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  • Governing Smart Specialisation Governing Smart Specialisation
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    Governing Smart Specialisation

    In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union. Providing targeted support for innovation and research, it has helped identify those areas of greatest strategic...
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  • The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III
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    The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III

    This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. This final volume in Coustillas's prodigious biography examines the turbulent last years of the author's life and his literary...
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  • Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America
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    Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America

    In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the...
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  • Advances in Responsible Land Administration Advances in Responsible Land Administration
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    Advances in Responsible Land Administration

    Advances in Responsible Land Administration challenges conventional forms of land administration by introducing alternative approaches and provides the basis for a new land administration theory. A compilation of observations about responsible land...
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  • Futures Research and Environmental Sustainability Futures Research and Environmental Sustainability
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    Futures Research and Environmental Sustainability

    This book explores the challenges of presenting sustainability as a more actionable or practical concept and identifying approaches that might offer useful assistance in addressing the temporal and spatial representation of sustainability. The underlying...
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  • Global Issues in Contemporary Policing Global Issues in Contemporary Policing
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    Global Issues in Contemporary Policing

    This book addresses six areas of policing: performance management, professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations, policing the police, and cyber-security. The book contains...
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  • Performance-Based Fire Safety Design Performance-Based Fire Safety Design
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    Performance-Based Fire Safety Design

    Master an Approach Based on Fire Safety Goals, Fire Scenarios, and the Assessment of Design AlternativesPerformance-Based Fire Safety Design demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire protection problems in the built environment. It also...
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  • Live Electronic Music Live Electronic Music
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    Live Electronic Music

    During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination and conservation of music. The era of the mechanical reproduction of music has, rather ironically, opened up...
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  • Women in Sufism Women in Sufism
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    Women in Sufism

    Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qādiriyya Būdshīshiyya, today, this book evidences a wide array of religious identities, from those more typical of Berber...
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  • Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview
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    Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview

    Exploring the subjectivity of the Qurʾān's meaning in the world, this book analyses Qurʾānic referencing in Muslim political rhetoric. Informed by classical Arabic-Islamic rhetorical theory, the author examines Arabic documents attributed to the ʿAbbāsid...
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  • Four Central Theories of the Market Economy Four Central Theories of the Market Economy
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    Four Central Theories of the Market Economy

    This highly original work offers an intellectual history of four central theories underlying the market economic system, focusing on their conception, evolution, and applications. Four Central Theories of the Market Economy traces the root of the...
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  • Policing in Hong Kong Policing in Hong Kong
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    Policing in Hong Kong

    The HKP (Hong Kong Police), 'Asia's Finest', is a battle-tested professional organization with strong leadership, competent staff, and deep culture. It is also a continuously learning and reforming agency in pursuit of organisational excellence. Policing...
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  • Retail Security and Loss Prevention Solutions Retail Security and Loss Prevention Solutions
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    Retail Security and Loss Prevention Solutions

    Employee theft amounts to roughly $36.6 billion retail dollars lost annually, according to a 2008 National Retail Security Survey, and accounts for approximately 42.7 % of all retail losses. Each year organizations spend millions of dollars on theft...
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  • Criminal Abuse of Women and Children Criminal Abuse of Women and Children
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    Criminal Abuse of Women and Children

    The abuse of women and children transcends geographical boundaries as well as economic, cultural, religious, political, and social divisions. Comprised of the work of more than 20 academics and practitioners from around the world, Criminal Abuse of Women...
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  • Geomembranes - Identification and Performance Testing Geomembranes - Identification and Performance Testing
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    Geomembranes - Identification and Performance Testing

    Geomembranes are increasingly being used in transportation, environmental and geotechnical applications to control gas and liquid movement. This book provides authoritative guidance on testing of geomembranes. It has been prepared by an international...
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  • Performance-Based Optimization of Structures Performance-Based Optimization of Structures
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    Performance-Based Optimization of Structures

    Performance-Based Optimization of Structures introduces a method to bridge the gap between structural optimization theory and its practical application to structural engineering. The Performance-Based Optimization (PBO) method combines modern structural...
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  • Laboratory Tests for Unsaturated Soils Laboratory Tests for Unsaturated Soils
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    Laboratory Tests for Unsaturated Soils

    The testing of unsaturated soils requires greater care and effort than that of saturated soils. Although unsaturated soil mechanics has been embraced by geotechnical engineering, engineering practice has not yet caught up as the characterization of...
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  • Sustainable Home Refurbishment Sustainable Home Refurbishment
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    Sustainable Home Refurbishment

    A retro-fit offers many benefits: cutting electricity and heating bills, increasing the resale value of homes, slashing carbon emissions and creating a healthier place to live. This book is the guide to making it happen. It looks...
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  • Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora
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    Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora

    Filipino migrants constitute one of the largest global diasporas today. In Australia, Filipino settlement is markedly framed by the country's on-going nation-building project that continues to racialise immigrants and delineate the possibilities and...
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  • Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945 Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945
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    Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945

    This volume explores the intersection between culinary history and literature across a period of profound social and cultural change. Split into four parts, essays focus on the relationships between eating and childhood reading in the Victorian era, the...
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  • Truth, Intentionality and Evidence Truth, Intentionality and Evidence
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    Truth, Intentionality and Evidence

    This book provides an anthropological exploration of the ways in which crime is perceived and defined, focusing on notions of truth, intentionality, and evidence. The chapters contain rich ethnographic case studies drawn from work in the Middle East,...
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  • Darwinian Creativity and Memetics Darwinian Creativity and Memetics
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    Darwinian Creativity and Memetics

    The author examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. The first claims that creativity is based on a Darwinian process of blind variation and...
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  • Environmental Management System ISO 14001 Environmental Management System ISO 14001
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    Environmental Management System ISO 14001

    Environmental Management System ISO 14001:2004 provides the information and practical know-how required to facilitate a smooth adoption and incorporation of the latest revisions and enhancements put forth by the International Organization for...
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  • Insights on Reporting Sports in the Digital Age Insights on Reporting Sports in the Digital Age
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    Insights on Reporting Sports in the Digital Age

    This first book in the Journalism Insights series examines the major practical and ethical challenges confronting contemporary sports journalists which have emerged from, or been exacerbated by, the use of digital and social media.Combining both...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Critical International Relations Routledge Handbook of Critical International Relations
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    Routledge Handbook of Critical International Relations

    Critical international relations is both firmly established and rapidly expanding, and this Handbook offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary research. It affords insights into exciting developments, more challenging issues and less prominent topics,...
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  • The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe
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    The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe

    The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the...
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  • The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas
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    The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas

    Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life. Moral...
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  • Non-Invasive Monitoring of Transdermal Drug Delivery Non-Invasive Monitoring of Transdermal Drug Delivery
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    Non-Invasive Monitoring of Transdermal Drug Delivery

    The book presents an innovative technology based on injection of a very weak current to trace the quantity of a drug carried immediately after the administration. The book makes the reader familiar with the technology, from the conception through the...
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  • An Economic History of India 1707-1857 An Economic History of India 1707-1857
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    An Economic History of India 1707-1857

    This new edition of An Economic History of Early Modern India extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate further research. This allows for a more detailed discussion of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia and gives a fuller context for...
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  • Inside Third World Cities Inside Third World Cities
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    Inside Third World Cities

    Originally published in 1986, this book focusses on life within global cities in the developing world, analysing on a city-level the circulation and consumption of goods and services within them. When the book was first published it was one of only a few...
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  • Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers
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    Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers

    Reading picture books with infants and toddlers facilitates their early language development, with far-reaching benefits for their later reading abilities and academic achievement.While the importance of reading books with children aged from 3 to 5 years...
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  • Group Analysis throughout the Life Cycle Group Analysis throughout the Life Cycle
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    Group Analysis throughout the Life Cycle

    Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete present a captivating journey through human development, group lives and group attachment from infancy all the way into old age. Co-constructed with meticulous anthropological, psychosocial, cultural and clinical...
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  • Brand Metrics Brand Metrics
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    Brand Metrics

    This book gathers and explains the key brand analysis tools that measure brand effectiveness and awareness along the customer journey.Rather than considering how to build and manage a brand, Brand Metrics shows students the methods by which they can...
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  • Early English Queens, 850-1000 Early English Queens, 850-1000
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    Early English Queens, 850-1000

    This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing the development of the queen's role from bed companion to institutional office.
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  • Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere
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    Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere

    Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere draws together and critically appraises a raft of emerging research around mindfulness in healthcare, looking especially at its relevance to pregnancy and childbirth. 　Divided into three parts, this reflective...
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  • Childhood in Animation Childhood in Animation
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    Childhood in Animation

    Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy.
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  • Medieval Herbal Remedies Medieval Herbal Remedies
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    Medieval Herbal Remedies

    Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has...
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  • Economic Growth and Convergence Economic Growth and Convergence
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    Economic Growth and Convergence

    There are many different types of convergence within economics, as well as several methods to analyse each of them. This book addresses the concept of real economic convergence or the gradual levelling-off of GDP (gross domestic product) per capita rates...
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  • The Cities of the Poor The Cities of the Poor
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    The Cities of the Poor

    Originally published in 1980, this book was written by consultants in urban development with wide experience in the developing world and is a source book aimed at advisers (often from developed countries) who assist with urban planning matters on behalf...
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  • The Development of Housing in Scotland The Development of Housing in Scotland
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    The Development of Housing in Scotland

    Originally published in 1979, this volume begins with an historical summary of housing development in Scotland. Scottish urban housing has always followed a unique and distinctive pattern from the rest of the UK, resembling more closely the flatted...
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  • Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy
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    Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy

    Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century. It demonstrates how changes in...
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  • The City in American History The City in American History
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    The City in American History

    Originally published in 1969, this book summarizes the findings of a comprehensive survey of the successive roles played by the explosive constellations of cities in American history. The book examines how and in what respects the planting and developing...
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  • Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities
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    Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities

    Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual...
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  • The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities
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    The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities

    When this book was first published in 1982, despite considerable research on 19th Century towns in Britain and America, there had been little attempt to search for links between these empirical studies and to relate them more to more general theories of...
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  • Land and Housing Policies in Europe and the USA Land and Housing Policies in Europe and the USA
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    Land and Housing Policies in Europe and the USA

    Originally published in 1988, this book concentrates on urban land policy and was particularly significant when it was originally published because the 1980s were an era when the rich were getting richer and the poor poorer and in which changes in the...
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  • How Life is Different How Life is Different
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    How Life is Different

    The book examines basic principles of the structure and organization of living organisms and their differences from objects of inanimate nature. It covers how a single program-information structure permeates all evolutionary stages of life, including the...
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