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The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice

By: Martyn Hammersley

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The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice

By: Martyn Hammersley

Martyn Hammersley′s provocative new text interrogates the complex relationship between research, policymaking and practice, against the background of the evidence-based practice movement. Addressing a series of probing questions, this book reflects on the challenge posed by the idea that social research can directly serve policymaking and practice. Key questions explored include: - Is scientific research evidence-based? - What counts as evidence for evidence-based practice? - Is social measurement possible, and is it necessary? - What are the criteria by which qualitative research should be judged? The book also discusses the case for action research, the nature of systematic reviews, proposals for interpretive reviews, and the process of qualitative synthesis. Highly readable and undeniably relevant, this book is a valuable resource for both academics and professionals involved with research.

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1446291715

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Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups

By: Martyn Barrett

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Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups

By: Martyn Barrett

Provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity develops through childhood and adolescence.

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Psychology Press

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1135425906

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Nelson's Lost Jewel

The Extraordinary Story of the Lost Diamond Chelengk

By: Martyn Downer

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Nelson's Lost Jewel

The Extraordinary Story of the Lost Diamond Chelengk

By: Martyn Downer

Admiral Lord Nelson's diamond Chelengk is one of the most famous and iconic jewels in British history. Presented to Nelson by the Sultan Selim III of Turkey after the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the jewel had thirteen diamond rays to represent the French ships captured or destroyed at the action. A central diamond star on the jewel was powered by clockwork to rotate in wear. Nelson wore the Chelengk on his hat like a turban jewel, sparking a fashion craze for similar jewels in England. The jewel became his trademark to be endlessly copied in portraits and busts to this day. After Trafalgar, the Chelengk was inherited by Nelson's family and worn at the Court of Queen Victoria. Sold at auction in 1895 it eventually found its way to the newly opened National Maritime Museum in Greenwich where it was a star exhibit. In 1951 the jewel was stolen in a daring raid by an infamous cat-burglar and lost forever. For the first time, Martyn Downer tells the extraordinary true story of the Chelengk: from its gift to Nelson by the Sultan of Turkey to its tragic post-war theft, charting the jewel's journey through history and forging sparkling new and intimate portraits of Nelson, of his friends and rivals, and of the woman he loved.

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The History Press

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0750986115

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9780750986113

Reading Ethnographic Research

By: Martyn Hammersley

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Reading Ethnographic Research

By: Martyn Hammersley

Provides a practical guide to the critical reading of ethnographic studies: discussing in detail how to identify the main arguments and what is involved in making an assessment of such studies.

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Routledge

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113496224X

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Sir Gadabout and the Ghost

By: Martyn Beardsley

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Sir Gadabout and the Ghost

By: Martyn Beardsley

Sir Gadabout nods off at the Round Table, and wakes up to find himself in the same room as a ghost! At first, the ghost of Sir Henry makes Sir Gads clank his armour with fright, but he soon recovers his spirits and sets off of another calamitous quest - to clear Sir Henry's name of the ghastly crime of pilchard-stealing. Another side-splitting adventure, with Sir Gads, his trusty squire Herbert and Merlin's sarcastic ginger cat, Sidney Smith, raising a riot in Camelot.

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Orion Children's Books

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1444009370

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9781444009378

The White Room

By: Martyn Waites

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The White Room

By: Martyn Waites

DIVA veteran returns from war to find a city torn apart by poverty and crime/div DIVA year after the end of World War II, Jack Smeaton has returned to Newcastle, a nineteen-year-old with bone-white hair and a memory that cannot be cleansed. After the eye-opening experience of war, he sees his hometown for what it really is: a city so blighted by poverty that it’s hard to believe his was the victorious nation. A visit to a socialist meeting puts Smeaton under the sway of T. Dan Smith, a future city councilman whose dream is to rebuild Newcastle./divDIV /divDIVAs they spend the next decades working to improve the lot of the working man, something sinister bubbles underneath the surface of their new city. In the shadows of the towers Smith builds to house the city’s poor, a psychopath lurks, ready to christen the Newcastle of the future with the blood of the past./div

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Open Road Media

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1453237577

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The Army of the Cumberland

By: Henry Martyn Cist

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The Army of the Cumberland

By: Henry Martyn Cist

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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338540598X

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Social Work Research

Ethical and Political Contexts

By: Heather D'Cruz,Martyn Jones

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Social Work Research

Ethical and Political Contexts

By: Heather D'Cruz,Martyn Jones

`This is a very useful introductory text...it is well structured, has a very accessible style, and guides students through exercises that are relevant and appropriate. The book is unique in that it goes beyond general textbooks and I will be very happy to recommend it to my students' - Beth Humphries, Reader in Social Work, Lancaster University The role of research in social work has become increasingly critical and relevant to training and practice. Social Work Research has been designed to address this and to demonstrate the importance of research for improving social work practice. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book explains the links between practice, knowledge and research. It succeeds in bridging the gap between theory and reality by discussing a range of research paradigms and placing them in the context of professional social work. It also goes beyond other textbooks to discuss the political and ethical contexts that are intrinsic to social work practice. Other key features of the book include: · Fulfills QAA benchmarks in social work training - social work research is a required topic on undergraduate degrees. · Addresses topical issues such as the need for evidence-based practice and an awareness of ethics. · International in scope - draws upon international literature · Grounded in 'real-life' research through case studies · User-friendly and student-focused, it includes student exercises and further reading sections. Social Work Research will prove an invaluable resource for students, researchers and trainees undertaking research in social work.

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1412931800

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Social Work Research in Practice

Ethical and Political Contexts

By: Heather D′Cruz,Martyn Jones

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Social Work Research in Practice

Ethical and Political Contexts

By: Heather D′Cruz,Martyn Jones

This new edition of Social Work Research in Practice: Ethical and Political Contexts explores the intrinsic connection between knowledge, research and practice in social work. The authors argue that through a better appreciation of research, the highest standards of social work can be achieved. The second edition investigates contemporary approaches which impact on the discourses of social work research, including: - Evidence-based practice - User-led research - Anti-oppressive practice - Practice-based research Each chapter has been fully updated with a rich range of case examples and references. Further reading is also included, so that readers can expand their knowledge. This book is a valuable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as practitioners working in the field of social work. Heather D′Cruz works as a Consultant: Research and Professional Education. Martyn Jones is Associate Dean at RMIT University.

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1446286681

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The True Story of John Smyth, the Se-baptist, as Told by Himself and His Contemporaries

By: Henry Martyn Dexter

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The True Story of John Smyth, the Se-baptist, as Told by Himself and His Contemporaries

By: Henry Martyn Dexter

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385432561

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Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners

The Struggle for the Charter in 1919

By: Martyn Ives

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Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners

The Struggle for the Charter in 1919

By: Martyn Ives

In Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners, Martyn Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in labour history. His research into the astonishing coalfield militancy of 1919 reveals it was a watershed year on a par with 1926. Indeed the General Strike was in many ways merely its dim echo. Whilst historians have skated over the labour unrest of 1919, Martyn Ives uncovers a remarkable incidence of unofficial mass strikes in the coalfields, waged against mine-owners, government and trade union leaders alike. Led by revolutionaries, and infused with political radicalism, this mass movement offered a glimpse of an alternative road to socialism, based upon the organised industrial power of the working class.

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BRILL

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9004326006

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9789004326002

Infinite Groups

A Roadmap to Selected Classical Areas

By: Martyn R. Dixon,Leonid A. Kurdachenko,Igor Ya. Subbotin

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Infinite Groups

A Roadmap to Selected Classical Areas

By: Martyn R. Dixon,Leonid A. Kurdachenko,Igor Ya. Subbotin

In recent times, group theory has found wider applications in various fields of algebra and mathematics in general. But in order to apply this or that result, you need to know about it, and such results are often diffuse and difficult to locate, necessitating that readers construct an extended search through multiple monographs, articles, and papers. Such readers must wade through the morass of concepts and auxiliary statements that are needed to understand the desired results, while it is initially unclear which of them are really needed and which ones can be dispensed with. A further difficulty that one may encounter might be concerned with the form or language in which a given result is presented. For example, if someone knows the basics of group theory, but does not know the theory of representations, and a group theoretical result is formulated in the language of representation theory, then that person is faced with the problem of translating this result into the language with which they are familiar, etc. Infinite Groups: A Roadmap to Some Classical Areas seeks to overcome this challenge. The book covers a broad swath of the theory of infinite groups, without giving proofs, but with all the concepts and auxiliary results necessary for understanding such results. In other words, this book is an extended directory, or a guide, to some of the more established areas of infinite groups. Features An excellent resource for a subject formerly lacking an accessible and in-depth reference Suitable for graduate students, PhD students, and researchers working in group theory Introduces the reader to the most important methods, ideas, approaches, and constructions in infinite group theory.

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CRC Press

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1000848310

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The radicalism of ethnomethodology

An assessment of sources and principles

By: Martyn Hammersley

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The radicalism of ethnomethodology

An assessment of sources and principles

By: Martyn Hammersley

There have been relatively few well-informed, critical assessments of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. This book examines some of the background to these approaches, notably the influence of Schutz and phenomenology. It also compares Garfinkel’s approach with those of Goffman and Simmel, and assesses the influence of Cicourel and conversation analysis on research methodology. The core of the book is an in-depth assessment of the rationale for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and of their relationship to mainstream social science. While the importance of the issues that these epistemologically and ontologically radical approaches raise is underlined, a number of fundamental problems are identified with the rationale underpinning them.

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Manchester University Press

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1526124645

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Medical Regulation, Fitness to Practice and Revalidation

A Critical Introduction

By: Chamberlain, John Martyn

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Medical Regulation, Fitness to Practice and Revalidation

A Critical Introduction

By: Chamberlain, John Martyn

Medical sociology has long been concerned with the role played by specialist forms of expertise in enabling the governance of ‘troublesome’ social groups – including those who are unwell, ‘deviant’ and criminally insane. However, only recently has it begun to explore how the state ensures the public is protected from acts of medical malpractice, negligence and criminality. Against the background of a series of high-profile scandals, including the case of Dr Harold Shipman who murdered over 200 of his patients, this topical and authoritative book examines how the regulation of doctors has been modernised by reforms to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service and the introduction of the quality assurance process of medical revalidation. In doing so, it questions whether there is evidence to support the argument that revalidation serves the public interest by ensuring that individual doctors are fit to practise. Highlighting areas of good practice and areas for further research and development, the book is ideal for academics and postgraduates interested in medical sociology, socio-legal studies, medical law, medical education, health policy and related subjects

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Policy Press

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144732546X

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9781447325468

Where the New World is

Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales

By: Martyn Bone

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Where the New World is

Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales

By: Martyn Bone

Assesses how fiction published since 1980 resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Bone argues that this fiction has challenged understandings of the South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration and globalization.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820351865

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9780820351865

Sir Gadabout Gets Worse

By: Martyn Beardsley

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Sir Gadabout Gets Worse

By: Martyn Beardsley

Meet Sir Gadabout - the Worst Knight in the World . . . When Excalibur is stolen, Sir Gads sets off with his trusty band of followers to find the evil Sir Rudyard the Rancid. They must face the worst if they are to return the mighty sword to its rightful home.

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Orion Children's Books

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144400932X

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The Wisdom of the Spirit

Gospel, Church and Culture

By: Martyn Percy,Pete Ward

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The Wisdom of the Spirit

Gospel, Church and Culture

By: Martyn Percy,Pete Ward

In this groundbreaking book exploring Christianity and contemporary culture, internationally-renowned scholars (including David Martin, Alister McGrath, Billy Abraham, Billy Kay and Pete Ward), interface with the legacy of Andrew Walker’s work and look forward in their own predictions of trends. Following Walker’s special interests in house churches, charismatic renewal, culture and faith, this book picks up on these themes and also looks more broadly at topics such as Pentecostalism, Alpha and post-Evangelicalism.

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Routledge

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1317011619

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9781317011613

John Brown and His Men

By: Richard Josiah Hinton,Carlos Martyn

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John Brown and His Men

By: Richard Josiah Hinton,Carlos Martyn

This was the famous raid into Virginia by John Brown, hero, martyr, madman, and murderer. A New Englander by birth, Brown distinguished himself for fearlessness and violence after the bloody struggle in Kansas where he hoped to strike a more effective blow for freedom. His crusade against slavery entailed a plan to seize the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, free the blacks in the region, and retreat to a stronghold in the mountains.

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Digital Scanning Inc

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1582182957

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9781582182957

Routledge Revivals: What's Wrong With Ethnography? (1992)

Methodological Explorations

By: Martyn Hammersley

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Routledge Revivals: What's Wrong With Ethnography? (1992)

Methodological Explorations

By: Martyn Hammersley

Originally published 1992 What's Wrong With Ethnography? provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and related fields. Relativism, critical theory, the uniqueness of the case study and the distinction between qualitative and quantitative research are all examined and found wanting as a basis for informed ethnography. The policy and political implications of ethnography are a particular focus of attention. The author compels the reader to re-examine some basic methodological assumptions in an exciting way.

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1351038001

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The Creation of Monuments

Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures in the British Isles

By: Alistair Oswald,Carolyn Dyer,Martyn Barber

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The Creation of Monuments

Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures in the British Isles

By: Alistair Oswald,Carolyn Dyer,Martyn Barber

Neolithic Causewayed enclosures are amongst the oldest, rarest and most enigmatic of the ancient monuments found in Europe. First recognised as a distinct type in the 1920s, sixty-nine certain or probable examples have now been identified in the British Isles. As a class, they are of outstanding importance, for while their precise functions remain unclear, they represent the first non-funerary monuments and the earliest instance of the enclosure of open space. This book presents an overview of the findings of a systematic national programme of research, carried out by the RCHME, now merged with English Heritage. Every certain, probable and suggested causewayed enclosure in England has been investigated through integrated aerial and field survey. Specialist reconnaissance flying has been undertaken, along with the thorough analysis of aerial photographs taken from the 1920s onwards. This has greatly increased the number of sites known, turning the spotlight onto many that have received little or no archaeological attention in the past. The aerial surveys now available offer a new basis for improved understanding. Analytical field investigations of the few causewayed enclosures that are well preserved as earthworks have also squeezed fresh information out of even those long familiar to archaeologists. Far from merely ‘dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s’ of past fieldworkers, these detailed surveys have led to the rejection of some long-held theories and the proposal of new interpretations. This book significantly advances the understanding of causewayed enclosures both as individual monuments and as a class. It is a major contribution to the understanding of the British Neolithic, and to ‘landscape archaeology’ more generally.

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Liverpool University Press

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1848021879

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