The sections of the book include rankings of the fifty states, rankings of cities and towns nationally and rankings of places for each individual state.

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1438991061

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Introduction to Piecewise-Linear Topology

By: Colin P. Rourke,B.J. Sanderson

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Introduction to Piecewise-Linear Topology

By: Colin P. Rourke,B.J. Sanderson

The first five chapters of this book form an introductory course in piece wise-linear topology in which no assumptions are made other than basic topological notions. This course would be suitable as a second course in topology with a geometric flavour, to follow a first course in point-set topology, andi)erhaps to be given as a final year undergraduate course. The whole book gives an account of handle theory in a piecewise linear setting and could be the basis of a first year postgraduate lecture or reading course. Some results from algebraic topology are needed for handle theory and these are collected in an appendix. In a second appen dix are listed the properties of Whitehead torsion which are used in the s-cobordism theorem. These appendices should enable a reader with only basic knowledge to complete the book. The book is also intended to form an introduction to modern geo metric topology as a research subject, a bibliography of research papers being included. We have omitted acknowledgements and references from the main text and have collected these in a set of "historical notes" to be found after the appendices.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642817351

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Consumption and Consumer Society

The Craft Consumer and Other Essays

By: Colin Campbell

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Consumption and Consumer Society

The Craft Consumer and Other Essays

By: Colin Campbell

This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays, analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of culture and consumption. Campbell made a major contribution to the development of this field and he has a clear and coherent theoretical position which he employs to comment on interesting disputes among scholars seeking to understand consumer culture. Containing a brand new expansive essay reflecting on consumption in the age of a pandemic and drawing out some of the conceptual and practical implications of the relationship between wants and needs, science and norms, this synthesis will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of consumption, consumer and cultural sociology.

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3030836819

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Hard Sell

By: Colin Clark

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Hard Sell

By: Colin Clark

Market pitchers routinely transform a patch of bare ground into a sea of eager purchasers using little more than their 'gift of the gab' and some homespun 'psychology' to convince passers-by to stop and buy their goods. Employing some of the world's most successful selling techniques, in one of the oldest and most difficult of all marketing situations, their rhetoric and social skills have to equal that employed by the most accomplished salespersons, politicians and professional persuaders. Between 1984 and 1994 sociologists Clark and Pinch recorded over 75 pitching routines on street markets and other sales sites throughout the UK, mainland Europe and the United States. Using examples of pitchers attracting a crowd, describing and demonstrating their goods, building bargains, cajoling the unconvinced to make a purchase and coping with problem customers, the authors reveal, for the very first time, the reasons for these traders' extraordinary success-both on and away from the markets. Comparing their findings with more orthodox sales situations-direct response TV home shopping and infomercials, as well as other forms of grass-roots selling (fly pitching, the mock auction sales con, street entertaining and urban 'hustling')-the authors highlight many important lessons that have relevance for everyone involved in all types of marketing, advertising and persuasion.In this revised, updated and extended edition the authors also reveal why, today, pitching on markets appears to have become a dying art. Original, authoritative and highly readable, The Hard Sell is an essential and often hilarious guide for anyone who wants to understand how real-life selling really works.

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0957534728

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9780957534728

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

By: Colin Larkin

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

By: Colin Larkin

This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

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0857125958

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Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts

By: Colin Martindale,Paul Locher,Vladimir Petrov,Arnold Berleant

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Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts

By: Colin Martindale,Paul Locher,Vladimir Petrov,Arnold Berleant

In this book, well-known scholars describe new and exciting approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology and answering new questions with new methods and theories. All known societies produce and enjoy arts such as literature, music and visual decoration or depiction. Judging from prehistoric archaeological evidence, this arose very early in human development. Furthermore, Darwin was explicit in attributing aesthetic sensitivity to lower animals. These considerations lead us to wonder whether the arts might not be evolutionarily based. Although such an evolutionary basis is not obvious on the face of it, the idea has recently elicited considerable attention. The book begins with a consideration of ten theories on the evolutionary function of specific arts such as music and literature. The theory of evolution was first drawn up in biology, but evolution is not confined to biology: genuinely evolutionary theories of sociocultural change can be formulated. That they need to be formulated is shown in several chapters that discuss regular trends in literature and scientific writings. Psychologists have recently rediscovered the obvious fact that thought and perception occur in the brain, so cognitive science moves ever closer to neuroscience. Several chapters give overviews of neurocognitive and neural network approaches to creativity and aesthetic appreciation. The book concludes with two exciting describing brain-scan research on what happens in the brain during creativity and presenting a close examination of the relationship between genetically transmitted mental disorder and creativity.

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1351844547

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Unquiet Things

Secularism in the Romantic Age

By: Colin Jager

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Unquiet Things

Secularism in the Romantic Age

By: Colin Jager

In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was privatized and depoliticized. If the discretionary nature of religious practice permitted spiritual freedom and social differentiation, however, secular arrangements produced new anxieties. Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures and their expression in works by Jane Austen, Horace Walpole, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley among others. Emphasizing secularism rather than religion as its primary analytic category, Unquiet Things demonstrates that literary writing possesses a distinctive ability to register the discontent that characterizes the mood of secular modernity. Colin Jager places Romantic-era writers within the context of a longer series of transformations begun in the Reformation, and identifies three ways in which romanticism and secularism interact: the melancholic mood brought on by movements of reform, the minoritizing capacity of literature to measure the disturbances produced by new arrangements of state power, and a prospective romantic thinking Jager calls "after the secular." The poems, novels, and letters of the romantic period reveal uneasy traces of the spiritual past, haunted by elements that trouble secular politics; at the same time, they imagine new and more equitable possibilities for the future. In the twenty-first century, Jager contends, we are still living within the terms of the romantic response to secularism, when literature and philosophy first took account of the consequences of modernity.

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