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The Politics of Management Knowledge in Times of Austerity

By: Ewan Ferlie,Sue Dopson,Chris Bennett,Michael Fischer,Jean Ledger,Gerry McGivern

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The Politics of Management Knowledge in Times of Austerity

By: Ewan Ferlie,Sue Dopson,Chris Bennett,Michael Fischer,Jean Ledger,Gerry McGivern

While the implementation of evidence-based medicine guidelines is well studied, there has been little investigation into the extent to which a parallel evidence-based management movement has been influential within health care organizations. This book explores the various management knowledges and associated texts apparent in English health care organizations, and considers how the local reception of these texts was influenced by the macro level political economy of public services reform evident during the period of the politics of austerity. The research outlined in this volume shows that very few evidence-based management texts are apparent within health care organizations, despite the influence of certain knowledge producers, such as national agencies, think tanks, management consultancies, and business schools in the industry. Bringing together the often disconnected academic literature on management knowledge and public policy, the volume addresses the ways in which preferred management knowledges and texts in these publicly funded settings are sensitive to the macro level political economy of public services reform, offering an empirically grounded critique of the evidence-based management movement.

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Oxford University Press

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0192568000

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9780192568007

Power Without Responsibility

Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain

By: James Curran,Jean Seaton

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Power Without Responsibility

Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain

By: James Curran,Jean Seaton

This book attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet; a subtle account of the impact of social media and explores key debates about the role and politics of the media. It has become a standard book on media and other courses: but it has also gone beyond an academic audience to reach a wider public. Hailed as ‘a classic of media history and analysis’ by the Irish Times and a book that has ‘cracked the canon’ by the Times Higher, it has been translated into five languages. This edition contains six new chapters. These include the press and the remaking of Britain, the rise of the neo-liberal Establishment, the moral decline of journalism, the impact of social media and a history of attempts to reform the press. It contains new research on the relationship between programmes, institutions and society. It places key UK institutions in the wider context of international affairs and their impact. The book has been updated to take account of new developments like Brexit and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn and the shift in authority and legitimacy prompted by social media. It does this with a clear explanation of how policy can shape media outcomes.

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Routledge

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1351212273

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9781351212274

Performing with Microsoft Office XP

Introductory Course

By: Iris Blanc,Cathy Vento,Blanc, Jean-Jacques,Vento,Iris Blanc Cathy Vento

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Performing with Microsoft Office XP

Introductory Course

By: Iris Blanc,Cathy Vento,Blanc, Jean-Jacques,Vento,Iris Blanc Cathy Vento

The Performing Series takes students to a higher level of learning through applied and project-based activities that go beyond the mechanics of the software. Most textbooks begin by teaching students software skills. The Performing Series presents various business documents first, then shows students the Office XP skills they need to create them. This approach shows students the relevance of what they are learning as they apply technology to task.

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0619058536

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9780619058531

A Father's Love; Sacrifice and Service

By: Jean DeFreese Moore

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A Father's Love; Sacrifice and Service

By: Jean DeFreese Moore

Putting other people before themselves is a way of life for the Britt family. But during a time of global war and disease, the members of the family feel the strain especially hard. Travis Britt served in a medical unit during the American Civil War. Now Curt, Clay, Noah, and James follow in their grandfather’s footsteps and volunteer for service in a medical unit serving the allied forces during the war to end all wars. Two more grandsons, Drs. William and Edison Stewart, are stretched thin. One doctor cares for injured troops returning from France, while the other battles the deadly Spanish flu. Both have their own personal struggles and their father, old Dr. Thomas Stewart, must step forward to help during a time of crisis. In the town of Harris, gossip is a way of life, and secrets bring out the worst in people. Brothers Luke, Cleve, and Reid Britt face a conspiracy as they work to protect the innocent from greedy, vengeful, and manipulative neighbors. But the allied nations also hold secrets. When Cleve and William discover one that endangers the American people, and those in Harris, Cleve must convince William to keep quiet. Travis, now in his eighties, follows his memories back to the mountains he loved in his youth, only to discover a renewed passion for life and a fresh love for his children. As they have always done, the Britt family takes care of each other. And they all wait to find out what sacrifices the family must now make.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1638858659

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9781638858652

The Theory of Industrial Organization

By: Jean Tirole

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The Theory of Industrial Organization

By: Jean Tirole

The Theory of Industrial Organization is the first primary text to treat the new industrial organization at the advanced-undergraduate and graduate level. Rigorously analytical and filled with exercises coded to indicate level of difficulty, it provides a unified and modern treatment of the field with accessible models that are simplified to highlight robust economic ideas while working at an intuitive level. To aid students at different levels, each chapter is divided into a main text and supplementary section containing more advanced material. Each chapter opens with elementary models and builds on this base to incorporate current research in a coherent synthesis. Tirole begins with a background discussion of the theory of the firm. In Part I he develops the modern theory of monopoly, addressing single product and multi product pricing, static and intertemporal price discrimination, quality choice, reputation, and vertical restraints. In Part II, Tirole takes up strategic interaction between firms, starting with a novel treatment of the Bertrand-Cournot interdependent pricing problem. He studies how capacity constraints, repeated interaction, product positioning, advertising, and asymmetric information affect competition or tacit collusion. He then develops topics having to do with long term competition, including barriers to entry, contestability, exit, and research and development. He concludes with a "game theory user's manual" and a section of review exercises. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition.

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MIT Press

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0262200716

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9780262200714

History of Abercorn, 1929-2004

By: Jean-Rémi Brault

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History of Abercorn, 1929-2004

By: Jean-Rémi Brault

Commemorating the town’s 75th anniversary, this chronicle of Abercorn tells the story of its founding and the important developments since. Spanning many decades, the volume begins with the story of the descendants of British loyalists who found untilled land around the Bay of Missisquoi, just north of the Vermont-Quebec border, and created Abercorn in 1929.

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Les éditions du Septentrion

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2894484046

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Controversial Issues in Special Education

By: Garry Hornby,Jean Howard,Mary Atkinson

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Controversial Issues in Special Education

By: Garry Hornby,Jean Howard,Mary Atkinson

First published in 1997. This book provides practitioners in the field of special education with the information they need to decide whether controversial diagnoses and treatments in this field are valid. The aim of this book is to review the literature on each topic and comment on the current state of the art of each in a way which is accessible to teachers, other professionals and parents. The book is of relevance to all teachers and other professionals who are concerned with the education of children with SEN, including teachers in mainstream and special schools.

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Routledge

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1134094450

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A Vineyard Season

By: Jean Stone

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A Vineyard Season

By: Jean Stone

For fans of Debbie Macomber and Elin Hilderbrand, Jean Stone’s “lovingly rendered” (Booklist) novels are heartwarming beach reads set on beautiful Martha's Vineyard, featuring bestselling mystery author and Vineyard Inn proprietor Annie Sutton as she makes a fresh start on the island she’s come to call home. There’s no place like home. Especially when home is an island paradise in full bloom . . . With her wedding only weeks away, Annie should be grateful to be back on Martha’s Vineyard, running her cozy Inn and crafting her artisan soaps. But her recent trip to L.A. to see her bestselling novels turned into films has her fantasizing about a life in California. Annie knows her fiancé, John, would never relocate—the small-town police officer’s whole life is here. And Annie is looking forward to the imminent birth of a baby in her own extended family. Yet somehow she can’t stop imagining . . . Then John’s older daughter is diagnosed with a serious illness, rocking their world and sending John off-island to tend to her, alongside his ex-wife. When Annie’s newfound celebrity attracts a stranger into her midst with a secret that could wreak havoc on her half-brother Kevin’s life, Annie is faced with a choice that will test their relationship. With the distance between her and John growing deeper every day, suddenly Annie is questioning everything—including her ties to the only place she has ever dared to call home . . .

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Vineyard Novel

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1496737679

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A Grammar and Lexicon of Yintyingka

By: Jean-Christophe Verstraete,Bruce Rigsby

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A Grammar and Lexicon of Yintyingka

By: Jean-Christophe Verstraete,Bruce Rigsby

This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1501500716

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9781501500718

A Dictionary of Morrobolam

A Lamalamic Language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia

By: Jean-Christophe Verstraete

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A Dictionary of Morrobolam

A Lamalamic Language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia

By: Jean-Christophe Verstraete

Morrobolam is a Lamalamic (Paman

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3111399974

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Vitiligo and Other Hypomelanoses of Hair and Skin

By: Jean-Paul Ortonne

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Vitiligo and Other Hypomelanoses of Hair and Skin

By: Jean-Paul Ortonne

Leukoderma is a generic term for any pigmentary dilution, be it congenital or acquired, circumscribed or generalized, devoid of or partially lacking in pig mentation. In the approach to the diagnosis of leukoderma, we have generally first considered the age of onset, whether leukoderma was congenital or ac quired, the extent and pattern of involvement, and the degree of pigmentary dilution. The organization of this monograph reflects this approach. For ex ample, we have separated the section devoted to various disease entities into diffuse and circumscribed leukoderma and the latter into various etiologies such as genetic, metabolic, infectious, and endocrinologic. One of several justifications for this monograph is to present an approach to the diagnosis of leukoderma, as detailed in Part II. In formulating a guide for the physician, we have found some limitations to our previous approach; we therefore offer the following new classification based upon a clini cal-pathologic correlation. This could provide the means to describe both the clinical and pathologic findings in one term.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461592720

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Texas Lost

By: Jean Brashear

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Texas Lost

By: Jean Brashear

His career is in her hands—will he risk his future to save her? Clarice Sutton, daughter of privilege, was raised to lead society, but that life feels increasingly empty, so instead of taking her proper place in their social set, she's taken a job her parents abhor: police department psychologist. The company she keeps and the people she meets horrify her oh-so-proper parents and their friends. Santino "Saint" Valdez—hardnosed detective who is anything but saintly—is under investigation by Internal Affairs for killing a predator he's not at all sorry to have eliminated. Now he's supposed to spill his guts to Miss Prim and Prissy? No way—not ever. Yet she's not what he expects, and he surprises her, as well. A growing attraction complicates both their lives, and time spent together only strengthens the unwise bond between the mongrel from the streets and the society girl. Saint's future depends on Clarice's professional evaluation, yet her feelings toward him are increasingly anything but professional. An Internal Affairs detective who trusts her wants Saint's head in a noose, so the stakes couldn't be higher. New on the job, Clarice can't afford to falter, yet the urge to defend the man who won't defend himself is powerful. And when Clarice learns that the parents she's tried so hard to please have lied to her all her life, the only person she trusts to understand how lost and alone she feels is the very man she must avoid in order to save him. As the forces against Saint gather, he knows the worst thing he can do is spend time with her and risk tainting her evaluation…yet how can he turn away from her soft and valiant heart when she's suffering so? And when those out to get him endanger her safety, will Saint risk everything to save her?

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Jean Brashear

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1942653476

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9781942653479

IGA: Non-Invasive Coupling with FEM and Regularization of Digital Image Correlation Problems, Volume 2

By: Robin Bouclier,Jean-Charles Passieux

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IGA: Non-Invasive Coupling with FEM and Regularization of Digital Image Correlation Problems, Volume 2

By: Robin Bouclier,Jean-Charles Passieux

Isogeometric analysis (IGA) consists of using the same higher-order and smooth spline functions for the representation of geometry in Computer Aided Design as for the approximation of solution fields in Finite Element Analysis. Now, almost twenty years after its creation, substantial works are being reported in IGA, making it very competitive in scientific computing. This book proposes to use IGA jointly with standard finite element methods (FEM), presenting IGA as a projection of FEM on a more regular reduced basis. By shedding new light on how IGA relates to FEM, we can see how IGA can be implemented on top of an FE code in order to improve the solution of problems that require more regularity. This is illustrated by using IGA with FEM in a non-invasive fashion to perform efficient and robust multiscale global/local simulations in solid mechanics. Furthermore, we show that IGA can regularize the inverse problem of FE digital image correlation in experimental mechanics.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394229623

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9781394229628

The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons

Decoding the Ancestry of the English

By: Jean Manco

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The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons

Decoding the Ancestry of the English

By: Jean Manco

Who are the English? Their language and culture have had an impact on the modern world out of all proportion to the size of their homeland. But what do we really understand about their ancestry? Traditionally they have been seen as the descendants of those Germanic peoples who poured into Britain after the Roman legions departed, today known as the Anglo-Saxons. Alternative interpretations have questioned this picture, or suggested complications. At last, the astonishing progress made in extracting and analysing ancient DNA means that theories can be tested empirically, shedding new light on the movement and migrations of peoples in the past. Skillfully and accessibly blending together results from this cutting-edge DNA technology with new research from archaeology and linguistics, Jean Manco reveals a long and adventurous journey before a word of English was spoken. Going beyond a narrow focus on the Anglo-Saxon period, she probes into the deep origins of the Germani and their kin, and extends the story to the language of Shakespeare, taken to the first British colony in America. The result is an exciting new history of the English people, and a ground-breaking analysis of their development.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500777993

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9780500777992

Across The Gap

By: Jean M. Morris

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Across The Gap

By: Jean M. Morris

An account of how, in the wake of The Industrial Revolution, a little known corner of rural England was transformed into an area of dense industrial activity. The arrival of the alkali trade in Widnes, and the subsequent explosion in population, changed the social structure of the area and created great divisions in society. The indigenous communities, who had lived and worked in time honoured rural occupations for generations, were swallowed up by a growing workforce of migrant workers from all corners of Britain and Ireland. As a consequence, the social fabric of the area was irrevocably altered and the devastating effect of industry on the landscape and environment created huge problems. This book allows us to see how a new unskilled workforce struggled to adapt to factory disciplines and routines, as well as a new urban way of living.

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Lulu.com

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1326865250

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9781326865252

The Ancestors of Scott Wolter - Vol 2 Family Groups

By: Diana Jean Muir

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The Ancestors of Scott Wolter - Vol 2 Family Groups

By: Diana Jean Muir

Few individuals can document their ancestry back 85 generations. Even fewer can trace their ancestry to the Merovingian, Capetian, and Carolingian Kings, the Sea-Kings of Norway, the Ancient Irish Kings of Tara, and the Grail Fisher Kings of ancient Wales. These ancestry lines extend as far back as 780 BC in the ancient city of Jerusalem, at Tara Castle in Ireland, and Skarra Brae in ancient Orkney. Family names such as Wolter, Schwartz, Hanke, Kittlesby, Rolefson, Austin, Scott, Thorndyke, Madill, Easley and Russell soon give way to Grunewald and Albrechts from Germany, Brandt from Norway and Allington, Sinclair, Ruthven, Plantagenet, Redmayne, DeGotham, Waldegrave, de La Tour, DeVere, and de Coucy of Britain and Normandy - to Rollo, Halfdan Sveidisoon, Thorfinn of Orkney, Frosti, King of Kvenland and Owain of Wales. Queens, Kings, Earls and Templar Knights, Lords and Barons dominate the lines; all ambitious, powerful and enigmatic leaders of the past who encouraged and fought for the future that we enjoy.

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1387899481

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9781387899487

Moves in Mind

The Psychology of Board Games

By: Fernand Gobet,Jean Retschitzki,Alex de Voogt

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Moves in Mind

The Psychology of Board Games

By: Fernand Gobet,Jean Retschitzki,Alex de Voogt

This book, which is the first systematic study of psychology and board games, covers topics such as perception, memory, problem solving and decision making, development, intelligence, emotions, motivation, education, and neuroscience.

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Psychology Press

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1135425132

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9781135425135

A-Z of Macclesfield

Places-People-History

By: Jean & John Bradburn

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A-Z of Macclesfield

Places-People-History

By: Jean & John Bradburn

Explore the Cheshire town of Macclesfield in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398115797

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A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One

Sporting Women, 1850-1960

By: Jean Williams

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A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One

Sporting Women, 1850-1960

By: Jean Williams

This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers. Questions explored in this text include: What are the fresh perspectives and newly available sources for the historian of women’s sport? How do these take forward established debates on women’s place in sporting culture and what novel approaches do they suggest? How can our appreciation of fashion, travel, food and medical history be advanced by looking at women’s involvement in sport? How can we use some of the current ideas and methodologies in the recent literature on the history and sociology of sport in order to look afresh at women’s participation? Jean Williams’s original research on these topics and more will be a useful resource for scholars in the fields of sports, women’s studies, history and sociology.

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Routledge

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131774666X

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Night Nurse

By: Roy Thomas,James Jean

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Night Nurse

By: Roy Thomas,James Jean

Marvel's 1970s cult-classic miniseries is collected in one super-sized one-shot! Linda Carter [Author]; Georgia Jenkins and Christine Palmer are all studying to become nurses. But what will happen when Linda must choose between love and career? Can Georgia stop her brother from holding the hospital hostage? As the nurses care for a mysterious hit-and-run victim [Author]; Christine realizes that her new boyfriend hides a terrible secret! When a mob war spills over into the hospital [Author]; Linda must act fast to save lives! Will Christine survive learning the secret of Sea-Cliff Manor? And when Daredevil is fatally shot [Author]; the Night Nurse must step out of the shadows and return to action! Guest-starring Black Widow [Author]; Elektra [Author]; Iron Fist [Author]; Luke Cage and Jessica Jones! Collecting Night Nurse (1972) #1-4 and Daredevil (1998) #80.

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302480456

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Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress

Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror

By: Jean Scandlyn

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Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress

Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror

By: Jean Scandlyn

When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other "invisible wounds of war" were thrown into the national spotlight. With these events as their starting point, Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger argue for a new approach to combat stress and trauma, seeing them not just as individual medical pathologies but as fundamentally collective cultural phenomena. Their deep ethnographic research, including unusual access to affected soldiers at Fort Carson, also engaged an extended labyrinth of friends, family, communities, military culture, social services, bureaucracies, the media, and many other layers of society. Through this profound and moving book, they insist that invisible combat injuries are a social challenge demanding collective reconciliation with the post-9/11 wars.

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1351574027

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2001

By: Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2001

By: Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent

The yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642594670

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Texas Place Names

By: Edward Callary,Jean K. Callary

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Texas Place Names

By: Edward Callary,Jean K. Callary

“[A] linguist . . . takes readers on a tour across the state, using names and language to tell its history.” ―Alcalde Was Gasoline, Texas, named in honor of a gas station? Nope, but the name does honor the town’s original claim to fame: a gasoline-powered cotton gin. Is Paris, Texas, a reference to Paris, France? Yes: Thomas Poteet, who donated land for the town site, thought it would be an improvement over “Pin Hook,” the original name of the Lamar County seat. Ding Dong’s story has a nice ring to it; the name was derived from two store owners named Bell, who lived in Bell County, of course. Tracing the turning points, fascinating characters, and cultural crossroads that shaped Texas history, Texas Place Names provides the colorful stories behind these and more than three thousand other county, city, and community names. Drawing on in-depth research to present the facts behind the folklore, linguist Edward Callary also clarifies pronunciations (it’s NAY-chis for Neches, referring to a Caddoan people whose name was attached to the Neches River during a Spanish expedition). A great resource for road trippers and historians alike, Texas Place Names alphabetically charts centuries of humanity through the enduring words (and, occasionally, the fateful spelling gaffes) left behind by men and women from all walks of life. “[A] quite useful book.” ―Austin American-Statesman

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University of Texas Press

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1477320660

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9781477320662

Murder, Madness and Mayhem

By: Jean Gavin

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Murder, Madness and Mayhem

By: Jean Gavin

We have an idealised view of life in Victorian times, seeing it as idyllic and we mistakenly believe that present day society is more violent. This, in fact, is not true but, because of TV coverage we are aware of terrible events in this country and others. When you look back you see that crimes were more violent and "gory", the macabre interest of neighbours who paid to see the victims is incredible. The punishments meted out in courts were similar to that today, namely, more severe for crimes against possessions than for those against people. One crime I followed as far as possible and, with the help of the Black Museum of Manchester, was able to show was that Sarah Manion was on the roles of the prison. What happened to her there and what became of her on release, I could not trace. The "Good old days", they were certainly not.

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1291456295

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Trailblazers

The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis

By: Billie Jean King,Cynthia Starr

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Trailblazers

The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis

By: Billie Jean King,Cynthia Starr

Legendary tennis player Billie Jean King details the remarkable history of women’s tennis in this stunning edition of Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis. In celebration of the Women’s Tennis Association’s 50th anniversary, this updated and expanded edition—based on the 1988 original We Have Come a Long Way: The Story of Women's Tennis—includes more than 250 photographs and 33 years’ worth of stories about inspiring women and their achievements. The book arrives 53 years after King and eight other women players broke with the male tennis establishment and launched their own professional tour. With this gorgeous, photographically forward, and deeply moving ode to women’s tennis, King and coauathor Cynthia Star will continue the remarkable story in which King has played such an integral role, shedding new light on barriers that were overcome and milestones that were achieved. Women’s tennis today has never been more popular across the globe and, as this book demonstrates, has never been more diverse and inclusive.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1524887501

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9781524887506

Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin

Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order

By: Jean Grugel

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Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin

Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order

By: Jean Grugel

This wide ranging thematic and comparative text analyses the origins and nature of the developmental and political crises of the region and the reasons for their recent intensification. It covers all the Central American states and the largest Caribbean island territories - Jamaica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico - as well as Panama and Grenada, assessing their common experiences as small economies living in the shadow of the United States but also highlighting key differences.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349239755

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9781349239757

Britain’s Olympic Women

A History

By: Jean Williams

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Britain’s Olympic Women

A History

By: Jean Williams

Britain has a long and distinguished history as an Olympic nation. However, most Olympic histories have focused on men’s sport. This is the first book to tell the story of Britain’s Olympic women, how they changed Olympic spectacle and how, in turn, they have reinterpreted the Games. Exploring the key themes of gender and nationalism, and presenting a wealth of new empirical, archival evidence, the book explores the sporting culture produced by British women who aspired to become Olympians, from the early years of the modern Olympic movement. It shines new light on the frameworks imposed on female athletes, individually and as a group, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the various affiliated sporting international federations. Using oral history and family history sources, the book tells of the social processes through which British Olympic women have become both heroes and anti-heroes in the public consciousness. Exploring the hidden narratives around women such as Charlotte Cooper, Lottie Dod, Audrey Brown and Pat Smythe, and bringing the story into the modern era of London 2012, Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the book helps us to better understand the complicated relationship between sport, gender, media and wider society. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history, Olympic history, women’s history, British history or gender studies.

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Routledge

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1000163202

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9781000163209

Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me

By: Jean Hartley

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Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me

By: Jean Hartley

First published in 1989 Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press, and Me is the story of how this small publishing company became a chapter in literary history when, in 1955, the then novice publishers, of which Jean Hartley was one, were entrusted with the manuscript of Larkin's The Less Deceived. The Less Deceived, Larkin's second collection, contained the mature Philip Larkin style - that of a detached observer of what Jean Hartley referred to as 'ordinary people doing ordinary things' - the virtues of which came to be associated with The Movement, the post-war generation of poets that used plain language and traditional forms to address everyday life in Britain. The themes of The Less Deceived resonated with readers and it became one of the most outstanding collections of 1955. Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press, and Me charts that progress and introduces the reader to the real Philip Larkin. 'Jean Hartley's story is a vital piece of evidence for anyone curious about Larkin's life.' Andrew Motion, Observer.

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210

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Faber & Faber

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0571287573

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9780571287574

River Cherwell

By: Jean Stone

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River Cherwell

By: Jean Stone

Explore the history of the beautiful River Cherwell. A must read not only for those who know the river but also for those who have yet to discover it.

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171

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445634503

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9781445634500

Méthod(e)s

By: Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo

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Méthod(e)s

By: Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo

The bilingual, French–English journal Méthod(e)s, founded in 2015, is an African initiative with the objective to enlarge the methodological debates on the Global South. The desire for a strong understanding of methodology is to situate it above academic trends, thereby placing it in line with a universal history of the sciences. Just as calling dominant paradigms into question leaves room for creative opportunities, so does the comparison of theoretical approaches and technical models of data collection. Questions related to methods are not purely technical or merely philosophical reflections. The examination of the method used in scientific investigations necessarily leads us to question the validity and consequences of research results. From this point of view, the journal Méthod(e)s is not a forum for simple discussions on the mechanics of research but a tool to question social interests influencing academic research and giving it a political function. It is also intended to lead to a more critical look at the creation of theories dealing with the status of individuals and societies in Africa and the Global South. Méthod(e)s aims to bring into question, connect, and compare the theoretical, technical, and political foundations of the social sciences as applied to human societies. Each contribution is followed by a summary in the respectively other language. In order to ensure a broad intellectual reach, the editors reserve the right to include articles written in other languages. All the abstracts of the papers are also available in Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish.

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3838215532

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9783838215532

Shadow Archives

The Lifecycles of African American Literature

By: Jean-Christophe Cloutier

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Shadow Archives

The Lifecycles of African American Literature

By: Jean-Christophe Cloutier

Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts—including Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth—to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison, and provides a nuanced view of how archival methodology, access, and the power dynamics of acquisitions shape literary history. Shadow Archives argues that the notion of the archive is crucial to our understanding of postwar African American literary history. Cloutier combines his own experiences as a researcher and archivist with a theoretically rich account of the archive to offer a pioneering study of the importance of African American authors’ archival practices and how these shaped their writing. Given the lack of institutions dedicated to the black experience, the novel became an alternative site of historical preservation, a means to ensure both individual legacy and group survival. Such archivism manifests in the work of these authors through evolving lifecycles where documents undergo repurposing, revision, insertion, falsification, transformation, and fictionalization, sometimes across decades. An innovative interdisciplinary consideration of literary papers, Shadow Archives proposes new ways for literary scholars to engage with the archive.

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Columbia University Press

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0231550243

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9780231550246

Degas

An Exhibition Held at the Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais, Paris, 9 February-16 May 1988, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 16 June-28 August 1988, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 September 1988-8 January 1989

By: Edgar Degas,Jean Sutherland Boggs,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

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Degas

By: Edgar Degas,Jean Sutherland Boggs,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

Katalog towarzyszący wystawom w: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais w Paryżu, 9 luty - 16 maj 1988; National Galery of Canada w Ottawie, 16 czerwiec - 28 sierpień 1988; Metropolitan Museum of Art w Nowym Jorku, 27 wrzesień - 8 styczeń 1989.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870995197

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9780870995194

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