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Introduction to Optical Dating

The Dating of Quaternary Sediments by the Use of Photon-stimulated Luminescence

By: M. J. Aitken

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Introduction to Optical Dating

The Dating of Quaternary Sediments by the Use of Photon-stimulated Luminescence

By: M. J. Aitken

Optical dating is a rapidly developing technique, used primarily in the dating of sediments deposited in the last 500,000 or more years. As such increasing numbers of Quaternary geologists, physical geographers, archaeologists, and anthropologists are now relying on the results produced. Written by one of the foremost experts on optical dating, this book aims to bring together in a coherent whole the various strands of research that are ongoing in the area. It gives beginners an introduction to the technique as well as acting as a valuable source of up to date references. The text is divided into three parts; main text, technical notes and appendices. In this way the main text is accessible by those researchers with a limited knowledge of physics, with the technical notes providing depth of understanding for those who require it. The first part of the book is concerned with basic notions and an introduction to the standard techniques, as well as several illustrative case histories. It goes on to then discuss the limitations of the technique and factors affecting reliability.

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Clarendon Press

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0191589276

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Science-Based Dating in Archaeology

By: M.J. Aitken

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Science-Based Dating in Archaeology

By: M.J. Aitken

Archaeologists and archaeology students have long since needed an authoritative account of the techniques now available to them, designed to be understood by non-scientists. This book fills the gap and it offers a two-tier approach to the subject. The main text is a coherent introduction to the whole field of science-based dating, written in plain langauge for non-scientists. Additional end-notes, however, offer a a more technical understanding, and cater for those who have a scientific and mathematical background.

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Routledge

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1317871499

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Auld Lang Syne

A Song and its Culture

By: M. J. Grant

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Auld Lang Syne

A Song and its Culture

By: M. J. Grant

In Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture, M. J. Grant explores the history of this iconic song, demonstrating how its association with ideas of fellowship, friendship and sociality has enabled it to become so significant for such a wide range of individuals and communities around the world. This engaging study traces different stages in the journey of Auld Lang Syne, from the precursors to the song made famous by Robert Burns to the traditions and rituals that emerged around the song in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including its use as a song of parting, and as a song of New Year. Grant’s painstaking study investigates the origins of these varied traditions, and their impact on the transmission of the song right up to the present day. Grant uses Auld Lang Syne to explore the importance of songs and singing for group identity, arguing that it is the active practice of singing the song in group contexts that has made it so significant for so many. The book offers fascinating insights into the ways that Auld Lang Syne has been received, reused and remixed around the world, concluding with a chapter on more recent versions of the song back in Scotland. This highly original and accessible work will be of great interest to non-expert readers as well as scholars and students of musicology, cultural and social history, social anthropology and Scottish studies. The book contains a wealth of illustrations and includes links to many more, including manuscript sources. Audio examples are included for many of the musical examples. Grant’s extensive bibliography will moreover ease future referencing of the many sources consulted.

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Open Book Publishers

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1800640684

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9781800640689

Food Taints and Off-Flavours

By: M.J. Saxby

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Food Taints and Off-Flavours

By: M.J. Saxby

Contamination of food with extremely low levels of certain compounds can cause an unpleasant taste. This can result in the destruction of vast stocks of product, and very substantial financial losses to food companies. The concentration of the alien compound in the food can be so low that very sophisticated equipment is needed to identify the components and to determine its source. It is vital that every company involved in the production, distribution and sale of foodstuffs are fully aware of the ways in which contamination can accrue, how it can be avoided, and what steps need to be taken in the event that a problem does arise. This book provides the background information needed to recognize how food can become tainted, to draw up guidelines to prevent this contamination, and to plan the steps that should be taken in the event of an outbreak. The new edition has been extensively revised and updated and includes substantial new material on the formation of off flavors due to microbiological and enzymic action, and on sensory evaluation of taints and off flavors A new chapter on off flavors in alcoholic beverages has been added. Written primarily for industrial food technologists, this volume is also an essential reference source for workers in research and government institutions.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461521513

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The Making of the Mosaic

A History of Canadian Immigration Policy

By: Ninette Kelley,M. J. Trebilcock,Professor of Law and Economics Michael J Trebilcock

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The Making of the Mosaic

A History of Canadian Immigration Policy

By: Ninette Kelley,M. J. Trebilcock,Professor of Law and Economics Michael J Trebilcock

Beginning their study in the pre-Confederation period, the authors tell of the dramatic transformations that have characterized Canadian attitudes towards immigrants. While, at first, few obstacles were placed in the way of newcomers to Canada, the turn of the century brought policies of increasing selectivity.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802081460

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9780802081469

Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar

Racism and Revenge in the British Raj

By: M. J. Akbar

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Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar

Racism and Revenge in the British Raj

By: M. J. Akbar

In July 1765 Robert Clive, in a letter to Sir Francis Sykes, compared Gomorrah favourably to Calcutta, then capital of British India. He wrote: 'I will pronounce Calcutta to be one of the most wicked places in the Universe.' Drawing upon the letters, memoirs and journals of traders, travellers, bureaucrats, officials, officers and the occasional bishop, Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar is a chronicle of racial relations between Indians and their last foreign invaders, sometimes infuriating but always compelling. A multitude of vignettes, combined with insight and analysis, reveal the deeply ingrained conviction of 'white superiority' that shaped this history. How deep this conviction was is best illustrated by the fact that the British abandoned a large community of their own children because they were born of Indian mothers. The British took pride in being outsiders, even as their exploitative revenue policy turned periodic drought and famine into horrific catastrophes, killing impoverished Indians in millions. There were also marvellous and heart-warming exceptions in this extraordinary panorama, people who transcended racial prejudice and served as a reminder of what might have been had the British made India a second home and merged with its culture instead of treating it as a fortune-hunter's turf. The power was indisputable-the British had lost just one out of 18 wars between 1757 and 1857. Defeated repeatedly on the battlefield, Indians found innovative and amusing ways of giving expression to resentment in household skirmishes, social mores and economic subversion. When Indians tried to imitate the sahibs, they turned into caricatures; when they absorbed the best that the British brought with them, the confluence was positive and productive. But for the most part, subject and ruler lived parallel lives. From the celebrated writer of the bestselling Gandhi's Hinduism: the Struggle Against Jinnah's Islam comes this extensively researched and utterly engrossing book, which is easy to pick up and difficult to put down.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9354355285

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A Grateful Heart

Daily Blessings for the Evening Meals from Buddha to The Beatles

By: M.J. Ryan

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A Grateful Heart

Daily Blessings for the Evening Meals from Buddha to The Beatles

By: M.J. Ryan

Celebrate the Human Experience by Giving Thanks at Mealtime. Try It! Count your blessings. Today there is a deep hunger for connection with ourselves, with nature, and with the process of birth and death itself says life coach and author M. J. Ryan, creator of the New York Times best-selling Random Acts of Kindness series. What her book, A Grateful Heart, is offering from a wide variety of spiritual disciplines and secular perspectives, is a way of satisfying that hunger by setting aside time before we eat to acknowledge the blessings in our lives. When we give thanks, we take our place in the great wheel of life, recognizing our connection to one another and to all of creation. Choose from 365 blessings and give thanks. A Grateful Heart is a tool to help readers reclaim and enrich the tradition of pausing before the evening meal to give thanks. Drawing from a range of religious and cultural practices, the 365 blessings in this book celebrate friendship, love, peace, reconciliation, the body, nature, joy, and appreciation of the moment. This illustrated feast for the mind includes quotations from Martin Luther King Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi, Rumi, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Denise Levertov, the Bible, and the Tao Te Ching. M. J. Ryan wrote A Grateful Heart to encourage families to share the experience of being part of something greater than themselves. With that in mind, the book includes 365 traditional and nontraditional blessings organized into four sections corresponding to the seasons. Experience the blessings in A Grateful Heart in a variety of ways: Just open it and begin reading one-a-day in the order given Use the index to pick and choose topics of interest that day Open at random and read what is offered If you have benefited from books such as Earth Prayers, M. J. Ryan’s Attitudes of Gratitude, Don Miguel Ruiz’s Prayers, June Cotner’s Graces, or Marcia M. Kelly’s 100 Graces; you and your family will love M. J. Ryan’s A Grateful Heart.

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Mango Media

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1609250575

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Emerging Nanotechnologies for Manufacturing

By: Waqar Ahmed,M. J. Jackson,Mark J Jackson

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Emerging Nanotechnologies for Manufacturing

By: Waqar Ahmed,M. J. Jackson,Mark J Jackson

Nanotechnology is a technology on the verge of commercialization. In this important work, an unrivalled team of international experts provides an exploration of the emerging nanotechnologies that are poised to make the nano-revolution a reality in the manufacturing sector. From their different perspectives, the contributors explore how developments in nanotechnology are transforming areas as diverse as medicine, advanced materials, energy, electronics and agriculture. Key topics covered include: Characterization of nanostructures Bionanotechnology Nanoelectronics Micro- and nanomachining Self-assembly techniques New applications of carbon nanotubes Environmental and health impacts This book provides an important and in-depth guide to the applications and impact of nanotechnology to different manufacturing sectors. As such, it will find a broad readership, from R&D scientists and engineers to venture capitalists. About the Authors Waqar Ahmed is Chair of Nanotechnology & Advanced Manufacturing and the Director of the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has contributed to the wider industrial adoption of surface coating solutions through fundamental research and modeling of gas phase processes in CVD and studies of tribological behavior. Mark J. Jackson is a Professor at the Birck Nanotechnology Center and Center for Advanced Manufacturing, College of Technology at Purdue University. Dr Jackson is active in research work concerned with understanding the properties of materials in the field of microscale metal cutting, micro- and nanoabrasive machining, and laser micromachining. He is also involved in developing next generation manufacturing processes and biomedical engineering. Explains how to use biological pathways to produce nanoelectric devices Presents data on new, experimental designs Discusses the history of carbon nanotubes and how they are synthesized to fabricate novel nanostructures (incl. data on laser ablation) Extensive use of illustrations, tables, and figures throughout

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William Andrew

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0815519788

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9780815519782

Scandalous Leadership

Prime Ministers' and Presidents' Scandals and the Press

By: M J Trow

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Scandalous Leadership

Prime Ministers' and Presidents' Scandals and the Press

By: M J Trow

Before Britain had a prime minister – and before they invented America – the dictator Oliver Cromwell urged the artist Lely to paint him ‘warts and all’. This book deals with some of the ‘all’, but is mostly about the warts, the moral blemishes that have dogged the leaders of two of the greatest countries on earth for 300 years. Scandalously, there are still no qualifications necessary for the job of prime minister or president, two of the most important positions in the world. And that lack of ability shows itself in spades throughout these pages. Robert Walpole knew that ‘every man has his price’ and bought people accordingly. Viscount Goderich broke down in tears, begging the king to fire him. George Washington, the revered saint of American creation, blew with the wind and owned slaves. Abraham Lincoln was prepared to send African Americans back to Africa to save the Union. William Gladstone popped out from Downing street to ‘save’ prostitutes. David Lloyd George gave people titles for money. Warren Harding had a string of mistresses, as did John Kennedy. And all this happened before Donald Trump! Thank God the fourth estate was there, the free press watching every move of politicians. Who was watching them, of course, is another story. If you thought – and prayed – that the occupants of No. 10 and the White House were honorable, competent people, you’re in for a bit of a shock.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399066595

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9781399066594

New National Framework Mathematics 7 Core Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler,K. M. Vickers

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New National Framework Mathematics 7 Core Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler,K. M. Vickers

This series for Key Stage 3 mathematics has been written to exactly match the Framework for teaching mathematics. Comprising parallel resources for each year and covering all ability levels, it takes a consistent but fully differentiated approach.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748767517

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9780748767519

The Charge of the Heavy Brigade

Scarlett’s 300 in the Crimea

By: M. J. Trow

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The Charge of the Heavy Brigade

Scarlett’s 300 in the Crimea

By: M. J. Trow

‘Glory to each and to all, and the charge that they made! Glory to all three hundred, and all the Brigade!’ Everyone has heard of the charge of the Light Brigade, a suicidal cavalry attack caused by confused orders which somehow sums up the Crimean War (1854-6). Far less well known is what happened an hour earlier, when General Scarlett’s Heavy Brigade charged a Russian army at least three times its size. That ‘fight of heroes’, to use the phrase of William Russell, the world’s first war correspondent, was a brilliant success, whereas the Light Brigade’s action resulted in huge casualties and achieved nothing. This is the first book by a military historian to study the men of the Heavy Brigade, from James Scarlett, who led it, to the enlisted men who had joined for the ‘queen’s shilling’ and a new life away from the hard grind of Victorian poverty. It charts the perils of travelling by sea, in cramped conditions with horses panicking in rough seas. It tells the story, through the men who were there, of the charge itself, where it was every man for himself and survival was down to the random luck of shot and shell. It looks, too, at the women of the Crimea, the wives who accompanied their menfolk. Best known were Florence Nightingale, the ‘lady with the lamp’ and Mary Seacole, the Creole woman who was ‘doctress and mother’ to the men. But there were others, like Fanny Duberly who wrote a graphic journal and Mrs Rogers, who dutifully cooked and cleaned for the men of her husband’s regiment, the 4th Dragoon Guards.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1399093010

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9781399093019

New National Framework Mathematics 7* Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler

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New National Framework Mathematics 7* Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler

These resources have been created for lower-ability students targeting National Curriculum Levels 2-4. Running parallel to the New National Framework Mathematics Core and Plus Books, the pupil book and accompanying Teacher Support File have been designed to be highly accessible to pupils attaining these levels.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748775218

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Introduction to Optical Dating

The Dating of Quaternary Sediments by the Use of Photon-stimulated Luminescence

By: M. J. Aitken

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Introduction to Optical Dating

The Dating of Quaternary Sediments by the Use of Photon-stimulated Luminescence

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Book's by M.J. Aitken

Introduction to Optical Dating

Introduction to Optical Dating

Science-Based Dating in Archaeology

Science-Based Dating in Archaeology

Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne

Food Taints and Off-Flavours

Food Taints and Off-Flavours

The Making of the Mosaic

The Making of the Mosaic

Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar

Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar

A Grateful Heart

A Grateful Heart

Emerging Nanotechnologies for Manufacturing

Emerging Nanotechnologies for Manufacturing

Scandalous Leadership

Scandalous Leadership

New National Framework Mathematics 7 Core Pupil's Book

New National Framework Mathematics 7 Core Pupil's Book

The Charge of the Heavy Brigade

The Charge of the Heavy Brigade

New National Framework Mathematics 7* Pupil's Book

New National Framework Mathematics 7* Pupil's Book

Introduction to Optical Dating

Introduction to Optical Dating

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