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Organisational Behaviour for Social Work

By: Gavin Bissell

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Organisational Behaviour for Social Work

By: Gavin Bissell

Using real social work case examples, Organisational behaviour for social work unites the well-established study of behaviour in organizations with the special, and sometimes unusual, organizational settings of social work practice.

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Policy Press

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1847422799

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The Wave Watcher's Companion

Ocean Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations

By: Gavin Pretor-Pinney

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The Wave Watcher's Companion

Ocean Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations

By: Gavin Pretor-Pinney

A lively, revealing look at waves of all kinds from the bestselling author of The Cloudspotter's Guide Get ready for a global journey like no other-a passionate enthusiast's exploration of waves that begins with a quiet afternoon at the shore and ends with the world-class Hawaiian surf, making side trips to reveal the ups and downs of brain waves, radio waves, infrared waves, microwaves, shock waves, light waves, and much more.

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337

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Penguin

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0399536701

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9780399536700

Place and Professional Practice

The Geographies in Healthcare Work

By: Gavin J. Andrews,Emma Rowland,Elizabeth Peter

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Place and Professional Practice

The Geographies in Healthcare Work

By: Gavin J. Andrews,Emma Rowland,Elizabeth Peter

This book presents the first single comprehensive analysis of the scope of geographical realities and relevance in health care work. Conceptually, the book conveys how space, place and geographical ideas matter to clinical practice, from the historical beginnings of professional roles and responsibilities in medicine to the present day. In 8 chapters, the book covers healthcare work across a range of job types (including physician, nurse, and multiple technical and therapeutic roles in multiple specialties), and across a range of scales (focusing on global issues and trends, national and regional particularities, urban and rural issues, institutional environments and various community settings). This book is intended for students, teachers, and researchers in geography, social science and various health sciences. Chapter 1 examines how geographical ideas have been central to practitioners' thinking and practice over time. Chapter 2 reviews the scope of contemporary geographical study of health care work. Chapter 3 presents an empirical case study of the geographies in hospital-based ward work. Chapter 4 presents an empirical case study of the geographies in ambulance/rapid response work. Chapter 5 presents a case study of the geographies associated with a high profile case of criminality and neglect in practice. Chapter 6 considers concepts and the geographies in person-centred care. Chapter 7 considers concepts and the geographies in skills attainment.

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192

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Springer Nature

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3030641791

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9783030641795

Non-Representational Theory & Health

The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing

By: Gavin J. Andrews

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Non-Representational Theory & Health

The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing

By: Gavin J. Andrews

Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency in the making of everyday life. This book offers an agenda for health geography, providing the first comprehensive overview of what a ‘more-than-representational’ health geography looks like. It outlines the basis of a new ontological understanding of health, and explores the key qualities of ‘movement-space’ that are critical to how health emerges within the assemblages that enable it. It shows how non-representational events and concerns are key to human happiness and wellbeing, to the experience of health and disease, to activities that add to or detract from health and to health care work, not to mention to the broader initiatives and operation of health institutions and health sciences. This book bridges the gap between non-representational theory and health research, and provides the groundwork for future developments in the field. It will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals alike working in health, geography and a range of other disciplines.

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309

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Routledge

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1317086945

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Obesity in the News

Language and Representation in the Press

By: Gavin Brookes,Paul Baker

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Obesity in the News

Language and Representation in the Press

By: Gavin Brookes,Paul Baker

The way in : shared keywords in the press -- Studying difference : comparing sections of the press -- Change over time -- Shaming and reclaiming -- Healthy body : diet and exercise -- Gendered discourses of obesity -- 'A disease of the poor'? Obesity and social class -- Going 'below the line' : reader responses.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108836399

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9781108836395

Youth Activism and Solidarity

The non-stop picket against Apartheid

By: Gavin Brown,Helen Yaffe

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Youth Activism and Solidarity

The non-stop picket against Apartheid

By: Gavin Brown,Helen Yaffe

From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London. This book examines how and why a group of children, teenagers and young adults made themselves ‘non-stop against apartheid’, creating one of the most visible expressions of anti-apartheid solidarity in Britain. Drawing on interviews with over ninety former participants in the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy and extensive archival research using previously unstudied documents, this book offers new insights to the study of social movements and young people’s lives. It theorises solidarity and the processes of adolescent development as social practices to provide a theoretically-informed, argument-led analysis of how young activists build and practice solidarity. Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid will be of interest to geographers, historians and a wide range of other social scientists concerned with the historical geography of the international anti-apartheid movement, social movement studies, contemporary British history, and young people’s activism and geopolitical agency.

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401

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Routledge

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1317572564

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9781317572565

Organisational Behaviour for Social Work

By: Gavin Bissell

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By: Gavin Bissell

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The SAS in Occupied France

2 SAS Operations, June to October 1944

By: Gavin Mortimer

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The SAS in Occupied France

2 SAS Operations, June to October 1944

By: Gavin Mortimer

In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular storming of the Iranian Embassy, and there have been hundreds of books, films, documentaries and even reality TV shows about them. But what there hasn't been is a guide to the scenes of some of their most famous Second World War operations. That is why Gavin Mortimer’s vivid two-volume account of their daring missions in German-occupied France in 1944 is such compelling reading. SAS actions in France delayed German reinforcements reaching the battlefront in Normandy, later sewing confusion among the Germans as they withdrew. The SAS trained the French Maquis and helped to turn them from an indisciplined rabble into an effective fighting force. Their exploits inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, and they left a trail of destruction and disorder in their wake. In this second volume focusing on 2 SAS he describes in graphic detail operations Loyton, Wallace and Hardy, and Rupert, all of which were carried out in eastern France. Using previously unpublished interviews with SAS veterans and members of the Maquis as well as rare photographs, Gavin Mortimer blends the past and present, so that readers can walk in the footsteps of SAS heroes and see where they lived, fought and died.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1526769611

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9781526769619

The Industrial Revolutionaries

The Making of the Modern World, 1776–1914

By: Gavin Weightman

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The Industrial Revolutionaries

The Making of the Modern World, 1776–1914

By: Gavin Weightman

“Anyone with a passing interest in economic history will thoroughly enjoy” this account of how industry transformed the world (The Seattle Times). In less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood and powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels. This “entertaining and informative” account weaves together the dramatic stories of giants such as Edison, Watt, Wedgwood, and Daimler with lesser-known or entirely forgotten characters, including a group of Japanese samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of the West, and John “Iron Mad” Wilkinson, who didn’t let war between England and France stop him from plumbing Paris (The Wall Street Journal). “Integrating lively biography with technological clarity, Weightman converts the Industrial Revolution into an enjoyably readable period of history.” —Booklist “Skillfully stitching together thumbnail sketches of a large number of inventors, architects, engineers, and visionaries. . . . Weightman expertly marshals his cast of characters across continents and centuries, forging a genuinely global history that brings the collaborative, if competitive, business of industrial innovation to life.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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1555848850

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9781555848859

Spatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

By: Gavin Shaddick,James V. Zidek

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Spatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

By: Gavin Shaddick,James V. Zidek

Teaches Students How to Perform Spatio-Temporal Analyses within Epidemiological StudiesSpatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology is the first book of its kind to specifically address the interface between environmental epidemiology and spatio-temporal modeling. In response to the growing need for collaboration between statisticians and

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CRC Press

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1482237040

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Book's by Gavin Bissell

Organisational Behaviour for Social Work

Organisational Behaviour for Social Work

The Wave Watcher's Companion

The Wave Watcher's Companion

Place and Professional Practice

Place and Professional Practice

Non-Representational Theory & Health

Non-Representational Theory & Health

Obesity in the News

Obesity in the News

Youth Activism and Solidarity

Youth Activism and Solidarity

Organisational Behaviour for Social Work

Organisational Behaviour for Social Work

The SAS in Occupied France

The SAS in Occupied France

The Industrial Revolutionaries

The Industrial Revolutionaries

Spatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

Spatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

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