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VAMPIRES AND THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

SIMON BACON

Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires. Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American environments — both physical and immaterial — the book delves into the questions ...

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VICTORIAN AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY BABY FARMING

EVE BACON

Mrs. Amelia Dyer was probably the most notorious baby farmer, but she was not working in isolation. The wider story of the myriad of others also classed as baby farmers is told here. Detailing the stories of over 100 baby farmers, the good, the bad and the murderous, it looks at why baby farming became so prevalent during the Victorian period. Why did so many mothers choose to ...

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THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF BLOOD IN PERFORMANCE ART

T. J. BACON / CHELSEA COON

The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence and absence, across the practice of performance art from a phenomenological perspective. Edited by T. J. Bacon (she/they) and Chelsea Coon (she/her), this book moves through an established cannon of artists and beyond to ensure an incl...

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RESTORE SUCH A ONE

LANCE M. BACON

Widespread deficiencies in spiritual formation see an increasing number of ministers buckle under the significant burdens common to the task. There are seasons when a powerful triad of the flesh, the world, and the devil converge (Eph 2:2-3, cf. Jas 3:15 and 1 John 2:16). Misdirected attempts to fulfill emptiness, find worth, or heal longstanding wounds ensue. Widespread instan...

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RESTORE SUCH A ONE

LANCE M. BACON

Widespread deficiencies in spiritual formation see an increasing number of ministers buckle under the significant burdens common to the task. There are seasons when a powerful triad of the flesh, the world, and the devil converge (Eph 2:2-3, cf. Jas 3:15 and 1 John 2:16). Misdirected attempts to fulfill emptiness, find worth, or heal longstanding wounds ensue. Widespread instan...

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ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE EVOCATIVE WORLD OF POLICING

BACON, MATTHEW

This book demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices in a variety of international settings. It features contemporary examples of police ethnographies that demonstrate the continuing value of ethnographic work to our understanding of policing. The first section of the book focuses on the police and Angl...

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A PHILOSOPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO HIGHER-ORDER LOGICS

ANDREW BACON

This is the first comprehensive textbook on higher-order logic that is written specifically to introduce the subject matter to graduate students in philosophy. The book covers both the formal aspects of higher-order languages—their model theory and proof theory, the theory of λ-abstraction and its generalizations—and their philosophical applications, especially to the topics of...

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DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT, POLICING AND HARM REDUCTION

MATTHEW BACON AND JACK SPICER

The policing of drugs is an intriguing, complex, and contentious domain that brings into sharp focus the multifaceted nature of the police role and has farreaching consequences for health, crime, and justice. While research on drugs policing has historically been surprisingly sparse, fragmented, and underdeveloped, the field has recently become a burgeoning area of academic stu...

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THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

BACON, PAUL

There have been significant efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at multiple levels of governance across all regions of the world. However, the manner in which the global governance norms underlying the SDGs are actually being diffused is under-researched and not well understood. This book considers the promotion of the SDGs through the lens of norm dif...

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CONDUCTING WELLNESS GROUPS FOR VETERANS AND OLDER ADULTS

VICTORIA L. BACON / KRISTEN ANDERSON / MAUREEN BOIROS

Conducting Wellness Groups for Veterans and Older Adults: The Legacy Model offers an innovative wellness group model for mental health practitioners. Two curricula developed by the authors are explored, the Process-Focused Legacy Group curriculum for members who are high functioning and motivated adults, and the Activity-Based Legacy Group curriculum tailored for persons with d...

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THE ESSAYS OF FRANCIS BACON

FRANCIS BACON

This collection contains 59 essays, published at various times between 1597 and 1625, on subjects ranging among state policy, personal conduct and the appreciation of nature. Bacon has been referred to as the founder of modern inductivism and prophet of the industrial revolution, and all forms of knowledge are subjected to the interpretation of Bacon's views on life. ...

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TERROR AND COMMUNIST POLITICS

JONATHAN R ADELMAN / WALTER BACON

From the Great Purges in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s to the bloody elite purges in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s to the mass terrorism in Cambodia in the middle 1970s, the role of terror and the secret police in Communist politics has been powerful and highly visible. This book reviews the surprisingly sparse literature on the subject and presents new ...

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NEW ATLANTIS

FRANCIS BACON

In New Atlantis, Francis Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and organ...

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THE STRANGE CASES OF DR. STANCHON

JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON

The author reveals some of the secret dramas of modern life to which the physician is the only witness. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon shows instances occurring among the clientele of a famous brain specialist, where the materialist might put aside the explanation of the supernatural, only to be confronted by still greater problems. (Google Books) ...

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FAMILY THERAPY AND THE TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS

MELODY BACON

This accessible guide offers a much-needed integration of family therapy into the treatment of substance use disorders. By proposing a means by which family therapy can be moved to the forefront of addiction treatment, it places the family perspective at the center of its approach and provides a multifaceted alternative to the prevalent individual-focused model. Drawing from Bo...

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THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

ADRIAN WILKINSON, NICOLAS BACON, SCOTT SNELL, DAVID LEPAK

The new edition of this SAGE Handbook builds on the success of the first by providing a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of human resource management. Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars - and with brand new chapters on key emerging topics such as talent management, engagement , e-HRM and big data - the Handbook focuses on familia...

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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MANAGEMENT BUYOUTS

MIKE WRIGHT, KEVIN AMESS, NICK BACON AND DONALD SIEGEL

Management Buyouts (MBOs) first came to prominence in the US during the early 1980s, and have subsequently become a global phenomenon and a highly significant transaction within the corporate restructuring landscape Although much recent attention has focused on private equity (PE) backed buyouts, these are only a subset of the total MBO market. The Routledge Companion to Manage...

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THE SCARIEST WORD IN THE BIBLE

LANCE M. BACON

In Jesus' view, "many" are wrong about being right with God. They anticipate a home in heaven but will receive an eternal eviction. How can we be sure that we are not among the many? This book will help you find that answer. Presented from a pastor's heart, this work combines exegetical analysis, theological acumen, and practical ministerial insight to help you obtain and maint...

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THE SCARIEST WORD IN THE BIBLE

LANCE M. BACON

In Jesus' view, "many" are wrong about being right with God. They anticipate a home in heaven but will receive an eternal eviction. How can we be sure that we are not among the many? This book will help you find that answer. Presented from a pastor's heart, this work combines exegetical analysis, theological acumen, and practical ministerial insight to help you obtain and maint...

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BIOTECHNOLOGY OF ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI OF GRASSES

CHARLES W. BACON

This book considered the biological, ecological, toxicology, and chemical aspects of research topics as they relate to endophytes of grasses. Several chapters reflect the very pragmatic applications of endophytes and endophyte-infected grasses. Other chapters offer future applications for endophytes and are therefore discussed from theoretical viewpoints. This book contains the...

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NEGOTIATING SAINTHOOD

KATHY BACON

"This study demonstrates the previously unrecognised significance of discourses of saintliness for constructions of gender and national identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spanish culture.a Kathy Bacons innovative approach to sainthood leads to fresh readings of texts by Spains three principal realist novelists: La familia de Leon Roch and Nazarin (Ben...

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THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORY OF ENGLISH STUDIES

ALAN BACON

This study collects together many of the original texts from the long-running debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Most of the texts were ephemeral and have been long out of print, but they are essential to an understanding of how English studies developed. They show how English was influenced by pre-existing subjects like rhetoric and classics,...

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THE EUROPEAN UNION AND JAPAN

PAUL BACON

The EU and Japan have one of the most important trade relationships in the world. Fittingly, this book presents a detailed analysis of their bilateral regulatory environment and negotiation processes. Moreover, the two polities have also co-operated extensively in bilateral and multilateral contexts on a range of global governance issues. Nevertheless, the relationship is widel...

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WHAT'S RIGHT WITH THE TRINITY?

HANNAH BACON

The doctrine of the Trinity poses a series of problems for feminist theology. At a basic level, the androcentric nature of trinitarian language serves to promote the male as more fully in the image of God and as the archetype of humanity, pushing women to the margins of personhood. It is no surprise then that feminist scholarship on this doctrine has often focused on what's wro...

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HUMAN SECURITY AND NATURAL DISASTERS

CHRISTOPHER HOBSON, PAUL BACON AND ROBIN CAMERON

"Human security" is an approach that rejects the traditional prioritization of state security, and instead identifies the individual as the primary referent of security. It offers a way of broadening our perspective, and recognizing that the most pressing threats to individuals do not come from interstate war, but from the emergencies that affect people every day, such as famin...

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MECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY

D H BACON / R. C. STEPHENS

Mechanical Technology, Second Edition provides discussion of the fundamental outline of mechanical engineering principles. The book is comprised of 41 chapters that cover the major areas of mechanical technology, such as stress analysis, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. The coverage of the text includes the thermodynamic properties of substances; gyroscopic motion; and mom...

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BASIC HEAT TRANSFER

D. H. BACON

Basic Heat Transfer aims to help readers use a computer to solve heat transfer problems and to promote greater understanding by changing data values and observing the effects, which are necessary in design and optimization calculations. The book is concerned with applications including insulation and heating in buildings and pipes, temperature distributions in solids for stead...

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LOGIC FROM A TO Z

JOHN B. BACON / MICHAEL DETLEFSEN / DAVID CHARLES MCCARTY

First published in the most ambitious international philosophy project for a generation; the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Logic from A to Z is a unique glossary of terms used in formal logic and the philosophy of mathematics. Over 500 entries include key terms found in the study of: * Logic: Argument, Turing Machine, Variable * Set and model theory: Isomorphism, Functi...

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X-RAY AND NEUTRON DIFFRACTION

G. E. BACON

X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction describes the developments of the X-ray and the various research done in neutron diffraction. Part I of the book concerns the principles and applications of the X-ray and neutrons through their origins from classical crystallography. The book explains the use of diffraction methods to show the highly regular arrangement of atoms that forms a cont...

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JAPANESE GIRLS AND WOMEN

ALICE MABEL BACON

First published in 2001. In this book the author remarks that even though Japan as a whole has been closely studied, and while much and varied information has been gathered about the country and its people, one half of the population has been left entirely unnoticed, passed over with brief mention, or altogether misunderstood. It is of this neglected half that she has written, ...

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