Martyn Wright's Books

Community Equity Audits

Communities and Schools Working Together to Eliminate the Opportunity Gap

By: Kathryn Bell McKenzie,J. Martyn Gunn,Talitha Agan,Campbell John Bullock,Amelia Herrera-Evans

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Community Equity Audits

Communities and Schools Working Together to Eliminate the Opportunity Gap

By: Kathryn Bell McKenzie,J. Martyn Gunn,Talitha Agan,Campbell John Bullock,Amelia Herrera-Evans

Bridge the gap in opportunity to overcome the gap in achievement! Although out-of-school factors that limit student success may seem like obstacles too big to address, this guidebook provides the necessary direction to bridge the opportunity gap and close the achievement gap. Step-by-step instructions on how to conduct a community equity audit, along with detailed case studies, activities, and discussion questions give readers the power to assess opportunity gaps and eliminate them. A community equity audit asks questions such as: • Do the children in my community have the same opportunity as children in other communities? • Does my community have the same resources as other communities? • If my community needs more resources how can we provide them?

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Corwin Press

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1544360983

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Divine Violence and the Christus Victor Atonement Model

God's Reluctant Use of Violence for Soteriological Ends

By: Martyn J. Smith

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Divine Violence and the Christus Victor Atonement Model

God's Reluctant Use of Violence for Soteriological Ends

By: Martyn J. Smith

In this book Martyn Smith addresses the issue of God's violence and refuses to shy away from difficult and controversial conclusions. Through his wide-ranging and measured study he reflects upon God and violence in both biblical and theological contexts, assessing the implications of divine violence for understanding and engaging with God's nature and character. Jesus too, through his dramatic actions in the temple, is presented as one capable of exhibiting a surprising degree of violent behavior in the furtherance of God's purposes. Through a reappropriation of the ancient Christus Victor model of atonement, with its dramatic representation of God's war with the Satan, Smith proposes that Christian understanding of both God and salvation has to return to its long-neglected past in order to move forward, both biblically and dynamically, into the future.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498239471

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9781498239479

Classroom Control (RLE Edu L)

By: Martyn Denscombe

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Classroom Control (RLE Edu L)

By: Martyn Denscombe

Survival as a school teacher depends on an ability to achieve classroom control. In the years since this book was first published little has changed in this respect. Classroom control continues to lie at the heart of competent teaching. Teachers know it, pupils know it. They know it implicitly because they experience it as a normal part of their daily lives in schools. But, in this book, the author stands back from our everyday knowledge about how things work in classrooms to ask what control actually consists of. What is it? How is it recognized? How is it challenged by pupils? How is done by teachers? How is it negotiated? Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in three large secondary schools in England Martyn Denscombe explores the meaning of classroom control. He looks at the influence of teacher training and the role of school organization in establishing expectations about control, and then shows how control is played out through the interaction of teachers and pupils in class. His analysis travels well across the many contexts in which teaching occurs and provides an illuminating insight into the work of teaching and the nature of classroom life. His evidence is drawn from ethnographic fieldwork in three schools in England, and secondary sources covering the phenomenon of classroom control in the UK, USA and Australia.

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Routledge

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1136470557

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9781136470554

Taking Sides in Social Research

Essays on Partisanship and Bias

By: Martyn Hammersley

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Taking Sides in Social Research

Essays on Partisanship and Bias

By: Martyn Hammersley

In the past it was generally taken for granted that the goal of social research was the production of objective knowledge; and that this required a commitment to value neutrality. In more recent times, however, both these ideals have come to be challenged, and it is often argued that all research is inevitably political in its assumptions and effects. In this major contribution to the debate, Martyn Hammersley assesses the arguments from the classic and still influential contributions of C. Wright Mills, Howard Becker and Alvin Gouldner to the present day. He concludes that the case for partisanship is not convincing, and that an intelligent and sceptical commitment to the principles of objectivity and value neutrality must remain an essential feature of research.

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113463143X

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Constructing Educational Inequality

A Methodological Assessment

By: Peter Foster,Roger Gomm,Martyn Hammersley

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Constructing Educational Inequality

A Methodological Assessment

By: Peter Foster,Roger Gomm,Martyn Hammersley

The issue of educational opportunity has long been of public concern and a major focus for eduational research. As a result, there is now a substantial body of research findings in this field, both quantitative and qualitative.; This work relates to various levels of the educational system and to different categories of student, but particularly social class, gender, ethnicity and race. The central trend has been to find persisting inequalities despite reform at system, institutional and classroom levels. Furthermore, the educational system is frequently portrayed as playing a key role in reproducing wider social and economic inequalities.; This book examines the status of educational inequality as a social problem, explores the conceptual issues surrounding it, assesses a representative sample of recent research, and seeks to clarify the relevant methodological ground rules, thereby laying the basis for future research in the field.

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1135719128

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Jesus: The Unauthorized Biography

By: Martyn Whittock,Esther Whittock

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Jesus: The Unauthorized Biography

By: Martyn Whittock,Esther Whittock

By bringing together all of the available evidence on the life of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, this book offers a compelling biography of His time on Earth. Looking at sources such as the gospels, inscriptions, early Church writings, the apocryphal gospels and more, readers will be able to vividly visualise Jesus’ life and his First-Century Jewish cultural context. If you've ever wondered about the impact of Jesus' social class on his ministry; the influence on His disciples of contemporary resistance movements; or the prominent role of women in the disciple community, then allow this book to challenge and deepen your understanding of the Jesus described in the Bible.

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Lion Books

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0745980953

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9780745980959

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

Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has 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. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of some eighty years, challenged received readings and understandings of the U.S. South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration (or even internal migration) and economic globalization. The writers discussed by Bone emphasize how migration and labor have reconfigured the region’s relation to the nation and a range of transnational scales: hemispheric (Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti), transatlantic/Black Atlantic (Denmark, England, Mauritania), and transpacific/global southern (Australia, China, Vietnam). Writers under consideration include Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, Erna Brodber, Cynthia Shearer, Ha Jin, Monique Truong, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, Peter Matthiessen, Dave Eggers, and Laila Lalami. The book also seeks to resituate southern studies by drawing on theories of “scale” that originated in human geography. In this way, Bone also offers a new paradigm in which the U.S. South is thoroughly engaged with a range of other scales from the local to the global, making both literature about the region and southern studies itself truly transnational in scope.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820351857

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9780820351858

The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction

By: Martyn Bone

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The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction

By: Martyn Bone

For generations, southern novelists and critics have grappled with a concept that is widely seen as a trademark of their literature: a strong attachment to geography, or a "sense of place." In the 1930s, the Agrarians accorded special meaning to rural life, particularly the farm, in their definitions of southern identity. For them, the South seemed an organic and rooted region in contrast to the North, where real estate development and urban sprawl evoked a faceless, raw capitalism. By the end of the twentieth century, however, economic and social forces had converged to create a modernized South. How have writers responded to this phenomenon? Is there still a sense of place in the South, or perhaps a distinctly postsouthern sense of place? Martyn Bone innovatively draws upon postmodern thinking to consider the various perspectives that southern writers have brought to the concept of "place" and to look at its fate in a national and global context. He begins with a revisionist assessment of the Agrarians, who failed in their attempts to turn their proprietary ideal of the small farm into actual policy but whose broader rural aesthetic lived on in the work of neo-Agrarian writers, including William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. By the 1950s, adherence to this aesthetic was causing southern writers and critics to lose sight of the social reality of a changing South. Bone turns to more recent works that do respond to the impact of capitalist spatial development on the South -- and on the nation generally -- including that self-declared "international city" Atlanta. Close readings of novels by Robert Penn Warren, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Anne Rivers Siddons, Tom Wolfe, and Toni Cade Bambara illuminate evolving ideas about capital, land, labor, and class while introducing southern literary studies into wider debates around social, cultural, and literary geography. Bone concludes his remarkably rich book by considering works of Harry Crews and Barbara Kingsolver that suggest the southern sense of place may be not only post-Agrarian or postsouthern but also transnational.

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LSU Press

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0807156361

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9780807156360

The Gunpowder Plot Deceit

By: Martyn R. Beardsley

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The Gunpowder Plot Deceit

By: Martyn R. Beardsley

Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was caught lurking in the shadows beneath the Houses of Parliament.But what if it wasnt like that at all? How was it that a group of prominent, disaffected Catholics were able to plot for months with apparent impunity? How could they openly rent a house next door to the House of Lords and use it as their base right under the nose of the leading spymaster of the age, Robert Cecil? How could they have hacked a tunnel towards their target and dispose of tonnes of spoil without alerting anyone and why is there no record of anyone ever having seen such a tunnel?This book explores the idea that the government was not only aware of what the plotters were up to long before Fawkes arrest, but that agent-provocateurs may have given them a helping hand or have even instigated the plot themselves.

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Casemate Publishers

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152672569X

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Never Allow a Few Facts to Get in the Way of a Good Story

An Autobiography by Martyn Cordingley

By: Martyn Cordingley

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Never Allow a Few Facts to Get in the Way of a Good Story

An Autobiography by Martyn Cordingley

By: Martyn Cordingley

This autobiography is hugely enjoyable and humorous account of the author’s life. Told through numerous amusing stories it covers both his somewhat privileged childhood, and then his 43 year career in selling. A career that starts with “knocking on doors” in the North East of England and finishes with working across Europe selling some of the largest contracts in the IT industry. He recounts his meetings with senior Polititian’s, captains of industry such as Bill Gates and the odd minor Royal. In-between each chapter of his life he has set a competition for the young at heart, describing how he lost his fingers on his left hand, the reader has to decide which account is true. Once they decide they are sent clues as to which story is true, and how to claim their prize. For anyone connected with the Cordingley or Burton family it covers the previous 200 years of Martyn’s fore fathers. Giving fascinating insight into the First World War of his grandparents and going back as far as Martyn’s name sake, Richard Cordingley a Baptist Minister whom travelled the West Midland Baptist circuit with his wife giving birth 11 times in 11 different towns in the 19th century. Peppered with Photos of his life the book is an enjoyable look at an ordinary person’s life, but told in a far from ordinary way.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1785892614

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Brewing in Hertfordshire

By: Martyn Cornell

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Brewing in Hertfordshire

By: Martyn Cornell

The story of the county's brewing history, supported by a fascinating selection of rare and previously unpublished images.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398108456

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Five Short Plays - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

By: Martyn Ford

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Five Short Plays - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

By: Martyn Ford

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Martyn Ford. What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much. What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay at home with them? Or do you decide to be more adventurous? Perhaps you hear that someone has bought the last bag of salt in town. Do you buy a bag from him at a high price? Or try to make him give you a bag? Our world is full of these kinds of problems. They make life interesting, and sometimes very funny. These five short plays show people trying to decide what to do in unexpected or difficult situations.

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Oxford University Press

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0194630862

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Handbook of Orthodontics E-Book

By: Martyn T. Cobourne,Andrew T. DiBiase

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Handbook of Orthodontics E-Book

By: Martyn T. Cobourne,Andrew T. DiBiase

The second edition of the popular Handbook of Orthodontics continues to offer readers a highly accessible introduction to the subject of clinical orthodontics. Comprehensive and compact, this book is ideal for dental undergraduates, postgraduate students of orthodontics and orthodontic therapists, as well as general dental practitioners with an interest in the field. - Portable format makes the book ideal for use as an 'on-the-spot' quick reference - Provides comprehensive coverage of clinical orthodontics ranging from diagnosis and treatment planning through contemporary removable and fixed appliances to cleft lip and palate - Covers the scientific basis of orthodontics in detail with particular focus on embryology, craniofacial development, growth and the biology of tooth movement - Presents over 500 illustrations and photographs – many previously unpublished – to help explain and illustrate specific points - Chapters fully updated throughout to reflect the recent advances in evidenced-based practice and new areas of knowledge, particularly in digital imaging, appliance systems and craniofacial biology - Ideal for all members of the orthodontic community, ranging from junior post-graduate trainees to experienced practitioners - Also suitable for senior dental undergraduates considering a career in orthodontics - A new chapter on evidence-based medicine explains how to assess clinical research correctly and appraise the literature - Covers new appliance systems in orthodontics, including customized appliances and aligners - Expanded selection of clinical cases for each class of malocclusion, including over 100 new figures - New 'pull out' boxes summarize the best available clinical evidence, making quick reference and learning even easier - Important references are highlighted and their impact explained in the bibliography

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0723439532

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Handbook of Orthodontics

By: Martyn T. Cobourne,Andrew T. DiBiase

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Handbook of Orthodontics

By: Martyn T. Cobourne,Andrew T. DiBiase

The second edition of the popular Handbook of Orthodontics continues to offer readers a highly accessible introduction to the subject of clinical orthodontics. Comprehensive and compact, this book is ideal for dental undergraduates, postgraduate students of orthodontics and orthodontic therapists, as well as general dental practitioners with an interest in the field. Portable format makes the book ideal for use as an 'on-the-spot' quick reference Provides comprehensive coverage of clinical orthodontics ranging from diagnosis and treatment planning through contemporary removable and fixed appliances to cleft lip and palate Covers the scientific basis of orthodontics in detail with particular focus on embryology, craniofacial development, growth and the biology of tooth movement Presents over 500 illustrations and photographs - many previously unpublished - to help explain and illustrate specific points Chapters fully updated throughout to reflect the recent advances in evidenced-based practice and new areas of knowledge, particularly in digital imaging, appliance systems and craniofacial biology Ideal for all members of the orthodontic community, ranging from junior post-graduate trainees to experienced practitioners Also suitable for senior dental undergraduates considering a career in orthodontics A new chapter on evidence-based medicine explains how to assess clinical research correctly and appraise the literature Covers new appliance systems in orthodontics, including customized appliances and aligners Expanded selection of clinical cases for each class of malocclusion, including over 100 new figures New 'pull out' boxes summarize the best available clinical evidence, making quick reference and learning even easier Important references are highlighted and their impact explained in the bibliography

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0723438072

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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

Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book bridges 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 discusses the political and ethical contexts that are intrinsic to social work practice.

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SAGE

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0761949712

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9780761949718

The Premiership in Focus

By: Martyn Smith

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The Premiership in Focus

By: Martyn Smith

The Premiership in Focus celebrates 15 years that have changed the face of football. When Football Focus began life on BBC1 in 1968 as Football Preview, football in England was about old wooden terraces, grounds that were ankle deep in mud or covered in snow and a Bovril at half time. In 1992 came the Premier League and the sport changed forever. The Premier League was established as one of the most exciting, cosmopolitan and widely watched national sporting leagues in the world and fans are now able to watch hundreds of Premiership matches live as football has seemingly taken over much of national life. Why has this happened? How has it affected the clubs, fans, players and managers? How long can it be sustained? This book aims to examine these questions as well as celebrate 15 amazing years of football. It will look back at the great moments, outstanding matches, stunning goals, incredible saves, controversial decisions and the sheer excitement that has been the Premiership.

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Random House

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1446415899

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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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The Muslim Brotherhood and the West

A History of Enmity and Engagement

By: Martyn Frampton

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The Muslim Brotherhood and the West

A History of Enmity and Engagement

By: Martyn Frampton

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year In the century since the Muslim Brotherhood first emerged in Egypt, its idea of “the West” has remained a key driver of its behavior. From its founding, the Brotherhood stood opposed to the British Empire and Western cultural influence. Its leaders hoped to create more pristine, authentically Islamic societies. As British power gave way to American, the Brotherhood oscillated between anxiety about the West and the need to engage with it, while American and British officials struggled to understand the group, unsure whether to shun or embrace it. The Muslim Brotherhood and the West offers the first comprehensive history of the relationship between the world’s largest Islamist movement and the powers that have dominated the Middle East for the past hundred years. Drawing on extensive archival research in London and Washington and the Brotherhood’s writings in Arabic and English, Martyn Frampton reveals the history of this charged relationship down to the eve of the Arab Spring. What emerges is an authoritative account of a story that is crucial to understanding one of the world’s most turbulent regions. “Rigorous yet absorbing...Fills a crucial gap in the literature and will be essential reading not just for scholars, but for anyone seeking to understand the ever-problematic relationship between religion and politics in today’s Middle East.” —Financial Times “Breaks new ground by examining the links between the Egyptian Brotherhood’s relations with Britain and...the United States.” —Times Literary Supplement

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Harvard University Press

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0674984897

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9780674984899

The Southwest of England

By: Martyn F. Wakelin

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The Southwest of England

By: Martyn F. Wakelin

The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts of three main types: brief selections from 17th to 19th century dialect writers, aimed at depicting characteristics of southwestern speech; longer 20th century texts – verse, dialogue in novels; transcripts from tapes from 1950 onwards of speakers of different ages and social backgrounds. A part of each transcript is also provided in phonetic notation.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027279128

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9789027279125

What is Qualitative Research?

By: Martyn Hammersley

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What is Qualitative Research?

By: Martyn Hammersley

This book illuminates the problems and perspectives of qualitative research and offers researchers a comprehensive overview of the various types of .

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A&C Black

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1849666067

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Michael Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on the History of Political Thought

By: Martyn P. Thompson

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Michael Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on the History of Political Thought

By: Martyn P. Thompson

This book is a critique of Cambridge School Historical Contextualism as the currently dominant mode of history of political thought, drawing upon Michael Oakeshott’s analysis of the logic of historical enquiry. While acknowledging that the early Cambridge School work represented a considerable advance towards genuinely historical histories of political thought, this work identifies two major historiographical problems that have become increasingly acute. The first is general: an insufficiently rigorous understanding of the key concept of "pastness" necessarily presupposed in historical enquiry of all kinds. The second is specific to histories of political thought: a failure to do justice to the varieties of past political thinking, especially differences between ideology and philosophy. In addressing these problems, the author offers a comprehensive account of the history of political thought that establishes the parameters not just of histories of ideological thinking but also of the much disputed character of histories of political philosophy. Since rethinking history of political thought in Oakeshottian terms requires resisting current pressures to turn history into the servant of currently felt needs, the book offers a sustained defence of the cultural value of modernist historical enquiry against its opponents. An important work for political theorists, historians of political thought and those researching intellectual history, the philosophy of history and proposed new directions in contemporary historical studies.

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Routledge

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1315443759

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The Civil Wars Experienced

Britain and Ireland, 1638-1661

By: Martyn Bennett

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The Civil Wars Experienced

Britain and Ireland, 1638-1661

By: Martyn Bennett

The Civil Wars Experienced is an exciting new history of the civil wars, which recounts their effects on the 'common people'. This engaging survey throws new light onto a century of violence and political and social upheaval By looking at personal sources such as diaries, petitions, letters and social sources including the press, The Civil War Experienced clearly sets out the true social and cultural effects of the wars on the peoples of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and how common experiences transcended national and regional boundaries. It ranges widely from the Orkneys to Galway and from Radnorshire to Norfolk. The Civil Wars Experienced explores exactly how far-reaching the changes caused by civil wars actually were for both women and men and carefully assesses individual reactions towards them. For most people fear, familial concerns and material priorities dictated their lives, but for others the civil revolutions provided a positive force for their own spiritual and religious development. By placing the military and political developments of the civil wars in a social context, this book portrays a very different interpretation of a century of regicide and republic.

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Psychology Press

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0415159016

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9780415159012

Criminological Theory in Context

An Introduction

By: John Martyn Chamberlain

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Criminological Theory in Context

An Introduction

By: John Martyn Chamberlain

This book provides a lively, concise and definitive introduction to the study of the causes of crime. Authoritative yet accessible, it offers a guide to the historical development of criminology as an academic discipline and in doing so: presents an overview of a range of different theories of crime, including classical, biological, psychological and sociological approaches analyses the strengths and weaknesses of each theory discussed provides chapter overview boxes and key summary points helps you to take your studies further with self-study tasks and suggestions for further reading. In covering key theoretical positions and placing them in their historical context, Criminological Theory in Context is perfect for students taking introductory courses in criminological theory.

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SAGE

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147391678X

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Birds of Trinidad and Tobago

By: Martyn Kenefick,Robin Restall,Floyd Hayes

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Birds of Trinidad and Tobago

By: Martyn Kenefick,Robin Restall,Floyd Hayes

Trinidad & Tobago are popular tourist destinations and the islands are also a top location for visiting birders. This comprehensive and portable field guide covers every species found on the islands. The concise text includes descriptions of every species, highlighting plumage variation and distinctions from similar species. The plates use the relevant images from Birds of Northern South America to create new plates specific for Trinidad & Tobago. This new edition has been completely revised. The plates have been extensively re-worked, with many images replaced and repainted. As a result, there are now eight extra plates, and some groups, such as flycatchers, have been repainted almost in entirety. The text has also been updated. This new edition supersedes all previous field guides to these popular islands.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472946030

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Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago

Third Edition

By: Martyn Kenefick,Robin Restall,Floyd Hayes

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Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago

Third Edition

By: Martyn Kenefick,Robin Restall,Floyd Hayes

The definitive photographic guide to the fantastic avifauna of Trinidad and Tobago The tropical islands of Trinidad and Tobago enjoy a rich diversity of bird species, including visitors from the nearby mainland and others travelling the migratory flyway from North America. With beautiful colour illustrations and concise descriptions, this new and comprehensive field guide covers every species known to occur on the islands. Concise descriptions of every species highlighting plumage variation and distinctions from similar species are accompanied by 115 colour plates illustrating all the relevant plumages of over 480 species. Also included is up-to-date information on where to watch birds in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as an overview of the geography, climate and habitats of the islands.

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1472941535

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Steiner Waldorf Pedagogy in Schools

A Critical Introduction

By: Martyn Rawson

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Steiner Waldorf Pedagogy in Schools

A Critical Introduction

By: Martyn Rawson

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Steiner or Waldorf pedagogy and practice in schools. Drawing on key research, it traces the origins of Steiner education from the original Waldorf school and shows how this approach has since been adapted and applied in educational settings around the world. Outlining the educational philosophy of Steiner education, the book considers its unique features, such as its commitment to a pedagogical anthropology that takes the whole developing human being into account – body, mind and spirit – and the developmental approach that arises out of this. It sets out the specific curriculum and teaching approach alongside vignettes of teaching and learning situations adopted in Steiner educational settings to show how the approach works in practice. Offering a critical perspective on this teaching style, Rawson examines the contributions that Steiner education has made in different cultures and looks towards future developments in China and other Asian countries. Considering all aspects of Steiner education, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the fundamental elements of this approach and its continuing relevance within the educational landscape.

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