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  • QUAKERISM: THE BASICS
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    QUAKERISM: THE BASICS
    MARGERY POST ABBOTT / CARL ABBOTT
    Quakerism: The Basics introduces a vibrant twenty-first-century religion, tracing the evolution of the Religious Society of Friends from its origins in seventeenth-century England to a worldwide religion, balancing discussion of Quaker history, evolving beliefs and practices, and contemporary social action. An accessible and engaging introduction to the history and diverse appr...

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  • THOMAS GRAY AMONG THE DISCIPLINES
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    THOMAS GRAY AMONG THE DISCIPLINES
    RUTH ABBOTT AND EPHRAIM LEVINSON
    Throughout the 250 years that have passed since Thomas Gray’s death, he has primarily been celebrated as a poet. This makes sense because, although he published relatively little verse, he published less – indeed, precisely nothing – of his abundant polymathic writing in other fields. His place within the history of scholarship has therefore been obscured. Like many eighteenth-...

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  • OPERATION TELIC AND THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ
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    OPERATION TELIC AND THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ
    DENNIS ALEXANDER ABBOTT
    Operation Telic and the Liberation of Iraq Operation Telic and the Liberation of Iraq is an anecdote-packed daily diary recounting the author’s experiences as a reserve officer and media handler with 7 armored (the Desert Rats) and 19 Mechanized Brigade in 2003. A journalist in uniform, Abbott provides an insider-outsider account of British Army media ops in southern Iraq durin...

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  • SHEEP VETERINARY PRACTICE
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    SHEEP VETERINARY PRACTICE
    KYM A ABBOTT
    Sheep Veterinary Practice is the ideal reference for veterinarians in farm animal practice, veterinary and animal science students, agriculturalists and sheep producers. While addressing sheep health, welfare and production matters in Australia, this book covers issues of relevance in any country where sheep are raised. Sheep veterinary specialist Professor Kym Abbott and his c...

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  • SOCIAL EQUITY IN THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CLASSROOM
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    SOCIAL EQUITY IN THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CLASSROOM
    MICHAELA E. ABBOTT
    This compelling book explores the dimensions of social equity by asking the leading equity scholars to reflect on the responsibility for social equity and how equity can be achieved. Social equity is concerned with fairness in the development and administration of public policies. Despite its importance, there has always been an uneasiness in how equity is discussed and obtaine...

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  • TRADE, COMPETITION AND DOMESTIC REGULATORY POLICY
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    TRADE, COMPETITION AND DOMESTIC REGULATORY POLICY
    SHANKER A. SINGHAM / ALDEN F. ABBOTT
    Trade, Competition and Domestic Regulatory Policy presents a unique combination of analysis of both international trade and investment policies, and competition and regulatory policies. Increasingly, policymakers, businesses and the law and economics professions need to better understand how changes and policy developments in international trade and competition developed and ho...

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  • ISRAEL IN EUROPE
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    ISRAEL IN EUROPE
    G.F. ABBOTT
    First published in 1907 and this edition in 1971 with a preface by C. C. Arsonfeld, Israel in Europe outlines the fortunes of the Jews of the Diaspora from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It is indeed no exaggeration to say that the Jews have been in Europe for a longer period than some of the nations which glory in the title European. And yet, despite the lengt...

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  • SUGAR
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    SUGAR
    GEORGE C. ABBOTT
    This book, first published in 1990, examines the history and development of the world sugar industry, and the changes that took place in the late twentieth century. Production, consumption and prices are discussed for the developed and developing world. Changes and trends are established and their effects on the world sugar market are analysed. ...

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  • THE KEYS OF POWER
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    THE KEYS OF POWER
    J. ABBOTT
    This book, first published in 1932, demonstrates how the control of certain ‘-isms’ has for long moulded the interpretation of Indian belief and ritual by Western writers particularly. In every chapter there is some new coordination, often iconoclastic of then-accepted theory, whilst the new wealth of customs carefully recorded is astonishing. Long disputed problems such as tha...

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  • SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
    TINA ABBOTT
    Social and Personality Development looks at the processes by which we come to be who we are. It covers a range of topics central to personality and developmental psychology. The book is arranged in three sections, the first covering the main theories of personality, the second describing the development of gender and the third focusing on adolescence. It is suitable for the AQA...

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  • THE SPECTRUM OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
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    THE SPECTRUM OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
    KENNETH W. ABBOTT
    This book collects and integrates Abbott and Snidal’s influential scholarship on indirect global governance, with a new analytical introduction that probes the role of indirect governance techniques in the universe of global governance arrangements. The volume presents the Governance Triangle, a now widely-used figure that demonstrates and helps to assess the proliferation of p...

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  • COMMON INSECTS OF TEXAS AND SURROUNDING STATES
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    COMMON INSECTS OF TEXAS AND SURROUNDING STATES
    JOHN C. ABBOTT / KENDRA ABBOTT
    A comprehensive field guide to Texas's insects, featuring 1,300 species and over 2,700 photographs. Thanks to its size and geographic position, Texas is home to nearly 30,000 species of insects, likely making its insect population the most diverse in the nation. Ranging from eastern and western to temperate and tropical species, this vast array of insects can be difficult to id...

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  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE CARING PROFESSIONS
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    THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE CARING PROFESSIONS
    PAMELA ABBOTT / LIZ MEERABEAU
    This text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of professions. It covers social work, probation, nursing, midwifery and health visiting and looks at key topics such as control and legal relationships, the relationship of gender and care, and the 'new managerialism'. ...

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  • POLITICS AND POVERTY
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    POLITICS AND POVERTY
    JOHN ABBOTT
    Originally published in 1992. At its foundation FAO was conceived as an organization that would bring together health and agriculture. It would manage the world’s food output to greater advantage and improve the well-being of its people. Almost a half-century on, FAO faced mounting criticism from its major funding nations, professionals within the field, and developing countrie...

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  • COUNSELING ADULTS WITH AUTISM
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    COUNSELING ADULTS WITH AUTISM
    ALI CUNNINGHAM ABBOTT
    Counseling Adults with Autism is a practical guide for counselors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals looking to improve their confidence and competence in counseling adults diagnosed with mild to moderate autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Organized into 11 chapters based on key areas for guiding assessment and treatment planning for this population, this book h...

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  • NARRATIVES OF FAITH FROM THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE
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    NARRATIVES OF FAITH FROM THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE
    ROGER PHILIP ABBOTT / ROBERT S. WHITE
    This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake to present the role of faith beliefs in disaster response. The earthquake is one of the most destructive on record, and the aftermath, including a cholera epidemic and ongoing humanitarian aid, has continued for years following the catastrophe. Based on dozens of ...

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  • THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY
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    THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY
    MALCOLM ABBOTT / JILL BAMFORTH
    The Early Development of the Aviation Industry: Entrepreneurs of the Sky provides an introduction to the world of the early aviation industry and the business endeavours of the original aviators. Many of the first pioneers who flew heavier-than-air planes went on to develop considerable industrial concerns. In doing so they exhibited a number of entrepreneurial qualities, which...

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  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION
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    THE TRANSFORMATION OF INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION
    IAN ABBOTT / MIKE RATHBONE / PHILIP WHITEHEAD
    Tracing the development of initial teacher education since the large-scale expansion of the teaching profession after the Second World War to the present day, The Transformation of Initial Teacher Education explores the changing nature of teacher training. Examining the growth of the ‘teaching industry’, this book addresses key issues including: the return to an apprentice mode...

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  • THUCYDIDES
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    THUCYDIDES
    G.F. ABBOTT
    First published in 1925, this thoughtful volume constitutes an excellent English introduction to one of the great ancient historians. Originating from its author’s re-reading of Thucydides during World War I, it sought to place Thucydides not as the production of a remote world, but instead of one instilled with present life and reality. Dealing especially well with Thucydides’...

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  • REVIVAL: SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT ROME (1912)
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    REVIVAL: SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT ROME (1912)
    FRANK FROST ABBOTT
    The book is aimed at the general reader, as well as to the special student of Roman life and literature. It includes articles which discuss social, political and literary questions, with the majority of which are in some measure comparative studies of certain phases of life at Rome and in modern contemporary life. ...

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  • MARKETS AND THE STATE
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    MARKETS AND THE STATE
    MALCOLM ABBOTT
    This book illustrates essential microeconomic concepts and theories through the examination of related policy formulation in Australia since the 1980s. It provides a fresh approach to the subject of microeconomics from the perspective of both market and government failures. By looking at how Australia has transformed over the course of time, the book traces and tracks these cha...

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  • MICHAEL FRIED AND PHILOSOPHY
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    MICHAEL FRIED AND PHILOSOPHY
    MATHEW ABBOTT
    This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, and anti-theatricality can throw new light on problems in and beyond philosophica...

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  • REVIVAL: THE COMMON PEOPLE OF ANCIENT ROME (1911)
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    REVIVAL: THE COMMON PEOPLE OF ANCIENT ROME (1911)
    FRANK FROST ABBOTT
    This book, like the volume on "Society and Politics in Ancient Rome," deals with the life of the common people, with their language and literature, their occupations and amusements, and with their social, political, and economic conditions. We are interested in the common people of Rome because they made the Roman Empire what it was. They carried the Roman standards to the Euph...

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  • LINUX FOR EMBEDDED AND REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS
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    LINUX FOR EMBEDDED AND REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS
    DOUG ABBOTT
    Linux for Embedded and Real-Time Applications, Fourth Edition, provides a practical introduction to the basics, covering the latest developments in this rapidly evolving technology. Ideal for those new to the use of Linux in an embedded environment, the book takes a hands-on approach that covers key concepts of building applications in a cross-development environment. Hands-on ...

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  • SAFER BY DESIGN
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    SAFER BY DESIGN
    HOWARD ABBOTT / MARK TYLER
    Product safety begins with design or formulation whether it is for a complex engineering product or a simple household article. Those who suffer damage from a design defect can win compensation without having to prove negligence. Manufacturers, suppliers and importers can all be responsible for ensuring that their products are safe. To help protect them against prosecution, cus...

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  • COMPUTATIONAL HYDRAULICS
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    COMPUTATIONAL HYDRAULICS
    MICHAEL B. ABBOTT / ANTHONY W. MINNS
    This is the updated new edition from the founder and inventor of the subject. It provides an account of the principles and a survey of modelling in hydraulic, coastal and offshore engineering. ...

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  • IMAGINING URBAN FUTURES
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    IMAGINING URBAN FUTURES
    CARL ABBOTT
    What science fiction can teach us about urban planning Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in work by authors as different as E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and China Miéville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable an...

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  • THE ECONOMICS OF THE GAS SUPPLY INDUSTRY
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    THE ECONOMICS OF THE GAS SUPPLY INDUSTRY
    MALCOLM ABBOTT
    In recent years, natural gas has become a major source of energy, with trade across borders increasing through both pipelines and as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Owing to this global development, this book traces the development of the gas supply industry, from localised to national industries and national industries to a major global industry. It looks at the basic economics a...

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  • BETWEEN BAUDELAIRE AND MALLARMÉ
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    BETWEEN BAUDELAIRE AND MALLARMÉ
    HELEN ABBOTT
    As the status of poetry became less and less certain over the course of the nineteenth century, poets such as Baudelaire and Mallarmé began to explore ways to ensure that poetry would not be overtaken by music in the hierarchy of the arts. Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of these two important poets, together with their critical writings, to address how their a...

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  • THE DECENT SOCIETY
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    THE DECENT SOCIETY
    PAMELA ABBOTT / CLAIRE WALLACE / ROGER SAPSFORD
    The search for ‘the Decent Society’ – a fit place in which to live – has informed policy at both governmental and international level. This book analyses its nature and devises a consistent way of measuring the concept world-wide on the basis of a coherent theory of agency within social structure. Influenced by classical sociology and by the economist Amartya Sen, the book posi...

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