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  • A THANK YOU LETTER TO MY HOMESCHOOL
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    A THANK YOU LETTER TO MY HOMESCHOOL
    DEB ADAMSON
    "I'm thankful to my homeschool because with homeschool, I'm free to be me!" In this heartwarming picture book, a homeschooled child thanks his school for everything it offers—from indoor inventions to outdoor adventures, from finding new friends to puzzling out problems. His school day might include robotics with friends, silent study time, planting seeds at the community garde...

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  • THE POEMS OF SHELLEY: VOLUME SIX
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    THE POEMS OF SHELLEY: VOLUME SIX
    CARLENE ADAMSON, WILL BOWERS, JACK DONOVAN, KELVIN EVEREST, MATHELINDA NABUGODI AND MICHAEL ROSSINGT
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to esta...

    $1,040.00

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  • THIS MIGHTY DREAM
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    THIS MIGHTY DREAM
    MADELEINE ADAMSON / SETH BORGOS
    First published in 1984, This Mighty Dream traces and interprets the development of popular movements for social change in the United States. Agrarian protest, the labour struggle, the black freedom movement, and community organizing are vividly depicted. The authors address the practical dilemmas of organization and action including: the pursuit of immediate benefits versus br...

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  • STUDIES ON PLOTINUS AND AL-KINDI
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    STUDIES ON PLOTINUS AND AL-KINDI
    PETER ADAMSON
    This book collects 15 papers on the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (d.270), and the founding figure of philosophy in the Islamic world: al-KindÄ« (d. ca. 873). A number of the contributions focus on the text that joins the two: the so-called Theology of Aristotle, in fact an Arabic version of Plotinus’ Enneads produced in al- KindÄ«...

    $1,200.00

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  • THE RUINS OF TIME
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    THE RUINS OF TIME
    DAVID ADAMSON
    The Ruins of Time (1975) examines the conquest of the Maya by the Spanish, the discoveries and adventures of the first travellers among them, the dramatic journeys of Victorian archaeologists and explorers and also contemporary attempts to unravel Maya hieroglyphs. ...

    $800.00

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  • STUDIES ON EARLY ARABIC PHILOSOPHY
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    STUDIES ON EARLY ARABIC PHILOSOPHY
    PETER ADAMSON
    Philosophy in the Islamic world from the 9th to 11th centuries was characterized by an engagement with Greek philosophical works in Arabic translation. This volume collects papers on both the Greek philosophers in their new Arabic guise, and on reactions to the translation movement in the period leading up to Avicenna. In a first section, Adamson provides general studies of the...

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  • SHELLEY: SELECTED POEMS
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    SHELLEY: SELECTED POEMS
    CARLENE ADAMSON
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major Romantic poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English Language. In this volume, the editors have selected the most popular, significant and frequently taught poems from the six-volume Longman Annotated edition of Shelley’s poems. Each poem is fully annotated, explained and c...

    $1,060.00

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  • PCI COMPLIANCE
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    PCI COMPLIANCE
    BRANDEN WILLIAMS / JAMES ADAMSON
    The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is now in its 18th year, and it is continuing to dominate corporate security budgets and resources. If you accept, process, transmit, or store payment card data branded by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, or JCB (or their affiliates and partners), you must comply with this lengthy standard. Personal data th...

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  • THE KURDISH WAR
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    THE KURDISH WAR
    DAVID ADAMSON
    First published in 1964, The Kurdish War tells not only David Adamson’s 200-mile journey on foot and horseback through the rebel mountains of Iraq but also of the circuitous route through the Middle East the author had to take to get there. For possibly 4000 years the Kurds have lived in the mountains between the Tigris and Armenia, owing fitful allegiance to many empires among...

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  • SUSTAINABLE PLACES
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    SUSTAINABLE PLACES
    DAVID ADAMSON / LORENA AXINTE / MARK LANG / TERRY MARSDEN
    This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The authors suggest that ‘place’ is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlap...

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  • MULTILINGUAL CHINA
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    MULTILINGUAL CHINA
    ADAMSON, BOB
    Multilingual China explores the dynamics of multilingualism in one of the most multilingual countries in the world. This edited collection comprises frontline empirical research into a range of important issues that arise from the presence of 55 official ethnic minority groups, plus China’s search to modernize and strengthen the nation’s place in the world order. Topics focus o...

    $1,160.00

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  • MINDFULNESS-BASED RELATIONAL SUPERVISION
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    MINDFULNESS-BASED RELATIONAL SUPERVISION
    FIONA ADAMSON / JANE BRENDGEN
    Mindfulness-Based Relational Supervision explores a relational and mindfulness-based approach to adult learning and development that is mutually transformational. The initial focus of the book is a case study that shows the evolution of a dialogical supervision relationship that was transformational for both parties. The authors present their reflections and analysis of key tra...

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  • A LAND BETWEEN TWO NILES
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    A LAND BETWEEN TWO NILES
    MARTIN A.J. WILLIAMS / D.A.ADAMSON
    Three themes run through this book, the first is the history of the Nile; the second is the degree to which the present Sudanese landscape reflects the operation of former geological processes; the third is the interaction between man and environment, not always to the benefit of either. A land between two Niles is an interdisciplinary account of the origins and characteristics...

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  • MASOCHISTIC NATIONALISM
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    MASOCHISTIC NATIONALISM
    GÖRAN ADAMSON
    This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West’s defining conflict in the modern age. Drawing on a plethora of evidence from politics and culture in the West, it argues that these two positions, while antagonistic on the surface, are in fact similar: nationalism and multiculturalism are two names for one idea, the differ...

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  • MUSLIM COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES OF THE HIMALAYAS
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    MUSLIM COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES OF THE HIMALAYAS
    JACQUELINE H. FEWKES / MEGAN ADAMSON SIJAPATI
    This book chronicles individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence of varying Muslim cultures in the Himalaya. The Himalaya provide a site of both geographic and cultural crossroads, where Muslim community is simultaneously constituted at multiple social lev...

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  • XCODE TREASURES
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    XCODE TREASURES
    CHRIS ADAMSON
    Learn the critical tips and techniques to make using Xcode for the iPhone, iPad, or Mac easier, and even fun. Explore the features and functionality of Xcode you may not have heard of. Go under the hood to discover how projects really work, so when they stop working, you'll know how to fix them. Explore the common problems developers face when using Xcode, and find out how to g...

    $534.00

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  • COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT DURING INFANCY
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    COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT DURING INFANCY
    LAUREN B ADAMSON
    This book considers communication development during the first 18 months of life of infants and summarizes the extensive literature about early parent—infant interactions. It is intended for professionals in speech language pathology and pediatrics. ...

    $1,320.00

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  • FAMILY CENTRES AND THEIR INTERNATIONAL ROLE IN SOCIAL ACTION
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    FAMILY CENTRES AND THEIR INTERNATIONAL ROLE IN SOCIAL ACTION
    CHRIS WARREN-ADAMSON
    This title was first published in 2001: Family centre practice is one of the success stories of the past twenty years. As well as contributing creative ideas to centre practice this important edited collection highlights the role of practitioners as developmental or informal educationalists. International contributors challenge care management in child protection as the dominan...

    $1,179.00

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  • THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE OF DYING
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    THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE OF DYING
    VERONICA M. F. ADAMSON
    Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of the author’s partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery. Drawing on German Idealism and Jane’s own research in the area, The Aesthetic Experience of Dying looks at the notion of life as a binary synthesis, or a return enhanced, as a way of co...

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  • WOUNDED FICTION
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    WOUNDED FICTION
    JOSEPH ADAMSON
    This book, first published in 1988, does not concern the theory of poetry so much as the poetry of theory: a poetry that theorizes, that has a "view" on things, that thinks. What or what things does poetry think about, and what do we mean by thinking? The author attempts to answer these questions by examining the work of three poets – Wallace Stevens, César Vallejo, and René Ch...

    $780.00

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  • GLOBAL EDUCATION REFORM
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    GLOBAL EDUCATION REFORM
    FRANK ADAMSON, BJÖRN ÅSTRAND, AND LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND
    With contributions from Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Fullan, Pasi Sahlberg, and Martin Carnoy, Global Education Reform is an eye-opening analysis of national educational reforms and the types of high-achieving systems needed to serve all students equitably. The collection documents the ideologically and educationally distinctive approaches countries around the world have take...

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  • AN ERA OF EXPANSION
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    AN ERA OF EXPANSION
    DAVID ADAMSON
    Changing conditions in Higher Education and national funding regimes preceded a proliferation of construction projects in universities between 1996 and 2006. This book reviews a hundred projects between 1996 and 2006, and uses 9 detailed case studies from the author's time in charge of capital projects at the University of Cambridge to show us how these projects were conceived,...

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  • THE PIPER PROTOCOL
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    THE PIPER PROTOCOL
    TRACY PIPER / EVE ADAMSON
    A-list celebrity cleanse expert Tracy Piper guides you through a four-week intensive cleanse program structured to change the way you look and feel. Tracy Piper is the go-to guru that A-list celebrities—including actors, models, and musicians, as well as media moguls, eminent doctors and health professionals, and captains of industry rely on to look and feel their best. Now wit...

    $251.00

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  • THE CLIMATE OF WORKPLACE RELATIONS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    THE CLIMATE OF WORKPLACE RELATIONS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    ALI DASTMALCHIAN / PAUL BLYTON / RAY ADAMSON
    First published in 1991, this book investigates not only the processes of industrial relations themselves but also the climate in which they work. As well as studying union behaviour, it views the topic from the wider perspective of human resource management and integrates theories of industrial relations and organizational analysis. The extensive empirical evidence presented, ...

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  • LE FRANCAIS EN FACULTE
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    LE FRANCAIS EN FACULTE
    ROBIN ADAMSON / GEOFF HARE / JAMES COLEMAN / MARGARET LANG / ANTHONY LODGE / RICHARD WAKELY
    Substantially revised and updated, this is the third edition of a highly popular book which has been helping students for decades. It provides a sound base of linguistic competence upon which students can build with confidence. Comprises twelve thematic modules each including a relevant and contemporary text based on an aspect of French life and culture, associated exercises, a...

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  • THE PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION OF GIFTED CHILDREN
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    THE PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION OF GIFTED CHILDREN
    PHILIP E. VERNON / GEORGINA ADAMSON / DOROTHY F. VERNON
    Originally published in 1977, this book looks at the problem of educating highly intelligent and gifted children, which it felt was of paramount importance to modern society. In the 1970s education increasingly focused on average pupils, and often made excellent provision for handicapped children, the authors felt it all the more important for teachers, parents and educationali...

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  • AMERICAN STUDIES, ECOCRITICISM, AND CITIZENSHIP
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    AMERICAN STUDIES, ECOCRITICISM, AND CITIZENSHIP
    JONI ADAMSON
    This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin recover underrecognized field genealogies in American Studies (i.e. the work of ea...

    $1,340.00

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  • ISLAMIC REVIVAL IN NEPAL
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    ISLAMIC REVIVAL IN NEPAL
    MEGAN ADAMSON SIJAPATI
    This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the larger global movement of Sunni revival as well as in Nepal's own local politics of representation. The book traces ho...

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  • GLOBAL DESIGN HISTORY
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    GLOBAL DESIGN HISTORY
    GLENN ADAMSON
    Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as ‘networks’ or ‘flows’ and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory. Individual chapters focus our attention on objects, and the stories they can tell us about cultural interactions on a global sc...

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  • MEDITERRANEAN WOMEN STAY SLIM, TOO
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    MEDITERRANEAN WOMEN STAY SLIM, TOO
    MELISSA KELLY / EVE ADAMSON
    Mediterranean women live lives free from empty calories, empty diet promises, impossible standards, and a "say no to food" mentality. Thanks to the influence of cooking lessons in her Italian grandmother's kitchen, Melissa Kelly, co-owner and executive chef of Primo Restaurant, has learned how every woman can extract the essence of the Mediterranean spirit and make it uniquely ...

    $251.00

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