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The Outlaw Ocean

Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

By: Ian Urbina

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The Outlaw Ocean

Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

By: Ian Urbina

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.

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Vintage

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0451492951

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Life's Little Annoyances

True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore

By: Ian Urbina

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Life's Little Annoyances

True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore

By: Ian Urbina

What can you do when the world is pushing you over the edge? More than you think. For some of us, it's the automated voice that answers the phone when we'd rather talk to a real person. For others, it's the fact that Starbucks insists on calling its smallest-sized coffee "tall." Or perhaps it's those pesky subscription cards that fall out of magazines. Whatever it is, each of us finds some aspect of everyday life to be particularly maddening, and we often long to lash out at these stubborn irritants of modern life. In Life's Little Annoyances, Ian Urbina chronicles the lengths to which some people will go when they have endured their pet peeves long enough and are not going to take it any more. It is a compendium of human inventiveness, by turns juvenile and petty, but in other ways inspired and deeply satisfying. We meet the junk-mail recipient who sends back unwanted "business reply" envelopes weighted down with sheet metal, so the mailers will have to pay the postage. We commiserate with the woman who was fed up with the colleague who kept helping himself to her lunch cookies, so she replaced them with dog biscuits that looked like biscotti. And we revel in the seemingly endless number of tactics people use to vent their anger at telemarketers, loud cellphone talkers, spammers, and others who impose themselves on us. A celebration of the endless variety of passive aggressive behavior, Life's Little Annoyances will provide comfort and inspiration to everyone who has ever gritted his teeth and dreamed of sweet retribution against the slings and arrows of outrageous people.

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Macmillan

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1429900970

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9781429900973

Leadership in Sports Coaching

A Social Identity Approach

By: Paul Cummins,Ian O'Boyle,Tony Cassidy

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Leadership in Sports Coaching

A Social Identity Approach

By: Paul Cummins,Ian O'Boyle,Tony Cassidy

The professionalisation of sports coaching has demanded higher standards of leadership in order to improve performance and effectiveness. This book focuses on leadership in sports coaching, exploring key concepts and principles underpinned by a presentation of new empirical research. Placing social identity theory at its centre – a theory not previously applied to sports coaching – this book provides students and researchers with a powerful tool for understanding the complex social dynamic that is the coaching process. Its chapters cover all the central aspects of sports coaching, including leadership style, measuring effectiveness, motivation, confidence and team self-esteem. Chapters explore different coaching environments to investigate the extent to which social identity impacts on coaching and leadership. A ground-breaking contribution to this field of research, this book demonstrates the significance of social identity theory in sport for athletes, coaches and leaders. Leadership in Sports Coaching: A social identity approach is an illuminating read for any student or researcher with an interest in coaching theory, coaching practice, sport psychology, sport leadership or sport management.

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165

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Routledge

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1351971751

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Personality Traits

By: Gerald Matthews,Ian J. Deary,Martha C. Whiteman

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Personality Traits

By: Gerald Matthews,Ian J. Deary,Martha C. Whiteman

This essential textbook examines what personality traits are, how they influence human behaviour and the applications of personality assessment.

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Cambridge University Press

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052188778X

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9780521887786

Life's Little Annoyances

True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore

By: Ian Urbina

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True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore

By: Ian Urbina

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Idiots Revisited

Catching Up with the Red Sox Who Won the 2004 World Series

By: Ian Browne

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Idiots Revisited

Catching Up with the Red Sox Who Won the 2004 World Series

By: Ian Browne

Ten years later, MLB.com writer Ian Browne caught up with many of the men from that never-say-die squad and wove their memories of the season, the playoffs, and their subsequent lives with his own journalism to create a book that is both poignant and hugely entertaining. Woven around the 2004 memories and insights of Derek Lowe, Keith Foulke, Dave Roberts, Gabe Kapler, Pedro Martinez, Johnny Damon, Mark Bellhorn, Tim Wakefield, Terry Francona, Theo Epstein, and others.A marvelous gift and profoundly satisfying read for Red Sox fans.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1684751446

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9781684751440

Introduction to Description Logic

By: Franz Baader,Ian Horrocks,Carsten Lutz,Uli Sattler

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Introduction to Description Logic

By: Franz Baader,Ian Horrocks,Carsten Lutz,Uli Sattler

The first introductory textbook on description logics, relevant to computer science, knowledge representation and the semantic web.

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264

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Cambridge University Press

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0521873614

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9780521873611

Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction

By: Ian J. Deary

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Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction

By: Ian J. Deary

Some people are cleverer than others. This everyday observation is the subject of an academic field that is often portrayed as confused and controversial, when in fact, the field of intelligence holds some of psychology's best-replicated findings. This Very Short Introduction describes what psychologists have discovered about how and why people differ in their thinking powers. Drawing on large scale data Ian Deary considers how many types of intelligence there are, and how intelligence changes with age. Along the way he tackles some of the most burning questions surrounding intelligence, such as whether larger brains are cleverer, and how genes and environments contribute to people's intelligence differences. He also considers the new field of cognitive epidemiology, which draws links between intelligence and better health, less illness, and longer life, and asks whether intelligence is increasing. In this new edition Deary also addresses the controversial question of whether men and women differ in intelligence. Throughout he provides a clear description of the data we can use to answer these questions and more. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Oxford University Press

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0192515993

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9780192515995

Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar

By: Ian G. Roberts

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Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar

By: Ian G. Roberts

In this book, Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in a somewhat different guise - in the context of the minimalist programme. The book represents a significant new contribution to the formal study of cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation.

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0198804636

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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

This book 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. It 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. 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.

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Routledge

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1136845755

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9781136845758

Creating Restorative Justice

A Communication Perspective of Justice, Restoration, and Community

By: Gregory D. Paul,Ian M. Borton

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Creating Restorative Justice

A Communication Perspective of Justice, Restoration, and Community

By: Gregory D. Paul,Ian M. Borton

Discussion of the histories, meanings, and assumptions of restorative justice have enriched the development of its theory, research, and practices. While some of this work has addressed the role of communication, the treatment of communication within restorative justice remains rather under-developed. Communication plays a central role in processes of restoration and justice and a constitutive role in making restorative justice what it is. In Creating Restorative Justice: A Communication Perspective of Justice, Restoration, and Community, Gregory D. PaulandIan M. Borton argue that by centering communication in restorative justice as it occurs in various contexts (from families, to schools, to communities), we can simultaneously deepen our understanding, enrich our practice, and amplify our study of restoration and justice. From a communication perspective, restorative contexts both use and are created by the communication present. Any outcomes from restorative processes are thus the product of the communication both within and between restorative practices’ participants. As the world addresses the challenges presented by injustice, inequality, and insecurity, it is incumbent we expand our understanding of restorative processes to account for the vital role of communication.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149857646X

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9781498576468

Sea of Troubles

The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War

By: Ian Rutledge

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Sea of Troubles

The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War

By: Ian Rutledge

In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, and its territories occupied by European powers. Sea of Troubles is the definitive account of the European conquest of the Levant and North Africa over three centuries. Ian Rutledge reveals the intense imperial rivalry between six European powers - Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia - who all jostled for control of the trade, lands and wealth of the Islamic Mediterranean. The competition between these states made their conquest a far more difficult and extended task than they encountered elsewhere in the world. Yet, as new contenders entered the contest, and as rivalries intensified in the early twentieth century, events would spiral out of control as the continent headed towards the First World War.

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Saqi Books

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0863569552

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9780863569555

Medical-Surgical Nursing - E-Book

Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, Single Volume

By: Sharon L. Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret M. Heitkemper,Linda Bucher,Ian Camera

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Medical-Surgical Nursing - E-Book

Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, Single Volume

By: Sharon L. Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret M. Heitkemper,Linda Bucher,Ian Camera

Written by a dedicated team of expert authors led by Sharon Lewis, Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition offers up-to-date coverage of the latest trends, hot topics, and clinical developments in the field, to help you provide exceptional care in today's fast-paced health care environment. Completely revised and updated content explores patient care in various clinical settings and focuses on key topics such as prioritization, clinical decision-making, patient safety, and NCLEX® exam preparation. A variety of helpful boxes and tables make it easy to find essential information and the accessible writing style makes even complex concepts easy to grasp! Best of all — a complete collection of interactive learning and study tools help you learn more effectively and offer valuable, real-world preparation for clinical practice.

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1944

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323290337

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9780323290333

Excel Senior High School Information and Research Skills for Assessment Success

HSC and Preliminary Courses

By: Ian Biddle

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Excel Senior High School Information and Research Skills for Assessment Success

HSC and Preliminary Courses

By: Ian Biddle

Contains articles by different authors including Ian Biddle, Chris Greef, Maree Herrett, Debra Kelliher, Rodney Lane, Marshall Leaver, Robert Mulas, Sophie Mynott, Cameron Paterson, and Ross Todd. Applies the Information Skills Process to the preparation of assessment tasks for the Biology, Business Studies, English, Geography, Modern History and Society and Culture HSC 2001 Syllabi.

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Pascal Press

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1740202422

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9781740202428

2008 Songwriter's Market

By: Ian Bessler

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2008 Songwriter's Market

By: Ian Bessler

THE MOST TRUSTED GUIDE TO SONGWRITING SUCCESS For 34 years, "Songwriter's Market" has provided the most complete and up-to-date information songwriters need to place their songs with music publishers, record companies, record producers, managers & booking agents, music firms, and more.In the "2011 Songwriter's Market," you'll find: Hundreds of songwriting placement opportunities, including how each market is different from the next and how to find success.Interviews with songwriting legends, such as Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) and Even Stevens, who's written for everyone from Kenny Rogers to Martina McBride.Power-packed articles on taking charge of your career, including how to navigate social media sites and find alternative routes to songwriting success.Plus, the basic nuts and bolts of the songwriting business are explained, including how to submit songs, the proper way to handle Copyright, how to identify scams, negotiating contracts, what royalties are (and how to get them), and more.Listings for songwriting organizations, conferences, workshops, retreats, colonies, and contests. Take charge of your songwriting career today with the "2011 Songwriter's Market.

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Writers Digest Books

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1582975027

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9781582975023

Political Developments in Contemporary China

A Guide

By: Ian Jeffries

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Political Developments in Contemporary China

A Guide

By: Ian Jeffries

China’s role in global events today cannot be overestimated. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of contemporary political developments in China. Key topics covered include: China's international relations with its neighbours and with the international community more widely; demographic developments; Taiwan; Macao and Hong Kong, Tibet, Uighurs; human rights, health issues (including bird flu); food contamination and defective goods; and a chronology of political developments, congresses and Central Committee sessions since May 2006; the earthquake of 12 May 2008 and the 2008 Olympic Games. The book continues - and adds to – the overview of developments up to May 2006 which were covered in the author’s China: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments (2006), and is the companion volume to Economic Developments in Contemporary China: A Guide (2010) - both published by Routledge.

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113696519X

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The Outlaw Ocean

The Outlaw Ocean

Life's Little Annoyances

Life's Little Annoyances

Leadership in Sports Coaching

Leadership in Sports Coaching

Personality Traits

Personality Traits

Life's Little Annoyances

Life's Little Annoyances

Idiots Revisited

Idiots Revisited

Introduction to Description Logic

Introduction to Description Logic

Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction

Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction

Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar

Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar

Crime and Criminal Justice

Crime and Criminal Justice

Creating Restorative Justice

Creating Restorative Justice

Sea of Troubles

Sea of Troubles

Medical-Surgical Nursing - E-Book

Medical-Surgical Nursing - E-Book

Excel Senior High School Information and Research Skills for Assessment Success

Excel Senior High School Information and Research Skills for Assessment Success

2008 Songwriter's Market

2008 Songwriter's Market

Political Developments in Contemporary China

Political Developments in Contemporary China

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