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The Medieval Abbeys of England and Wales

A Resource Guide

By: Roland William Morant

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The Medieval Abbeys of England and Wales

A Resource Guide

By: Roland William Morant

This resource guide aims to assemble within one volume brief details of all the surviving buildings in England and Wales as well as smaller artifacts which may be described collectively as contents. The guide is targeted both at researchers from a variety of disciplines - historical, archaeological and architectural etc. - as well as at individual heritage enthusiasts who wish to track down items of particular interest. It is also hoped that it will become a standard of reference in libraries. About 580 monastic houses are referred to in the text, the author having visited almost all of them over a period of fifteen years. As far as the author is aware, no comprehensive effort has been made to bring this data together within one book. The work seeks therefore to fill a significant information gap.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412026040

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Main assets of Cardiff as a European Capital City

By: Roland Scheller

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Main assets of Cardiff as a European Capital City

By: Roland Scheller

Essay from the year 1999 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: 3,0, Cardiff University (School of European Studies), course: British Society and Culture, language: English, abstract: The aim of this essay is to show Cardiff’s quality as a European capital city. However we must not forget during this discussion that Cardiff is only a pseudo European capital city. There are a lot of assets that describe Cardiff as adequate. This essay attempts to give a survey of the assets, and above all to analyse Cardiff’s most important assets nowadays : its representation on the internet.

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GRIN Verlag

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3656705585

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9783656705581

Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine

Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine E-Book

By: Edwin Roland van Teijlingen,Gerald M Humphris

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Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine

Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine E-Book

By: Edwin Roland van Teijlingen,Gerald M Humphris

Now in its fourth edition, this definitive and popular introduction to human behaviour in the context of health and illness includes three new chapters, many new contributors and a new co-editor. It is arranged in nine sections to cover the core concepts of psychology and sociology as they apply to medicine. The life cycle Development of the person Society and health Preventing illness and promoting health Illness, behaviour and the doctor-patient encounter Illness and disability Coping with illness and disability Hoe do health services work How do you fit into all this? Topics presented as self-contained double-page spreads. Cases throughout to reinforce understanding of important concepts. Boxes and discussion points throughout. The authors comprise psychologists, sociologists and doctors. Highly illustrated 48 new contributors New co-editor, Gerry Humphris 3 new chapters: Malnutrition and obesity Urban nature health and well-being LGBT Health

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702062995

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9780702062995

Mirror of the World

Literature, Maps, and Geographic Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

By: Meg Roland

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Mirror of the World

Literature, Maps, and Geographic Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

By: Meg Roland

In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy’s second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era—the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this "Ptolemaic revival." As a result, the impact of Ptolemy’s text on English geographical thought has been obscured and minimalized, with scholars speculating a possible English indifference to or isolation from European geographic developments. Tracing English geographical thought through the material culture of literary and popular texts, this study provides evidence for the reception and transmission of Ptolemaic-based geography in England during a critical period of geographic innovation and synthesis, one that laid the foundation for modern geographical representation. With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England, one that reveals the lively integration of geographic concepts through narrative and non-cartographic visual forms.

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Routledge

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1000415791

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Demographic Analysis

Projections on Natality, Fertility and Replacement

By: Roland Pressat

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Demographic Analysis

Projections on Natality, Fertility and Replacement

By: Roland Pressat

Population control requires that the birth rate equal to the death rate. If it is too low population will decline; if it is too high, population will increase. If either condition persists long enough the population will diminish towards zero or increase towards infinity. Fortunately, the birth trajectory does not have to be set once and for all, but can be adjusted within limits. Since birth and death rates determine whether we are heading for population extinction or explosion, they are well designated "vital statistics." Their understanding and use are a central theme of demographic analysis."Demographic Analysis" presents those techniques that are often called for in the study of demographic problems. Such techniques permit researchers to fill the gap between the large amounts of data made available by censuses and the theoretical and practical questions that need to be answered; the techniques of this book effectively bring the data into confrontation with the problems. In his treatment of population projection, Pressat applies methods developed in earlier sections for mortality arid fertility. The emphasis is on population projection and accords with its usefulness in demographic analysis. The meaning of a demographic rate or trend is brought out by seeing to what condition it would lead if continued. No assumption is made that the concrete future will follow either path.The substance of the book is devoted to the main themes of mortality and fertility. Underlying these as well as nearly every other kind of data with which the demographer deals is the problem of location in time - the relation of vital events to the calendar, and also to the age of the persons undergoing them. Pressat's detailed attention to this problem forms a solid basis for how current methodology accounts of demographic changes.

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0429604793

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Criticism of Religion

On Marxism and Theology, II

By: Roland Boer

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Criticism of Religion

On Marxism and Theology, II

By: Roland Boer

Criticism of Religion offers a spirited critical commentary on the engagements with religion and theology by a range of leading Marxist philosophers and critics: Lucien Goldmann, Fredric Jameson, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams. Apart from offering sustained critique, the aim is to gather key insights from these critics in order to develop a comprehensive theory of religion. The book follows on the heels of the acclaimed Criticism of Heaven, being the second volume of a five volume series called Criticism of Heaven and Earth.

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BRILL

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9004176462

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Urban Hydroinformatics

Data, Models, and Decision Support for Integrated Urban Water Management

By: Roland K. Price,Zoran Vojinovi?

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Urban Hydroinformatics

Data, Models, and Decision Support for Integrated Urban Water Management

By: Roland K. Price,Zoran Vojinovi?

This book is an introduction to hydroinformatics applied to urban water management. It shows how to make the best use of information and communication technologies for manipulating information to manage water in the urban environment. The book covers the acquisition and analysis of data from urban water systems to instantiate mathematical models or calculations, which describe identified physical processes. The models are operated within prescribed management procedures to inform decision makers, who are responsible to recognized stakeholders. The application is to the major components of the urban water environment, namely water supply, treatment and distribution, wastewater and stormwater collection, treatment and impact on receiving waters, and groundwater and urban flooding. Urban Hydroinformatics pays particular attention to modeling, decision support through procedures, economics and management, and implementation in both developed and developing countries. The book is written with post-graduates, researchers and practicing engineers who are involved in urban water management and want to improve the scope and reliability of their systems.

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IWA Publishing

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1843392747

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9781843392743

Population Geography

By: Huw Roland Jones

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Population Geography

By: Huw Roland Jones

Illustrated with a wide range of case studies drawn from all parts of the world, POPULATION GEOGRAPHY clearly depicts the cause-and-effect links between demographic change and the socio-economic transformation of societies. Providing timely information in a clear and accessible style, the text is an ideal classroom text for instructors who are introducing their students to the topic of population geography.

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Guilford Press

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0898624649

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9780898624649

Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram

By: Roland Rau,Christina Bohk-Ewald,Magdalena M. Muszyńska,James W. Vaupel

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Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram

By: Roland Rau,Christina Bohk-Ewald,Magdalena M. Muszyńska,James W. Vaupel

This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time. This rather novel approach offers a more intuitive understanding of the underlying dynamics, enabling readers to better understand whether period- or cohort-effects were instrumental for the development of mortality in a particular country. Besides maps for single countries, the book includes maps on the dynamics of selected causes of death in the United States, such as cardiovascular diseases or lung cancer. The book also features maps for age-specific contributions to the change in life expectancy, for cancer survival and for seasonality in mortality for selected causes of death in the United States. The book is accompanied by instructions on how to use the freely available R Software to produce these types of surface maps. Readers are encouraged to use the presented tools to visualize other demographic data or any event that can be measured by age and calendar time, allowing them to adapt the methods to their respective research interests. The intended audience is anyone who is interested in visualizing data by age and calendar time; no specialist knowledge is required. This book is open access under a CC BY license.

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Springer

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3319648209

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Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State

By: Roland Jackson

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Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State

By: Roland Jackson

In twenty-first-century Britain, scientific advice to government is highly organized, integrated across government departments, and led by a chief scientific adviser who reports directly to the prime minister. But at the end of the eighteenth century, when Roland Jackson’s account begins, things were very different. With this book, Jackson turns his attention to the men of science of the day—who derived their knowledge of the natural world from experience, observation, and experiment—focusing on the essential role they played in proffering scientific advice to the state, and the impact of that advice on public policy. At a time that witnessed huge scientific advances and vast industrial development, and as the British state sought to respond to societal, economic, and environmental challenges, practitioners of science, engineering, and medicine were drawn into close involvement with politicians. Jackson explores the contributions of these emerging experts, the motivations behind their involvement, the forces that shaped this new system of advice, and the legacy it left behind. His book provides the first detailed analysis of the provision of scientific, engineering, and medical advice to the nineteenth-century British government, parliament, the civil service, and the military.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822990059

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9780822990055

The Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders

By: Dr. Roland A. Y. Holou

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The Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders

By: Dr. Roland A. Y. Holou

In this comprehensive reference and background book, Dr. Roland Holou highlights the lives, visions, achievements, policies, and strategies of exceptional contemporary African Diaspora leaders across the globe. This inspirational collection of biographies motivates, challenges, and encourages current and future generations of people of African descent to take initiative and offers guidance to those interested in Africas development. It enlightens and empowers readers with stories that showcase the diversity, complexity, and richness of the ongoing global African Diaspora engagement efforts. It also presents powerful accounts of experiences, growth, struggle, failure, and success that will provoke interest in the field of Diaspora engagement and inspire readers to stand up and face lifes many challenges. The featured leaders are known for their long-lasting achievements. Their impressive actions both contributed to important historical movements that significantly shaped and transformed the lives and history of people of African descent and removed major roadblocks preventing the prosperity of Africa and its Diaspora. They have brought about enormous and rare progress that would have been impossible without their leadership; their contributions have greatly improved the freedom and economic and political development of Africa and its Diaspora. If you are interested in learning the secrets of these modern leaders who have accomplished outstanding tasks and demonstrated professional excellence and character while performing duties related to Africa and its Diaspora, then this is the book for you. Since influence can have negative effects as well, this book also addresses destructive actions of certain leaders that are pulling down both Africa and its people. To learn more about this book, please visit www.AfricanDiasporaLeaders.com.

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AuthorHouse

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1524605581

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9781524605582

Echinoderm Research 1995

By: Roland Emson,Andrew Smith,Andrew Campbell

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Echinoderm Research 1995

By: Roland Emson,Andrew Smith,Andrew Campbell

This volume demonstrates the wide range of echinoderm research, from molecular genetics to palaeontology, in progress today. It features 45 papers on: biochemical and molecular studies; environmental monitoring; functional biology; palaeontology; development, growth and regeneration; and reproduction.

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CRC Press

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9054105968

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9789054105961

Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World

The Telegraph and Globalization

By: Roland Wenzlhuemer

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Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World

The Telegraph and Globalization

By: Roland Wenzlhuemer

A revealing insight into the links between globalization and the technological advances in communication brought about by the telegraph network.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107025281

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9781107025288

The Finite Element Method in Heat Transfer Analysis

By: Roland W. Lewis,Ken Morgan,H. R. Thomas,Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu

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The Finite Element Method in Heat Transfer Analysis

By: Roland W. Lewis,Ken Morgan,H. R. Thomas,Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu

Heat transfer analysis is a problem of major significance in a vast range of industrial applications. These extend over the fields of mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering and numerous applications in civil and electrical engineering. If one considers the heat conduction equation alone the number of practical problems amenable to solution is extensive. Expansion of the work to include features such as phase change, coupled heat and mass transfer, and thermal stress analysis provides the engineer with the capability to address a further series of key engineering problems. The complexity of practical problems is such that closed form solutions are not generally possible. The use of numerical techniques to solve such problems is therefore considered essential, and this book presents the use of the powerful finite element method in heat transfer analysis. Starting with the fundamental general heat conduction equation, the book moves on to consider the solution of linear steady state heat conduction problems, transient analyses and non-linear examples. Problems of melting and solidification are then considered at length followed by a chapter on convection. The application of heat and mass transfer to drying problems and the calculation of both thermal and shrinkage stresses conclude the book. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the basic concepts introduced. This book is the outcome of the teaching and research experience of the authors over a period of more than 20 years.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471943622

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9780471943624

Practice Notes on Executorship and Administration

By: Roland D'Costa

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Practice Notes on Executorship and Administration

By: Roland D'Costa

A source of practical information relating to the powers, rights and duties of personal representatives responsible for handling an estate. It adopts a problem-solving approach, taking the reader through the stages of obtaining a grant of probate, with advice on all administrative aspects.

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Cavendish Publishing

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1843141809

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9781843141808

Aliens and Alienists

Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry

By: Maurice Lipsedge,Roland Littlewood

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Aliens and Alienists

Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry

By: Maurice Lipsedge,Roland Littlewood

In this classic text the authors examine the links between racism, psychological ill health and inadequate treatment of ethnic minorities. Through a series of case studies they discuss: * the psychological legacy of colonialism and slavery * the racist bias in psychiatric and psychological theory * diagnostic bias * the role of religion in mental health or illness * the value of anthropological and pschoanalytic insights. The concluding chapter in this edition reviews the development of 'transcultural psychiatry' and summarises changes in administration of the Mental Health Act.

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Routledge

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1134728875

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9781134728879

Seasonality in Human Mortality

A Demographic Approach

By: Roland Rau

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Seasonality in Human Mortality

A Demographic Approach

By: Roland Rau

Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon, but variations from culture to culture pose fascinating questions. This book investigates whether sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors play a role as important for seasonal mortality as they do for mortality in general. Using modern statistical methods, the book shows, for example, that in the United States the fluctuations between winter and summer mortality are smaller the more years someone has spent in school.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540449027

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9783540449027

British Prime Ministers and Democracy

From Disraeli to Blair

By: Roland Quinault

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British Prime Ministers and Democracy

From Disraeli to Blair

By: Roland Quinault

Today representative democracy is the dominant political system in the world. Britain played a prominent part in the democratization of the world through both its constitutional reforms at home and its power and influence abroad. In that process, Prime Ministers played a prominent role through their power and influence in government, Parliament and the country more generally. Quinault examines the stance of ten leading Prime Ministers - from the mid-nineteenth century until the twenty-first century - on the theory and practice of democracy. The attitude of each Prime Minister is assessed by considering their general views on democracy and their use of that term and concept in their discourse and thereby their role in advancing or resisting democratic political change. Particular attention is paid to their role in electoral reform, together with their stance on the composition and powers of the House of Lords and the role of the monarchy in the governing process. Their attitudes to the democratic aspects of some major international issues are also considered.

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A&C Black

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1441112278

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9781441112279

Tourism, Performance, and Place

A Geographic Perspective

By: Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland,Ms Lisa C Braverman,Professor Daniel C Knudsen

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Tourism, Performance, and Place

A Geographic Perspective

By: Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland,Ms Lisa C Braverman,Professor Daniel C Knudsen

Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographically informed theory of tourism. Such a theory integrates the ways in which places are co-produced, circulated, interpreted, experienced, and performed for and by tourists, tourism boards, and even as everyday spaces. Bringing together theories of ritual, Peircean semiotics, ideology, and performance, the authors blend the often separate literatures of tourism sites and touristic practices. Whereas most tourism texts focus on a part of the 'tourism equation'-the tourism site, or the tourist experience-a geographic theory of tourism brings these constituent parts together in thinking about notions of place. Place processes are central to geography as well as tourism studies because tourism facilitates encounters with distinct locations. As this book argues, considering tourism as performative draws disparate areas of tourism theory together to better understand the ways tourism happens in and across places.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472403746

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9781472403742

Waugh's Way

The Steve Waugh Story - Learner, Legend, Leader

By: Roland Perry

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Waugh's Way

The Steve Waugh Story - Learner, Legend, Leader

By: Roland Perry

The bestselling biography of Steve Waugh, updated to include the latest action and his controversial dropping as One-Day captain and batsman." "This is the story of how a battling fringe Test player reinvented himself as one of the greats in Australian cricket history by courage, skill and application. Steve Waugh was fast-tracked into the Test arena when Australia reached its lowest ebb in half a century. Not only was he under-prepared, he didn't find the atmosphere inviting. His captain, Allan Border, was frustrated in managing 'a bunch of losers', who were not as skilful or committed as the leader. But Border had faith in Waugh. He had a bit of 'mongrel' in him that was essential for sustained success at the top. Waugh absorbed the shock and humiliation at being beaten by most teams, including New Zealand, in the mid-to-late 1980s. He just maintained his place as an all-rounder, who was not quite a Test standard batsman or bowler. But there were bright spots, including a win in the 1988 World Cup, in which Waugh, bowling at the 'death' in matches, earned the sobriquet, 'the ice-man' for his bowling under pressure. In 1989, Steve Waugh came of age as a star Test batsman with dominant big innings against England during the 1989 Ashes. After that Waugh slumped and was dropped---to make way for his brother Mark. Yet Stev

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1740511824

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