Rob Abbott's Books

Climate Change Criminology

By: White, Rob

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Leading green criminologist Rob White asks what can be learned from the problem-solving focus of crime prevention to help face the challenges of climate change in this call to arms for criminology and criminologists. Industries such as energy, food and tourism and the systematic destruction of the environment through global capitalism are scrutinized for their contribution to global warming. Ideas of ‘state-corporate crime’ and 'ecocide’ are introduced and explored in this concise overview of criminological writings on climate change. This sound and robust application of theoretical concepts to this ‘new’ area also includes commentary on topical issues such as the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, which draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.

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Bristol University Press

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152920397X

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Family Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Joanna Miles,Rob George,Sonia Harris-Short

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Family Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Joanna Miles,Rob George,Sonia Harris-Short

Presented in an accessible format, this text provides a detailed and authoritative exposition of the law, illustrated by carefully selected materials and complemented by clear and engaging commentary drawing on a range of critical and theoretical perspectives.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198811845

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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery

By: Rob Dunn

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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery

By: Rob Dunn

The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived -- to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion, effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? Rob Dunn's fascinating history of our hearts brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most.

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Little, Brown

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0316225800

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9780316225809

Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants

How research challenges practice and policy

By: Peter Blatchford,Anthony Russell,Rob Webster

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Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants

How research challenges practice and policy

By: Peter Blatchford,Anthony Russell,Rob Webster

Over the last decade, teaching assistants (TAs) have become an established part of everyday classroom life. TAs are often used by schools to help low-attaining pupils and those with special educational needs. Yet despite the huge rise in the number of TAs working in UK classrooms, very little is known about their impact on pupils. This key and timely text examines the impact of TAs on pupils’ learning and behaviour, and on teachers and teaching. The authors present the provocative findings from the ground-breaking and seminal Deployment and Impact of Support Staff (DISS) project. This was the largest, most in-depth study ever to be carried out in this field. It critically examined the effect of TA support on the academic progress of 8,200 pupils, made extensive observations of nearly 700 pupils and over 100 TAs, and collected data from over 17,800 questionnaire responses and interviews with over 470 school staff and pupils. This book reveals the extent to which the pupils in most need are let down by current classroom practice. The authors present a robust challenge to the current widespread practices concerning TA preparation, deployment and practice, structured around a conceptually and empirically strong explanatory framework. The authors go on to show how schools need to change if they are to realise the potential of TAs. With serious implications not just for classroom practice, but also whole-school, local authority and government policy, this will be an indispensable text for primary, secondary and special schools, senior management teams, those involved in teacher training and professional development, policy-makers and academics.

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Routledge

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1136518428

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A Matter of Confidence

The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC

By: Rob Shaw,Richard Zussman

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A Matter of Confidence

The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC

By: Rob Shaw,Richard Zussman

Shortlisted, 2019 BC and Yukon Book Prizes Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction A breathtaking behind-the-scenes look at the dramatic rise and fall of Christy Clark’s BC Liberals, the return to power of the NDP, and what it means for British Columbia’s volatile political climate going forward. British Columbia’s political arena has always been the site of dramatic rises and falls, infighting, scandal, and come-from-behind victories. However, no one was prepared for the historic events of spring 2017, when the Liberal government of Christy Clark, one of the most polarizing premiers in recent history, was toppled. A Matter of Confidence gives readers an insider’s look at the overconfidence that fuelled the rise and fall of Clark’s premiership and the historic non-confidence vote that defeated her government and ended her political career. Beginning with this pivotal moment, the book goes back and chronicles the downfall of Clark’s predecessor, Gordon Campbell, which led to her unlikely victory in 2013, and traces the events leading up to her defeat at the hands of her NDP and Green opponents. Told by reporters Richard Zussman and Rob Shaw, who covered every moment of the election cycle, and illustrated by candid and extensive interviews with political insiders from both sides of the aisle—including Christy Clark and John Horgan—this book is a must read for anyone who cares about BC politics and the future of the province.

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1772032557

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Matthau

A Life

By: Rob Edelman,Audrey Kupferberg

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Matthau

A Life

By: Rob Edelman,Audrey Kupferberg

Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America's heart as one of the great comic talents of his generation. Born Walter Matuschanskayasky into Jewish tenements on New York's Lower East Side, he was a child actor in New York Yiddish theater, and later a World War II Air Force radioman-gunner. He paid dues for ten years on Broadway, in summer stock, and on television before landing his film debut The Kentuckian in 1955. By the time of his 1968 casting as cantankerous but lovable slob Oscar Madison in the film version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, Matthau had won major Hollywood stardom. Based on dozens of interviews and extensive research, this book covers the breadth of his often-complicated personal life and multi-faceted career, including his unforgettable performances in such films as The Fortune Cookie, A Guide for the Married Man, Plaza Suite, Charley Varrick, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Sunshine Boys, The Bad News Bears, California Suite, and Grumpy Old Men.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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087833274X

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9780878332748

Awakening Spirits

Wolves in the Southern Rockies

By: Richard Reading,Brian Miller,Amy Masching,Rob Edward,Michael Phillips

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Awakening Spirits

Wolves in the Southern Rockies

By: Richard Reading,Brian Miller,Amy Masching,Rob Edward,Michael Phillips

This illustrated collection offers fascinating insight on restoring the wolf population to the Southern Rockies. Detailed reports by wildlife biologists, geographers, legal and policy experts, and conservationists provide a comprehensive look at not only the ecological imperatives, but also the history, legal framework, and public attitudes affecting the future of wolves.

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Fulcrum Publishing

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1555917836

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The Digitalization of Health Care

Electronic Records and the Disruption of Moral Orders

By: Ian P. McLoughlin,Karin Garrety,Rob Wilson (Lecturer in information management)

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The Digitalization of Health Care

Electronic Records and the Disruption of Moral Orders

By: Ian P. McLoughlin,Karin Garrety,Rob Wilson (Lecturer in information management)

This book explores two controversial examples of attempts to implement national shareable electronic health record systems. It explains why implementing electronic health records has been so fraught with difficulties and argues that the moral basis of recording and sharing heath data needs to be re-thought.

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Oxford University Press

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0198744137

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Becoming Nick and Nora

The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy

By: Rob Kozlowski

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Becoming Nick and Nora

The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy

By: Rob Kozlowski

As Nick and Nora Charles in the six Thin Man movies from 1934 to 1947, the team of William Powell and Myrna Loy showed that marriage didn’t have to mean the end of the romantic comedy. From the comedic delight that was the initial The Thin Man through its five sequels as well as eight other films (including the Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld and Manhattan Melodrama), Powell and Loy were cemented in the public imagination as Hollywood’s happiest married couple. In Becoming Nick and Nora,comedy writer and Hollywood historian Rob Kozlowski follows the winding path that Powell and Loy’s screen personas took over their careers. Studios originally cultivated the two as villains in the silent era: Powell as a mustachioed, swashbuckling fiend and Loy as an “exotic” adversary. With the rise of talkies, the two managed to broaden their range beyond villainous stereotypes, but it took several false starts before they achieved their lasting legacy as Nick and Nora. Packed with behind-the-scenes details and memorable characters, this is a lively look at two tinseltown icons and a film series that remains beloved nearly a century later.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493062867

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Meet the Mertzes

The Life Stories of I Love Lucy's Other Couple

By: Rob Edelman,Audrey Kupferberg

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Meet the Mertzes

The Life Stories of I Love Lucy's Other Couple

By: Rob Edelman,Audrey Kupferberg

Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. This meticulously researched book contains interviews with Frawley's and Vance's colleagues, friends, and relatives, and explores their personal and professional lives before, during, and after I Love Lucy. With a complete filmography and videography of each, Meet the Mertzes finally sets the record straight on the lives and legacies of these compelling stars who detested one another. You'll learn about: -Vance's successful Broadway career prior to I Love Lucy -Frawley's vaudevillian roots and his passion for baseball -Vance's nervous breakdown after the collapse of her first marriage -Frawley's drinking and carousing -Lucille Ball's caustic relationship with both of her costars -Vance's hatred of being known to the world as Ethel Mertz

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466850469

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Encyclopaedia of Classic Cars

Sports Cars 1945-1975

By: Rob de la Rive Box

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Encyclopaedia of Classic Cars

Sports Cars 1945-1975

By: Rob de la Rive Box

The complete encyclopedia of classic sports cars with informative text and over 750 color photographs.

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Taylor & Francis

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1579581188

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Towards the Sociology of Truth

By: Rob Moore

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Towards the Sociology of Truth

By: Rob Moore

This innovative monograph is concerned with a set of inter-related problems associated with the nature of knowledge, how it is produced within intellectual fields and the implications of those things for education and the transmission of knowledge in the classroom. It covers issues in the sociology of knowledge, the educational system and policy, social differences in educational attainment, educational research and teaching. At various points it critically engages with the ideas of major thinkers such as Durkheim, Bernstein and Bourdieu and others and draws on contributions representing an emerging new approach in the sociology of education associated with recent work by John Beck, Karl Maton, Johan Muller, Michael F.D. Young and others. This provocative and challenging book will undoubtedly stimulate debate among educationists across the world.

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A&C Black

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1441121935

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9781441121936

The search for democratic renewal

The politics of consultation in Britain and Australia

By: Rob Manwaring

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The search for democratic renewal

The politics of consultation in Britain and Australia

By: Rob Manwaring

Why is the search for democratic renewal so elusive? This book examines both the political and policy implications of efforts by the centre-left to transform democracy. This is a story not only about democratic change, but also the identity crisis of centre-left political parties. The book offers a fresh critique of the Big Society agenda, and analyses why both left and right are searching for democratic renewal. Drawing on high-profile interviews and examining an in-depth series of comparative cases, the book argues that the centre-left’s search for democratic renewal contains a range of policy and political aims, contradictions and tensions. It will be of interest to students, academics, researchers, interest groups and policy analysts interested in consultation, democratic renewal, labour politics, and Australian and British politics.

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Manchester University Press

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1847799469

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An Introduction To Excellence In Practice Development In Health And Social Care

By: McSherry, Rob,Warr, Jerry

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An Introduction To Excellence In Practice Development In Health And Social Care

By: McSherry, Rob,Warr, Jerry

This introductory text outlines what is meant by excellence in practice and explores the core contemporary issues used to illustrate excellence, including evidence-based practice, clinical governance, and health and social care standards.

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0335223214

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Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim

By: Rob Kapilow

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Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim

By: Rob Kapilow

Finalist • The Marfield Prize [National Award for Arts Writing] “Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow.” —Kansas City Star “If you want to understand American history, listen to its popular music,” writes renowned NPR host Rob Kapilow. “If you want to understand America’s popular music, listen to its history.” Through the songs of eight legendary American composers—Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, Rodgers, Bernstein, and Sondheim—Kapilow listens for the history not just of musical theater, but of America itself. Combining close readings of Broadway hits like “Summertime” and “Stormy Weather” with a wide-angled historical point of view, Listening for America shows us how we too can listen along as America discovered its identity through the epochal transformations of the twentieth century.

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Liveright Publishing

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1631490303

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International Business-Society Management

Linking Corporate Responsibility and Globalization

By: Rob van Tulder,Alex van der Zwart

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International Business-Society Management

Linking Corporate Responsibility and Globalization

By: Rob van Tulder,Alex van der Zwart

Drawing on a wealth of experience, both in research and teaching the authors of this book have developed a text that integrates reputation, responsibility, ethics and accountability.

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Routledge

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1134293275

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Family Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Sonia Harris-Short,Joanna Miles,Rob George,Robert Henry George

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Family Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Sonia Harris-Short,Joanna Miles,Rob George,Robert Henry George

Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. The authors offer a detailed and authoritative exposition of family law, illustrated by materials carefully selected from a wide range of sources.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199664188

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Medicine, patients and the law

Seventh edition

By: Emma Cave,Margaret Brazier,Rob Heywood

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Medicine, patients and the law

Seventh edition

By: Emma Cave,Margaret Brazier,Rob Heywood

Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, pandemic vaccine development, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials – modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and the law struggles to keep up. In this highly acclaimed and very accessible book Margaret Brazier, Emma Cave and Rob Heywood provide an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy. The seventh edition of this book has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest cases, Brexit-related regulatory reform and COVID-19 pandemic measures. Essential reading for healthcare professionals, lecturers, medical and law students, this book is of relevance to all whose perusal of the daily news causes wonder, hope and consternation at the advances and limitations of medicine, patients and the law.

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Manchester University Press

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1526157152

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Alias Blind Larry

The Mostly True Memoir of James Laurence The Singing Convict

By: Rob Wills

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Alias Blind Larry

The Mostly True Memoir of James Laurence The Singing Convict

By: Rob Wills

Alias Blind Larry is a convict story, an adventure story, a colonial story, a Jewish story, a theatrical story. A story of cruelty, resilience, cheek and humour, and it is (mostly) true. Born in London in 1793, the son of a poor diamond cutter, young James Laurence travelled to Jamaica, the USA and Canada, clerking, acting, impersonating, singing, forging and defrauding before he was transported to NSW in 1814 for jewel theft. He served time in every penal settlement in NSW, singing and thieving when he was free. He wrote his memoir on Norfolk Island in 1842, just before his release. Then even more adventures followed. A fascinating piece of history, untold until now. Through the narrative of Laurence’s life, Alias Blind Larry re-creates a whole period of history.

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Australian Scholarly Publishing

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1925333116

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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education

By: Rob Watts

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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education

By: Rob Watts

This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which sell education and research in a competitive market. This engaging and provocative book argues that this is not actually the case. Drawing on lived experience, Watts asserts that the reality is actually a consequence of contradictory government policy and new public management whose exponents talk and act ‘as-if’ universities have become businesses. The result of which is ‘market crazed governance’, whereby universities are subjected to expensive rebranding and advertising campaigns and the spread of a toxic culture of customer satisfaction surveys which ask students to evaluate their teachers and what they have learned, based on government ‘metrics’ of research ‘quality’. This has led to a situation where not only the normal teacher-student relationship is inverted, academic professional autonomy is eroded and many students are short-changed, but where universities are becoming places whose leaders are no longer prepared to tell the truth and too few academics are prepared to insist they do. An impassioned and methodical study, this book will be of great interest to academics and scholars in the field of higher education and education policy.

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Springer

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1137535997

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Essential Cardiac Catheterization

By: Mark Gunning,Rob Butler,James Nolan

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Essential Cardiac Catheterization

By: Mark Gunning,Rob Butler,James Nolan

The development of cardiac catheterization has proved to be a very significant step in the field of heart medicine. It is currently one of the most accurate tests in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, offering speedy non-invasive diagnosis and rapid results without the need for a hospital stay.This highly practical pocket reference provides

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CRC Press

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1444113674

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Creative Pet Project

Animals and their artists drawn to one cause

By: Rob Snow

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Creative Pet Project

Animals and their artists drawn to one cause

By: Rob Snow

With 111 well-known artists from around the world, this unique and beautiful PDF version of the Creative Pet Project will draw you to understand the passions that artists have to breathe life into their works. This has been achieved through the connections they have with their companion animals. Almost 70% of the artists in the book have rescue animals, and their love for these animals extends to the beautiful artwork they create, that also contain animals. Well-known artists and illustrators such as Yuko Shimizu, Anita Kunz, Martin Wittfooth, Sas Christian, John Brophy,Lola Gil, Raffaele Bafefit, Ana Bagayan, Dilka Bear, Chet Zar, Heiidi Tailleferr, Jackie Morris, and many more, all have that great thing in common. They love animals and they love their creative work. That is what makes this book a great piece to have and explore. If you love animal and love art, this book is for you! It comes with full interactive menu, and bookmarks, as well as 240 pages of art, profiles and pet stories that will make you love the works even more. 240 Pages 111 artworks 111 biographies/pet bios Follow us at: http://www.creative-pet-project.com https://twitter.com/CreatePetProj https://www.facebook.com/CreativePetProject http://createpetproj.wordpress.com https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/115260259276234429438/+Creativepetproject2014/posts http://createpetproj.tumblr.com http://instagram.com/creatpetproj/ http://www.pinterest.com/creativepetproj/ https://vimeo.com/user25931039 http://society6.com/CreativePetProject

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0990330605

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9780990330608

Lessek's Key

The Eldarn Sequence Book 2

By: Rob Scott,Jay Gordon

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Lessek's Key

The Eldarn Sequence Book 2

By: Rob Scott,Jay Gordon

The Larion spell table has been dormant for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. It waits in a forgotten chamber in Sandcliff Palace, the abandoned Larion Senate stronghold on Eldarn's North Sea. The spell table holds the power to see the people of the five lands safely through the oppression and brutality that have haunted them for generations, but without Lessek's key it is a worthless slab of granite - and Lessek's key itself is just a nondescript stone Steven Taylor and Mark Jenkins overlooked on the night they fell through the far portal into Eldarn. Retrieving the key and freeing Eldarn's people rests with Steven Taylor, the would-be sorcerer from Colorado, who is racing across America with Nerak, the fallen Larion dictator, hot on his heels. Steven must reach Idaho Springs and find Lessek's key before it falls into Nerak's hands and is lost for ever - and with it, the lives of untold millions, in both of Steven's worlds.

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Gollancz

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0575105089

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9780575105089

Population, Mobility and Belonging

Understanding Population Concepts in Media, Culture and Society

By: Rob Cover

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Population, Mobility and Belonging

Understanding Population Concepts in Media, Culture and Society

By: Rob Cover

In a world of increasing mobility and migration, population size and composition come under persistent scrutiny across public policy, public debate, and film and television. Drawing on media, cultural and social theory approaches, this book takes a fresh look at the concept of ‘population’ as a term that circulates outside the traditional disciplinary areas of demography, governance and statistics—a term that gives coherence to notions such as community, nation, the world and global humanity itself. It focuses on understanding how the concept of population governs ways of thinking about our own identities and forms of belonging at local, national and international levels; on the manner in which television genres fixate on depictions of overpopulation and underpopulation; on the emergence of questions of ethics of belonging and migration in relation to cities; on attitudes towards otherness; and on the use by an emergent ‘alt-right’ politics of population in ‘forgotten people’ concepts. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and media and cultural studies with interests in questions of belonging, citizenship and population.

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0429588771

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Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism

By: Rob Wallace

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Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism

By: Rob Wallace

Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious. Although earlier strands of American philosophy and art emphasized what might be called improvisational practices, it was during the modernist period that improvisational practice and theory began to make a significant impact on art and culture, specifically via the African American musical forms of jazz and blues. This musical development held important consequences for the larger artistic, cultural, and political life of America as a whole-and, eventually, the world. The historical convergence of jazz and philosophical currents like pragmatism in American culture provides the framework for Wallace's discussion of improvisation in literary modernism. Focusing on poets ranging from Gertrude Stein to Langston Hughes, Wallace's work provides a fresh perspective on the complex circuits of modernist culture. Improvisation and The Making of American Literary Modernism will be of interest to scholars of poetry, music, American and modernist studies, and race and ethnic studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441122893

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9781441122896

Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Parkway

A Pocket Field Guide

By: Ann Simpson,Rob Simpson

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Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Parkway

A Pocket Field Guide

By: Ann Simpson,Rob Simpson

This field guide dedicated to wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Parkway is an information-packed, pocket-sized book that introduces park visitors to the vibrant wildflower habitats along the Blue Ridge Parkway in a colorful and portable package. Including full-color photos and easy-to-understand descriptions, the wildflowers are arranged by color and family to aid in quick identification. With full cooperation from the park association, this book will appeal to the 16 million visitors who travel the Blue Ridge Parkway every year.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493023969

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Criminalizing Dissent

The Liberal State and the Problem of Legitimacy

By: Rob Watts

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Criminalizing Dissent

The Liberal State and the Problem of Legitimacy

By: Rob Watts

While liberal-democratic states like America, Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of expression and the right to dissent, they have always actually criminalized dissent. This disposition has worsened since 9/11 and the 2008 Great Recession. This ground-breaking study shows that just as dissent involves far more than protest marches, so too liberal-democratic states have expanded the criminalization of dissent. Drawing on political and social theorists like Arendt, Bourdieu and Isin, the book offers a new way of thinking about politics, dissent and its criminalization relationally. Using case studies like the Occupy movement, selective refusal by Israeli soldiers, urban squatters, democratic education and violence by anti-Apartheid activists, the book highlights the many forms dissent takes along with the many ways liberal-democratic states criminalize it. The book highlights the mix of fear and delusion in play when states privilege security to protect an imagined ‘political order’ from difference and disagreement. The book makes a major contribution to political theory, legal studies and sociology. Linking legal, political and normative studies in new ways, Watts shows that ultimately liberal-democracies rely more on sovereignty and the capacity for coercion and declarations of legal ‘states of exception’ than on liberal-democratic principles. In a time marked by a deepening crisis of democracy, the book argues dissent is increasingly valuable.

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Curriculum for Wales: History for 11–14 years

By: Rob Quinn,R. Paul Evans

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Curriculum for Wales: History for 11–14 years

By: Rob Quinn,R. Paul Evans

Tell the story of Wales over the last 1000 years, as you discover how Welsh history, cynefin, culture and language are connected, from the past to the present. Underpinned by the four purposes of the new Curriculum for Wales, this book empowers pupils with the knowledge and skills that they need for learning, life and work. b” Design a curriculum that is unique to your school. /bUse the content flexibly to craft a historical education that reflects your pupils and your local area, as well as covering 'What matters' statements within the Humanities AoLE.brbrb” Follow an enquiry-based approach. /bStarting in early medieval times, this book establishes a strong chronological spine, with later enquiries looking at changes in Wales thematically.brbrb” Develop analytical and evaluative skills. /bA wide range of sources and interpretations encourage pupils to think like historians, using evidence to consider change and continuity, cause and consequence.brbrb” Put progression at the heart of the curriculum. /bEnd-of-topic Activities build towards more in-depth end-of-enquiry Review and Research tasks. All activities and tasks enable each pupil to move through their individual learning journey towards their next 'Progression step'.

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Theorising Green Criminology

Selected Essays

By: Rob White

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Theorising Green Criminology

Selected Essays

By: Rob White

Rob White’s pioneering work in the establishment and growth of green criminology has been part of a paradigm shift for the field of criminology as it has moved to include crimes committed against the environment. For the first time, this book brings together a selection of White’s essays that explore the theories, research approaches and concepts that have been instrumental to our understanding of environmental harm and eco-justice. The book provides an additional foundation for scholarship that goes beyond expression of opinion or immediate empirical finding; the emphasis is on systematic analysis and theoretically informed consideration of complex realities. It serves as a platform for further debate and discussion of green criminology’s theories, perspectives, approaches and concepts and their application to specific sub-areas such as environmental law enforcement, wildlife trafficking, pollution and climate change. Its aim is not to provide answers, but to stimulate further dedicated theoretical contemplation of environmental harms, threats to biodiversity and extinction of species. This is essential reading for all those engaged with green criminology, as well as criminological theory, eco-justice and environment and sustainability studies.

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Rise and Shine

The Monica Abbott Story

By: Monica Abbott,Debby Schriver,Rob Schriver

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Rise and Shine

The Monica Abbott Story

By: Monica Abbott,Debby Schriver,Rob Schriver

This is an "as-told-to" autobiography of University of Tennessee alumna Monica Abbott, who is a world-renowned professional softball pitcher in the National Professional Fastpitch league-indeed, the first female athlete in softball to sign a million-dollar contract. The narrative relates Abbott's rather humble beginnings, not initially even much interested in sports but finding herself captivated by softball. The story will serve as an inspiration for other athletes, especially girls and women, as they find their way into organized sports"--

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1621908313

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Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups

A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues

By: Rob Neyer

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Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups

A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues

By: Rob Neyer

Presents a series of lineups from each baseball franchise and explores the careers of baseball players both famous and obscure.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743241746

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Ten-Tronck's Celebrity Locator

By: Rob Ten-Tronck

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Ten-Tronck's Celebrity Locator

By: Rob Ten-Tronck

The Celebrity Locator provides the addresses to our complete database of Movie Stars, TV Stars, Authors, Politicians, Rock Stars, Athletes, and Other Famous People! If a person is famous or worth locating, it's almost certain their regular address (almost 12000) agents, representive, or web site can be found in here.

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Axiom Infromation Resources

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0943213797

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The Independent Member for Lyne

A memoir

By: Rob Oakeshott

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The Independent Member for Lyne

A memoir

By: Rob Oakeshott

Passionate, vivid and immediate, and full of insights, this is Rob OakeshottÆs honest and real story of life in Australian politics. From his apprenticeship in the NSW parliament to the last days of the Gillard government, he tells it as it was. When the results of the 2010 federal election became known, no party had a majority in the House of Representativesùit was the first hung parliament for forty years. So, both the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, set about wooing the Independents - Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott, Bob Katter and Andrew Wilkie - and Adam Bandt of the Greens. In the end, Julia Gillard stitched together an agreement to form government. When it was announced, famously there was talk of a 'kinder, gentler polity'. That lasted for about one day. Rob Oakeshott, in this very candid and compelling memoir, relates the events leading up to this agreement and what happened thereafter when he and Windsor, in particular, proved themselves to be stauncher supporters of Julia Gillard than many of her party colleagues. He remembers moments of celebration and incidents of perfidy. But above all, we get to meet close up and personal the man who played such an important role in the forty-third parliament.

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Allen & Unwin

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1743436106

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Laugh-Out-Loud: The Big Book of Knock-Knock Jokes

By: Rob Elliott

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Laugh-Out-Loud: The Big Book of Knock-Knock Jokes

By: Rob Elliott

Rob Elliott’s #1 bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series will have you laughing in no time with this hilarious collection of hundreds of never-before-collected knock-knock jokes! Knock. Knock. Who’s there? Annie. Annie who? Annie friend of yours is a friend of mine! With The Big Book of Knock-Knock Jokes, you’ll have the perfect jokes to keep the whole family in stitches, and be on the road to becoming everyone’s favorite comedian. Rob Elliott’s bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series has sold more than 5 million copies!

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0063080672

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9780063080676

Smoke & Mirrors

The Canadian Tobacco War

By: Rob Cunningham

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Smoke & Mirrors

The Canadian Tobacco War

By: Rob Cunningham

Smoke and Mirrors: The Canadian tobacco war

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IDRC

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0889367558

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Feeding the Green Monster

One Man's Season at Fenway Park

By: Rob Neyer

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Feeding the Green Monster

One Man's Season at Fenway Park

By: Rob Neyer

Feeding the Green Monster is an invaluable and unique addition to baseball writing from one of its best informed columnists. In the spring of 2000, baseball fanatic and ESPN.com columnist Rob Neyer set out to live every baseball fan's dream. He would spend the next six months attending every one of the Boston Red Sox's home games. His journal of the season that followed, "Feeding the Green Monster," is a candid look at baseball as it's played today. While there are the ups (when the Red Sox led their division) and the downs (when the Red Sox eventually

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