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  • PHILOSOPHY AND HUMAN MOVEMENT
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    PHILOSOPHY AND HUMAN MOVEMENT
    DAVID BEST DEC'D
    First published in 1978, Philosophy and Human Movement examines the major philosophical issues in the rapidly growing field of the study of human movement, physical education, and sport and dance. Issues which start with, and grow from, the central problem of the relation of body to mind. The author’s overriding aim has been to encourage clear, critical, independent thinking ab...

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  • INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND
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    INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND
    ANTONY BEST / JUSSI M. HANHIMÄKI / JOSEPH A. MAIOLO / KIRSTEN E. SCHULZE
    Now in its fourth edition, this highly successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have produced an authoritative yet accessible and seamless account of the history of international relations in the last century, co...

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  • LAND USE AND LIVING SPACE
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    LAND USE AND LIVING SPACE
    ROBIN H. BEST
    Few people have any coherent idea of whether the shifts taking place in land-use structure are critically important for us all, or whether they are largely immaterial. This book (originally published in 1981) by setting down a more quantified and carefully researched statement and appraisal of land-use structure and change than had previously been attempted, shows that much of ...

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  • HOMEMADE CANDY - SWEET AND DANDY
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    HOMEMADE CANDY - SWEET AND DANDY
    CPC INTERNATIONAL BEST FOODS DIVISION
    Excerpt: "Whether you take candymaking seriously or like to make it only for special occasions, you will find the recipes for the most popular homemade candy in this folder. They were developed in the Best Foods Karo Kitchens, where candymaking is taken seriously. Karo syrup in the candy mixture helps to give a smooth, creamy texture as in fudge, a soft chewy texture as in taff...

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  • THE SECRET WAR AGAINST RED RUSSIA
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    THE SECRET WAR AGAINST RED RUSSIA
    BRIAN BEST
    The Armistice of November 1918 ended four years of slaughter that left armies exhausted and populations weary of war – but the fighting was not over. In Russia, civil war and revolution had divided the nation and the Allies sought to intervene on behalf of the 'White' Russians against the Bolsheviks and this conflict continued long after the war had finished elsewhere in Europe...

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  • DESCRIBING CONSTRUCTION
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    DESCRIBING CONSTRUCTION
    RICK BEST
    This third book from editors Rick Best and Jim Meikle brings together and presents insights into a number of key concepts in the study of construction firms, projects and the group of activities that loosely define the construction industry. The value for readers comes from the collection of a variety of topics in a single volume, which provide a basic understanding of the comp...

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  • WAR, ECONOMY AND THE MILITARY MIND
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    WAR, ECONOMY AND THE MILITARY MIND
    GEOFFREY BEST / ANDREW WHEATCROFT
    Originally published in 1976, this book explores the relationship between European society and the military institutions it fostered from 1815–1918. In the period from the fall of Napoleonic imperialism to the outbreak of the First World War armies and navies grew in complexity, cost and size. The first half of this book investigates these institutions from within, and looks at...

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  • THE POSTMODERN ADVENTURE
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    THE POSTMODERN ADVENTURE
    STEVEN BEST / DOUGLAS KELLNER
    This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the successor of Best and Kellner's two previous books, Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field - and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments develo...

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  • BRITISH ENGAGEMENT WITH JAPAN, 1854–1922
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    BRITISH ENGAGEMENT WITH JAPAN, 1854–1922
    ANTONY BEST
    This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation. Based on extensive original research the book goes beyond existing accounts which co...

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  • GOOD MOTHERS DON'T
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    GOOD MOTHERS DON'T
    LAURA BEST
    "The story of a woman in crisis and her quest, fifteen years later, to apologize to her children and fill in the blanks of her mind." — The Globe and Mail It's 1960, and Elizabeth has a good life. A husband who takes care of her, two healthy children, a farm in Nova Scotia. But Elizabeth is slowly coming apart, her reality splintering. She knows she will harm her children, want...

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  • THE TEXTBOOK OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
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    THE TEXTBOOK OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
    DARREN EDWARDS / ‎STEPHANIE BEST
    A comprehensive textbook designed to get you through the entirety of your Health and Social Care BSc degree. Covering all the important topics and pressing issues relevant to Health and Social Care today. The book is split into three parts, starting with the essential areas and core knowledge you will need as you start your degree, these include the sociology and psychology of ...

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  • THOMAS PAINE
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    THOMAS PAINE
    MARY AGNES BEST
    First published in 1927. This study explores Thomas Paine, an English-born American philosopher, activist, political theorist and revolutionary. The author examines Paine’s important aspects of Paine’s life, including his migration to the British Colonies, his participation in the American Revolution, and his imprisonment in Paris. This title will be of great interest to histor...

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  • ZYGMUNT BAUMAN ON EDUCATION IN LIQUID MODERNITY
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    ZYGMUNT BAUMAN ON EDUCATION IN LIQUID MODERNITY
    SHAUN BEST
    Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity evaluates the contribution that Bauman has made to education studies. It outlines the central themes within social analysis in Bauman’s writings, and examines how researchers have applied his key ideas to explore current theoretical issues. The book focuses on Bauman’s ideas in relation to the management and consumption of educati...

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  • THE STRANGER
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    THE STRANGER
    SHAUN BEST
    This book explores the concept of the stranger as a ‘modern’ social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel’s influential essay ‘The Stranger’, questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as ‘strange’, and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger. Organised...

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  • IMAGES OF ISSUES
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    IMAGES OF ISSUES
    JOEL BEST
    Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By typifying a problem and characterizing it as a particular sort, claimsmakers can shape policymaking and public response to the problem. Th is new edition of Images of Issues addresses claimsmaking in the 1990s, featuring such iss...

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  • THE SATANISM SCARE
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    THE SATANISM SCARE
    JOEL BEST
    Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little serious attention. Recognizing this, the editors of this volume have selected papers from a wide variety of disciplines, broadly covering contemporary aspects of Satanism from the vantage points of studies in folklore, cults, religion, deviance, rock music, r...

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  • TROUBLING CHILDREN
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    TROUBLING CHILDREN
    JOEL BEST
    Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children– in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers have focused on social problems involving adolescents, this volume offers instead original case studies of problems concerning preadolescent children.The papers that Best has gathere...

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  • QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING WITH COMPUTER PROGRAMS
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    QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING WITH COMPUTER PROGRAMS
    MICHAEL J. BEST
    Quadratic programming is a mathematical technique that allows for the optimization of a quadratic function in several variables. QP is a subset of Operations Research and is the next higher lever of sophistication than Linear Programming. It is a key mathematical tool in Portfolio Optimization and structural plasticity. This is useful in Civil Engineering as well as Statistics....

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  • PEDDLING PANACEAS
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    PEDDLING PANACEAS
    GARY BEST
    As the Great Depression dragged on without a recovery, Americans were avid for anything that would help them to understand its causes and possible solutions. During this period, orthodox economists were largely discredited, both in the White House and among the public. Three of the most popular and influential figures of the period - Edward A. Rumely, Stuart Chase, and David Cu...

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  • HAROLD LASKI AND AMERICAN LIBERALISM
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    HAROLD LASKI AND AMERICAN LIBERALISM
    GARY BEST
    For nearly three decades, the English political scientist Harold Laski was the gray eminence of American liberalism and its most influential Marxist public intellectual. As a fervent proponent of the New Deal in the 1930s, much of Laski's success stemmed from the fact that he offered answers when so many Americans had only questions. By the postwar years, however, his reputatio...

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  • ADDICTION, BEHAVIORAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY
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    ADDICTION, BEHAVIORAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY
    SARAH A. BUCKINGHAM AND DAVID BEST
    Changing health-related behavior is for many people a lonely and isolating experience. Individual willpower is often not enough, particularly in addressing addictive behavior, but research increasingly points to the potential of group identity to shape behavior change and support recovery. This important collection explores the social and cognitive processes that enable people ...

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  • BRITAIN'S RETREAT FROM EMPIRE IN EAST ASIA, 1905-1980
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    BRITAIN'S RETREAT FROM EMPIRE IN EAST ASIA, 1905-1980
    ANTONY BEST
    The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain’s ally Japan vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to its influence in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British power had dwindled to virtually nothing, is one of the most important themes in understanding the modern history...

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  • DYNEMICIN A, UNCIALAMYCIN AND ANALOGUES
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    DYNEMICIN A, UNCIALAMYCIN AND ANALOGUES
    DANIEL BEST / MICKAEL JEAN / PIERRE VAN DE WEGHE
    Enediynes are natural products with highly active cytotoxicity and antibacterial activity, and thus have significant potential in the development of anti-cancer treatments. However, they are not readily available and can degrade rapidly during isolation; one solution is to produce them using total synthesis.Dynemicin A and uncialamycin are two such enediynes, with similar stru...

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  • ON THE FRINGES OF DIPLOMACY
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    ON THE FRINGES OF DIPLOMACY
    ANTONY BEST
    In recent decades the study of British foreign policy and diplomacy has broadened in focus. No longer is it enough for historians to look at the actions of the elite figures - diplomats and foreign secretaries - in isolation; increasingly the role of their advisers and subordinates, and those on the fringes of the diplomatic world, is recognised as having exerted critical influ...

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  • ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
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    ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
    SHAUN BEST
    In this ground-breaking book, Shaun Best analyses the intellectual knowledge production of Zygmunt Bauman and his rise to academic stardom in the English speaking world by evaluating the relation between his biography, the contexts in which he found himself, and why his intellectual creativity is admired by so many people. Bauman has an interesting 'contested' biography and und...

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  • REPORTING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    REPORTING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    BRIAN BEST
    After a slow start, the Second World War produced an enormous number of war correspondents. Correspondents like Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and George Orwell were all inspired to put their experiences on the printed page. Hemingway and his wife, Martha Gellhorn, went on to cover the D-Day Landings and the final victory in Germany.The British Broadcasting Corporation was t...

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  • KIDS GONE WILD
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    KIDS GONE WILD
    JOEL BEST / KATHLEEN A BOGLE
    The myths and truths of teen's sexual behavior. Winner of the 2015 Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research To hear mainstream media sources tell it, the sex lives of modern teenagers outpace even the smuttiest of cable television shows. Teen girls "sext" explicit photos to boys they like; they wear "sex bracelets" that ...

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  • UNDERSTANDING AND DOING SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH
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    UNDERSTANDING AND DOING SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH
    SHAUN BEST
    Research Methods is an essential guide to carrying out a research project. Each of the focused chapters introduces and explains an aspect of social research to readers who may have no experience or knowledge of this subject. The emphasis is on how to do various different methods, how to decide which is the most appropriate, and how to analyse the data. The book also includes ex...

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  • BRITAIN, JAPAN AND PEARL HARBOUR
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    BRITAIN, JAPAN AND PEARL HARBOUR
    ANTONY BEST
    Recent controversies about Pearl Harbour have highlighted the need for a new assessment of British policy towards Japan during the period leading up to the Pacific War. Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour provides a thorough and authoritative account of British efforts to avert conflict with Japan, and makes use of the most recently released material from British archives, includi...

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  • COHERENT FLOW STRUCTURES AT EARTH'S SURFACE
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    COHERENT FLOW STRUCTURES AT EARTH'S SURFACE
    JEREMY G. VENDITTI / JAMES L. BEST / MICHAEL CHURCH / RICHARD J. HARDY
    An expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulent flows with a focus on recently identified organized structures.  This book reviews the recent progress in the study of the turbulent flows that sculpt the Earth’s surface, focusing in particular on the organized structures that have been identified in recent years within turbulent flows. These coherent flow structure...

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