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Reeds Eastern Almanac 2025

By: Perrin Towler,Simon Jollands

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The Reeds Eastern Almanac is the complete guide for North Sea mariners, offering ready access to essential navigation information covering the UK east coast from Ramsgate to Cape Wrath including the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and from Niewport to Delfzjil and Helgoland. Completely updated for 2025, topics include seamanship, pilotage, tide tables, safety procedures, navigation tips, radio, lights, waypoints, weather forecast information around UK and European waters, communications, Mayday and distress procedures. The large type and clear layout, including full colour harbour plans and diagrams throughout, makes information easy to read even in adverse conditions. This handy volume is ideal for anyone cruising the North Sea. Includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk 'There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them.' Sir Chay Blyth

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139941688X

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Reeds Nautical Almanac 2025

By: Perrin Towler,Simon Jollands

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Reeds Nautical Almanac 2025

By: Perrin Towler,Simon Jollands

Reeds Nautical Almanac is the indispensable trusted annual compendium of navigational data for yachtsmen and motorboaters. Known as the Yachtsman's Bible, Reeds provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the whole of the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and the entire European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, Northern Morocco, the Azores and Madeira. The 2025 Almanac continues the tradition of year on year improvement and meticulous presentation of all the data required for safe navigation. Now with an improved layout for easier reference and with over 45,000 annual changes, it is regarded as the bible of almanacs for anyone going to sea. The 2025 edition is updated throughout and includes: 700 harbour chartlets; tide tables and tidal streams; buoyage and lights; 7,500 waypoints; invaluable passage notes; distance tables; radio, weather and safety information; first aid section. Also: a free Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk

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1399416812

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Shakespeare's Bastard

The Life of Sir William Davenant

By: Simon Stirling

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Shakespeare's Bastard

The Life of Sir William Davenant

By: Simon Stirling

Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) – Poet Laureate and Civil War hero – is one of the most influential and neglected figures in the history of British theatre. He introduced ‘opera’, actresses, scenes and the proscenium arch to the English stage. Narrowly escaping execution for his Royalist activities during the Civil War, he revived theatrical performances in London, right under Oliver Cromwell’s nose. Nobody, perhaps, did more to secure Shakespeare’s reputation or to preserve the memory of the Bard.Davenant was known to boast over a glass of wine that he wrote ‘with the very spirit’ of Shakespeare and was happy to be thought of as Shakespeare’s son. By recounting the story of his eventful life backwards, through his many trials and triumphs, this biography culminates with a fresh examination of the vexed issue of Davenant’s paternity. Was Sir William’s mother the voluptuous and maddening ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and was he Shakespeare’s ‘lovely boy’?

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The History Press

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0750968567

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Oxford Handbook of General Practice

By: Chantal Simon,Hazel Everitt,Francoise van Dorp

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Oxford Handbook of General Practice

By: Chantal Simon,Hazel Everitt,Francoise van Dorp

This pack combines the seminal handbook of general practice and its emergencies companion. As such it represents excellent value and should be an essential addition to the medical student's, general practitioner's, or junior doctor's bookshelf.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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Why War

Capitalism and the Nation-State

By: Simon Stander

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Why War

Capitalism and the Nation-State

By: Simon Stander

This groundbreaking survey explains why war remains predominant in today's world by showing how the spread of nationalism and capitalism has brought about modern warfare. It argues that the key explanation for modern conflict, which is characterized by violent conflicts between nation-states, civil war, and wars over resources, rests in the dialectical relationship between nation-states and capitalist modes of production, where nations have finite boundaries that capitalism seek to transcend in search of increased profits. Discussing issues such as globalization, global capitalism, North and Latin American continental policies, the nature of democracy, decolonization, and technology and military industrial complexes, this unique work challenges common approaches to international relations and peace studies. This innovative, accessible work provides new insights into the causes and nature of modern war that will appeal to any student concerned with peace and violent conflict within the various fields of international relations, political economy, peace studies, and more.

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Prison Life Writing

Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System

By: Simon Rolston

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Prison Life Writing

Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System

By: Simon Rolston

Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U.S. prison system. Simon Rolston observes that the autobiographical work of incarcerated people is based on a conversion narrative, a story arc that underpins the concept of prison rehabilitation and that sometimes serves the interests of the prison system, rather than those on the inside. Yet many imprisoned people rework the conversion narrative the way they repurpose other objects in prison. Like a radio motor retooled into a tattoo gun, the conversion narrative has been redefined by some authors for subversive purposes, including questioning the ostensible emancipatory role of prison writing, critiquing white supremacy, and broadly reimagining autobiographical discourse. An interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies, Prison Life Writing theorizes how life writing works in prison, explains literature’s complicated entanglements with institutional power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of one of America’s most fascinating literary genres.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771125187

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Where to Watch Birds in Britain

By: Simon Harrap,Nigel Redman

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Where to Watch Birds in Britain

By: Simon Harrap,Nigel Redman

An authoritative guide covering the best birdwatching sites in Britain. This handy field guide covers the very best birding sites in Britain. In a format familiar to readers of this popular series, each site is considered in terms of 'Habitat', Access' and 'Birds', aiding birders of all levels to plan successful birding trips anywhere in Britain, and to maximise the chances of getting the best out of each site and each region. The book includes attractive and accurate line drawings, detailed maps of the larger sites, plus general maps of the regions covered. Extensively revised with several new sites added for this edition, it also includes important information on disabled access.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472986776

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Saudi Arabia and Iran

Power and Rivalry in the Middle East

By: Simon Mabon

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Saudi Arabia and Iran

Power and Rivalry in the Middle East

By: Simon Mabon

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Amongst the most-affected was the relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The existence of a new regime in Tehran led to increasingly vitriolic confrontations between these two states, often manifesting themselves in the conflicts across the region, such as those in Lebanon and Iraq, and more recently in Bahrain and Syria. In this new and revised second edition, Simon Mabon examines the different identity groups within Saudi Arabia and Iran (made up of various religions, ethnicities and tribal groupings), proposing that internal insecurity has an enormous impact on the wider ideological and geopolitical competition between the two. With analysis of this heated and often uneasy relationship and its impact on the wider Middle East, this book is vital for those researching international relations and diplomacy in the region.

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1788316320

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Haunted by the Past

By: Simon R. Green

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Haunted by the Past

By: Simon R. Green

NEW ISHMAEL JONES NOVEL FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING URBAN FANTASY NOVELIST SIMON R. GREEN. SUPERNATURAL DETECTIVE ISHMAEL JONES IS BACK IN THIS LATEST INSTALLMENT OF GREEN'S POPULAR SERIES. Ishmael Jones knows all there is to know about solving mysteries. Together with his love and partner in crimes, Penny Belcourt, he specializes in cases of the weird and uncanny. Lucas Carr went to Glenbury Hall, an old country manor house turned hotel. He signed in at reception, took his key, and went upstairs to his room. But he never got there. Somehow he vanished along the way, with not a single clue to suggest what might have happened to him. Lucas belonged to the same mysterious organization that employs Ishmael and Penny, so they are sent in to solve the mystery. But when they arrive at grim and isolated Glenbury Hall, they discover it has a reputation as one of the most haunted old houses in England. None of the usual headless monks or walled-up nuns—just stories of lost souls that dance with the statues in the grounds; doors that won’t stay shut, and rooms that aren’t always there; and something that prowls the house in the early hours, endlessly searching. They say . . . it crawls. Does Lucas’ disappearance have something to do with the organization or the Hall’s haunted past? Ishmael and Penny have to work their way through a series of mysterious clues and misleading suspects, uncovering secret after secret, before they finally arrive at a truth that no-one suspected. The problem with history is that it’s not always content to stay in the past. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Simon R. Green: “A macabre and thoroughly entertaining world.” —Jim Butcher on the Nightside series “A splendid riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, conveyed with trademark wisecracking humor, and carried out with maximum bloodshed and mayhem. In a word, irresistible.” —Kirkus, Starred Review of Simon R. Green's Night Fall “[F]or those who want a fantasy-genre mash-up that doesn’t slow down.” —Booklist on From a Drood to a Kill “Simon R. Green is a great favorite of mine. It’s almost impossible to find a writer with a more fertile imagination than Simon. He’s a writer who seems endlessly inventive.” —Charlaine Harris

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Baen Books

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1625798849

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Wisden Cricketers of the Year

A Celebration of Cricket's Greatest Players

By: Simon Wilde

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Wisden Cricketers of the Year

A Celebration of Cricket's Greatest Players

By: Simon Wilde

A beautifully-produced and fully-illustrated, large format celebration of the greatest players in the history of cricket.

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A&C Black

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1408140845

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Over Our Dead Bodies

Port Arthur and Australia's Fight for Gun Control

By: Simon Chapman

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Over Our Dead Bodies

Port Arthur and Australia's Fight for Gun Control

By: Simon Chapman

The Port Arthur massacre on 28 April 1996, when 35 people were shot dead by Martin Bryant, transformed Australia's gun control debate. Public outrage drove politicians from all sides of politics to embrace gun control. Non-violent 'people power' galvanised government resolve to outlaw semi-automatic weapons, register all guns and tighten gun ownership laws. Simon Chapman's book gives an insider's view of the struggle for gun control, highlighting the public discourse between shooters determined to preserve the right for civilians to bear military-style weapons, and activists dedicated to getting Australia 'off the American path' of gun violence.

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Sydney University Press

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1743320329

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The Cupcake Diaries: Alexis Gets Frosted

By: Coco Simon

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The Cupcake Diaries: Alexis Gets Frosted

By: Coco Simon

Everyone was thrilled when mean girl Sydney moved away, but the new girl Olivia is even worse. Everytime she passes Alexis in the hallway, she sayssomething nasty to her. Not only that, she has all the girls in the Best Friends Club make jokes about Alexis as well. Alexis has no idea what's goingon...until she remembers an off-hand remark she made to a friend about Olivia. It wasn't meant to be mean, but obviously Olivia took it the wrong way.Alexis is willing to admit some blame, but is Olivia willing to call off the hate campaign? It doesn't seem likely!

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Simon and Schuster

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1471116395

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9781471116391

Parades and the Politics of the Street

Festive Culture in the Early American Republic

By: Simon Peter Newman

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Parades and the Politics of the Street

Festive Culture in the Early American Republic

By: Simon Peter Newman

The world of the Founding Fathers was also a postrevolutionary society, in whose streets people of all social classes jostled in festivals and parades that expressed a vibrant popular politics. Simon Newman's book is as lively as the tumultuous political culture he has mapped."--Linda K. Kerber, author of Women of the Republic

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812217241

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9780812217247

Revolutions from Grub Street

A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain

By: Howard Cox,Simon Mowatt

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Revolutions from Grub Street

A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain

By: Howard Cox,Simon Mowatt

Based on extensive new research, the book provides a unique overview of one of Britain's most successful creative industries, consumer magazines, from its seventeenth-century origins into the digital age. It charts the revolutions that took place in both technology and industrial organization, and the response to these changes.

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0199601631

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Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation

By: Simon Gaisford,Mark Saunders

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Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation

By: Simon Gaisford,Mark Saunders

Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation is a study guide which describes the basic principles of pharmaceutical physicochemical characterisation. Successful preformulation requires knowledge of fundamental molecular concepts (solubility, ionisation, partitioning, hygroscopicity and stability) and macroscopic properties (physical form, such as the crystalline and amorphous states, hydrates, solvates and co-crystals and powder properties), familiarity with the techniques used to measure them and appreciation of their effect on product performance, recognising that often there is a position of compromise to be reached between product stability and bioavailability. This text introduces the basic concepts and discusses their wider implication for pharmaceutical development, with reference to many case examples of current drugs and drug products. Special attention is given to the principles and best-practice of the analytical techniques that underpin preformulation (UV spectrophotometry, TLC, DSC, XRPD and HPLC). The material is presented in the typical order that would be followed when developing a medicine and maps onto the indicative pharmacy syllabus of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Undergraduate-level pharmacy students and R&D / analytical scientists working in the pharmaceutical sector (with or without a pharmaceutical background) will find this text easy to follow with relevant pharmaceutical examples. Essential study guide for pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students Covers the pharmaceutical preformulation components of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’s indicative syllabus Easy to follow text highlighted with relevant pharmaceutical examples Self-assessment assignments in a variety of formats Written by authors with both academic and industrial experience Companion website with further information to maximise learning

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118423240

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International History and International Relations

By: Andrew J. Williams,Amelia Hadfield,J. Simon Rofe

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International History and International Relations

By: Andrew J. Williams,Amelia Hadfield,J. Simon Rofe

This innovative new textbook seeks to provide undergraduate students of international relations with valuable and relevant historical context, bridging the gap and offering a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. Each chapter integrates both historical analysis and literature and applies this to an international relations context in an accessible fashion, allowing students to understand the historical context in which these core issues have developed. The book is organised thematically around the key issues in international relations such as war, peace, sovereignty, identity, empire and international organisations. Each chapter provides an overview of the main historical context, theories and literature in each area and applies this to the study of international relations. Providing a fresh approach, this work will be essential reading for all students of international relations and international relations theory.

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Routledge

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1136317767

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The Economics of Entrepreneurship

By: Simon C. Parker

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The Economics of Entrepreneurship

By: Simon C. Parker

Entrepreneurship is an integral part of economic change and growth. Yet until recently it has been largely neglected by economists. In The Economics of Entrepreneurship, Simon C. Parker draws on theoretical insights and recent empirical findings to show how economics can contribute to our understanding of entrepreneurship. The book is based on an earlier work, The Economics of Self-employment and Entrepreneurship (Cambridge, 2004), that has quickly become an essential reference for academics researching the economics of entrepreneurship. Written in a more accessible style, this book contains much that made this earlier work so successful and, in addition, includes improved pedagogical features and new material on the theory of the firm, spin-offs, nascent entrepreneurship, growth-enhancing knowledge spillovers and social entrepreneurship. It can be used both as a reference text for academics from a variety of disciplines and as a textbook for graduate students.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139483676

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Alexis Gets Frosted

By: Coco Simon

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Alexis Gets Frosted

By: Coco Simon

When Sydney moves away and is replaced by newcomer Olivia, Alexis becomes the focus of hurtful teasing by the Best Friends Club and begins to wonder if an offhand remark she made when first meeting Olivia may have been taken the wrong way.

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Simon and Schuster

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144246867X

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The Politics and IR Companion

By: Robert Leach,Simon Lightfoot

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The Politics and IR Companion

By: Robert Leach,Simon Lightfoot

This succinct but comprehensive textbook leads students through the various aspects of their politics and IR degree. It includes a clear overview of the issues, theories, methods and controversies with which scholars across the discipline have engaged alongside guidance on research and study skills such as critical thinking, distinguishing facts from values and academic reading. Furthermore, it helps students to prepare for a career and a lifetime's interest and involvement in politics. From pre-course reading, to core text on introductory politics and IR modules, to handy reference guide across a degree program, this Companion provides a one-stop resource, packed with tips for succeeding at university and beyond. Drawing on a wide range of international examples and written accessibly with no expectation of prior familiarity with the subject it will appeal to students across the world. New to this Edition: - Thoroughly revised and updated with the help of new co-author Simon Lightfoot - Coverage of International Relations and Political Economy has been significantly expanded to reflect the ever-changing nature of degree programmes in Political Science - Sections on study skills have been extended and linked more specifically to the demands of Politics and IR

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137573406

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Engineering, Business & Professional Ethics

By: Simon Robinson,Ross Dixon,Christopher Preece,Kris Moodley

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Engineering, Business & Professional Ethics

By: Simon Robinson,Ross Dixon,Christopher Preece,Kris Moodley

* Integrates ethical considerations into everyday decision-making * Shows how to review and overcome professional ethical problems * Practical case studies and examples throughout

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Routledge

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1136405992

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The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24

Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite

By: Simon Pirani

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The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24

Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite

By: Simon Pirani

The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book focuses on the retreat from the revolution’s aims in 1920–24, after the civil war and at the start of the New Economic Policy – and specifically, on the turbulent relationship between the working class and the Communist Party in those years. It is based on extensive original research of the actions and reactions of the party leadership and ranks, of dissidents and members of other parties, and of trade union activists and ordinary factory workers. It discusses working-class collective action before, during and after the crisis of 1921, when the Bolsheviks were confronted by the revolt at the Kronshtadt naval base and other protest movements. This book argues that the working class was politically expropriated by the Bolshevik party, as democratic bodies such as soviets and factory committees were deprived of decision-making power; it examines how the new Soviet ruling class began to take shape. It shows how some worker activists concluded that the principles of 1917 had been betrayed, while others accepted a social contract, under which workers were assured of improvements in living standards in exchange for increased labour discipline and productivity, and a surrender of political power to the party.

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Routledge

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1134075499

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9781134075492

Stiff Upper Lips & Baggy Green Caps

A Sledger's History of the Ashes

By: Simon Briggs

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Stiff Upper Lips & Baggy Green Caps

A Sledger's History of the Ashes

By: Simon Briggs

Peppered with bouncers, expletives, and even the odd diplomatic incident, this is a rip-roaring journey through over a century of Ashes history. For a list of every Ashes century and five-wicket haul, try Wisden, but if you want to know which England batsman was a martyr to syphilis and which Australian fast bowler reckoned the Queen had 'nice legs for an old Sheila', then read on... Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps exposes the seamy side of Ashes cricket. It gives the inside story behind controversies from the Bodyline series of 1932-33 and the Lillee and Thomson blitzkrieg of 1974-75, right up to the unseemly modern spats that ensure that this biannual frenzy of backbiting, finger-pointing and dubious facial hair remains one of the great events of the sporting calendar.

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Quercus

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1780879962

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Who Killed William Shakespeare?

The Murderer, The Motive, The Means

By: Simon Andrew Stirling

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Who Killed William Shakespeare?

The Murderer, The Motive, The Means

By: Simon Andrew Stirling

William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been concealed. He had become an invisible man, the humble Warwickshire lad who entertained royalty and then faded into obscurity. But his story has been carefully manipulated. In reality, he was a dissident whose works were highly critical of the regimes of Elizabeth I and James I. Who Killed William Shakespeare? examines the means, motive and the opportunity that led to his murder, and explains why Will Shakespeare had to be 'stopped'. From forensic analysis of his death mask to the hunt for his missing skull, the circumstances of Shakespeare's death are reconstructed and his life reconsidered in the light of fresh discoveries. What emerges is a portrait of a genius who spoke his mind and was silenced by his greatest literary rival.

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The History Press

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075249421X

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Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the major motion picture An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen)

Stories

By: Simon Rich

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Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the major motion picture An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen)

Stories

By: Simon Rich

The "hilarious" (New York Times Book Review) collection of short stories from the award-winning humorist Simon Rich includes the story that inspired the Seth Rogen comedy An American Pickle. Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price. From "one of the funniest writers in America" comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, Spoiled Brats is about a generation of narcissists -- and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way. A hardworking immigrant is preserved for a century in pickle brine. A helicopter mom strives to educate her demon son. And a family of hamsters struggles to survive in a private-school homeroom. Surreal, shrewd, and surprisingly warm, these stories are as resonant as they are hilarious.

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Little, Brown

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0316368636

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9780316368636

Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

The Beats and Rock Culture

By: Simon Warner

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Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

The Beats and Rock Culture

By: Simon Warner

Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant culture. Simon Warner examines the interweaving strands, seeded by the poet/novelists Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others in the 1940s and 1950s, and cultivated by most of the major rock figures who emerged after 1960 - Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Bowie, the Clash and Kurt Cobain, to name just a few. This fascinating cultural history delves into a wide range of issues: Was rock culture the natural heir to the activities of the Beats? Were the hippies the Beats of the 1960s? What attitude did the Beat writers have towards musical forms and particularly rock music? How did literary works shape the consciousness of leading rock music-makers and their followers? Why did Beat literature retain its cultural potency with later rock musicians who rejected hippie values? How did rock musicians use the material of Beat literature in their own work? How did Beat figures become embroiled in the process of rock creativity? These questions are addressed through a number of approaches - the influence of drugs, the relevance of politics, the effect of religious and spiritual pursuits, the rise of the counter-culture, the issue of sub-cultures and their construction, and so on. The result is a highly readable history of the innumerable links between two of the most revolutionary artistic movements of the last 60 years.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441143033

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A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana:

The Tragic Betrayal of Nettie Diamond

By: Jane Simon Ammeson

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A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana:

The Tragic Betrayal of Nettie Diamond

By: Jane Simon Ammeson

The sensational Diamond murder was a Roaring Twenties story of roadhouse floozies, illegal booze, orphaned children, trust funds and legal acrobatics. Nettie Herskovitz-- wealthy and widowed-- at first resisted the advances of Harry Diamond, a dashing young bootlegger a decade and a half her junior. After the two were married with an infant daughter, Diamond became disinterested in a domestic life. He shot Nettie on Valentines Day 1923 while riding in their Hudson sedan. He tried to pin the crime on the fleeing chauffeur, but Nettie lived long enough to identify her attacker to police and change her will.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1626194785

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Miller Beach

By: Linda Simon,Jane Ammeson

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Miller Beach

By: Linda Simon,Jane Ammeson

Miller Beach became a popular tourist destination in the early 1900s thanks to its windswept sand dunes and Lake Michigan shoreline. Early aviator and Chicagoan Octave Chanute glided his aircraft over the dunes; botanist Henry Chandler Cowles studied plant succession in Miller Woods. Miller Beach's architecture is diverse, with historic park buildings designed by George W. Maher: the Marquette Park Pavilion and the Gary Bathing Beach Bathhouse. Miller Beach is now a part of Gary, Indiana, and the draw of the beach remains a timeless part of its past, present, and future.

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Behaviour for Learning

Promoting Positive Relationships in the Classroom

By: Simon Ellis,Janet Tod

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Behaviour for Learning

Promoting Positive Relationships in the Classroom

By: Simon Ellis,Janet Tod

Behaviour for Learning offers teachers a clear conceptual framework for making sense of the many behaviour management strategies on offer, allowing them to make a critical assessment of their appropriateness and effectiveness in the classroom, and assisting them to promote closer links between ‘behaviour’ and ‘learning’. Now in a fully updated second edition, the book focuses on how teachers can provide a safe and secure setting where positive relationships are fostered, placing increased emphasis on learning behaviours that contribute to pupils’ cognitive, social and emotional development. The book is full of practical approaches that can help teachers support pupils to achieve, relate to others and develop behaviours that characterise self-esteem, confidence and resilience. It includes chapters covering: • relationship with the curriculum, relationship with self and relationship with others; • whole-school approaches and the school behaviour policy; • reframing special educational needs; • dealing with more challenging behaviour; • transitions. This second edition also includes an updated emphasis on the links between mental health, behaviour and relationships in schools, and reflects Department for Education advice for school staff, changes to the National Curriculum and the new SEND Code of Practice. Through the application of the Behaviour for Learning framework, the book encourages teachers to address the needs of pupils who exhibit behavioural difficulties, whilst still pursuing excellence in teaching and learning for all pupils. It is a compelling and essential read for all trainees and practising teachers, CPD coordinators and other professionals working with children in schools.

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The Unforgiving Rope

Murder and Hanging on Australia's Western Frontier

By: Simon Adams

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The Unforgiving Rope

Murder and Hanging on Australia's Western Frontier

By: Simon Adams

More than 150 people were hanged in Western Australia between 1840 and 1964. Some had committed heinous crimes for profit or vengeance; some had killed out of jealousy, misunderstanding or madness. Others were hanged simply because they were victims of their times - prejudices and ill-fated circumstances leading them inexorably towards the gallows." "Focussing on the period from first settlement to the eve of World War I, historian Simon Adams skillfully places the circumstances of victims and perpetrators against the backdrop of their era, revealing the stories behind the hangings. We hear last words, feel the heartbreaking fear of the walk to the gallows and watch as bodies dangle at the end of a noose. This is a social history of the dark side of Western Australia's past." --Book Jacket.

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British Foreign Policy since 1945

By: Mark Garnett,Simon Mabon,Robert Smith

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British Foreign Policy since 1945

By: Mark Garnett,Simon Mabon,Robert Smith

British Foreign Policy since 1945 brings a chronological approach to the study of British foreign policy since the Second World War in order to make the principal events and dynamics accessible within a broader historical and cultural context. The key features included in this book: a detailed chronological survey of developments in post-war British politics; an integrated discussion of foreign and domestic policy developments indicating connections and interlocking themes; illustrations of British foreign policy drawn from popular culture; analysis of Britain’s role in the world, particularly in regards to the UK’s 'special relationship' with the US and its decision to leave the EU; a range of in-text features including essay questions and seminar/discussion topics. This timely book will be essential reading for anyone interested in British politics, foreign policy analysis and British history.

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Alexis the Icing on the Cupcake

By: Coco Simon

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Alexis the Icing on the Cupcake

By: Coco Simon

The Cupcake Club is thrilled to serve their sweets at a huge party—but can Alexis get over her growing pains before she sees her crush? Alexis is excited about the latest Cupcake Club job—it’s a huge order for a neighbor’s BBQ/pool party. Not only will the CC make a lot of money, but Matt—Alexis’s super crush—will be there! But when Alexis goes to the mall with her friends, suddenly nothing fits her. Clothes in her usual size are too short, but when she goes up a size, everything is too big. What’s going on? Can she find an outfit that makes her feel as awesome on the outside as she is on the inside?

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1481404709

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Betrayal

By: Simon Benson

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Betrayal

By: Simon Benson

Simon Benson's explosive tell-all book reveals Kevin Rudd's betrayal of Australia's most populous State, that led to an elected Premier's forced resignation, exposing the Labor Party as one no longer focused on policy but politics. An insiders' account of Australian Labor Party machinations, from the Prime Minister down. It reveals nasty secrets about how the Labor Party is run today, and how today politics dramatically runs over policy. It will make readers wonder about Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's methods with worrying implications for federal Labor's prospects, and for Australia. BETRAYAL reveals these insights through The Daily Telegraph's Chief Political Reporter Simon Benson's detailed exposé of an extremely vicious, behind-the-scenes battle over a few clapped out power stations in NSW... when the Labor Party machine brought down an elected Premier and helped cripple Australia's most populous State. Simon Benson's explosive tell-all book reveals Kevin Rudd's betrayal of Australia's most populous State, that led to an elected Premier's forced resignation, exposing the Labor Party as one no longer focused on policy but politics. An insiders' account of Australian Labor Party machinations, from the Prime Minister down. It reveals nasty secrets about how the Labor Party is run today, and how today politics dramatically runs over policy. It will make readers wonder about Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's methods with worrying implications for federal Labor's prospects, and for Australia. BETRAYAL reveals these insights through The Daily Telegraph's Chief Political Reporter Simon Benson's detailed exposé of an extremely vicious, behind-the-scenes battle over a few clapped out power stations in NSW... when the Labor Party machine brought down an elected Premier and helped cripple Australia's most populous State.

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0987068571

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Time in the Blues

By: Julia Simon

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Time in the Blues

By: Julia Simon

Immediate and spontaneous, the blues focuses on the present moment, creating an experience of time for performer and listener. Time in the Blues offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the forms of temporality produced by and reflected in the blues within the historical context of Jim Crow segregation, sharecropping, racist violence, and migration.

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Oxford University Press

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0190666552

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Leading Learning

Process, Themes and Issues in International Contexts

By: Tom O'Donoghue,Simon Clarke

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Leading Learning

Process, Themes and Issues in International Contexts

By: Tom O'Donoghue,Simon Clarke

This book draws on this key and developing notion of 'distributed leadership' and focuses on the relationship between leadership and learning in educational settings.

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1134306784

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A Phenomenology of Musical Absorption

By: Simon Høffding

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A Phenomenology of Musical Absorption

By: Simon Høffding

This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music. Based on interviews with one of the world’s leading classical ensembles, “The Danish String Quartet” (DSQ), it debunks the myth that experts cannot reflect while performing, but also shows that intense absorption is not something that can be achieved through will, intention, prediction or planning – it remains something individuals have to be receptive to. Based in the phenomenological tradition of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty as well as of Dan Zahavi and Shaun Gallagher, it lays out the conditions and essential structures of musical absorption. Employing the lived experience of the DSQ members, it also engages and challenges core ideas in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, enactivism, expertise studies, musical psychology, flow theory, aesthetics, dream and sleep studies, psychopathology and social ontology, and proposes a method that integrates phenomenology and cognitive science.

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303000659X

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In Search of Business Value

Insuring a Return on Your Technology Investment

By: Robert L. McDowell,William L. Simon

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In Search of Business Value

Insuring a Return on Your Technology Investment

By: Robert L. McDowell,William L. Simon

Offers a practical, close-up examination of how a manager or executive can best determine whether a new technology expenditure is justified by a business need." - cover.

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1590790626

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Classic Restaurants of The Region: Northwest Indiana’s All-Time Favorite Eats

By: Jane Simon Ammeson

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Classic Restaurants of The Region: Northwest Indiana’s All-Time Favorite Eats

By: Jane Simon Ammeson

A wonderful diversity of flavors has defined Northwest Indiana as a dining destination from its earliest days to the present. So great was the demand for frogs legs that the venerable Vogel's raised its own at a small lake nearby. Indiana-style, crisped-edged hamburgers at Miner-Dunn and Schoops survived the onslaught of fast-food chains. Ammeson leads a tasty tour of historic Region restaurants, some still serving but others almost lost to memory.--Adapted from back cover.

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1467145661

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Reproductive Biology and Early Life History of Fishes in the Ohio River Drainage

Elassomatidae and Centrarchidae, Volume 6

By: Robert Wallus,Thomas P. Simon

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Reproductive Biology and Early Life History of Fishes in the Ohio River Drainage

Elassomatidae and Centrarchidae, Volume 6

By: Robert Wallus,Thomas P. Simon

This seven-volume series is the most extensive treatise on early life histories of the freshwater fishes of North America. It represents the state-of-the-art in fishery biology and provides a systematic approach to the study of early life histories of all the fishes in this region. Each volume contains distinguishing characteristics and a pictorial

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1420003615

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Freedom's Champion--Elijah Lovejoy

By: Paul Simon

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Freedom's Champion--Elijah Lovejoy

By: Paul Simon

In this revised edition of his earlier biography, Paul Simon provides an inspiring account of the life and work of Elijah Lovejoy, an avid abolitionist in the 1830s and the first martyr to freedom of the press in the United States. Lovejoy was a native New Englander, the son of a Congregational minister. He came to the Midwest in 1827 in pursuit of a teaching career and succeeded in running his own school for two years in St. Louis. Teaching failed to challenge Lovejoy, however, so he bought a half interest in the St. Louis Times and became its editor. In 1832, after experiencing a religious conversion, he returned east to study for the ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. After his graduation, Lovejoy was called back to St. Louis by a group of Christian businessmen to serve as the editor of a new religious newspaper, the Observer, promoting religion, morality, and education. It was through this forum that Lovejoy took an ever stronger stance against slavery. In the slave state of Missouri, such a view was not onlyunpopular, but in the eyes of many, criminal. As a result, Lovejoy and his family suffered repeated persecution and acts of violence from angry mobs. In July 1836, in hopes of finding a more tolerant community in a "free" state, he moved both his printing press and his family across the Mississippi River to Alton, Illinois. The move to Alton was a fateful one. Lovejoy's press was dismantled and thrown into the river by a mob on the night of its arrival. Lovejoy ordered a new printing press, and it, too, was destroyed eleven months later. A determined and dedicated man, Lovejoy ordered a third press, and city officials took special precautions to ensure its safety after delivery. Nevertheless, an organized and angry mob rolled this third press, still in its crate, into the river exactly one month after Lovejoy's second press had been destroyed. A fourth press, housed in a large stone warehouse and guarded by Lovejoy and his supporters, met the same fate but only after a drunken mob had killed Lovejoy himself. He was buried two days later, 9 November 1837, on his thirty-fifth birthday. No one was ever convicted of his murder. Rather than suppressing the abolitionist movement, Lovejoy's death caused an eruption of antislavery activity throughout the nation. At a protest meeting in Ohio, John Brown dedicated his life to fighting slavery, and Wendell Phillips emerged from a Lovejoy protest meeting in Boston to become a leader in the antislavery fight. Simon defines Lovejoy's fight as a struggle for human dignity and the oppressed. He distinguishes Lovejoy as a courageous and admirable individual and his story as an important and enduring one for both the cause of freedom for the slaves and the cause of freedom of the press.

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0809319411

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