Stephen Hirst's Books

Hero on Three Continents

By: Stephen Maitland-Lewis

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HERO ON THREE CONTINENTS is a chronicle of a century with the protagonist Henry Brown participating in events both cataclysmic and personal, and interfacing with characters both famous and imaginary. From the jazz age of the 1920s to the war-torn 1940s, to the international crises of oil and terrorism in the 70s, this novel makes history intimate, the work of any epic. The world needs a hero, and Henry Brown is such a man. Maitland-Lewis demonstrates the importance of uncompromising research as well as the art of presenting material in a fast-flowing, enjoyable, cant put it down style.

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1453569839

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Swami Vivekananda and Non-Hindu Traditions

A Universal Advaita

By: Stephen E. Gregg

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Swami Vivekananda and Non-Hindu Traditions

A Universal Advaita

By: Stephen E. Gregg

The Hindu thinker Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was and remains an important figure both within India, and in the West, where he was notable for preaching Vedanta. Scholarship surrounding Vivekananda is dominated by hagiography and his (mis)appropriation by the political Hindu Right. This work demonstrates that Vivekananda was no simplistic pluralist, as portrayed in hagiographical texts, nor narrow exclusivist, as portrayed by some modern Hindu nationalists, but a thoughtful, complex inclusivist. The book shows that Vivekananda formulated a hierarchical and inclusivistic framework of Hinduism, based upon his interpretations of a four-fold system of Yoga. It goes on to argue that Vivekananda understood his formulation of Vedanta to be universal, and applied it freely to non-Hindu traditions, and in so doing, demonstrates that Vivekananda was consistently critical of ‘low level’ spirituality, not only in non-Hindu traditions, but also within Hinduism. Demonstrating that Vivekananda is best understood within the context of ‘Advaitic primacy’, rather than ‘Hindu chauvinism’, this book will be of interest to scholars of Hinduism and South Asian religion and of South Asian diaspora communities and religious studies more generally.

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Routledge

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1317047443

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The Runner

The heart-stopping thriller from bestselling author of the Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series

By: Stephen Leather

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The Runner

The heart-stopping thriller from bestselling author of the Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series

By: Stephen Leather

***'Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style' - Financial Times*** ***'Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series' - Irish Independent*** The explosive new stand-alone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd series Sally Page is an MI5 'footie', a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities or footprints used by real spies. Her day consists of maintaining flats and houses where the legends allegedly live, doing online shopping, using payment, loyalty and travel cards and going on social media in their names - anything to give the impression to hostile surveillance that the legends are living, breathing individuals. One day she goes out for coffee leaving the safe house from which she and her fellow footies operate. When she comes back they have all been murdered and she barely escapes with her own life. She is on the run: but from whom she has no idea. Worse, her bosses at MI5 seem powerless to help her. To live, she will have to use all the lies and false identities she has so carefully created while discovering the truth . . .

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1529345170

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The Rhythm Inside

Connecting Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Music

By: Julia Schnebly-Black,Stephen Fred Moore

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The Rhythm Inside

Connecting Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Music

By: Julia Schnebly-Black,Stephen Fred Moore

« Rhythm and movement engage our inner creative resources and connect the body, mind, and emotions. Innate musical talent is not necessary to take advantage of these easy-to-learn techniques. All that is required is a willingness to open to the experience. Practicing these exercises with the included recording, you will discover greater body awareness, improve learning and communication skills, feel greater ease and personal integration, and experience instant success - even as a beginner. With the combined goals of comprehending the true nature of music and understanding the inner self, the authors explore the art of harmonizing expressive physical movements to musical improvisation. »--4e de couverture

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Alfred Music Publishing

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0739032437

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Aspects of Huddersfield 2

Discovering Local History 2

By: Stephen Wade

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Aspects of Huddersfield 2

Discovering Local History 2

By: Stephen Wade

Aspects of Huddersfield, the first in the highly successful Aspects series to feature Huddersfield and district, contains a wealth of pinpoint detail of the history of the town. The story of the coming of the ""wireless"" to Moorside Edge, which made Huddersfield the radio centre for Northern England, sits alongside the proceedings of the Manorial Court at the Manor of Honley in the 18th and 19th centuries. A fascinating collection of the Legends of the Colne Valley, sits easily with Early Days in the Mill and the Diary of an Unknown. A tale of courtship in the mid 1920s. While the Chartists went ""The Whole Hog"" in Huddersfield, Mrs Sunderland became the ""Yorkshire Queen of Song"", a feat still recognised in an annual music festival in her name. Aspects of Huddersfield cannot but enthrall both the dedicated researcher and the general reader with an interest in the town and its environs.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783378913

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Free Gift Inside!!

Forget the Customer. Develop Marketease

By: Stephen Brown

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Free Gift Inside!!

Forget the Customer. Develop Marketease

By: Stephen Brown

Free Gift Inside! offers an alternative solution to the difficulty of selling to an already sated and sophisticated consumer. * Based on the article "Torment Your Customers (They'll Love It" which Harvard Busines Review chose as one of 2002's Six Breakthrough Ideas * A new concept that turns marketing on its head and offers a more effective answer to customer relationship management and permission marketing

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John Wiley & Sons

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1841126020

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Future States

From International to Global Political Order

By: Stephen Paul Haigh

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Future States

From International to Global Political Order

By: Stephen Paul Haigh

Globalization consists of an interlocking array of political, economic, social, and cultural forces that challenge the traditional international order in two key ways. First, states historically had 'hard shells', by means of which they were capable of consolidating differences between 'inside' and 'outside' to the point where the latter could more easily be quarantined. Second, for closely-related reasons they were largely able to 'absorb' domestic society, such that the individual was less a citizen than a subject. But through globalizing processes these (dubious) attributes have been starkly exposed, which leads Haigh to ask, Whither the state under globalization? Insightful and well-written, this book is sure to spark lively debate while attempting to answer its central question.

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Routledge

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1317131177

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MOJO: The Mobile Journalism Handbook

How to Make Broadcast Videos with an iPhone or iPad

By: Ivo Burum,Stephen Quinn

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MOJO: The Mobile Journalism Handbook

How to Make Broadcast Videos with an iPhone or iPad

By: Ivo Burum,Stephen Quinn

MOJO: The Mobile Journalism Handbook is the first book devoted specifically to training citizens, journalism students and media professionals to produce professional-quality videos with only a mobile device. As journalism becomes increasingly competitive, students and emerging professionals need a broader skillset to make themselves more employable, whether as mainstream or entrepreneurial journalists. This book by Dr. Ivo Burum and Dr. Stephen Quinn, world experts in mobile journalism, provides comprehensive coverage of all the skills and practices needed to be a mobile journalist. Key features: Burum and Quinn underline the importance of story and storytelling, the crucial context journalists always need to keep in mind. Other books and tutorials merely offer step-by-step guidance to mobile technology and apps. The book synthesizes the knowledge and more than 70 years of combined expertise of two of the world’s leading mobile journalism practitioners, offering sage advice and tips from people who have trained mojos in more than 20 countries. Companion Website: How-to videos on the companion website offer powerful ways for learners to absorb the content easily, walking them through the key mojo components of research, shooting, scripting, voice-over, editing and post-production. www.routledge.com/cw/burum Ivo Burum is an award-winning writer, director and television executive producer. He has more than 30 years’ experience working across genres including frontline international current affairs. A pioneer in UGS creation, Dr. Burum lectures in multimedia journalism. This is his second book about mojo. He runs Burum Media, a mojo and web TV consultancy that provides training for journalists, educators and remote communities internationally. Stephen Quinn was a journalist for 20 years before he became a university professor in 1996. Dr. Quinn taught journalism in five countries until he returned to journalism in 2011 in Hong Kong. His UK-based company MOJO Media Insights trains mobile journalists around the world. This is his twenty-first print book. He has also produced 5 iBooks. He co-writes a weekly column syndicated to seven countries.

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1317579615

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State Energy Policy

Current Issues, Future Directions

By: Stephen W Sawyer,John R Armstrong,Jon M Veigel,Paul F Levy

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State Energy Policy

Current Issues, Future Directions

By: Stephen W Sawyer,John R Armstrong,Jon M Veigel,Paul F Levy

This book is the product of the good will and hardwork of many people. The contributors, all recognized experts in their fields, are thanked for providing thoughtful, informative chapters and for accommodating editorial suggestions and revisions. Westview Press is thanked for providing the opportunity to address a serious omission in the energy literature. The Geography Department at the University of Maryland made a similarly generous commitment of secretarial staff and faciltiies. Allen Eney aided in the construction of computerized maps. Many skilled, conscientious individuals at state energy offices, public utility commissions, the U.S. Department of Energy, and other organizations supplied essential data and produced many of the analytic studies that underlie the contents of the book. Patti Leedham provided patient and expert typing through numerous revisions of the chapters and many tables. Patricia Sawyer provided essential guidance, support, and proofreading throughout the entire effort.

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1000313018

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Towards a Deliberative and Associational Democracy

By: Stephen Elstub

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Towards a Deliberative and Associational Democracy

By: Stephen Elstub

In an era where citizens of liberal democracies are becoming increasingly disillusioned, dissatisfied and disenfranchised by the dominant political institutions and decision-making processes in these polities, new ideas of how to deepen democracy, re-engage citizens and enhance decision-making legitimacy are required. This book suggests that a combination of deliberative democracy and associational democracy is both a normatively desirable and an empirically plausible solution to the complex problems that are present in contemporary societies--as well as being compatible with many recent trends in governance. Author Stephen Elstub argues that by combining deliberative with associational democracy, the weaknesses of each model alone are compensated by the other, allowing the key strengths of each to manifest themselves. And he goes further by offering a detailed set of original, institutional requirements for liberal democracies that, if adopted, will enable a deliberative and associational democracy to be realised in practice.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748631488

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The Virgin Goddess

Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of Mariology

By: Stephen Benko

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The Virgin Goddess

Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of Mariology

By: Stephen Benko

The contemporary search for the feminine face of God requires a re- examination of the relationship of Christianity to the pagan world in which it was born. This study inquires into extra-biblical sources of Marian piety, belief and doctrine. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

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BRILL

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9004136398

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Revolutionary Nostalgia

Retromania, Neo-Burlesque, and Consumer Culture

By: Marie-Cécile Cervellon,Stephen Brown

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Revolutionary Nostalgia

Retromania, Neo-Burlesque, and Consumer Culture

By: Marie-Cécile Cervellon,Stephen Brown

Long regarded as a maudlin mental state, nostalgia is everywhere and has been reimagined as a signifier of good mental health. It is no longer the bailiwick of right-wing reactionaries but a crucible of critical thinking and revolutionary intent. This book explores the revolution in nostalgia and the nostalgia in revolution.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787693465

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Coronary

A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry

By: Stephen Klaidman

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Coronary

A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry

By: Stephen Klaidman

Recounts how two California heart doctors performed countless surgeries and generated enormous profits for their hospital's management company before they were investigated for subjecting healthy patients to unnecessary medical procedures.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743267559

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9780743267557

The England Coast Path 2nd edition

1,100 Mini Adventures Around the World's Longest Coastal Path

By: Stephen Neale

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The England Coast Path 2nd edition

1,100 Mini Adventures Around the World's Longest Coastal Path

By: Stephen Neale

The definitive guidebook to the entire 3,000-mile length of the new England Coast Path. For anyone planning a trip to the coast or a UK summer holiday, the new England Coast Path national trail is a hugely exciting prospect, and this guidebook shows you how to make the most of every single glorious mile. Environmentalists, volunteers, campaigners, land owners and politicians all came together to create this 'ninth wonder of the world', and from the opening of the path in 2020 onwards, anyone has been able to walk and wild camp along the entire 3,000-mile length of the English coast. It's a fantastic opportunity for all walkers, campers, fans of the coast and the outdoors. Stephen Neale has spent many happy months walking, camping and surveying the path, and from that experience has written a fantastically detailed and rich guidebook covering the route itself, along with everything from the best places to swim, hunt for fossils and eat seafood to hidden away beaches and canoeing spots. Fully updated for its second edition, with 100 extra adventures from the newly opened sections of the path and spectacular new aerial photography, the book is divided up into the 16 coastal counties and features 1,100 places to see, camp and explore around the coast. Each place has map coordinates and basic directions from the path, allowing walkers to either visit specific places or link highlights together, walking between them along the path. The England Coast Path represents what makes England so great: a little bit mad, a little bit proud, and the lucky host to one of the most spectacular and wild coastlines in the world. With this book you too can join the adventure.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1844866181

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The England Coast Path

1,000 Mini Adventures Around the World's Longest Coastal Path

By: Stephen Neale

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The England Coast Path

1,000 Mini Adventures Around the World's Longest Coastal Path

By: Stephen Neale

The opening of the England Coast Path means that anyone will be able to walk and wild camp along the entire 3,000-mile length of the English coast. As well as being a remarkable national achievement in itself, this new national trail is a hugely exciting prospect for all walkers, campers, fans of the coast and the outdoors. In 2018 Stephen Neale became one of the first people to walk and wild camp along the whole of the path, and in doing so has written a fantastically detailed and rich guidebook covering the route itself, along with everything from the best places to swim, hunt for fossils and eat seafood to hidden away beaches and canoeing spots. The bulk of the book is divided up into the 16 coastal counties and features 1,000 places to see, explore, camp and adventure around the coast. Each place has an OS map reference, basic directions to it from the path and a short description. Walkers can either visit specific places or link highlights together, walking between them along the path. The England Coast Path is a true embodiment of our national character – at a time when all things English are so often seen in a negative light, this is a wonderful success story. Environmentalists, volunteers, social campaigners, land owners and politicians have all come together to create a 'ninth wonder of the world'. This path represents what makes England so great: a little bit mad, a little bit proud; but mostly a celebration of this nation's most precious asset: the wild coast.

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1844865800

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Postmodern/drama

Reading the Contemporary Stage

By: Stephen Watt

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Postmodern/drama

Reading the Contemporary Stage

By: Stephen Watt

Scrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472108727

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9780472108725

Evolutionism and Its Critics

Deconstructing and Reconstructing an Evolutionary Interpretation of Human Society

By: Stephen K. Sanderson

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Evolutionism and Its Critics

Deconstructing and Reconstructing an Evolutionary Interpretation of Human Society

By: Stephen K. Sanderson

Evolutionism and Its Critics is a critical history of evolutionary theories in the social sciences and a defense of them against their many critics. Sanderson deconstructs not only the wide array of social evolutionary theories, but the criticisms of the antievolutionists. Deconstructing evolutionary theories means laying bare their fundamental epistemological, methodological, conceptual, and theoretical assumptions and principles. Deconstructing antievolutionism means showing just where and how the critics have, for the most part, gone wrong. But Evolutionism and Its Critics aims to reconstruct as well as deconstruct and does this by building on the shoulders of past giants of evolutionary theorizing a comprehensive evolutionary interpretation of human society based on abundant scientific and historical evidence.

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Routledge

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1317259971

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Cultural Studies Review

Homefronts

By: Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds)

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Cultural Studies Review

Homefronts

By: Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds)

This edition of Cultural Studies Review brings together a diverse set of essays and new writing that identify particular national tendencies, notions of family, epistemological worries about postmodernity's represented purpose and queries about cultural studies as it is taught and as it could be understood. There is also some careful exploring of where and why we might be at home in our differences and what a felt homelessness might be. To gather these varied strands beneath the heading 'Homefronts' acknowledges, as always, the plurality of the environments that we call home and the battles of representation, and being, that make up the experiences of nation, family, philosophy and academic discipline that render those sites particular and so personal to us.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522856829

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The Responsible Shareholder

By: Bottomley, Stephen

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The Responsible Shareholder

By: Bottomley, Stephen

Examining the role of shareholders in modern companies, this timely book argues that more should be expected of shareholders, both morally and legally. It explores the privileged position of shareholders within the corporate law system and the unique rights and duties awarded to them in contrast to other corporate actors. Introducing the concept of shareholders as responsible agents whose actions and inactions should be judged on that basis, Stephen Bottomley unites a number of distinct corporate governance discussions including stewardship, activism and shareholder liability.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1800373406

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The Dominant Ideology Thesis (RLE Social Theory)

By: Bryan S. Turner,Nicholas Abercrombie,Stephen Hill

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The Dominant Ideology Thesis (RLE Social Theory)

By: Bryan S. Turner,Nicholas Abercrombie,Stephen Hill

As a radical critique of theoretical sociological orthodoxy, The Dominant Ideology Thesis has generated controversy since first publication. It has also been widely accepted, however, as a major critical appraisal of one central theoretical concern within modern Marxism and an important contribution to the current debate about the functions of ideology in social life.

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Routledge

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1317652371

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Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath

Foundationalism and Anti-Foundationalism in Radical Social Theory

By: Stephen Crook

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Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath

Foundationalism and Anti-Foundationalism in Radical Social Theory

By: Stephen Crook

Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath investigates the ways in which Marx, Durkheim, Althusser and Habermas are all drawn towards foundationalism, and offers a framework for the analysis of foundationalism in social theory.

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1134971702

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Natural Histories

25 Extraordinary Species That Have Changed our World

By: Brett Westwood,Stephen Moss

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Natural Histories

25 Extraordinary Species That Have Changed our World

By: Brett Westwood,Stephen Moss

Prepare to dive to the depths of the sea with 100-foot-long giant squid, travel through space after the meteorites shooting into our atmosphere and join a dangerous expedition to Antarctica to find the Emperor Penguin egg. Discover fleas dressed by nuns, a defeated prince hiding from his enemies in an oak tree and the plant whose legendary screams could drive you mad . . . Accompanying Radio 4's acclaimed six-month series with the Natural History Museum, Natural Histories tells the riveting stories of how our relationships with twenty-five unexpected creatures have permanently changed the way we see the world. Packed full of fascinating science, history and folklore, this beautiful book brings you face to face with nature, in all its wonder, complexity and invention. Fresh from winning the Thomson Reuters prize for Tweet of the Day, Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss have written another imaginative and inspiring book. Each chapter explores a different species or phenomena, often taking a fascinating object in the museum's collection as a starting point. From rock pools and blackberry picking to a shipwreck thousands of miles from land; and from David Attenborough on gorillas to Monty Python on dinosaurs, this is a book for anyone curious about the world we live in. You'll never take nature for granted again.

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John Murray

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1473617022

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Social Policy for Nurses and the Helping Professions

By: Stephen Peckham,Elizabeth Meerabeau

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Social Policy for Nurses and the Helping Professions

By: Stephen Peckham,Elizabeth Meerabeau

What is social policy and why is it relevant to nursing and other caring professions? How has the welfare state changed in response to new social problems? What roles do professionals and lay people play in providing welfare services? This fully revised text is one of a series of books providing coherent and multi-disciplinary support for all client groups involved in the provision of health and social care. The book examines the relationship between welfare and health and includes discussion of key policy issues such as; changes in health care delivery, regulation of professionals, privatisation, welfare pluralism and the tackling of health and social inequalities. The significance of social policy in preventing ill health and disability, as well as supporting the sick and disabled people, is emphasised throughout the book. This new edition is updated throughout and includes new chapters on: Health policy in the post-war period The role of health and social care professionals The future of social policy and health in the 21st century Social Policy for Nurses and the Helping Professions equips students with a lively, readable and well-illustrated introduction to social policy. The reader is guided through the material with the help of chapter summaries, further reading and a glossary, as well as new examples and case studies to reflect the different client groups within nursing.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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033523013X

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Sons of the Waves

The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail, 1740-1840

By: Stephen Taylor

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Sons of the Waves

The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail, 1740-1840

By: Stephen Taylor

[A] rollicking narrative . . . Superb"--Ben Wilson, Times A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these "sons of the waves" held the nation's destiny in their calloused hands.

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Yale University Press

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0300245718

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Criminology

By: Stephen Jones

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Criminology

By: Stephen Jones

The seventh edition of 'Criminology' offers updated coverage of the main criminological theories. An engaging read for students of criminology, it traces the history and development of these key theories, and provides full references to guide the reader in their further criminological studies.

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Oxford University Press

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0198860897

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New Departures in Marxian Theory

By: Stephen Resnick,Richard Wolff

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New Departures in Marxian Theory

By: Stephen Resnick,Richard Wolff

Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular. This book brings together their key contributions and underscores their different interpretations. In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, the authors have confronted the basic incompatibilities among the dominant modern versions of Marxian theory, and the fact that Marxism seemed cut off from the criticisms of determinist modes of thought offered by post-structuralism and post-modernism and even by some of Marxism’s greatest theorists.

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1135987572

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Teaching Thinking Skills

By: Stephen Johnson,Harvey Siegel

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Teaching Thinking Skills

By: Stephen Johnson,Harvey Siegel

Teaching Thinking Skills by Steve Johnson was initially published by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain in 2000. In this new edition, Johnson has updated his argument, Harvey Siegel has contributed a counter-argument and Christopher Winch has provided a foreword and afterword drawing the debates together. The issues debated in this new edition of Teaching Thinking Skills include: Do thinking skills exist? What are the aims of education? Can thinking skill be taught? Are thinking skills transferable? Teaching Thinking Skills raises issues not only for those concerned with thinking skills per se but more broadly for those concerned with the role of thinking in professional and vocational activities and with the extent to which abilities are broad or narrow, transferable or non-transferable.

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1441187081

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Marxism and History

A Critical Introduction

By: Stephen Henry Rigby

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Marxism and History

A Critical Introduction

By: Stephen Henry Rigby

Marx's theory of history is often regarded as the most enduring and fruitful aspect of his intellectual legacy. His "historical materialism" has been the inspiration for some of the best historical writing in the works of scholars such as Eric Hobsbawm, E.P.Thompson, Rodney Hilton and Robert Brenner. S.H. Rigby establishes Marx's claims about social structure and historical change, discusses their use in his own and his followers' writings, and assesses the validity of his theories. He argues that Marx's social theories were profoundly contradictory and that Marxism has proved most useful when it is seen as a source of questions, concepts and hypotheses rather than as a philosophy of historical development.

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Manchester University Press

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0719022681

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Ghost Plane

The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program

By: Stephen Grey

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Ghost Plane

The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program

By: Stephen Grey

For the first time, Stephen Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism. Using contacts deep inside the U.S. Government, Grey reveals how deeply the Bush administration is involved in the program and questions the truth of statements made by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. He also shines a spotlight on the heads of European nations who turned a blind eye to the program when it showed up in their back yards. Grey takes an unflinching look at a horrendous practice that scorns Geneva Convention rules and is powered by corruption at the highest levels of governments worldwide. Through his unprecedented access to CIA flight records and dozens of sources at the senior levels of the current administration, Grey has produced a story of flight plans, extreme torture, and the clash of religions and governmental posturing that goes on today. Ghost Plane tells the stories of individuals abducted at airports around the world and transported for interrogation and torture on a fleet of leased planes manned by CIA operatives. Grey paints a disburing ethical picture of the war on terror and lays the responsibility for abduction and torutre at the doorstep of Washington, D.C.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429919574

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