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  • NEW DIRECTIONS
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    NEW DIRECTIONS
    PETER BURTON / DAVID LANE
    New Directions (1970) is a handbook for amateur dramatists packed with ideas and practical advice on production, choosing plays, improvisation, make-up, costumes, street drama, scenery and documentaries. The authors offer choices of solutions to problems, and suggest ways to experiment and improvise. ...

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  • A STUDY IN CREATIVE HISTORY
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    A STUDY IN CREATIVE HISTORY
    O.E. BURTON
    A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazdaism in Persia, of Brahmanism, Buddhism in India and Confucianism in China. ...

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  • THE LANGUAGE OF SMELL
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    THE LANGUAGE OF SMELL
    ROBERT BURTON
    The sense of smell is at least equally important to may animals as sight and hearing. This important fact had previously been largely overlooked and is the subject of this fascinating study of the animal kingdom, The Language of Smell, originally published in 1976. Robert Burton, a zoologist and writer on wildlife, surveys the use of the sense of smell, from ants and butterflie...

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  • THE WOOL INDUSTRY A GLOBAL HISTORY
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    THE WOOL INDUSTRY A GLOBAL HISTORY
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Chronicles the 4,000-year history of wool, from animal rearing to cloth production, highlighting its global and technological impact. The story of wool covers 4,000 years of human history – the first written record of dying wool for cloth was found on a Mesopotamian papyrus c. 2000 BCE. In this book, the whole story is told, from the rearing of the different animals that provid...

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  • TAKING THE TRAIN
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    TAKING THE TRAIN
    ANTHONY BURTON
    A history of railway travel from improved railway advancements to firsthand passenger encounters. The book looks at rail travel from the passenger’s point of view, beginning when a coach drawn by horses, rumbled down the newly laid tracks linking Swansea to Mumbles in 1807 and takes the reader right up to the present day. It was not long after that first service opened in Wales...

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  • A GEOMETRICAL APPROACH TO PHYSICS
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    A GEOMETRICAL APPROACH TO PHYSICS
    DAVID A. BURTON / ADAM NOBLE
    This book provides an accessible introduction to using the tools of differential geometry to tackle a wide range of topics in physics, with the concepts developed through numerous examples to help the reader become familiar with the techniques. Physical applications are used to develop the techniques and demonstrate their wide-ranging applicability. Formalism is introduced spar...

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  • MEDIEVAL MONASTICISM
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    MEDIEVAL MONASTICISM
    C.H. LAWRENCE / JANET BURTON
    Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. It explores the relationship between monasteries and the secular world around them. For a thousand years, the great monastic houses and religious orders were a prominen...

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  • CRAFT OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS
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    CRAFT OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The book traces the history of the various craft that have been used for transport on Britain's rivers and canals from the earliest times to the present day. The first section deals with the long history of the development of river craft, from prehistoric log boats to the whole range of sailing barges, such as the Humber keel and the Thames barge. By the middle of the 18th cent...

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  • VERBATIM THEATRE METHODOLOGIES FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGED PRACTICE
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    VERBATIM THEATRE METHODOLOGIES FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGED PRACTICE
    SARAH PETERS / DAVID BURTON
    Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community-Engaged Practice offers a framework for developing original community-engaged productions using a range of verbatim theatre approaches. This book's methodologies offer an approach to community-engaged productions that fosters collaborative artistry, ethically nuanced practice, and social intentionality. Through research-based discuss...

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  • GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, OR, SIX MONTHS OF SICK LEAVE
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    GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, OR, SIX MONTHS OF SICK LEAVE
    SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON
    Goa and the Blue Mountains, or, Six Months of Sick Leave is a travelogue written by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a British explorer and writer. The book details Burton's journey through the Portuguese colony of Goa and the surrounding Blue Mountains in India. Burton writes about his experiences and observations of the local people, culture, and landscape. The book also includes ...

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  • THINKING IN PERSPECTIVE
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    THINKING IN PERSPECTIVE
    ANDREW BURTON
    Originally published in 1978, the main task of this book was to consider the psychology of thinking in relation to the various perspectives from which thought processes were studied at the time. It provided an up-to-date and critical evaluation of current experimental studies of thinking organized within a framework which reflects the separate theoretical orientations and metho...

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  • MARITIME LONDON
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    MARITIME LONDON
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day. It discusses many different aspects of life on the Thames and its connecting waterways and canals. There was a time when the River Thames was the main highway for the city, when watermen plied their trade carrying passengers and goods in a wide variety of craft, ranging fro...

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  • LONDON'S TRANSPORT FROM ROMAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
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    LONDON'S TRANSPORT FROM ROMAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Transport systems are the lifeblood of all great cities and this is certainly true of London. As far back as Roman times, their city Londinium was the hub of a network of roads leading out to all the major centres of the time. It was the Romans who gave the city its first bridge across the Thames and its first paved roadways. This book tells the story of London's roads and brid...

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  • MARITIME LONDON
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    MARITIME LONDON
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day. It discusses many different aspects of life on the Thames and its connecting waterways and canals. There was a time when the River Thames was the main highway for the city, when watermen plied their trade carrying passengers and goods in a wide variety of craft, ranging fro...

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  • DOMESTIC ABUSE, VICTIMS AND THE LAW
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    DOMESTIC ABUSE, VICTIMS AND THE LAW
    MANDY BURTON
    The gap between what the law and legal processes deliver for victims of domestic abuse and what they actually need has, in some instances, arguably widened. This book provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the remedies available to victims in the civil, family and criminal law. It contends that expectations of the legal remedies have increased as the number and sc...

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  • VULNERABLE CHILDREN
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    VULNERABLE CHILDREN
    LINDY BURTON
    Originally published in 1968, this book was an experimental investigation into some personality characteristics associated with three types of child problem behaviour. The behaviour of the children in school is described, and their underlying personality needs, as evinced by the stories they told to the author, are assessed. The behaviour at home of the asthmatic and road accid...

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  • CARE OF THE CHILD FACING DEATH
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    CARE OF THE CHILD FACING DEATH
    DR LINDY BURTON
    Originally published in 1974, and written by paediatricians, social workers, nurses and a parent who cared for her dying child, this book is concerned with pinpointing the problems which exist for parents and those involved in the care of sick children, both in terms of accepting the facts of a child’s illness, and in loving supporting and giving them maximum enjoyment within t...

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  • THE FAMILY LIFE OF SICK CHILDREN
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    THE FAMILY LIFE OF SICK CHILDREN
    LINDY BURTON
    Originally published in 1975, this book traces the problems which arise for families coping with a chronic childhood disease – cystic fibrosis. The discussion of these problems is important for the families of other seriously ill or disabled children, all of whom are faced with similar implications of their situation. The book looks at the stressful situations which face them: ...

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  • THE BRUNELS
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    THE BRUNELS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain's great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will show just how important a part Marc played in his son's works and will also look at his own great achievements. Marc Brunel arrived in Britain as a refugee from revolutionary France,...

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  • HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 5
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    HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 5
    DEBORAH LOGAN / ANTOINETTE BURTON / KITTY SKLAR / PATRICK BRANTLINGER
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism. ...

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  • HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 3
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    HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 3
    DEBORAH LOGAN / ANTOINETTE BURTON / KITTY SKLAR / PATRICK BRANTLINGER
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism. ...

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  • HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 4
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    HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 4
    DEBORAH LOGAN / ANTOINETTE BURTON / KITTY SKLAR / PATRICK BRANTLINGER
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism. ...

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  • HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 2
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    HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 2
    DEBORAH LOGAN / ANTOINETTE BURTON / KITTY SKLAR / PATRICK BRANTLINGER
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism. ...

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  • HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 1
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    HARRIET MARTINEAU'S WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOL 1
    DEBORAH LOGAN / ANTOINETTE BURTON / KITTY SKLAR / PATRICK BRANTLINGER
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism. ...

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  • COMMUNICATING CLIMATE CHANGE
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    COMMUNICATING CLIMATE CHANGE
    JUITA-ELENA (WIE) YUSUF AND BURTON ST. JOHN III
    This edited collection focuses on theoretical and applied research-based observations concerning how experts, advocates, and institutions make climate change information accessible to different audiences. Communicating Climate Change concentrates on three key elements of climate change communication – access, relevance, and understandability – to provide an overview of how thes...

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  • NICOLE RAFTER
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    NICOLE RAFTER
    CHASE BURTON
    This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biological theories of crime causation as well as a profound theorist of the role of history within criminology. It introduces Rafter’s key works and assesses her contributions to the fields of feminist criminology, cultural criminology, visual criminology and ...

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  • ANALYSING SENTENCES
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    ANALYSING SENTENCES
    NOEL BURTON-ROBERTS
    Analysing Sentences is an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure. The book covers key concepts such as constituency, category and functions, and uses tree diagrams throughout to help the reader visualise the structure of sentences. The fifth edition of this best-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revise...

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  • TREES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH FICTION
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    TREES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH FICTION
    ANNA BURTON
    This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century. Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicult...

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  • STEM ROAD MAP 2.0
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    STEM ROAD MAP 2.0
    CARLA C. JOHNSON, ERIN E. PETERS-BURTON, AND TAMARA J. MOORE
    Featuring a team of over thirty STEM education professionals from across the United States, the updated and revised edition of this landmark book provides an integrated STEM curriculum encompassing the entire K-12 spectrum, with complete grade-level learning based on a spiraled approach to building conceptual understanding. Taking into account the last five years of evolution i...

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  • EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
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    EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
    REUBEN STEFF / JOE BURTON / SIMONA R. SOARE
    This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis. While recent technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and automation, have the potential to transform international relations in positive ways, they also pose challenges to peace ...

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