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News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it's often said, sells. But what does it take to sell a war, and to what extent …
At a time when accountability and the avoidance of risk are increasingly demanded of social work practitioners, the ability to make clear and reasoned professional decisions is essential. This welcome new edition provides a supportive framework for making social work …
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The Road to 2012
Sport has a huge social and cultural significance in contemporary Britain. This insightful study provides the first exploration of the causes and consequences of the increased interaction between sport and the state since 1945.Kevin Jefferys sets policy towards sport within …
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Using Language in Context
This accessible guide to discourse employs an innovative, inductive approach, with a clear focus on genre that allows students to examine language in context. Using real texts, students are shown how each dimension of discourse links together and are offered …
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was one of Britain's greatest philosophers and radical politicians, whose views had a profound influence on thinking on liberty, social policy and gender relations. William Stafford's accessible study outlines Mill's reputation from his lifetime to the …
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New Directions
How can the sociology of science relate to issues of science policy? And how can both attend to new institutional and cultural shifts in the character of science itself? These two questions lie at the heart of this new introduction …
This book offers a clear and comprehensive guide to youth justice practice based on a solid grounding of academic research and in-depth understanding of how the youth justice system operates. Lessons from the past, current challenges and new directions are …
The Prelude is now seen as a central text in the Wordsworth corpus. This Guide identifies and gathers significant critical perspectives, interpretations and debates connected with the poem, contextualising and explaining criticism from the Victorian period right through to the …
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An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis
This book offers both an understanding of newspaper reporting and a means for readers to develop their own critical analysis. Using a wealth of contemporary case studies, students are taught how the language of journalism works, providing students with an …
The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors.This ninth edition of Legal Method provides a lively introduction …
This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of …
If you are searching for a clear exploration of the key concepts in psychodynamic thinking and practice, then this is the book for you.In this book Jeffrey Longhofer unravels the complex field of psychodynamic practice and lays it out in …
An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a sampling of …
As the world experiences social unrest, polarization, and faces complex challenges, citizens are taking to the squares and streets to demand change. From climate change protests to far-right extremism, social movements are mobilizing around the key social and political issues …
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The Restoration of Nature in America's National Parks
By the turn of the millennium, it had become painfully apparent that the United States had made some serious misjudgments in its interactions with the natural world. The country's treasured national parks, while remaining immensely popular tourist destinations, were not …
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And Other Mountain Tales
The Adirondacks: alluring, beautiful, and host to dangerous and murderous antics. Will Jason Black, the Adirondack Detective, discover the ghosts of Santa Clara? What will private investigator Roxanne Kane find at the Prescott Preserve? Who is the mysterious prisoner of …
Fish are classified in several classes by which its study becomes easier. Fish having similar properties are: contained in the same group. Various classes of fish are Thelodonti, Anaspida, Cephalaspidomorphi, Galeaspida, Pituriaspida, Osteostracy, Gnathostomata, Placodermi. jawless fish are classified under …
This book makes a philosophical analysis of the concepts of pain, suffering and evil for their nature and meaning. Drawing heavily on a vast body of positive and social sciences as well as on some branches and schools of philosophy …
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Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education
While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. The Price We Pay remedies this oversight by highlighting the private and public costs of inadequate education. In this volume, leading scholars …
Editing is not only a task of adding and deleting of words but also a tough as well as responsible one also. While editing, many a thing has to be taken into consideration. use of proper words and style checking …
Islam came on the scene, with a message, philosophy and code of conduct, perfect by all means, with its advent, the new faith revolutionised the contemporary world in a very short span of time. It also brought along with its …
The majority of Encyclopaedia that have been published on the subject of Dyes and Drugs have been Technological biased and do not appeal to the mainstream Organic Chemist. An elegant manner which emphasises the role of Organic Chemistry in Dyestuffs. …
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En Route toward the First World
Brazil is currently in a critical phase of a decades-long transformation from a patrimonial society--based on the cultivation and export of sugar and coffee--to a modernized industrial and service economy with effective democratic governance. It is the world's fifth largest …
Biotechnology is technology based on biology, agriculture, food science and medicine. Modern use of the term refers to genetic engineering as well as cell and tissue culture technologies. However, the concept encompasses a wider range and history of procedures for …
Feminist psychologists have a wealth of knowledge on varied topics related to the psychology of women. These topics include but are not limited to feminist therapy, trauma recovery in the lives of women, mental health needs and services for diverse …
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