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PROVINCIAL POLICE REFORM IN EARLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND

ROGER SWIFT

The establishment of ‘new police’ forces in early Victorian England has long attracted historical enquiry and debate, albeit with a general focus on London and the urban-industrial communities of the Midlands and the North. This original study contributes to the debate by examining the nature and process of police reform, the changing relationship between the police and the pub...

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THE IRISH IN THE VICTORIAN CITY

ROGER SWIFT / SHERIDAN GILLEY

First published in 1985, this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities, including Bristol, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stockport. With contributions from foremost scholars in the field, it provides a thorough critical study of Irish immigration, in its social, political, cultural and religious dimensions. This book will be of interest...

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MALAY PEASANT SOCIETY IN JELEBU

M. G. SWIFT

First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts, but includes a new theoretical introduction; postscripts have also been supplied to some of the chapters comparing the perf...

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GULLIVERS REISEN

JONATHAN SWIFT

Gullivers Reisen (englisch Gulliver’s Travels) ist ein satirischer Roman des irischen Schriftstellers, anglikanischen Priesters und Politikers Jonathan Swift. In der Originalfassung besteht der Roman aus vier Teilen und wurde 1726 unter dem Titel Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Shi...

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A MODEST PROPOSAL

JONATHAN SWIFT

A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick,[1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles b...

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STYLE AND FUNCTION IN ROMAN DECORATION

ELLEN SWIFT

This important book puts forward a new interpretation of Roman decorative art, focusing on the function of decoration in the social context. It examines the three principal areas of social display and conspicuous consumption in the Roman world: social space, entertainment, and dress, and discusses the significance of the decoration of objects and interiors within these contexts...

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THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

DONALD SWIFT

First published in 1969, this book examines the educational process as a whole in relation to its society. The discussion is set within a specifically sociological frame of reference and looks at the school as an organisation as well as the social environment surrounding the school. It concludes by considering some of the basic issues concerning the functions of education for s...

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CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS: ARISTOCRATIC VICTORIAN RADICAL

ROGER SWIFT

This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served the constituency of Wolverhampton for sixty-three...

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HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

CHRISTOPHER SWIFT

The place of religion in public life continues to be a much-debated topic in Western nations. This book charts the changing role of hospital chaplains and examines through detailed case studies the realities of practice and the political debates which either threaten or sustain the service. This second edition includes a new introduction and updated material throughout to prese...

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A COURSE IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS

STEPHEN A. WIRKUS / RANDALL J. SWIFT / RYAN SZYPOWSKI

A Course in Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems, 2nd Edition adds additional content to the author’s successful A Course on Ordinary Differential Equations, 2nd Edition. This text addresses the need when the course is expanded. The focus of the text is on applications and methods of solution, both analytical and numerical, with emphasis on methods used in the ty...

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RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY, 1765-1996

DONALD C. SWIFT

Religion in the USA manifests itself in many forms and this book examines them, from religion in the early republic, to early African American religion, reform, nativism movements, and fundamentalism, up to the contemporary culture wars, in a study that spans almost 250 years. ...

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A COURSE IN ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

STEPHEN A. WIRKUS / RANDALL J. SWIFT

A Course in Ordinary Differential Equations, Second Edition teaches students how to use analytical and numerical solution methods in typical engineering, physics, and mathematics applications. Lauded for its extensive computer code and student-friendly approach, the first edition of this popular textbook was the first on ordinary differential equat ...

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A COURSE IN ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

STEPHEN A. WIRKUS / RANDALL J. SWIFT

A Course in Ordinary Differential Equations, Second Edition teaches students how to use analytical and numerical solution methods in typical engineering, physics, and mathematics applications. Lauded for its extensive computer code and student-friendly approach, the first edition of this popular textbook was the first on ordinary differential equat ...

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AUTO BIOGRAPHY

EARL SWIFT

A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his—while financial ruin, government bureaucrats and the FBI close in on him. Slumped among hundreds of other decrep...

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A PLACE WITH PROMISE

EDWARD SWIFT

The magical multigenerational saga of an unforgettable Texas family At the turn of the twentieth century, Isaac Overstreet goes looking for a bride and finds Elizabeth “Bessie” Treadway standing in the middle of the Sabine River. Leaving her sisters without explanation, carrying her three pet cranes, Bessie slips into Isaac’s boat and returns with him to Camp Ruby—a tiny backwo...

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MISS SPELLBINDER'S POINT OF VIEW

EDWARD SWIFT

In this “delightful and bizarre” novel, Clarissa Spellbinder spins the yarn of her truly unbelievable—and completely unverified—life (The Boston Globe). Miss Clarissa Spellbinder has lived a truly astonishing life . . . or so she tells us. Her father was the intrepid adventurer Lord Andrew Spellbinder and her mother, the fiery Latin songbird Amelita de la Luna, who traveled t...

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PRINCIPIA MARTINDALE

EDWARD SWIFT

A wide-eyed redhead finds her true calling as a Christian evangelist in a broken-down town in Southwest Texas A large redheaded girl from a small East Texas town, Principia Martindale is fairly directionless. But she finds purpose at Hillister Baptist College. Principia was born to be a missionary, she realizes, and her religious fervor wins her a bus ticket to the pathetic Wes...

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THE DAUGHTER OF THE DOCTOR AND THE SAINT

EDWARD SWIFT

The magical saga of a remarkable family undone by madness, fate, and politics, and a dutiful daughter’s lifelong pursuit of righteous retribution Josefina Esperon’s parents came to Latin America together, but with separate missions. Her father, Dr. Alejandro Esperon, sought to better humankind by harnessing the curative powers of tropical plants. His wife, the beautiful, pious,...

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IRISH IDENTITIES IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN

ROGER SWIFT

Recent studies of the experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain have emphasized the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and accommodation in the creation of a rich and diverse migrant culture within which a variety of Irish identities co-existed and sometimes competed. In contributing to this burgeoning historiography, this book explores and an...

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SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE

ROBERT E HESS / CAROLYN F SWIFT

Prevention of a chronic societal problem such as sexual victimization requires looking beyond individuals to the systemic factors that maintain the problem. Sexual Assault and Abuse addresses the need to change social and cultural beliefs and practices that permit the sexual victimization of women and children. Potential rapists and victims are viewed within the context of the ...

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BROWN-EYED GIRL

VIRGINIA SWIFT

Sally Alder is a couple of ears past her wild youth as the hard-drinking, guitar playing, hell-raising singer known as Mustang Sally. But then she's grown with age, She's wiser and more coolheaded now, and, more important, Sally has learned how to keep a secret. It's a good thing, too, because she's going to need every advantage she's gained in order to handle the job she's jus...

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BAD COMPANY

VIRGINIA SWIFT

Jubilee Days: Laramie, Wyoming's annual rodeo bash and sin fest. It's a whole week of broncos bucking, guitars twanging, and cash registers ringing. Nobody much wants to spoil the party, not even when a local loser turns up dead in the mountains east of town. Almost nobody. Sally Adler and Hawk Green, a couple of college professors out for an afternoon hike, find the body, and ...

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BYE, BYE, LOVE

VIRGINIA SWIFT

In the third book in Virginia Swift's acclaimed mystery series, Sally Alder, hailed by USA Today as "Wyoming's version of TV's Jessica Fletcher or Agatha Christie's Miss Marple," is back with her colorful cohorts to investigate a bizarre murder. Okay, it's embarrassing for a woman of her professional stature and self-image still to have a crush on singer Thomas "Stone" Jackson,...

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HELLO, STRANGER

VIRGINIA SWIFT

There's an unpleasant surprise waiting outside Wyoming college professor Sally Alder's office on a cold blustery afternoon: a female student, Charlie Preston, recently and brutally battered. Since Charlie refuses to call the cops, tell her family, or see a doctor, Sally has no other recourse but to give the damaged girl the coat off her back, the cash in her wallet, and to wish...

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HANNAH ARENDT

SIMON SWIFT

Hannah Arendt's work offers a powerful critical engagement with the cultural and philosophical crises of mid-twentieth-century Europe. Her idea of the banality of evil, made famous after her report on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, remains controversial to this day. In the face of 9/11 and the 'war on terror', Arendt's work on the politics of freedom and th...

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STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

ALAN C. KRINIK / ‎RANDALL J. SWIFT

This extraordinary compilation is an expansion of the recent American Mathematical Society Special Session celebrating M. M. Rao's distinguished career and includes most of the presented papers as well as ancillary contributions from session invitees. This book shows the effectiveness of abstract analysis for solving fundamental problems of stochas ...

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STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

ALAN C. KRINIK / ‎RANDALL J. SWIFT

This extraordinary compilation is an expansion of the recent American Mathematical Society Special Session celebrating M. M. Rao's distinguished career and includes most of the presented papers as well as ancillary contributions from session invitees. This book shows the effectiveness of abstract analysis for solving fundamental problems of stochas ...

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LOOKING AT COOKING

MILDRED G. SWIFT

Tried-and-true recipes from the noted Southern food expert, hostess of her own TV cooking show, and Louisiana State University home demonstration agent. These kitchen-tested recipes, reflecting the savory dishes for which the Deep South is noted, will have strong appeal for the sophisticated cook and the beginner as well. Collected and refined during the author’s long career ...

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MORE LOOKING AT COOKING

MILDRED G. SWIFT

A book of budget recipes, with no unusual ingredients, More Looking at Cooking presents many savory, easily prepared, and tried-and-true dishes that have withstood the test of time. From "Meats and Sauces" to "Soups and Sandwiches" and "Cakes and Cookies," there is something for every occasion and every appetite. Broomstick Burgers, Shrimp and Caper Sandwiches, and No Bake Pean...

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LOS VIAJES DE GULLIVER

SWIFT, JONATHAN

Lemuel Gulliver es el médico de un barco, que realiza unas travesías un tanto? ¡sorprendentes! Tras un grave naufragio, llega a la famosa isla de Lilliput, donde se ve atado por una red como si fuera un pez. Lo extraño del asunto es que quienes lo han atado son diminutos, ¡apenas miden 15 cm de altura! Más adelante, de nuevo embarcado, una terrible tormenta dejará a nuestro hér...

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