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  • HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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    HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
    CHRIS BECKETT / HILARY TAYLOR
    Our bestselling social work textbook is back again. Taking you right back to basics, this book explains and analyses key theories in a really accessible way before going on to discuss, in detail, how theory can be incorporated into every day social work practice. Each chapter contains activities with step-by-step commentaries for discussion, self-analysis and critical reflectio...

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  • PROBIOTIC CITIES
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    PROBIOTIC CITIES
    RICHARD BECKETT
    Probiotic Cities covers a body of work that is at the forefront of emerging knowledge within architecture, towards designing informed indoor and built environment microbiomes. Sited within the broader field of Bio Design, the book presents highly experimental design research at the intersection of architecture, engineering and microbiology. The book describes work which explore...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND DISABILITY
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    THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND DISABILITY
    ANGHARAD E. BECKETT
    This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world. Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) as conceptual frameworks, this work appraises the current state of affairs concerning the rights of disab...

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  • JOHN CONSTABLE AND THE FISHERS
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    JOHN CONSTABLE AND THE FISHERS
    R B BECKETT
    First published in 1952, John Constable and the Fishers is based on original letters which have never been published in full before. These have been woven into a connected narrative dealing with the friendship which existed between Constable and various members of the Fisher family, more particularly the Bishop of Salisbury (a personal friend of George III who entrusted him wit...

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  • LABOUR RIGHTS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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    LABOUR RIGHTS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    PAUL BECKETT
    This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world’s oldest human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Sometimes there is a mutual attraction between seeming opposites who in fact share a common goal. This book is about just such an attraction between a secular organisation born...

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  • AKOKOASO
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    AKOKOASO
    W. H. BECKETT
    Initially published in 1943. Akokoaso is a small village in the central province of the Gold Coast Colony, in the heart of the cocoa country. In this study the author presents his survey directed at the Gold Coast 'Middletown' during the period of 1932 to 5. The report covers the village and its inhabitants, their housing, occupations and family economy, moving onto the system ...

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  • SUPERVISION
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    SUPERVISION
    CHRIS BECKETT
    Supervising work that takes place outside your view is a challenge, as is making the best use of the supervision you receive.This guide aims to help both supervisors and supervisees use supervision to maximise learning, and to support best practice. ...

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  • ADVANCES IN PALEOIMAGING
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    ADVANCES IN PALEOIMAGING
    GERALD J. CONLOGUE / RONALD G. BECKETT
    Advances in Paleoimaging: Applications for Paleoanthropology, Bioarchaeology, Forensics, and Cultural Artifacts builds on the research and advances in technology since the writing of the authors’ first book, Paleoimaging: Field Applications for Cultural Remains and Artifacts (ISBN: 978-1-4200-9071-0). Since Paleoimaging was published in 2009, additional research settings for th...

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  • CASE STUDIES FOR ADVANCES IN PALEOIMAGING AND OTHER NON-CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
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    CASE STUDIES FOR ADVANCES IN PALEOIMAGING AND OTHER NON-CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
    RONALD G. BECKETT / GERALD J. CONLOGUE / ANDREW NELSON
    The case studies provided in Case Studies for Advances in Paleoimaging will provide the reader with real-world scenarios and case examples that will help prepare researchers to discover new ways to apply the various modalities associated with the technology. This book is a follow-up to the Beckett and Conlogue’s classic work Paleoimaging (2009) and companion to their new contri...

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  • OWNERSHIP, FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE LAW
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    OWNERSHIP, FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE LAW
    PAUL BECKETT
    There is something visceral about ownership. This is mine; you can’t have it. This is mine; you can share it. This is ours. Try to find it. Contemporary literature and investigative journalism are showing that the scale of the problem of tax evasion, money laundering, organised crime, terrorism, bribery, corruption and gross human rights abuses is vast. Ownership – specifically...

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  • HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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    HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
    CHRIS BECKETT / HILARY TAYLOR
    Written for students training for careers in the helping professions, this Fourth Edition covers all the essential topics central to understanding people whether they are clients, service users, patients or pupils. Following the shape of a human life, beginning with birth and ending with death, it combines theoretical concepts and reflective learning to help your students devel...

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  • ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS OF SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
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    ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS OF SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
    JOHN MO / RONALD BECKETT
    Modern engineering systems are complex and multi-faceted, and must be flexible, adaptable, and fully integrated with the supply chain and other stakeholders to deliver an effective level of performance. Therefore, this book aims to create an operational view and new understanding of modern system design, commissioning, operation, services and support. It includes system of syst...

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  • WILD FLOWERS OF MAJORCA MINORCA AND IBIZA
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    WILD FLOWERS OF MAJORCA MINORCA AND IBIZA
    ELSPETH BECKETT
    Visitors to these islands in search of sun and sea are often surprised by theglorious wild flowers, abundant particularly in the spring and late autumn.Many are curious to know more about them.This book offers a means of identification on three levels.For the complete beginner there are illustrations of most of the more strikingwild plants (and of a few cultivated ones).For tho...

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  • TEACHERS AND TEACHER UNIONS IN A GLOBALISED WORLD
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    TEACHERS AND TEACHER UNIONS IN A GLOBALISED WORLD
    JOHN CARR / LORI BECKETT
    Teachers and Teacher Unions in a Globalised World asks a series of pressing questions of teacher educators, teachers and teacher unions worldwide in this era of global capitalism. As governments around the world support austerity politics in the face of financial meltdowns, social inequalities, terrorist threats, climate catastrophe, wars and mass migrations, the book questions...

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  • TAX HAVENS AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
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    TAX HAVENS AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
    PAUL BECKETT
    This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws that generate and support these. It makes plain the unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens, businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all practical purposes eliminate access to remedies und...

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  • CITY STATUS IN THE BRITISH ISLES, 1830–2002
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    CITY STATUS IN THE BRITISH ISLES, 1830–2002
    JOHN BECKETT
    Based on a wide variety of government and civic records, this book traces the evolution of the changing nature of city status, particularly through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with an explanation of how city status first became connected to cathedrals in the medieval period, the book explores how during the nineteenth century, links evolved between Anglica...

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  • MODERN COUNTER-INSURGENCY
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    MODERN COUNTER-INSURGENCY
    IAN BECKETT
    Insurgency has been the most prevalent form of conflict in the modern world since the end of the Second World War. Accordingly, it has posed a major challenge to conventional armed forces, all of whom have had to evolve counter-insurgency methods in response. The volume brings together classic articles on the counter-insurgency experience since 1945. ...

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  • VALUES AND ETHICS IN SOCIAL WORK
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    VALUES AND ETHICS IN SOCIAL WORK
    CHRIS BECKETT / ANDREW MAYNARD / PETER JORDAN
    An awareness of one’s own ethical assumptions and how these inform everyday practice is crucial for all student social workers. Social workers who genuinely wish to do the right thing by their services users have no alternative but to constantly think and rethink the principles and assumptions that inform their actions, and this book supports them on their journey to do just th...

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  • FASCIST IN THE FAMILY
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    FASCIST IN THE FAMILY
    FRANCIS BECKETT
    John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness. But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley’s fascists, and one of Britain’s three best known anti-Semites. Yet his mother, whom he loved, was a Jew. Her ancestors were Solomons, Isaacs and Jacobsons, originally from Prussia. He...

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  • TEACHERS AND ACADEMIC PARTNERS IN URBAN SCHOOLS
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    TEACHERS AND ACADEMIC PARTNERS IN URBAN SCHOOLS
    LORI BECKETT
    'Showing how critical thinking and local democracy can be a spur to very real educational development within schools that are facing severe challenges, this book provides us with one very valuable contemporary resource of hope.' Ian Menter, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford, UK Teachers and Academic Partners in Urban Schools identifies and addresses a major p...

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  • ESSENTIAL THEORY FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
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    ESSENTIAL THEORY FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
    CHRIS BECKETT / NIGEL HORNER
    Focusing on what students really need to know, this book breaks down all of the key social work theory covered across a students′ training, demystifying complex concepts by demonstrating their application to real-life practice. Multiple case studies highlight applied theory in different practice settings and across issues and challenges that students might face, while self-asse...

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  • CITIZEN SOLDIERS AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1837-1902
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    CITIZEN SOLDIERS AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1837-1902
    IAN F W BECKETT
    The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period. ...

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  • PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND LAW
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    PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND LAW
    JULIA BECKETT / HEIDI O. KOENIG
    Public Administration and Law has been edited for use as a supplement for an undergraduate or MPA level course on administrative law. The selections, all from the pages of Public Administration Review, have been chosen to enlighten and enliven the contents of any standard administrative law textbook. Each of the book's main sections begins with introductory text and discussion ...

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  • PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW
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    PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW
    JULIA BECKETT
    Filled with practical tools and guidelines, this book addresses an essential competence for public managers - incorporating governance and law in public administration. It links democratic constitutional values to administrative decision making and practices by stressing how public law authorizes, informs, and democratically constrains public servants in fulfilling public polic...

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  • THE GREAT WAR
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    THE GREAT WAR
    IAN F. W. BECKETT
    The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunder...

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  • YPRES
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    YPRES
    IAN BECKETT
    The battle for Ypres in October and November 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front. In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett draws on a wide range of sources never previously used to reappraise the conduct of the battle, its significance and its legacy. ...

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  • TEACHER EDUCATION THROUGH ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT
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    TEACHER EDUCATION THROUGH ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT
    LORI BECKETT
    Teacher Education through Active Engagement identifies and addresses a contemporary issue: the ways in which teaching and teacher education are articulated by politicians, civil servants, business leaders and educational entrepreneurs intent on profit-making in the current global neoliberal policy context. This is often characterised by narrow and ill-conceived ideas about teac...

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  • RECYCLING RED RIDING HOOD
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    RECYCLING RED RIDING HOOD
    SANDRA BECKETT
    Sandra Beckett's book explores the contemporary retellingof the Red Riding Hood tale in Western children's literature. ...

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  • CROSSOVER PICTUREBOOKS
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    CROSSOVER PICTUREBOOKS
    SANDRA L. BECKETT
    This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picturebooks — including artists’ books, wordless picturebooks, and celebrity picturebooks — that appeal to readers of all ages. Focusing on contemporary picturebooks, Sandra Beckett shows that the picturebook has traditionally be...

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  • CROSSOVER FICTION
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    CROSSOVER FICTION
    SANDRA L. BECKETT
    In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. This study will have significant relevance across disciplines, as scholars in literary studies, media and cultural studies, visual arts, e...

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