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Islands

In Search of Brave New Worlds

By: John Furlong

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Islands

In Search of Brave New Worlds

By: John Furlong

Set in 1969,‘Islands’ opens in Manhattan where John and his best friend Mike are living and working in order to make money for their big trip. As they travel, John is trying to figure out what to do with his life and what his values really are.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1805145592

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9781805145592

Subject Mentoring in the Secondary School

By: James Arthur,Jon Davison,John Moss

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Subject Mentoring in the Secondary School

By: James Arthur,Jon Davison,John Moss

Student teachers have always worked with professionals during their teaching practice, but as teacher training becomes more school based, the role of the mentor has become much more important. Even newer is the emergence of the subject mentor. This book is an examination of the nature of effective mentoring and its contribution to student teacher development. Part One of the book has a broad perspective and looks at policy developments and the differing approaches to teacher education. Part Two explores central issues which have emerged in the author's research with mentors. It identifies tendencies in subject mentoring which characterise the work of subject mentors in schools, and key aspects of mentoring are examined, such as collaborative teaching, observation and the practice of discursive mentoring.

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184

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Routledge

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1134751354

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9781134751358

Horse Racing - Containing Information on Stabling, Training, Breeding and Other Aspects of Race Horse Preparation

By: John Henry Walsh,Stonehenge

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Horse Racing - Containing Information on Stabling, Training, Breeding and Other Aspects of Race Horse Preparation

By: John Henry Walsh,Stonehenge

This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive treatise on horse racing, and includes information on stabling, training, breeding, and many other aspects of race horse preparation. Although old, the information contained herein is timeless, and will be of considerable utility to the modern equestrian. The chapters of this book include: 'General Remarks on Horse-Racing', 'The Powers and Uses of the Modern Racehorse', 'Essential Points in the Thorough-Bred Horse for Racing Purposes', 'The Establishment of a Racing-Stud', 'Training', 'Breeding', 'Breaking', etcetera. This vintage book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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405

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Read Books Ltd

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1447489373

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9781447489375

Kingsthorpiana; or, Researches in a Church Chest. Being a Calendar of Old Documents Now Existing in the Church Chest of Kingsthorpe, Near Northampton, with a Selection of the Mss.

By: John Hulbert Glover

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Kingsthorpiana; or, Researches in a Church Chest. Being a Calendar of Old Documents Now Existing in the Church Chest of Kingsthorpe, Near Northampton, with a Selection of the Mss.

By: John Hulbert Glover

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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190

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385311845

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9783385311848

The Immortals of British & Irish Rugby

By: John Westerby

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The Immortals of British & Irish Rugby

By: John Westerby

Fully illustrated profiles of a 15-strong team of rugby legends. The Immortals of British & Irish Rugby celebrates the greatest players from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the last 60-odd years. Rugby writer John Westerby selects his dream team of 15 players in position then delves into the careers of these true greats. Legendary figures accorded Immortal status include Maro Itoje and Jeremy Guscott (England), Gareth Edwards (Wales), Willie John McBride (Ireland) and Ian McLauchlan (Scotland). Supported by over 100 full-colour action shots, this stunning jacketed hardcover tells the remarkable stories behind each Immortal's rise to the top, the feats that propelled them to greatness and the adversity they faced.

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299

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Simon and Schuster

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1923009397

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9781923009394

Intervention!

The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917

By: John S. D. Eisenhower

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Intervention!

The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917

By: John S. D. Eisenhower

Recounts President Woodrow Wilson's abortive efforts to preserve democracy in Mexico amid political chaos.

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420

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393313182

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9780393313185

A History of English Field Names

By: John Field

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A History of English Field Names

By: John Field

Field names are not only interesting in themselves, but also a rich source of information about the communities originating them. The earliest recorded names often describe only the location or nature of the land, but changes in language, technology, social organisation, land ownership and even religious and political thinking have all contributed to a surprisingly complex picture today. A pioneering history.

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304

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Routledge

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1317897021

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9781317897026

Rough Treatment

By: John Harvey

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Rough Treatment

By: John Harvey

A willing victim complicates a case for Detective Charlie Resnick, “one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction” (Sue Grafton). Maria Roy is in the tub, musing on her hatred for her movie producer husband, when Grabianski and Grice break into her house. Though she is fearful at first, something about Jerry Grabianski’s confidence calms her down. Over tall glasses of Scotch, she directs them to her valuables—jewelry, bonds, her wedding tape—even doing them the favor of unlocking her husband’s safe. There Grabianski finds a surprise: a kilo of cocaine. He leaves with the drugs, the valuables, and a piece of Maria’s heart. This is not the story she tells to police inspector Charlie Resnick, but Maria’s confusion makes the disheveled detective doubt her account of the robbery. As he combs Nottingham for the burglars, Maria and Jerry’s love affair charges ahead. She is about to learn that not even love can keep crime from turning bloody.

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290

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Open Road Media

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1453239545

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9781453239544

Norbert Elias's Lost Research

Revisiting the Young Worker Project

By: John Goodwin,Henrietta O'Connor

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Norbert Elias's Lost Research

Revisiting the Young Worker Project

By: John Goodwin,Henrietta O'Connor

Based on the re-discovery of a lost sociological project led by Norbert Elias at the University of Leicester, this book re-visits the project: The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles. Norbert Elias's Lost Research makes use of the interview booklets documenting the lives of nearly 900 Leicester school leavers at the time, to give a unique account of Elias's only foray into large-scale, publicly funded research. Covering all aspects of the research from the development of the research proposal, the selection and management of the research team, the fieldwork, Elias's theoretical work to the ultimate demise of the research project, this book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of existing Eliasian texts by introducing this project to a wider audience and investigating and applying Elias's theoretical work to the areas of youth and school to work transitions. Shedding new light on Elias's thought, whilst exploring questions of methodology and the relevance of older research to modern questions, this book will be of interest to social theorists, as well as sociologists with interests in research methodology and the history of sociology.

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198

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Routledge

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131708683X

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9781317086833

The Capital of Basketball

A History of DC Area High School Hoops

By: John McNamara,Andrea Chamblee,David Elfin

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The Capital of Basketball

A History of DC Area High School Hoops

By: John McNamara,Andrea Chamblee,David Elfin

Washington DC isn't celebrated for basketball. But the Washington area stands second to none in its contributions to the game. Countless figures who have had a significant impact on the sport over the years have roots in the region, including E.B. Henderson, the first African-American certified to teach physical education in public schools in the United States and Earl Lloyd, the first African-American to take the court in an actual NBA game. The District of Columbia's Spingarn High School produced two players - Elgin Baylor and Dave Bing - that are recognized among the NBA's 50 greatest at the League's 50th anniversary celebration. No other high school in the country can make that claim. These figures and many others who have been a part of Washington's basketball past are chronicled in this book, the first-ever comprehensive look at the great high school players, teams and accomplishments in the DC metropolitan area. Based on more than 150 interviews, The Capital of Basketball is first and foremost a book about basketball. But in discussing the trends and evolution of the game, the books also uncovers the turmoil in the lives of the players and area residents as they dealt with issues such as prejudice, education, politics, and the ways the area has changed through the years.

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1626167206

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9781626167209

Fenland Survey

An essay in landscape and persistence

By: David Hall,John Coles

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Fenland Survey

An essay in landscape and persistence

By: David Hall,John Coles

Archaeological surveys of the Fenland of eastern England were initiated in the 1930s after it became clear that centuries of drainage and cultivation had seriously reduced the archaeological deposits. These studies were among the first to take a multi-disciplinary aproach to archaeological work, and continued with new work in the 1980s when intensive surveys were made of the wetlands of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. During the eight years of the Fenland Survey (1981-88), fieldworkers walked 250,000 hectares and initiated palaeoenvironemental investigations allied to a radiocarbon dating programme. At the end of the survey, in 1989-90, the survey results were evaluated and a programme of field investigations undertaken. This volume is a synopsis of that work. It provides an introduction to the traditional Fenland, as perceived by both ancient and modern geographers, explorers, and historians, and a summary of the complex environmental history of the region. It is presented broadly according to the traditional archaeological periods - Mesolithic to medieval - but it also provides an overview of cultural continuity and of the response to changing conditions over 6000 years of history. It concludes with some reflections on the present condition of the Fenland and the response of the archaeological community to the threats posted by recent agricultural and other practices.

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English Heritage Publishing

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1848021488

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9781848021488

What Is Landscape?

By: John R. Stilgoe

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What Is Landscape?

By: John R. Stilgoe

A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape. “Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and experiencing landscapes are activities that should be kept separate. But, as I learned in his book, the hollow storage area in a car driver's door was once a holster, the 'secure nesting place of a pistol.' I recommend you stow your copy there.” —The Wall Street Journal Landscape, John Stilgoe tells us, is a noun. From the old Frisian language (once spoken in coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany), it meant shoveled land: landschop. Sixteenth-century Englishmen misheard or mispronounced this as landskep, which became landskip, then landscape, designating the surface of the earth shaped for human habitation. In What Is Landscape? Stilgoe maps the discovery of landscape by putting words to things, zeroing in on landscape's essence but also leading sideways expeditions through such sources as children's picture books, folklore, deeds, antique terminology, out-of-print dictionaries, and conversations with locals. (“What is that?” “Well, it's not really a slough, not really, it's a bayou...”) He offers a highly original, cogent, compact, gracefully written narrative lexicon of landscape as word, concept, and path to discoveries. What Is Landscape? is an invitation to walk, to notice, to ask: to see a sandcastle with a pinwheel at the beach and think of Dutch windmills—icons of triumph, markers of territory won from the sea; to walk in the woods and be amused by the Elizabethans' misuse of the Latin silvaticus (people of the woods) to coin the word savages; to see in a suburban front lawn a representation of the meadow of a medieval freehold. Discovering landscape is good exercise for body and for mind. This book is an essential guide and companion to that exercise—to understanding, literally and figuratively, what landscape is.

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281

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MIT Press

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0262535289

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9780262535281

The Hijacking of American Flight 119

How D. B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It

By: John Wigger

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The Hijacking of American Flight 119

How D. B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It

By: John Wigger

In 1971, "D. B. Cooper" pulled off what some call the crime of the century, skyjacking a Boeing 727 and parachuting into history and legend. Here's a book that offers a gripping account of that still-unsolved case, based on never-before-published interviews, showing how it launched one of the most extraordinary eras in American aviation history. In November 1971, an unidentified man later anointed by the media as "D.B. Cooper" pulled off one of the most audacious crimes in aviation history, hijacking a Northwest Airlines flight over the Pacific Northwest and parachuting from the Boeing 727 with $200,000 in ransom. "D. B. Cooper" was never to be seen again and the FBI, which kept his case open for forty years, finally determined it would never be solved. Unsolved, perhaps, but much admired. Over the next seven months, a number of air pirates imitated Cooper's crime. None were more daring than the hijacker of American Airlines Flight 119. After commandeering the flight from St. Louis with a machine gun and collecting $502,500 in ransom, the Flight 119 hijacker parachuted into the night over Indiana. Unlike Cooper, he was found. These two crimes were part of a wave of hijackings that occurred between 1961 and 1972, "D. B. Cooper" may have been the most famous, but he was far from alone. One hijacker ran across the tarmac in Reno, Nevada with a pillowcase over his head, gun in hand, to seize a United Airlines flight. Another collected a large ransom in Washington, D.C. before jumping over Honduras. Motivations in many cases remain murky, an admixture of politics, greed, derring-do, and boredom. What they had in common was how they transfixed the nation's attention, bringing about a transformation in the ways that commercial airlines were run and how the laws of the skies were enforced. With its focus on the parachute hijackers, beginning with "D. B. Cooper," John Wigger's book gathers together the stories of this period of daring criminality and recounts them in gripping fashion, showing their effect on the public, the media, and law enforcement. Using never-before published interviews and first-hand accounts, he brings one of the most chaotic periods in U.S. commercial aviation to life.

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305

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Oxford University Press

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0197695752

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9780197695753

Identifying Brúnanburh: ón dyngesmere – the sea of noise

By: John R. Kirby

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Identifying Brúnanburh: ón dyngesmere – the sea of noise

By: John R. Kirby

In this study the author uses topographic references found in the manuscript of the poem ‘Brúnanburh’ to try and locate the ‘site’ of this momentous battle. The first references were maritime then latterly landscape leading to field-names which have a more stable base than the constantly changing place-names.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1789691087

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9781789691085

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Subject Mentoring in the Secondary School

Subject Mentoring in the Secondary School

Horse Racing - Containing Information on Stabling, Training, Breeding and Other Aspects of Race Horse Preparation

Horse Racing - Containing Information on Stabling, Training, Breeding and Other Aspects of Race Horse Preparation

Kingsthorpiana; or, Researches in a Church Chest. Being a Calendar of Old Documents Now Existing in the Church Chest of Kingsthorpe, Near Northampton, with a Selection of the Mss.

Kingsthorpiana; or, Researches in a Church Chest. Being a Calendar of Old Documents Now Existing in the Church Chest of Kingsthorpe, Near Northampton, with a Selection of the Mss.

The Immortals of British & Irish Rugby

The Immortals of British & Irish Rugby

Intervention!

Intervention!

A History of English Field Names

A History of English Field Names

Rough Treatment

Rough Treatment

Norbert Elias's Lost Research

Norbert Elias's Lost Research

The Capital of Basketball

The Capital of Basketball

Fenland Survey

Fenland Survey

What Is Landscape?

What Is Landscape?

The Hijacking of American Flight 119

The Hijacking of American Flight 119

Identifying Brúnanburh: ón dyngesmere – the sea of noise

Identifying Brúnanburh: ón dyngesmere – the sea of noise

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