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  • REVENUE SOURCES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
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    REVENUE SOURCES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
    J. EDWIN BENTON
    With limited fiscal capabilities, effective and efficient budgeting is a necessity for local governments in the United States. Acknowledging the critical (but often overlooked) part that raising enough revenue to fund desirable and mandatory programs plays in the budgetary process, this book offers an exclusive and comprehensive examination of the revenue side of the budget. It...

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  • SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ASTROBIOLOGY
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    SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ASTROBIOLOGY
    VERA M. KOLB / BENTON C. CLARK
    Systems thinking/analysis is widely applied for solving complex problems in engineering and certain other fields. Astrobiology, which inherently involves complex problems, can benefit from such an approach. This book provides the background and methodology of this approach for professionals, upper-level undergraduate students, and others with an interest in astrobiology topics....

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  • SOIL AND PLANT ANALYSIS
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    SOIL AND PLANT ANALYSIS
    J. BENTON JONES JR.
    With the renewed current emphasis on agricultural production efficiency and environmental quality, the technology of soil and plant analysis has taken on even greater importance. Several states now require soil testing as part of their nutrient management programs. Soil testing and plant analysis are important components of the Food Security Act and under consideration as safeg...

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  • FINDING DIGNITY AT THE END OF LIFE
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    FINDING DIGNITY AT THE END OF LIFE
    KATHLEEN D BENTON / RENZO PEGORARO
    Finding Dignity at the End of Life discusses the need for palliative care as a human right and explores a whole-person methodology for use in treatment. The book examines the concept of palliative care as a holistic human right from the perspective of multiple aspects of faith, ideology, culture, and nationality. Integrating a humanities-based approach, chapters provide detaile...

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  • LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
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    LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
    ROBIN DODSWORTH / RICHARD A. BENTON
    This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative analysis of the class and network effects implicated in vowel change in a Southern American city. Studies of sociolinguistic variation in urban spaces have uncovered durable patterns of linguistic difference, such as the ma...

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  • ENGINEERED REPAIRS OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
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    ENGINEERED REPAIRS OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
    RIKARD BENTON HESLEHURST
    Engineered Repairs of Composite Structures provides a detailed discussion, analysis, and procedures for effective and efficient repair design of advanced composite structures. It discusses the identification of damage types and the effect on structural integrity in composite structures, leading to the design of a repair scheme that focusses on the restoration of the structural ...

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  • EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND U.S. COMPETITIVENESS
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    EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND U.S. COMPETITIVENESS
    LAUREN BENTON
    It is by now commonplace to assert that the global economy is entering a new phase and that the paradigm of economic growth that was relevant to the early postwar decades no longer holds sway. Major changes, such as the explosive growth of services, the rise of a handful of highly successful newly industrializing countries, and the rapid expansion ...

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  • AGRARIAN REFORM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
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    AGRARIAN REFORM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
    JANE BENTON
    Published in 1999. Despite the attempts of a number of Latin American republics to redistribute land resources and carry out agrarian reform programmes, ’the land question’ remains a vital political issue throughout the region. This book focuses on Bolivia, where government proposals to replace a radical agrarian reform law of 1953 with a neo-liberal Ley INRA provoked heated pu...

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  • STUDIES IN THE SPECTATOR ROLE
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    STUDIES IN THE SPECTATOR ROLE
    MICHAEL BENTON
    Michael Benton's book develops the concept of spectatorship as an answer to these questions. It explores the similarities and differences in our experiences of literature and the visual arts, and discusses their implications for pedagogy and their applications in cross-curricular work in the classroom. Teachers will find that, while many of the visual and verbal texts may be fa...

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  • THE GUIDE TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
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    THE GUIDE TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
    DUSTIN BENTON / JONNY HAZELL / JULIE HILL
    The term "Circular Economy" is becoming familiar to an increasing number of businesses. It expresses an aspiration to get more value from resources and waste less, especially as resources come under a variety of pressures – price-driven, political and environmental.Delivering the circular economy can bring direct costs savings to businesses, reduce risk and offer reputational a...

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  • FRENCH ENCOUNTERS WITH THE AMERICAN COUNTERCULTURE 1960-1980
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    FRENCH ENCOUNTERS WITH THE AMERICAN COUNTERCULTURE 1960-1980
    CAROLINE MANIAQUE-BENTON
    French-American interrelationships in the areas of design and creative thinking have been under-acknowledged. It is normally asserted that French architects looked to North America for technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in the 1960s but that the French cultural environment was generally hostile to American ideas. This book includes interviews with Frenc...

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  • HYDROPONICS
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    HYDROPONICS
    J. BENTON JONES JR.
    Revolutionary hydroponic/soilless advances are being achieved by efficiently improving results with the application of new concepts, methods, and equipment. The new edition of a bestseller, Hydroponics: A Practical Guide for the Soilless Grower has been revised to reflect these advances with new chapters that provide essential information on greenh ...

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  • NEW PERSPECTIVES ON RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS
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    NEW PERSPECTIVES ON RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS
    WILLIAM BENTON WHISENHUNT AND NORMAN E. SAUL
    New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and more, the essays show how the two nations related to one another across time from their first interactions as nations in the eighteenth c...

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  • THE WHITE RIVER BADLANDS
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    THE WHITE RIVER BADLANDS
    RACHEL C. BENTON / DENNIS O. TERRY / EMMETT EVANOFF / H. GREGORY MCDONALD
    This guide to the South Dakota region that houses the world’s richest fossil beds does “an excellent job of presenting the current state of knowledge” (Choice). The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock depos...

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  • GET AHEAD! SURGERY: 250 SBAS FOR FINALS
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    GET AHEAD! SURGERY: 250 SBAS FOR FINALS
    J. BENTON PEGNA / DOMINIC TEICHMANN / SARAN SHANTIKUMAR
    This new edition of the successful Get Ahead! Surgery: 250 SBAs for Finals provides invaluable revision for all medical students preparing for final exams. Written by experienced authors, this book covers the entire syllabus in a clear and comprehensive style. It builds on the strengths of the first edition to provide reliable and effective revisio ...

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  • PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE THREE SOCIOLOGIES
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    PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE THREE SOCIOLOGIES
    TED BENTON
    An extended historical and philosophical argument, this book will be a valuable text for all students of the philosophy of the social sciences. It discusses the serious alternatives to positivist and empiricist accounts of the physical sciences, and poses the debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism in the social sciences in new terms. Recent materialist and realist philos...

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  • TEMPORAL CODES FOR MEMORIES (PLE: MEMORY)
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    TEMPORAL CODES FOR MEMORIES (PLE: MEMORY)
    BENTON UNDERWOOD
    Given two events, both of which are well remembered, can we specify which event occurred first? If so, how? For example, did Nixon resign, before or after Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs? Originally published in 1977, little was known about the accuracy of temporal codes for memories, and still less about the nature of the codes. This volume addresses the central question of ...

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  • DEFECTS AND DAMAGE IN COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
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    DEFECTS AND DAMAGE IN COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
    RIKARD BENTON HESLEHURST
    The advantages of composite materials include a high specific strength and stiffness, formability, and a comparative resistance to fatigue cracking and corrosion. However, not forsaking these advantages, composite materials are prone to a wide range of defects and damage that can significantly reduce the residual strength and stiffness of a structu ...

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  • COMPLETE GUIDE FOR GROWING PLANTS HYDROPONICALLY
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    COMPLETE GUIDE FOR GROWING PLANTS HYDROPONICALLY
    J. BENTON JONES, JR.
    With the continued implementation of new equipment and new concepts and methods, such as hydroponics and soilless practices, crop growth has improved and become more efficient. Focusing on the basic principles and practical growth requirements, the Complete Guide for Growing Plants Hydroponically offers valuable information for the commercial growe ...

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  • WAS MAO REALLY A MONSTER?
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    WAS MAO REALLY A MONSTER?
    GREGOR BENTON
    Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster – equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin – and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. Few works on C...

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  • SOCIAL THEORY AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
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    SOCIAL THEORY AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
    TED BENTON / MICHAEL REDCLIFT
    This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocentric `managerialism' which dominates environmental policy, its discourse and its impact. The authors explore the relationship between social theory and sustainability in an attempt to transend technical rhetoric and embrace a broa...

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  • 100 CASES IN DERMATOLOGY
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    100 CASES IN DERMATOLOGY
    RACHAEL MORRIS-JONES / ANN-MARIE POWELL / EMMA BENTON
    A 23-year-old African Caribbean woman presents in the emergency department with an acute onset facial rash. During initial assessment she complains of a two week history of general malaise, fatigue, fever, and weight loss. You have been assigned her examination...100 Cases in Dermatology presents 100 scenarios with a dermatological manifestation co ...

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  • 100 CASES IN DERMATOLOGY
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    100 CASES IN DERMATOLOGY
    RACHAEL MORRIS-JONES / ANN-MARIE POWELL / EMMA BENTON
    A 23-year-old African Caribbean woman presents in the emergency department with an acute onset facial rash. During initial assessment she complains of a two week history of general malaise, fatigue, fever, and weight loss. You have been assigned her examination...100 Cases in Dermatology presents 100 scenarios with a dermatological manifestation co ...

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  • TOMATO PLANT CULTURE
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    TOMATO PLANT CULTURE
    J. BENTON JONES JR.
    While tomatoes continue to be one of the most widely grown plants, the production and distribution of tomato fruits have been changing worldwide. Smaller, flavorful tomatoes are becoming more popular than beefsteak tomatoes, greenhouse-grown tomatoes have entered the marketplace, and home gardeners are using the Internet to obtain information for g ...

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  • CHINESE MIGRANTS AND INTERNATIONALISM
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    CHINESE MIGRANTS AND INTERNATIONALISM
    GREGOR BENTON
    The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had suffered discrimination welcomed their proposals. The radicals’ concentration on Chines...

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  • AGRONOMIC HANDBOOK
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    AGRONOMIC HANDBOOK
    J. BENTON JONES, JR.
    Many agronomic reference books either focus on a single crop, several related crops, or specific soil topics but not on a full range of both crop and soil subjects. This unique handbook covers both major agronomic fields. Containing essential data and information on the culture of the world's major agronomic grain, oil, fiber, and sugar crops grown ...

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  • LABORATORY GUIDE FOR CONDUCTING SOIL TESTS AND PLANT ANALYSIS
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    LABORATORY GUIDE FOR CONDUCTING SOIL TESTS AND PLANT ANALYSIS
    JR., J. BENTON JONES
    With the help of this guide, you can use obtained test results to evaluate the fertility status of soils and the nutrient element status of plants for crop production purposes. It serves as an instructional manual on the techniques used to perform chemical and physical characteristic tests on soils. Laboratory Guide for Conducting Soil Tests and Pl ...

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  • CITIES AND NATURE
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    CITIES AND NATURE
    LISA BENTON-SHORT / JOHN RENNIE SHORT
    Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated with in-depth examination of theory and critical themes. Grea...

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  • HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATION: A GLOBAL APPROACH: A GLOBAL APPROACH
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    HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATION: A GLOBAL APPROACH: A GLOBAL APPROACH
    BENTON
    Hamilton-Jacobi Equation: A Global Approach ...

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  • LIFETIME NUTRITIONAL INFLUENCES ON COGNITION, BEHAVIOUR AND PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS
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    LIFETIME NUTRITIONAL INFLUENCES ON COGNITION, BEHAVIOUR AND PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS
    BENTON, D
    The influence of nutrition on cognition and behaviour is a topic of increasing interest. Emerging evidence indicates that nutrition in early life can influence later mental performance and that diet in later life can reduce cognitive decline. Lifetime nutritional influences on cognition, behaviour and psychiatric illness reviews the latest research into the effects of nutrition...

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