Neil English's Books

How We Got the Bible

By: Neil R. Lightfoot

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How We Got the Bible

By: Neil R. Lightfoot

This popular and accessible account of how the Bible has been preserved and transmitted for today's readers is now available in trade paper.

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Baker Books

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0801072611

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The Tudor Occupation of Boulogne

Conquest, Colonisation and Imperial Monarchy, 1544–1550

By: Neil Murphy

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The Tudor Occupation of Boulogne

Conquest, Colonisation and Imperial Monarchy, 1544–1550

By: Neil Murphy

Sheds fresh light on our understanding of violence, imperialism, and political centralisation in Tudor England.

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Cambridge University Press

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110847201X

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9781108472012

Teaching Modern Foreign Languages

A Handbook for Teachers

By: Carol Morgan,Peter Neil

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Teaching Modern Foreign Languages

A Handbook for Teachers

By: Carol Morgan,Peter Neil

Designed for all trainee and newly qualified teachers, teacher trainers and mentors, this volume provides a contemporary handbook for the teaching of modern foreign languages, covering Key Stages 2, 3 and 4 in line with current DfEE and TTA guidelines.

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Routledge

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1135378770

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9781135378776

Diversity and Rights in Care

By: Neil Moonie,Anne Bates,Dee Spencer-Perkins

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Diversity and Rights in Care

By: Neil Moonie,Anne Bates,Dee Spencer-Perkins

Diversity and Rights in Care is unique in taking a narrative approach to diversity, identity and human rights - and in applying this to professional practice in social care. Diversity and Rights offers:

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Heinemann

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0435401262

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Thinking Linguistically

A Scientific Approach to Language

By: Maya Honda,Wayne O'Neil

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Thinking Linguistically

A Scientific Approach to Language

By: Maya Honda,Wayne O'Neil

Thinking Linguistically is a unique and clearly written introduction to the nature of linguistic analysis and issues in language acquisition. The book is for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, education, and psychology. Through twenty problem sets, based in languages not only from the Americas but from other continents as well, Thinking Linguistically: • Initiates students to the linguists’ way of observing and analyzing data by making the methods and the process of inquiry visible and accessible. • Engages students in analyzing the breadth and depth of two phenomena in a variety of languages—the expression of noun phrase plurality and the formation of questions. • Integrates analysis of these phenomena with results from first and second language acquisition research. • Emphasizes the interface between phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. • Exemplifies how linguistic analysis can be used for the teaching of critical thinking, problem solving, and the nature of scientific inquiry in general. • Is ideal for future language teachers for understanding acquisition and linguistic phenomena

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405108312

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Discourse: The Basics

By: Angela Goddard,Neil Carey

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Discourse: The Basics

By: Angela Goddard,Neil Carey

Humans are social animals and are constantly interacting with each other through conversation, written communication, symbols and other expressions . Discourse: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the analysis of those interactions and the many forms and meanings they can take. The book draws on a range of international case studies and examples from literature, political speech, advertising and newspaper articles to address key questions such as: What is discourse? Why are there different approaches to understanding discourse? How are individual interactions connected with the larger discourses that frame our ways of thinking and behaving? How can discourse be analysed and researched? Discourse: The Basics includes subject summaries, a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading. It will be of particular relevance to students of language and the social sciences but also useful to all students who are interested in how meanings are made.

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Routledge

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1351757709

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The Modern Civil Process

Judicial and Alternative Forms of Dispute Resolution in England

By: Neil Andrews

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The Modern Civil Process

Judicial and Alternative Forms of Dispute Resolution in England

By: Neil Andrews

Examines court proceedings, as well as settlement, mediation and arbitraton.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161495322

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Contract Law

By: Neil Andrews

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Contract Law

By: Neil Andrews

Significantly streamlined and updated, the second edition of Andrews' Contract Law now provides a clear and succinct examination of all of the topics in the contract law curriculum. Chapters direct students to the most important decisions in case law and employ a two-level structure to integrate short judicial excerpts into detailed discussion and analysis. Exploration of the law's 'loose ends' strengthens students' ability to effectively analyse case law, and new end-of-chapter questions, which focus on both core aspects of the law and interesting legal loopholes, assist students in preparing for exams. Students are guided through chapter material by concise chapter overviews and a two-colour text design that highlights important chapter elements. Suggestions for further reading and a rich bibliography, which point readers to important pieces of contemporary literature and provide a springboard for deeper investigation of particular topics, lend further support for student learning.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316299236

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The Origins of Scottish Nationhood

By: Neil Davidson

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The Origins of Scottish Nationhood

By: Neil Davidson

The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity is supposed to have remained alive in the new state through separate institutions of religion (the Church of Scotland), education, and the legal system. Neil Davidson argues otherwise. The Scottish nation did not exist before 1707. The Scottish national consciousness we know today was not preserved by institutions carried over from the pre-Union period, but arose after and as a result of the Union, for only then were the material obstacles to nationhood – most importantly the Highland/Lowland divide – overcome. This Scottish nation was constructed simultaneously with and as part of the British nation, and the eighteenth century Scottish bourgeoisie were at the forefront of constructing both. The majority of Scots entered the Industrial Revolution with a dual national consciousness, but only one nationalism, which was British. The Scottish nationalism which arose in Scotland during the twentieth century is therefore not a revival of a pre-Union nationalism after 300 years, but an entirely new formation. Davidson provides a revisionist history of the origins of Scottish and British national consciousness that sheds light on many of the contemporary debates about nationalism.

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Pluto Press

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0745316085

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Arbitration and Contract Law

Common Law Perspectives

By: Neil Andrews

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Arbitration and Contract Law

Common Law Perspectives

By: Neil Andrews

This book deals with the contractual platform for arbitration and the application of contractual norms to the parties' dispute. Arbitration and agreement are inter-linked in three respects: (i) the agreement to arbitrate is itself a contract; (ii) there is scope (subject to clear consensual exclusion) in England for monitoring the arbitral tribunal's fidelity and accuracy in applying substantive English contract law; (iii) the subject-matter of the arbitration is nearly always a ‘contractual’ matter. These three elements underlie this work. They appear as Part I (arbitration is founded on agreement), Part II (monitoring accuracy), Part III (synopsis of the English contractual rules frequently encountered within arbitration). The book will be a useful resource to foreign lawyers or English non-lawyers, English lawyers seeking a succinct discussion, and to arbitral tribunals.

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Springer

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331927144X

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The Signs of a Savant

Language Against the Odds

By: Neil Smith,Ianthi Tsimpli,Gary Morgan,Bencie Woll

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The Signs of a Savant

Language Against the Odds

By: Neil Smith,Ianthi Tsimpli,Gary Morgan,Bencie Woll

Every once in a while nature gives us insight into the human condition by providing us with a unique case whose special properties illuminate the species as a whole. Christopher is such an example. Despite disabilities which mean that everyday tasks are burdensome chores, Christopher is a linguistic wonder who can read, write, speak, understand and translate more than twenty languages. On some tests he shows a severely low IQ, hinting at ineducability, yet his English language ability indicates an IQ in excess of 120 (a level more than sufficient to enter university). Christopher is a savant, someone with an island of startling talent in a sea of inability. This book documents his learning of British Sign Language, casting light on the modularity of cognition, the modality neutrality of the language faculty, the structure of memory, the grammar of signed language and the nature of the human mind.

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1139495011

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Operations and Management Principles for Contact Centres

By: Esther Hoffmann,Dennis Farrell,Neil Lilford,Mariaan Ellis

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Operations and Management Principles for Contact Centres

By: Esther Hoffmann,Dennis Farrell,Neil Lilford,Mariaan Ellis

Several South African agencies, institutes, organizations, and professional bodies are promoting and developing contact-center operations in order to satisfy international and national market demands. Accordingly, additional information, knowledge, and experience are needed to improve on how organizations integrate core business processes into these contact-centers. Responding to this need, the industry is now being represented in higher education. Featuring sections on managing contact-center performance, recruiting, training, and motivating staff- and customer-relations management, this comprehensive course guide, cowritten by several experts in the field, is ideal for institutions offering courses for contact-center agents and anyone working in the contact-center industry.

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Juta and Company Ltd

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0702177040

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9780702177040

Moral Relativism

By: Neil Levy

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Moral Relativism

By: Neil Levy

On September 11 2001, thousands of people died in the attacks on the United States. How could the terrorists justify these acts? A young man kills his sister to protect his family's honour. How could this be 'right' These are just some of the questions tackled by Neil Levy in an incisive and elegant guide to the philosophy of moral relativism - the idea that concepts of 'rightness' and 'wrongness' vary from culture to culture, and that there is no such thing as an absolute moral code. Opening with a comprehensive definition of this controversial theory, the book examines all the arguments for and against moral relativism, from its implications for ethics to the role of human biology and the difficulty of separating cultural values from innate behaviour

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Simon and Schuster

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1780744544

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Medieval Realms

Britain 1066-1500

By: Neil Tonge,Peter Hepplewhite

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Medieval Realms

Britain 1066-1500

By: Neil Tonge,Peter Hepplewhite

Key History for Key Stage 3 provides attractive, lively materials for pupils, and time-saving, practical resourses for teachers. It represents a quality resource for delivering Key Stage 3 History.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748724257

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Cross-Border Insolvency

The Enactment and Interpretation of the UNCITRAL Model Law

By: Neil Hannan

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Cross-Border Insolvency

The Enactment and Interpretation of the UNCITRAL Model Law

By: Neil Hannan

This book examines the effect of the adoption of the United Nations Committee on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency in five common law jurisdictions, namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. It examines how each of those states has adopted, interpreted and applied the provisions of the Model Law, and highlights the effects of inconsistencies by examining jurisprudence in each of these countries, specifically how the Model Law affects existing principles of recognition of insolvency proceedings. The book examines how the UNCITRAL Guide to enactment of the Model Law has affected the interpretation of each of its articles and, in turn, the courts’ ability to interpret and hence give effect to the purposes of the Model Law. It also considers the ability of courts to refer to amendments made to the Guide after enactment of the Model Law in a state, thereby questioning whether the current inconsistencies in interpretation can be overcome by UNCITRAL amending the Guide.

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Springer

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9811058768

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9789811058769

So, Now You Are an Arbitrator

The Arbitrator’s Toolkit

By: Neil Kaplan,Chiann Bao

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So, Now You Are an Arbitrator

The Arbitrator’s Toolkit

By: Neil Kaplan,Chiann Bao

In arbitration, procedure is crucial to ensure acceptance of the process. This book is about the importance of getting the procedure right. It begins with the first-ever request to be an arbitrator and takes the reader through all the stages of an arbitration. It points out some of the pitfalls and contains useful checklists. It gives advice on how to deal with conflicts, conduct hearings, deal with document requests, deal with experts, deal with challenges, agree on fees, draft procedural orders and awards, and how not to take on too much. Written by two experienced and highly respected international arbitrators, the book provides immeasurably valuable guidance on such details of the arbitral process as the following: terms of appointment; appointment of a tribunal secretary; steps to be taken before Procedural Order No. 1; written submissions; witnesses; third-party funding and contingency issues; keeping track of the money; interim measures; and expedited proceedings and early determination. Links to important documents are provided, and nineteen appendices include model forms for documents, agendas, orders, declarations, schedules, and protocols. Providing a veritable treasure trove of invaluable suggestions and hints which would only normally be known to arbitrators of many years’ standing, this eminently practical book will greatly enhance the ability of both new and experienced arbitrators to nip problems in the bud. It will also be of interest to counsel who appear in arbitrations and who may benefit from seeing things from the tribunal’s point of view. As this book will evolve into a ‘living’ book on the Kluwer website, the authors will continue to keep pace with developments in the field of international arbitration.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403524219

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9789403524214

My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level Politics: UK Government and Politics

By: Neil McNaughton

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My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level Politics: UK Government and Politics

By: Neil McNaughton

Ideal for home learning, this eTextbook summarises the key specification content, with activities and practice questions for students to complete independently at their own pace. With My Revision Notes every student can: - Consolidate subject knowledge by working through clear and focused content coverage - Check their own understanding through regular tasks and practice questions - with answers provided online - Pick up expert tips for improving their answers and avoiding common mistakes - Extend their learning with additional quick quizzes available free online at www.hoddereducation.co.uk/myrevisionnotesdownloads - Ensure they've covered every topic by ticking off their progress on the revision planner

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Hodder Education

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1471889688

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George Eliot and Victorian Historiography

Imagining the National Past

By: Neil McCaw

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George Eliot and Victorian Historiography

Imagining the National Past

By: Neil McCaw

In this new study of George Eliot's fiction, textual attempts to imagine a coherent and unified national past are seen as producing a contradictory vision of Englishness. It is a historiographical national identity, constructed in the image of predominant, and conflicting, trends in the Victorian writing of history. The inherent uncertainty caused by the shift between different perceptions of English history leads, in the later fiction, to an abandonment of contemporaneous grand narratives. The consequence is a history that anticipates a more modern, radical philosophy of history.

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0230286941

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The Story of Ireland

A History of the Irish People

By: Neil Hegarty

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The Story of Ireland

A History of the Irish People

By: Neil Hegarty

In this groundbreaking history of Ireland, Neil Hegarty presents a fresh perspective on Ireland's past. Comprehensive and engaging, The Story of Ireland is an eye-opening account of a nation that has long been shaped by forces beyond its coasts. The Story of Ireland re-examines Irish history, challenging the accepted stories and long-held myths associated with Ireland. Transporting readers to the Ireland of the past, beginning with the first settlement in A.D. 433, this is a sweeping and compelling history of one of the world's most dynamic nations. Hegarty examines how world events, including Europe's 16th century religious wars, the French and American revolutions, and Ireland's policy of neutrality during World War II, have shaped the country over the course of its long and fascinating history. With an up-to-date afterword that details the present state of affairs in Ireland, this is an essential text for readers who are fascinated by current events, politics, and history. Spanning Irish history from its earliest inhabitants to the country's current financial crisis, The Story of Ireland is an epic and brilliant re-telling of Ireland's history from a new point of view.

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Macmillan

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1429941294

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Many Were Held by the Sea

The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto

By: R. Neil Scott

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Many Were Held by the Sea

The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto

By: R. Neil Scott

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442213426

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Language and the Joint Creation of Knowledge

The selected works of Neil Mercer

By: Neil Mercer

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Language and the Joint Creation of Knowledge

The selected works of Neil Mercer

By: Neil Mercer

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Language and the Joint Creation of Knowledge draws on the most prominent writing of Neil Mercer, covering his ground-breaking and critically acclaimed work on the role of talk in education, and on the relationship between spoken language and cognition. The text explores key themes, relating theoretical ideas to research evidence and to practical educational situations that improve children’s lives. Offering students and researchers a clear, accessible and up-to-date account of a sociocultural perspective on the relationship between spoken language and cognition, it explains one of the key themes in Neil Mercer’s work – that humans have uniquely evolved the capacity to think together, or ‘interthink’. Offering a crucial insight into the work of Neil Mercer, this selection showcases why his approach has become the dominant paradigm in educational research, and why it is increasingly influential in the psychology of teaching and learning. This unique collection of published articles and chapters, which represent the key themes and range of his research over the last 40 years, will be of interest to all followers of his work and any reader interested in the role of language in education.

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Routledge

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0429683642

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Proceedings of the Eighth Saudi Students Conference in the UK

By: Neil E. T. Al ALFORD

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Proceedings of the Eighth Saudi Students Conference in the UK

By: Neil E. T. Al ALFORD

Included in this proceedings is a selection of peer-reviewed scholarly papers by Saudi postgraduate researchers who presented their work at a student conference held in London at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre from January 31 to February 1, 2015. The volume covers topics from fields in the humanities, social sciences and natural and applied sciences. Appealing to both specialists and non-specialists, the topics addressed by the students reflect advances in knowledge, research trends, and scholarly debates across the academic spectrum. This cross-disciplinary conference was organised by the Scientific Society for Saudi Students in the UK with support from the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau in London, Imperial College London and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. KAUST is committed to the development of a knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia. Under the leadership of founding Vice President, Dr Najah Ashry, KAUST's Saudi Initiatives organization invests in the Nation's brightest young minds to ensure a strong and prosperous future. Through a variety of targeted programs and special projects, such as this year's Conference, Saudi Initiatives identifies, nurtures, and supports talented young Saudis for KAUST and for Saudi Arabia."--

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World Scientific

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1783269154

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Tank Turret Fortifications

By: Neil Short

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Tank Turret Fortifications

By: Neil Short

Tank Turret Fortifications traces the origins of the idea from the development of the first armoured turrets in the nineteenth century through to the present day. On the way it covers the inter-war period when the first turrets were used in this way, the Second World War, when tank turrets were used on every front in the European Theatre of Operations, and the post-war period, when tank turrets were used even more widely. The book also details the decline of the idea as countries reassessed the threats they faced and slowly dismantled all their fixed fortifications. Widely used during World War Two and since, tank turret fortifications deserve a history, and Neil Short has spent several years writing this, the first proper study.

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Crowood

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1847973671

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My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel A Level UK Politics: Second Edition

By: Neil McNaughton,Nick de Souza

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My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel A Level UK Politics: Second Edition

By: Neil McNaughton,Nick de Souza

Coverage of key up-to-date content is combined with study and exam tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide you can rely on to build both knowledge and memory. With My Revision Notes you can: - Consolidate your knowledge with clear, concise and relevant content coverage, based on what examiners are looking for - Extend your understanding with our regular 'Now test yourself,' tasks and answers - Improve your technique through our increased exam support, including exam-style practice questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid - Identify key connections between topics and subjects with our 'Making links' focus and further ideas for follow-up and revision activities - Plan and manage a successful revision programme with our topic-by-topic planner, new skills checklist and exam breakdown features, user-friendly definitions and online questions and answers

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Hodder Education

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1398325457

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Mexicans in the Making of America

By: Neil Foley

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Mexicans in the Making of America

By: Neil Foley

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year According to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be of Mexican descent. This dramatic demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, and fundamental ideas about American identity. Neil Foley, a leading Mexican American historian, offers a sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America, from a colonial outpost on Mexico’s northern frontier to a twenty-first-century people integral to the nation they have helped build. “Compelling...Readers of all political persuasions will find Foley’s intensively researched, well-documented scholarly work an instructive, thoroughly accessible guide to the ramifications of immigration policy.” —Publishers Weekly “For Americans long accustomed to understanding the country’s development as an east-to-west phenomenon, Foley’s singular service is to urge us to tilt the map south-to-north and to comprehend conditions as they have been for some time and will likely be for the foreseeable future...A timely look at and appreciation of a fast-growing demographic destined to play an increasingly important role in our history.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Harvard University Press

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0674744837

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Managing Cultural Differences

By: Robert T. Moran,Neil Remington Abramson,Sarah V. Moran

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Managing Cultural Differences

By: Robert T. Moran,Neil Remington Abramson,Sarah V. Moran

The world of business for all organizations in the twenty-first century is global, interdependent, complex, and rapidly changing. That means sophisticated global leadership skills are required more than ever today. Individual and organizational success is no longer dependent solely on business acumen. Our ability to understand, communicate, and manage across borders, countries, and cultures has never been as important as it is now. The understanding and utilization of cultural differences as a business resource is a key building block as companies rely on their global reach to achieve the best profit and performance. For this reason, international business and cross-cultural management are key topics in undergraduate business, MBA, and executive education programs worldwide as companies and institutions prepare current and future business leaders for the global marketplace. This exciting new edition of the highly successful textbook, Managing Cultural Differences, seeks to guide students and any person with global responsibilities to understand how culture fits in a changing business world, how to gain a competitive advantage from effective cross-cultural management, and gives practical advice for doing business across the globe. With updated content, new case studies, and a new author team, Managing Cultural Differences is required course reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and MBA students alike, as well as being of significant value for anyone who sells, purchases, travels, or works internationally.

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1317975642

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Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka

By: Neil DeVotta

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Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka

By: Neil DeVotta

In the mid-1950s, Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese politicians began outbidding one another on who could provide the greatest advantages for their community, using the Sinhala language as their instrument. The appeal to Sinhalese linguistic nationalism precipitated a situation in which the movement to replace English as the country’s official language with Sinhala and Tamil (the language of Sri Lanka’s principal minority) was abandoned and Sinhala alone became the official language in 1956. The Tamils’ subsequent protests led to anti-Tamil riots and institutional decay, which meant that supposedly representative agencies of government catered to Sinhalese preferences and blatantly disregarded minority interests. This in turn led to the Tamils’ mobilizing, first politically then militarily, and by the mid-1970s Tamil youth were bent on creating a separate state.

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Stanford University Press

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0804749248

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Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England

By: Neil Rhodes

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Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England

By: Neil Rhodes

This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something base, and it argues that making common the work of God is at the heart of the English Reformation just as making common the literature of antiquity and of early modern Europe is at the heart of the English Renaissance. Its central question is 'why was the Renaissance in England so late?' That question is addressed in terms of the relationship between Humanism and Protestantism and the tensions between democracy and the imagination which persist throughout the century. Part One establishes a social dimension for literary culture in the period by exploring the associations of 'commonwealth' and related terms. It addresses the role of Greek in the period before and during the Reformation in disturbing the old binary of elite Latin and common English. It also argues that the Reformation principle of making common is coupled with a hostility towards fiction, which has the effect of closing down the humanist renaissance of the earlier decades. Part Two presents translation as the link between Reformation and Renaissance, and the final part discusses the Elizabethan literary renaissance and deals in turn with poetry, short prose fiction, and the drama written for the common stage.

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0191009261

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Managing Educational Tourism

By: Brent W. Ritchie,Neil Carr,Christopher P. Cooper

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Managing Educational Tourism

By: Brent W. Ritchie,Neil Carr,Christopher P. Cooper

An outline of the main forms of educational tourism, discussing their growth and resulting impacts and management issues from a holistic perspective. Using case studies, the author argues that without adequate research and management the potential impacts and benefits of educational tourism will not be maximized. The text highlights the need for collaboration between both the tourism and education industry to manage the growth and issues relevant within educational tourism adequately.

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1873150504

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How to Read Texts

A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills

By: Neil McCaw

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How to Read Texts

A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills

By: Neil McCaw

Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including: - Debates around critical theory - The role of history and context - The links between creativity and criticism - The relationship between author, reader and text. The new edition now includes guidance on analysing a range of multi-media texts, including film and online media as well as the purely literary. In addition to new practical examples, readings, exercises and 'checkpoints' that help students to build confidence in their own critical readings of both primary and secondary texts, the book now also offers guidance on writing fully-formed critical essays and tips for independent research. Comprehensively updated and revised throughout, How to Read Texts is an indispensible guide for students making the transition to university study.

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A&C Black

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1441142223

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Notes from an Even Smaller Island: 20th Anniversary Limited Edition Print of a Singapore cult classic

By: Neil Humphreys

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Notes from an Even Smaller Island: 20th Anniversary Limited Edition Print of a Singapore cult classic

By: Neil Humphreys

Knowing nothing of Singapore in the 1990s, a young Englishman, Neil Humphreys, arrives in the land of “air-conned” shopping centres and Lee Kuan Yew. From the aunties in the hawker centres to expats dressed as bananas, from Singlish to kiasuism, and from Singaporeans at home to Singaporeans abroad, Humphreys explores all aspects of Singaporean life, taking in the sights, dissecting the culture and illuminating each place and person with his perceptive and witty observations. Written by someone who is at once both insider and outsider, the book is a wonderfully funny and disarmingly honest portrait of Singapore and its people. That was the original synopsis. And a cult classic was born. First published in 2001, Notes from an Even Smaller Island became an extraordinary success, selling tens of thousands of copies. It popped up on the national bestseller several times over the years and launched Neil’s stellar writing career. This 20th anniversary edition contains new material; Neil has gone back and re-evaluated his first book, looking at what he got right, what he definitely got wrong and updating readers on key characters, stories and crazy incidents. He also includes never-previously published photos to prove – once and for all – that every word of his irreverent work was true.

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Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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9815009907

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Electronic and Mobile Commerce Law

An Analysis of Trade, Finance, Media and Cybercrime in the Digital Age

By: Charles Wild,Stuart Weinstein,Neil Macewan

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Electronic and Mobile Commerce Law

An Analysis of Trade, Finance, Media and Cybercrime in the Digital Age

By: Charles Wild,Stuart Weinstein,Neil Macewan

This text is unique in bringing together the many disparate aspects of what is variously called internet law, cyber law or electronic commerce ('e-commerce') law. Included is the law relating to online contracts and payment systems, electronic marketing and various forms of cybercrime as well as the regulation of electronic communications networks and services. Insights are also given into emerging areas such as internet libel, online gambling, virtual property, cloud computing, smart cards and electronic cash, as well as the growing use of mobile phones to perform tasks previously carried out.

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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1907396209

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Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War Of 1522-1524

By: Neil Murphy

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Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War Of 1522-1524

By: Neil Murphy

The first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how each country to defend the frontier, and the political issues which drove the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1520s. The Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 saw the mobilisation of tens of thousands of men and vast amounts of resources in both England and Scotland. Beyond its British context, the war had a European significance: it formed an element in the wider Valois-Habsburg struggles over Italy, with the complex systems of alliances spreading the repercussions of this struggle far across the continent and to the borders of England and Scotland. Recent years have seen the emergence of a renewed debate around the status of the Anglo-Scottish frontier and the wider political and social conditions which predominated in the borderlands of each kingdom. Although there has been a move to present the Anglo-Scottish border as a porous frontier where the populations on either side were closely connected, these neighbourly links imploded rapidly in wartime when frontier populations were co-opted into a national struggle. It is significant that borderers were responsible for inflicting the heaviest violence on each other during the war. Drawing on an unprecedented access to English and Sottish sources of the conflict, this book offers an important new contribution to both Scottish and English history as well as the wider military history of late medieval and early modern Europe. Aspects of military mobilisation, logistics, the defence of frontiers, the use of violence against civilians and wartime espionage feature prominently.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1837650179

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Tales Until Dawn

The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-teller

By: Joe Neil MacNeil

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Tales Until Dawn

The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-teller

By: Joe Neil MacNeil

Joe Neil MacNeil holds in his memory a wealth of Gaelic folktales, learned in his youth in Cape Breton. For over a decade, he has told his tales to John Shaw, a specialist in Celtic folklore and fluent speaker of Gaelic. Shaw has recorded, transcribed, edited, and translated the tales and folklore into English. This rich and entertaining collection is the result of their collaboration. Folktales, anecdotes, proverbs, expressions, rhymes, superstitions, and games are presented in translation and, in the cloth edtion, in the original as well. All variations of the genre are represented: a fragment from the Ulster cycle, some items from the Fenian cycle, hero and wonder tales, fairy and witch lore, romantic tales, tales of the exemplum type, tales of cleverness, "numbskull" stories, animal tales, and tall tales.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773505601

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9780773505605

Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore'

An Eleventh-Century Scottish King

By: Neil McGuigan

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Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore'

An Eleventh-Century Scottish King

By: Neil McGuigan

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as 'Malcolm Canmore', is often held to epitomise Scotland's 'ancient Gaelic kings'. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers, and their legitimacy and status were far from secure at the beginning of his rule. Máel Coluim's long reign from 1058 until 1093 coincided with the Norman Conquest of England, a revolutionary event that presented great opportunities and terrible dangers. Although his interventions in post-Conquest England eventually cost him his life, the book argues that they were crucial to his success as both king and dynasty-builder, creating internal stability and facilitating the takeover of Strathclyde and Lothian. As a result, Máel Coluim left to his successors a territory that stretched far to the south of the kingship's heartland north of the Forth, similar to the Scotland we know today. The book explores the wider political and cultural world in which Máel Coluim lived, guiding the reader through the pitfalls and possibilities offered by the sources that mediate access to that world. Our reliance on so few texts means that the eleventh century poses problems that historians of later eras can avoid. Nevertheless Scotland in Máel Coluim's time generated unprecedented levels of attention abroad and more vernacular literary output than at any time prior to the Stewart era.

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788851447

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9781788851442

Milton, Rights and Liberties

By: Neil Forsyth

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Milton, Rights and Liberties

By: Neil Forsyth

On July 14th, 1790, a key figure in the French Revolution honoured Milton as a founding father of the French republic. In the light of this connection, it was appropriate that the 8th International Milton Symposium (7-11 June 2005) was held in Grenoble, cradle of the French Revolution. But the connection of Milton and Rights takes us well beyond the specific link with France, and the fascinating selection of essays assembled in this volume, many by leading Milton scholars, addresses the question in the poetry as well as the prose. Milton's fervent but changing attitude to liberties is debated from various points of view, so that the volume contains essays on topics ranging from the musical adaptations of Samson Agonistes to its angrily argued parallel with contemporary terrorism, from air pollution in Paradise Lost to Milton's supposed Puritanism and putative parallels with a French pornographer.

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Peter Lang

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3039112368

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Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America

Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700–ca. 1820

By: James O’Neil Spady

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Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America

Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700–ca. 1820

By: James O’Neil Spady

This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism’s significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treats settler colonialism as a process rather than a coherent ideology. Spady shows that learning was a central site of colonial struggle in the South, in which Native Americans, Africans, and European settlers acquired and exploited each other’s knowledge and practices. Learned skills, attitudes, and ideas shaped the economy and culture of the region and produced challenges to colonial authority. Factions of enslaved people and of Native American communities devised new survival and resistance strategies. Their successful learning challenged settler projects and desires, and white settlers gradually responded. Three developments arose as a pattern of racialization: settlers tried to prohibit literacy for the enslaved, remove indigenous communities, and initiate some of North America's earliest schools for poorer whites. Fully instituted by the end of the 1820s, settler colonization’s racialization of learning in the South endured beyond the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Routledge

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1000047334

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9781000047332

A Dark History of Sugar

By: Neil Buttery

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A Dark History of Sugar

By: Neil Buttery

A Dark History of Sugar delves into our evolutionary history to explain why sugar is so loved, yet is the root cause of so many bad things. Europe’s colonial past and Britain’s Empire were founded and fuelled on sugar, as was the United States, the greatest superpower on the planet – and they all relied upon slave labour to catalyse it. A Dark History of Sugar focuses upon the role of the slave trade in sugar production and looks beyond it to how the exploitation of the workers didn’t end with emancipation. It reveals the sickly truth behind the detrimental impact of sugar’s meteoric popularity on the environment and our health. Advertising companies peddle their sugar-laden wares to children with fun cartoon characters, but the reality is not so sweet. A Dark History of Sugar delves into our long relationship with this sweetest and most ancient of commodities. The book examines the impact of the sugar trade on the economies of Britain and the rest of the world, as well as its influence on health and cultural and social trends over the centuries. Renowned food historian Neil Buttery takes a look at some of the lesser-known elements of the history of sugar, delving into the murky and mysterious aspects of its phenomenal rise from the first cultivation of the sugar cane plant in Papua New Guinean in 8,000 BCE to becoming an integral part of the cultural fabric of life in Britain and the rest of the West – at whatever cost. The dark history of sugar is one of exploitation: of slaves and workers, of the environment and of the consumer. Wars have been fought over it and it is responsible for what is potentially to be the planet’s greatest health crisis. And yet we cannot get enough of it, for sugar and sweetness has cast its spell over us all; it is comfort and we reminisce fondly about the sweets, cakes, puddings and fizzy drinks of our childhoods with dewy-eyed nostalgia. To be sweet means to be good, to be innocent; in this book Neil Buttery argues that sugar is nothing of the sort. Indeed, it is guilty of some of the worst crimes against humanity and the planet.

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Pen and Sword History

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1526783665

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