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Fir and Empire

The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

By: Ian M. Miller

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Fir and Empire

The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

By: Ian M. Miller

The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Miller charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and 1700, when natural forests were replaced with anthropogenic ones. Miller demonstrates that this form of forest management generally rested on private ownership under relatively distant state oversight and taxation. He further draws on in-depth case studies of shipbuilding and imperial logging to argue that this novel landscape was not created through simple extractive pressures, but by attempts to incorporate institutional and ecological complexity into a unified imperial state. Miller uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Because dominant European forestry models do not neatly overlap with the non-Western world, China’s history is often left out of global conversations about them; Miller’s work rectifies this omission and suggests that in some ways, China’s forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.

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University of Washington Press

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Principles of Memory

By: Aimée M. Surprenant,Ian Neath

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Principles of Memory

By: Aimée M. Surprenant,Ian Neath

This monograph proposes 7 principles of human memory. These principles are qualitative statements of empirical regularities that can serve as intermediary explanations and which follow from viewing memory as a function.

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Psychology Press

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1136950648

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Kevin Keegan

An Intimate Portrait of Football's Last Romantic

By: Ian Ridley

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Kevin Keegan

An Intimate Portrait of Football's Last Romantic

By: Ian Ridley

At Liverpool in the early 1970s Kevin Keegan won three First Division titles, two EUFA Cups, two FA Cups and the European Cup. At Hamburg he was crowned Footballer of the Year two years running, won the Bundeslinga title in 1978-79 and reached the European Cup Final. At Southampton he was voted PFA Player of the Year and was awarded an OBE for his services to Association Football. In his debut season with Newcastle United he helped the club to promotion and he captained the England team for six years from 1976-1982. As a manager his career has been no less newsworthy, although not always for the right reasons. Five heady and successful years at Newcastle from 1992-1997 were followed by more controversial spells with Fulham, England and Manchester City. In 2005, Keegan announced his retirement. Then, in 2008, he made headlines by returning to Newcastle United, the scene of his greatest triumphs -- an announcement which was greeted ecstatically by Newcastle supporters -- and no less sensationally resigned in acrimonious circumstances only nine months later. A revered sports journalist with unparalleled access to insider exclusives, Ian Ridley is the perfect man for the task of understanding what it is that makes Kevin Keegan tick. Training his brilliantly incisive and penetrating gaze on Keegan, Ridley offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of this most enigmatic of men.

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Simon and Schuster

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1849830541

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Playfair Cricket Annual 2020

By: Ian Marshall

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Playfair Cricket Annual 2020

By: Ian Marshall

The 73rd edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2020. West Indies and Pakistan are the visitors this coming season, and here you'll find comprehensive Test match and limited-overs records and career records to help you follow the action, County cricket is covered in unrivalled depth, with biographies of all players registered to the counties at the start of the season, full coverage of last summer's events and a fixture list for all major domestic matches in 2020. There are also sections on women's cricket and the major domestic T20 competitions from around the world, which in 2020 will include The Hundred. For any cricket fan, the season is never complete without a copy of Playfair to guide you through it all.

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The New Criminology

For a Social Theory of Deviance

By: Ian Taylor,Paul Walton,Jock Young

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The New Criminology

For a Social Theory of Deviance

By: Ian Taylor,Paul Walton,Jock Young

A major contribution to criminology in which Taylor, Walton and Young provide a framework for a fully social theory of crime.

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Routledge

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1134966660

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Rebel Youth

1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada

By: Ian Milligan

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Rebel Youth

1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada

By: Ian Milligan

During the “long sixties,” baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada’s young people went straight to work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth revolt to the labour movement. While university-based activists combined youth culture with a new brand of radicalism to form the New Left, young workers were pressing for wildcat strikes and defying their aging union leaders in a wave of renewed militancy. In Rebel Youth, Ian Milligan looks at these converging currents, demonstrating convincingly how they were part of a single youth phenomenon. With just short of seventy interviews complementing the extensive use of archival records from ten different cities, this book claims a central place for labour and class in the legacy of the Canadian sixties.

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UBC Press

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0774826908

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Garryowen!

Jack Cameron, the Seventh Cavalry and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

By: Ian Colquhoun

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Garryowen!

Jack Cameron, the Seventh Cavalry and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

By: Ian Colquhoun

Jack Cameron returns as a white scout for the US army during the Plains Indian Wars, and is soon emulating the feats of his heroic ancestors. Will Jack succeed in his quest for revenge? This superb, well-researched novel also draws special attention to the Celtic element of the Seventh Cavalry, around one third of whom were Scottish, Welsh or Irish immigrants. Backed up by an in-depth glossary and more stunning artwork my Martin Symmers, GarryOwen is the ultimate frontier tale.

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iUniverse

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1440100683

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Speleothem Science

From Process to Past Environments

By: Ian J. Fairchild,Andy Baker

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Speleothem Science

From Process to Past Environments

By: Ian J. Fairchild,Andy Baker

Speleothems (mineral deposits that formed in caves) are currently giving us some of the most exciting insights into environments and climates during the Pleistocene ice ages and the subsequent Holocene rise of civilizations. The book applies system science to Quaternary environments in a new and rigorous way and gives holistic explanations the relations between the properties of speleothems and the climatic and cave setting in which they are found. It is designed as the ideal companion to someone embarking on speleothem research and, since the underlying science is very broad, it will also be invaluable to a wide variety of others. Students and professional scientists interested in carbonate rocks, karst hydrogeology, climatology, aqueous geochemistry, carbonate geochemistry and the calibration of climatic proxies will find up-to-date reviews of these topics here. The book will also be valuable to Quaternary scientists who, up to now, have lacked a thorough overview of these important archives. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/fairchild/speleothem.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444361074

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Quiet Genius

Bob Paisley, British football’s greatest manager SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

By: Ian Herbert

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Quiet Genius

Bob Paisley, British football’s greatest manager SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

By: Ian Herbert

The full story of the man who brought unprecedented – and since unmatched – success to Liverpool FC Bob Paisley was the quiet man in the flat cap who swept all domestic and European opposition aside and produced arguably the greatest club team that Britain has ever known. The man whose Liverpool team won trophies at a rate-per-season that dwarfs Sir Alex Ferguson's achievements at Manchester United and who remains the only Briton to lead a team to three European Cups. From Wembley to Rome, Manchester to Madrid, Paisley's team was the one no one could touch. Working in a city which was on its knees, in deep post-industrial decline, still tainted by the 1981 Toxteth riots and in a state of open warfare with Margaret Thatcher, he delivered a golden era – never re-attained since – which made the city of Liverpool synonymous with success and won them supporters the world over. Yet, thirty years since Paisley died, the life and times of this shrewd, intelligent, visionary, modest football man have still never been fully explored and explained. Based on in-depth interviews with Paisley's family and many of the players whom he led to an extraordinary haul of honours between 1974 and 1983, Quiet Genius is the first biography to examine in depth the secrets of Paisley's success. It inspects his man-management strategies, his extraordinary eye for a good player, his uncanny ability to diagnose injuries in his own players and the opposition, and the wicked sense of humour which endeared him to so many. It explores the North-East mining community roots which he cherished, and considers his visionary outlook on the way the game would develop. Quiet Genius is the story of how one modest man accomplished more than any other football manager, found his attributes largely unrecorded and undervalued and, in keeping with the gentler ways of his generation, did not seem to mind. It reveals an individual who seemed out of keeping with the brash, celebrity sport football was becoming, and who succeeded on his own terms. Three decades on from his death, it is a football story that demands to be told.

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147293735X

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Playfair Cricket Annual 2021

By: Ian Marshall

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Playfair Cricket Annual 2021

By: Ian Marshall

The world's bestselling cricket annual. The indispensable pocket guide to the cricket season. The 74th edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2021, as well as a review of events during the previous Covid-impacted twelve months. India are the main attraction this coming season, and here you'll find comprehensive Test match and limited-overs records and career records to help you follow the action. County cricket is covered in unrivalled depth, with biographies of all players registered to the counties at the start of the season, full coverage of last summer's events and a fixture list for all major domestic matches in 2021. There are also sections on women's cricket and the major domestic T20 competitions from around the world, which in 2021 will include The Hundred. For any cricket fan, the season is never complete without a copy of Playfair to guide you through it all.

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Communication Excellence

Using NLP to Supercharge Your Business Skills

By: Ian R McLaren

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Communication Excellence

Using NLP to Supercharge Your Business Skills

By: Ian R McLaren

This ten-lesson course will transform you into an excellent communicator. Providing invaluable training in key NLP-based methods, it will increase your ability to: manage; market; sell; influence; inspire; innovate. " ... a wealth of good ideas ..." Judith E. Pearson PhD, Psychotherapist and Certifi ed NLP Trainer/Practitioner

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Crown House Publishing

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1845904966

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The British Army and the First World War

By: Ian Beckett,Timothy Bowman,Mark Connelly

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The British Army and the First World War

By: Ian Beckett,Timothy Bowman,Mark Connelly

This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World War on the army's development. They assess the strengths and weaknesses of the army between 1914 and 1918, engaging with key debates around the adequacy of British generalship and whether or not there was a significant 'learning curve' in terms of the development of operational art during the course of the war. Their findings show how, despite limitations of initiative and innovation amongst the high command, the British army did succeed in developing the effective combined arms warfare necessary for victory in 1918.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316824543

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Botham's Book of the Ashes

A Lifetime Love Affair with Cricket's Greatest Rivalry

By: Ian Botham

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Botham's Book of the Ashes

A Lifetime Love Affair with Cricket's Greatest Rivalry

By: Ian Botham

Sir Ian Botham and the Ashes are as closely intertwined as willow and leather or Merv Hughes and his moustache. You simply cannot think of one without the other. In this book, Sir Ian takes you on a ride through a lifetime's relationship with cricket's oldest and most treasured prize, revealing just how it has shaped his life and how he has helped to turn it into the contest it is today. From the moment he first watched the likes of Ken Barrington stride to the wicket in jaw-jutting defiance to the day he flayed Australia's bowling attack around Headingley as if playing with his mates in the park, and then onwards to his role in commentating on what was arguably the finest series of the lot, in 2005, Sir Ian has a rich and varied connection with the Ashes, and he tells all here. The Ashes is a series that has provided incredible highs and heartbreaking lows for English and Australian fans alike over the past 35 years. Sir Ian has often been at the centre of the roller-coaster ride. Whether it is his account of his days as England's dogsbody in 1977 in Melbourne or the story of his refusal to let Bob Willis bowl downwind until he was angry enough to skittle the Aussies in 1981, all is revealed in depth in Botham's Book of the Ashes.

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Random House

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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom

The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit

By: Ian Michael Spurgeon

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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom

The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit

By: Ian Michael Spurgeon

It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union soldiers facing down rebel irregulars on Enoch Toothman’s farm near Butler, Missouri, this was no battle over abstract principles. These were men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry, and they were fighting for their own freedom and that of their families. They belonged to the first black regiment raised in a northern state, and the first black unit to see combat during the Civil War. Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history. Composed primarily of former slaves, the First Kansas Colored saw major combat in Missouri, Indian Territory, and Arkansas. Ian Michael Spurgeon draws upon a wealth of little-known sources—including soldiers’ pension applications—to chart the intersection of race and military service, and to reveal the regiment’s role in countering white prejudices by defying stereotypes. Despite naysayers’ bigoted predictions—and a merciless slaughter at the Battle of Poison Spring—these black soldiers proved themselves as capable as their white counterparts, and so helped shape the evolving attitudes of leading politicians, such as Kansas senator James Henry Lane and President Abraham Lincoln. A long-overdue reconstruction of the regiment’s remarkable combat record, Spurgeon’s book brings to life the men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry in their doubly desperate battle against the Confederate forces and skepticism within Union ranks.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806147229

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Playfair Cricket Annual 2022: Celebrating 75 Years

By: Ian Marshall

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Playfair Cricket Annual 2022: Celebrating 75 Years

By: Ian Marshall

The world's bestselling cricket annual. The indispensable pocket guide to the cricket season. The 75th edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2022, as well as a review of events during the previous Covid-impacted twelve months. India are the main attraction this coming season, and here you'll find comprehensive Test match and limited-overs records and career records to help you follow the action. County cricket is covered in unrivalled depth, with biographies of all players registered to the counties at the start of the season, full coverage of last summer's events and a fixture list for all major domestic matches in 2022. There are also sections on women's cricket and the major domestic T20 competitions from around the world, which in 2021 will include The Hundred. For any cricket fan, the season is never complete without a copy of Playfair to guide you through it all.

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Citizenship Through Secondary History

By: James Arthur,Ian Davies,David Kerr,Andrew Wrenn

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Citizenship Through Secondary History

By: James Arthur,Ian Davies,David Kerr,Andrew Wrenn

Citizenship through Secondary History reveals the potential of history to engage with citizenship education and includes: a review of the links between citizenship education and the teaching and learning of history an analysis of how citizenship education is characterised, raising key issues about what could and should be achieved a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls to avoid in teaching citizenship through history case studies offering practical teaching suggestions. History teaching is at the vanguard of citizenship education - the past is the springboard from which citizens learn to think and act. This book offers positive and direct ways to get involved in the thinking that must underpin any worthwhile citizenship education, for all professional teachers, student teachers in history, policy-makers, heads of department and principals.

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Routledge

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1134552610

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The Spatial Organisation of Multinational Corporations (RLE International Business)

By: Ian Clarke

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The Spatial Organisation of Multinational Corporations (RLE International Business)

By: Ian Clarke

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the spatial structure and geographical implications of modern multinational corporations. It looks at the geography of multinational corporations, relates this geography to management and decision making structures and discusses how these items are changing. Exploring the themes of centre and periphery in the corporation it surveys the impact of corporate change and restructuring on regional economies.

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1135130337

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Over the Hills and Far Away

The Ordinary Soldier

By: Ian Colquhoun

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Over the Hills and Far Away

The Ordinary Soldier

By: Ian Colquhoun

Fascinating tales of ordinary soldiers who have served since World War Two. 50% of all author royalties go to the Poppy Appeal.

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1440103151

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Justice, Mercy, and Caprice

Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland

By: Ian O'Donnell

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Justice, Mercy, and Caprice

Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland

By: Ian O'Donnell

Justice, Mercy, and Caprice is a work of criminal justice history that speaks to the gradual emergence of a more humane Irish state. It is a close examination of the decision to grant clemency to men and women sentenced to death between the end of the civil war in 1923 and the abolition of capital punishment in 1990. Frequently, the decision to deflect the law from its course was an attempt to introduce a measure of justice to a system where the mandatory death sentence for murder caused predictable unfairness and undue harshness. In some instances the decision to spare a life sprang from merciful motivations. In others it was capricious, depending on factors that should have had no place in the government's decision-making calculus. The custodial careers of those whose lives were spared repay scrutiny. Women tended to serve relatively short periods in prison but were often transferred to a religious institution where their confinement continued, occasionally for life. Men, by contrast, served longer in prison but were discharged directly to the community. Political offenders were either executed hastily or, when the threat of capital punishment had passed, incarcerated for extravagant periods. This book addresses issues that are of continuing relevance for countries that employ capital punishment. It will appeal to scholars with an interest in criminal justice history, executive discretion, and death penalty studies, as well as being a useful resource for students of penology.

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Oxford University Press

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0192519441

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The Neurology of AIDS

By: Howard E. Gendelman, MD,Igor Grant, MD,Ian Paul Everall, MD, PhD,Howard S. Fox, MD, PhD,Harris A. Gelbard, MD, PhD,Stuart A. Lipton, MD, PhD,Susan Swindells, MBBS

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The Neurology of AIDS

By: Howard E. Gendelman, MD,Igor Grant, MD,Ian Paul Everall, MD, PhD,Howard S. Fox, MD, PhD,Harris A. Gelbard, MD, PhD,Stuart A. Lipton, MD, PhD,Susan Swindells, MBBS

From basic science to clinical care, to epidemiological disease patters, The Neurology of AIDS is the only complete textbook available on AIDS neurology and the only one comprehensive enough to stand alone in each segment of study in brain disorders affected by the human immunodeficiency virus. It is an indispensable resource for students, resident physicians, practicing physicians, and for researchers and experts in the HIV/AIDS field. Oxford Clinical Neuroscience is a comprehensive, cross-searchable collection of resources offering quick and easy access to eleven of Oxford University Press's prestigious neuroscience texts. Joining Oxford Medicine Online these resources offer students, specialists and clinical researchers the best quality content in an easy-to-access format.

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Oxford University Press

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0199875553

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Crime and Criminal Justice

By: Ian Marsh,Gaynor Melville,Keith Morgan,Gareth Norris,John Cochrane

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Crime and Criminal Justice

By: Ian Marsh,Gaynor Melville,Keith Morgan,Gareth Norris,John Cochrane

Crime and Criminal Justice provides students with a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the study of criminology by taking an interdisciplinary approach to explaining criminal behaviour and criminal justice. The book is divided into two parts, which address the two essential bases that form the discipline of criminology. Part One describes, discusses and evaluates a range of theoretical approaches that have offered explanations for crime, drawing upon contributions from the disciplines of sociology, psychology, and biology. It then goes on to apply these theories to specific forms of criminality. Part Two offers an accessible but detailed review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment, and examines the main areas of the contemporary criminal justice system – including the police, the courts and judiciary, prisons, and more recent approaches to punishment. Presenting a clear and thorough review of theoretical thinking on crime, and of the context and current workings of the criminal justice system, this book provides students with an excellent grounding in the study of criminology.

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1136845747

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A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present

Modernisation, Ideology and Nationality

By: Ian D. Armour

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A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present

Modernisation, Ideology and Nationality

By: Ian D. Armour

Why is Eastern Europe still different from Western Europe, more than a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present shows how the roots of this difference are based in Eastern Europe's tortured 20th century. Eastern Europe emerged in 1918 as the 'lands between', new states whose weakness vis-à-vis Germany and Soviet Russia soon became obvious. The region was the main killing-field of the Second World War, which visited unimaginable horrors on its inhabitants before their 'liberation' by the Soviets in 1945. The imposition of Communist dictatorships on the region, ironically, only deepened Eastern Europe's backwardness. Even in the post-Communist period, its problems continue to make it a fertile breeding-ground for nationalism and political extremism. A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present explores the comparative backwardness of Eastern Europe and how this has driven strategies of modernisation; it looks at the ways in which the region has served as a giant test-tube for political experimentation and, in particular, at the enduring strength of nationalism, which since 1989 has re-emerged more virulent than ever. This book in the essential textbook for any student of 20th-century Eastern Europe.

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1472508653

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Embracing Emancipation

A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865

By: Ian Delahanty

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Embracing Emancipation

A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865

By: Ian Delahanty

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans’ unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Irish Americans, who claimed to have been oppressed in Ireland, so vehemently opposed the antislavery movement in the United States? Challenging conventional answers to this question that focus on the cultural, political, and economic circumstances of the Irish in America, Embracing Emancipation locates the origins of Irish American opposition to antislavery in famine-era Ireland. There, a distinctively Irish critique of abolitionism emerged during the 1840s, one that was adopted and adapted by Irish Americans during the sectional crisis. The Irish critique of abolitionism meshed with Irish Americans’ belief that the American Union would uplift Irish people on both sides of the Atlantic—if only it could be saved from the forces of disunion. Whereas conventional accounts of the Civil War itself emphasize Irish immigrants’ involvement in the New York City draft riots as a brutal coda to their unflinching opposition to emancipation, Delahanty uncovers a history of Irish Americans who embraced emancipation. Irish American soldiers realized that aiding Black southerners’ attempts at self-liberation would help to subdue the Confederate rebellion. Wartime developments in the United States and Ireland affirmed Irish American Unionists’ belief that the perpetuity of their adopted country was vital to the economic and political prospects of current and future immigrants and to their hopes for Ireland’s independence. Even as some Irish immigrants evinced their disdain for emancipation by lashing out against Union authorities and African Americans in northern cities, many others argued that their transatlantic interests in restoring the Union now aligned with slavery’s demise. While myriad Irish Americans ultimately abandoned their hostility to antislavery, their backgrounds in and continuously renewed connections with Ireland remained consistent influences on how the Irish in America took part in debate over the future of American slavery.

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Fordham Univ Press

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1531506895

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Designing Social Research

A Guide for the Bewildered

By: Ian Greener

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Designing Social Research

A Guide for the Bewildered

By: Ian Greener

Designing Social Research aims to guide students and new researchers using everyday non-jargonised language through the jungle of setting up their own research study. Ian Greener provides readers an accessible combination of guidance on how to practically plan one′s research and understand the underpinning methodological principles that should inform the decisions we make about the methods we plan to use. This is the perfect starter book for anyone looking to design their own research project and make sense of and justify the many decisions that go into the research design process. The goal throughout is to enable students and researchers to assess the appropriateness of a range of methods and to get understanding of the strengths and limitations of different approaches to research. Greener highlights key debates in the field - both philosophical and practical - and presents them in such a way that they remain constantly relevant to research practice of his readers. Coverage includes: - Framing an effective research question/problem; - Examining the jargon of social research; - The links between theory, methodology and method; - The role of literature reviewing in research design; - Managing and planning the research process; - Sampling; - Qualitative designs; - Quantitative designs; - Mixed methods designs; - Data analysis. Designing Social Research will be ideal first reading for M-level students and undergraduates planning significant research projects for their dissertations. It will also be invaluable to first year PhD students considering how they will go about their research projects.

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1446259692

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The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry

By: Ian D. Copestake

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The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry

By: Ian D. Copestake

The poet as an inheritor of an Emersonian tradition, and Paterson as an ethical autobiography in progress.

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1571134816

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Fitness For Work

The Medical Aspects

By: Keith T Palmer,Robin A F Cox,Ian Brown

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Fitness For Work

The Medical Aspects

By: Keith T Palmer,Robin A F Cox,Ian Brown

The fourth edition of this established book provides comprehensive information and practical guidance on the effects of medical conditions on employment and working capability. Every significant medical problem is covered, including the employment potential and assessment of anyone with a disability. Legal and ethical aspects are also addressed.

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0199215650

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Words that Listen

A Literary Companion to the Lectionary

By: Ian Markham,J Barney Hawkins,Mark Oakley

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Words that Listen

A Literary Companion to the Lectionary

By: Ian Markham,J Barney Hawkins,Mark Oakley

A Bible commentary with a difference, Words That Listen provides readings from world literature to accompany every Gospel passage of the Revised Common Lectionary for Years A, B and C. For each Sunday Gospel reading, it offers four extracts, with commentary, from fiction, nonfiction, poems, great speeches and sacred texts, to plays, television and film scripts, social commentaries, and theologians past and present. Authors featured include: • writers from the classical Christian tradition, from Origen to Rowan Williams • many literary greats, including Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Emily Bronte, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Oscar Wilde • recent and contemporary poets: U. A. Fanthorpe, Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry and Malcolm Guite • modern novelists and writers: P D James, Annie Dillard, Maya Angelou, Stephen King and Marilynne Robinson • filmmakers and screenwriters: Martin Scorcese, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg • songwriters and musicians: Leonard Cohen, U2, Led Zeppelin and Lady Gaga • paintings from leading artists that illuminate biblical events and encounters. Bound in two paperback volumes in a slipcase, Words That Listen brings together the worlds of art and faith to offer a unique resource for all who preach.

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Canterbury Press

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1786220644

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Playfair Cricket Annual 2024

By: Ian Marshall

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Playfair Cricket Annual 2024

By: Ian Marshall

The indispensable pocket guide to the cricket season. The 77th edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2024, as well as a review of events during the previous twelve months. Pakistan, West Indies, Sri Lanka and Australia will all be touring England this coming summer, and here you'll find comprehensive Test match and limited-overs records and career records to help you follow the action. County cricket is covered in unrivalled depth, with biographies of all players registered to the counties at the start of the season, full coverage of last summer's events and a fixture list for all major domestic matches in 2024. There are also sections on women's cricket and the major domestic T20 competitions from around the world, including The Hundred. For any cricket fan, the season is never complete without a copy of Playfair to guide you through it all.

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1035411784

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Plurality and Christian Ethics

By: Ian S. Markham

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Plurality and Christian Ethics

By: Ian S. Markham

Too many parts of the world testify to the difficulties religions have in tolerating each other. It is often concluded that the only way tolerance and plurality can be protected is to keep religion out of the public sphere. Ian Markham challenges this secularist argument. In the first half of the book, he advances a careful critique of European culture which exposes the problem of plurality. His analysis of the Christendom Group is contrasted with the outlook found in the USA, where a religiously informed culture may be seen to be tolerant. In the second half of the book, the author argues that plurality is better safeguarded by a theistic, rather than a secularist, foundation. He submits that too often secularists use relativist arguments, while theists want to appeal to the complexity of God's world. He concludes that in our post-modern world the religious affirmation of diversity offers genuine political possibilities for cultural enrichment.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521453283

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EBOOK: Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach (ISE)

By: Ian Palmer,Richard Dunford,David Buchanan

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EBOOK: Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach (ISE)

By: Ian Palmer,Richard Dunford,David Buchanan

Providing the Skills to Successfully Manage Change Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach, 3e, by Palmer, Dunford, and Buchanan, offers managers a multiple perspectives approach to managing change, which recognizes the variety of ways to facilitate change and reinforces the need for a tailored and creative approach to fit different contexts. The third edition offers timely updates to previous content, while introducing new and emerging trends, developments, themes, debates, and practices.

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McGraw Hill

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0077189701

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Head On - Ian Botham: The Autobiography

By: Ian Botham

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Head On - Ian Botham: The Autobiography

By: Ian Botham

Voted the greatest English cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, Sir Ian Botham is the English game's one true living legend and his story both on and off the pitch reads like a Boy's Own rollercoaster ride. Born with a natural genius for cricket, Botham began breaking records with bat and ball from a young age and soon became the man English cricket expected most from. After a troubled period as England's captain, Botham rose once again to become a national hero with his display in the Miracle Ashes of 1981. But, with his confrontational nature and wild streak, he began regularly making the wrong kind of headlines. With accusations of drink and drugs, affairs and ball-tampering, he became hounded by the tabloid pack, never sure whether they wanted him to triumph or implode. Now a Knight and just as famous for his tireless charity work, Beefy gives us the definitive story of his never-dull life and times in his own no-nonsense words.

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Random House

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1407028197

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Vuvuzela Dawn

25 Sports Stories that Shaped a New Nation

By: Luke Alfred,Ian Hawkey

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25 Sports Stories that Shaped a New Nation

By: Luke Alfred,Ian Hawkey

In 2019, South Africa celebrates 25 years of democracy and the freedom that turned the country from a political pariah to one warmly embraced by the world. Nowhere was the welcome more visible, or more emotional, than in sport. Vuvuzela Dawn tells the stories of that return. From Bafana Bafana’s Africa Cup of Nations win to the fabled ‘438’Proteas game, we go behind the scenes of the great moments and record-breaking triumphs from 1994 to the present. From Caster Semenya and Wayde van Niekerk to Benni McCarthy and Kevin Anderson, from twin World Cup rugby victories to the traumas of Kamp Staaldraad and Hansie Cronjé, Vuvuzela Dawn reveals the sporting dramas and passions that defined a quarter century.

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Pan Macmillan South africa

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1770106626

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The Moral Foundations of Politics

By: Ian Shapiro

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The Moral Foundations of Politics

By: Ian Shapiro

When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro investigates this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract traditions over the past four centuries. Showing how these political philosophies have all been decisively shaped by the core values of the Enlightenment, he demonstrates that each one contains useful insights that survive their failures as comprehensive doctrines and that should inform our thinking about political legitimacy. Shapiro then turns to the democratic tradition. Exploring the main arguments for and against democracy from Plato’s time until our own, he argues that democracy offers the best resources for realizing the Enlightenment’s promise and managing its internal tensions. As such, democracy supplies the most attractive available basis for political legitimacy.

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Yale University Press

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030012869X

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Forensic Psychiatry

Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition

By: John Gunn,Pamela Taylor,Ian D. Hutcheon

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Forensic Psychiatry

Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition

By: John Gunn,Pamela Taylor,Ian D. Hutcheon

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2014Comprehensive and erudite, Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition is a practical guide to the psychiatry of offenders, victims, and survivors of crime. This landmark publication has been completely updated but retains all the features that made the first edition such a w

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1444165062

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World Literature Decentered

Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal

By: Ian Almond

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World Literature Decentered

Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal

By: Ian Almond

What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the “West”. The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention – on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world.

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Routledge

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1000407136

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The Human Fossil Record, Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia)

By: Jeffrey H. Schwartz,Ian Tattersall

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The Human Fossil Record, Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia)

By: Jeffrey H. Schwartz,Ian Tattersall

The Human Fossil Record series is the most authoritative and comprehensive documentation of the fossil evidence relevant to the study of our evolutionary past. This second volume covers the craniodental remains from Africa and Asia attributed to the genus Homo. In this monumental and groundbreaking new series, the authors use clearly defined terminology and descriptive protocols that are applied uniformly throughout. Organized alphabetically by site name with detailed morphological descriptions and original, expertly taken photographs, each entry features: Location information History of discovery Previous systematic assessments of the fossils Geological, archaeological, and faunal contexts Dating References to the primary literature

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471326445

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Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents

Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment

By: Ian A. Canino,Jeanne Spurlock

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Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents

Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment

By: Ian A. Canino,Jeanne Spurlock

An edition to guide mental health practitioners in conducting culturally competent, effective work with economically disadvantaged youth from African-, Asian-, Latino- and Native-American backgrounds.

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Guilford Press

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1572305835

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The NLP Coach

A Comprehensive Guide to Personal Well-Being and Professional Success

By: Ian McDermott,Wendy Jago

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The NLP Coach

A Comprehensive Guide to Personal Well-Being and Professional Success

By: Ian McDermott,Wendy Jago

This is a comprehensive, practical and user-friendly guide to self-coaching using the powerful techniques of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). The book provides a step-by-step programme to help you achieve success at work and at home. All the essential NLP coaching tools are clearly explained at the beginning of the book, with examples and case histories. The next six sections of the book show you how to coach yourself to success in six key aspects of your life. Enhance your self-esteem Build good relationships and improve your communication skills Maximise your brain power, accelerate your learning and improve your memory Generate health, wealth and happiness Manage yourself and others better and make your work more rewarding Reach your full potential and become spiritually alive

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Piatkus

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1405513411

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The Politics of the Final Hundred Years of Humanity (2030-2130)

By: Ian Cook

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The Politics of the Final Hundred Years of Humanity (2030-2130)

By: Ian Cook

This book is the first book that looks at both the politics of maintaining the trajectory toward humanity’s final hundred years and the politics of those final hundred years. It is the first book to take up theoretical and practical aspects with respect to both the movement toward and events during these final hundred years. As a result, it is the first book that attempts to provide a more complete picture of the politics of catastrophic human-caused environment change. The fact that the book provides a way into the variety of policy problems that catastrophic human-caused environment change is creating means that it is also important to those in Public Policy. The book also raises a series of philosophical and ethical questions associated with human rights, which are significant to those who study Political Philosophy (and some of those who study Law), international action to mitigate the effects of climate change, the nature of science and the limitations of political institutions.

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Springer Nature

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9811512590

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