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The Hands of Time

By: Rob Addison

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What would you do if you discovered that the love of your life was destined to die 400 years before you were born? Join Paul Relevy and the crew of the Timecraft in a desperate race through time and space!

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The Fun Factory

The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture

By: Rob King

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The Fun Factory

The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture

By: Rob King

From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company—home of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties—made an indelible mark on American popular culture with its high-energy comic shorts. Even as Keystone brought "lowbrow" comic traditions to the screen, the studio played a key role in reformulating those traditions for a new, cross-class audience. In The Fun Factory, Rob King explores the dimensions of that process, arguing for a new understanding of working-class cultural practices within early cinematic mass culture. He shows how Keystone fashioned a style of film comedy from the roughhouse humor of cheap theater, pioneering modes of representation that satirized film industry attempts at uplift. Interdisciplinary in its approach, The Fun Factory offers a unique studio history that views the changing politics of early film culture through the sociology of laughter.

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Univ of California Press

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052094285X

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Sociological Reasoning

Towards a Past-Modern Sociology

By: Rob Stones

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Sociological Reasoning

Towards a Past-Modern Sociology

By: Rob Stones

While sociological modernists were outrageously presumptious in their claims for sociological knowledge, postmodernists have gone to another extreme in claiming that it has no more truth status than fiction. Critical of both positions, Sociological Reasoning develops an original typology of approaches to social scientific theory and research which is distinguished by its openness and reflexive awareness of rhetorical and methodological aspects of knowledge claims. Laced with graphic illustrative examples, this is a strikingly well-written text that will appeal to students at undergraduate level and beyond.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349247375

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Partnerships for Public Health and Well-being

Policy and Practice

By: Rob Baggott

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Partnerships for Public Health and Well-being

Policy and Practice

By: Rob Baggott

Written by a leading author, this text provides a much needed account of UK public health and well-being policies and considers their influence on practice. With an emphasis on the importance of inter-agency and inter-professional approaches, this text is vital reading for all students and practitioners of public health and well-being.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350313440

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9781350313446

The Siren Song

By: Rob Kidd

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The Siren Song

By: Rob Kidd

Still on a mission to find the legendary Sword of Cortâes, the crew of the Barnacle becomes entranced by an ethereal song that pulls them away from their mission, leaving Captain Jack Sparrow to find the source behind the dark spell.

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ABDO

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159961524X

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The Promise of Sociology

The Classical Tradition and Contemporary Sociological Thinking

By: Rob Barker Beamish

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The Promise of Sociology

The Classical Tradition and Contemporary Sociological Thinking

By: Rob Barker Beamish

This is a lovely, highly focused, and interesting way to introduce students to sociology. The book will both challenge and be of great interest to introductory sociology students." - George Ritzer, University of Maryland

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University of Toronto Press

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1442601876

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Human Performance

Cognition, Stress and Individual Differences

By: D. Roy Davies,Gerald Matthews,Rob B. Stammers,Steve J. Westerman

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Human Performance

Cognition, Stress and Individual Differences

By: D. Roy Davies,Gerald Matthews,Rob B. Stammers,Steve J. Westerman

Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory. Four main sections cover both theoretical and practical issues: Section One outlines the perspectives on performance offered by contemporary cognitive science, including information processing and neuroscience perspectives. Section Two presents a multi-level view of the performer as biological organism, information-processor and intentional agent. It reviews the development of the cognitive theory of performance through experimental studies and also looks at practical issues such as human error. Section Three reviews the impact of stress factors such as noise, fatigue and illness on performance. Section Four assesses individual and group differences in performance with accounts of ability, personality and aging.

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Psychology Press

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1317799631

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Young Masculinities

Understanding Boys in Contemporary Society

By: Stephen Frosh,Ann Phoenix,Rob Pattman

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Young Masculinities

Understanding Boys in Contemporary Society

By: Stephen Frosh,Ann Phoenix,Rob Pattman

How do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are their aspirations, their fears? How do they feel about their own masculinity? About style, 'race', homophobia? About football? This book examines aspects of 'young masculinities' that have become central to contemporary social thought, paying attention to psychological issues as well as to social policy concerns. Centring on a study involving in-depth exploration, through individual and group intererviews, the authors bring to light the way boys in the early years of secondary schooling conceptualise and articulate their experiences of themselves, their peers and the adult world. The book includes discussion of boys' aspirations and anxieties, their feelings of pride and loss. As such, it offers an unusually detailed set of insights into the experiential world inhabited by these boys - how they see themselves, how girls see them, what they wish for and fear, where they feel their 'masculinity' to be advantageous and where it inhibits other potential experiences. In describing this material, the authors explore questions such as the place of violence in young people's lives, the functions of 'hardness', of homophobia and football, boys' underachievement in school, and the pervasive racialisation of masculine identity construction. Young Masculinities will be invaluable to researchers in psychology, sociology, gender and youth studies, as well as to those devising social policy on boys and young men. STEPHEN FROSH is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and previously Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Vice Dean in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic, London. He is the author of numerous academic papers and several books, including For and Against Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis, Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self and The Politics of Psychoanalysis. He is joint author, with Danya Glaser, of Child Sexual Abuse and co-editor with Anthony Elliott of Psychoanalysis in Context. ANN PHOENIX is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Open University. Her books include Standpoints and Differences (with Karen Henwood and Chris Griffin), Crossfires: Nationalism, Racism and Gender in Europe (with Helma Lutz and Nira Yuval-Davies), and Black, White or Mixed Race? (with Barbara Tizard). ROB PATTMAN is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Botswana. He has taught sociology in sixth form colleges and institutions of higher education in Britain and southern Africa, and published articles on whiteness, gender identities, sex and AIDS education and social theory.

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1403914583

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The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics

The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina

By: Rob Christensen

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The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics

The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina

By: Rob Christensen

Drawing on more than thirty years of reporting experience, Rob Christensen combines firsthand analysis of modern politics with a well-researched look at the past. Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century, when North Carolina was a racially charged one-party state, The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics profiles an electorate that has embraced bo...

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1442995874

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Hokum!

The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture

By: Rob King

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Hokum!

The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture

By: Rob King

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hokum! is the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era. Challenging the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition, author Rob King explores the slapstick short’s Depression-era development against a backdrop of changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture. Each chapter is grounded in case studies of comedians and comic teams, including the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Robert Benchley. The book also examines how the past legacy of silent-era slapstick was subsequently reimagined as part of a nostalgic mythology of Hollywood’s youth.

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0520288114

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Cyanide & Happiness: Twenty Years Wasted (A Questionable Recollection Of The First Two Decades)

By: Kris Wilson,Dave McElfatrick,Rob DenBleyker

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Cyanide & Happiness: Twenty Years Wasted (A Questionable Recollection Of The First Two Decades)

By: Kris Wilson,Dave McElfatrick,Rob DenBleyker

A fresh collection of fan-favorite webcomics have made their way to print for the very first time, along with brand-new, never-before-seen strips. But this is no mere collection of comic strips! Cyanide & Happiness: Twenty Years Wasted (A Questionable Recollection Of The First Two Decades) also features the mostly-true history of Cyanide & Happiness as told by its creators – Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick. Reverently assembled with firsthand commentary, never-before-seen internal documents, insights into their creative process, and, yes, even incriminating photographs. Kris, Rob, and Dave will walk down memory lane, stopping at twenty different Cyanide & Happiness strips that tell the story of their history thus far.

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Boom! Studios

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1637969627

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The Mini Rough Guide to London

By: Rob Humphreys

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The Mini Rough Guide to London

By: Rob Humphreys

The Mini Rough Guide to London is the ultimate pocket guide to one of the world's most exhillarating cities. There are concise accounts of every major attraction, from Trafalgar Square and the great museums, right out to Greenwich, Kew and even Windsor. Comprehensive maps allow for quick reference and include locations of museums, galleries, churches and other attractions.

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Rough Guides

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1843531127

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East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions

Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future

By: Rob Marchant

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East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions

Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future

By: Rob Marchant

This book is an ambitious integration of ecological, archaeological, anthropological land use sciences, drawing on human geography, demography and economics of development across the East Africa region. It focuses on understanding and unpicking the interactions that have taken place between the natural and unnatural history of the East African region and trace this interaction from the evolutionary foundations of our species (c. 200,000 years ago), through the outwards and inwards human migrations, often associated with the adoption of subsistence strategies, new technologies and the arrival of new crops. The book will explore the impact of technological developments such as transitions to tool making, metallurgy, and the arrival of crops also involved an international dimension and waves of human migrations in and out of East Africa. Time will be presented with a widening focus that will frame the contemporary with a particular focus on the Anthropocene (last 500 years) to the present day. Many of the current challenges have their foundations in precolonial and colonial history and as such there will be a focus on how these have evolved and the impact on environmental and human landscapes. Moving into the Anthropocene era, there was increasing exposure to the International drivers of change, such as those associated with Ivory and slave trade. These international trade routes were tied into the ensuing decimation of elephant populations through to the exploitation of natural mineral resources have been sought after through to the present day. The book will provide a balanced perspective on the region, the people, and how the natural and unnatural histories have combined to create a dynamic region. These historical perspectives will be galvanized to outline the future changes and the challenges they will bring around such issues as sustainable development, space for wildlife and people, and the position of East Africa within a globalized world and how this is potentially going to evolve over the coming decades.

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Springer Nature

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3030889874

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States of Violence and the Civilising Process

On Criminology and State Crime

By: Rob Watts

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States of Violence and the Civilising Process

On Criminology and State Crime

By: Rob Watts

This book offers a distinctive and novel approach to state-sponsored violence, one of the major problems facing humanity in the previous and now the twenty-first century. It addresses the question: how is it possible that large numbers of ordinary men and women are able to do the killing, torturing and violence that defines crimes against humanity? In his striking analysis, Rob Watts shows how and why states, of all political persuasions, engage in crimes against humanity, including: genocide, homicide, torture, kidnapping, illegal surveillance and detention. This book advances a new interpretive frame. It argues against the ‘civilizing process’ model, showing how both states and social sciences like sociology and criminology have been complicit in splitting 'the social' from 'the ethical' while accepting too complacently that modern states are the exemplars of morality and rationality. The book makes the case that it is possible to bring together in the one interpretative frame, our understanding of social action involving personal motivation and ethical responsibility and patterns of collective social action operating in terms of the agencies of ‘the State’. Rob Watts identifies and charts the pathways of action and ‘practical’ (i.e. ethical) judgements which the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity constructed for themselves to make sense of what they were doing. At once challenging and highly accessible, the book reveals the policy-making processes that produce state crime as well as showing how ordinary people do the state’s dirty work.

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1137499419

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Just Giving

Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better

By: Rob Reich

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Just Giving

Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better

By: Rob Reich

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn’t the unassailable good we think it to be but might also undermine democratic values. Big philanthropy is often an exercise of power, the conversion of private assets into public influence. And it is a form of power that is largely unaccountable and lavishly tax-advantaged. Philanthropy currently fails democracy, but Rob Reich argues that it can be redeemed. Just Giving investigates the ethical and political dimensions of philanthropy and considers how giving might better support democratic values and promote justice.

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Princeton University Press

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0691202273

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Inclusive Design

Designing and Developing Accessible Environments

By: Rob Imrie,Peter Hall

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Inclusive Design

Designing and Developing Accessible Environments

By: Rob Imrie,Peter Hall

First book to document property professionals' attitudes and practices towards the building needs of disabled people Discusses elements of best practice in responding to disabled people's design needs Cross-national data provided Based on ESRC-funded project Supplemented by illustrated case studies

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Taylor & Francis

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1135802645

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9781135802646

Sandlot Seasons

Sport in Black Pittsburgh

By: Rob Ruck

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Sandlot Seasons

Sport in Black Pittsburgh

By: Rob Ruck

A new preface updates this richly detailed look at the major role sport played in shaping Pittsburgh's black community from the Roaring Twenties through the Korean War. Rob Ruck reveals how sandlot, amateur, and professional athletics helped black Pittsburgh realize its potential for self-organization, expression, and creativity.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252063422

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The Flight of Amos Beery

By: Rob Skaggs

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The Flight of Amos Beery

By: Rob Skaggs

Thirteen-year-old Amos Beery will freely admit he is a dork, but he desperately hopes he is more than that. And he had better be. His mother's life depends on it. To save her, he will have to risk everything and face dangers he'd never imagined. With the help of his best Finny Coogan, salty old Granny Tucker, ex-hobo Roy Fitch, street rapper Honeyboy Cain, Alzheimer's patient Rosie Wong, a talking bird named Pixie, and even an unlikely swarm of tarantula wasps, Amos faces one daunting challenge after another-from a jarring motorcycle ride through a torrent of rain in the black night, to a kick in the face from a leg flying through the air, to a surprise fall down into the earth. First, he must steal the recipe for the long-forgotten tribal cure that is his mother's only chance. And who does he steal it from? Only the meanest man he ever met-Rafe Lebeau. Next, he must search out the ingredients for that cure, then prepare it flawlessly and speed it to his mother, whatever the cost. And the cost could be his own life. Though he does have help, it is alone that he must, like David of the Bible, face down his own Goliath...if he's got the guts. Throughout the journey, Amos is haunted by a recurring dream in which his mother will surely die. As for the end of that dream, it never comes-at least, not when Amos is asleep. But when it does come, Amos Beery knows that he will never again be the same.

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WestBow Press

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1449736386

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Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language

By: Rob Amery

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Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language

By: Rob Amery

This is a longitudinal study of the reclamation of the Kaurna Language, where Kaurna people are working in collaboration with linguists and educators. The book takes an ecological perspective to trace the history of Kaurna, drawing on all known sources and emerging uses in the modern period.

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CRC Press

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9026516339

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If These Walls Could Talk: Green Bay Packers

Stories from the Green Bay Packers Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Wayne Larrivee,Rob Reischel

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If These Walls Could Talk: Green Bay Packers

Stories from the Green Bay Packers Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Wayne Larrivee,Rob Reischel

The Green Bay Packers are one of the most successful teams in the NFL, with 13 world championships and four Super Bowl wins. Authors Wayne Larrivee and Rob Reischel through interviews with current and past players, provide fans with a one-of-a-kind, insider's look into the great moments, the lowlights, and everything in between. Readers will hear from players, coaches, and personnel as they discuss their moments of greatness as well as their defeats, making for a keepsake no fan will want to miss.

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Triumph Books

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1633196860

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Physical Biology of the Cell

By: Rob Phillips,Jane Kondev,Julie Theriot,Hernan Garcia

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Physical Biology of the Cell

By: Rob Phillips,Jane Kondev,Julie Theriot,Hernan Garcia

Physical Biology of the Cell is a textbook for a first course in physical biology or biophysics for undergraduate or graduate students. It maps the huge and complex landscape of cell and molecular biology from the distinct perspective of physical biology. As a key organizing principle, the proximity of topics is based on the physical concepts that

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Garland Science

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1134111657

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The Inclusion Illusion

How children with special educational needs experience mainstream schools

By: Rob Webster

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The Inclusion Illusion

How children with special educational needs experience mainstream schools

By: Rob Webster

Inclusion conjures images of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) learning in classes alongside peers in a mainstream school. For pupils in the UK with high-level SEND, who have an Education, Health and Care Plan (formerly a Statement), this implies an everyday educational experience similar to that of their typically-developing classmates. Yet in vital respects, they are worlds apart. Based on the UK’s largest observation study of pupils with high-level SEND, The Inclusion Illusion exposes how attendance at a mainstream school is no guarantee of receiving a mainstream education. Observations of nearly 1,500 lessons in English schools show that their everyday experience of school is characterised by separation and segregation. Furthermore, interviews with nearly 500 pupils, parents and school staff reveal the effect of this marginalisation on the quality of their education. The way schools are organised and how classrooms are composed creates a form of ‘structural exclusion’ that preserves mainstream education for typically-developing pupils and justifies a diluted pedagogical offer for pupils with high-level SEND. Policymakers, not mainstream schools, are indicted over this state of affairs. This book prompts questions about what we think inclusion is and what it looks like. Ultimately, it suggests why a more authentic form of inclusion is needed, and how it might be achieved. Praise for The Inclusion Illusion 'This timely book presents clear challenges to the limits placed on progress for children with SEND in mainstream schools. It stands alongside calls, back to Warnock’s vision of every teacher being a teacher of SEN, for an end to “exclusion within inclusion”. It urges us to develop all staff to fulfil their roles with pupils with SEND. Acknowledging the value of TAs, it urges schools to ensure children who most need a teacher, get the teacher. Based on rigorous research, it rightly calls for bravery. For honesty. For action.' Professor Maggie Atkinson, Safeguarding consultant, adviser and leader, and Children’s Commissioner for England (2009–2015)'This is an important and valuable book which … has the potential to improve the educational experiences of pupils with significant learning and related difficulties. It combines an insightful account of the many issues and difficulties surrounding inclusion with a rigorous analysis of the outcomes and implications of large scale empirical work.' Professor Paul Croll, University of Reading 'I love this book! It tackles the structural challenges of inclusion head on and sets out what must change to create a fairer future for children with SEND. This is essential reading for all evidence-led school leaders, teachers and policymakers who believe in better.' Margaret Mulholland, SEND and Inclusion Policy Specialist, Association of School and College Leaders 'Rob Webster has deepened our understanding of how mainstream schools fail to address the needs of children with SEND. Distilling the crucial insights from years of work, he has thrown down a challenge to policymakers that for many children with SEND, simply having a mainstream placement is not the same as inclusion. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in what needs to change to ensure better futures for children with SEND in mainstream schools.' Brian Lamb OBE, Visiting Professor of Special Educational Needs and Disability, Derby University "This book brilliantly demonstrates the kind of education children with special educational needs in mainstream classroom, with the legal entitlement of an Education, health and care Plan actually experience. Despite talk of inclusion the classroom settings and organisation ensure that the children are excluded and marginalised from actual mainstream teaching. The over- use of Teaching Assistants, however well intentioned, is no substitute for the attention of qualified teachers. There is a separation in mainstream classes that ensures that inclusion is indeed an illusion. The book should be read by all teachers, parents and policy makers who care about the education of all children, not just those who are regarded as 'typical' or non-problematic." Professor Sally Tomlinson PhD FRSA

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UCL Press

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178735699X

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Modern South Africa in World History

Beyond Imperialism

By: Rob Skinner

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Modern South Africa in World History

Beyond Imperialism

By: Rob Skinner

This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication. South African modernity is understood in terms of the interplay between internal and external forces. Key historical themes, including the emergence of an industrialised economy, the development of systematic racial discrimination and popular resistance against racial power, and the influence of national and ethnic identities on political and social organisation, are set out in relation to imperial and global influences. This book is central to our understanding of South Africa in the context of world history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441164766

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Sociologies of Interaction

By: Alex Dennis,Rob Philburn,Greg Smith

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Sociologies of Interaction

By: Alex Dennis,Rob Philburn,Greg Smith

Social interaction lies at the heart of our everyday experience. We make our way down the street and avoid crashing into others, take our place in the supermarket queue, take care in the way we talk about others in conversation, acknowledge the social status of people we meet, and enjoy leisurely pursuits in the company of friends and like-minded others. All these things are fundamental parts of human sociality that can be discovered and understood through 'sociologies of interaction'. This book provides an invaluable introduction to the theoretical foundations and practical applications of interactionist approaches to everyday life. Beginning with an overview of three core traditions - symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, along with Goffman's work on the interaction order - the text moves on to examine in detail topics such as leisure, work, health and illness, deviance, class, status and power, education, ethnic relations and gender. Highlighting a range of empirical studies, the book shows how sociologies of interaction have the capacity to reframe and make us rethink conventional social science topics. This illuminating book will be of interest to undergraduates across the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social psychology and communication studies, as well as those who have an interest in understanding the interactional underpinnings of everyday life.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745679013

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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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Personalization at Work

How HR Can Use Job Crafting to Drive Performance, Engagement and Wellbeing

By: Rob Baker

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Personalization at Work

How HR Can Use Job Crafting to Drive Performance, Engagement and Wellbeing

By: Rob Baker

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2021 - HR & Management Category The potential benefits of personalization on a workforce are huge. We curate music and online streaming content to suit our own tastes and we place more value on lottery numbers we have chosen ourselves, rather than a random selection from a lucky dip. When job roles are also personalized, employees are more interested, engaged and motivated at work. The responsibility for enabling this personalization lies with HR and people professionals and a key approach to doing this is via job crafting. Personalization at Work is a practical guide explaining what job crafting is, why it's important, what the benefits are and more broadly how a personalized approach can be brought to all aspects of HR including recruitment, learning and development, performance management, diversity and inclusion and reward. Full of practical advice and case studies from companies who have already seen the benefits of a personalized approach including Virgin Money, Widerøe airlines, Logitech, Google and Connect Health, Personalization at Work is essential reading for all HR professionals wanting to improve staff engagement, retention, productivity and the overall people experience. With expert guidance on how to encourage job crafting and a personalized approach to work for employees through everything from job titles, role descriptions and benefits packages through to working patterns, flexibility and work environment, this is a book that HR and people professionals can't afford to be without.

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Vulnerability and Exposure

Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and Ethics

By: Rob Cover

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Vulnerability and Exposure

Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and Ethics

By: Rob Cover

Vulnerability and Exposure presents a critical investigation of contemporary masculine team sports and football scandals, and their relationship with gendered cultures, institutions, and identity norms. Drawing on reports of 'Australian Rules' football off-field scandals, the book critically examines cases of sexual assault, illicit drug use, binge drinking, homophobia, violence, and other controversial behaviors that have become norms in the reporting of sports players' lives. Using a range of approaches to unpack some of the ways in which these scandals are produced and understood, and how they impact the reputations of players, clubs, and the game itself, the book identifies the cultural factors significant in the production of the contemporary footballer identity, and the ways in which these identities are constructed, performed, and reported. In utilizing scandal to develop ways in which off-field behavior in sport can be re-made as a relatively harmless event for women, bystanders, and players, this study develops an approach to ethics by showing that footballers are well-placed to see the vulnerability of others through their own vulnerability to injury, career breaks, and loss of reputation. [Subject: Sociology, Sports Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Australian Studies]

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Apollo Books

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174258649X

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The Rough Guide to London

By: Rob Humphreys

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The Rough Guide to London

By: Rob Humphreys

The Rough Guide to London is the essential travel guide with clear maps and coverage of London's unforgettable attractions. From the big hitters like the Tower of London and the London Eye to hidden gems like the Sir John Soane's Museum and Highgate Cemetery the Rough Guide steers you straight to the unmissable sites of London, unearthing the best hotels, restaurants, traditional pubs, cafés and nightlife across every price range. A guide for travellers and London locals alike, you'll find detailed coverage of the city's fantastic free museums as well as the little-known nooks and crannies you should be exploring. The Rough Guide to London includes detailed accounts of all the palaces, museums and galleries, big and small, and why they're worth (or not worth) visiting. There are specialist sections on nightlife, the gay and lesbian scene, classical arts and detailed information on the capitals best markets and shopping-spots, all written by London-based experts. Explore all corners of the city with authoritative background on everything from Jack the Ripper to top London clubs, relying on the clearest maps of any guide. Make the Most of Your Time with The Rough Guide to London

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Rough Guides UK

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1405384778

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Pocket Rough Guide London

By: Samantha Cook,Rob Humphreys

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Pocket Rough Guide London

By: Samantha Cook,Rob Humphreys

As indispensable as it is easy to carry, the Pocket Rough Guide to London is the definitive guide to the most charismatic city in Britain. It's full of insider tips on the most memorable experiences the city has to offer: take in the views from the lofty heights of the Shard; haggle for a bargain in Portobello Road Market; explore the legacy of the Olympic Games in the East End; and enjoy all manner of world-class museums for free. Beautifully designed in full colour and packed with the best-looking maps you'll find in any guidebook - including a handy pull-out map - Pocket London's comprehensive recommendations will not only help you take best advantage of the city's famed restaurant and nightlife scenes, but also find equally brilliant places to sleep and shop. Now available in PDF format. Make the most of your time on EarthTM with the Pocket Rough Guide London.

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0241200512

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The Rough Guide to Britain

By: Rob Humphreys,Rob Andrews,Jules Brown,Tom Hutton,Donald Reid,Phil Lee

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The Rough Guide to Britain

By: Rob Humphreys,Rob Andrews,Jules Brown,Tom Hutton,Donald Reid,Phil Lee

Provides information for traveling in England, Wales, and Scotland, including travel tips, recommended accommodations, historic sites, and annual events.

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1858285496

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Unspooled

How the Cassette Made Music Shareable

By: Rob Drew

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Unspooled

How the Cassette Made Music Shareable

By: Rob Drew

Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette’s likeness pops up on T-shirts, coffee mugs, belt buckles, and cell phone cases. In Unspooled, Rob Drew traces how a lowly, hissy format that began life in office dictation machines and cheap portable players came to be regarded as a token of intimate expression through music and a source of cultural capital. Drawing on sources ranging from obscure music zines to transcripts of Congressional hearings, Drew examines a moment in the early 1980s when music industry representatives argued that the cassette encouraged piracy. At the same time, 1980s indie rock culture used the cassette as a symbol to define itself as an outsider community. Indie’s love affair with the cassette culminated in the mixtape, which advanced indie’s image as a gift economy. By telling the cassette’s long and winding history, Drew demonstrates that sharing cassettes became an acceptable and meaningful mode of communication that initiated rituals of independent music recording, re-recording, and gifting.

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Duke University Press

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1478027711

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The Medicinal Plant Industry

By: R. O. B. Wijesekera

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The Medicinal Plant Industry

By: R. O. B. Wijesekera

As the medicinal plant industry blooms into a billion dollar business, it reaches beyond collection, propagation, harvesting and sale of crude vegetal drugs into product formulation, packaging and dispensing of sophisticated phyto-pharmaceuticals and herbal preparations. The scientific study of these medicines and the systematic uplifting of the industry to preserve the ancient and serve the modern, is now a global challenge. The Medicinal Plant Industry puts together the various facets of this multi-disciplinary industry and its global interest. It discusses the dire need for developing countries to acquire technologies and techniques for programmed cultivation of medicinal plants. It addresses a wide variety of topics including the old philosophies, modern impact of traditional medicines, and methods of assessing the spontaneous flora for industrial utilization. It covers aspects of cultivation and climatic variations, biological assessment and formulation, process technologies, phytochemical research and information sources. The book reviews highly developed traditional medicine in China and India, and covers experiences in Africa and other continents.

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Routledge

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1351409859

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Marine Insurance

A Legal History

By: Merkin, Rob

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Marine Insurance

A Legal History

By: Merkin, Rob

This authoritative work forms a comprehensive examination of the legal and historical context of marine insurance, providing a detailed overview of the events and factors leading to its codification in the Marine Insurance Act 1906. It investigates the development of the legal principles and case law that underpin the Act to reveal how successful this codification truly was, and to demonstrate how these historical precedents remain relevant to marine insurance law to this day.

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1788116755

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9781788116756

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