Professor James Smith's Books

Hard Neighbors

The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

By: Colin G Calloway,John Kimble Jr 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies Colin G Calloway

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Hard Neighbors

The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

By: Colin G Calloway,John Kimble Jr 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies Colin G Calloway

Colin Calloway offers an intricate portrait of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish -- from their origins on borderlands on one side of the Atlantic to their crucial part in conquering borderlands on the other. "Hard neighbors," as they were called, the Scotch-Irish were the tip of the spear of white colonial expansion into Indian lands, earning a reputation first as Indian killers and then as embodiments of the American pioneer spirit.

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Oxford University Press

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0197618391

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9780197618394

Science and Technology for Development

By: Professor James Smith

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Science and Technology for Development

By: Professor James Smith

How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty? How can more appropriate technologies be developed for those most in need? Science has long promised much -- new crops, new medicines, new sources of energy, new means of communication -- but the potential of new technologies has frequently bypassed the poorest people and the poorest countries. In Science and Technology for Development, James Smith explores the complex relationship between society and technology, and the potential for science to make sustainable contributions to global development. Drawing on case studies from Africa, Latin America and Asia, the author argues that we need to think carefully about science and development, otherwise the perpetual promise of future technological breakthroughs may simply work to distance meaningful development from the present. This book is essential reading for all students of development.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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184813777X

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9781848137776

Constitutional Democracy

By: Dennis C. Mueller Professor of Economics University of Vienna

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Constitutional Democracy

By: Dennis C. Mueller Professor of Economics University of Vienna

Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. This relationship is especially important at a time when Americans are increasingly disillusioned about government's fundamental ability to reach solutions for domestic problems, and when countries in the former Soviet block and around the world are rewriting their constitutions. Political economist Mueller illuminates the links between the structure of democratic government and the outcomes it achieves by drawing comparisons between the American system and other government systems around the world. Working from the "public choice" perspective in political science, the book analyzes electoral rules, voting rules, federalism, bicameralism, citizenship, and separation of powers. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of political economy.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195349393

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9780195349399

The Hero Building

An Architecture of Scottish National Identity

By: Professor Johnny Rodger

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The Hero Building

An Architecture of Scottish National Identity

By: Professor Johnny Rodger

A tradition of building architectural monuments to commemorate national heroes has developed as a distinctive feature of the Scottish built environment. This book examines this architectural culture by studying a prominent selection of buildings, such as the Burns monuments in Alloway, Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, the Edinburgh Scott Monument, the Glenfinnan Monument and the Wallace Monument in Stirling. By raising awareness of this rich architectural and social heritage, while analysing and interpreting the buildings in their historical context, this book makes an exciting and original scholarly contribution to the current debates on identity and nationality taking place in Scotland and the wider UK.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472452712

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9781472452719

Parody

By: Professor Simon Dentith

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Parody

By: Professor Simon Dentith

This lively introduction demonstrates the importance of parody for literary and cultural studies, clearly explaining complex arguments around it.

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Routledge

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1134674287

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9781134674282

Convicts and the Arts

By: Professor Max Howell,Dr Lingyu Xie

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Convicts and the Arts

By: Professor Max Howell,Dr Lingyu Xie

There are a considerable number of books on the art of the convicts, so Convicts & Art has been covered reasonably well but art is only once facet of the arts that has been examined to any extent. This book concerns itself with Convicts & the Arts. This book, then, endeavors to look at the convicts’ contribution to the arts, and demonstrates without doubt that the convicts made a significantly broader contribution to the culture of Australia than previously thought. There is a common misconception that all convicts were immediately institutionalised in a cell, and convict culture was solely a prison culture. It needs reinforcing that when the First Fleet arrived there were no prisons in Australia, no cells where they could put the convicts. The early governors and principal authorities quite logically endeavoured to use whatever skills the convicts had. So artists, generally forgers, were placed with those who were interested in recording a visual history of this new land. Among the convicts were bricklayers, house painters, jewelers, silversmiths, goldsmiths and so on, and some of them made significant contributions to the emerging society. Some of these contributions will be developed herein. This work endeavors to examine the convicts’ contribution to the arts in Australia, in areas like the writing of novels, poetry, autobiographies, sculpture, theatre, music, architecture, jewelry, the press, decorative arts and pottery.

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Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd

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1925112578

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9781925112573

The Great Nation in Decline

Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850

By: Professor Sean M Quinlan

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The Great Nation in Decline

Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850

By: Professor Sean M Quinlan

This book studies how doctors responded to – and helped shape – deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform the self, sexuality and community in order to regenerate a sick and decaying nation; a programme doctors labelled 'physical and moral hygiene'. Moreover, it is shown how doctors imparted biomedical ideas and language that allowed lay people to make sense of often bewildering socio-political changes, thereby giving them a sense of agency and control over these events. Combining a chronological and thematic approach, the six chapters in this book trace how doctors began their medical crusade during the middle of the Enlightenment, how this activism flowered during the French Revolution, and how they then revised their views during the period of post-revolutionary reaction. The study concludes by arguing that medicine acquired an unprecedented political, social and cultural position in French society, with doctors becoming the primary spokesmen for bourgeois values, and thus helped to define the new world that emerged from the post-revolutionary period.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409479943

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9781409479949

Defenders of the Race

Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-siècle Europe

By: John M. Efron,Professor John M Efron

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Defenders of the Race

Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-siècle Europe

By: John M. Efron,Professor John M Efron

This text describes the response of Jewish race scientists in the late 1800s to the question of whether there was a biological basis for Jewish distinctiveness and social development and the complex factors involved in the debate.

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Yale University Press

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0300054408

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9780300054408

The Idea of Englishness

English Culture, National Identity and Social Thought

By: Professor Krishan Kumar

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The Idea of Englishness

English Culture, National Identity and Social Thought

By: Professor Krishan Kumar

Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United Kingdom and the perceived rise of that unusual thing, English nationalism. Interrogating the idea of an English nation, and of how that might compare with other concepts of nationhood, this book’s wide-ranging, comparative and historical approach to understanding the particular nature of Englishness and English national identity, will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural studies and history with interests in English and British national identity and debates about England’s future place in the United Kingdom.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472461959

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9781472461957

The Palladian Revival

Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick

By: John Harris,Professor of Bioethics and Applied Philosophy Director of the Center for Social Ethics and Policy John Harris

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The Palladian Revival

Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick

By: John Harris,Professor of Bioethics and Applied Philosophy Director of the Center for Social Ethics and Policy John Harris

In 1726, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, built an addition to his modest country house on the river Thames at Chiswick. The structure was a free standing villa, which is the subject of this book. The author explores the villa's architectural inspiration and the evolution of its design.

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Yale University Press

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0300059833

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9780300059830

English Colonial Texts on Tangier, 1661–1684

Imperialism and the Politics of Resistance

By: Professor Karim Bejjit

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English Colonial Texts on Tangier, 1661–1684

Imperialism and the Politics of Resistance

By: Professor Karim Bejjit

This critical edition presents a remarkable collection of 18 Restoration pamphlets dealing with the English occupation of Tangier. In an extensive original introduction, Karim Bejjit narrates the various stages of the colonial venture in Tangier, and critically analyses both the British historiography and current scholarship on the subject. Read collectively, the texts offer a genuine glimpse into the colonial scene and the interplay of forces which governed English presence in Tangier.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472457889

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9781472457882

Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana

The Encounter Between the LoDagaa and "the World on Paper"

By: Sean Hawkins,Associate Professor of History Sean Hawkins

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Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana

The Encounter Between the LoDagaa and "the World on Paper"

By: Sean Hawkins,Associate Professor of History Sean Hawkins

Drawing on the work of a variety of other fields and disciplines - from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology - the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802048722

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9780802048721

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk

The Biggest Change in North-South Relationships Since Colonialism?

By: Professor James Smith

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Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk

The Biggest Change in North-South Relationships Since Colonialism?

By: Professor James Smith

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and responsibility, whereby the global South is encouraged to invest its future in growing biofuel crops, often at the expense of food, in order that the global North may continue its unsustainable energy consumption unabated and guilt-free. Thus, Smith argues, biofuels may constitute the biggest change in North-South relationships since colonialism.

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Zed Books

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1848135726

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9781848135727

Dealing with Losers

The Political Economy of Policy Transitions

By: Professor Michael J. Trebilcock

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Dealing with Losers

The Political Economy of Policy Transitions

By: Professor Michael J. Trebilcock

Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. The issue of whether and when to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes, either through explicit government compensation, grandfathering, phased or postponed implementation, is ubiquitous across the policy landscape. Much of the existing literature covers government takings, yet compensation for expropriation comprises merely a tiny part of the universe of such strategies. Dealing with Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions explores both normative and political rationales for transition cost mitigation strategies and explains which strategies might create an aggregate, overall enhancement in societal welfare beyond mere compensation. Professor Michael J. Trebilcock highlights the political rationales for mitigating such costs and the ability of potential losers to mobilize and obstruct socially beneficial changes in the absence of well-crafted transition cost mitigation strategies. This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

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Oxford University Press

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0190457694

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9780190457693

1,001 Things Everyone Should Know about American History

By: John Arthur Garraty,Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History John A Garraty

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1,001 Things Everyone Should Know about American History

By: John Arthur Garraty,Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History John A Garraty

A precise selection of 1,001 entries concerning U.S. history.

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Main Street Books

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0385425775

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9780385425773

Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain

Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps

By: Professor Ann C Colley

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Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain

Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps

By: Professor Ann C Colley

What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back exotic animals and birds for study and classification by anatomists and zoologist, it soon became apparent that collecting skins rather than live animals or birds was a relatively more manageable endeavor. Colley looks at the collecting, exhibiting, and portraying of animal skins to show their importance as trophies of empire and representations of identity. While a zoo might display skins to promote and glorify Britain’s colonial achievements, Colley suggests that the reality of collecting was characterized more by chaos than imperial order. For example, Edward Lear’s commissioned illustrations of the Earl of Derby’s extensive collection challenge the colonial’s or collector’s commanding gaze, while the Victorian public demonstrated a yearning to connect with their own wildness by touching the skins of animals. Colley concludes with a discussion of the metaphorical uses of wild skins by Gerard Manley Hopkins and other writers, exploring the idea of skin as a locus of memory and touch where one’s past can be traced in the same way that nineteenth-century mapmakers charted a landscape. Throughout the book Colley calls upon recent theories about the nature and function of skin and touch to structure her discussion of the Victorian fascination with wild animal skins.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472427807

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9781472427809

Fundamentals of Accounting and Financial Management

By: Professor Ken Trotman,Dr Kerry Humphreys,Dr Victoria Clout,Kate Morgan

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Fundamentals of Accounting and Financial Management

By: Professor Ken Trotman,Dr Kerry Humphreys,Dr Victoria Clout,Kate Morgan

Trotman’s Fundamentals of Accounting and Financial Management (previously Financial Accounting) incorporates comprehensive coverage of financial accounting in Australia and includes issues in sustainability, as well as current and emerging issues, while building upon the approachable, user-friendly, Australian-focused style of previous editions. This eighth edition continues to provide students with a detailed understanding of the accounting framework using a balanced and engaging approach that provides non-accounting majors with enough detail to understand and analyse company financial statements, and provides accounting majors with a sound basis for future studies in accounting. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools au.cengage.com/mindtap

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0170454797

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Bound to Empire : The United States and the Philippines

The United States and the Philippines

By: H. W. Brands Professor of History Texas A & M University

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Bound to Empire : The United States and the Philippines

The United States and the Philippines

By: H. W. Brands Professor of History Texas A & M University

From the day Commodore Dewey's battleships destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila to the closing of the Subic Bay naval base in 1992, America and the Philippines have shared a long and tangled history. It has been a century of war and colonialism, earnest reforms and blatant corruption, diplomatic maneuvering and political intrigue, an era colored by dramatic events and striking personalities. In Bound to Empire, acclaimed historian H.W. Brands gives us a brilliant account of the American involvement in the Philippines in a sweeping narrative filled with analytical insight. Ranging from the Spanish-American War to the fall of Ferdinand Marcos and beyond, Brands deftly weaves together the histories of both nations as he assesses America's great experiment with empire. He leaps from the turbulent American scene in the 1890s--the labor unrest, the panic of 1893, the emergence of Progressivism, the growing tension with Spain--to the shores of the newly acquired colony: Dewey's conquest of Manila, the vicious war against the Philippine insurgents, and the founding of American civilian rule. As Brands takes us through the following century, describing the efforts to "civilize" the Filipinos, the shaping of Philippine political practices, the impact of General MacArthur, and World War II and the Cold War, he provides fascinating insight into the forces and institutions that made American rule what it was, and the Republic of the Philippines what it is today. He uncovers the origins of the corruption and nepotism of post-independence Philippine politics, as well as the ambivalence of American rule, in which liberal principles of self-determination clashed with the desire for empire and a preoccupation first with Japan and later with communism. The book comes right up to the present day, with an incisive account of the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos, the accession (and subsequent troubles) of Corazon Aquino, the Communist guerrilla insurgency, and the debate over the American military bases. "Damn the Americans!" Manuel Quezon once said. "Why don't they tyrannize us more?" Indeed, as Brands writes, American rule in the Philippines was more benign than that of any other colonial power in the Pacific region. Yet it failed to foster a genuine democracy. This fascinating book explains why, in a perceptive account of a century of empire and its aftermath.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199874379

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9780199874378

American Destiny, Chapters 16-33

Narrative of a Nation

By: Mark C. Carnes,John A. Garraty,Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History John A Garraty

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American Destiny, Chapters 16-33

Narrative of a Nation

By: Mark C. Carnes,John A. Garraty,Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History John A Garraty

Using rich and distinctive prose, American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Volume II presents a comprehensive look at the development and growth of the United States since 1865. Based on a political history framework, the book further examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegant, high-quality text offers a low-price alternative to traditional U.S. history survey textbooks.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321105672

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9780321105677

Learning for Development

By: Doctor Gordon Wilson,Professor Hazel Johnson

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Learning for Development

By: Doctor Gordon Wilson,Professor Hazel Johnson

The organizational and institutional embedding of new learning is one of the biggest challenges for development. This book in the Development Matters series takes a learning approach to development, focusing the learning that takes place through development action – be it intentional and structured, or the outcome of different forms of engagement. Learning for Development also demonstrates how important a critical awareness of the social dynamics of learning is for individuals and their organizations, and for building coherent policy and action. Through a number of case-studies and a wealth of interdisciplinary research, Learning for Development proposes a more flexible model of development action which aims to ensure that projects address the specific needs of, improves dialogue between, local groups and individuals.

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210

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848137214

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9781848137219

John Keats

A New Life

By: Nicholas Roe,Professor of English Literature Nicholas Roe

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John Keats

A New Life

By: Nicholas Roe,Professor of English Literature Nicholas Roe

Offers a biography of the nineteenth century poet, offering insights into the details of his early life in London, the torments that affected him, and the imaginative sources of his works.

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Yale University Press

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0300124651

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