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  • THE HOSPITALLER KNIGHTS OF SAINT JOHN AT RHODES 1306-1522
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    THE HOSPITALLER KNIGHTS OF SAINT JOHN AT RHODES 1306-1522
    GORDON ELLYSON ABERCROMBIE
    The first of a series of volumes on the Hospitaller Knights of Saint John, this volume covers the period 1306–1522. The Hospitaller Knights had developed during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to these pilgrims brought about their evolution into a Military Order. An elite compo...

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  • HUNTERS' ISLAND
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    HUNTERS' ISLAND
    GORDON L ROTTMAN
    A young American farm boy and a Japanese student are swept away from their lives by war and end up playing a deadly game of cat and mouse on a Pacific Island. It is a world war between with the lives and cultures of empires at stake, the largest and most vicious war to sweep across the globe. In spite of the sweep of the war around the world, in August 1942 many were focused on...

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  • TOWARDS AN INCARNATIONAL SPIRITUAL CULTURE
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    TOWARDS AN INCARNATIONAL SPIRITUAL CULTURE
    GORDON E. CARKNER
    Rooted in the robust discourse of eminent Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (A Secular Age), this book takes the reader on a journey of deep reflection and discovery. Many things in today's culture misdirect, seduce, and confuse younger generations, when they actually need wise mentors with integrity. The discussion clarifies some of the core issues at stake in the late moder...

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  • TWO SAILOR LADS: A STORY OF STIRRING ADVENTURES ON SEA AND LAND
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    TWO SAILOR LADS: A STORY OF STIRRING ADVENTURES ON SEA AND LAND
    GORDON STABLES
    Excerpt: "There is no more beautiful bay than that of Methlin on all the wild west shores of Scotland; there is no quainter or more old-fashioned little town than the fishing village that clusters around its shores, its wee little whitewashed cottages half hidden in the green of waving elders and drooping silver birch trees. Behind the village is a wealth of woodland, stretchin...

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  • IN THE GREAT WHITE LAND
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    IN THE GREAT WHITE LAND
    GORDON STABLES
    Excerpt: "“Is it a man, or is it a young Polar bear standing on end?” Had any one seen that strange figure, shuffling slowly to and fro on the snow-clad Polar ice on this bitterly cold morning late in winter, he might have been excused for asking himself that question. All around was a scene of desolation such as can only be witnessed in Arctic seas at this season of the year. ...

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  • THE PEARL DIVERS AND CRUSOES OF THE SARGASSO SEA
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    THE PEARL DIVERS AND CRUSOES OF THE SARGASSO SEA
    GORDON STABLES
    Excerpt: "When my own boy and girls, who call me “Daddy,” read any of my books at home—and I am proud to say they all do—a question almost invariably asked is: “But do tell us, is it all true?” I answer as best I can. Now, no tale in the world is ever “all true”: it would not be a story if it were, would it? Nevertheless I have knocked about all over the world so much, and made...

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  • FAMILY ORAL HISTORY ACROSS THE WORLD
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    FAMILY ORAL HISTORY ACROSS THE WORLD
    MARY LOUISE CONTINI GORDON
    Family Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory research, and narrative data analysis. Based on and using a prequestionnaire and over 40 recorded interviews with people from across six continents, the analysis system used in the book presents material from these intervi...

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  • TANKS ON THE STREETS?
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    TANKS ON THE STREETS?
    GORDON BARCLAY / LOUISE HEREN
    At 12.08pm on Friday 31 January 1919, Margaret Buchanan drives her tram into George Square in Glasgow’s city center. She slows down to avoid the youths and men holding their arms up to stop her; some even jump onto the front of her tram. Swirling around her tram is a sea of heavy-coated men who have been on strike since Monday, demanding a reduction to a forty-hour working week...

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  • VARNEY'S MIDWIFERY
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    VARNEY'S MIDWIFERY
    JULIA PHILLIPPI / IRA KANTROWITZ-GORDON
    Varney's Midwifery continues to be the gold standard for midwifery practice in an updated seventh edition. New lead editors assembled a team of expert contributors and authors to continue the legacy of Varney's Midwifery as the trusted, must-have resource for students, professional midwives, and women's health practitioners. Varney's Midwifery uses current evidence-based guide...

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  • POLITICS AND TRADE IN BRITAIN, 1776-1914
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    POLITICS AND TRADE IN BRITAIN, 1776-1914
    GORDON BANNERMAN
    The period between 1880 and 1914, the subject of this volume, sees increasing questioning of free trade, especially in those sectors impacted adversely by foreign competition, and within political circles, where the notion of protecting native industries shifted from an agricultural to an industrial base. There was a greater willingness, especially in the Conservative party, to...

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  • POLITICS AND TRADE IN BRITAIN, 1776-1914
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    POLITICS AND TRADE IN BRITAIN, 1776-1914
    GORDON BANNERMAN
    This volume explores the period between Smith’s 1776 The Wealth of Nations and ends in the early days of the Anti-Corn Law League campaign on the eve of the 1841 General Election, which prominently featured contrasting commercial policy options between Conservative and Liberal parties. During this period, we witness the growth of free trade sentiment, with opposition to monopol...

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  • POLITICS AND TRADE IN BRITAIN, 1776-1914
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    POLITICS AND TRADE IN BRITAIN, 1776-1914
    GORDON BANNERMAN
    This volume takes up the story of exacerbated political divisions from 1841 onwards, with a clearer demarcation in political life caused at least partly by commercial policy considerations. Ultimately, the success of free trade policies, implemented by Sir Robert Peel after 1841, saw the reconfiguration of political parties and had lasting effects and impact on party politics. ...

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  • RUSSIAN ZONE
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    RUSSIAN ZONE
    GORDON SCHAFFER
    First published in 1947 Russian Zone is a record of the conditions Gordon Schaffer found in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany during a stay of ten weeks. In that time, he had interviewed scores of Germans in positions of responsibility- ministers of the various provincial governments, leaders of the political parties, of the trade unions, the co-operatives, the cultural bodie...

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  • BUSINESS ANALYTICS
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    BUSINESS ANALYTICS
    MARY ELLEN GORDON
    This new textbook focuses on how data and analytics can be used to help inform organisational decision-making across the business by complementing human judgement. Taking a highly practical approach, it covers major use cases for analytics across different business areas, including marketing analytics, HR analytics, operational analytics and financial analytics. This concise an...

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  • ADVANCES IN COMBUSTION TOXICOLOGY,VOLUME I
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    ADVANCES IN COMBUSTION TOXICOLOGY,VOLUME I
    GORDON E. HARTZELL
    This book addresses the three basic areas of combustion toxicology: combustion of materials, assessment of the toxicity of smoke, and understanding of hazards to humans. It is based on the papers published in the Journal of Fire Sciences during 1983-1987. ...

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  • THE WAY TO INCLUSION
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    THE WAY TO INCLUSION
    JULIE CAUSTON / KATE MACLEOD / KRISTIE PRETTI-FRONTCZAK / JENNA MANCINI RUFO / PAUL GORDON
    The research is clear: Including students with disabilities in general education classrooms is the most effective way for all students to learn.If you are working toward greater inclusivity in your school or system, this book from educators and inclusion experts Julie Causton, Kate MacLeod, Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, Jenna Mancini Rufo, and Paul Gordon is an invaluable guide for...

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  • ADOLESCENT USE OF NEW MEDIA AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES
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    ADOLESCENT USE OF NEW MEDIA AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES
    GORDON P. D. INGRAM
    This book engages with contemporary, and often polarizing, debates surrounding the risks of adolescent use of digital media and internet technologies. By drawing on multiple research studies, the text synthesizes current understandings of the impacts of social network use, online gaming, pornography, and phenomena, including cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and internet addiction,...

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  • INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
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    INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
    LISA GORDON
    Live music events are synonymous with fun but seldom associated with international trade. This book serves to transform this mindset, through describing the economic value of live music and analysing the factors affecting international trade in Caribbean live music services. Race and ethnicity, unachieved regionalism within the Caribbean, and perceived biases in international t...

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  • LIFE AFTER DEATH TODAY IN THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN, AND CHINA
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    LIFE AFTER DEATH TODAY IN THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN, AND CHINA
    GORDON MATHEWS / YANG YANG / MIU YING KWONG
    This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China. By collecting and examining hundreds of interviews with people from all walks of life in these three societies, the book presents and compares personally held beliefs, experiences, and interactions with the concept of life after death. Three major aspects covered by the book Inclu...

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  • THE POLITICS OF FINANCIAL CONTROL
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    THE POLITICS OF FINANCIAL CONTROL
    GORDON REID
    Originally published in 1966, this book takes a look at the ancient and traditional, as well as more recent procedures in parliament for controlling finance. It questions outdated procedures and also examines the tendency of the party leaders to restrict control and even debate of financial matters in the House of Commons. ...

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  • HUMAN ENHANCEMENT AND WELL-BEING
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    HUMAN ENHANCEMENT AND WELL-BEING
    EMMA C. GORDON
    New technologies and medicines make it increasingly possible to enhance human functioning in new ways: to become smarter, more emotionally attuned, and perhaps even morally better. But just because we can use the latest science to improve ourselves, should we? This book has two main aims. First, it outlines and criticises the six main contemporary arguments for scepticism about...

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  • WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS
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    WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS
    ELIZABETH GORDON
    Excerpt: “Sam Houston should justly be regarded as a great American. He laid his course and steered by it utterly regardless of the opposition. Strong characters are known as much by the enemies that they make as by the friends that they retain. When they launch into a course that they deem is right, they do not depend upon fair winds. They go ahead, if they have real faith. Th...

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  • HOW JACK MACKENZIE WON HIS EPAULETTES
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    HOW JACK MACKENZIE WON HIS EPAULETTES
    GORDON STABLES
    Excerpt: “There is a glamour and romance about war that appeals to the heart of every young man worthy of the name in these islands. This is as it should be. We are a nation of sailors, it is true, but many a blood-red field can bear witness that we are soldiers also, when we have the right man to lead us. A weapon, however, that is left too long in its scabbard is apt to rust ...

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  • REALLY SO STORIES
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    REALLY SO STORIES
    ELIZABETH GORDON
    Excerpt: “There was once a boy named Billy, who spent a summer in the woods with Somebody. Somebody had expected to have a wonderful time telling him stories; but it turned out that the boy named Billy did not care for made up stories. He would listen, if they were sufficiently exciting, but even stories of wolves and bears and tigers were not very much worth while unless they ...

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  • FACT AND FABLE IN PSYCHOLOGY
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    FACT AND FABLE IN PSYCHOLOGY
    GORDON STABLES
    Excerpt: “If that imaginary individual so convenient for literary illustration, a visitor from Mars, were to alight upon our planet at its present stage of development, and if his intellectual interests induced him to survey the range of terrestrial views of the nature of what is "in heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth," to appraise mundane o...

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  • BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA
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    BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA
    ROBERT GORDON
    This book is the first comprehensive overview of Buddhist architecture in North America and provides an analysis of Buddhist architecture and communities. Exploring the arrival of Buddhist architecture in America, the book lays out how Buddhists have expressed their spiritual beliefs in structural form in the United States. The story follows the parallel history of the religion...

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  • MULTICULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
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    MULTICULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
    GORDON C. NAGAYAMA HALL
    The new edition of this bestselling textbook, Multicultural Psychology, helps students gain an understanding of how race, ethnicity, and culture shape their beliefs and behavior as well as those of people around them. Giving a voice to people underrepresented in psychology and society, this book introduces multicultural research in biological, developmental, social, and clinica...

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  • BLOOD, GUTS AND GORE
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    BLOOD, GUTS AND GORE
    JOHN GORDON SMITH
    John Gordon Smith wrote one of the most vivid, honest and readable personal accounts of the Battle of Waterloo and the ensuing campaign, where he served as a surgeon in the12th Light Dragoons, but his classic narrative was only published in a limited edition in the 1830s and since then it has been virtually unknown. His warts-and-all depiction of the British army in Belgium and...

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  • THE PERFORMANCE OF LAW
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    THE PERFORMANCE OF LAW
    RANDY GORDON
    This book considers how law is always enacted, or performed, in ways that can be analyzed in relation to fiction, theatre, and other dramatic forms. Of necessity, lawyers and judges need to devise techniques to make rules respond situationally. The performance of law supplements, or it extends the reach of, the law-as-written. And, in this respect, the act of lawyering is in ma...

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  • THE BRITISH MALAISE
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    THE BRITISH MALAISE
    GORDON RODERICK
    This series of edited papers, originally published in 1982, examines Britain’s industrial and commercial performance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries against the background of the development of state education. The performance of certain key nineteenth-century manufacturing industries is analysed and the reasons for their relative decline in the face of foreign compet...

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