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Partnership Agencies British

By: Nicholas Bailey,Kelvin MacDonald,Alison Barker

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Partnership Agencies British

By: Nicholas Bailey,Kelvin MacDonald,Alison Barker

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1135371091

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9781135371098

Technology Choice

A Critique Of The Appropriate Technology Movement

By: Kelvin W Willoughby

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Technology Choice

A Critique Of The Appropriate Technology Movement

By: Kelvin W Willoughby

This book attempts to provide a theoretical framework for answering difficult questions evoked by the concept of technology choice primarily by conducting a review of the Appropriate Technology movement and its ideas and experiments.

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1000314162

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9781000314168

Studying Singapore's Past

C.M. Turnbull and the History of Modern Singapore

By: Ping Tjin Thum,Karl Hack,Kevin Blackburn,John Bastin,Anthony Milner,Kelvin W.K. Ng,A.J. Stockwell,Jason Lim

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Studying Singapore's Past

C.M. Turnbull and the History of Modern Singapore

By: Ping Tjin Thum,Karl Hack,Kevin Blackburn,John Bastin,Anthony Milner,Kelvin W.K. Ng,A.J. Stockwell,Jason Lim

C.M. (Mary) Turnbull's contributions to historical writing on Singapore extended from her 1962 thesis, published in 1972 as "The Straits Settlements, 1826-1867: Indian Presidency to Crown Colony", to her magisterial history of Singapore, first published in 1977 and re-issued in 2009 in an updated edition as A History of Singapore, 1819-2005. Her approach to history involved detailed work with documents and published materials, with a particular focus on political and economic history. One contributor to the present volume described the book as an "exercise in endowing a modern 'nation-state' with a coherent past that should explain the present." As styles in history evolved, younger scholars including some of her former students and colleagues began exploring new approaches to historical research that drew on non-English-language souce material and asked fresh questions of the sources. Mary enjoyed controversy and expected debate, and had a deep interest in these accounts, which were in many ways a natural progression from her own publications even when they raised questions about her interpretations and conclusions. Studying Singapore's Past had its origins in a conference organised to discuss her work. The volume includes ten contributions, some from long-established scholars of Singapore's history, others from a new generation of researchers. Their work offers an evaluation of established understandings of Singapore's history, and gives an indication of new directions that researchers are exploring. In publishing the book, the editor not only pays tribute to a distinguished historian but also seeks to make a contribution to the historiography of Singapore and to ongoing debates about Singapore's past.

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NUS Press

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9971696460

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9789971696467

Aristotelian Philosophy

Ethics and Politics from Aristotle to MacIntyre

By: Kelvin Knight

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Aristotelian Philosophy

Ethics and Politics from Aristotle to MacIntyre

By: Kelvin Knight

Aristotle is the most influential philosopher of practice, and Knight's new book explores the continuing importance of Aristotelian philosophy. First, it examines the theoretical bases of what Aristotle said about ethical, political and productive activity. It then traces ideas of practice through such figures as St Paul, Luther, Hegel, Heidegger and recent Aristotelian philosophers, and evaluates Alasdair MacIntyre's contribution. Knight argues that, whereas Aristotle's own thought legitimated oppression, MacIntyre's revision of Aristotelianism separates ethical excellence from social elitism and justifies resistance. With MacIntyre, Aristotelianism becomes revolutionary. MacIntyre's case for the Thomistic Aristotelian tradition originates in his attempt to elaborate a Marxist ethics informed by analytic philosophy. He analyses social practices in teleological terms, opposing them to capitalist institutions and arguing for the cooperative defence of our moral agency. In condensing these ideas, Knight advances a theoretical argument for the reformation of Aristotelianism and an ethical argument for social change.

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John Wiley & Sons

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074563821X

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9780745638218

Plant-Wide Process Control

By: Kelvin T. Erickson,John L. Hedrick

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Plant-Wide Process Control

By: Kelvin T. Erickson,John L. Hedrick

Der Band behandelt Prozeßsteuerungen für kontinuierlich oder im Batchbetrieb arbeitende chemische Produktionsanlagen, wobei auf alle Stadien der Entwicklung vom Konzept bis zur Umsetzung, Prüfung und Wartung eingegangen wird. Besonders interessant ist das Thema für den Verfahrens- oder Chemieingenieur, der zur Effektivierung der industriellen Automation zunehmend auch Kenntnisse aus dem elektrotechnischen Bereich benötigt. (06/99)

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0471178357

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9780471178354

Mixture Modelling for Medical and Health Sciences

By: Shu-Kay Ng

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Mixture Modelling for Medical and Health Sciences

By: Shu-Kay Ng

Mixture Modelling for Medical and Health Sciences provides a direct connection between theoretical developments in mixture modelling and their applications in real world problems. The book describes the development of the most important concepts through comprehensive analyses of real and practical examples taken from real-life research problems in

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CRC Press

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148223677X

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9781482236774

Obesity Surgery: Principles and Practice

By: Cid Pitombo,Kenneth Jones,Kelvin Higa,Jose Carlos Pareja

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Obesity Surgery: Principles and Practice

By: Cid Pitombo,Kenneth Jones,Kelvin Higa,Jose Carlos Pareja

A complete full-color overview of obesity surgery-written by the field's foremost experts Obesity Surgery: Principles and Practice brings together the top minds in the discipline who, collectively, deliver a benchmark reference that will prove indispensable for general and bariatric surgeons and residents. Page after page, the book's esteemed editors take you step by step through the very latest, most advanced surgical techniques and clinical protocols. Using full color throughout, this logically organized guide begins with an insightful look at the general principles of obesity surgery-one that provides a vital theoretical framework for subsequent chapters. The next sections of the book offer an in-depth review of surgical procedures and postoperative management that no other text can match. Features: Unequaled coverage that delivers an up-to-date, comprehensive survey of today's obesity surgery practice Valuable, skill-building insights that reflect the expertise of an international pool of editors and authors in the field of bariatric surgery Focus on topics not covered in other books, including Surgery in Adolescents, Cost Analysis of Laparoscopic versus Open Surgery, and Surgery in the “Super Obese” Full-color art program to clarify surgical protocols

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071594345

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9780071594349

Tackling Trident

By: Stellan Vinthagen,Justin Kenrick,Kelvin Mason

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Tackling Trident

By: Stellan Vinthagen,Justin Kenrick,Kelvin Mason

Tackling Trident is about two unique academic conferences in which an international group of academics, while discussing scientific conference papers, simultaneously blockaded Faslane Naval Base, home of the UKʼs Trident system of nuclear weapons of mass-destruction, in Scotland, in January and June 2007. This book presents the academics that took part in the innovative ʻAcademic Conference Blockadesʼ, the conference papers that outlines the scientific rational behind their nuclear resistance, and the year long campaign Faslane 365 in which this ʻcritique in actionʼ occurred. Tackling Trident is a book written by engaged academics that tackles nuclear weapon issues, Trident, academic responsibility, and possibilities for academic, personal and social change. This book is a fundamental challenge to the suggested scientific legitimacy of nuclear weapon ʼdefenceʼ, and the suggested political and moral ʼneutralityʼ of academia." -- Back cover.

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Lulu.com

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147175104X

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9781471751042

The Criminal World of Sherlock Holmes - Volume Two

By: Kelvin Jones

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The Criminal World of Sherlock Holmes - Volume Two

By: Kelvin Jones

A shocking account of the savage world in which Sherlock Holmes operated. The crimes of The Ripper; Conan Doyle's knowledge of the killer's identity; the methods employed by criminals, and of their pursuers; the harrowing truth about Holmes' drug abuse, and of his gang of 'street arabs', the long-lost crime monographs by the Baker Street sleuth; and much more, this book tells the true story of Holmes' gas-lit and sinister criminal world. "Victorian society was violent & exploitive..., footpads and garrotters stalked the streets of the City...beggars were rife.". Kelvin is the author of many books about Holmes, the definitive biography of Doyle as a spiritualist & the 3 volume edition of the author's spiritualist writings. A distinguished life member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, he has published contemporary crime novels and poetry, and is a member of the Crime Writers' Association. "The almost legendary Mr Jones..."- Roger Johnson, commissioning ed. of The Sherlock Holmes Journal. "Kelvin Jones takes the reader into Victorian England, walking side by side with the Great Detective..., an all-round, relentless researcher..." - Mark Alberstaat, ed. of Canadian Holmes.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787058700

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9781787058705

Virtue and Economy

Essays on Morality and Markets

By: Andrius Bielskis,Kelvin Knight

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Virtue and Economy

Essays on Morality and Markets

By: Andrius Bielskis,Kelvin Knight

Interest in Aristotelianism and in virtue ethics has been growing for half a century but as yet the strengths of the study of Aristotelian ethics in politics have not been matched in economics. This ground-breaking text fills that gap. Challenging the premises of neoclassical economic theory, the contributors take issue with neoclassicism’s foundational separation of values from facts, with its treatment of preferences as given, and with its consequent refusal to reason about final ends. The contrary presupposition of this collection is that ethical reasoning about human ends is essential for any sustainable economy, and that reasoning about economic goods should therefore be informed by reasoning about what is humanly and commonly good. Contributions critically engage with aspects of corporate capitalism, managerial power and neoliberal economic policy, and reflect on the recent financial crisis from the point of view of Aristotelian virtue ethics. Containing a new chapter by Alasdair MacIntyre, and deploying his arguments and conceptual scheme throughout, the book critically analyses the theoretical presuppositions and institutional reality of modern capitalism.

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Routledge

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1317001516

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9781317001515

The Publishing Business

A Guide to Starting Out and Getting On

By: Kelvin Smith,Melanie Ramdarshan Bold

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The Publishing Business

A Guide to Starting Out and Getting On

By: Kelvin Smith,Melanie Ramdarshan Bold

Are you considering a career in the world of publishing, or simply want to understand more about the industry? If so, The Publishing Business will take you through the essential publishing activities performed in editorial, rights, design, production, sales and marketing departments. International examples from across the industry, from children's books to academic monographs, demonstrate key responsibilities at each stage of the publishing process and how the industry is adapting to digital culture. This 3rd edition has been updated with more on the role of self-publishing, independent publishers, audio books, the rise of poetry and non-fiction and how the industry is facing up to challenges of sustainability, inclusivity and diversity. Beautifully designed and full of insight and advice from practitioner interviews, this is an essential introduction to a dynamic industry. Interviewees include: Anne Meadows, Commissioning Editor at Granta and Portobello Books Zaahida Nabagereka, Head of Social Impact at Penguin Books UK Ashleigh Gardner, Senior Vice President, Managing Director Global Publishing, Wattpad Caroline Walsh, Literary Agent, David Higham Associates Peter Blackstock, VP, Deputy Publisher, Grove Atlantic/Publisher, Grove Press UK Amy Ellis, Head of Rights and Permissions, Publishers' Licensing Services Victoria Lawrance, Rights Manager, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Shaun Hodgkinson, COO, Dorling Kindersley Thomas Truong, Publishing Director, Little Tiger Group Jenny Blenk, Associate Editor, Dark Horse Comics Jeanette Morton, Digital Publisher, Oxford University Press Maria Vassilopoulos, Publishing Sales, Uni of Wales Press and Calon Books Ian Lamb, Head Of Children's Marketing and Publicity, Simon and Schuster

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135025939X

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9781350259393

Keats and Shelley

Winds of Light

By: Kelvin Everest

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Keats and Shelley

Winds of Light

By: Kelvin Everest

Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry. Some of the essays have been previously published and are established as classic studies, which have strongly influenced scholarly interpretation of the poems they discuss, including landmark readings of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, 'Julian and Maddalo' and 'Ozymandias', and Keats's 'Isabella: or the Pot of Basil' and his sonnet 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'. These are brought into relationship with new work on the two poets, in a wide-ranging set of meditations which centre on Shelley's great elegy for Keats, Adonais. An introductory chapter considers the strongly contrasting poetic styles and achievement of the two iconic 'young Romantics', a contrast which has been obscured by their conventional close pairing in popular culture. Five studies of Keats are followed by a pivotal account of Shelley's elaborately-wrought poetic tribute to Keats's destined greatness, which leads in to a balancing six studies of Shelley. Both poets are situated illuminatingly in their literary, personal, and social-historical milieu, through a series of perspectives which combine lucid particularity with powerful generalization. The essays move from detailed analysis of textual minutiae to deep reflection on fundamental themes in the work of Keats and Shelley, including the ultimate themes of transience and permanence, and of life, death, and immortality.

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Oxford University Press

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0192849506

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9780192849502

Sensory Anthropology

Culture and Experience in Asia

By: Kelvin E. Y. Low

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Sensory Anthropology

Culture and Experience in Asia

By: Kelvin E. Y. Low

From constructions of rasa (taste) in pre-colonial India and Indonesia, children and sensory discipline within the monastic orders of the Edo period of Japan, to sound expressives among the Semai in Peninsular Malaysia, the sensory soteriology of Tibetan Buddhism, and sensory warscapes of WWII, this book analyses how sensory cultures in Asia frame social order and disorder. Illustrated with a wide range of fascinating examples, it explores key anthropological themes, such as culture and language, food and foodways, morality, transnationalism and violence, and provides granular analyses on sensory relations, sensory pairings, and intersensoriality. By offering rich ethnographic perspectives on inter- and intra-regional sense relations, the book engages with a variety of sensory models, and moves beyond narrower sensory regimes bounded by group, nation or temporality. A pioneering exploration of the senses in and out of Asia, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in social and cultural anthropology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009240811

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9781009240819

The End of Prejudice

An Explanation of Liberalism, Human Rights and the Civil Society

By: Kelvin Smythe

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The End of Prejudice

An Explanation of Liberalism, Human Rights and the Civil Society

By: Kelvin Smythe

An ideological epic! The End of Prejudice is a book of ideologically epic proportions as it definitively examines and explains both modern political ideologies, taken from their true origins and extended to their furthest ends. By decoding and translating the alien ideas of the left and the right, the reader will be left with no doubts over what divides society and, with such an understanding, will be clear as to what would reverse this division and set civilization on a path toward harmony. By making the most complex of ideas simple and understandable, The End of Prejudice is not only enlightening but also exhilarating and quite often hilarious as an added bonus. If the puzzles of politics have interested you or infuriated you, you will be able to congratulate yourself after reading this book, for those mysteries will have been solved.

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AuthorHouse

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1496964659

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9781496964656

Preventing and Reducing Aggression and Violence in Health and Social Care

A Holistic Approach

By: Kelvin Ford,Dr Richard Byrt,James Dooher

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Preventing and Reducing Aggression and Violence in Health and Social Care

A Holistic Approach

By: Kelvin Ford,Dr Richard Byrt,James Dooher

No one should face aggression or violence in the workplace but these problems are increasingly being reported by health and social care workers and the people using their services. This helpful book explores the reasons why some individuals may become aggressive or violent and explains how a holistic approach can offer effective ways of preventing, anticipating, reducing and dealing with aggression and violence when they arise. By critically exploring the common issues and difficulties encountered by professionals, the authors provide valuable insights into this behaviour and how to implement safeguards against it.Contents include: A holistic approach OCo Violence and aggression in services and the social context OCo Essential principles and theoretical models OCo Safe, therapeutic environments OCo De-escalation: Reducing arousal and aggression OCo Non-verbal and verbal communication OCo Biological explanations of violence and aggression OCo Culture, diversity and communication OCo Individuals with specific communication needs OCo More on individuals with specific communication needs OCo ClientsOCO physical health needs OCo Psychosocial interventions including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy OCo Other types of psychotherapy and therapeutic communities

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M&K Update Ltd

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190783057X

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9781907830570

Quick Hits

10 Key Surgical Strike Actions to Improve Business Process Performance

By: Kelvin F. Cross

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Quick Hits

10 Key Surgical Strike Actions to Improve Business Process Performance

By: Kelvin F. Cross

Improving business processes, whatever or wherever they are in the enterprise, is an acknowledged way of improving the bottom line. Whether it's re-engineering, Six Sigma, TQM, or any number of other techniques, the problem is that it's usually such a huge undertaking that it's more work than it's worth. Kelvin F. Cross proposes that results can be achieved much more easily by going in and performing ""surgical strikes"" on specific areas that need improvement, without turning the entire thing into a ""science project."" And now his method is available for anyone seeking to streamline process structures. Using case studies from companies including AT&T, GE, and Weight Watchers International to illustrate the remarkable results that can be achieved, Quick Hits sums up the ten key areas that are perfect targets for surgical strikes, demonstrating exactly how to handle each type of problem. By showing how to determine which approach to use for any given situation, the book gives readers an arsenal of tactical and judicious methods designed to be low risk, low cost, and very effective.

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294

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Amacom Books

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0814472060

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9780814472064

Swimming for Fitness

By: Kelvin Juba

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Swimming for Fitness

By: Kelvin Juba

A longtime coach presents the keys to developing a successful program that will improve your swimming-and your health

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Lyons Press

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1585745502

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9781585745500

Lifespan Development

By: Kelvin Seifert,Robert J. Hoffnung,Michele Hoffnung

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Lifespan Development

By: Kelvin Seifert,Robert J. Hoffnung,Michele Hoffnung

This chronologically organized text presents development from a growth perspective, focusing on continuities and change throughout life. By illustrating the connections and relationships among all stages, "Lifespan" allows students to discover that human development is a lifelong process. The Second Edition offers an even stronger emphasis on the lifespan approach to development, as exemplified by four themes: Lifelong Growth, Continuity and Change, Changing Meanings and Changing Vantage Points, and Developmental Diversity.

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0395967716

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9780395967713

Partnership Agencies British

By: Nicholas Bailey,Kelvin MacDonald,Alison Barker

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Partnership Agencies British

By: Nicholas Bailey,Kelvin MacDonald,Alison Barker

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1135371091

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9781135371098

Chess for Kids

By: Daniel C. Macdonald,Kelvin F. R. Smith

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Chess for Kids

By: Daniel C. Macdonald,Kelvin F. R. Smith

Chess for kids, winner of three major children awards is a beautiful 64 page book with over 30 color teaching illustrations. Filled with witty text that will delight and stimulate the imagination of your young genius.This book will take your child's abilities to new levels. Proven to increase mental abilities like no other popular game. Empower your child today. With over 250,000 softcover books sold and acclaimed by chess Masters and grandmasters alike this book is the one that will give your child a skill that will enrich them for a lifetime.

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1466359196

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