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Macleod's Clinical Diagnosis E-Book

By: Alan G Japp,Colin Robertson,Rohana J. Wright,Matthew Reed,Andrew Robson

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Macleod's Clinical Diagnosis E-Book

By: Alan G Japp,Colin Robertson,Rohana J. Wright,Matthew Reed,Andrew Robson

Macleod's Clinical Diagnosis demonstrates how to apply the core clinical skills learned from the companion textbook Macleod's Clinical Examination to maximum advantage. Charting the course from routine work-up to diagnosis, this book presents a modern and realistic approach to clinical assessment and explains how to integrate information obtained from the history, examination, bedside tests and specialised investigations. - The first section Principles of clinical assessment examines different approaches to diagnosis, reviews the fundamental elements necessary for accurate patient assessment, provides a helpful template for a 'routine workup' and describes how to adapt the assessment to fit the clinical context. - The second core section of the book Assessment of common presenting problems contains a series of 'diagnostic guides' that lead the reader, step-by-step through the major presenting problems in medicine and surgery, explaining how to recognise red flag features, eliminate life-threatening conditons and generate a logical differential diagnosis. This book has been praised as an invaluable resource for senior medical students and junior doctors as they attempt to make the difficult transition from mastering basic clinical skills to assessing patients in the real world of clinical medicine. - A unique book allowing a reader to apply the skills of clinical examination in the formulation of a differential diagnosis and placing a patient's symptoms in context. - Takes a problem-based approach to diagnostic reasoning, reflecting both modern medical and current educational practices. - Builds on the clinical skills outlined in the companion Macleod's Clinical Examination textbook. For this Second Edition the text has been expanded with five new topics covering nausea and vomiting; vaginal bleeding; red eye; urinary incontinence; and weight loss.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702069639

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9780702069635

Macleod's Clinical Examination E-Book

By: Graham Douglas,Fiona Nicol,Colin Robertson

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Macleod's Clinical Examination E-Book

By: Graham Douglas,Fiona Nicol,Colin Robertson

This classic textbook sets out clearly and concisely how to evaluate symptoms and elicit relevant physical signs. It describes the practical skills which every clinician must acquire and develop in order to evolve diagnostic procedures and management strategies and plans. 'Highly Commended' in the 2006 and 2010 BMA Medical Book Competitions, this Thirteenth Edition contains over 500 clinical photographs and diagrams to illustrate the text, with new topics added to make the book even more comprehensive. This Thirteenth Edition has four sections: - History taking and general examination. - System examination covering symptoms and signs. - Examination in special situations including babies & children and the critically ill. - How to pass an OSCE. Included on the Student Consult site are the specially-recorded videos demonstrating many of the clinical examination routines described in the main text. - The book starts with a general overview section on history taking and the general examination that provide the framework on which to hang the detail. - The systematic examination section documents clearly the relevant history, examination and special investigations as well as giving advice on their significance. - The third section covers examination in specific situations and emphasises an integrated and structured approach to these patients. - A final section spells out how to demonstrate the techniques learned in the book in an OSCE. - Macleod's is closely linked to its sister publication, Davidson's Principles & Practice of Medicine, which complements the information in this text. - Available with full online access on Student Consult and ancillary videos demonstrating key clinical examination routines following the format laid out in the book. - There are two new chapters on examination in specific situations: - The frail elderly - The febrile adult - A new section explicitly spells out how to demonstrate the techniques learned in the book in an OSCE and other formative and summative examinations. - Over 50 new text boxes highlight the evidence-base for the examination techniques discussed. - An Advisory Board of students, junior doctors, and representatives from the nursing, ambulance, Primary Care and academic communities from six countries has made detailed comments and critically appraised the entire book. - The text has been substantially rewritten with more on medically unexplained symptoms in the History Taking chapter and extended coverage of diabetes mellitus in the Endocrine System chapter. - Integrated with the online text are clinical examination videos of trained professionals performing many of the examination routines described in the book with a new accompanying commentary by the Editor, Professor Colin Robertson - Two new videos show how the Glasgow Coma Scale should be performed in clinical situations, demonstrating the correct techniques and also common pitfalls in using the GCS.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702053376

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9780702053375

Diagnosis Klinis MacLeod

By: Alan G Japp,Colin Robertson,Iain A M Hennessey

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Diagnosis Klinis MacLeod

By: Alan G Japp,Colin Robertson,Iain A M Hennessey

Diedit, diadaptasi dan diterjemahkan oleh anggota Perhimpunan Dokter Spesialis Penyakit Dalam Indonesia (PAPDI), buku ini menjelaskan cara untuk menerapkan keterampilan klinis inti dan utama yang dipelajari dari buku teks pendamping Pemeriksaan Klinis Macleod sebaik-baiknya. Meraih penghargaan Highly Commended pada British Medical Association (BMA) book awards 2013. Dengan alur yang dibuat berurutan mulai dari pemeriksaan rutin hingga diagnosis, buku ini memaparkan pendekatan modern dan realistis untuk pengkajian klinis dan menjelaskan bagaimana cara mengintegrasikan informasi yang diperoleh dari anamnesis, pemeriksaan fisik, pemeriksaan di sisi tempat tidur (bedside test), dan penyelidikan yang spesialistik Memaparkan pendekatan modern dan realistis untuk pengkajian klinis dan menjelaskan bagaimana cara mengintegrasikan informasi yang diperoleh dari anamnesis, pemeriksaan fisik, pemeriksaan di sisi tempat tidur (bedside test), dan penyelidikan yang spesialistik. Lengkap dengan studi kasus online di sea.manthan.info

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Churchill Livingstone

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9814666645

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9789814666640

Have a Little Faith

Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School

By: Benjamin Justice,Colin Macleod

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Have a Little Faith

Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School

By: Benjamin Justice,Colin Macleod

It isn’t just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heated controversies over religion’s place in the education system of a pluralistic nation. In this book, Benjamin Justice and Colin Macleod take up this rich and significant history of conflict with renewed clarity and astonishing breadth. Moving from the American Revolution to the present—from the common schools of the nineteenth century to the charter schools of the twenty-first—they offer one of the most comprehensive assessments of religion and education in America that has ever been published. From Bible readings and school prayer to teaching evolution and cultivating religious tolerance, Justice and Macleod consider the key issues and colorful characters that have shaped the way American schools have attempted to negotiate religious pluralism in a politically legitimate fashion. While schools and educational policies have not always advanced tolerance and understanding, Justice and Macleod point to the many efforts Americans have made to find a place for religion in public schools that both acknowledges the importance of faith to so many citizens and respects democratic ideals that insist upon a reasonable separation of church and state. Finally, they apply the lessons of history and political philosophy to an analysis of three critical areas of religious controversy in public education today: student-led religious observances in extracurricular activities, the tensions between freedom of expression and the need for inclusive environments, and the shift from democratic control of schools to loosely regulated charter and voucher programs. Altogether Justice and Macleod show how the interpretation of educational history through the lens of contemporary democratic theory offers both a richer understanding of past disputes and new ways of addressing contemporary challenges.

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University of Chicago Press

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022640059X

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9780226400594

Growth Hormone

By: Stephen Harvey,Colin G. Scanes,William H. Daughaday

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Growth Hormone

By: Stephen Harvey,Colin G. Scanes,William H. Daughaday

This exciting new book provides a thorough and comprehensive review of growth hormone physiology and pathophysiology, including its therapeutic and agricultural use.

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CRC Press

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0849386977

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The Global Property Investor's Toolkit

A Sourcebook for Successful Decision Making

By: Colin Barrow

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The Global Property Investor's Toolkit

A Sourcebook for Successful Decision Making

By: Colin Barrow

How real estate investors and speculators can take their business global The real estate boom has gone global, and those successful investors who want to keep up their profits are starting to look at emerging markets on other continents. Markets in South America, Eastern Europe, India, and Asia are currently experiencing the rapid growth that mature domestic markets experienced a few years ago. Based on the author's personal experience buying and selling dozens of overseas properties, this book provides all the relevant data investors need to evaluate properties and markets anywhere in the world. Colin Barrow (Hayle, Cornwall, UK) is a non-executive director of two venture capital funds and serves on the UK Government Task Force for Business.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1841127744

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9781841127743

Lives of the Lindsays, or, A memoir of the House of Crawford and Balcarres

Vol. 4

By: Alexander Crawford Lindsay,Colin Lindsay,John Lindsay,Robert Lindsay,James Stair Lindsay,Charles Hugh Lindsay

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Lives of the Lindsays, or, A memoir of the House of Crawford and Balcarres

Vol. 4

By: Alexander Crawford Lindsay,Colin Lindsay,John Lindsay,Robert Lindsay,James Stair Lindsay,Charles Hugh Lindsay

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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3368742817

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Whisky Galore! and The Maggie

The British Film Guide 4

By: Colin McArthur

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Whisky Galore! and The Maggie

The British Film Guide 4

By: Colin McArthur

Alexander Mackendrick's first feature film "Whisky Galore!" (1949), based on the novel by Compton Mackenzie, pits the crafty islanders of Todday against the Customs and Excise men trying to halt their illegal consumption of whisky. His film "The Maggie", the adventures of a decrepit River Clyde cargo boat, was released in 1953. Both films offer distinctive representations of Scotland and the Scots, a theme that Colin McArthur pursues in this lively guide to the two films. He explores the wider context of a Britain experiencing and emerging from post-war austerity, as well as the role of Ealing Studios, for which Mackendrick made both films. McArthur examines the tastes and perceptions of reviewers and audiences, both British and American, at the time of the films' release, as well as changed contemporary perspectives. He pays particular attention to the career of Alexander Mackendrick and offers the controversial argument that while their representations of "Scottishness" may be suspect, the films themselves are of great artistic integrity and accomplishment.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857717898

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9780857717894

Adult Minority Language Learning

Motivation, Identity and Target Variety

By: Colin J. Flynn

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Adult Minority Language Learning

Motivation, Identity and Target Variety

By: Colin J. Flynn

This book examines the role of affective variables in the process of learning a minority language. It presents a comprehensive account of how adult learners’ attitude, motivation and identity are related to their awareness of, and commitment to, different dialects and varieties as target speech models. These issues are examined in the context of Irish, a minority language which does not have a standard spoken variety and where the vast majority of learners have no regular contact with native speakers. Using a mixed methods research approach, this study explores the relationships that exist between, on the one hand, learners’ attitudes towards the three main traditional dialects of Irish and non-traditional second language varieties, and on the other, their motivation and self-concept as second language learners.

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Multilingual Matters

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1788927052

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9781788927055

On Revolutions

Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World

By: Mlada Bukovansky,Sharon Erickson Nepstad,Daniel P. Ritter

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On Revolutions

Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World

By: Mlada Bukovansky,Sharon Erickson Nepstad,Daniel P. Ritter

A cutting-edge appraisal of revolution and its future. On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century. Integrating insights from diverse fields--including civil resistance studies, international relations, social movements, and terrorism--they offer new ways of thinking about persistent problems in the study of revolution. This book outlines an approach that reaches beyond the common categorical distinctions. As the authors argue, revolutions are not just political or social, but they feature many types of change. Structure and agency are not mutually distinct; they are mutually reinforcing processes. Contention is not just violent or nonviolent, but it is usually a mix of both. Revolutions do not just succeed or fail, but they achieve and simultaneously fall short. And causal conditions are not just domestic or international, but instead, they are dependent on the interplay of each. Demonstrating the merits of this approach through a wide range of cases, the authors explore new opportunities for conceptual thinking about revolution, provide methodological advice, and engage with the ethical issues that exist at the nexus of scholarship and activism.

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Oxford University Press

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019763835X

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9780197638354

The Fantasy Literature of England

By: Colin N. Manlove

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The Fantasy Literature of England

By: Colin N. Manlove

In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy's modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's fantasy. In them all England has led the world, with authors as different as Chaucer, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Salman Rushdie.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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153267757X

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9781532677571

Revolt of the Ministers

The Malawi Cabinet Crisis 1964-1965

By: Colin Baker

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Revolt of the Ministers

The Malawi Cabinet Crisis 1964-1965

By: Colin Baker

“I certainly had very extreme views, very violent views... and I certainly did advocate... extreme methods.” So a leading Nyasaland nationalist characterised the struggle for independent Malawi, but Dr Hastings Banda, a highly respected medical doctor based for many years in London was invited back to Nyasaland to lead the movement to independent Malawi and the Malawi National Congress. Here was, or so it seemed, a loyal and progressive Government with pro-Western leadership – a final success in the story of British decolonisation. Yet within three months all but one of the cabinet ministers had resigned or were dismissed, former ministers fled the country including distinguished members of the independence movement. Even the pro-Congress Europeans feared for their lives. Colin Baker unravels this potentially disastrous episode in Malawi's history and in the story of decolonisation. He illuminates not only the immediate post-independence problems of Malawi, a newly independent African state, but charts the growth of Banda's autocracy. This detailed and revealing study reveals the problems inherent in the whole momentous story of Africa in independence and decolonisation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857716425

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9780857716422

British Electoral Facts 1832-2006

By: Colin Rallings,Michael Thrasher

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British Electoral Facts 1832-2006

By: Colin Rallings,Michael Thrasher

The seventh edition of this unique and authoritative guide to more than 170 years of political history reflects the rapid and continuing change in the electoral landscape of the United Kingdom. Covering the period 1832-2006, it gives easy access to a myriad of facts and figures on all 44 General Elections, six European Parliament elections and more than 3,700 parliamentary by-elections that have taken place in the United Kingdom since the Great Reform Act. It also contains a considerable array of opinion poll data for both Great Britain and Scotland. Significant new information includes further rounds of devolution elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; referendums and elections relating to elected mayors in London and a number of English local authorities; and the impact of the relaxation of the regulations on the issuing and casting of postal votes. To aid readers in finding their way about this increasingly complex electoral maze, this edition also - and for the first time - contains a comprehensive index. The cornerstone of any psephologist's library, British Electoral Facts 1832-2006 will also prove an invaluable reference and source book for politicians, public servants, historians, journalists, teachers and all those fascinated by the ebb and flow of electoral fortunes.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351954652

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One Vast Winter Count

The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark

By: Colin G. Calloway

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One Vast Winter Count

The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark

By: Colin G. Calloway

A professor of history offers a sweeping new history of the Native American West from the earliest arrival of ancient peoples to the early nineteenth century, before the Lewis and Clarke expedition opened it to exploration, focusing particular attention on the period of conflict that preceded this period. Reprint.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803264658

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Train for Thought

By: Colin Clay

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Train for Thought

By: Colin Clay

This is the fourth volume in Colin Clay's autobiographical series which tells of the seven years the Clay family enjoyed living in the town of Capreol, a railway community just a short distance from Sudbury, Ontario. Colin had served pastorally and academically in Sudbury when the family arrived from England, but when there came a vacancy at St Alban's parish in Capreol the Archbishop of Algoma appointed Colin as its rector with Colin continuing at Laurentian University but soon adding a position as the Civilian Officiating Clergyman at the Canadian Forces Station at Falconbridge. Capreol provided many opportunties for Colin, Barbara and their four children and Colin was happy with his varied responsibilities. The Clay family continued to enjoy exciting holiday travels across North America along with renewed visits with families in the United Kingdom. Colin was active with Army Cadets as was Barbara with Girl Guides. When the family left for Saskatoon in 1977 Philip and Gill had begun studies at university and college and Alan and Susan were ready for high school. The next volume entitled "It's A Dry Cold" will continue with the Clay's adventures on the Canadian prairies.

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FriesenPress

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1525555642

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9781525555640

White People, Indians, and Highlanders

Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America

By: Colin G. Calloway

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White People, Indians, and Highlanders

Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America

By: Colin G. Calloway

A comparative approach to the American Indians and Scottish Highlanders, this book examines the experiences of clans and tribal societies, which underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire in Britain, the United States, and Canada.

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OUP USA

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0195340124

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Primary Education-- at a Hinge of History?

By: Colin Richards

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Primary Education-- at a Hinge of History?

By: Colin Richards

Colin Richards traces the perennial and emergent issues that have to be understood in order to influence the future of primary education in the post-Plowden era that began in 1967.

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Psychology Press

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0750709863

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9780750709866

Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power

British Guiana's Struggle for Independence

By: Colin A. Palmer

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Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power

British Guiana's Struggle for Independence

By: Colin A. Palmer

Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony's first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1953. Informed by the first use of many British, U.S., and Guyanese archival sources, Palmer's work details Jagan's rise and fall, from his initial electoral victory in the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup d'etat that led to the suspension of the constitution and the removal of Jagan's independence-minded administration. Jagan's political odyssey continued--he was reelected to the premiership in 1957--but in 1964 he fell out of power again under pressure from Guianese, British, and U.S. officials suspicious of Marxist influences on the People's Progressive Party, founded in 1950 by Jagan and his activist wife, Janet Rosenberg. But Jagan's political life was not over--after decades in the opposition, he became Guyana's president in 1992. Subtly analyzing the actual role of Marxism in Caribbean anticolonial struggles and bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view, Palmer examines the often malevolent roles played by leaders at home and abroad and shows how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial politics, and poor leadership delayed Guyana's independence until 1966, scarring the body politic in the process.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807899615

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9780807899618

Behavioral Game Theory

Experiments in Strategic Interaction

By: Colin Camerer

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Behavioral Game Theory

Experiments in Strategic Interaction

By: Colin Camerer

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Princeton University Press

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0691090394

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9780691090399

I Saw the Light

The Story of Hank Williams

By: William MacEwen,George Merritt,Colin Escott

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I Saw the Light

The Story of Hank Williams

By: William MacEwen,George Merritt,Colin Escott

The book that inspired the major motion picture I Saw the Light. In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "Jambalaya" sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country music that followed. But by the time of his death at age twenty-nine, Williams had drunk and drugged and philandered his way through two messy marriages and out of his headline spot on the Grand Ole Opry. Even though he was country music's top seller, toward the end he was so famously unreliable that he was lucky to get a booking in a beer hall. Colin Escott's enthralling, definitive biograph -- now the basis of the major motion picture I Saw the Light -- vividly details the singer's stunning rise and his spectacular decline, revealing much that was previously unknown or hidden about the life of this country music legend. Originally published as Hank William: The Biography.

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Little, Brown

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0316315060

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9780316315067

Paleoclimatology

From Snowball Earth to the Anthropocene

By: Colin P. Summerhayes

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Paleoclimatology

From Snowball Earth to the Anthropocene

By: Colin P. Summerhayes

Life on our planet depends upon having a climate that changes within narrow limits – not too hot for the oceans to boil away nor too cold for the planet to freeze over. Over the past billion years Earth’s average temperature has stayed close to 14-15°C, oscillating between warm greenhouse states and cold icehouse states. We live with variation, but a variation with limits. Paleoclimatology is the science of understanding and explaining those variations, those limits, and the forces that control them. Without that understanding we will not be able to foresee future change accurately as our population grows. Our impact on the planet is now equal to a geological force, such that many geologists now see us as living in a new geological era – the Anthropocene. Paleoclimatology describes Earth’s passage through the greenhouse and icehouse worlds of the past 800 million years, including the glaciations of Snowball Earth in a world that was then free of land plants. It describes the operation of the Earth’s thermostat, which keeps the planet fit for life, and its control by interactions between greenhouse gases, land plants, chemical weathering, continental motions, volcanic activity, orbital change and solar variability. It explains how we arrived at our current understanding of the climate system, by reviewing the contributions of scientists since the mid-1700s, showing how their ideas were modified as science progressed. And it includes reflections based on the author’s involvement in palaeoclimatic research. The book will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about future climate change. It will be an invaluable course reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students in geology, climatology, oceanography and the history of science. "A real tour-de-force! An outstanding summary not only of the science and what needs to be done, but also the challenges that are a consequence of psychological and cultural baggage that threatens not only the survival of our own species but the many others we are eliminating as well." Peter Barrett Emeritus Professor of Geology, Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand "What a remarkable and wonderful synthesis... it will be a wonderful source of [paleoclimate] information and insights." Christopher R. Scotese Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119591503

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9781119591504

Hardscrabble Diamonds

Postwar Baseball in New England and the Maritimes, 1945-1960

By: Colin Howell

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Hardscrabble Diamonds

Postwar Baseball in New England and the Maritimes, 1945-1960

By: Colin Howell

Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "NCAA North" during the 1940s and 1950s. A summer training ground for players from leading U.S. college programs, the region attracted talented players seeking higher salaries than they could get in the American minor league system. Major league organizations came to scout blue-chip prospects. In this competitive environment, only the best were able to crack the rosters of town teams in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. A Quality of Competition Index for various northeast leagues provides major league equivalencies for selected players.

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McFarland

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1476648735

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