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Personhood and Presence

Self as a Resource for Spiritual and Pastoral Care

By: Ewan Kelly

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Personhood and Presence

Self as a Resource for Spiritual and Pastoral Care

By: Ewan Kelly

An accessible resource for students and pracititioners to become aware of the significance of self-knowledge for the provision of sensitive spiritual and pastoral care.

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A&C Black

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0567283283

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9780567283283

Burton Toys

By: Jeremy Ewan

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The products of Burton Toys may have been designed for children, but it was the childish adults producing them that made it a special place. It was an environment where educated men could debate the physics behind a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. It was a place where a woman with years of training in literature could celebrate the works of Dr. Seuss and be taken seriously. Burton Toys was the place that all children envisioned working as an adult, and the place where working adults could act like a child. Burton Toys is an awkward mishmash of heartfelt sincerity and absurd comedy that blends together for a unique reading experience. In the grand tradition of American writing that leans more on imagination than talent, Burton Toys is simply a lot of fun. Little more, but nothing less.

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iUniverse

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0595328350

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9780595328352

Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations

Concepts, Schools and Contemporary Issues

By: Ewan Ferlie,Edoardo Ongaro

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Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations

Concepts, Schools and Contemporary Issues

By: Ewan Ferlie,Edoardo Ongaro

Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations sets out to connect the two traditionally disparate academic literatures of public management and strategic management. The authors argue that some models of strategic management are now of enhanced relevance for contemporary public services organizations, especially when considering successive New Public Management reforms. This observation has important consequences for the requisite work practices, skills and knowledge bases of current public managers, as they are increasingly being asked to act as strategic as well as operational managers. Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations takes a strongly comparative and international perspective in addressing the fundamental issue of strategic management within diverse public administrative traditions. The impact of strategic management on the performance of public agencies is examined and it is argued that the appropriate use of strategic management models depends on the politico-administrative and cultural contexts of the public services organization in question, concluding that there is no single best way to strategically lead public organisations. This is an advanced textbook aimed at the postgraduate level, particularly students on MPAs and MBAs with a public sector option or MScs in Public Policy and Public Management.

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Routledge

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1135008027

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9781135008024

The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West

By: Ewan Harrison,S. Mitchell,Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

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The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West

By: Ewan Harrison,S. Mitchell,Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

This book explores the paradox of the worldwide spread of democracy and capitalism in an era of Western decline. The rest is overtaking the West as Samuel Huntington predicted, but because it is adopting Western institutions. The emerging global order offers unprecedented opportunities for the expansion of peace, prosperity, and freedom. Yet this is not the 'end of history', but the beginning of a post-Western future for the democratic project. The major conflicts of the future will occur between the established democracies of the West and emerging democracies in the developing world as they seek the benefits and recognition associated with membership of the democratic community. This 'clash of democratizations' will define world politics.

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Springer

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1137346868

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9781137346865

The New Public Management in Action

By: Ewan Ferlie

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The New Public Management in Action

By: Ewan Ferlie

This book analyses changes which have occurred in the organization and management of the UK public services over the last 15 years, looking particularly at the restructured NHS. The authors present an up-to-date analysis around three main themes: the transfer of private sector models to the public sector, the management of change in the public sector, and management reorganization and role change. In doing so they examine to what extent a New Public Management has emerged, and ask whether this is a parochial UK development or of wider international significance. This is a topical and important issue in management training, professional, and policy circles. Important analytic themes include: an analysis of the nature of the change process in the UK public services, characterization of quasi markets, the changing role of local Boards, and possible adaptation by professional groupings. The book also addresses the important and controversial question of accountability, and contributes to the development of a general theory of the New Public Management.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198289022

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9780198289029

A Casebook on Labour Law

By: Ewan McGaughey

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A Casebook on Labour Law

By: Ewan McGaughey

A Casebook on Labour Law supports every university labour or employment law course in the UK, set within European Union and international law. It covers history and theory, contract and rights, participation, equality, and job security. It also has chapters on essential topics for modern labour policy: the right to vote for company boards, in work councils and pension funds, and laws to achieve full employment by ending underpaid underemployment. Each chapter summarises further reading from noteworthy books and journals, and follows a unified conceptual structure. This aims to transcend historic divisions between common law or statute, private or public, and national or international law. The book invites the reader to engage in the economic and social evidence about labour law's empirical consequences and political principles.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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184946930X

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9781849469302

A Land Between

Owens Valley, California

By: Rebecca Fish Ewan

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A Land Between

Owens Valley, California

By: Rebecca Fish Ewan

A Land Between tells the stories of the people who have lived in the valley and uncovers the marks they have left on the land.

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JHU Press

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0801864615

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9780801864612

Shame in Shakespeare

By: Ewan Fernie

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Shame in Shakespeare

By: Ewan Fernie

One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on philosophers and theorists of shame, Shame in Shakespeare analyses the shame and humiliation suffered by the tragic hero, providing not only a new approach to Shakespeare but a committed and provocative argument for reclaiming shame. The volume provides: · an account of previous traditions of shame and of the Renaissance context · a thematic map of the rich manifestations of both masculine and feminine shame in Shakespeare · detailed readings of Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear · an analysis of the limitations of Roman shame in Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus · a polemical discussion of the fortunes of shame in modern literature after Shakespeare. The book presents a Shakespearean vision of shame as the way to the world outside the self. It establishes the continued vitality and relevance of Shakespeare and offers a fresh and exciting way of seeing his tragedies.

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Routledge

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1134514603

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9781134514601

The Demonic

Literature and Experience

By: Ewan Fernie

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The Demonic

Literature and Experience

By: Ewan Fernie

Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we’re not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselves? And where, in these cases, do we draw the line? Ewan Fernie argues that the demonic tradition in literature offers a key to our most agonised and intimate experiences. The Demonic ranges across the breadth of Western culture, engaging with writers as central and various as Luther, Shakespeare, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Melville and Mann. A powerful foreword by Jonathan Dollimore brings out its implications as an intellectual and stylistic breakthrough into new ways of writing criticism. Fernie unfolds an intense and personal vision, not just of Western modernity, but of identity, morality and sex. As much as it’s concerned with the great works, this is a book about life.

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Routledge

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1136178570

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9781136178573

Business Law

By: Ewan MacIntyre

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Business Law

By: Ewan MacIntyre

MacIntyre’s Business Law is the foremost text for non-law students seeking an understanding of the legal principles that apply to business. Each chapter begins with a clear outline of the topics to be covered, helping you break your learning down into manageable chunks and fully grasp all aspects of the subject. In addition, the text offers key points to guide your learning and tasks to help you apply what you have learned to business situations. Each chapter ends with a series of multiple-choice questions and a selection of in-depth problem questions. A Lecturer’s Guide, made available to lecturers who adopt the book, provides suggested answers to all of the multiple-choice and problem questions.

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Pearson UK

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1292219971

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9781292219974

Goode and McKendrick on Commercial Law

6th Edition

By: Roy Goode,Ewan McKendrick

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Goode and McKendrick on Commercial Law

6th Edition

By: Roy Goode,Ewan McKendrick

The sixth edition of the authoritative and acclaimed commercial law text 'A great book ... will be equally useful to legal practitioners, students and business people' Financial Times This sixth edition of Goode on Commercial Law, now retitled Goode and McKendrick on Commercial Law, remains the first port of call for the modern day practitioner with its theoretical and practical coverage of commercial law in both a national and an international context. Now updated to cover the most recent legal and technical changes, this highly acclaimed and authoritative text, which is regularly cited by all courts from the Supreme Court downwards, combines a deep theoretical analysis of foundational principles with a practical approach in the context of typical commercial and financial transactions. It is also replete with diagrams and specimen forms covering a wide range of transactions. 'Searching analysis and meticulous exposition coupled with a lucid clarity of style and a relaxed lightness of touch combine to make the book not only compulsory but compulsive reading for anyone interested in its field' Law Quarterly Review 'A work of immense scholarship ... Professor Goode's work must be as nearly exhaustive as can be possible and as produced by Penguin is a triumph of paperback publishing' Solicitor's Journal 'Clear and comprehensive ... The student and practitioner will find it indispensable; the interested layperson too will benefit from it as a work of reference' British Business 'A veritable tour de force' Business Law Review

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Penguin UK

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0141998563

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9780141998565

Early Childhood Studies

A Social Science Perspective

By: Ewan Ingleby

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Early Childhood Studies

A Social Science Perspective

By: Ewan Ingleby

Early Childhood Studies: A Social Science Perspective explores key issues in early childhood studies from a variety of social science disciplines, including psychology, sociology, social policy and education. Each chapter considers a different social science discipline, identifying, analysing and critically assessing how that particular discipline enriches early years provision and research.User-friendly student features are included throughout, including:- Icebreakers introduce the main chapter themes- Objectives help readers to develop cognitive skills, moving from identifying to analysing to critically assessing - Formative activities encourage practical application of the content - Case-studies ground theory in practice - Research activities support those looking to take their understanding further - Self-assessment questions allow readers to test their knowledge- Further reading references and web links provide ideas for further exploration An essential course companion for all Early Childhood Studies undergraduate students.

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A&C Black

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1441156143

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9781441156143

Twenty-First Century Jihad

Law, Society and Military Action

By: Elisabeth Kendall,Ewan Stein

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Twenty-First Century Jihad

Law, Society and Military Action

By: Elisabeth Kendall,Ewan Stein

The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, like other religious and political concepts, jihad has multiple resonances and associations, its meaning shifting over time and from place to place. Jihad has referred to movements of internal reform, spiritual struggle and self-defence as much as to 'holy war'. And among Muslim intellectuals, the meaning and significance of jihad remain subject to debate and controversy. With this in mind, Twenty-First Century Jihad examines the ways in which the concept of jihad has changed, from its roots in the Quran to its usage in current debate. This book explores familiar modern political angles, and touches on far less commonly analysed instances of jihad, incorporating issues of law, society, literature and military action. As this key concept is ever-more important for international politics and security studies, Twenty-First Century Jihad contains vital analysis for those researching the role of religion in the modern world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857727680

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9780857727688

Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution

By: Andrew S. Burrows,Ewan McKendrick,James Edelman

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Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution

By: Andrew S. Burrows,Ewan McKendrick,James Edelman

Written by leading experts who have shaped and defined the law of restitution, the book provides an authoritative and scholarly guide to the subject. The second edition of this seminal title continues the formula of the first edition by combining a comprehensive coverage of cases with extracts from leading academic authorities.

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0199296510

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9780199296514

Max Verstappen

The Unstoppable Force in Formula One

By: Ewan McKenzie

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Max Verstappen

The Unstoppable Force in Formula One

By: Ewan McKenzie

Max Verstappen is an illustrated biography of the talented, rising Formula 1 star, from his start as the son of two motorsport talents through to his many World Championship wins.

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0711294925

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9780711294929

The Sound of Sirens

By: Ewan Gault

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The Sound of Sirens

By: Ewan Gault

In a dead-beat coastal town in North East Scotland, seventeen-year-old Malky Campbell is desperate to help his pregnant and heroin addicted girlfriend. DI Stark, a middle-aged detective, alarmed by the rise of teenage crime in Port Cawdor, uncovers the operations of a county line gang that are flooding the area with drugs and engaging in a vicious turf war with a local family. Malky has just started working on his family's trawler with his cousin Johnny, when their boat pulls up Johnny's brother in its nets. The rest of the crew, the tightly-knit community and the police start to suspect that the cousins are responsible for his death. With his brother dead, Johnny inherits the family trawler, which he plans to use to smuggle drugs into the country for the county line gang, giving him enough money to start a new life. Ewan Gault's debut, The Sound of Sirens is a tough, modern crime novel, presenting the complexities of young life in a town at the end of the line.'The Sound of Sirens reads like Irvine Welsh blended with Ian Rankin. A fast paced and darkly addictive crime story, exploring what it means to be young, male and on the peripheries of 21st century Scotland.' G. R. Halliday, author of Dark Shadows and From the Waters 'Beautifully and darkly written, The Sound of Sirens is redolent with the reek of the boats and ports of the North East coast, and the stench of crime. Ewan Gault's writing perfectly shows the hardship of life at sea, and disaffected youth struggling to survive on dry land, where the only escape is addiction.' Mark Leggatt, author of The Silk Road and The London Cage 'A gritty, murderous crime novel? A Bildungsroman? A scathing indictment of wasted youth in contemporary Scotland? This excellent page turner is all of these and more, and is guaranteed to please to the last breath.' Craig Gibson, One O'Clock Gun

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Leamington Books

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1914090381

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9781914090387

Reconceiving the Renaissance

A Critical Reader

By: Ewan Fernie,Ramona Wray,Mark Thornton Burnett,Clare McManus

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Reconceiving the Renaissance

A Critical Reader

By: Ewan Fernie,Ramona Wray,Mark Thornton Burnett,Clare McManus

The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period. Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, topical questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do some reconceiving themselves.

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OUP Oxford

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0191532754

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9780191532757

Discographies

Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound

By: Jeremy Gilbert,Ewan Pearson

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Discographies

Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound

By: Jeremy Gilbert,Ewan Pearson

Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these origins in the history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure. Discussing such issues as technology, club space. drugs, the musical body, gender, sexuality and pleasure, Discographies explores the ecstatic experiences at the heart of contemporary dance culture. It suggests why politicians and agencies as diverse as the independent music press and public broadcasting should be so hostile to this cultural phenomenon.

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Routledge

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1134698925

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9781134698929

Videogames and the Gothic

By: Ewan Kirkland

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Videogames and the Gothic

By: Ewan Kirkland

This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design. Through a series of detailed case studies, Videogames and the Gothic illustrates the extent to which particular tropes of Gothic culture –neo-medieval aesthetics, secret-filled labyrinthine spaces, the sense of a dark past impacting upon the present – have been appropriated by and transformed within digital games. Moving beyond the study of the generic influences of horror on digital gaming, Ewan Kirkland focuses in on the Gothic, a less visceral mode tending towards the unsettling, the uncertain and the uncanny. He explores the extent to which imagery, storylines and narrative preoccupations taken from Gothic fiction facilitate the affordances and limitations of the videogame medium. A core contention of this book is that videogames have developed as an inherently Gothic form of popular entertainment. Arguing for close proximity between Gothic culture and the videogame medium itself, this book will be a key contribution to both Gothic and digital game scholarship; as such, it will have resonance with scholars and students in both areas, as well as those interested in Gothic novels, media and popular culture, digital games and interactive fiction.

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Routledge

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1000453103

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9781000453102

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera

By: John Warrack,Ewan West

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera

By: John Warrack,Ewan West

Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary of Opera, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of opera available in paperback. Fully revised for this new edition, with over 3,500 entries, it is designed to be accessible to all those who enjoy opera, whether at the opera-house oron record. * Composers and their works * Singers and their notable performances * Plot summaries and separate entries for well-known roles, arias, and choruses * Leading conductors, producers, and designers * Opera companies and festivals

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Oxford Paperbacks

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0192800280

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9780192800282

Water Resources in the Arid Realm

By: Clive Agnew,Ewan Anderson

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Water Resources in the Arid Realm

By: Clive Agnew,Ewan Anderson

Originally published in 1992, this book dispels some of the myths that surround water resource problems of arid lands and the notion that there are simple ‘once and for all’ solutions. Population growth, industrialization, environmental mismanagement and land degradation have led to droughts, poverty and famine with the result that the need for space, food and key natural resources such as water has become the most critical issue in global development. Nowhere is this crisis more apparent than in arid lands, where water resources provide the key to economic and environmental development. The authors argue that as the arid land environment is highly variable the key to success is flexibility. The book is divided into four sections, dealing with the geography of the arid realm; the water resource problems they face: the methods available for enhancing water supplies and finally, management of this resource. The book will be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate student and for those actively engaged in the development of arid land water resources.

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348

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Taylor & Francis

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1040006248

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9781040006245

A Crannog of the First Millennium, AD

Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Glashan, Argyll, 1960

By: Anne Crone,Ewan Campbell

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A Crannog of the First Millennium, AD

Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Glashan, Argyll, 1960

By: Anne Crone,Ewan Campbell

The early medieval crannog in Loch Glashan was excavated in 1960 by Jack Scott, in advance of dam construction. The crannog produced a rich organic assemblage of wood and leather objects, as well as exotic items such as continental imported pottery and a brooch studded with amber. This title examines all the evidence from the crannog.

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Society Antiquaries Scotland

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0903903369

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9780903903363

Long Way Down

An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa

By: Ewan McGregor,Charley Boorman

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Long Way Down

An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa

By: Ewan McGregor,Charley Boorman

This unique travelogue offers the breathtaking account of the authors' three-month motorcycle journey across two continents, that took them from the northernmost tip of Scotland, across Europe, and down through Africa ending in Cape Town.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416577459

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9781416577454

Learning to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector

By: Ewan Ingleby,Dawn Joyce,Sharon Powell

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Learning to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector

By: Ewan Ingleby,Dawn Joyce,Sharon Powell

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A&C Black

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1441182969

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9781441182968

The Oxford Dictionary of Opera

By: John Warrack,Ewan West

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The Oxford Dictionary of Opera

By: John Warrack,Ewan West

From Aachen, a city launching much young talent, to Zwischenspiel, the usual German term for intermezzo, this new reference contains some 4,500 entries, including 750 on opera composers (with bibliographies), 600 on individual operas, 900 biographies of singers, and 350 entries of specialist terms, along with hundreds covering directors, conductors, scenes, writers, critics. A pleasing 782 pages, lots of detail, covering all aspects of the historical development and present standing of opera; appropriate for virtually all libraries. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press

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0198691645

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9780198691648

Meaningful Funerals

Meeting the Theological and Pastoral Challenge in a Postmodern Era

By: Ewan Kelly

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Meaningful Funerals

Meeting the Theological and Pastoral Challenge in a Postmodern Era

By: Ewan Kelly

The majority of the British population no longer attend church and, consequently, lack familiarity with the Christian tradition, its stories, language and metaphors. However, when bereaved, many still turn to church representatives, working in parish settings or chaplaincies, to perform funerals for their loved ones. The key issue addressed in this book is how funerals may be created which are not only relevant for the bereaved, but also have theological integrity. A paradigm shift in the manner by which funerals are constructed is proposed - from imposing alien liturgies to creating a unique ritual which evolves from the meeting of the stories of the bereaved and that of the ritual leader. The argument for the co-construction of funerals is informed by contemporary models of grief and Kelly's own experience with bereaved parents who worked with hospital chaplains to co-construct funerals for their babies. Co-construction is a process which is centred on listening and empowering, and involves offering the bereaved choices from a range of ritual resources (sacred and secular) in order to help them shape their funeral's content. It is a model of ritual construction which requires time, availability and risk-taking on the part of the ritual leader but which significantly helps the spiritual needs of the bereaved to be met. Moreover, such a process facilitates sensitive regulation of grief in an age where its privatisation has meant the bereaved are often bereft of a means by which to benchmark their feelings, behaviour and decision making.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441108904

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9781441108906

Marking Short Lives

Constructing and Sharing Rituals Following Pregnancy Loss

By: Ewan R. Kelly,Ewan Kelly

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Marking Short Lives

Constructing and Sharing Rituals Following Pregnancy Loss

By: Ewan R. Kelly,Ewan Kelly

This book explores theologically the practice of hospital chaplains seeking to meet the spiritual needs of parents bereaved by baby death in-utero. The lived experience of bereaved parents, gathered through a series of in-depth interviews, informs such an exploration. Parents describe the trauma of late miscarriage and stillbirth as still being shrouded by silence, myth and misunderstanding in contemporary society. Up-to-date theoretical understandings of grief are also re-examined in light of parents' stories of living with baby death. This book offers suggestions as to how the actual spiritual needs of parents may be met and their grief sensitively facilitated through the sharing of rituals co-constructed by parents and chaplain which seek to have theological integrity yet be relevant in our postmodern age. In our prevalent culture of caring, where increasingly ongoing professional and personal development are regarded as normative, recommendations are made which may aid reflection on current, or shape future, practice for chaplains, pastors, students and various healthcare professionals.

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Peter Lang

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303910702X

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9783039107025

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