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  • HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS
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    HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS
    J. L. AUSTIN
    In this groundbreaking book, an acclaimed English philosopher of language discusses the performative nature of words. In this seminal series of lectures by the noted British philosopher, J.L. Austin explores the profound ways in which language is not just a vehicle for conveying information but also a tool for performing actions. He introduces the concept of the performative ut...

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  • DAS KOKAINSCHIFF
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    DAS KOKAINSCHIFF
    AUSTIN J. SMALL
    Die Spindrift – Eigentümer Toby Essex – ist das schnellste Zehnmeter-Motorrennboot auf der Themse; sie bringt es auf mehr als sechzig Seemeilen die Stunde; die Patrouillenboote der Londoner Strompolizei schaffen höchstens zehn … Ist es da zu verwundern, dass die Spindrift im letzten entscheidenden Augenblick eingreifen muss, als Käpt’n Grosmans Kokain-Schmuggelschiff, die Yangt...

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  • ESSENCE IN THE AGE OF EVOLUTION
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    ESSENCE IN THE AGE OF EVOLUTION
    CHRISTOPHER J. AUSTIN
    This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism. This theory is routinely and explicitly rejected for its purported inability to be explicated in the context of contemporary biological science, and its supposed incompatibility with the process and progress of evolution by natural selection. Christopher J. Austi...

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  • GIS FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION
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    GIS FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION
    ROBERT F. AUSTIN / DAVID P. DISERA / TALBOT J. BROOKS
    GIS for Critical Infrastructure Protection highlights the GIS-based technologies that can be used to support critical infrastructure protection and emergency management. The book bridges the gap between theory and practice using real-world applications, real-world case studies, and the authors’ real-world experience. Geared toward infrastructure owners and first responders and ...

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  • HUMAN SERVICES INTEGRATION
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    HUMAN SERVICES INTEGRATION
    MICHAEL J AUSTIN
    Addressing the multiple meanings of service integration, Human Services Integration analyzes how motivations and expectations for social service integration differ significantly among different players in the service system. In a period of major budget cutbacks and welfare reform, however, it is important that service providers collaborate to reduce or eliminate boundaries betw...

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  • PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT IN MEDICINE AND THE HELPING PROFESSIONS
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    PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT IN MEDICINE AND THE HELPING PROFESSIONS
    WESSELLS JR., D. T. / KUTSCHER, AUSTIN / SEELAND, IRENE B. / SELDER, FLORENCE E. / CHERICO, DANIEL J. / C
    Physicians and other helping professionals have created a practical, hands-on book that will aid in the identification and reduction of job stress. Nurses, physicians, thanatologists, and psychotherapists are among the growing number of health care professionals whose physical and mental health are being severely affected by work stress. This unique volume achieves what no earl...

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  • CHANGING WELFARE SERVICES
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    CHANGING WELFARE SERVICES
    MICHAEL J AUSTIN / MARVIN D FEIT
    Contains field-tested techniques to enhance the effectiveness of your local social services! Changing Welfare Services: Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs describes promising programs and practices that have emerged in the United States since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Using case studies, this referen...

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  • ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORIES OF NONPROFIT HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
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    ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORIES OF NONPROFIT HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
    AUSTIN, MICHAEL J.
    This book is based on an important but complicated question: How have nonprofit human service organizations sustained themselves over time? It documents the organizational histories of pioneering nonprofits that have unique missions and significant longevity – in one case, 157 years. This volume provides one of the few documented histories of nonprofit human service organizatio...

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  • TRUTH, TRUST AND RELATIONSHIPS
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    TRUTH, TRUST AND RELATIONSHIPS
    BARBARA R. KRASNER / AUSTIN J. JOYCE
    The authors identify direct address, a dialogic way of address and response, as the fundamental means of healing in relationships, especially in the family, viewing residual trust as the keystone of the dialogic process. ...

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  • EXPLORATIO
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    EXPLORATIO
    N. J. E. AUSTIN / N. B. RANKOV
    Exploratio is the first ever survey of Roman military and civil intelligence. The authors examine in detail the operation and gradual development of Roman intelligence-gathering from shaky beginnings to a high level of excellence. They identify who gathered it, and for whom. This study shows the effects of intelligence on policy formation at various levels from the purely local...

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  • THE HOME FRONT: 1939–1945 IN 100 OBJECTS
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    THE HOME FRONT: 1939–1945 IN 100 OBJECTS
    AUSTIN J. RUDDY
    A colorful catalogue of objects that illustrate what everyday life was like in wartime Britain. A lifesaving gas mask. A ration book, essential for the supply of food. A shelter stove that kept a family warm while they huddled in their Anderson shelter. A leaflet dropped by the Luftwaffe that was designed to intimidate Britain's populace during the threat of invasion. A civilia...

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  • AIR POLLUTION SCIENCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
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    AIR POLLUTION SCIENCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
    AUSTIN, J. / BRIMBLECOMBE, P. / STURGES, W.T.
    Acid rain, photochemistry, long-range transport of pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions and aerosols have dominated tropospheric air pollution for the last 30 years of the 20th century. At the start of the 21st century, acid rain is subject to planned improvement in Europe and North America, but is still a growing problem in Asia. Tropospheric ozone is understood much better, b...

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  • BIOAVAILABILITY OF NUTRIENTS FOR ANIMALS: AMINO ACIDS, MINERALS, VITAMINS
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    BIOAVAILABILITY OF NUTRIENTS FOR ANIMALS: AMINO ACIDS, MINERALS, VITAMINS
    AMMERMAN, CLARENCE B. / BAKER, DAVID P. / LEWIS, AUSTIN J.
    This practical book provides crucial information necessary to formulate diets with appropriate amounts of amino acids, minerals, and vitamins. The factors that influence how well animals obtain these critical nutrients and methods for determining bioavailability are reviewed in this comprehensive text. In addition, data from both ruminants and nonruminants are included as well ...

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  • JAMAICA GENESIS
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    JAMAICA GENESIS
    DIANE J. AUSTIN-BROOS
    How has Pentecostalism, a decidedly American form of Christian revivalism, managed to achieve such phenomenal religious ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominately African descent? According to Diane J. Austin-Broos, Pentecostalism has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central yet often oppositional themes in Jamaican r...

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  • ARRERNTE PRESENT, ARRERNTE PAST
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    ARRERNTE PRESENT, ARRERNTE PAST
    DIANE J. AUSTIN-BROOS
    The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study...

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