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Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922) who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors seven governors and two U. S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith a consistent figure in the history of public health mental health housing reform in New York and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings public records and recently discovered personal correspondence this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence Insanity and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars filling gaps in the history of American medicine public health mental health and New York social reform. | Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

GBP 130.00
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King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care With an English Translation the Latin Text Notes and an Introduction

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care With an English Translation the Latin Text Notes and an Introduction

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s lifetime it affords data of the highest value for fixing the grammatical peculiarities of the West-Saxon dialect of the ninth century. | King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care With an English Translation the Latin Text Notes and an Introduction

GBP 105.00
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Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation Hanno the King Nikomedes Periodos and Avienus

Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation Hanno the King Nikomedes Periodos and Avienus

This volume is a translation and commentary on the works of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage from around 500 BC; the author of the Periodos Dedicated to King Nikomedes from the last half of the second century BC; and Avienus from the fourth century AD. The modern translations of texts in this book represent 1 000 years of Greco-Roman geographical scholarship and thus provide an overview of the discipline from its beginnings to late antiquity. Readers will learn about the development of Greek geography and the earliest adventures outside the Mediterranean into the Atlantic as far south as the tropics and north toward the Arctic. These explorations make for fascinating stories about early human endeavors into an unknown world. Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation offers specialists new information about Greek exploration and a modern translation of significant ancient texts while non-specialist scholars and undergraduate students with an interest in Greco-Roman literature and ancient geography will also find the volume useful and accessible. | Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation Hanno the King Nikomedes Periodos and Avienus

GBP 130.00
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Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

First published in 1982 Northampton is a modern study of Henry Howard Earl of Northampton privy councillor to James I. Dr. Peck convincingly challenges the traditional eminence grise who stirred factional strife at court undermined relations between king and parliament and stopped at nothing including murder to secure his family’s advancement. Drawing extensively on Northampton’s papers Dr. Peck offers a more balanced assessment of this important Jacobean courtier who shaped policy and pursued administrative reform as avidly as he sought his own patronage and profit. Unlike traditional biographies this study is organized topically in order to examine larger issues of policy making and administration in the Jacobean period. This book will be of interest to specialists in Stuart studies to historians of England to social scientists concerned with development of early bureaucracy and all those with a more general interest in Tudor Stuart history. | Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

GBP 90.00
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Health Policy in the Market State

Health Policy in the Market State

At a time of increasing demands on budgets governments around the world are seeking to reduce health expenditure and introduce market-oriented reforms to the health sector. This is leading to profound shifts in the relationship between the state and the individual as policy makers dismantle the welfare state and move towards a user-pays sytem. Health Policy in the Market State offers an overview of health policy in Australia locating it within the broader context of power and interests analysis and shifts in government policy and public sector restructuring. It outlines the key issues in current health policy and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of specific policies and programs. Contributors include Ian Anderson and Maggie Brady Mary Draper Stephen Duckett Liz Eckerman Sophie Hill Sharon Moore Michael Muetzelfeldt Janine Smith and Beth Wilson. Health Policy in the Market State is a valuable overview for students as well as a comprehensive reference for health professionals and policy-makers.

GBP 130.00
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Biomolecular Kinetics A Step-by-Step Guide

Biomolecular Kinetics A Step-by-Step Guide

a gem of a textbook which manages to produce a genuinely fresh concise yet comprehensive guide–Mark Leake University of York destined to become a standard reference…. Not just a ‘how to’ handbook but also an accessible primer in the essentials of kinetic theory and practice. –Michael Geeves University of Kent covers the entire spectrum of approaches from the traditional steady state methods to a thorough account of transient kinetics and rapid reaction techniques and then on to the new single molecule techniques –Stephen Halford University of Bristol This illustrated treatment explains the methods used for measuring how much a reaction gets speeded up as well as the framework for solving problems such as ligand binding and macromolecular folding using the step-by-step approach of numerical integration. It is a thoroughly modern text reflecting the recent ability to observe reactions at the single-molecule level as well as advances in microfluidics which have given rise to femtoscale studies. Kinetics is more important now than ever and this book is a vibrant and approachable entry for anyone who wants to understand mechanism using transient or single molecule kinetics without getting bogged down in advanced mathematics. Clive R. Bagshaw is Emeritus Professor at the University of Leicester U. K. and Research Associate at the University of California at Santa Cruz U. S. A. | Biomolecular Kinetics A Step-by-Step Guide

GBP 130.00
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Victoria and Albert at Home

Victoria and Albert at Home

First Published in 1980 Victoria and Albert at Home describes the sitting construction and decorating of the two royal residences at Osborne and Balmoral and paints a memorable portrait of the Queen’s family and her Court beside the Solent and the Dee. At the time of their marriage the royal couple had the use of many crown properties but except for Windsor Castle they found none to their taste and began to look for a home of their own. Sir Robert Peel found them an estate on the Isle of Wight which was peaceful beautiful and at that time sufficiently remote from London. However when access from London became swifter and easier their privacy was lost and they looked elsewhere for a second private family residence. A small estate in Scotland was recommended and Prince Albert once again designed the house this time in Scottish baronial style. Drawing on memories archives and family papers some of which with a number of illustrations have never been published before Tyler Whittle has written an interesting entertaining and vivid account of life at a time so very much more elegant and yet at the same time so very much robust than anything that can be imagined today. This is a must read for students and scholars of British history and Royal history.

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At Risk Students Reaching and Teaching Them

At Risk Students Reaching and Teaching Them

This book is organized around CBUPO the basic psychological needs of all students: competence belonging usefulness potency and optimism. When teachers and schools focus on meeting these needs the rate of at-riskiness is drastically reduced. This book presents practical strategies and tips to help teachers and administrators help all students become successful learners. The revised edition offers new material on using classroom assessment complying with standards and high stakes testing an updated approach to evaluating At-Risk Prevention programs and alternative strategies for meeting the motivational needs of at-risk youth from developmental constructivism to mastery learning. | At Risk Students Reaching and Teaching Them

GBP 105.00
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The Everglades Handbook Understanding the Ecosystem

The Everglades Handbook Understanding the Ecosystem

The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem Fifth Edition is packed with scientific information about the greater Everglades ecosystem taking into account how drastically the Everglades has changed. The book covers disciplines ranging from ecology geology climatology hydrology simplified biogeochemistry and anthropology to conservation biology. The fifth edition of this bestselling guide presents expanded treatment of subjects where our knowledge of the Everglades and its restoration has greatly improved as well as updates throughout. This more detailed coverage includes a new chapter ‘Everglades Chemistry – A Primer’ and an expanded section on the role of human intervention in Everglades restoration as well as numerous new graphics that bring the science to life. Written in Tom Lodge’s trademark accessible style combined with the expertise of new coauthor Stephen E. Davis III Chief Science Officer with the Everglades Foundation this extensively researched text is essential reading for anybody trying to understand the challenges we face in restoring this unique ecosystem. | The Everglades Handbook Understanding the Ecosystem

GBP 120.00
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Austria in the Nineteen Fifties

Austria in the Nineteen Fifties

In American history the 1950s are remembered as an affluent and harmonious decade. Not so in Austria. That nation emerged out of World War II with tremendous war-related destruction and with a four-power occupation that would last for ten years until 1955. Massive American economic aid enabled the Austrian economy to start recovering in the 1950s and reorient it from East to West. Unlike the United States however general affluence did not set in until the 1960s and 1970s even though Austria's dramatic baby boom enabled it to recover from the demographic catastrophe resulting from manpower losses of World War II. This volume deals with these larger trends. Stephen E. Ambrose discusses American-European relations and sets the larger international context for the Austrian scene. Oilver Rathkolb retraces the changing importance of the Austrian question for the Eisenhower administration. Michael Gehler presents an in-depth analysis of the intriguing question of whether Austria's unification at the price of permanent neutrality might have been a model for Germany. Franz Mathis and Kurt Tweraser look at economic reconstruction and the roles played by both the Austrian public industrial sector and the American Marshall Plan. Karin Schmidlechner looks at the youth culture of the era. Franz Adlgasser shows how Herbert Hoover's food aid was instrumental in the containment of communism in Hungary. Beth Noveck analyzes Austrian political culture of the First Republic from the perspective of Hugo Bettauer. Rolf Steininger presents an insightful historical overview of how the Austro-Italian South Tyrol conflict was resolved after seventy-five years of tension. | Austria in the Nineteen Fifties

GBP 110.00
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Materials for Learning How to Teach Adults at a Distance

Materials for Learning How to Teach Adults at a Distance

Materials for Learning (1981) examines the ability of books and broadcasts to change lives. The combination of print radio television and group meetings – distance teaching – can transform education in developing countries. Effective distance teaching requires effective teaching materials and up to now there has been a lack of guidance about how to produce such materials and how to do so for different cultures. Materials for Learning aims to supply this need by suggesting guidelines for action and where evidence is mixed or lacking defining questions that still require answers. It is a practical book aimed at people actively involved in nonformal education and will be particularly useful for the developing world educators. The book looks first at how distance teaching can help with educational problems considers how adults learn and surveys problems of language and culture. It then considers the planning of distance teaching and looks in detail at the use of different media. There were also chapters on teaching numeracy and science at a distance and a discussion of the kind of support that can be provided for people studying at a distance. | Materials for Learning How to Teach Adults at a Distance

GBP 90.00
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Studying Law at University Everything you need to know

Studying Law at University Everything you need to know

Do you want to do well in Law from day one?Law is a challenging and competitive subject to study at university. You need to become familiar with its peculiar language and complicated practices as quickly as possible if you want to do well. Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of students Studying Law at University demystifies your law course. With reliable tips and practical suggestions it shows you how to: understand key legal concepts; read cases; take useful notes; become an active learner; manage your time; write law essays; sit law exams. Updated to take into account the increasing use of the internet this second edition of Studying Law at University tells you everything you need to know to get good marks and enjoy your studies. | Studying Law at University Everything you need to know

GBP 130.00
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Magna Carta

Magna Carta

This new history is the first to tell the story of Magna Carta ‘through the ages’. No other general work traces its continuing importance in England’s political consciousness. Many books have examined the circumstances surrounding King John’s grant of Magna Carta in 1215. Very few trace the Charter’s legacy to subsequent centuries and even fewer look at the fate of the physical document. Turner also underlines its great influence outside the United Kingdom especially in North America. Today the Charter enjoys greater prestige in the United States the land of lawyers than in Britain. U. S. citizens claim Magna Carta as a source of their liberties guaranteeing ‘due process of law’ and condemning ‘executive privilege’.

GBP 130.00
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Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo – or do they?This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book a biographical dictionary and a myth-busting expose Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to history's most famous battle. Arranged in alphabetical order and with entries highlighted throughout the text like links in a website the book boasts a colourful cast of soldiers politicians peasants surgeons artists novelists poets scientists entrepreneurs and more. It provides many sorties into nineteenth century culture politics medicine and science. It also provides a thorough look at the sources identifying myths irregularities and cover-ups. The book demonstrates how little we can really know about Waterloo. And yet it also demonstrates just how much can be said about the battle's participants. | Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

GBP 175.00
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Post-heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television

Post-heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television

Drawing upon the existing scholarship of period drama and emerging research into new media ecologies instigated by television streaming services such as Netflix this book establishes a critical framework for understanding the representation of nationhood and cultural identity in television drama. By formalising the term ‘post-heritage’ the book proposes a methodology which recognises the interplay of traditional and innovative elements within period drama productions. The book applies this critical perspective to popular British period drama productions from the 2010s with examples including The Crown the ‘society dramas’ of Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey Steven Knight’s Dickens adaptations and Stephen Poliakoff’s recent oeuvre to demonstrate the benefits of evaluating period drama as part of twenty-first century television’s developments. It challenges the assumptions around characteristics and ideological purpose that period drama discourse often contends with and offers new perspectives on understanding the past through televisual representations. This book will be important reading for students and scholars of television studies film studies and cultural studies. | Post-heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television

GBP 130.00
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Lithic Analysis at the Millennium

Lithic Analysis at the Millennium

The original research papers in the volume provide a broad review of current approaches to the study of lithic technology from the Palaeolithic to the present. The contributions address both with analytical techniques and interpretive issues. Collectively they increase our understanding of issues such as tool function means of production raw material sourcing and exchange systems and the evolution of human cognition social organization and symbolic behavior. | Lithic Analysis at the Millennium

GBP 175.00
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How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings

How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings

Felix Dodds is the Milo Minderbinder of the stakeholder world!' Alex Kirby BBC 'An invaluable tool for anyone wishing to understand and contribute effectively to the competition of good ideas that intergovernmental meetings should be' Paul Hohnen former Strategic Director Greenpeace International '. the book is a valuable resource for people willing to understand the practice of international negotiation and for those preparing to be influential negotiators. ' Political Studies Review Organizations spend considerable resources taking staff to international meetings often without understanding how these meetings work. This book is a unique guide on how to participate and be heard at intergovernmental meetings whether as a stakeholder or a government official. It contains a wealth of essential reference material including tips for navigating the intergovernmental hot spots of New York and Geneva lists of UN commissions conferences and permanent missions contact details of key international organizations NGOs and stakeholder groups and useful web addresses. If you have never lobbied or just want to have a better understanding of how the intergovernmental governance process works this book is the essential resource to make your work much easier. | How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings

GBP 175.00
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Preventing Terrorist Attacks at Sea Maritime Terrorism Risk and International Law

Preventing Terrorist Attacks at Sea Maritime Terrorism Risk and International Law

Over recent decades it has been widely recognised that terrorist attacks at sea could result in major casualties and cause significant disruptions to the free flow of international shipping. After discussing the overlaps and distinctions between piracy and maritime terrorism this book considers how the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code and other vessel identification and tracking measures in the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea would be likely to reduce the risk of terrorist attacks at sea. It explains how the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is less than clear on the powers of states to protect offshore installations submarine cables and pipelines from interference by terrorists. In light of these uncertainties it considers how the 2005 Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Maritime Navigation the doctrine of necessity and states’ inherent self-defence rights might apply in the maritime security context. A significant contribution of the book is the formulation of the Maritime Terrorism Threat Matrix which provides a structured framework for examining how maritime terrorism incidents have occurred and might occur in the future. The book also examines the relevant national maritime security legislation for preventing maritime terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom and in Australia. The book concludes by formulating guidelines for the unilateral interdiction of suspected terrorist vessels in exceptional circumstances and recommending priorities for governments and international maritime industries to focus on in order to reduce the risk for terrorist attacks at sea. It will be of interest to those working in the areas of Law and Terrorism Law of the Sea Maritime Law and Insurance and International Law. | Preventing Terrorist Attacks at Sea Maritime Terrorism Risk and International Law

GBP 120.00
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Understanding Adult Education and Training

Understanding Adult Education and Training

'This is an impressive book that will be of wide interest to adult educators everywhere. Many of the book's contributors work at the University of Technology Sydney - surely the world's pre-eminent institution for the study of adult learning and the most open and generous location for debate. Its virtues are the book's. 'Alan Tuckett National Institute of Adult Continuing Education UK'I am happy to endorse this book enthusiastically as being appropriate for a North American audience of adult educators. Though it's an intentionally introductory survey it never talks down to readers never condescends. On the other hand it's not so intenationally erudite that it collagpses into theoretical posturing; it stays firmly grounded in and connected to practice. 'Stephen Brookfield University of St. Thomas USAUnderstanding Adult Education and Training offers a broad overview of the field for adult educators and workplace trainers. It introduces the keys issues debates and theories in a way which is relevant to practice. Its aim is to deepen readers' understanding of adult learning and education so that they can be better practitioners. Adult education is a diverse field so there is no single body of knowledge which is appropriate for all adult educators. Understanding Adult Education and Training introduces a wide range of formal theory from adult education and associated fields and shows readers how they can use it their own circumstances. The first edition of this book has become a standard reference for students and professionals in Australia. This edition is fully revised and updated for an international readership.

GBP 130.00
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At Home with Ivan Vladislavić An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

At Home with Ivan Vladislavić An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s internal GPS to postcolonial Johannesburg Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability. Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | At Home with Ivan Vladislavić An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

GBP 135.00
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At the Threshold Contemporary Theatre Art and Music of Iran

At the Threshold Contemporary Theatre Art and Music of Iran

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine “Iranian-ness” in the context of Iran’s local regional and global position. This study identifies the important social and political interventions made by theatrical and performance pieces visual art and electronic music that articulate and reformulate Iranian-ness by breaking away from fixed and constructed stereotypes projected on them by both the Islamic regime and Western power. This book explores the reception and context within which artworks become meaningful performative acts. Looking closely at the works of a notable female Iranian photographer Shadi Ghadirian in conjunction with the new generation of Iranian nonconformist artists such as Tahmineh Monzavi and Hedieh Ahmadi; the visionary theatre productions of Ali Akbar Alizad; and radically untraditional sound/noise of the electronic music movement in Tehran this book calls attention to the Iran-based artists who are tirelessly trying to raise awareness regarding the political violence imposed on Iranian identity at the legal (top-down) and everyday (bottom-up) levels. This volume will be of great interest to student and scholars in theatre and performance photography art music sociology and politics. | At the Threshold Contemporary Theatre Art and Music of Iran

GBP 130.00
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Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation Tourism of European-Moroccans at Home

Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation Tourism of European-Moroccans at Home

Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation is a nuanced exploration of the embodied and affective practices of Moroccans from Europe visiting Morocco for summer vacation. Rather than characterizing them as uncomfortably split between homelands this book focuses on how their touristic leisure practices create their own space of diasporic belonging. An expert on Moroccan diaspora communities and mobile lifestyles the book draws on multi-sited and mobile ethnographic research to take the reader along on the journey ‘home’ and experience the daily lives of diasporic visitors. Their practices activities and encounters on vacation offer insights into larger issues of class leisure consumption and transnational belonging in South-to-North migration contexts. Concretely the book shows how these holiday encounters simultaneously generate integration into Morocco for migrant descendants who can feel at ‘home’ in this homeland and differentiation from others in how they embody ‘Moroccaness’ as social and material actors. This book shows how seemingly frivolous practices of leisure have material consequences for individuals who belong across homelands. Positioned at the intersection of migration studies leisure and tourism mobilities and ethnomethodology and practice theory this book is a worthwhile read for scholars and students—indeed anyone questioning or experiencing problems of belonging in transnational and diasporic contexts. | Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation Tourism of European-Moroccans at Home

GBP 120.00
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