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  • Beyond the School Gates Beyond the School Gates
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    Beyond the School Gates

    This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended schools. The authors draw on their extensive international evaluations of this radical new phenomenon to ask:What do extended or full service schools hope to...
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  • Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire
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    Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire

    The central argument of this book is that the half-century of Russian rule in Central Asia was shaped by traditions of authoritarian rule, by Russian national interests, and by a civic reform agenda that brought to Turkestan the principles that informed...
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  • Marshall, Marshallians and Industrial Economics Marshall, Marshallians and Industrial Economics
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    Marshall, Marshallians and Industrial Economics

    The four sections of the book deal in succession with Marshall's key ideas on the subject, the wider context of his thought in which they are to be read, their later development by some of his pupils, and their revival in contemporary economics. The...
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  • Language, Learning, Context Language, Learning, Context
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    Language, Learning, Context

    In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment?How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most of its potential?Using the right language and setting the correct tone in...
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  • Social Theory in Contemporary Asia Social Theory in Contemporary Asia
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    Social Theory in Contemporary Asia

    Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously...
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  • Superpower Rivalry and Conflict Superpower Rivalry and Conflict
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    Superpower Rivalry and Conflict

    Variously described by historians and thinkers as the 'most terrible century in Western history', 'a century of massacres and wars' and the 'most violent century in human history', the 20th century - and in particular the period between the First World...
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  • East Asian Transformation East Asian Transformation
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    East Asian Transformation

    From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and...
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  • Strategic Sport Development Strategic Sport Development
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    Strategic Sport Development

    The field of sports development is becoming ever more professional, with the levels of expertise in planning and efficiency required of those working in private or national sports institutions higher than they have ever been. In response to this,...
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  • Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century
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    Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century

    This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation. Nineteenth century nursing history has, until now, concentrated almost exclusively on nurse leaders, on the...
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  • Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty
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    Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty

    Education and poverty exist in a highly contested relationship even in the developed world. On the one hand, educational outcomes seem solidly attached to socio-economic status, and on the other, education is often cited as a way out of poverty. Success...
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  • Decolonization in South Asia Decolonization in South Asia
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    Decolonization in South Asia

    This book explores the meanings and complexities of India's experience of transition from colonial to the post-colonial period. It focuses on the first five years - from independence on 15th August 1947 to the first general election in January 1952 - in...
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  • Sanctuary? (Routledge Revivals) Sanctuary? (Routledge Revivals)
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    Sanctuary? (Routledge Revivals)

    In the ten years immediately following the Second World War, some 170 000 immigrants from Europe and Britain arrived in Australia. First published in 1988, this unique book recreates the experiences of those who fled a ravaged Europe to seek a new life...
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  • Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War
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    Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War

    This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving,...
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  • The Political Philosophy of Judith Butler The Political Philosophy of Judith Butler
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    The Political Philosophy of Judith Butler

    Birgit Schippers provides a detailed exposition and analysis of Butler's recent ideas, and it champions her efforts at articulating the possibilities for radical politics and ethical life in an era of global interdependence.
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  • Family Life and Youth Offending Family Life and Youth Offending
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    Family Life and Youth Offending

    The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young...
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  • Decision Support Systems in Urban Planning Decision Support Systems in Urban Planning
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    Decision Support Systems in Urban Planning

    Urban planning processes have become increasingly complex and sophisticated. Decision support systems can be useful aids to decision-makers in their assessment of the impact of their decisions. This book, available in paperback for the first...
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  • America, the UN and Decolonisation America, the UN and Decolonisation
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    America, the UN and Decolonisation

    This book examines the role of the UN in conflict resolution in Africa in the 1960s and its relation to the Cold War.Focussing on the Congo, this book shows how the preservation of the existing economic and social order in the Congo was a key element in...
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  • Dislocation and Resettlement in Development Dislocation and Resettlement in Development
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    Dislocation and Resettlement in Development

    Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation. Interrogating the...
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  • Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law
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    Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law

    Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law is a collection of original research on the rule of law from a panel of leading economists, political scientists, legal scholars, sociologists and historians. The chapters critically analyze the meaning and...
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  • Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14 Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14
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    Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14

    Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central period of Roman History for all students of Roman history, from...
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  • Governance through Development Governance through Development
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    Governance through Development

    Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and...
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  • Feminist Research Methodology Feminist Research Methodology
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    Feminist Research Methodology

    This book focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analysing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, ethics and politics, and research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka. The book examines ways of...
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  • Japanese Cinema and Otherness Japanese Cinema and Otherness
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    Japanese Cinema and Otherness

    Over the last 20 years, ethnic minority groups have been increasingly featured in Japanese Films. However, the way these groups are presented has not been a subject of investigation. This study examines the representation of so-called Others -...
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  • Taxation and Gender Equity Taxation and Gender Equity
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    Taxation and Gender Equity

    Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to...
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  • Drugs, Crime and Public Health Drugs, Crime and Public Health
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    Drugs, Crime and Public Health

    Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it...
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  • Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure
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    Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure

    What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre's potential to expand our understanding of social, political and everyday reality? What can we learn from performances that expose and then celebrate their ability to...
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  • Immigration, Social Integration and Crime Immigration, Social Integration and Crime
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    Immigration, Social Integration and Crime

    The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration. But whilst recent studies show that the crime rate for non-nationals is three, four or more, times higher than that of the country's 'own'...
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  • Muslim Women and Sport Muslim Women and Sport
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    Muslim Women and Sport

    Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and...
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  • The Making of the Arab Intellectual The Making of the Arab Intellectual
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    The Making of the Arab Intellectual

    In the wake of the Ottoman Empire's nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly 'estate' underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state's new institutions as translators, teachers and...
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  • International Secured Transactions Law International Secured Transactions Law
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    International Secured Transactions Law

    This book focuses on international harmonisation and the law of secured transactions by distilling and analysing the unifying principles of various significant international conventions and instruments such as the UN Convention on the Assignment of...
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  • Archaeology of the Military Orders Archaeology of the Military Orders
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    Archaeology of the Military Orders

    Including previously unpublished and little known material, this cutting-edge book presents a detailed discussion of the archaeological evidence of the five military orders in the Latin East:the Hospitallersthe Templarsthe Teutonic Knightsthe Leper...
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  • Managing Military Organizations Managing Military Organizations
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    Managing Military Organizations

    This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.Examining the challenges faced by policymakers and military commanders in conducting military operations, this book...
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  • Googlization of Libraries Googlization of Libraries
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    Googlization of Libraries

    This book includes a variety of articles which look critically and judiciously at Google and its products, with a focus on Google Scholar and Google Book Search. It also examines their usefulness in a public service context. Its ultimate aim is to assess...
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  • Climate Change and Foreign Policy Climate Change and Foreign Policy
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    Climate Change and Foreign Policy

    Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West and its companion volume, Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, examine and explain the role of foreign policy politics, processes and institutions in efforts to...
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  • Performance in Bali Performance in Bali
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    Performance in Bali

    Leon Rubin and I Nyoman Sedana, both international theatre professionals as well as scholars, collaborate to give an understanding of performance culture in Bali from inside and out.The book describes four specific forms of contemporary performance that...
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  • Controversies in Local Economic Development Controversies in Local Economic Development
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    Controversies in Local Economic Development

    Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a...
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  • Screening Gender on Children's Television Screening Gender on Children's Television
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    Screening Gender on Children's Television

    Screening Gender on Children's Television offers readers insights into the transformations taking place in the presentation of gender portrayals in television productions aimed at younger audiences. It goes far beyond a critical analysis of the existing...
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  • Rights, Gender and Family Law Rights, Gender and Family Law
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    Rights, Gender and Family Law

    There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and...
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  • Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights
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    Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights

    This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of developing countries rich in biological and genetic...
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  • The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration
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    The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration

    This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to...
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  • Housing and Health in Europe Housing and Health in Europe
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    Housing and Health in Europe

    In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health...
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  • Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
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    Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important...
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  • Theory After 'Theory' Theory After 'Theory'
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    Theory After 'Theory'

    This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory's new directions, this groundbreaking collection...
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  • Improving Learning in a Professional Context Improving Learning in a Professional Context
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    Improving Learning in a Professional Context

    Improving Learning in a Professional Context provides vital new evidence on exactly how teachers learn to be teachers; evidence that is likely to affect and influence the profession for many years to come. Demonstrating that learning in schools is more...
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  • Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday
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    Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday

    Despite society's current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children's health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical...
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