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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century

By: Peter Barberis,John McHugh,Mike Tyldesley

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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century

By: Peter Barberis,John McHugh,Mike Tyldesley

This major, authoritative reference work embraces the spectrum of organized political activity in the British Isles. It includes over 2,500 organizations in 1,700 separate entries. Arrangement is in 20 main subject sections, covering the three main p

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0826458149

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9780826458148

Tree Roots in the Built Environment

By: John Roberts,Nick Jackson,Mark Smith,Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Great Britain)

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Tree Roots in the Built Environment

By: John Roberts,Nick Jackson,Mark Smith,Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Great Britain)

This publication sets out a comprehensive review of tree root biology and covers a broad range of practical issues that need to be considered in order to grow trees successfully in our towns and cities and to realise the significant benefits they provide in built environments. Topics covered include: soil condition and roots; improving tree root growth in urban soils; water supply and drought amelioration for amenity trees; coping with soil contamination; protecting trees during excavation and good trenching practice; control of damage to tree roots on construction sites; tree root damage to buildings and pavements, sewers, drains and pipes; research needs and sustainability issues.

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514

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The Stationery Office

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0117536202

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9780117536203

Baseball in the Garden of Eden

The Secret History of the Early Game

By: John Thorn

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Baseball in the Garden of Eden

The Secret History of the Early Game

By: John Thorn

Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball paternity than Doubleday or Cartwright. But did baseball even have a father—or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball’s preeminent historian, examines the creation story of the game and finds it all to be a gigantic lie, not only the Doubleday legend, so long recognized with a wink and a nudge. From its earliest days baseball was a vehicle for gambling (much like cricket, a far more popular game in early America), a proxy form of class warfare, infused with racism as was the larger society, invigorated if ultimately corrupted by gamblers, hustlers, and shady entrepreneurs. Thorn traces the rise of the New York version of the game over other variations popular in Massachusetts and Philadelphia. He shows how the sport’s increasing popularity in the early decades of the nineteenth century mirrored the migration of young men from farms and small towns to cities, especially New York. And he charts the rise of secret professionalism and the origin of the notorious “reserve clause,” essential innovations for gamblers and capitalists. No matter how much you know about the history of baseball, you will find something new in every chapter. Thorn also introduces us to a host of early baseball stars who helped to drive the tremendous popularity and growth of the game in the post–Civil War era: Jim Creighton, perhaps the first true professional player; Candy Cummings, the pitcher who claimed to have invented the curveball; Albert Spalding, the ballplayer who would grow rich from the game and shape its creation myth; Hall of Fame brothers George and Harry Wright; Cap Anson, the first man to record three thousand hits and a virulent racist; and many others. Add bluff, bluster, and bravado, and toss in an illicit romance, an unknown son, a lost ball club, an epidemic scare, and you have a baseball detective story like none ever written. Thorn shows how a small religious cult became instrumental in the commission that was established to determine the origins of the game and why the selection of Abner Doubleday as baseball’s father was as strangely logical as it was patently absurd. Entertaining from the first page to the last, Baseball in the Garden of Eden is a tale of good and evil, and the snake proves the most interesting character. It is full of heroes, scoundrels, and dupes; it contains more scandal by far than the 1919 Black Sox World Series fix. More than a history of the game, Baseball in the Garden of Eden tells the story of nineteenth-century America, a land of opportunity and limitation, of glory and greed—all present in the wondrous alloy that is our nation and its pastime.

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386

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Simon and Schuster

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1439170215

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9781439170212

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1845-1853

By: John A. McGeachy

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Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1845-1853

By: John A. McGeachy

Transcription of 1845-1853 minutes of the Wilkes County (NC) Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions; indexed by personal name, business name, geographic name and subject.

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218

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Lulu.com

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0359590993

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9780359590995

Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

Cases & Materials

By: Edward Hector Burn,John Cartwright,Ronald Harling Maudsley

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Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

Cases & Materials

By: Edward Hector Burn,John Cartwright,Ronald Harling Maudsley

The 9th edition of Maudsley and Burn's Land Law Cases and Materials continues to provide an essential reference work for students and practitioners. It includes a wide range of extracts from cases, statutes, Law Commission reports and other literature, which highlight the key issues to understand the present law and its continuing development.

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0199226172

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9780199226177

The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas

By: John Small

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The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas

By: John Small

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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334

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368836153

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9783368836153

The Ecology of Learning

Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life

By: John Blewitt

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The Ecology of Learning

Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life

By: John Blewitt

Your house is flooded by 'unseasonal' heavy rain. What do you learn from this experience? Do you shrug your shoulders and call your insurer? Or do you choose to learn about climate change, switch to renewable energy and lobby politicians? In this insightful book, John Blewitt explores the possibilities for developing a sustainable society through 'lifelong learning' that is, learning that happens in everyday environments and activities as diverse as shopping, community, 'edutainment', information and communication technology, the internet, broadcasting, people's experience of place and space, green building, social networks and consumer culture. Drawing on a range of sociological, anthropological and educational studies as well as new research, The Ecology of Learning is ideal for educators, teachers, corporate trainers and consultants working to integrate environmental education, sustainability and innovation in non-traditional learning situations. The coverage is extensive, with an accessible but informed engagement with both theory and practice and a wide range of examples. Throughout, the voices, stories and experiences of many people are used to illustrate the ways people may reshape our understanding of learning and sustainability.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136535993

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9781136535994

Lloyd George's Secretariat

By: John Turner

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Lloyd George's Secretariat

By: John Turner

When Lloyd George became Prime Minister during the First World War he appointed a private secretariat to help him run the complex machinery of wartime government. This book, drawing extensively on private and public archives, describes the work of that Secretariat during its two years of existence and discusses its contribution to policy-making and to the development of the Prime Minister's office. The 'Garden Suburb', so named from its temporary offices in the garden of 10 Downing Street, has won a poor reputation. Contemporaries described it as a nest of intrigue and imperialist, anti-democratic sentiment which helped to turn Lloyd George from a great Radical into a cynical dictator; and historians have tended to accept their word. This examination reveals a different picture. On the one hand, wartime government was imperfectly co-ordinated, and members of the Secretariat performed a genuine administrative task in helping Lloyd George to supervise it and save it from breakdown, although their small number and limited resources allowed them to cover only a few politically sensitive questions. On the other hand, the Garden Suburb was more eclectic in its ideological and political affiliations than has been allowed. Home Rule, collective security, temperance, state supervision of industry, Christian Science and the revival of agriculture, as well as imperial unity and opposition to socialism, each contributed through the Secretariat to the climate of ideas in which policy was made.

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270

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CUP Archive

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0521223709

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9780521223706

The Plans of War

The General Staff and British Military Strategy c. 1900-1916

By: John Gooch

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The Plans of War

The General Staff and British Military Strategy c. 1900-1916

By: John Gooch

This book’s contribution to the discussion on the origin’s of the First World War is a pioneering study of both the British General Staff and the evolution of military strategy in the period immediately prior to the war. It describes the development of the General Staff, Britain’s agency for strategic planning, and goes on to give an account of its role in devising strategy. Problems are examined as they arose at grass-roots level in the War Office and progressed upward towards the Cabinet. The complex cross-currents involving the Admiralty, Foreign Office, Treasury and individuals from Edward VII downwards are charted. The account covers British military policy up to 1916, interpreting the Gallipoli campaign and explanation for its failure.

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330

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Routledge

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131738881X

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9781317388814

Canada 1900-1945

By: Robert Bothwell,Ian Drummond,John English

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Canada 1900-1945

By: Robert Bothwell,Ian Drummond,John English

Through war, depression, and social upheaval, the first half of the twentieth century was a period of unprecedented turbulence in Canada. In this lively and contentious survey, Robert Bothwell, lan Drummond, and John English explore the political and economic forces that shaped this era of change. As in their earlier work, the highly acclaimed Canada since 1945, the authors focus on the political context of events. Beginning at the turn of the century, they consider the status of Canada in the empire and the world, the burgeoning growth of its economy, and the development of social and labour problems, up to the eruption of 1914. They discuss the political currents running through Canada during two wars, the interwar economic boom and depression, and the plans for post-war reconstruction, and assess the impact of these and other events on Canada's political, economic, social, and cultural institutions. Electronic Format Disclaimer: Images removed at the request of the rights holder.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442657847

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9781442657847

Transforming Big Pharma

Assessing the Strategic Alternatives

By: John Ansell

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Transforming Big Pharma

Assessing the Strategic Alternatives

By: John Ansell

In Transforming Big Pharma John Ansell addresses critically how strategy works in the pharmaceutical industry. The long-standing dearth of new products has led to a growing shortfall in revenues. Ansell assesses the wide range of alternative strategies big pharma companies have been pursuing in recent years in attempting to overcome this. He shows that there is sound evidence to expect the recent upturn in the number of new products reaching the market to go on to greater heights. Chapters assess the complex trends in attrition rates, show how rife spectacular sales underestimation in the industry remains, and explain how conventional wisdom on the chances of product profitability also seriously undersells the industry. The surest route to transforming the prospects for big pharma, Ansell contends, is to step up activity in acquiring and developing new products. This is now realistic because, as he shows, the amount of intellectual property available is much greater than it was a decade ago. Ansell believes that no other strategies have sufficient transformative powers, though they may be useful as a stopgap whilst the sales of forthcoming new products mature. He argues for a reversal of big pharma’s recent cutbacks in R&D and licensing, and re-focussing on new product development. Transforming Big Pharma is intended for those in senior and middle management in the pharmaceutical industry. It will also be valuable to students, as well as to all those dealing with the industry, including biotech companies and those providing services and products to the pharmaceutical industry.

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284

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CRC Press

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1317007727

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9781317007722

Comparing Westminster

By: R. A.W. Rhodes,John Wanna,Patrick Weller

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Comparing Westminster

By: R. A.W. Rhodes,John Wanna,Patrick Weller

Explores how the governmental elites in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa understand their Westminster system ... The purpose is to show how local traditions interacted with the beliefs and practices of Westminster to provide the present-day forms of government."--Preface.

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275

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Oxford University Press

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0199563497

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9780199563494

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868

By: John A. McGeachy

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Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868

By: John A. McGeachy

These volumes contains a verbatim transcription of the Wilkes County Court minutes. Two individuals have abstracted the earliest Wilkes County court minutes, those for the period 1778 to 1797. First, in 1974-1975 by Mrs. W.O. Absher, and in 2014 as 2nd edition by James Alan Williams.

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1794774750

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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Tree Roots in the Built Environment

Tree Roots in the Built Environment

Baseball in the Garden of Eden

Baseball in the Garden of Eden

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1845-1853

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1845-1853

Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas

The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas

The Ecology of Learning

The Ecology of Learning

Lloyd George's Secretariat

Lloyd George's Secretariat

The Plans of War

The Plans of War

Canada 1900-1945

Canada 1900-1945

Transforming Big Pharma

Transforming Big Pharma

Comparing Westminster

Comparing Westminster

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868

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