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The Morals of Measurement

Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice

By: Graeme Gooday

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The Morals of Measurement

Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice

By: Graeme Gooday

The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialization of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanized practice. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on the metrological standards used in measurement, this book shows the central importance of trust when measurement was undertaken in an increasingly complex division of labour. Alongside ambiguities about the very nature of measurement and the respective responsibilities of humans and technologies in generating error-free numbers, the book also addresses controversies over the changing identity of the measurer through the themes of body, gender and authorship. The reader will gain fresh insights into a period when measurement was widely treated as the definitive means of gaining knowledge of the world.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521430984

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9780521430982

The Western Herbal Tradition

2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge

By: Graeme Tobyn,Alison Denham,Midge Whitelegg

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The Western Herbal Tradition

2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge

By: Graeme Tobyn,Alison Denham,Midge Whitelegg

The Western Herbal Tradition is a comprehensive exploration of 27 plants that are central to the herbalist's repertoire. This fully illustrated colour guide offers analysis of these herbs through the examination of historical texts and discussion of current applications and research. Your practice of phythotherapy will be transformed as the herbal knowledge from these sources is illuminated and assessed. Each chapter offers clear information on identification, uses and recipes, as well as recommendations on safety, prescribing, dosage and full academic references. The Western Herbal Tradition reveals a deep understanding of the true essence of what each plant can offer, as well as a fascinating insight into the unique history of contemporary herbal practice. This book is a valuable resource for everyone interested in herbal medicine and its history.

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Singing Dragon

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0857012592

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The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory

Why Did Foragers Become Farmers?

By: Graeme Barker

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The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory

Why Did Foragers Become Farmers?

By: Graeme Barker

Addressing one of the most debated revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming, this title takes a global view, and integrates an array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199559953

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The Backroom Boys

Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46

By: Graeme Sligo

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The Backroom Boys

Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46

By: Graeme Sligo

The Backroom Boys is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided high-level policy advice to Australia’s most senior soldier, General Blamey, and through him to the Government for the remainder of the war and beyond. This band of academics, lawyers and New Guinea patrol officers formed a unique military unit, the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, under the command of an eccentric and masterful string-puller, Alf Conlon. The Directorate has been depicted as a haven for underemployed poets or meddlesome soldier-politicians. Based on wide-ranging research, this book reveals a fuller and more fascinating picture. The fierce conflicts in the wartime bureaucracy between public servants and soldiers, in which the Directorate provided critical support to Blamey, went to the heart of military command, accountability and the profession of arms. The Directorate was a pioneer in developing approaches to military government in areas liberated by the combat troops, as demonstrated by the Australian Army in New Guinea, and Borneo in 1945-46. It is an issue of enduring importance. The Directorate established the Australian School of Pacific Administration, and had an important role in founding the Australian National University. Its influence extended into post war Australia. The Backroom Boys emphasises the personality of Colonel Alf Conlon, as well as the talented men and women he recruited. Above all, this book shows how, unexpectedly, the Australian Army fostered a group of men and women who made a lasting contribution to the development of Australia in the decades after the war.

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Simon and Schuster

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1922132543

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9781922132543

My Sea Lady

An Epic Memoir of the Arctic Convoys

By: Graeme Ogden

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My Sea Lady

An Epic Memoir of the Arctic Convoys

By: Graeme Ogden

A remarkable wartime memoir, unusually personal and frank, chronicling the bleak and arduous journeys onboard an anti-submarine trawler in the Arctic ocean during World War IIGraeme Ogden's memoir is the story of HMS Lady Madeleine, an ocean-going trawler converted to an antisubmarine role as part of the convoys to supply the Soviet Union as it faced the savage onslaught of the German army. This was a voyage fraught with storms, icebergs, and subzero temperatures in peacetime alone, but now the convoys faced worse—the fearsome gauntlet of German aircraft, submarines and surface raiders strung out along the coast of Norway, waiting to meet them. Ogden commanded the vessel in question, keeping diaries of his harrowing experiences of those years, which also cover his time on the equally perilous Atlantic convoys. These accounts were rediscovered and published as a memoir in the 1960s, illustrated with exquisite line drawings by Richard Elsden, who also sailed on these voyages. This is a very different kind of war memoir, vivid and bittersweet, in which the human elements take centerstage against the backdrop of great events.

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Bene Factum Publishing

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1909657182

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The Medieval English Landscape, 1000-1540

By: Graeme J. White

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The Medieval English Landscape, 1000-1540

By: Graeme J. White

A scholarly, up-to-date and readable survey of the shaping of the medieval English landscape.

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A&C Black

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1441135251

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9781441135254

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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John Wiley & Sons

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1119888336

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The History of Fort St. Joseph

By: Graeme Mount

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The History of Fort St. Joseph

By: Graeme Mount

In early 1812, as the British and the Americans were on the brink of war in North America, Fort St. Joseph was not thought to be of much importance to the British cause. It was disregarded as a useless, poorly located post. But when war was delcared, the garrison at Fort St. Joseph pulled off a miracle: it captured the American Fort Mackinac, and for the remainder of the War of 1812 the British never relinquished control of the Upper Great Lakes. Built in the aftermath of the American Revolution, Fort St. joseph played an important role in the defence of Canada. And yet, when the war ended, the fort was abandoned, and almost forgotten. However, there were those who could not forget the heroics of 1812. They sought to restore the memory of the fort that was part of one of the defining moments in Canadian history. Determined individuals campaigned for government assistance and public support. Their efforts have paid off: since the 1960s, St. Joseph Island and the site of the fort have been revived as tourist destinations, and there are high hopes for an even greater tribute to the legacy of the fort and its soldiers.

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Dundurn

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1554883296

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9781554883295

Swallowed by the Sea

The Story of Australia's Shipwrecks

By: Graeme Henderson

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Swallowed by the Sea

The Story of Australia's Shipwrecks

By: Graeme Henderson

Published in Association with the Western Australian Museum 'Swallowed by the Sea' tells the stories of Australia's greatest and most tragic shipwrecks, lost in raging storms, on jagged reefs, under enemy fire, or through human error, treachery or incompetence. It includes wrecks from all corners of Australia, from 1622 to as recently as 2010, from clipper ships to colonial schooners to East Indiamen. Read about the oldest known wreck in Australian waters, the Tryal, driven into a maze of sunken rocks by the inept Captain Brookes, and about the loss of emigrant barque Cataraqui, which struck a reef off King Island in the middle of a stormy night, drowning more than 400 people. The violent wrecking of ships is only part of the story. Maritime archaeologist Graeme Henderson has personally located and dived many of the shipwrecks in this book. Alongside his accounts are colour underwater photographs of the dive sites with specially written recollections by members of the diving crew.

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National Library of Australia

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0642278946

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9780642278944

Trace Element Speciation Analytical Methods and Problems

By: Graeme E. Batley

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Trace Element Speciation Analytical Methods and Problems

By: Graeme E. Batley

This book discusses in detail the application of physical separation procedures together with modern instrumental analysis techniques such as HPLC, gas chromatography, and anodic strip-ping voltammetry. Particular emphasis is given to environmental samples where the greatest concern for the effects of speciation on trace element transport, toxicity, and bioavailability have been ex-pressed. Special chapters are also devoted to methods of sam-pling and storage, and to the mathematical modeling of chemical speciation. Although designed for the practical analytical chemist, this publication is essential reading for researchers in or entering the field of chemical speciation.

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CRC Press

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0849347122

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9780849347122

Disorders of Affect Regulation

Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness

By: Graeme J. Taylor,R. Michael Bagby,James D. A. Parker

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Disorders of Affect Regulation

Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness

By: Graeme J. Taylor,R. Michael Bagby,James D. A. Parker

A stimulating and practical reference offering new perspectives on the role of emotions in mental and physical health.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521778506

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9780521778503

The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes

Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia

By: Graeme B. Robertson

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The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes

Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia

By: Graeme B. Robertson

Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid regimes focuses on how elites manipulate elections to stay in office, but in places as diverse as Bolivia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela, protest in the streets has been at least as important as elections in bringing about political change. The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes builds on previously unpublished data and extensive fieldwork in Russia to show how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets. More generally, the book develops a theory of how the nature of organizations in society, state strategies for mobilizing supporters, and elite competition shape political protest in hybrid regimes.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139491865

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Prehistoric Farming in Europe

By: Graeme Barker

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Prehistoric Farming in Europe

By: Graeme Barker

Drawing upon his own extensive knowledge of European archaeology, Graeme Barker has impressively integrated the full range of archaeological data to produce in this book a masterly account of prehistoric farming in Europe on a unique scale. He makes use of modern archaeological techniques to reconstruct the lives of prehistoric farmers in remarkable detail. Not only do we now have a vivid picture of the prehistoric farmyard, but we know what animals were kept, how they were fed and why they were bred. Evidence for crops grown and techniques of cultivation and husbandry helps recreate the prehistoric landscape. Even the social organisation that determined the use of resources, and provided the crucial stimulus for agricultural change, can be relived. Graeme Barker develops his argument through analogies with the agricultural history of classical and medieval Europe and concludes that today's industrial farmers can learn much from the successes and failures of early European farming.

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356

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Cambridge University Press

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0521269695

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9780521269698

Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora

Leaving the Cold Country

By: Graeme Morton

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Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora

Leaving the Cold Country

By: Graeme Morton

Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century meteorologists turned to environmental determinism to explain the persistence of agricultural shortage and to identify the atmospheric conditions that exacerbated the incidence of death and disease in the towns. In these cases, the logic of emigration and the benefits of an alternative climate were compelling. Emigration agents portrayed their favoured climate in order to pull migrants in their direction. The climate reasons, pressures and incentives that resulted in the movement of people have been neither straightforward nor uniform. There are known structural features that contextualize the migration experience, chief among them being economic and demographic factors. By building on the work of historical climatologists, and the availability of long-run climate data, for the first time the emigration history of Scotland is examined through the lens of the nation’s climate. In significant per capita numbers, the Scots left the cold country behind; yet the ‘homeland’ remained an unbreakable connection for the diaspora.

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267

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Routledge

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1000203816

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9781000203813

Canada and Arctic North America

An Environmental History

By: Graeme Wynn

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Canada and Arctic North America

An Environmental History

By: Graeme Wynn

This comprehensive treatment of the environmental history of northern North America offers a compelling account of the complex encounters of people, technology, culture, and ecology that shaped modern-day Canada and Alaska. From the arrival of the earliest humans to the very latest scientific controversies, the environmental history of Canada and Arctic North America is dramatic, diverse, and crucial for the very survival of the human race. Packed with key facts and analysis, this expert guide explores the complex interplay between human societies and the environment from the Aleutian Islands to the Grand Banks and from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Islands How has the challenging environment of America's most northerly regions—with some areas still dominated by native peoples—helped shape politics and trade? What have been the consequences of European contact with this region and its indigenous inhabitants? How did natives and newcomers cope with, and change this vast and forbidding territory? Can a perspective on the past help us in grappling with the conflict between oil exploration and wilderness preservation on the North Slope of Alaska? Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, this unique work charts the region's environmental history from prehistory to modern times and is essential reading for students and experts alike.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1851094423

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9781851094424

Dustoff for Willie Peters

A New Zealand Hunter's Journey Through Vietnam

By: Graeme Sturgeon

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Dustoff for Willie Peters

A New Zealand Hunter's Journey Through Vietnam

By: Graeme Sturgeon

The story of a New Zealander's experiences as a soldier in Vietnam and his life in the high country as a hunter. The word 'dustoff' means a life-threatening situation, the equivalent of 'mayday'. Based on the life experience of the author.

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0959804153

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9780959804157

Contemporary Australian Sculpture

By: Graeme Sturgeon

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Contemporary Australian Sculpture

By: Graeme Sturgeon

Featured sculptors: Bruce Armstrong, Geoffrey Bartlett, Rodney Broad, Augustine Dall'Ava, John Davis, Bert Flugelman, Richard Goodwin, Paul Juraszek, Stephen Killick, Robert Klippel, Michael LeGrand, Hilarie Mais, Akio Makigawa, Victor Meertens, Wendy Mills, Kevin Norton, Bronwyn Oliver, Fiona Orr, Anthony Pryor, Tom Risley, Ron Robertson-Swanni, Guiseppe Romeo, Michael Snape, Ken Unsworth, Hossein Valamanesh, David Wilson.

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