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Broadmoor Inmates

True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum

By: Nicola Sly

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Broadmoor Inmates

True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum

By: Nicola Sly

Broadmoor Inmates: True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum brings together the histories of people who died in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, each having committed a crime that led to them being pronounced criminally insane, necessitating their confinement and containment for their own protection, as well as that of the public. Nowadays, staff have a wide range of therapeutic tools at their disposal but historically the only treatment offered to patients was work, leisure activities and abundant fresh air. All human life is here the addicts, the mentally deranged, the delusional, the tragic and the chronically and postnatally depressed men and women whose acts of madness led them to be reviled and feared, but who were often as much victims of their own internal demons as were those they harmed. As well as wife murderers James Potter and Peter Whittle, the characters within include Henry Dommett, James Senior and Mary Ann Parr, who each killed their own children and Christiana Edmunds, who poisoned several people in Brighton to divert suspicion from herself, after attempting to murder her love rival. Other vignettes include serial arsonist John Green, counterfeiter Emma Jackson and James Stevenson and Roderick Edward McClean, both of whom took exception to the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the throne, the latter attempting to assassinate her. Daniel McNaughten became so paranoid about the Tory spies that he believed followed him constantly that he killed a civil servant in 1843, mistakenly believing his victim to be prime minister Sir Robert Peel. Such was McNaughtens derangement that his crime spawned a new standard for the legal definition of insanity. Generously illustrated throughout, this book will prove of interest to those with a fascination for historical true crime and the way its perpetrators were dealt with by society.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399048945

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Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy

By: Nicola Glover-Thomas

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Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy

By: Nicola Glover-Thomas

A critical, in-depth analysis of the development of contemporary mental health law in its social and political contexts.

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Cambridge University Press

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0406946779

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9780406946775

Describing Discourse

A Practical Guide to Discourse Analysis

By: Nicola Woods

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Describing Discourse

A Practical Guide to Discourse Analysis

By: Nicola Woods

For anyone approaching Discourse Analysis for the first time, theory means little when it is not related to actual knowledge and experience of language in use. Describing Discourse takes the unique approach of introducing discourse studies through the hands-on analysis of linguistic data. The book introduces students to specific discourses constructed for particular purposes, for example, from the domains of advertising, law, medicine and education. Each chapter provides examples, exercises and commentary designed to develop the analytical abilities needed in describing the characteristic forms and typical functions of different discourses. Describing Discourse provides the ideal entry into the study of discourse for students new to the subject.

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Routledge

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1444116681

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Infant Mortality: A Continuing Social Problem

By: Eilidh Garrett,Chris Galley,Nicola Shelton,Robert Woods

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Infant Mortality: A Continuing Social Problem

By: Eilidh Garrett,Chris Galley,Nicola Shelton,Robert Woods

In 1906, Sir George Newman's 'Infant Mortality: A Social Problem', one of the most important health studies of the twentieth century, was published. To commemorate this anniversary, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading academics to evaluate Newman's critical contribution, to review current understandings of the history of infant and early childhood mortality, especially in Britain, and to discuss modern approaches to infant health as a continuing social problem. The volume argues that, even after 100 years of health programmes, scientific advances and medical interventions, early childhood mortality is still a significant social problem and it also proposes new ways of defining and tracking the problem of persistent mortality differentials.

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1351155628

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Postfeminism(s) and the Arrival of the Fourth Wave

Turning Tides

By: Nicola Rivers

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Postfeminism(s) and the Arrival of the Fourth Wave

Turning Tides

By: Nicola Rivers

This book addresses the current resurgence of interest in feminism–notably within popular culture and media–that has led some to announce the arrival of the fourth wave. Research explores where fourth-wave feminism sits in relation to those that preceded it, and in particular, how fourth-wave feminism intersects with differing understandings of postfeminism(s). Through accessible and highly topical examples such as; the controversial actions of activist group, Femen; the rising phenomenon of ‘celebrity feminism;’ or the assumed outdated views of feminists’ associated with previous waves, the relationship between differing concepts of postfeminism(s) is illustrated. By pressing the need for an intergenerational approach to fourth-wave feminism, this book encourages engaging past debates and theorists allowing readers with an interest in the relationship between feminism and popular culture a fuller understanding of feminist theory and providing the opportunity to take stock before diving headfirst into another wave.

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Springer

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3319598120

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Anti-Terrorism Law and Foreign Terrorist Fighters

By: Jessie Blackbourn,Deniz Kayis,Nicola McGarrity

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Anti-Terrorism Law and Foreign Terrorist Fighters

By: Jessie Blackbourn,Deniz Kayis,Nicola McGarrity

Jessie Blackbourn is a research fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. Deniz Kayis is currently the Associate for Chief Justice Allsop AO of the Federal Court of Australia. Nicola McGarrity is a senior lecturer and the Director of the Terrorism Law Reform Project at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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1351605437

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Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process

By: Nicola Padfield,Jonathan Bild

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Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process

By: Nicola Padfield,Jonathan Bild

Highlighting key issues in Criminal Justice that students need to consider, the Fifth Edition of this popular text contains a wide and varied selection of materials which help to explain the evolution of the criminal justice process in England and Wales since the early 1990s. Statutes, case law, empirical research and official and unofficial reports, as well as theoretical perspectives and academic comment are woven together and contextualized by the accompanying narrative to provide an authoritative account of the recent development of the criminal justice system. Fully updated, this Fifth Edition explores the issues around: • the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners; • the contracting out of probation services; • the significant reforms to legal aid funding; • the challenges to trial by jury posed by the internet. This book also helpfully directs students to further reading by chapter to provide next steps for research. Written in an accessible style, Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process is a valuable resource for students of criminal justice.

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1317421558

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Farmland Conservation

Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe

By: Lynn V. Dicks,Joscelyne E. Ashpole,Juliana Dänhardt,Katy James,Annelie M. Jönsson,Nicola Randall,David A. Showler,Rebecca K. Smith,Susan Turpie,David R. Williams,William J. Sutherland

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Farmland Conservation

Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe

By: Lynn V. Dicks,Joscelyne E. Ashpole,Juliana Dänhardt,Katy James,Annelie M. Jönsson,Nicola Randall,David A. Showler,Rebecca K. Smith,Susan Turpie,David R. Williams,William J. Sutherland

This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. It includes papers published in the journal Conservation Evidence, evidence summarized on our database and systematic reviews collated by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence. It is the thrid volume in the series Synopses of Conservation Evidence. Evidence was collected from all European countries west of Russia, but not those south of France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Romania. A list of interventions to conserve wildlife on farmland was developed collaboratively by a team of thirteen experts. A number of interventions that are not currently agri-environment options were added during this process, such as ‘Provide nest boxes for bees (solitary or bumblebees)’ and ‘Implement food labelling schemes relating to biodiversity-friendly farming’. Interventions relating to the creation or management of habitats not considered commercial farmland (such as lowland heath, salt marsh and farm woodland) were removed. The list of interventions was organized into categories based on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifications of direct threats and conservation actions. Interventions that fall under the threat category ‘Agriculture’ are grouped by farming system, with separate sections for interventions that apply to arable or livestock farms, or across all farming types.

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Pelagic Publishing Ltd

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1784270326

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9781784270322

D-Day to VE Day

The Final Days of the War in Europe

By: Anton Rippon,Nicola Rippon

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D-Day to VE Day

The Final Days of the War in Europe

By: Anton Rippon,Nicola Rippon

Covers the final year of World War II in Europe. On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come news of the battle that would forever alter the course of their lives, and the lives of their children and their grandchildren. The following day’s morning newspapers and early radio news bulletins were full of the fall of Rome to the Allies, which had been announced the day before. But then, at 9.33 am on that Tuesday, came the brief announcement: Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, had begun landing Allied armies on the coast of France.’ D-Day had finally dawned. D-Day to VE Day tells the story of the last year of the Second World War in Europe, from the Normandy landings and on through the hard slog to that long-awaited day – 8th May 1945 – when Britain broke out the bunting, rolled out the barrel, and celebrated victory over Hitler. The air-raid sirens were silenced, the lights could be switched on again, and the boys would be coming home. In many homes, festivities were muted because the war in the Far East was still to be won, but for a few short hours at least, the nation could afford to let its hair down and dance in the streets. Using contemporary accounts – interviews, newspaper reports and official documents – of those final months, D-Day to VE Day looks at life in Britain during those vital months, at the events that brought an end to war in Europe, and at the redrawing of national borders that would shape a new world order.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399056255

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9781399056250

The Philosophy of Criminal Law

An Introduction

By: Christopher Cowley,Nicola Padfield

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The Philosophy of Criminal Law

An Introduction

By: Christopher Cowley,Nicola Padfield

The Philosophy of Criminal Law: An Introduction explores the central concepts of criminal law, such as intention, complicity and duress, and how they work, both within criminal law practice and in our everyday lives, from legal and philosophical perspectives. At the heart of the book is the central philosophical concept of responsibility: what does it mean to be responsible for an act, to hold someone responsible for an act, or to give an excuse in order to avoid responsibility for an act? Offering talking points to enrich an ongoing conversation, this unique textbook addresses all of these questions in an accessible way for law and non-law students alike. Real cases are examined in detail and a critical approach to the criminal law is adopted throughout. The focus will be mainly on the criminal law of England and Wales, with occasional cases from other jurisdictions, and occasional examples from other areas of law. This text will be ideal reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of law, philosophy and criminology, as well as political science and sociology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003834175

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Making Nothing Happen

Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality

By: Dr Nicola Slee,Mr Mark Pryce,Ms Ruth Shelton,Professor Eleanor Nesbitt,Professor Gavin D'Costa

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Making Nothing Happen

Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality

By: Dr Nicola Slee,Mr Mark Pryce,Ms Ruth Shelton,Professor Eleanor Nesbitt,Professor Gavin D'Costa

Making Nothing Happen is a conversation between five poet-theologians who are broadly within the Christian tradition - Nicola Slee, Ruth Shelton, Mark Pryce, Eleanor Nesbitt and Gavin D'Costa. Together they form The Diviners - a group which has been meeting together for a number of years for poetry, and theological and literary reflection. Each poet offers an illuminating reflection on how they understand the relation between poetry and faith, rooting their reflections in their own writing, and illustrating discussion with a selection of their own poems. The poets open up issues for deeper exploration and reflection, including: the nature of creativity and the distinction between divine and human creation; the creative process as exploration, epiphany and revelation; the forging of identity through writing; ways in which the arts reflect, challenge and dialogue with faith, and faith can inform and challenge the arts; power and voice in poetry and faith; and ways in which race, gender and culture interact with and shape poetic and theological discourse. This book will be of interest to poets and theologians, to all who read poetry and are interested in the connections between literature and faith, to those seeking inspiration for preaching, liturgy and pastoral care, and to those committed to the practice and nurturing of a contemplative attitude to life in which profound attention and respect are offered to words and to the creative Word at work.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147240694X

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Decolonizing the Diet

Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America

By: Gideon Mailer,Nicola Hale

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Decolonizing the Diet

Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America

By: Gideon Mailer,Nicola Hale

Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that Native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in “Virgin Soils” that were biologically distinct from those in the Old World. Comparing the European transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering with Native American subsistence strategies before and after 1492, the book offers a new way of understanding the link between biology, ecology and history. Synthesizing the latest work in the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with cutting-edge scholarship on the history of indigenous North America, Decolonizing the Diet highlights a fundamental model of human demographic destruction: human populations have been able to recover from mass epidemics within a century, whatever their genetic heritage. They fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction. The history of Native America before and after 1492 clearly shows that biological immunity is contingent on historical context, not least in relation to the protection or destruction of long-evolved nutritional building blocks that underlie human immunity.

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Anthem Press

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1783087161

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9781783087167

Printing with Natural Dyes

By: Nicola Cliffe

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Printing with Natural Dyes

By: Nicola Cliffe

This practical guide explains the techniques and provides ideas and inspiration to get you printing with natural dyes at home. It shows you how even with basic materials (such as the potato) you can make stunning patterns and get hooked on printmaking. It goes on to introduce more advanced processes, and suggests new ways to experiment with the age-old craft of relief printing.

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The Crowood Press

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0719843251

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Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia

By: A.C.S. Peacock,Bruno De Nicola

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Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia

By: A.C.S. Peacock,Bruno De Nicola

Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Since then, research has offered insights into individual aspects of Christian-Muslim relations, but no overview has appeared. Moreover, very few scholars of Islamic studies have examined the problem, meaning evidence in Arabic, Persian and Turkish has been somewhat neglected at the expense of Christian sources, and too little attention has been given to material culture. The essays in this volume examine the interaction between Christianity and Islam in medieval Anatolia through three distinct angles, opening with a substantial introduction by the editors to explain both the research background and the historical problem, making the work accessible to scholars from other fields. The first group of essays examines the Christian experience of living under Muslim rule, comparing their experiences in several of the major Islamic states of Anatolia between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, especially the Seljuks and the Ottomans. The second set of essays examines encounters between Christianity and Islam in art and intellectual life. They highlight the ways in which some traditions were shared across confessional divides, suggesting the existence of a common artistic and hence cultural vocabulary. The final section focusses on the process of Islamisation, above all as seen from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish textual evidence with special attention to the role of Sufism.

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1317112695

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Daily Awakening

A 365-day journey to healing, freedom and belonging

By: Nicola Jane Hobbs

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Daily Awakening

A 365-day journey to healing, freedom and belonging

By: Nicola Jane Hobbs

If you have ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted or unworthy, this book is for you. Sometimes all it takes is a simple question to awaken the strength and compassion hiding within us. To wake us up to the truth and beauty of who we are. Daily Awakening is a nurturing guide to living a life free from struggle, anxiety and overwhelm, offering a sacred space for introspection where self-acceptance and self-respect can blossom. Drawing on ancient wisdom and modern science, this book provides 365 days of insightful questions to encourage reflection, awareness and healing. From overcoming perfectionism to rediscovering your inner child, and coping with anxiety to tackling burnout, integrative counsellor and meditation teacher Nicola Jane Hobbs offers soothing words and gentle advice to inspire you to slow down, make peace with yourself and create a life full of meaning, beauty and joy. This year-long journey will allow you to form a deep connection with your authentic self and will equip you with the tools to stay true to your heart among the never-ending demands of the modern world.

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Piatkus

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0349429421

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9780349429427

Knowledge, Policy and Power in International Development

A Practical Guide

By: Harry Jones,Nicola A. Jones

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Knowledge, Policy and Power in International Development

A Practical Guide

By: Harry Jones,Nicola A. Jones

It offers a power analysis perspective on the knowledge policy process, illustrated with rich empirical examples from the field of international development.

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Policy Press

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1447300955

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Trustworthy Global Computing

International Symposium, TGC 2005, Edinburgh, UK, April 7-9, 2005. Revised Selected Papers

By: Rocco De Nicola

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Trustworthy Global Computing

International Symposium, TGC 2005, Edinburgh, UK, April 7-9, 2005. Revised Selected Papers

By: Rocco De Nicola

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing, TGC 2005, held in Edinburgh, UK, in April 2005, and colocated with the events of ETAPS 2005. The 11 revised full papers presented together with 8 papers contributed by the invited speakers were carefully selected during 2 rounds of reviewing and improvement from numerous submissions. Topical issues covered by the workshop are resource usage, language-based security, theories of trust and authentication, privacy, reliability and business integrity access control and mechanisms for enforcing them, models of interaction and dynamic components management, language concepts and abstraction mechanisms, test generators, symbolic interpreters, type checkers, finite state model checkers, theorem provers, software principles to support debugging and verification.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540300074

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Working-Class Boys and Educational Success

Teenage Identities, Masculinities and Urban Schooling

By: Nicola Ingram

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Working-Class Boys and Educational Success

Teenage Identities, Masculinities and Urban Schooling

By: Nicola Ingram

This book examines the complex relationship between working-class masculinities and educational success. Drawing on a small sample of young men attending either a selective grammar or a secondary school in the same urban area of Belfast, the author demonstrates that contrary to popular belief, some working-class boys are engaged with education, are motivated to succeed and have high aspirations. However, the structures of schooling in a society where working class-ness is seen as feckless, tasteless and cultureless make the processes of becoming successful more challenging than they need to be. This volume reveals the unique processes of reconciling success and identities for individual working-class boys, and the important role schools have to play in this negotiation. Highly relevant to those engaged in teacher training in socially unequal societies, this book will also appeal to practitioners, sociologists of education, scholars of social justice and Bourdieusian theorists.

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1137401591

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State Punishment

By: Nicola Lacey

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State Punishment

By: Nicola Lacey

Nicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishments in context of other political questions, such as the nature of political obligation and the function and scope of criminal law. Arguing that no convincing set of justifying reasons has so far been produced, she puts forward a theory of punishments which places the values of the community at its centre.

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Routledge

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113483800X

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The ALPS Resource Book

Accelerated Learning in Primary Schools

By: Alistair Smith,Nicola Call

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Accelerated Learning in Primary Schools

By: Alistair Smith,Nicola Call

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A&C Black

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1855390787

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Searching Skills Toolkit

Finding the Evidence

By: Caroline De Brún,Nicola Pearce-Smith

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Searching Skills Toolkit

Finding the Evidence

By: Caroline De Brún,Nicola Pearce-Smith

Searching Skills Toolkit is an expert guide to help you find the clinical evidence you need more easily and effectively. Clearly presented with useful tips and advice, flow charts, diagrams and real-life clinical scenarios, it shows the best methods for finding quality evidence. From deciding where to start, to building a search strategy, refining results and critical appraisal, it is a step-by-step guide to the process of finding healthcare evidence, and is designed for use by all health and social care professionals. This second edition has been expanded with new chapters on searching for sources to support evidence-based management decision making and how to better enable your patients to make informed choices. It has also been fully updated to include new web sources, open source reference management software, and new training resources and exercises. Searching Skills Toolkit is an ideal reference for doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and decision makers, researchers and students.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118463137

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Mondays are Red

By: Nicola Morgan

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Mondays are Red

By: Nicola Morgan

A highly unusual novel about a boy recovering from a coma and dealing with the synaesthesia that confuses and changes him. Power, temptation, guilt and fire - all these Luke must deal with if he and his friends are to survive. This new edition contains extra material from the author.

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eBook Partnership

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1908886269

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Mobile Communications

An Introduction to New Media

By: Nicola Green,Leslie Haddon

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Mobile Communications

An Introduction to New Media

By: Nicola Green,Leslie Haddon

The cellphone has achieved a global presence faster than any other form of information and communication technology. A global multi-billion dollar industry, this small, mundane device is now an intrinsic part of our everyday life. This communications medium has had an immense social and cultural impact and continues to evolve. Talking, texting, photographing, videoing, connecting to a network of other media – the cellphone now seems essential. But, beyond the ways in which it has actively restructured our daily lives, the cellphone has changed our sense of ourselves and the way we see the world. The relationship between public and private space, how we view time and space, how we rely on and negotiate social networks – all are increasingly centred on this small piece of technology. Mobile Communications presents a succinct, challenging, and accessible overview of the transformations and challenges presented by this most personal, yet most overlooked, technology.

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Berg

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1845208145

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9781845208141

Aspinall's Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing E-Book

By: Nicola Lakeman (Previously Ackerman),Victoria Aspinall

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Aspinall's Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing E-Book

By: Nicola Lakeman (Previously Ackerman),Victoria Aspinall

The third edition of Aspinall's Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing is the ideal text for both student and qualified veterinary nurses as it covers the entire veterinary nursing syllabus. Now written in the main by veterinary nurses this book comprehensively covers all aspects of the veterinary nursing role from client communication to nutritional support. All chapters have been revised in line with changes in legislation and regulation but also theoretical and practical aspects. Greater emphasis on the veterinary practice structure including the role of corporate businesses and use of social media bring this edition fully up to date. The new edition welcomes Nicola Ackerman as principal editor. Nicola is past officer of the BVNA and past executive editor of the Veterinary Nursing Journal. Nicola is a winner of several awards including the Blue Cross/BVNA Veterinary Nurse of the Year and the Barbara Cooper / CAW Professional Development Award for outstanding service to the veterinary nursing profession. Nicola was the first Veterinary Nurse in the UK to become a veterinary nurse specialist in nutrition. Evolve Resources containing - Self-assessment questions for every chapter to test learning - Image Bank of over 700 figures - Additional chapters - Comprehensive content ideal for both student and qualified veterinary nurses - Over 700 full colour illustrations for enhanced understanding - Written by veterinary nurses for veterinary nurses - Recommended reading given for each chapter to aid further research - New chapters on Emergency Critical care, Fluid therapy, Practice and Staff management and Consulting skills. - Anaesthesia and Analgesia chapter fully revised and updated. - New chapter on Equine Behaviour and Handling, including recognition of pain in equines.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702066095

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9780702066092

The Ancestral Continuum

Unlock the Secrets of Who You Really Are

By: Natalia O'Sullivan,Nicola Graydon

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The Ancestral Continuum

Unlock the Secrets of Who You Really Are

By: Natalia O'Sullivan,Nicola Graydon

Our ancestry influences more than just our physical characteristics - it can also have a profound effect on who we are as people. The success of TV shows likeWho Do You Think You Are?has prompted a massive interest in people tracing their family roots. But researching into our forebears' lives can often unearth turbulent histories. The past 250 years has seen more change and upheaval on a global scale than at any other point in history. The legacy of the holocaust, of slavery, indentured servitude and of two world wars, has seen a massive migration of peoples across the world, and almost all families know of a recent ancestor whose life was turned upside down by these events. Discovering more about our forebears, and identifying inherited traits, can help us realise our potential and assist us in overcoming obstacles that may be holding us back. As we learn about and honour our ancestors, we can reclaim who we are, discover our creativity, and find our true soul path. In this extraordinary book, readers will find out how to: discover and honour their ancestors, heal their family histories, reveal inherited creative and inspirational gifts, discover their guardian ancestors and learn from inspiring case studies of personal growth. The Ancestral Continuumwill take each reader on a journey through the labyrinth of their own ancestral legacy. As we explore our family tree, we can begin to see ourselves as just one strand in a never-ending tapestry of history and emotion, personality and achievement, birth and death, that will continue into infinity. The book is a powerful and revolutionary blueprint for transforming how we feel about ourselves.

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1849837570

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The Author's Effects

On Writer's House Museums

By: Nicola J. Watson

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The Author's Effects

On Writer's House Museums

By: Nicola J. Watson

The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity. It traces how and why the writer's bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer's house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics—Burns' skull, Keats' hair, Petrarch's cat, Poe's raven, Brontë's bonnet, Dickinson's dress, Shakespeare's chair, Austen's desk, Woolf's spectacles, Hawthorne's window, Freud's mirror, Johnson's coffee-pot and Bulgakov's stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologised themselves and their work—Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' tower, Scott's Abbotsford and Irving's Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch's Arquà, Rousseau's Ile St Pierre, and Shakespeare's Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did, discovering deep continuities with the redevelopment of Shakespeare's New Place for 2016.

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0192586831

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Teachers and Young Researchers in Action

Working Together to Transform Practice

By: Viv Randall,Debbie Reel,Nicola Smith

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Teachers and Young Researchers in Action

Working Together to Transform Practice

By: Viv Randall,Debbie Reel,Nicola Smith

With an increasing emphasis on the role of evidence in education, primary school teachers need to find meaningful ways to engage in research. Teachers and Young Researchers in Action supports teachers and children in carrying out meaningful classroom research that can transform practice. An accessible guide, it shows the different ways in which children and teachers can go about their research, the problems they may meet on the way and the tried and tested methods to meet those challenges. Illustrated with rich real-life examples of research projects – exploring rewards and sanctions, values education, school structures and reading for pleasure – it shows how we can celebrate the importance of the voice of the child in school life, benefitting individual children, teachers and schools alike. This accessible book outlines the benefits of children’s research for individual children, teachers and schools as well as providing case studies that demonstrate how young children’s research projects can be successful. Written for teachers by teachers, this go-to resource will be of interest to anyone working with children as researchers looking to improve their practice and in need of guidance and support.

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0429629885

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Understanding Criminal Justice

A Critical Introduction

By: Azrini Wahidin,Nicola Carr

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Understanding Criminal Justice

A Critical Introduction

By: Azrini Wahidin,Nicola Carr

Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice. Understanding Criminal Justice seeks to provide students with a critical introduction to the range of theoretical, policy and operational issues faced by the criminal justice system in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It anticipates little or no prior knowledge of criminal justice, and seeks to provide an introduction to the area. This critical textbook provides both a thorough overview of the procedures central to the workings of the criminal justice system and a distillation of the topical debates that surround it. It outlines the political and historical context, detailing key procedures and challenging students to engage with current debates. Containing chapters on policing, prosecution, community justice and alternative modes of justice, this text provides a comprehensive coverage of the key topics included within undergraduate criminology programmes at an introductory level. Written in a lively and accessible style, this book will also be of interest to general readers and practitioners in the criminal justice system.

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1136185623

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Criminal Law Directions

By: Nicola Monaghan

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Criminal Law Directions

By: Nicola Monaghan

Criminal Law Directions is written in an engaging and lively manner with an emphasis on explaining the key principles of Criminal Law with clarity. The book includes helpful learning features to guide students through the material in an interesting and informative way.

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0199646392

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The Biology of Agroecosystems

By: Nicola Randall,Barbara Smith

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The Biology of Agroecosystems

By: Nicola Randall,Barbara Smith

This book provides a novel perspective on agroecosystems, summarising our current understanding of the basic and applied aspects of these important and complex habitats, whilst focusing on environmental concerns in the context of global change.

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0198737521

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Rediscovering Economic Policy as a Discipline

By: Nicola Acocella

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Rediscovering Economic Policy as a Discipline

By: Nicola Acocella

Government interventions in market failures can encounter objections from those who doubt their efficacy. Acocella, a leading expert on economic policy, counters these unfounded criticisms, making the convincing case for the foundation, coordination and reach of government action through economic policy. Arguing for the governmental potential to devise democratic, fair and effective institutions and policies, this book also demonstrates the validity of the principles outlined by Frisch and Tinbergen, amongst others, for controlling the economy, in a strategic context, equivalent to the rational expectations assumption. Demonstrating how unconventional monetary policies (such as macro-prudential regulation, new fiscal rules, and new forms of international policy coordination) can offer an effective response to the multiplicity of current economic issues, the recent financial crisis arguably indicates that economic policy must once again take centre stage as the applied complement to mainstream economic theory.

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Cambridge University Press

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110857078X

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The Royal Image and the English People

By: Nicola Smith

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The Royal Image and the English People

By: Nicola Smith

This title was first published in 2001. For the English people, the image of the monarchy is deeply bound up with the idea of nationhood. This book surveys aspects of England's royal heritage dialogue from the late middle ages to the 19th century. It concentrates on monumental sculpted portraits because that was the way in which the image of the monarchy was customarily presented in the most immediate and permanent form at large scale in the public arena. The aim of such memorials was to consolidate and commemorate shared loyalties and beliefs, focusing on the monarchs. They were sometimes protected by railings, more often than just by their talismanic value. There was widespread resistance to the idea that Oliver Cromwell should be commemorated by public memorial. The English generally remained uncomfortable with the idea of republicanism. The monarchial government of the middle ages, thought to be sanctioned by God, was very different from the figurehead the monarchy has become.

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1351766074

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Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education

By: Scott Bulfin,Nicola F. Johnson,Chris Bigum

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Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education

By: Scott Bulfin,Nicola F. Johnson,Chris Bigum

This book offers critical readings of issues in education and technology and demonstrates how researchers can use critical perspectives from sociology, digital media, cultural studies, and other fields to broaden the "ed-tech" research imagination, open up new topics, ask new questions, develop theory, and articulate an agenda for informed action.

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1137385456

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Capitalism's Sexual History

By: Nicola J. Smith

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Capitalism's Sexual History

By: Nicola J. Smith

As ongoing controversies over commercial sex attest, the relationship between capitalism and sexuality is deeply contentious. Economic and sexual practices are assumed to be not only separable but antithetical, hence why paid sex is so often criminalized and morally condemned. Yet, while sexuality is highly politicized in moral terms, it has largely been overlooked in the discipline devoted to the study of global capitalism, international political economy (IPE). Likewise, the prevailing field in sexuality studies, queer theory, has frequently sidelined questions of political economy. This book calls for critical scholarship to challenge the economy/sexuality dichotomy as it not only structures disciplinary debates but is part and parcel of capitalism itself. Capitalism's Sexual History brings IPE and queer theory into close dialogue to explore how the division between economy and sexuality has been historically produced to appear both natural and moral. By examining sex work in Britain, Nicola J. Smith draws on in-depth archival research to chart a history of capitalism's sexual relations from medieval times to the present day. She shows how capitalist development was made possible by the appropriation of unpaid sexual labor that relied, in turn, on the repression and production of paid sex. By tracing the historical construction of boundaries around sex and work, this book exposes how capitalism has long profited from the notion that the sexual and economic spheres can and must be kept apart. In so doing, it offers a distinctive contribution to the study of sex and work as well as to wider scholarly, activist, and policy debates about political economy, reproductive labor, gender equality, and sexual justice.

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Oxford University Press

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0197530281

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The Bone Gatherers

The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women

By: Nicola Denzey

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The Bone Gatherers

The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women

By: Nicola Denzey

The bone gatherers found in the annals and legends of the early Roman Catholic Church were women who collected the bodies of martyred saints to give them a proper burial. They have come down to us as deeply resonant symbols of grief: from the women who anointed Jesus's crucified body in the gospels to the Pietà, we are accustomed to thinking of women as natural mourners, caring for the body in all its fragility and expressing our deepest sorrow. But to think of women bone gatherers merely as mourners of the dead is to limit their capacity to stand for something more significant. In fact, Denzey argues that the bone gatherers are the mythic counterparts of historical women of substance and means-women who, like their pagan sisters, devoted their lives and financial resources to the things that mattered most to them: their families, their marriages, and their religion. We find their sometimes splendid burial chambers in the catacombs of Rome, but until Denzey began her research for The Bone Gatherers, the monuments left to memorialize these women and their contributions to the Church went largely unexamined. The Bone Gatherers introduces us to once-powerful women who had, until recently, been lost to history—from the sorrowing mothers and ghastly brides of pagan Rome to the child martyrs and women sponsors who shaped early Christianity. It was often only in death that ancient women became visible—through the buildings, burial sites, and art constructed in their memory—and Denzey uses this archaeological evidence, along with ancient texts, to resurrect the lives of several fourth-century women. Surprisingly, she finds that representations of aristocratic Roman Christian women show a shift in the value and significance of womanhood over the fourth century: once esteemed as powerful leaders or patrons, women came to be revered (in an increasingly male-dominated church) only as virgins or martyrs—figureheads for sexual purity. These depictions belie a power struggle between the sexes within early Christianity, waged via the Church's creation and manipulation of collective memory and subtly shifting perceptions of women and femaleness in the process of Christianization. The Bone Gatherers is at once a primer on how to "read" ancient art and the story of a struggle that has had long-lasting implications for the role of women in the Church.

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0807013188

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