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  • ELIZABETHAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
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    ELIZABETHAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
    M. ST. CLARE BYRNE
    Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age. Its range and method are indicated by the reviewer who hailed it as ‘more enthralling than a best-seller’, and by the Times Literary Supplement which described it a...

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  • ZEN, MEANING, AND CRAFT IN JANE HIRSHFIELD'S POETRY
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    ZEN, MEANING, AND CRAFT IN JANE HIRSHFIELD'S POETRY
    DEIRDRE C. BYRNE / GARTH J. MASON
    Zen, Meaning, and Craft in Jane Hirshfield’s Poetry: Heartshoots is the first scholarly volume to be dedicated to the large body of work produced by North American Zen poet, Jane Hirshfield. The volume is co-authored by a Zen Buddhist scholar and a poetry scholar, who are both practising poets. Its five chapters cover format and structure; three fruitful approaches to the poetr...

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  • POSITIVE HEALTH
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    POSITIVE HEALTH
    JOLANTA BURKE / PÁDRAIC J. DUNNE / ELAINE BYRNE / CIARAN A. O’BOYLE
    This introductory book offers a clear guide to the new field of Positive Health which incorporates a shift towards perceiving body and mind as an integrated system. The book combines Lifestyle Medicine research and practice, such as healthy eating, good sleep hygiene, and physical activity, with positive psychology research and practice, including cognitive, arts-based, and pos...

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  • A VANISHING WORLD
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    A VANISHING WORLD
    ROBERT O'BYRNE
    Jesuit priest and amateur photographer, Fr Francis Browne is renowned for his images of the Titanic. However, much less well-known are the pictures that Fr Browne took of Irish country houses over a decade from 1946 onward. At the time, these buildings were still private properties, mostly in the hands of their original families and not open to the public. Somehow, this gentle-...

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  • SCAMS, CONS, FRAUDS, AND DECEPTIONS
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    SCAMS, CONS, FRAUDS, AND DECEPTIONS
    SEAN BRYNE, JAMES BYRNE
    This unique volume presents cutting-edge research on the nature and extent of a wide range of scams, cons, frauds, and deceptive activities, including sextortion, the use of ransomware, phishing, identity theft, Ponzi schemes, online shopping fraud, gift card scams, and health care fraud targeting elderly victims. The contributions to this book raise and attempt to answer sever...

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  • ETHNOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCTIONS OF INDIGENOUS OTHERS
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    ETHNOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCTIONS OF INDIGENOUS OTHERS
    GEORGE BYRNE
    This book examines the ways in which indigeneity interacts with climate change politics at multiple levels and at the same time offers a self-critical reflection on the role of ethnographic research (and researchers) in this process. Through a multi-sited ethnography, it shows how indigeneity and climate change mitigation are at this point so intensely intertwined that one cann...

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  • 42 REASONS TO HATE THE UNIVERSE
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    42 REASONS TO HATE THE UNIVERSE
    CHRIS FERRIE / WADE DAVID FAIRCLOUGH / BYRNE LAGINESTRA
    If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you… you were right! Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious and all that crap. But it's also a bit of an asshole. After all, remember that you are just a group of atoms structured in a specific way for barely long enough to try to understand this thing we call existence. Those atoms could just h...

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  • THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK OF HEALTHCARE SIMULATION
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    THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK OF HEALTHCARE SIMULATION
    PAUL O'CONNOR / ANGELA O’DEA / DARA BYRNE
    Healthcare simulation is the modern way to educate healthcare providers to achieve high performance and to improve patient safety. It encompasses mannikin based training for teamwork and nontechnical skills, task trainers for procedural skills, simulated participants for communication skills, and virtual/augmented reality simulation. Based on an award-winning postgraduate cours...

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  • CIVIL SOCIETY, PEACEBUILDING, AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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    CIVIL SOCIETY, PEACEBUILDING, AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
    SEAN BYRNE
    This book examines the role of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and some of the challenges they face. The work explores the perspective and experiences of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland about their analysis and critique of liberal peacebuilding, their hopes, and concerns, and how they are aligned with external f...

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  • ALTERNATIVE APPROACHIES TO THE STUDY OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
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    ALTERNATIVE APPROACHIES TO THE STUDY OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
    DONN BYRNE
    First published in 1986. This book focuses on a multiciliary approach to studying sexual behavior. It purports that biosexual, sociosexual, and psychosexual research can be combined within a single framework as they are complementary rather than in conflict, and together they provide an integrative picture of human sexual functioning. ...

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  • COMPLEXITY THEORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
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    COMPLEXITY THEORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
    DAVID BYRNE / GILLIAN CALLAGHAN
    This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, widening social inequality, and impending social and ecological catastrophe wrought by glob...

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  • THE JUKEBOX MUSICAL
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    THE JUKEBOX MUSICAL
    KEVIN BYRNE / EMILY FUCHS
    This is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly become beloved for multiple generations of theatergoers and practitioners. Providing a concise exploration of the three main categories of the jukebox musical—biographical, genre-specific, and artist catalog—this text is perfect for those...

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  • THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN RUSSIA AND NATO IN THE ARCTIC AND HIGH NORTH
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    THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN RUSSIA AND NATO IN THE ARCTIC AND HIGH NORTH
    SIDHARTH KAUSHA / JAMES BYRNE / JOSEPH BYRNE / GIANGIUSEPPE PILLI / GARY SOMERVILLE
    The resurgence of Russian power in the Arctic and High North will be a key consideration for NATO planners. The Alliance’s northern flank represents both a potential vulnerability due to its relative isolation and an area in which NATO enjoys options for horizontal escalation in a conflict. Moreover, as the effects of climate change create opportunities for both navigation and ...

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  • UNDERSTANDING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
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    UNDERSTANDING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
    ZINTA S. BYRNE
    Understanding Employee Engagement is a comprehensive source for the science and practice of employee engagement. This book provides a rigorous and objective review of scholarship and empirical research on engagement from around the world. Grounded in theory and empirical research, this book debates the definitions of engagement, provides a thorough evaluation of empirical findi...

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  • PALLIATIVE CARE IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
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    PALLIATIVE CARE IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
    JUDI BYRNE / PENNY MCNAMARA / JANE SEYMOUR / PAM MCCLINTON
    The particular needs of people with progressive long-term neurological conditions - including Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Huntington's disease - may make care delivery and planning the last stages of life ethically, practically and clinically challenging. ...

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  • POWER-SHARING PACTS AND THE WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY AGENDA
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    POWER-SHARING PACTS AND THE WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY AGENDA
    SIOBHAN BYRNE AND ALLISON MCCULLOCH
    This book offers a comparative lens on the contested relationship between two leading conflict resolution norms: ethnopolitical power-sharing pacts and the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. Championed by national governments and international organizations over the last two decades, power-sharing and feminist scholars and practitioners tend to view them as opposing norms....

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  • ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
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    ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
    JOHN BYRNE
    Originally published in 1991, this volume number 6 in the Energy Policy Studies series focuses on important interconnections between energy use and global change issues such as upper atmosphere ozone depletion and global warming. Policy options for meeting these challenges are explored in eight contributed chapters that concentrate on Energy and the Environment, economic growth...

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  • THE HERITAGE CORRIDOR
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    THE HERITAGE CORRIDOR
    DENIS BYRNE
    The Heritage Corridor argues for a transnational approach to investigating and recording heritage places that emerge from histories of migration. Addressing the material legacy of migration, this book also relates it to issues of contemporary importance. Presenting an image of the built environment of migration as one shaped by the ongoing flows of people, ideas, objects and mo...

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  • THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON INSTITUTIONAL AND COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
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    THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON INSTITUTIONAL AND COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
    BYRNE, JAMES M., HUMMER, DON AND RAPISARDA, SABRINA S.
    The authors of the chapters included in this volume provide preliminary answers to questions such as: How extensive were COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons, jails, and community corrections systems globally? Which regions and countries reported the largest outbreaks? Why were prisons and jails found to be "hot spots" for the spread of COVID-19 in most countries? How did governments ...

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  • INEQUALITY IN A CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CRISIS AFTER COVID
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    INEQUALITY IN A CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CRISIS AFTER COVID
    DAVID BYRNE
    Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Widely acknowledged as the key driver of political discontent and social instability, economic inequality across high and middle-income countries is profoundly interconnected...

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  • PRANKLAB
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    PRANKLAB
    CHRIS FERRIE / BYRNE LAGINESTRA / WADE DAVID FAIRCLOUGH
    Explosive soda. Cheating dice. Mind control. Pranklab delivers science-powered pranks that make learning wildly fun for kids! Created by a quantum physicist and two science educators, Pranklab is a STEM prank book like no other. Designed for kids ages 8–12, it turns everyday materials into laugh-out-loud experiments—blending hands-on fun with real science. With activities like ...

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  • SOCIAL RESEARCH AND DISABILITY
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    SOCIAL RESEARCH AND DISABILITY
    CIARAN BURKE / ‎BRONAGH BYRNE
    Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech. In short, the disabled researcher is not considered when outlining the requirements of particular methods. Drawing upon these considerations, t...

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING IN UK HIGHER EDUCATION
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING IN UK HIGHER EDUCATION
    NUALA BYRNE / CHRISTOPHER BUTCHER
    Covering everything you need to know about teaching within the UK higher education system, this book is the ideal introduction for anyone looking to start their teaching career. A must-read guide for international staff new to teaching in UK higher education, this key text focuses on what is particular and often baffling to those who are new to higher education teaching in the ...

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  • CLINICAL HELPER FOR MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
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    CLINICAL HELPER FOR MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
    LOUISE BYRNE / TIMOTHY WAND
    Are you anxious about your mental health placement? Do you need help remembering the terms, therapies and guidelines? Mental health is a fascinating specialised field where you can make a real difference. The Clinical Helper for Mental Health Nursing is a quick and reliable reference for students and new graduates to reduce stress and boost confidence in the clinical setting. C...

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  • LOGICS OF GENOCIDE
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    LOGICS OF GENOCIDE
    ANNE O'BYRNE / ‎MARTIN SHUSTER
    This book is concerned with the connection between the formal structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The contributors employ philosophical approaches to explore the idea of genocidal violence as a structural element in the world. Do mechanisms or structures in nation-states produce types of national citizens that are more susceptible to genocidal projects? Th...

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  • MINSTREL TRADITIONS
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    MINSTREL TRADITIONS
    KEVIN BYRNE
    Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age explores the place and influence of black racial impersonation in US society during a crucial and transitional time period. Minstrelsy was absorbed into mass-culture media that was either invented or reached widespread national prominence during this era: advertising campaigns, audio recordings, radio broadcasts, and film....

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  • GOVERNING THE ATOM
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    GOVERNING THE ATOM
    JOHN BYRNE / ‎STEVEN M. HOFFMAN
    Promoted as a form of limitless, low-cost energy without the polluting effects of Its fossil fuel counterparts, nuclear power has enjoyed unparalleled support in several countries. Despite the development of an extensive set of policy and institutional mechanisms to foster its use. nuclear technology has been troubled by a wide range of problems and continues to pose risks many...

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  • CHINESE-ISLAMIC WORKS OF ART, 1644–1912
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    CHINESE-ISLAMIC WORKS OF ART, 1644–1912
    EMILY BYRNE CURTIS
    Chinese-Islamic studies have concentrated thus far on the arts of earlier periods with less attention paid to works from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). This book focuses on works of Chinese-Islamic art from the late seventeenth century to the present day and bring to the reader’s attention several new areas for consideration. The book examines glass wares which were probably mad...

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  • THE SOLAR ENERGY TRANSITION
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    THE SOLAR ENERGY TRANSITION
    DANIEL RICH / JON M VEIGEL / ALLEN M BARNETT / JOHN BYRNE
    Solar energy is considered by many an attractive and practical option for America's energy future, one that is technically and commercially feasible as well as socially and environmentally desirable. Sun-generated power could meet upwards of 20 percent of U.S. energy needs by the year 2000—but only if there is a concerted national effort to use this energy option. The issues of...

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  • FAMILIES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION
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    FAMILIES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION
    JOHN BYRNE / DAVID A. SCHULZ / MARVIN B. SUSSMAN
    Originally published in 1985. This volume on household energy conditions considers the energy crisis in the United States and offers an important appraisal of the future of energy consumption by families and the family's adaptations to decreasing energy availability. The chapters in the first section investigate the cultural dimensions of energy use at the household level, look...

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