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Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914

By: Neil Tranter

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Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914

By: Neil Tranter

Concise, up-to-date survey of the sporting 'revolution', and its cultural and economic consequences.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521572177

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Population Since the Industrial Revolution

The Case of England and Wales

By: Neil Tranter

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Population Since the Industrial Revolution

The Case of England and Wales

By: Neil Tranter

Originally published in 1973, this book is an introduction to the study of population history since the Industrial Revolution and focuses on the experience of England and Wales. It provides both a comprehensive survey of the vast array of specialist literature and a thorough explanation of the sources and methodology of historical demographic analysis. Throughout special emphasis is given to the need to recognise that the historical pattern of population growth in England and Wales has been broadly similar to that observed elsewhere in Western Europe. The sources and techniques of historical demography are discussed and the general outline of population growth between 1688 and 1939 examined. The factors responsible for the dramatic increase in population growth during the late 18th and 19th Centuries are analysed as are the causes of the abrupt down-turn in rate of population following World War 1. The part played by population change in the development of the British economy and the impact of population change on society are also covered. By integrating the social and economic impact of population change with sources and methods, this text fills a gap and will be of essential reading to students in economics, sociology and social history.

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165

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Taylor & Francis

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1000938190

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9781000938197

The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War

A History and Roster

By: Neil Hunter Raiford

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The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War

A History and Roster

By: Neil Hunter Raiford

In April 1862, the Civil War was entering its second year and North Carolina was rallying to supply more troops for the Confederacy. The Partisan Ranger Act, passed by the Confederate Congress on April 21, prompted local leaders to recruit companies of irregular soldiers for service in the Confederate Army. Seven such companies were banded together into a regiment to form the 4th North Carolina Cavalry: a true cross-section of North Carolina, it contained soldiers from the largest urban areas and smallest rural areas from fifteen counties. This history of the 4th North Carolina Cavalry is based largely on primary source material--the official records, letters, diaries and recollections of the soldiers. The 4th North Carolina saw action in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was a part of General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The roster comprises a large part of the book and provides biographical, genealogical and military information about each soldier.

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303

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McFarland

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1476604126

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9781476604121

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

Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology

By: Bryn Hubbard,Neil F. Glasser

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Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology

By: Bryn Hubbard,Neil F. Glasser

Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology is the first text to provide this essential information in a single comprehensive volume. Coverage includes: The role of field data acquisition in the broader disciplines of glaciology and glacial geomorphology Logistical preparations for fieldwork Field techniques in glaciology such as investigations on ice and meltwaters Field techniques in glacial geomorphology ranging from investigations on glacial landforms and sediments International case studies show each method in practice

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416

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470844264

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9780470844267

Medicine, Sport and the Body

A Historical Perspective

By: Neil Carter

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Medicine, Sport and the Body

A Historical Perspective

By: Neil Carter

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. What role does sports medicine play in today's society? Is it solely about treating sports injuries? Should it only be concerned with elite sport? This book provides a history of the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It combines the sub-disciplines of the history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced analysis of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries. In an age where sports medicine plays an increasingly prominent role in both elite and recreational sport, this book provides a timely and clear analysis of its rise and purpose.

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A&C Black

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1849666806

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Darkness and Light

Volume 1

By: Lino Neil Sterlini Byrne

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Darkness and Light

Volume 1

By: Lino Neil Sterlini Byrne

Murder and mayhem. Fantasy and humour. Add them together and you have Darkness and Light, an eclectic collection of short stories by Lino Neil Sterlini Byrne. In his first book, the author has created a collection of stories with characters you will love to hate and others you will love to love. In “Victor,” a hospital porter is a serial killer. He stops murdering after falling in love with a nurse. Unfortunately, the nurse falls for a doctor, leaving Victor in a murderous frame of mind. In “North Brother Island,” two photographers try to take shots of a dilapidated hospital, until one night when they see a light in the ruins and hear ghostly voices that appear to be the spirits of previous patients. “The Love of My Life” refers to two dogs that want to mate, but will the dogs’ owners come to terms? A murdered man is the “Ghost Writer” who is sending messages on the computer, hoping for justice. These tales run the gamut of emotion and will mesmerize readers!

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1625167849

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9781625167842

Planning for Small Town Change

By: Neil Powe,Trevor Hart

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Planning for Small Town Change

By: Neil Powe,Trevor Hart

Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and decline. Planning is a means by which we have sought to manage this change. It has not always succeeded in providing the types of settlements and environments which many residents and others want, either because it is operating with the wrong policies or because it is failing to ensure that the right policies are effectively implemented. These failings have opened planning to criticism by a dominant neoliberal orthodoxy which shapes an increasingly difficult environment in which planning has to operate. Planning for Small Town Change builds on an underexploited selection of international research and the authors’ English case studies to consider the efficacy of planning for change. Drawing on insightful small town experiences, three themes emerge: understanding and conceptualising change; appreciating the potential within place; and the mechanisms for planning and delivery. The research draws on many examples of how key actors have made a significant difference to specific places and provides important insights into how the planning process can be better matched to the long-term and complex challenges faced. Whilst small town experiences are often neglected, they are found to be particularly insightful in understanding the potential roles of local communities and the importance of place quality when planning for change.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317686012

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9781317686019

Hitchcock's Magic

By: Neil Badmington

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Hitchcock's Magic

By: Neil Badmington

Why are we still drawn to the work of Alfred Hitchcock so long after his final film appeared? What remains to see? What could there possibly be left to say about tales that are overwhelmingly familiar? Why, moreover, have many of Hitchcock's films entered the popular imagination and enjoyed an eventful life far from the screen? What is the source of Hitchcock's magic? This book answers these questions about the influence and ongoing appeal of Hitchcock's work by focussing upon the fabric of the films themselves, upon the way in which they enlist and sustain our desire, holding our attention by constantly withholding something from us. We keep watching, keep revisiting the stories, because there is always something left to see and know. The book combines detailed textual analysis of a number of Hitchcock's most famous films - Psycho, Rear Window, Rebecca, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The Birds - with more general discussion of the director's complete body of work. Drawing upon the poststructuralist theories of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, it takes issue with the biographical and psychoanalytic approaches that have dominated studies of Hitchcock's films to argue instead for the significance of textuality. Hitchcock's Magic is an innovative, lively, and readable book which challenges critical orthodoxy and breaks new ground in the field.

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University of Wales Press

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0708323715

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9780708323717

The Politics of the Environment

Ideas, Activism, Policy

By: Neil Carter

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The Politics of the Environment

Ideas, Activism, Policy

By: Neil Carter

Environmental problems are firmly on the political agenda. The stark threat to the planet from climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution can no longer be ignored by governments, political parties, businesses or individuals. Responding to the considerable developments of the last decade, Neil Carter has updated his popular textbook thoroughly, while retaining the existing structure of previous editions. The Politics of the Environment continues to analyse the relationship between 'green ideas' and other political doctrines, the development of green parties and public policymaking, and environmental issues at international, national and local levels. It provides students with a comprehensive comparative introduction to ideas, activism and policy. New to this edition are discussions on climate justice, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles, such as demonstrations against fracking. It employs a variety of global examples and includes pedagogical features such as boxes, a glossary and guides to further study.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108686125

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9781108686129

Reading Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems

By: Neil Wenborn

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Reading Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems

By: Neil Wenborn

Thomas Hardy is unique in English literature as a major novelist who is also a major poet. His collected poetry is among the most distinctive bodies of verse in the language, and includes such pinnacles of the lyric tradition as ‘The Darkling Thrush’ and the series of haunted love-elegies written in memory of his first wife Emma and such instantly recognizable titles as ‘Drummer Hodge’, ‘A Trampwoman’s Tragedy’, ‘Convergence of the Twain’. It is also among the most controversial. Ever since his poetry first appeared in the collection Wessex Poems in 1898, readers and critics alike have stumbled over its awkwardnesses or been seduced by its idiosyncratic music, have celebrated its unprecedented formal inventiveness or deplored its perceived lack of ambition. It has been variously read as an archetype of the Victorian intellectual odyssey, as the work of a proto-modernist, and as the fountainhead of contemporary British verse. At once traditional and modern, the acme of artifice and a conduit of intense emotion, it remains a critical enigma. This exemplary study guide seeks to set Hardy’s poetry in the context of his life, times and literary heritage, and to understand, through a close reading of selected poems, both the challenge it offers to criticism and the elusive power it continues to exert over each new generation of readers. All his collections are introduced including Wessex Poems, Poems of the Past and Present, Time’s Laughingstocks, Satires of Circumstance, Moments of Vision, Late Lyrics and Earlier, Human Shows and Winter Words.

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Humanities-Ebooks

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1847602134

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9781847602138

The A-Z of Victorian Crime

By: Neil R. A. Bell,Trevor Bond,Kate Clarke,M.W. Oldridge

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The A-Z of Victorian Crime

By: Neil R. A. Bell,Trevor Bond,Kate Clarke,M.W. Oldridge

The new definitive guide to Victorian crime.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445647877

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9781445647876

Biology

Teacher Resource Pack

By: M. B. V. Roberts,Neil Ingram

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Biology

Teacher Resource Pack

By: M. B. V. Roberts,Neil Ingram

This science series had a curriculum audit matching the books to all the major specfications. It has practical experiments expanded from the texts to include ICT support. OHTs of all the diagrams in the textbooks are included. Answers are given to all the questions in the textbooks. Sc1 enquiry material is provided in-line with the revised National Curriculum requirements. It has additional support for Key Skills, and additional material linked to the four learning programmes Science in Focus.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748762523

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9780748762521

Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914

By: Neil Tranter

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Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914

By: Neil Tranter

Concise, up-to-date survey of the sporting 'revolution', and its cultural and economic consequences.

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Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914

Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914

Population Since the Industrial Revolution

Population Since the Industrial Revolution

The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War

The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War

Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore'

Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore'

Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology

Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology

Medicine, Sport and the Body

Medicine, Sport and the Body

Darkness and Light

Darkness and Light

Planning for Small Town Change

Planning for Small Town Change

Hitchcock's Magic

Hitchcock's Magic

The Politics of the Environment

The Politics of the Environment

Reading Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems

Reading Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems

The A-Z of Victorian Crime

The A-Z of Victorian Crime

Biology

Biology

Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914

Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914

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