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The Concept of Water

By: Rupert D. V. Glasgow

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Water is commonly taken for granted and treated with contempt, yet it is the very foundation of human existence. Assuming countless forms, it is deeply associated both with life and death, body and soul, purity and pollution, creation and destruction. "The Concept of Water" seeks to bring together the various aspects of our deeply ambiguous relationship with water, providing a systematic account of its symbolic and philosophical significance. This involves looking at how water has been conceived and the role it has played in everyday thought, mythology, literature, religion, philosophy, politics and science, both across cultures and through history. R. D. V. Glasgow was born in Sheffield and currently lives in Zaragoza. His previous books are "Madness, Masks and Laughter" (1995), "Split Down the Sides" (1997), and "The Comedy of Mind" (1999).

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0956159508

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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

The Autobiography

By: Rupert Everett

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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

The Autobiography

By: Rupert Everett

Revealing himself to be a consummate storyteller, stage and screen star Everett ("My Best Friend's Wedding") pens a delightfully witty memoir in which he reveals his life experiences as an up-and-coming actor, detailing everything from the eccentricities of the British upper class to the madness of Hollywood.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0759571392

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9780759571396

England Versus Scotland

By: Rupert Matthews

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England Versus Scotland

By: Rupert Matthews

Delve into a thousand years of battle and rebellion with this vivid chronicle of warfare between Scotland and England—with battlefield information. Today, England and Scotland limit their fierce rivalry to the football field, but as historian Rupert Matthews demonstrates in this engaging volume, this was not always the case. Before the eighteenth century Act of Settlement in the Eighteenth Century, these neighboring lands were locked in a long, contentious, and often bloody conflict. Matthews has researched more than twenty major battles between England and Scotland. They range from the seventh century Battle of Degsastan to the Jaobite Rising’s bitter end at Culloden in the eighteenth century. Each battle forms a chapter, explaining the causes of the conflict, the forces involved, the battle itself, and a brief guide to the battlefield as it is today.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783379758

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9781783379750

Lippincott NCLEX-RN Alternate Format Questions

By: Diana L. Rupert

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Lippincott NCLEX-RN Alternate Format Questions

By: Diana L. Rupert

needed for students to be fully prepared to answer every type of question found on the NCLEX. More than 600 questions include multiple-response, drag-and-drop, hotspot, audio, chart, graphic option, and fill-in-the blank questions. Also included are two comprehensive tests with 100 questions each. Rationales are clear and detailed and cover correct as well as incorrect answers. Test-taking strategies help students dissect each question to its core components and provide keys to choosing the right answer. The book reviews all the topics covered on the actual NCLEX-RN. Hundreds of questions at the application level or above prompt active learning and higher-order thinking. Questions are aligned with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) 2016 RN test plan and are written in the style used on the licensing examination. An accompanying PassPoint trial provides an additional opportunity for students to practice for NCLEX while also giving a glimpse of the full PassPoint experience.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496325338

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9781496325334

Physic and Philanthropy

A History of the Wellcome Trust 1936-1986

By: A. Rupert Hall,B. A. Bembridge

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Physic and Philanthropy

A History of the Wellcome Trust 1936-1986

By: A. Rupert Hall,B. A. Bembridge

The Wellcome Trust is a charitable institution supporting medical and allied research throughout the world. This History of the Trust marks the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in 1986. Professor A. Rupert Hall, a prominent science historian, long associated with the Trust, and B. A. Bembridge, a retired Trust scientist, have written this lucid and well informed account which charts the development of the organisation from its inception in 1936 to the present day. Within this framework, there is an underlying discussion of the 'philosophy' of the financial endowment of science and medicine. The Wellcome Trust has had an enormous impact on medical research over the years. This volume provides a unique insight into the development of a leading scientific research body, and its relevance to similar institutions the world over.

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CUP Archive

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0521326397

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9780521326391

Lippincott Review for NCLEX-PN

By: Barbara K. Timby,Diana L. Rupert

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Lippincott Review for NCLEX-PN

By: Barbara K. Timby,Diana L. Rupert

Lippincott Review for NCLEX-PN, 11E is designed to help pre-licensure nursing students in practical and vocational nursing programs prepare to take the licensing examination. More than 2,000 questions span all areas of nursing practice. Seventeen specialty tests contain questions across all the Client Need categories of the NCLEX-PN. A two-part Comprehensive Examination contains 263 items--more than the maximum of 205 questions asked on the NCLEX-PN—to provide an outlet for comprehensive review and test practice. Every test section concludes with a review of Correct Answers, Rationales, and Test Taking Strategies. A detailed section of Frequently Asked Questions provides details about the design and process of the NCLEX-PN, as well as tips for students on how to prepare. Questions fully align with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) 2017 PN test plan and are written in the style used on the licensing examination, including the use of all the types of alternate-format questions found on the licensing examination. A free trial of PassPoint PN provides book purchasers an opportunity to practice with additional questions and gives a sneak preview of the full PassPoint PN product.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496324714

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9781496324719

The Mick Ronson Story

Turn and Face the Strange

By: Rupert Creed,Garry Burnett

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The Mick Ronson Story

Turn and Face the Strange

By: Rupert Creed,Garry Burnett

This book explores Mick Ronson's life and career with his family, friends, fellow musicians and fans. For devotees of David Bowie, and Mick Ronson – the Spider from Hull – who lit up the fabulous Ziggy Stardust shows with his dazzling guitar playing and powerful stage presence. This is Mick Ronson's story. And it begins in his home-town of Hull. Based on the successful show Turn and Face the Strange. With unique material and exclusive interviews with fellow musicians, friends and family (to include Maggie Ronson, his sister, and Nick Ronson, his son) and those who knew him. A new leading biography of guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer and musician Mick Ronson. Most famous for his critical contribution to David Bowie's spectacular live band, studio albums including Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Aladdin Sane. Mick also helped produce Lou Reed's Transformer, released five solo studio albums, performing in bands with Ian Hunter, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan as well as working with many other musicians. This is an authentic story of a boy from a council estate from Hull who achieved international rock god status. Set in a time of seismic social change, with colliding cultures of personal and community identity, image and fashion, gender roles and sexual freedom.

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McNidder & Grace

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0857162276

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9780857162274

Why Climate Breakdown Matters

By: Rupert Read

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Why Climate Breakdown Matters

By: Rupert Read

Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity. As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown. Why Climate Breakdown Matters is a practical guide on how to be a radical, responsible climate activist.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350212040

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9781350212046

Sports Law

By: Michael Beloff KC,Tim Kerr QC,Marie Demetriou QC,Rupert Beloff

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Sports Law

By: Michael Beloff KC,Tim Kerr QC,Marie Demetriou QC,Rupert Beloff

Sports law has been growing with increasing rapidity over the years since the first edition of this book was published in 1999, regularly making headlines as well as leading to a developing body of law practised by specialist lawyers. This revised work, by leading practitioners in the field, with a foreword by Lord Coe, provides a coherent framework for understanding the principles of sports law in this area, as well as a deep analysis of its key features. The subject is split into various areas of practice: first, regulatory rules, which embrace the constitutional aspect of organised sport, including the disciplinary procedures of the various governing organisations; second, broadcasting and marketing resulting from the commercial exploitation, including sponsorship, of sports clubs, sporting events and players; and third, player's rights and obligations, which embraces a wide range of legal issues including club transfers and player contracts, and issues arising from employment (including discrimination law), personal injury and criminal law. Special attention is paid to the impact of EU and Human Rights law as well as to the influential jurisprudence of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. London 2012 provides an appropriate point at which to assess the current state of the law, as well as a look to the future. The target readership extends from solicitors, barristers and legal advisers, to sports organisations and clubs, corporations involved in marketing and sponsorship, media companies, academics teaching sports law, and sports administrators. “I commend it to everyone who has to administer sport as well as to those who have to advise the administrators or argue cases in the field on whatever side. It is a gold medal book.” From the Foreword by Lord Coe KBE This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Sports Law online service.

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1782250344

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9781782250340

Miniature Books

The Stephen and Sandra Joffe Collection

By: Rupert Neelands,Stephen Joffe

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Miniature Books

The Stephen and Sandra Joffe Collection

By: Rupert Neelands,Stephen Joffe

This catalogue gives detailed description of 220 miniature books divided into eight sections located in the library of Dunderave Castle in Scotland. The three major sections include Rare Books, Almanacs and Thumb Bibles followed by five minor sections which include Prayer Books, the Koran with other works from 18th, 19th Centuries, post 1900 and Objets d’Art. The collection at Dunderave Castle consists of two collections purchased at auction. The initial was from the Dutch book dealer Nico Israel and his wife Nanni collected over their lifetime from important collections such as the Houghton sale in 1979 and include the earliest published miniature the Kalendarium of 1570 by Plantin. The other titles purchased from Mr. and Mrs. John Gutfreund from New York included several books from the Salomon collection. Following the introduction, a detailed description is given of the books with photographic images taken by Iain McLean and John Linton. Miniature books are defined as 3 inches (77cm) or less in height but for books printed in 19th Century or earlier it can be extended to 4 inches. The Israel collection was housed in a Miniature revolving bookcase, a bureau cabinet and a pedestal bookcase.

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1665548371

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9781665548373

The Little Book of the Paranormal

By: Rupert Matthews

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The Little Book of the Paranormal

By: Rupert Matthews

The paranormal is a subject of endless fascination to the book-buying public. There is an insatiable appetite for tales of UFOs, ghosts, bigfoot and other features of our world that are frequently reported by eye-witnesses, but are not yet accepted by science as being genuine phenomena or events. This little book introduces the reader to the world of the paranormal and entertains them with numerous anecdotes, snippets of information and lists of events. Rupert Matthews has produced an amusing, and yet serious volume that will leave the reader wondering just why scientists refuse to study the amazing world of the paranormal. The book is divided into eight chapters, including: UFOs and aliens, Bigfoot and man-apes, ghosts and hauntings, sea-serpents and lake monsters, predictions and curses, poltergeists, paranormal humans and 'going beyond' - which deals with near-death experiences and mediumship. This is a thought-provoking book covering all aspects of the paranormal in an accessible and entertaining way.

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The History Press

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0752471309

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9780752471303

The Victorian Visitors

Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Rupert Christiansen

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The Victorian Visitors

Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Rupert Christiansen

In the nineteenth century, London was a city of big money, large audiences, and creative dynamism. In The Victorian Visitors, Rupert Christiansen lucidly captures the city to which visitors went in search of the artistic fervor, fame, and wealth that only London could offer. The great French painter Theodore Gericault escaped to London after a disappointing reception in Paris to show his painting, Raft of the "Medusa." The high pitch and hustle of London life influenced the fecundity and variety of several of his paintings, including Derby d'Epsom. Composer Richard Wagner went for the first time in search of money, but was disappointed to find the audiences indiscriminating, the musicians poorly trained, and the weather depressing. Writing to his friend Liszt in a frenzy of despair, he said, "I live here like a damned soul in hell." Then there was the demon Australian bowler, Frederick Spofforth, who changed the course of English cricket.

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Grove Press

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0802139337

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9780802139337

A Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-bowls with an Account of the Bowls Found in Scandinavia

By: Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford,Sheila Raven

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A Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-bowls with an Account of the Bowls Found in Scandinavia

By: Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford,Sheila Raven

Celtic hanging-bowls were produced from the fifth to the eleventh century and range from simple functional vessels to great masterpieces of the period. The first part of the publication sets the bowls in their historical and cultural background and discusses all key aspects of hanging-bowlresearch, including the much-disputed topics of origin, use, and chronology. The second part is a comprehensive and highly detailed catalogue, dealing with the whole series from Britain and Europe. The publication is lavishly illustrated with over a thousand black and white illustrations and eightcolour plates. This long-awaited book by the leading authority on the subject will become the definitive work on this distinctive class of Celtic artefact.

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019813410X

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9780198134107

The Minimal Self

By: Rupert Glasgow

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The Minimal Self

By: Rupert Glasgow

Self' is a term that is much used but often poorly understood or over-hastily dismissed. In The Minimal Self R.D.V. Glasgow seeks to unearth the underlying nature of selfhood. Glasgow's approach is based upon the notion of 'intrinsic reflexivity', which manifests itself in three fundamental forms: self-maintenance, self-reproduction and self-containment. Through a conceptual analysis of selfhood, Glasgow aims to ascertain what distinguishes full forms of minimal selfhood from entities such as genes and viruses that are merely selfish or self-like. The idea is to establish the logical prerequisites for the transition from a world bereft of selfhood to one populated by selves like us. Minimal selfhood thus provides a bridge linking philosophy, biology and other disciplines that have previously failed to coincide in their understanding of what a self is.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3958260527

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9783958260528

Modest Major General

By: Rupert Litherland

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Modest Major General

By: Rupert Litherland

Colonel Rupert Litherland's last published work was a highly regarded biography of Major General Bunny Burnett, and he has now returned to the fray with a biography of Major General Ronnie McAlister. Both men were 10th Gurkhas, both held the post of Major General Brigade of Gurkhas but were very different personalities. With Burnett what you saw was what you got: scruffy, laid back, extrovert, hail fellow well met, humorous, a smoker who enjoyed a drink, all of which did nothing to hide a great deal of common sense, tremendous professional competence and much operational experience that had won him an MC and a DSO. McAlister was much less of an extrovert, outwardly reserved, not at all showy, impeccably mannered, and a modest drinker but with a sharp and perceptive brain with the ability to reduce the most complicated situations to its basics that could be understood by all. In terms of authorship this biography was probably much more difficult to write than that of Burnett, if only because Ronnie McAlister was much more of a private person. Commissioned into the 3rd Gurkhas in 1942 and a temporary major three years later, he transferred to 10th Gurkhas when his own 3rd Gurkhas went to the army of the newly independent India. McAlister swiftly gained a reputation as a superb trainer and staff officer. Litherland traces this phase of his career in detail and shows how McAlister's reputation for being able to shine in any demanding staff appointment reduced his experience of operations. That may well be so, but as this book shows admirably, when 'Ronnie Mac' took command of 1/10th Gurkha Rifles that battalion achieved more in the course of the Borneo campaign than any other Gurkha battalion - and that bar was very high indeed.Of particular value, not just to the Brigade but to military historians generally, is the account of the events on the Hong Kong border in 1967 when McAlister was in command of 1/10 GR. Litherland has gone to great lengths to uncover previously unpublished sources and to interview leading participants, and he has produced what is certainly the most accurate account to date, and which is unlikely to be surpassed.As Litherland says, those of us who knew General Ronnie and had served under him would have liked to acknowledge his service and his friendship at a memorial service, but it is the measure of the man that when he knew he was dying, at the very respectable age of ninety-two, he insisted that there was to be no fuss and no memorial service.This is an excellent book which well captures the character of a fine officer and a man of great kindness and humility who even when achieving high rank never lost the human touch. Gordon Corrigan - Author 'Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First world War

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New Generation Publishing

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1800315309

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9781800315303

Review of Civil Litigation Costs

Final Report

By: Great Britain. Ministry of Justice,Rupert M. Jackson

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Review of Civil Litigation Costs

Final Report

By: Great Britain. Ministry of Justice,Rupert M. Jackson

Lord Justice Jackson was required: to review the rules and principles governing the costs of civil litigation and to make recommendations in order to promote access to justice at proportionate cost; to review case management procedures; to have regard to research into costs and funding; to consult widely; to compare our costs regime with those of other jurisdictions; and to prepare a report setting out recommendations with supporting evidence by 31st December 2009. A preliminary report was issued in May 2009 and is also published alongside this final report (ISBN 9780117064034). Major recommendations cover: conditional fee agreements, of which "no win, no fee" agreements are the most common species, and which have been the major contributor to disproportionate costs; success fees and ATE (after-the-event) insurance premiums should cease to be recoverable from unsuccessful opponents in civil litigation; success fees should come out of the damages awarded to the client; awards of general damages should be increased by 10 per cent, and the maximum amount of damages that lawyers may deduct for success fees be capped at 25 per cent of damages; lawyers should not be permitted to pay referral fees in respect of personal injury cases; qualified one way costs shifting, taking away the need for ATE insurance; fixed costs in fast track litigation; establishment of a Costs Council. Other sections of the report deal with: other funding issues; personal injuries litigation; some specific types of litigation; and controlling the costs - including pre-action protocols, greater use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), disclosure, case and costs management by the judiciary.

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The Stationery Office

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0117064041

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9780117064041

Henry More

And the Scientific Revolution

By: A. Rupert Hall

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Henry More

And the Scientific Revolution

By: A. Rupert Hall

Thorough, accessible biography of the greatest English metaphysical theologian and peer of Newton.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521892643

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9780521892643

Death of a Murderer

By: Rupert Thomson

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Death of a Murderer

By: Rupert Thomson

After decades in prison for crimes gruesomely familiar to everyone in England, a murderer has finally died of natural causes, no less notorious in death than she was in life. Billy Tyler, a career policeman, has been assigned the task of guarding her body in the hospital morgue. But alone on a graveyard shift his wife begged him not accept, Billy has occasion to contemplate the various turns his life has taken and to discover why it is that on this dark night of the soul the reviled murderer seems to speak to him directly. Death of a Murderer is a gripping novel of crime, punishment, fear, and temptation.

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Vintage

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0307267059

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9780307267054

Universities' Reputation

By: Juan Manuel Mora,John Haldane,Concepción Naval,Rupert Younger,Pilar Lostao,Louise Simpson,Víctor Pérez-Díaz,Juan Carlos Rodríguez

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Universities' Reputation

By: Juan Manuel Mora,John Haldane,Concepción Naval,Rupert Younger,Pilar Lostao,Louise Simpson,Víctor Pérez-Díaz,Juan Carlos Rodríguez

This book is the result of a number of people´s work and dedication, and who together have made it possible to hold the Building Universities´ Reputation conference at the University of Navarra on April 22nd, 23rd and 24th 2015.

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Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, EUNSA

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8431331046

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9788431331047

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