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The Firm Divided

Manager-Shareholder Conflict and the Fight for Control of the Modern Corporation

By: Graeme Guthrie

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The Firm Divided

Manager-Shareholder Conflict and the Fight for Control of the Modern Corporation

By: Graeme Guthrie

A battle is being fought within corporations. Shareholders want managers to make their shares as valuable as possible, managers want shareholders to leave them alone, and the board of directors is caught in the middle. The Firm Divided shows how strong boards persuade managers to do what's best for shareholders-and why weak boards don't. Graeme Guthrie blends the stories of particular firms and individuals with the insights of scholarly research, enhancing understanding of how seemingly separate events are consequences of the separation of ownership and control, the ultimate cause of manager-shareholder conflict. Boards of directors can affect the outcome of this conflict by monitoring managers, providing incentives for managers to work in shareholders' best interests, delegating monitoring to outside parties, and influencing the effectiveness of the market for corporate control. How directors do this depends on how they weigh their fiduciary duty to shareholders against the close ties that bind them to senior executives. The Firm Divided provides conceptual insight, underpinned by research into corporate governance, into board-manager interactions. It shows how tools that can benefit shareholders when used by strong boards can actually harm shareholders when used by weak boards. Guthrie provides a 360 degree view of firms, exploring the ways in which each player pursues their own goals, with examples from a range of firms in diverse industries.

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Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool

Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port

By: Graeme Milne

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Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool

Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port

By: Graeme Milne

This book charts the development of Liverpool’s trade, shipping and business culture in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Using previously neglected evidence, it assesses the causes and consequences of major changes in the port’s economy, and considers the activities of the international trading community that had to work in this complex business environment. Shipowners and merchants confronted difficult choices, whether in adopting the new steamship technology, diversifying into new commodity trades, competing for government contracts, or managing their port through the elected Mersey Docks & Harbour Board.

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Liverpool University Press

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1781387893

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Real Options in Theory and Practice

By: Graeme Guthrie

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Real Options in Theory and Practice

By: Graeme Guthrie

Decision-makers in business and economics face a staggering array of problems. For example, managers of growing firms have to decide when to expand their business, governments have to decide whether to undertake large infrastructure investments, and managers of oil firms must decide how rapidly to deplete their reserves. While these problems seem quite diverse, they all share many important features. In each case, the decision-maker must choose when to take a particular action that will be potentially impossible to reverse, and the consequences of taking (or not taking) that action are uncertain. Also, the timing and nature of these actions directly affect the cash flows generated by the entities they manage. This book explains how techniques originally developed to price financial derivatives can be used to analyze real-world decisions, and provides the tools necessary to put them into practice. The real options analysis approach to decision-making is built on strong theoretical foundations, and is widely discussed in practitioner literature, but often only at a fairly intuitive level. What practitioners need-and what this book delivers-is a structured approach to systematically applying real options analysis to the wide variety of problems they will meet in business and economics. Real Options in Theory and Practice focuses on building up a general approach to solving real options problems from the ground up. Rather than aiming to build a "black box" to solve a small set of standardized real options problems, it describes the building blocks of any successful real options analysis and shows how they can be assembled in a way that is appropriate to the problem being analyzed. For both practitioners and academics, Real Options in Theory and Practice will serve as an authoritative and invaluable resource for those looking for effective and practical solutions to complex, real-life problems.

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Oxford University Press

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019993908X

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Gastrointestinal Nursing

By: Graeme Smith,Roger Watson

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Gastrointestinal Nursing

By: Graeme Smith,Roger Watson

Many nurses work as specialist practitioners within several areas of gastrointestinal medicine, including inflammatory bowel disease, stoma care, nutrition, endoscopy and counselling. There has been a steady increase in nurse-led services and gastrointestinal nursing is an expanding area. This comprehensive text lays the foundation by reviewing the anatomy and physiology underlying common conditions before covering the pathophysiology of clinical features, causes, investigation and management. Underlying this approach will be the specific nursing aspects of caring for patients with gastrointestinal conditions, covering psychosocial factors and issues such as the measurement of health related quality of life.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405143371

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Corporate Accounting in Australia

By: Michael Gaffikin,Ron Dagwell,Graeme Wines

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Corporate Accounting in Australia

By: Michael Gaffikin,Ron Dagwell,Graeme Wines

Corporate Accounting in Australia, Fourth Edition, is a textbook designed for one- or two-semester company accounting courses at both under- and postgraduate level.

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UNSW Press

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0868405345

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The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The Global Vision of a Turkish Filmmaker

By: Bülent Diken,Graeme Gilloch,Craig Hammond

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The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The Global Vision of a Turkish Filmmaker

By: Bülent Diken,Graeme Gilloch,Craig Hammond

Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from later festival favourites Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Winter Sleep (2014), he has quickly established himself as an original and provocative writer, director and producer of 21st century cinema. In an age where Turkey's modernisation has created societal tensions and departures from past tradition, Ceylan's films present a cinema of dislocation and a vision of 'nostalgia' understood as homesickness: sick of being away from home; sick of being at home. This book offers an overdue study of Ceylan's work and a critical examination of the principle themes therein. In particular, chapters focus on time and space, melancholy and loneliness, absence, rural and urban experience, and notions of paradox, as explored through films which are often slow and uncompromising in their pessimistic outlook. Moving on from the tendency to situate Ceylan's oeuvre exclusively within the canon of 'New Turkish Cinema', one of this book's major achievements is also to assess the influence of classic European thought, literature and film and how such a notably minimal – and in many ways nationally-specific – approach translates to an increasingly transnational context for film. This will prove an important book for film students and scholars, and those interested in Turkish visual culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786723344

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Inversions

By: Graeme Samson

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Inversions

By: Graeme Samson

Colonel Anton Konstantin Alekseev, an ageing SVR Officer of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service wants a new life. A life on the other side of the world. A life in which he will be able to dwell in peace and harmony with those he loves and those he has now come to love. But first he must overcome many hurdles, not the least of which is his ally, a Venezuelan assassin and the machinations of a shadowy cabal known as the 5th Directorate deep in his own Intelligence Service. Former NZ Army Infantry Captain Bill Jolly, no early adopter of new technology, becomes an unwitting but compliant instrument in The Major's search for answers as to whom may be crossing New Zealand's borders and in the process Bill meets his match, the very lovely Natalie.

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Stroke

Practical Management

By: Charles P. Warlow,Jan van Gijn,Martin S. Dennis,Joanna M. Wardlaw,John M. Bamford,Graeme J. Hankey,Peter A. G. Sandercock,Gabriel Rinkel,Peter Langhorne,Cathie Sudlow,Peter Rothwell

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Stroke

Practical Management

By: Charles P. Warlow,Jan van Gijn,Martin S. Dennis,Joanna M. Wardlaw,John M. Bamford,Graeme J. Hankey,Peter A. G. Sandercock,Gabriel Rinkel,Peter Langhorne,Cathie Sudlow,Peter Rothwell

Completely updated edition, written by a close-knit author team Presents a unique approach to stroke - integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation Includes increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke Features important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure Contains a completely revised section on imaging Covers new advances in interventional radiology

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1444359258

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The Dynamic Society

The Sources of Global Change

By: Graeme Snooks

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The Dynamic Society

The Sources of Global Change

By: Graeme Snooks

This book discusses the nature and process of change in human society over the past two million years. The author draws on economic, historical and biological concepts to examine the driving forces of change and looks to likely developments in the future. This analysis produces some very thought-provoking and controversial conclusions.

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1134775717

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Modelling Armoured Vehicles

By: Gary Edmundson,Steve van Beveren,Graeme Davidson,Jim Carswell,Tom Cockle

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Modelling Armoured Vehicles

By: Gary Edmundson,Steve van Beveren,Graeme Davidson,Jim Carswell,Tom Cockle

ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY AS AN E-BOOK. Designed to appeal to all armour modellers from the beginner to the veteran this book details all the steps involved in creating a realistic and attractive model armoured vehicle. Each chapter is illustrated with a range of models covering the whole spectrum of armour modelling, including World War II armour as well as more modern subjects. The authors also cover techniques and subject areas in which they individually excel, highlighting the different tools and approaches required for each individual discipline. Lavishly illustrated with over 250 images, this book contains all the detailed, step-by-step information you need to become an expert armour modeller.

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1849089655

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Playing with Things: The archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human–object interactions in Atlantic Scotland

By: Graeme Wilson

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Playing with Things: The archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human–object interactions in Atlantic Scotland

By: Graeme Wilson

This study represents a reappraisal of the relationship between play — an activity which is most often understood in terms of something ‘set apart’ — and everyday life. Via a series of archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic investigations, it leads towards the conclusion that play is not in fact so separate as is often assumed.

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The Archaeology of Drylands

Living at the Margin

By: Graeme Barker,David Gilbertson

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The Archaeology of Drylands

Living at the Margin

By: Graeme Barker,David Gilbertson

Many dryland regions contain archaeological remains which suggest that there must have been intensive phases of settlement in what now seem to be dry and degraded environments. This book discusses successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contributes to wider debates about desertification and the sustainability of dryland settlement.

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113458265X

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New Forms of Urbanization

Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy

By: Graeme Hugo

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New Forms of Urbanization

Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy

By: Graeme Hugo

There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes. An important element in context is the type of settlement in which people live and work and so, it is vital to be able to categorise people into particular settlements types. This book brings together a leading team of social scientists to present the latest information on urbanization around the world, highlighting examples of development patterns that are not adequately captured by the UN's type of reporting systems and drawing attention to other ways of representing current trends.

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1351914952

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In the Footsteps of the Etruscans

Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity

By: Graeme Barker,Tom Rasmussen

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In the Footsteps of the Etruscans

Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity

By: Graeme Barker,Tom Rasmussen

In the Footsteps of the Etruscans describes the archaeology of the countryside within a ten km radius of the small town of Tuscania near Rome, throwing light on the unrecorded lives of the generations of farmers and shepherds who have lived there. What was the character of prehistoric settlement prior to Etruscan urbanization? How did urbanization shape the lives of the 'ordinary Etruscans' working the land, hardly ever addressed in Etruscan archaeology? What was the impact on these people of being absorbed into the expanding Roman empire and its globalised economic structures? How did the empire's collapse and the subsequent emergence of the nucleated medieval village affect Tuscania's rural population? The project's 7500-year 'archaeological history', from the first farmers to those grappling with globalisation today, contributes eloquently to our understanding of how Mediterranean peoples have constantly shaped their landscape, and been shaped by it.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009229990

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Geotechnical Engineering of Dams

By: Robin Fell,Patrick MacGregor,David Stapledon,Graeme Bell,Mark Foster

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Geotechnical Engineering of Dams

By: Robin Fell,Patrick MacGregor,David Stapledon,Graeme Bell,Mark Foster

This book provides a comprehensive text on the geotechnical and geological aspects of the investigations for and the design and construction of new dams and the review and assessment of existing dams. The book provides dam engineers and geologists with a practical approach, and gives university students an insight into the subject of dam engineering. All phases of investigation, design and construction are covered, through to the preliminary and detailed design phases and ultimately the construction phase. This revised and expanded 2nd edition includes a lengthy new chapter on the assessment of the likelihood of failure of dams by internal erosion and piping.

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0203387317

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9780203387313

Physiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract

By: Graeme Duthie,Angie Gardner

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Physiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract

By: Graeme Duthie,Angie Gardner

Both upper and lower gastrointestinal physiology have come of age, both in the extent of their use in clinical medicine and in the training of technicians and nurse practitioners to undertake physiological assessment. This title covers both the technical and clinical aspects of the subject.

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0470033843

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Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Graeme Trousdale

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Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Graeme Trousdale

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it has been mainly synchronic. The authors use it to reconceptualize grammaticalization (the process by which verbs like to have lose semantic content and gain grammatical functions, or word order moves from discourse-prominent to syntax-prominent), and lexicalization (in which idioms become fixed and complex words simplified). Basing their argument on the notions that language is made up of language-specific form-meaning pairings and that there is a gradient between lexical and grammatical constructions, Professor Traugott and Dr Trousdale suggest that language change proceeds by micro-steps that involve closely related changes in syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse functions. They illustrate their exposition with numerous English examples drawn from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, many of which they discuss in depth. The book is organized in six chapters. The first outlines the approach and the questions to be addressed. The second reviews usage-based models of language change. The third considers the relation between grammatical constructionalization and grammaticalization. Chapters 4 and 5 focus respectively on lexical constructionalization and the role of context. The final chapter draws the authors' arguments together and outlines prospects for further research. Constructionalization and Constructional Changes propounds and demonstrates a new and productive approach to historical linguistics.

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0191669490

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Jacaranda Physics 2 VCE Units 3 and 4, 5e learnON and Print

By: Murray Anderson,Dan O'Keeffe,Barbara McKinnon,Michael Rosenbrock,Graeme Lofts,Ross Phillips,Peter Pentland

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Jacaranda Physics 2 VCE Units 3 and 4, 5e learnON and Print

By: Murray Anderson,Dan O'Keeffe,Barbara McKinnon,Michael Rosenbrock,Graeme Lofts,Ross Phillips,Peter Pentland

Everything your students need to succeed. The best Physics series for the new VCE Study Design. Developed by expert Victorian teachers for, VCE students.

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1119888336

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Jacaranda Key Concepts in VCE Business Management Units 1 and 2 7e learnON & Print & studyON

By: Stephen J. Chapman,Matthew Richardson,Graeme Smithies,Vladimir Dumovic,Simon Phelan,Helen Rabenda

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Jacaranda Key Concepts in VCE Business Management Units 1 and 2 7e learnON & Print & studyON

By: Stephen J. Chapman,Matthew Richardson,Graeme Smithies,Vladimir Dumovic,Simon Phelan,Helen Rabenda

Jacaranda Key Concepts in VCE Business Management Units 1 & 2, 6th Edition learnON & Print + studyON This combined print and digital title provides 100% coverage of the VCAA Adjusted Study Design for Business Management. The textbook comes with a complimentary activation code for learnON, the powerful digital learning platform making learning personalised and visible for both students and teachers.

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1119884624

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Mediterranean Valley

By: Graeme Barker

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Mediterranean Valley

By: Graeme Barker

Integrating the techniques of archaeology, history and geography, this book traces the history of human settlement in the Biferno Valley from early prehistory to the present century. It also covers the parallel story of landscape development, showing that the two have to be understood together. It argues for the importance of human settlement, rather than climate (as is often argued) in shaping the Mediterranean landscape. This book provides an interdisciplinary study of a restricted region, but about an important theme: the relationship between people and landscape in the past, and what we can learn from it for the future.

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0567312852

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Bourgeoisie, State and Democracy

Russia, Britain, France, Germany, and the USA

By: Graeme Gill

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Bourgeoisie, State and Democracy

Russia, Britain, France, Germany, and the USA

By: Graeme Gill

One of the key questions in social science is the role of the bourgeoisie in creating a democracy. An important issue in contemporary international politics is the trajectory of the current Russian political system. This book brings these questions together by exploring the role played by the bourgeoisie in shaping political outcomes in five countries: contemporary Russia, and industrial revolution Britain, France, Germany and the USA. Its main focus is the way the different new business classes have been integrated into the political system, and the implications this had for the political trajectories of the respective countries. The contemporary Russian experience is thrown into relief by comparison with the national experiences of the other four countries, enabling conclusions to be drawn about both the general question of the historic role of this class in democratisation and the more specific question of its role in Russia today.

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OUP Oxford

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0191562610

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Managers of Innovation

Insights into Making Innovation Happen

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

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Managers of Innovation

Insights into Making Innovation Happen

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

Innovation is increasingly identified as the critical factor in ensuring economic competitiveness. Departments of state and quasi-governmental organizations in many countries including, Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, have issued reports and calls to action; but implementation will continue to be problematic unless the points made in this book are taken into account. Drawing on 350 in-depth interviews with senior managers, this book presents an original theory about the characteristics of managers in “good innovative organizations” and “poor innovative organizations”. It pays close attention to the attitudes, understandings, assumptions and interpretations of managers, who are often the ultimate decision-makers when it comes to innovation. The text is supported by real-life, internationally-known cases such as Hewlett-Packard, Zeneca and the BBC, as well as voluntary sector cases such as Oxfam. It is also enriched by substantial and highly revealing quotations from senior managers themselves.

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1405178523

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Children's Understanding

The Development of Mental Models

By: Graeme S. Halford

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Children's Understanding

The Development of Mental Models

By: Graeme S. Halford

This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven, and processes entailed in acquiring information about the world are analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction. The way information is represented and accessed when performing cognitive tasks is considered paying particular attention to the implications of Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) models for cognitive development. The first half of the book contains analyses of human reasoning processes (drawing on PDP models of analogy), development of strategies, and task complexity -- all based on aspects of PDP representations. It is proposed that PDP representations become more differentiated with age, so more vectors can be processed in parallel, with the result that structures of greater complexity can be processed. This model gives an account of previously unexplained difficulties in children's reasoning, including some which were influential in stage theories. The second half of the book examines processes entailed in some representative cognitive developmental tasks, including transitive inference, deductive inference (categorical syllogisms), hypothesis testing, learning set acquisition, acquisition and transfer of relational structures, humor, hierarchical classification and inclusion, understanding of quantity, arithmetic word problems, algebra, conservation, mechanics, and the concept of mind. Process accounts of tasks are emphasized, based on applications of recent developments in cognitive science.

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Psychology Press

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1317766636

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Counterterrorism

A Reference Handbook

By: Graeme Colin Stracey Steven,Rohan Kumar Gunaratna

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Counterterrorism

A Reference Handbook

By: Graeme Colin Stracey Steven,Rohan Kumar Gunaratna

An up-to-date analysis of the wave of terrorism in the post-Cold War era and the ways in which states and societies are responding. Counter-Terrorism: A Reference Handbook outlines the threat of terrorism and ways to combat it. Written by two expert insiders in the field, this extensive examination surveys a wide range of diverse terrorist groups from the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) to Al Qaeda. It shows how key trends and patterns in domestic and international terrorism such as suicide bombings require counter strategies and tactics including surveillance and reconnaissance. Case studies of terrorist organizations in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Balkans, and the Caucasus, and profiles of terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohommad, alias Mokhtar (The Brain), who masterminded the Al Qaeda attack on 9/11, illustrate the growing network of groups and leaders harnessing the forces of globalization. Finally, the authors suggest lthat no single state can act effectively on its own to confront terrorism--instead, a wide range of strategies needs to be adopted by all.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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185109671X

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Clinical Neurology

By: Graeme Hankey,Joanna Wardlaw

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Clinical Neurology

By: Graeme Hankey,Joanna Wardlaw

Neurology is an exciting and evolving clinical science. The fact that many previously untreatable diseases are now known to be not only treatable, but preventable, has raised new optimism for the probability that treatments will emerge for other currently incurable neurologic disorders. This book is written and illustrated for students of clinical

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CRC Press

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1840765186

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Hunter-Gatherer Ireland

Making Connections in an Island World

By: Graeme Warren

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Hunter-Gatherer Ireland

Making Connections in an Island World

By: Graeme Warren

Explores the Irish Mesolithic - the period after the end of the last Ice Age when Ireland was home to hunter-gatherer communities, mostly from about 10,000-6,000 years ago. At this time, Ireland was an island world, with striking similarities and differences to its European neighbours - not least in terms of the terrestrial ecology created by its island status. To understand the communities of hunter-gatherers who lived there, it is essential that we consider the connections established between people and the other beings and materials with which they shared the world and through which they grew into it. Understanding the Mesolithic means paying attention to the animals, plants, spirits and things with which hunting and gathering groups formed kinship relationships and in collaboration with which they experienced life. The book closes with a reflection on hunting and gathering in Ireland today. The overriding aim of the book is to provide a point of entry into the lives of the Irish Mesolithic, to show the different ways in which people have lived on this island, and to show how we might narrate those lives.

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Oxbow Books

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1789256828

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Economics Without Time

A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change

By: Graeme Donald Snooks

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Economics Without Time

A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change

By: Graeme Donald Snooks

Historical, theoretical, and real time in economics.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472104950

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9780472104956

Understanding Street Drugs

A Handbook of Substance Misuse for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals Second Edition

By: David Emmett,Graeme Nice

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Understanding Street Drugs

A Handbook of Substance Misuse for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals Second Edition

By: David Emmett,Graeme Nice

This fully updated edition of the essential reference Understanding Drugs provides a complete overview of the key facts and core issues surrounding substance misuse. All commonly-used street drugs are covered, with quick reference guides, helpful diagrams and clear information on each drug's effects, methods of use, legal status, availability, treatment options and associated slang. This edition includes new sections on ketamine, `date-rape' drugs, and over-the-counter opiate-based drugs, and recent findings on the long-term effects of cannabis and its potential medicinal use, and discussion of the legalisation debate. This comprehensive handbook is an essential reference for teachers, social workers, youth workers, residential home managers, policy makers and parents, enabling readers to recognise drug misuse and confidently offer information and guidance. A companion volume, Understanding Drug Issues: A Photocopiable Resource Workbook is also available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

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1846424496

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Corporate Accounting in Australia

By: Ron Dagwell,Graeme L. Wines,Cecilia Lambert

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Corporate Accounting in Australia

By: Ron Dagwell,Graeme L. Wines,Cecilia Lambert

This textbook is designed for one- or twosemester company accounting courses at both under- and postgraduate level. This new edition retains the accessible writing style and logical chapter format and sequence of its forerunners, as well as being extensively revised to reflect current developments, particularly with the adoption in Australia of international accounting standards.

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0868409790

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Jacaranda Science Quest 9 for Victoria Australian Curriculum 1e (revised) learnON & print

By: Graeme Lofts,Merrin J. Evergreen

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Jacaranda Science Quest 9 for Victoria Australian Curriculum 1e (revised) learnON & print

By: Graeme Lofts,Merrin J. Evergreen

A seamless teaching and learning experience for the 2017 Victorian Curriculum for Science This combined print and digital title provides 100% coverage of the 2017 Victorian Curriculum for Science. The textbook comes with a complimentary activation code for learnON, the powerful digital learning platform making learning personalised and visible for both students and teachers. The latest editions of the Jacaranda Science Quest Victorian Curriculum series include video clips, end of topic questions, chapter revision worksheets, rich investigation tasks, and more. For teachers, learnON includes additional teacher resources such as quarantined questions and answers, curriculum grids and work programs.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0730348601

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9780730348603

Russia's Stillborn Democracy?

From Gorbachev to Yeltsin

By: Graeme Gill,Roger D. Markwick

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Russia's Stillborn Democracy?

From Gorbachev to Yeltsin

By: Graeme Gill,Roger D. Markwick

The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashed, the collapse of the Soviet superpower, and the emergence of a new Russian state claiming to base itself on democratic, market principles. It has seen a political system shattered by a president turning tanks against the parliament, and then that president configuring the new political structure to give himself overwhelming power. These upheavals took place against a backdrop of social dislocations as the Russian people were ravaged by the effects of economic shock therapy. This book explains how these momentous changes came about, and in particular why political elites were able to fashion the new political system largely independent of the wishes of the populace at large. It was this relationship between powerful elites and weak civil society forces which has led to Russian democracy under Yeltsin being still born.

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OUP Oxford

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0191528889

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The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators

By: Rob Appleby,Graeme Burt,James Clarke,Hywel Owen

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The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators

By: Rob Appleby,Graeme Burt,James Clarke,Hywel Owen

The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators provides an accessible introduction to the field, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and academics, as well as professionals in national laboratories and facilities, industry, and medicine who are designing or using particle accelerators. Providing integrated coverage of accelerator science and technology, this book presents the fundamental concepts alongside detailed engineering discussions and extensive practical guidance, including many numerical examples. For each topic, the authors provide a description of the physical principles, a guide to the practical application of those principles, and a discussion of how to design the components that allow the application to be realised. Features: Written by an interdisciplinary and highly respected team of physicists and engineers from the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology in the UK Accessible style, with many numerical examples Contains an extensive set of problems, with fully worked solutions available Rob Appleby is an academic member of staff at the University of Manchester, and Chief Examiner in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Graeme Burt is an academic member of staff at the University of Lancaster, and previous Director of Education at the Cockcroft Institute. James Clarke is head of Science Division in the Accelerator Science and Technology Centre at STFC Daresbury Laboratory. Hywel Owen is an academic member of staff at the University of Manchester, and Director of Education at the Cockcroft Institute. All authors are researchers within the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology and have extensive experience in the design and construction of particle accelerators, including particle colliders, synchrotron radiation sources, free electron lasers, and medical and industrial accelerator systems.

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CRC Press

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1351007947

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The Vulva and Vaginal Manual

By: Graeme Dennerstein,James Scurry,John Brennan,David Allen,Maria-Grazia Marin

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The Vulva and Vaginal Manual

By: Graeme Dennerstein,James Scurry,John Brennan,David Allen,Maria-Grazia Marin

This is a new book on the integrated management of vulvovaginal disease. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds - gynaecology, dermatology, pathology and psychology - and describe a multidisciplinary approach to these conditions. The book has the most complete classification of vulvovaginal disease published, based on the etiology of 275 conditions; coverage includes benign, malignant, and functional (including psychosexual) diseases. Each disease has a descriptive summary, pathological features, and treatment guidelines. The book is illustrated in full color throughout.

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1000947750

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Creole Gentlemen

The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776

By: Trevor Graeme Burnard

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Creole Gentlemen

The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776

By: Trevor Graeme Burnard

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415931746

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Simplified TRIZ

New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and Manufacturing Professionals, Second Edition

By: Kalevi Rantanen,Ellen Domb,David Stapledon,Graeme Bell,Mark Foster

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Simplified TRIZ

New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and Manufacturing Professionals, Second Edition

By: Kalevi Rantanen,Ellen Domb,David Stapledon,Graeme Bell,Mark Foster

a practical guide to the application of TRIZ compact and well written with a number of easily comprehensible examples. It is a very useful addition to the other books on TRIZ TQM Magazine This completely revised and updated second edition continues to demystify TRIZ, the internationally acclaimed problem solving techni

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1420062743

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Rang & Dale's Pharmacology

By: James M. Ritter,Rod J. Flower,Graeme Henderson,Yoon Kong Loke,David MacEwan,Humphrey P. Rang

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Rang & Dale's Pharmacology

By: James M. Ritter,Rod J. Flower,Graeme Henderson,Yoon Kong Loke,David MacEwan,Humphrey P. Rang

World-renowned coverage of today's pharmacology at your fingertips - Keeps you up-to-date with new information in this fast-changing field, including significantly revised coverage of CNS drugs, cognitive enhancers, anti-infectives, biologicals/biopharmaceuticals, lifestyle drugs, and more. - Includes access to unique features, including more than 100 brand new chapter-specific multiple-choice questions and 6 new cases for immediate self-assessment. - Features a color-coded layout for faster navigation and cross-referencing. - Clarifies complex concepts with Key Points boxes, Clinical Uses boxes and full-color illustrations throughout.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702074462

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