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The Making of Our Urban Landscape

By: Geoffrey Tyack

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The Making of Our Urban Landscape

By: Geoffrey Tyack

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world that most of us inhabit and know best. But what do we actually know about our urban world - and how it was created? The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia, from Roman and Anglo-Saxon times, through the Norman Conquest and the later Middle Ages to the 'great rebuilding' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'polite townscapes' of the eighteenth, and the commercial and industrial towns and cities of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The final chapter then takes the story from the end of the Second World War to the present, from the New Towns of the immediate post-war era to the trendy converted warehouses of Shoreditch. This is a book that will make the world you live in come alive. If you are a town or a city-dweller, you are unlikely ever to look at the everyday world around you in quite the same way again.

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Oxford University Press

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0198792638

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An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society

Kentish London 1840-1880

By: Geoffrey Crossick

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An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society

Kentish London 1840-1880

By: Geoffrey Crossick

First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it, and that stability is in part explained by the emergence of an artisan elite with a specific relationship to the society around it. This book examines that elite: its clubs and societies, co-operatives and building societies; its values and ideology, challenging the notion that these artisans directly absorbed middle-class values; its politics, tracing the evolution from Chartism through the Reform League and on to a radical liberalism which existed in constant tension with the local liberal middle class. A careful reconstruction of the social, political and industrial life of these artisans is set within the context of the local communities, and their understanding of the mid-Victorian society in which they lived is seen as the explanation for their values and activities. This title makes a major contribution towards our understanding of the nineteenth-century working class.

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Routledge

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1317237420

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Political Correctness

A History of Semantics and Culture

By: Geoffrey Hughes

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Political Correctness

A History of Semantics and Culture

By: Geoffrey Hughes

Political Correctness “Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that there is such a phenomenon, that it has become dominant in our culture, and that it represents a growing tendency to censor public debate and to prevent people from questioning orthodoxies which we all know to be false.” Roger Scruton, American Enterprise Institute “What a joy this book is! Hughes’ study traces, with unflagging zest, the modern history of PC. Sumptuous in data, in judgment precise, this is the latest and fullest of Hughes’ series on the social history of language.” Walter Nash, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham Political Correctness is now an everyday phrase and part of the modern mindset. Everyone thinks they know what it means, but its own meaning constantly shifts. Its surprising origins have led to it becoming integrated into contemporary culture in ways that are both idealistic and ridiculous. Originally grounded in respect for difference and sensitivity to suffering, it has often become a distraction and even a silencer of genuine issues, provoking satire and parody. In this carefully researched, thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Hughes examines the trajectory of political correctness and its impact on public life. Exploring the origins, progress, content, and style of PC, Hughes’ journey leads us through authors as diverse as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Swift; Philip Larkin, David Mamet, and J.M. Coetzee; from nursery rhymes to Spike Lee films. Focusing on the historical, semantic, and cultural aspects of political correctness, this outstanding and unique work will intrigue anyone interested in this ongoing debate.

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Microeconomic Principles and Problems

A Pluralist Introduction

By: Geoffrey Schneider

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Microeconomic Principles and Problems

A Pluralist Introduction

By: Geoffrey Schneider

Microeconomic Principles and Problems offers a comprehensive introduction to all major perspectives in modern economics, including mainstream and heterodox approaches. Through providing multiple views of markets and how they work, it will leave readers better able to understand and analyse the complex behaviours of consumers, firms, and government officials, as well as the likely impact of a variety of economic events and policies. Most principles of microeconomics textbooks cover only mainstream economics, ignoring rich heterodox ideas. They also lack material on the great economists, including the important ideas of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek. Mainstream books neglect the kind of historical analysis that is crucial to understanding trends that help us predict the future. Moreover, they focus on abstract models more than existing economic realities. This engaging book addresses these inadequacies. Including explicit coverage of the major heterodox schools of thought, it allows the reader to choose which ideas they find most compelling in explaining modern economic realities. Written in an engaging style focused on real world examples, this ground-breaking book brings economics to life. It offers the most contemporary and complete package for any pluralistic microeconomics class.

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0429678762

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Matriarch

An Australian Novel of Love and Wa

By: Geoffrey Hope Gibson

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Matriarch

An Australian Novel of Love and Wa

By: Geoffrey Hope Gibson

ÿ"Powerful and unforgettable." At the beginning of the twentieth century, the son of an English lord settles in Australia and marries an indigenous woman. It is an age when interracial relationships are not only misunderstood, but result in family conflict, disgrace, and disinheritance. Then the Christian missionaries come. They destroy the timeless culture and beliefs of Australia's indigenous people, leaving them to flounder in a soup of the white man's religious beliefs. The great-grandmother's telling of the family story is the nourishment that holds it together through war, and the constant battle to adjust and exist in a white man's world. The Christian missionaries will not tolerate any belief or view other than their own. Amid all this religious and racial conflict, the great-grandchildren adjust and eventually prosper. The young man distinguishes himself in the conflict in Vietnam, while his sister finds her place and flourishes in the food and catering industry. From the Boer War through two World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the last decades of the twentieth century, Matriarch takes readers on an eye-opening journey through Australian history, culminating in a serial murder mystery that opens old family wounds. Author Geoffrey Hope Gibson's historical sweep of Australia's past is as broad as James A. Michener's. His style is reminiscent of Richard Llewellyn's depictions of Wales and Argentina, and his depiction of Aborigine mistreatment rivals the most frightening moments in Tayeb Salih's classic postcolonial novelÿSeason of Migration to the North. "Matriarchÿis a captivating story that will take readers through time within the aboriginal heart in Australia, and feel the raw truth of their history and social evolution to current times. A Must Read!" --Susan Violante, Managing Editor of Reader Views, and author ofÿInnocent War "This sprawling epic tale of love, marriage, injustice, ancestors, misguided religion, grief, rage, and murder is a testament to how the past never dies. In one family's struggles, Gibson creates a story that calls forth the best and worst of what it means to be human. Powerful and unforgettable." --Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D., and award-winning author ofÿNarrow LivesÿandÿThe Best Place Learn more at www.GeoffreyGibson.com From the World Voices Series Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com Fiction : Sagas Fiction : Thrillers : Historical

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1615992707

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The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Docudrama Series

Pivotal Moments in American History

By: Peter Goodchild,Murray Horowitz,Jonathan Estrin,Geoffrey Cowan,Leroy Aarons

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The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Docudrama Series

Pivotal Moments in American History

By: Peter Goodchild,Murray Horowitz,Jonathan Estrin,Geoffrey Cowan,Leroy Aarons

A unique play anthology featuring five gripping docudramas originally commissioned by L.A. Theatre Works that each explore pivotal moments in 20th century U.S history. With ensemble casts and innovative staging potential these plays are perfect for theatre companies, schools and educational groups looking to stage familiar historical stories in new and original ways. Each play is accompanied by dramaturgical notes that help contextualize and analyze both the events themselves and the dramatic form in which they are presented. The scripts included are: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild The Real Dr. Strangelove by Peter Goodchild RFK: The Journey to Justice by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin The Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Peter Goodchild Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons (Winner of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Best Live Entertainment Award, 1992) As well as five scripts this anthology includes a foreword by Professor Michael Hackett, professor of directing and theatre history at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135013581X

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Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics

Ecole d'Ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XXVI - 1996

By: Evarist Giné,Geoffrey R. Grimmett,Laurent Saloff-Coste

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Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics

Ecole d'Ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XXVI - 1996

By: Evarist Giné,Geoffrey R. Grimmett,Laurent Saloff-Coste

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A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry

By: Geoffrey N. Leech

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A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry

By: Geoffrey N. Leech

Seeks to demonstrate that the study of English poetry is enriched by the insights of modern linguistic analysis, and that linguistic and critical disciplines are not separate but complementary. Examining a wide range of poetry, Professor Leech considers many aspects of poetic style, including the language of past and present, creative language, poetic licence, repetition, sound, metre, context and ambiguity.

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1317869656

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The Evolution of Institutional Economics

Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American Institutionalism

By: Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

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The Evolution of Institutional Economics

Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American Institutionalism

By: Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new generation of readers will surely come to appreciate.

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Psychology Press

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0415322537

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The Arab Writer in English

Arab Themes in a Metropolitan Language, 1908-1958

By: Geoffrey Nash

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The Arab Writer in English

Arab Themes in a Metropolitan Language, 1908-1958

By: Geoffrey Nash

Examines the English writings of four twentieth-century Anglo-Arab and Arab-American writers.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837641730

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American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

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American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.

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0521434696

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Buckinghamshire

By: Nikolaus Pevsner,Elizabeth Williamson,Geoffrey K. Brandwood

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Buckinghamshire

By: Nikolaus Pevsner,Elizabeth Williamson,Geoffrey K. Brandwood

This completely new edition reveals a county of contrasts. The semi-rural suburbia of outer-Outer London, with its important early Modern Movement houses, is counterbalanced by magnificent mansions and parks, like idyllic Stowe and the Rothschilds' extravaganza at Waddesdon. The Saxon Church at Wing, the exquisite seventeenth-century Winslow Hall, and Slough's twentieth-century factories all contribute to Buckinghamshire's rich inheritance. In this new edition, the unspoilt centres of small towns, like Amersham and Buckingham, are revisited and Milton Keynes, Britain's last and most ambitious New Town, is explained and explored. The rich diversity of rural buildings, built of stone, brick, timber, and even earth, is investigated with scholarship and discrimination. This accessible and comprehensive guide is prefaced by an illuminating introduction and has many excellent illustrations, plans and maps.

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Yale University Press

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0300095848

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Enchanted Evenings

The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber

By: Geoffrey Block

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Enchanted Evenings

The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber

By: Geoffrey Block

This second edition offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best musicals. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the eighteen musicals he discusses. He reveals how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen, and how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape pieces.--[book cover].

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Oxford University Press

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0195384008

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Rulers and Victims

The Russians in the Soviet Union

By: Geoffrey Hosking

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Rulers and Victims

The Russians in the Soviet Union

By: Geoffrey Hosking

Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind of Russia emerged? In this illuminating book, Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. One of the keys lies in messianism--the idea rooted in Russian Orthodoxy that the Russians were a "chosen people." The communists reshaped this notion into messianic socialism, in which the Soviet order would lead the world in a new direction. Neither vision, however, fit the "community spirit" of the Russian people, and the resulting clash defined the Soviet world. Hosking analyzes how the Soviet state molded Russian identity, beginning with the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war. He discusses the severe dislocations resulting from collectivization and industrialization; the relationship between ethnic Russians and other Soviet peoples; the dramatic effects of World War II on ideas of homeland and patriotism; the separation of "Russian" and "Soviet" culture; leadership and the cult of personality; and the importance of technology in the Soviet world view. At the heart of this penetrating work is the fundamental question of what happens to a people who place their nationhood at the service of empire. There is no surer guide than Geoffrey Hosking to reveal the historical forces forging Russian identity in the post-communist world.

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Harvard University Press

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0674030532

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Singing in the Valleys;

and then into a town that died

By: Geoffrey Peyton

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Singing in the Valleys;

and then into a town that died

By: Geoffrey Peyton

A walk about Porthcawl and the towns environs during the middle of Spring 2013, The journey takes me through a lot of disappointment, but thankfully through lot of the more beauty spots that are further afield from a quite sorrowful town. I am accompanied by Mike Thomas, an old friend who is of Welsh origin and knows the better parts of this majestic country.

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Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston's Law of Contract

By: M. P. Furmston,Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire,Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot

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Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston's Law of Contract

By: M. P. Furmston,Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire,Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot

Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston's Law of Contract stands as one of the classic textbooks on contract law more than 50 years after the publication of the first edition. Michael Furmston combines an authoritative account of the principles of the law of contract with thought-provoking analysis and insights, and the clarity of the narrative brings understanding of complex contractual issues to a wider readership. Each topic is clearly signposted for ease of navigation, and the text contains numerous references to additional primary and secondary sources to take the reader even further into the subject. The text is invaluable to students reading courses in contract, the law of obligations, and common law. It is also of real use to students of other disciplines needing a clear overview of the law of contract, and is often used as a first point of reference for practitioners. Online Resource Centre Student resources: - Annual updates- Web links

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199287562

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Criticism and the Nineteenth Century

By: Geoffrey Tillotson

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Criticism and the Nineteenth Century

By: Geoffrey Tillotson

The re-emergence into critical esteem of the literature of the English mid-nineteenth century has been one of the post-war excitements for students and general readers. Mid-nineteenth century literature is not simply the best body of literature the English have produced. It happens also to be literature that has a practical interest for ourselves. We live so plainly in its wake. The problems being faced a hundred years ago are the problems still facing ourselves, such as the continued supremacy of science and its methods and the consequently progressive disappearance of what was called the supernatural. Nineteenth-century literature, however, is interesting for other reasons than extended topicality, offering infinite aesthetic riches, as Geoffrey Tillotson discusses in this volume of essays.

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A&C Black

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1472507622

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Patton's Tactician

The War Diary of Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes

By: Geoffrey Keyes

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Patton's Tactician

The War Diary of Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes

By: Geoffrey Keyes

Nineteen months after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and forced the United States to enter World War II, boats carrying the 7th US Army landed on the shores of southern Sicily. Dubbed Operation Husky, the campaign to establish an Allied foothold in Sicily was led by two of the most noted American tacticians of the twentieth century: George S. Patton Jr. and Geoffrey Keyes. While Patton is the subject of numerous books and films, Keyes's life and achievements have gone unrecognized, but his anonymity is by no means an accurate reflection of the value of his contributions and dedicated service in World War II and the succeeding cold war. Patton's Tactician: The War Diary of Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes is the first transcribed edition of Keyes's personal diary to be published. Edited by James W. Holsinger Jr., the diary begins in October 1942, prior to the invasion of French Morocco and Keyes's engagement in World War II and the Cold War. Holsinger has integrated a variety of related sources, including correspondence between Keyes, Patton, and Eisenhower. A day-to-day chronicle of Keyes's experiences in the World War II Mediterranean Theater and the early days of the Cold War in occupied Germany and Austria, Patton's Tactician is an invaluable primary source that offers readers a glimpse into the mind of one of America's most important World War II corps commanders.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813198739

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From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities

An Evolutionary Economics Without Homo Economicus

By: Geoffrey M. Hodgson

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From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities

An Evolutionary Economics Without Homo Economicus

By: Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate behavior, or morality. The complex interaction of morality and self-interest is at the heart of Geoffrey M. Hodgson’s approach to evolutionary economics, which is designed to bring about a better understanding of human behavior. In From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities, Hodgson casts a critical eye on neoclassical individualism, its foundations and flaws, and turns to recent insights from research on the evolutionary bases of human behavior. He focuses his attention on the evolution of morality, its meaning, why it came about, and how it influences human attitudes and behavior. This more nuanced understanding sets the stage for a fascinating investigation of its implications on a range of pressing issues drawn from diverse environments, including the business world and crucial policy realms like health care and ecology. This book provides a valuable complement to Hodgson’s earlier work with Thorbjørn Knudsen on evolutionary economics in Darwin’s Conjecture, extending the evolutionary outlook to include moral and policy-related issues.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226922715

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Integrated Assessment of Scale Impacts of Watershed Intervention

Assessing Hydrogeological and Bio-physical Influences on Livelihoods

By: V. Ratna Reddy,Geoffrey J. Syme

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Integrated Assessment of Scale Impacts of Watershed Intervention

Assessing Hydrogeological and Bio-physical Influences on Livelihoods

By: V. Ratna Reddy,Geoffrey J. Syme

Integrated Assessment of Scale Impacts of Watershed Interventions is the outcome of a multi-disciplinary research team of social scientists, hydrologists (groundwater and surface water), modellers; and bio-physical scientists who have worked together over five years to develop an integrated model of the sustainability of biophysical, economic and social impacts of watersheds. Impacts of watershed interventions are assessed at upstream, mid-stream and downstream locations of two hydrological units that are characterised with differential bio-physical attributes. The editors propose that watershed interventions, when integrated with hydro-geology and bio-physical aspects, have greater influence on the resilience of the socio-ecological system. This book takes these aspects in to consideration and in the process provides insights in to watershed design and implementation. - Integrates hydrogeology, bio-physical, and socioeconomic aspects of watersheds in a hydrological context - Provides a comprehensive understanding of the impacts of watershed interventions - Assesses the role of watershed interventions in enhancing household resilience - Provides hydrological and socio-economic methodologies for design of sustainble watershed interventions including scale and institutional arrangements for implementing and sustaining watershed interventions

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Economic Principles and Problems

A Pluralist Introduction

By: Geoffrey Schneider

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Economic Principles and Problems

A Pluralist Introduction

By: Geoffrey Schneider

Economic Principles and Problems: A Pluralistic Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to the major perspectives in modern economics, including mainstream and heterodox approaches. Through providing multiple views of markets and how they work, it leaves readers better able to understand and analyze the complex behaviors of consumers, firms, and government officials, as well as the likely impact of a variety of economic events and policies. Most principles of economics textbooks cover only mainstream economics, ignoring rich heterodox ideas. They also lack material on the great economists, including the important ideas of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek. Mainstream books tend to neglect the kind of historical analysis that is crucial to understanding trends that help us predict the future. Moreover, they focus primarily on abstract models more than existing economic realities. This engaging book addresses these inadequacies. Including explicit coverage of mainstream economics and the major heterodox schools of economic thought—institutionalists, feminists, radical political economists, post-Keynesians, Austrians, and social economists—it allows the reader to choose which ideas they find most compelling in explaining modern economic realities. Written in an engaging style and focused on real-world examples, this textbook brings economics to life. Multiple examples of how each economic model works, coupled with critical analysis of the assumptions behind them, enable students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the material. Digital supplements are also available for students and instructors. Economic Principles and Problems offers the most contemporary and complete package for any pluralist economics class.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317266498

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Democracy and Decision

The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference

By: Geoffrey Brennan,Loren Lomasky

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Democracy and Decision

The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference

By: Geoffrey Brennan,Loren Lomasky

The significance of this account should be clear. If, as economists frequently assert, proper diagnosis of the disease is a crucial prerequisite to treatment, then the design of appropriate democratic institutions depends critically on a coherent analysis of the way the electoral process works and the perversities to which it is prone. The claim is that the interest-based account incorrectly diagnoses the disease. Accordingly, this book ends with an account of the institutional protections that go with expressive voting."--BOOK JACKET.

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0521585244

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Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry

By: Geoffrey Beckett,Peter Rae,Peter Ashby

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Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry

By: Geoffrey Beckett,Peter Rae,Peter Ashby

The new edition of the best-selling Lecture Notes title is a concise introduction to clinical biochemistry that presents the fundamental science underpinning common biochemical investigations used in clinical practice. Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry allows the reader to make efficient and informed use of the diagnostic services offered by their clinical biochemistry department. The result is a text that serves as a reference to the practitioner as well as the student. The book takes a system-based approach, with the underlying physiological rationale for any test explained in the context of disruption by disease. This leads naturally to an integrated and practical understanding of biochemical diagnostics. Including multiple choice questions (MCQs) alongside end-of-chapter case studies to help develop test-selection skills, Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry provides the essential background to biochemical investigations and is an ideal course companion and revision guide for medical students, junior doctors on the Foundation Programme, general practitioners, and nurses and laboratory technicians.

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1405193050

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9781405193054

Enchanted Evenings

The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim

By: Geoffrey Holden Block

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Enchanted Evenings

The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim

By: Geoffrey Holden Block

Discusses the great Broadway hits, how they were conceived, written and performed.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195167309

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Peer-to-Peer Systems III

Third International Workshop, IPTPS 2004, La Jolla, CA, USA, February 26-27, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

By: Geoffrey M. Voelker

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Peer-to-Peer Systems III

Third International Workshop, IPTPS 2004, La Jolla, CA, USA, February 26-27, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

By: Geoffrey M. Voelker

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems, IPTPS 2004, held in La Jolla, CA, USA, in February 2004. The 27 revised full papers presented together with a workshop report were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 145 submissions. All in all, the papers document the state of the art in peer-to-peer computing research; they are organized in topical sections on networking, routing, load balancing and scheduling, applications, security, and miscellaneous.

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354024252X

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The Racial Integration of the American Armed Forces

Cold War Necessity, Presidential Leadership, and Southern Resistance

By: Geoffrey W. Jensen

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The Racial Integration of the American Armed Forces

Cold War Necessity, Presidential Leadership, and Southern Resistance

By: Geoffrey W. Jensen

In order to win the Cold War, American presidents embraced the mantra of equality of opportunity to justify racial reform efforts within the US military. The problem was that equality of opportunity never guaranteed acceptance—nor was it designed to. In The Racial Integration of the American Armed Forces, Geoffrey W. Jensen clarifies our understanding of the political processes that fundamentally altered the racial composition of the US military. Jensen examines nearly thirty years of military integration that unfolded during the Cold War. America’s racial woes were grist for the propaganda mills in Moscow and their integration effort was intended to curb this assault and protect the nation’s image during this largely ideological struggle. But integration of the armed forces needed more than just Cold War justification. It also required the willingness of the president to lead. Military integration occurred as the result of the longstanding tradition of Congress to allow the executive branch to control the staffing and composition of the military. While past accounts of the integration of the armed forces have focused on the critical roles played by the burgeoning leadership of the civil rights movement and the Black population, Jensen is the first to emphasize the importance of presidential leadership and their staffs. Jensen contends that understanding the action—and inaction—of Cold War presidents and their administrations matters just as much as understanding the efforts of those outside of Washington and the West Wing, as it was the presidents who were the ones dictating the pace at which reform was carried out. Jensen has carefully situated this story within the milieu of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and, looming over it all, the emergence of Southern resistance to desegregation in the United States. Desperately committed to upholding and expanding their vision of white supremacy, the South recoiled in horror at the prospect of racially integrating the armed forces. From this vantage point, Jensen shows how the use of Black military personnel during the Cold War, and throughout all American history, was not born solely out of humanistic beliefs or desires to improve the social status of the Black community, but out of the strategic necessity of winning the war at hand.

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Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City

Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney

By: DeVerteuil, Geoffrey

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Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney

By: DeVerteuil, Geoffrey

Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and conceptually robust version, applying it to the conspicuous but now residual clusters of inner-city voluntary sector organisations deemed ‘service hubs’. The process of resilience is compared across ten service hubs in three complex but different global inner-city regions – London, Los Angeles and Sydney – in response to the threat of gentrification-induced displacement. DeVerteuil shows that resilience can be about holding on to previous gains but also about holding out for transformation. The book is the first to move beyond theoretical works on ‘resilience’ and offers a combined conceptual and empirical approach that will interest urban geographers, social planners and researchers in the voluntary sector.

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New Nuclear Power Industry Procurement Markets

International Experiences

By: Ilchong Nam , Geoffrey Rothwell ,Korea Development Institute (South Korea)

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New Nuclear Power Industry Procurement Markets

International Experiences

By: Ilchong Nam , Geoffrey Rothwell ,Korea Development Institute (South Korea)

Ensuring safety and efficiency of the procurement market for nuclear power generation has become one of the top priorities of the policy makers in Korea since the discovery of a large number of fraudulent parts and components used by nuclear power plants. This book analyzes the nuclear power industry procurement in Korea, France, and the UK. Although all three countries restructured their electricity industry, they differ substantially in the history of the nuclear power industry, ownership and governance of firms in the industry, and relevant legal infrastructure. The findings of this book will shed light on the factors that affect safety and efficiency in the nuclear power procurement markets and the right direction for reform.

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8980639023

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Great Seesaw

New View of the Western World

By: Geoffrey Blainey

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Great Seesaw

New View of the Western World

By: Geoffrey Blainey

An argument for the existence of a mental see saw which in the last 250 years has affected a wide range of human attitudes and activities. The author argues that the present economic crisis has close links with the seesaw, though the seesaw itself helps to explain events that seem unconnected.

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1349100862

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Richard Rodgers

By: Geoffrey Block

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Richard Rodgers

By: Geoffrey Block

Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and forty shows for the American stage. In this absorbing book, Geoffrey Block examines Rodgers’s entire career, providing rich details about the creation, staging, and critical reception of some of his most popular musicals. Block traces Rodgers’s musical education, early work, and the development of his musical and dramatic language. He focuses on two shows by Rodgers and Hart (A Connecticut Yankee and The Boys from Syracuse) and two by Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific and Cinderella), offering new insights into each one. He concludes with the first serious look at the five neglected and often maligned musicals that Rodgers composed in the 1960s and 1970s, after the death of Hammerstein.

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Yale University Press

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0300127545

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The Historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth: A summary catalogue of the manuscripts

By: Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph),Julia C. Crick

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By: Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph),Julia C. Crick

A fine research tool which has so many applications. SPECULUM

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Darwin's Conjecture

The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

By: Geoffrey M. Hodgson,Thorbjørn Knudsen

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Darwin's Conjecture

The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

By: Geoffrey M. Hodgson,Thorbjørn Knudsen

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the principles apply to the evolution of human society—until now. In Darwin’s Conjecture, Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen reveal how the British naturalist’s core concepts apply to a wide range of phenomena, including business practices, legal systems, technology, and even science itself. They also critique some prominent objections to applying Darwin to social science, arguing that ultimately Darwinism functions as a general theoretical framework for stimulating further inquiry. Social scientists who adopt a Darwinian approach, they contend, can then use it to frame and help develop new explanatory theories and predictive models. This truly pathbreaking workat long last makes the powerful conceptual tools of Darwin available to the social sciences and will be welcomed by scholars and students from a range of disciplines.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226346927

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Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry

By: Geoffrey Beckett,Simon W. Walker,Peter Rae,Peter Ashby

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Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry

By: Geoffrey Beckett,Simon W. Walker,Peter Rae,Peter Ashby

The new edition of the best-selling Lecture Notes title is aconcise introduction to clinical biochemistry that presents thefundamental science underpinning common biochemical investigationsused in clinical practice. Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry allows thereader to make efficient and informed use of the diagnosticservices offered by their clinical biochemistry department. Theresult is a text that serves as a reference to the practitioner aswell as the student. The book takes a system-based approach, withthe underlying physiological rationale for any test explained inthe context of disruption by disease. This leads naturally to anintegrated and practical understanding of biochemicaldiagnostics. Including multiple choice questions (MCQs) alongsideend-of-chapter case studies to help develop test-selection skills,Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry provides the essentialbackground to biochemical investigations and is an ideal coursecompanion and revision guide for medical students, junior doctorson the Foundation Programme, general practitioners, and nurses andlaboratory technicians.

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111868706X

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