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The Search for Tactical Success in Vietnam

An analysis of Australian Task Force combat operations

By: Andrew Ross,Robert Hall,Amy Griffin

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The Search for Tactical Success in Vietnam

An analysis of Australian Task Force combat operations

By: Andrew Ross,Robert Hall,Amy Griffin

Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this text provides a unique insight into counterinsurgency and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107098440

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9781107098442

The J.R.R. Tolkien: Inspiring Lives

Inspiring Lives

By: Robert Blackham

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The J.R.R. Tolkien: Inspiring Lives

Inspiring Lives

By: Robert Blackham

This miscellany explores the fascinating and enigmatic world of J.R.R. Tolkien, examining his place in literary history, his books and his iconic characters. The reader can explore facts and trivia from Tolkien’s life and works, including his early life in southern Africa and Birmingham, Tolkien on the silver screen, his role in the two world wars and his friendship with C.S. Lewis, as well as the places that inspired his fictional world of Middle-earth. Both light-hearted and highly informative, this miscellany offers an insight for new and old Tolkien fans into one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

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The History Press

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0752490974

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9780752490977

Representing Middle-earth

Tolkien, Form, and Ideology

By: Robert T. Tally Jr.

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Representing Middle-earth

Tolkien, Form, and Ideology

By: Robert T. Tally Jr.

In such classic works as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien depicts a vast, complex world-system. Tolkien's Middle-earth comes to life with intensely detailed historical, geographical, and multicultural content, which is presented through different poetic forms that combine elements of epic, romance, myth, history, and the modern novel. This book analyzes Tolkien's project, paying attention to narrative form and its relation to social contexts, while also exploring his broader philosophical conception of history and the role of individual and collective subjects within it. Tolkien's published and posthumous writings, the film adaptations, and recent scholarship are all examined to provide an enlarged and refined critical perspective of these major works. Drawing upon Marxist literary theory and criticism, Robert T. Tally Jr. calls into question traditional views of race, class, morality, escapism, and fantasy more generally. Through close readings mixed with theoretical speculation, Representing Middle-earth allows readers see Tolkien's world, as well as our own, in a new light.

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McFarland

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1476651922

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9781476651927

Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century

Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier

By: Robert Fishman

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Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century

Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier

By: Robert Fishman

The utopian visions of three of urban planning’s greatest visionaries. Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens. In this book Robert Fishman examines the utopian visions of three of urban planning’s greatest visionaries. Howard created the concept of the “garden city” where shops and cottages formed the center of a geometric pattern with farmland surrounding; Wright conceived of “Broadacre City,” the ultimate suburb, where the automobile was king; and Le Corbusier imagined “Ville Radieuse,” the city of cruciform skyscrapers set down in open parkland.

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MIT Press

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0262560232

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9780262560238

The Garden City Utopia

A Critical Biography of Ebenezer Howard

By: Robert Beevers

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The Garden City Utopia

A Critical Biography of Ebenezer Howard

By: Robert Beevers

Ebenezer Howard is recognised as a pioneer of town planning throughout the industrialised world; Britain's new towns, deriving from the garden cities he founded, are his monument. But Howard was more than a town planner. He was first and foremost a social reformer, and his garden city was intended to be merely the first step towards a new social and industrial order based on common ownership of land. This is the first comprehensive study of Howard's theories, which the author traces back to their origins in English puritan dissent and forward to Howard's attempt to build his new society in microcosm at Letchworth and Welwyn.

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Springer

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1349190330

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9781349190331

The Visitacion of Staffordschire

By: Henry Sydney Grazebrook,Robert Glover

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The Visitacion of Staffordschire

By: Henry Sydney Grazebrook,Robert Glover

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385355516

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9783385355514

Fifty Eastern Thinkers

By: Diane Collinson,Kathryn Plant,Robert Wilkinson

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Fifty Eastern Thinkers

By: Diane Collinson,Kathryn Plant,Robert Wilkinson

Close analysis of the work of fifty major thinkers in the field of Eastern philosophy make this an excellent introduction to a fascinating area of study. The authors have drawn together thinkers from all the major Eastern philosophical traditions from the earliest times to the present day. The philosophers covered range from founder figures such as Zoroaster and Confucius to modern thinkers such as Fung Youlan and the present Dalai Lama. Introductions to major traditions and a glossary of key philosophical terms make this a comprehensive and accessible reference resource.

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Routledge

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1134631502

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9781134631506

Alex Miller: the ruin of time

By: Robert Dixon

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Alex Miller: the ruin of time

By: Robert Dixon

Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness - substantial, technically masterful and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight. Among his many prizes and awards, Alex Miller has twice won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game in 1993, and Journey to the Stone Country in 2003; the Commonwealth Writers' prize, also for The Ancestor Game in 1993; and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize, for Conditions of Faith in 2001 and Lovesong in 2011. He received a Centenary Medal in 2001 and the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Having published his eleventh novel, Coal Creek, in 2013 - which won the Victorian Premier's Fiction Award in 2014 - Miller is currently writing an autobiographical memoir with the working title 'Horizons'.

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Sydney University Press

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1743324073

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9781743324073

Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers

By: Diané Collinson,Dr Robert Wilkinson,Robert Wilkinson

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Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers

By: Diané Collinson,Dr Robert Wilkinson,Robert Wilkinson

These are questions to which oriental thinkers have given a wide range of philosophical answers that are intellectually and imaginatively stimulating. Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers is a succinctly informative introduction to the thought of thirty-five important figures in the Chinese, Indian, Arab, Japanese and Tibetan philosophical traditions. Thinkers covered include founders such as Zoroaster, Confucius, Buddha and Muhammed, as well as influential modern figures such as Gandhi, Mao Tse-Tung, Suzuki and Nishida. The book is divided into sections, in which an introduction to the tradition it covers precedes the essays on its individual philosophers. Notes, further reading lists, and cross-references provide the student with a clear route to further study. There is a glossary of key terms at the end of the book.

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Routledge

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1134973608

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Community Green

Rediscovering the Enclosed Spaces of the Garden Suburb Tradition

By: David Nichols,Robert Freestone

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Community Green

Rediscovering the Enclosed Spaces of the Garden Suburb Tradition

By: David Nichols,Robert Freestone

Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the garden suburb. Community Green uniquely connects the past, present and future of planning for small open spaces around the narrative of internal reserves. The distinctive planned spaces are typically enclosed on every side, hidden within residential blocks, serving as local pocket parks and reflecting the evolving values of community life from the garden city movement to contemporary new urbanism. This book resuscitates the enclosed, almost secretive reserve from history as a distinctive form of local open space whose problems and potentialities are relevant to many other green community spaces. In so doing, it opens up even wider connections between localism and globalism, the past and the future, and for connecting community initiatives to broader global challenges of cohesion, health, food, and climate change. This fully illustrated book charts the outcomes and implications of this evolution across several continents, injecting human stories of civic initiatives, struggles and triumphs along the way. Community Green will be of interest to a wide readership interested in studying, managing and improving the quality of all small open spaces in the urban landscape.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000988333

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The Semiotics of Movement in Space

By: Robert James McMurtrie

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The Semiotics of Movement in Space

By: Robert James McMurtrie

The Semiotics of Movement in Space explores how people move through buildings and interact with objects in space. Focusing on visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, McMurtrie analyses and interprets movement and space relations to highlight new developments and applications of spatial semiotics as he proposes that people’s movement options have the potential to transform the meaning of a particular space. He illustrates people’s interaction with microcamera footage of people’s movement through the museum from a first-person point of view, thereby providing an alternative, complementary perspective on how buildings are actually used. The book offers effective tools for practitioners to analyse people’s actual and potential movement patterns to rethink spatial design options from a semiotic perspective. The applicability of the semiotic principles developed in this book is demonstrated by examining movement options in a restaurant and a café, with the hope that the principles can be developed and applied to other sites of displays such as shopping centres and transportation hubs. This book should appeal to scholars of visual communication, semiotics, multimodal discourse analysis and visitor studies.

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1317276515

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There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book, Revised and Expanded (Again)

A Sourcebook of Philosophical Puzzles, Problems, and Paradoxes

By: Robert M. Martin

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There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book, Revised and Expanded (Again)

A Sourcebook of Philosophical Puzzles, Problems, and Paradoxes

By: Robert M. Martin

As this book richly and entertainingly demonstrates, philosophy is as much the search for the right questions as it is the search for the right answers. Robert M. Martin’s popular collection of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes, jokes, and anecdotes is updated and expanded in this third edition, with dozens of new entries.

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Broadview Press

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1460402049

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9781460402047

British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century

By: Robert Page,Richard Silburn

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British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century

By: Robert Page,Richard Silburn

This major thematic and historical overview provides a clear guide to key welfare practices and developments in the public, private, voluntary and informal welfare sectors in twentieth-century Britain, outlining the dominant ideas about welfare in the period in question. As such, it offers an effective bridge between historical and contemporary concerns, drawing out some of the more rarely articulated premises of courses in the history of social policy and illuminating the social, political and economic dimensions of its subject.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349273988

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Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice: Prosperity in a stable world

By: Robert Corfe

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Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice: Prosperity in a stable world

By: Robert Corfe

The reform of the financial-industrial infrastructure cannot be undertaken without considering fully the political culture in which it exists. This book calls upon the business community to take such an initiative.

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Arena books

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0955605555

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9780955605550

Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about reformed churches.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538130041

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9781538130049

New Socialist Business Values

For Industrial Resurgence

By: Eddie Miller,Robert Corfe

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New Socialist Business Values

For Industrial Resurgence

By: Eddie Miller,Robert Corfe

This is Robert Corfe's third book on the socio-economic philosophy of New Socialism. Whilst in the earlier books he laid down the theoretical foundations for New Socialist economic thinking and formulated a terminology in advancing ideas for a better world, in this book he concentrates on practical proposals for ensuring an efficient financial-industrial infrastructure which correlates also with a fair society.

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Arena books

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0953846040

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9780953846047

Introducing Social Geographies

By: Rachel Pain,Jamie Gough,Graham Mowl,Michael Barke,Robert MacFarlene,Duncan Fuller

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Introducing Social Geographies

By: Rachel Pain,Jamie Gough,Graham Mowl,Michael Barke,Robert MacFarlene,Duncan Fuller

`Introducing Social Geographies' is a major new text offering a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of human geography. It presents a broad overview of social geography, clearly outlining the key theoretical and political positions, and making extensive use of examples to show how these frameworks can be used to analyse real social issues. The book is ideal for undergraduates first encountering social geography and includes topic overviews, summaries of key points, critiques, boxed case studies and suggestions for further reading.

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Routledge

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1444118722

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9781444118728

Paradise Planned

The Garden Suburb and the Modern City

By: Robert A.M. Stern,David Fishman,Jacob Tilove

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Paradise Planned

The Garden Suburb and the Modern City

By: Robert A.M. Stern,David Fishman,Jacob Tilove

Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.

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The Monacelli Press, LLC

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1580933262

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9781580933261

Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice: The people's capitalism

By: Robert Corfe

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Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice: The people's capitalism

By: Robert Corfe

In the second volume of Corfe's work on Social Capitalism, he examines the financial-industrial system and identifies issues, which are untouched by contemporary politicians across the political spectrum.

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Arena books

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0955605547

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The Spirit of New Socialism and the End of Class-based Politics

By: Robert Corfe

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The Spirit of New Socialism and the End of Class-based Politics

By: Robert Corfe

Changes in society over the past 50 years call for a new type of Socialism, and this book presents a striking new dynamic to attract the 90 per cent majority in the industrialised economies of today.

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0954316126

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9780954316129

Accounting for Steam and Cotton

Two Eighteenth Century Case Studies

By: Robert B. Williams

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Accounting for Steam and Cotton

Two Eighteenth Century Case Studies

By: Robert B. Williams

First published in 1988, this book arose from the author’s fascination with the period of the late eighteenth century and the two industries of cotton and steam that seem to characterise the period, the provision of power through the manufacture of steam engines and the rise to prominence of the cotton industry. Includes photographs and an exploration of people in these industries during the Industrial Revolution.

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Routledge

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1000526291

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9781000526295

Communism and Development (Routledge Revivals)

By: Robert Bideleux

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Communism and Development (Routledge Revivals)

By: Robert Bideleux

First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century. Robert Bideleux emphasises the appalling human and economic costs of the most widely adopted ‘Stalinist’ strategies of forced industrialisation and rural collectivisation. He also reconsiders the powerful arguments in favour of the most feasible and cost-effective alternatives to Stalinism, including ‘village communisms’ and ‘market socialisms’. A highly readable and challenging study, this reissue will be of particular value to students with research interests in Development Studies, East European History and Politics.

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Routledge

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1317703057

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9781317703051

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