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The Lib-Lab Pact

A Parliamentary Agreement, 1977-78

By: Jonathan Kirkup

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The Lib-Lab Pact

A Parliamentary Agreement, 1977-78

By: Jonathan Kirkup

Using archival sources and interviews with key participants, new insight is gained to how the Lib-Lab Pact of 1977-78 - an agreement, short of a full coalition - came about, was structured and implemented, and how Liberal leader, David Steel, might have achieved significant policy concessions on electoral reform.

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Springer

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1137527692

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9781137527691

British Generals in Blair's Wars

By: Jonathan Bailey,Richard Iron

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British Generals in Blair's Wars

By: Jonathan Bailey,Richard Iron

British Generals in Blair's Wars is based on a series of high profile seminars held in Oxford in which senior British officers, predominantly from the army, reflect on their experience of campaigning. The chapters embrace all the UK's major operations since the end of the Cold War, but they focus particularly on Iraq and Afghanistan. As personal testimonies, they capture the immediacy of the authors' thoughts at the time, and show how the ideas of a generation of senior British officers developed in a period of rapid change, against a background of intense political controversy and some popular unease. The armed forces were struggling to revise their Cold War concepts and doctrines, and to find the best ways to meet the demands placed upon them by their political leaders in what was seen to be a 'New World Order'. It was a time when relations between the Government of the day and the armed services came under close scrutiny, and when the affection of the British public for its forces seemed to grow with the difficulty of their operational tasks. This is a truly unique and invaluable book. For the first time, we are offered first-hand testimony about Britain's involvement in recent campaigns by senior participants. In addition to touching on themes like civilian-military relations, the operational direction of war and relationships with allies, these eyewitness accounts give a real sense of how the character of a war changes even as it is being fought. It will be essential reading for those in military academies and staff colleges, not only in Britain but throughout NATO, and especially in the USA. It also has profound policy implications, as both the UK and NATO more generally reassess their strategies and the value of intervention operations. It will also become a primary source for historians and students of the wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan in particular.

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Routledge

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1317171993

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9781317171997

Cuckoo Summer

By: Jonathan Tulloch

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Cuckoo Summer

By: Jonathan Tulloch

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing Summer 1940. As the cuckoo sings out across the Lake District, life is about to change for ever for local boy Tommy and his friend Sally, the mysterious evacuee girl who lives on the neighbouring farm. When they find a wounded Nazi airman in the woods, Sally persuades Tommy not to report it but to keep the German hidden. This starts a chain of events that leads to the uncovering of secrets about Sally’s past and a summer of adventure that neither child will ever forget.

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Andersen Press Limited

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1787612384

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9781787612389

Inside Broadmoor

The Sunday Times Bestseller

By: Jonathan Levi,Emma French

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Inside Broadmoor

The Sunday Times Bestseller

By: Jonathan Levi,Emma French

The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller 'There is time and then there is Broadmoor time.' Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper), John Straffen and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and cannibal Peter Bryan. The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside. Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date. Published at the dawn of a new era for the hospital, this is the full story of Broadmoor's past, present and future and a dark but enlightening journey into the minds of Britain's most dangerous and how they are treated.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1788700953

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9781788700955

Faith and Politics After Christendom

The Church as a Movement for Anarchy

By: Jonathan Bartley

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Faith and Politics After Christendom

The Church as a Movement for Anarchy

By: Jonathan Bartley

This groundbreaking book examines the anarchic aspects of Jesus' message, and suggests that the demise of the church as pillar of social order gives it a fresh opportunity to exercise its prophetic role - challenging injustice, shaking institutions and undermining some of the central values and norms on which post-Christian society is built.

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Authentic Media Inc

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1780784023

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9781780784021

Death of Mr Punch

By: Jonathan Carter

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Death of Mr Punch

By: Jonathan Carter

George is a reluctant resident of Bayview Care Home. Increasingly haunted by memories and hounded by ghosts, he is determined to return to his wife Judy, which won't happen if the motley crew of Bayview have anything to do with it: foul-mouthed Clarissa, television-obsessed Perry, depressed June (who may or may not be Satan), winking poet Bernard and geriatric Elvis impersonator Upton Silver are set to frustrate his efforts to leave. George has little choice but to bide his time by vandalizing cars and enticing residents to sneeze their teeth out. Freedom, when it comes, brings its problems in the form of a busker with a grudge and a psychotic clown who pursues him as he heads for the house in which he and Judy used to live. Alternately chilling, moving and comic, Jonathan Carter's novel grips the reader in a vice as tight as Mr. Punch's embrace.

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Peter Owen Publishers

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072061905X

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9780720619058

Atopic Dermatitis, An Issue of Dermatologic Clinics

By: Jonathan I. Silverberg,Nanette B Silverberg

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Atopic Dermatitis, An Issue of Dermatologic Clinics

By: Jonathan I. Silverberg,Nanette B Silverberg

This issue of Dermatologic Clinics, guested edited by Drs.Jonathan I. Silverberg and Nanette Silverberg, is devoted to Atopic Dermatitis. Articles in this outstanding issue include: How to Define Atopic Dermatitis; Public Health Burden and Epidemiology of Atopic Dermatitis; Long-term Course of Atopic Dermatitis; Allergic and Non-Allergic Comorbidities of Atopic Dermatitis; Patient-burden of Atopic Dermatitis; Assessment of Atopic Dermatitis Severity in Clinical Practice; An Update on the Pathophysiology of Atopic Dermatitis; Long-term Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis; Special Considerations for Management of Atopic Dermatitis in Young Children; Management of Adult Onset Atopic Dermatitis; Management of Atopic Hand Dermatitis; Adjunctive Management of Itch in Atopic Dermatitis; and Racial and Ethnic Differences of Atopic Dermatitis.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323531318

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9780323531313

Food and Foodways in African Narratives

Community, Culture, and Heritage

By: Jonathan Highfield

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Food and Foodways in African Narratives

Community, Culture, and Heritage

By: Jonathan Highfield

Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its very basic purpose of sustaining life, it directly impacts the community, culture and heritage in every region around the globe in countless seen and unseen ways, including the literature and narratives of each region. Across the African continent, food and foodways, which refer to the ways that humans consume, produce and experience food, were influened by slavery and forced labor, colonization, foreign aid, and the anxieties prompted by these encounters, all of which can be traced through the ways food is seen in narratives by African and colonial storytellers. The African continent is home to thousands of cultures, but nearly every one has experienced alteration of its foodways because of slavery, transcontinental trade, and colonization. Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community, Culture, and Heritage takes a careful look at these alterations as seen through African narratives throughout various cultures and spanning centuries.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351764438

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9781351764438

Off the Grid

Re-Assembling Domestic Life

By: Phillip Vannini,Jonathan Taggart

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Off the Grid

Re-Assembling Domestic Life

By: Phillip Vannini,Jonathan Taggart

Off-grid isn’t a state of mind. It isn’t about someone being out of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a home but sometimes even a whole town) that is disconnected from the electricity and the natural gas grid. To live off-grid, therefore, means having to radically re-invent domestic life as we know it, and this is what this book is about: individuals and families who have chosen to live in that dramatically innovative, but also quite old, way of life. This ethnography explores the day-to-day lives of people in each of Canada’s provinces and territories living off the grid. Vannini and Taggart demonstrate how a variety of people, all with different environmental constraints, live away from contemporary civilization. The authors also raise important questions about our social future and whether off-grid living creates an environmentally and culturally sustainable lifestyle practice. These homes are experimental labs for our collective future, an intimate look into unusual contemporary domestic lives, and a call to the rest of us leading ordinary lives to examine what we take for granted. This book is ideal for courses on the environment and sustainability as well as introduction to sociology and introduction to cultural anthropology courses.

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Routledge

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113501048X

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9781135010485

The Linear Algebra a Beginning Graduate Student Ought to Know

By: Jonathan S. Golan

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The Linear Algebra a Beginning Graduate Student Ought to Know

By: Jonathan S. Golan

Linear algebra is a living, active branch of mathematics which is central to almost all other areas of mathematics, both pure and applied, as well as to computer science, to the physical, biological, and social sciences, and to engineering. It encompasses an extensive corpus of theoretical results as well as a large and rapidly-growing body of computational techniques. Unfortunately, in the past decade, the content of linear algebra courses required to complete an undergraduate degree in mathematics has been depleted to the extent that they fail to provide a sufficient theoretical or computational background. Students are not only less able to formulate or even follow mathematical proofs, they are also less able to understand the mathematics of the numerical algorithms they need for applications. Certainly, the material presented in the average undergraduate course is insufficient for graduate study. This book is intended to fill the gap which has developed by providing enough theoretical and computational material to allow the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student to overcome this deficiency and be able to work independently or in advanced courses. The book is intended to be used either as a self-study guide, a textbook for a course in advanced linear algebra, or as a reference book. It is also designed to prepare a student for the linear algebra portion of prelim exams or PhD qualifying exams. The volume is self-contained to the extent that it does not assume any previous formal knowledge of linear algebra, though the reader is assumed to have been exposed, at least informally, to some of the basic ideas and techniques, such as manipulation of small matrices and the solution of small systems of linear equations over the real numbers. More importantly, it assumes a seriousness of purpose, considerable motivation, and a modicum of mathematical sophistication on the part of the reader. In the latest edition, new major theorems have been added, as well as many new examples. There are over 130 additional exercises and many of the previous exercises have been revised or rewritten. In addition, a large number of additional biographical notes and thumbnail portraits of mathematicians have been included.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400726368

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9789400726369

The Paths of Zatoichi

The Global Influence of the Blind Swordsman

By: Jonathan Wroot

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The Paths of Zatoichi

The Global Influence of the Blind Swordsman

By: Jonathan Wroot

The Paths of Zatoichi charts the history and influence of the Japanese film and television franchise about Zatoichi the blind swordsman. The franchise is comprised of 29 films and 100 TV episodes (starring the famous Shintaro Katsu, who starred in 26 of the 29 feature films). They all follow the adventures of a blind masseur in medieval Japan, who wanders from village to village and often has to defend himself with his deadly sword skills. The first film was released in 1962 and the most recent in 2010. These dates demonstrate how the franchise can be used as a means of charting Japanese cinema history, via the shifts in production practices and audience preferences which affected the Zatoichi series and numerous other film and TV texts. Zatoichi signifies a huge area of Japanese film history which has largely been ignored in much existing scholarly research, and yet it can reveal much about the appeal of long-running characters, franchises, and their constant adaptation and influence within global popular culture.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793601224

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9781793601223

Views from an Irish Barbarian

By: Jonathan Bower

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Views from an Irish Barbarian

By: Jonathan Bower

This collection of essays on a wide range of subjects is witness to the author's stimulating cultural symbiosis with Tunisia, where over a period of more than thirty years, he became a kind of Irish 'Barbarian'.

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Paragon Publishing

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1782220909

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9781782220909

Downing Street Blues

A History of Depression and Other Mental Afflictions in British Prime Ministers

By: Jonathan Davidson, M.D.

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Downing Street Blues

A History of Depression and Other Mental Afflictions in British Prime Ministers

By: Jonathan Davidson, M.D.

Presenting an account of mental illness in British prime ministers from Sir Robert Walpole, generally regarded as the first to hold the position, to Tony Blair, this book reveals how depression, anxiety, dementia, and alcohol or drug use disorders have impacted British leaders over three centuries. It begins with an introduction explaining the principles of diagnosis, the methods used to assess subjects and the assignment of confidence levels in each diagnosis, and the overall significance of mental disorder in political leaders. Individual assessments then follow for each of Britain's 51 prime ministers, revealing how evidence for psychiatric problems was found in over 70% of cases and how the prevalence of mental disorders remained relatively constant throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

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McFarland

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0786457937

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9780786457939

Safeguarding the Future

Governing in an Uncertain World

By: Jonathan Boston

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Safeguarding the Future

Governing in an Uncertain World

By: Jonathan Boston

In an era of populist politics, Brexit, Donald Trump, 24-hour news cycles and perpetual election campaigning, how do we govern well for the future? How do we take the long view, ensuring that present-day policy decisions reflect the needs and safeguard the interests of future generations? In this timely BWB Text, acclaimed policy scholar Jonathan Boston sets out what ‘anticipatory governance’ might look like in New Zealand. Confronted with a world becoming more uncertain by the day, this book is essential reading for anyone questioning how democratic societies can tackle the unprecedented challenges ahead.

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Bridget Williams Books

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0947518266

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9780947518264

Reframing Convenience Food

By: Peter Jackson,Helene Brembeck,Jonathan Everts,Maria Fuentes,Bente Halkier,Frej Daniel Hertz,Angela Meah,Valerie Viehoff,Christine Wenzl

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Reframing Convenience Food

By: Peter Jackson,Helene Brembeck,Jonathan Everts,Maria Fuentes,Bente Halkier,Frej Daniel Hertz,Angela Meah,Valerie Viehoff,Christine Wenzl

This book questions the simplistic view that convenience food is unhealthy and environmentally unsustainable. By exploring how various types of convenience food have become embedded in consumers’ lives, it considers what lessons can be learnt from the commercial success of convenience food for those who seek to promote healthier and more sustainable diets. The project draws on original findings from comparative research in the UK, Denmark, Germany and Sweden (funded through the ERA-Net Sustainable Food programme). Reframing Convenience Food avoids moral judgments about convenience food, and instead provides a refreshingly novel perspective guided by an understanding of everyday consumer practice. It will appeal to those with an interest in the sociology and politics behind health, consumerism, sustainability and society.

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Springer

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3319781510

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MisLeadership

Prevalence, Causes and Consequences

By: John Rayment,Jonathan Smith

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MisLeadership

Prevalence, Causes and Consequences

By: John Rayment,Jonathan Smith

The 'MisLeadership' of this book's title is a description of the phenomenon the authors have uncovered through their analysis of the validity, or otherwise, of current leadership styles and achievements, in the light of the challenges leaders face, and particularly of the urgent global issues with which business leaders are now confronted. John Rayment and Jonathan Smith examine existing approaches to leadership with a focus on their shortcomings, categorized according to the four main types of misLeadership the authors have identified - Missing, Misguided, Misinformed and Machiavellian leadership. Each of these forms of misleadership has a corollary in one of the four elements of the kind of holistic leadership that the authors advocate - the capacity for effective decision making, the adoption of a global perspective, the move to a new business paradigm to replace the current economic and social one, and commitment to a contemporary mission. From Rayment and Smith's passionately argued, but well reasoned perspective, leaders, the led and those responsible for leadership development will gain an insight into the prevalence and causes of misleadership and into ways in which it can be identified and overcome. A range of examples and case studies is provided to enable the concepts presented here to be related to practice. As well as illustrating instances of 'misleadership' these also demonstrate that the emphasis in relation to the decision making models currently available to leaders may not be the most important stages of the processes involved. The global perspective emphasized by the authors is not just about globality in the geographical sense. An important part of the way forward suggested here involves considering all aspects of humanity - the physical, mental and spiritual strength, stamina and fitness of individuals, groups and societies, in the context of a 'Global Fitness Framework'. All this is presented in a practical and approachable style that enables these authors to introduce a new approach to a key element of management thinking, in a way that will encourage and empower individuals to think on a different scale, challenge assumptions and exercise effective leadership.

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CRC Press

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1317095596

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Practical Skills in Forensic Science

By: Alan Langford,John R. Dean,Robert H. Reed,David Holmes,Jonathan D. B. Weyers,Allan M. Jones

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Practical Skills in Forensic Science

By: Alan Langford,John R. Dean,Robert H. Reed,David Holmes,Jonathan D. B. Weyers,Allan M. Jones

If you are studying forensic science, or a related course such as forensic chemistry or biology, then this book will be an indispensable companion throughout your entire degree programme. This ' one-stop' text will guide you through the wide range of practical, analytical and data handling skills that you will need during your studies. It will also give you a solid grounding in the wider transferable skills such as teamwork and study skills.

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