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  • HANDS-ON DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY
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    HANDS-ON DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY
    ETHAN COWAN / MICHAEL SHOEMATE / MAYANA PEREIRA
    Many organizations today analyze and share large, sensitive datasets about individuals. Whether these datasets cover healthcare details, financial records, or exam scores, it's become more difficult for organizations to protect an individual's information through deidentification, anonymization, and other traditional statistical disclosure limitation techniques. This practical ...

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  • THE ART OF WRITING FICTION
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    THE ART OF WRITING FICTION
    ANDREW COWAN
    An elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan’s The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with emerging writers at the University of East Anglia. As illuminating for the recreational writer as for students of Creative Writing, the twelve chapters of this book correspond to the...

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  • EDUCATION FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN RURAL CHINA
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    EDUCATION FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN RURAL CHINA
    XU LIU / STEVEN COWAN
    Liu and Cowan offer a unique in-depth study of educational development and social transformation in rural China. It foregrounds identifiable settings and personalities, engaging readers with the voices and experiences of people who are involved with the education system. This book explores the link between educational transformation and local economic regeneration. The research...

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  • AGAINST CREATIVE WRITING
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    AGAINST CREATIVE WRITING
    ANDREW COWAN
    The rise of Creative Writing has been accompanied from the start by two questions: can it be taught, and should it be taught? This scepticism is sometimes shared even by those who teach it, who often find themselves split between two contradictory identities: the artistic and the academic. Against Creative Writing explores the difference between ‘writing’, which is what writers...

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  • THE STRENGTH-BASED CLINICAL SUPERVISION WORKBOOK
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    THE STRENGTH-BASED CLINICAL SUPERVISION WORKBOOK
    CHRISTOPHER L. HEFFNER / JESSICA A. COWAN
    Supervision is the cornerstone of clinical training across all types of mental health providers. It facilitates the growth of mental health trainees and maintains the integrity of the field of mental health services by ensuring the competency of clinicians. However, the process can be complex and potentially confusing for both supervisors and trainees at any stage of their deve...

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  • THE OLD FRONTIER, TE AWAMUTU, THE STORY OF WAIPA VALLEY
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    THE OLD FRONTIER, TE AWAMUTU, THE STORY OF WAIPA VALLEY
    JAMES COWAN
    Excerpt: "This sketch of the history of the Waipa district centreing in Te Awamutu has been written especially with a view to interesting the younger generation of colonists, and the now large population on both sides of the old Maori border, in the uncommonly dramatic story of the beautiful country in which their homes are set. The original settlers to whom many of the events ...

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  • THE ADVENTURES OF KIMBLE BENT, A STORY OF WILD LIFE IN THE NEW ZEALAND BUSH
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    THE ADVENTURES OF KIMBLE BENT, A STORY OF WILD LIFE IN THE NEW ZEALAND BUSH
    JAMES COWAN
    This book is not a work of fiction. It is a plain narrative of real life in the New Zealand bush, a true story of adventure in a day not yet remote, when adventure in abundance was still to be had in the land of the Maori. Every name used is a real one, every character who appears in these pages had existence in those war days of forty years ago. Every incident described here i...

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  • ESSENTIAL URBAN DESIGN
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    ESSENTIAL URBAN DESIGN
    ROB COWAN
    Shaping our cities, streets and public spaces, urban design informs the places we live. It is a complex multi-disciplinary process, requiring the input of a wide variety of stakeholders and design and construction professionals. Each urban project invariably throws up a new set of problems and strategic decisions for the design team. This guide distils the essential information...

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  • REGULATING SOCIAL HOUSING
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    REGULATING SOCIAL HOUSING
    DAVID COWAN / MORAG MCDERMONT
    Drawing upon Foucauldian analyzes of governmentality, the authors contend that social housing must be understood according to a range of political rationalities that saturate current practice and policy. They critically address the practice of dividing social from private tenure; situating subjects such as the purpose and financing of social housing, the regulation of its provi...

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  • DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
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    DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
    EDWARD J COWAN AND KENNETH VEITCH
    Dumfries and Galloway is one of the least-known regions of Scotland. Despite memories and traditions to match those of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, it has been seriously understudied. This innovative, ground-breaking study looks mainly at the everyday lives and culture of people in this region during a period of profound agricultural, industrial and demographic change.  In doing s...

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  • MUSEUM OBJECTS, HEALTH AND HEALING
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    MUSEUM OBJECTS, HEALTH AND HEALING
    BRENDA COWAN / ROSS LAIRD / JASON MCKEOWN
    Museum Objects, Health and Healing provides an innovative and interdisciplinary study of the relationship between objects, health and healing. Shedding light on the primacy of the human need for relationships with objects, the book explores what kind of implications these relationships might have on the exhibition experience. Merging museum and object studies, as well as psycho...

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  • CRITICAL THINKING: A CONCISE GUIDE
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    CRITICAL THINKING: A CONCISE GUIDE
    TRACY BOWELL / ROBERT COWAN / GARY KEMP
    We are frequently confronted with arguments. Arguments are attempts to persuade us – to influence our beliefs and actions – by giving us reasons to believe this or that. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide will equip students with the concepts and techniques used in the identification, analysis and assessment of arguments whatever the subject matter or context. Through precise a...

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  • HOMELESSNESS
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    HOMELESSNESS
    DAVID COWAN
    First published in 1997, this volume presents the results of in-depth research into the application of the UK homelessness legislation in relation to community care, the Children Act 1989, violence to women, and racial harassment. This is supplemented with a consideration of policies and practices in 15 local authority homelessness departments. It is argued that government crea...

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  • HOUSING: PARTICIPATION AND EXCLUSION
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    HOUSING: PARTICIPATION AND EXCLUSION
    DAVID COWAN
    Published in 1998, current themes in housing are explored in this collection of papers. The gamut of issues surrounding participation, such as tenant participation or decision-making participation, together with the forces leading to exclusion, such as in relation to ethnic minorities, are examined. The book will be relevant to all those in the housing movement together with th...

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  • ATLAS OF PULMONARY CYTOPATHOLOGY
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    ATLAS OF PULMONARY CYTOPATHOLOGY
    CHRISTOPHER J. VANDENBUSSCHE / SYED Z. ALI / MORGAN COWAN / ANIL V. PARWANI / PAUL E. WAKELY / JOYCE E. J
    Atlas of Pulmonary Cytopathology: With Histopathologic Correlations offers concrete diagnostic guidance for anatomic pathologists to accurately identify pulmonary disease using exfoliative and fine needle aspiration techniques. It not only illustrates the classic cytomorphology of common lung lesions, but also presents and contrasts important problem areas that can lead to erro...

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  • A SOCIAL HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH
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    A SOCIAL HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH
    GARY MCCULLOCH / STEVEN COWAN
    A Social History of Educational Studies and Research examines the development of the study of education in the UK in its broader educational, social and political context since its early beginnings in the first part of the twentieth century. By providing a historical analysis of the contested growth of the field this book examines the significant contribution that has been made...

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  • JOHN OWEN AND THE CIVIL WAR APOCALYPSE
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    JOHN OWEN AND THE CIVIL WAR APOCALYPSE
    MARTYN CALVIN COWAN
    John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum. Using Owen’s sermons from this period as a window into the mind of a self-proclaimed prophet, this book studies how his apocalyptic interpretation of conte...

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  • STRATEGIC INTERNAL COMMUNICATION
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    STRATEGIC INTERNAL COMMUNICATION
    DAVID COWAN
    Previously restricted to cascading information and managing day-to-day conversations, internal communication is now essential to empowering employees to deliver business strategy. Strategic Internal Communication shows how to design and implement a strategy which will lead to engaged and motivated staff, increased productivity and consequently improved business performance. The...

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  • THE GOOD WRITING GUIDE FOR EDUCATION STUDENTS
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    THE GOOD WRITING GUIDE FOR EDUCATION STUDENTS
    DOMINIC WYSE / KATE COWAN
    Grappling with grammar? Worrying about referencing? This handy guide is packed with practical advice on how to search for reading materials, structure your academic writing, think critically, reference appropriately and use language effectively. ‘Top Tips’ throughout the book help eradicate all the common mistakes that bring your marks down. What′s new to the fourth edition? tw...

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  • EXERCISES IN CHEST X-RAY DIAGNOSIS
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    EXERCISES IN CHEST X-RAY DIAGNOSIS
    JOHN A. ELLIOTT / MICHAEL D. COWAN
    Exercises in Chest X-Ray Diagnosis serves as a teaching aid for postgraduates working towards the MRCP and FRCP. This book provides a test of clinical knowledge and competence and for this reason a simple question and answer format has been adopted. This book is organized into two parts. Part 1 consists of questions related to the abnormalities on the chest film that may refle...

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  • MARRIAGE, MANNERS AND MOBILITY IN EARLY MODERN VENICE
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    MARRIAGE, MANNERS AND MOBILITY IN EARLY MODERN VENICE
    ALEXANDER COWAN
    Throughout history, marriage has been used as a method of creating and strengthening bonds between elites and the societies over which they ruled. Nowhere is this more apparent than in early modern Venice, where members of the patriciate looked to marital alliances with outsider brides to help maintain their position and social distinction in a fluid society. This book explores...

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  • WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY
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    WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY
    NELSON COWAN
    The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information a person can hold temporarily in an especially accessible form for use in the completion of almost any c...

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  • FAMILY, SELF, AND SOCIETY
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    FAMILY, SELF, AND SOCIETY
    PHILIP A. COWAN
    Any agenda for family research in the 1990s must take seriously a contextual approach to the study of family relationships. The editors and contributors to this volume believe that the richness in family studies over the next decade will come from considering the diversity of family forms -- different ethnic groups and cultures, different stages of family life, as well as diffe...

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  • THE ART OF WRITING FICTION
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    THE ART OF WRITING FICTION
    ANDREW COWAN
    The Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid. Readers will master key aspects of fiction such as structure, character, voice and setting. Andrew Cowan provides an insightful introduction that brings his own well-crafted prose style ...

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  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA AND JAPAN
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    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA AND JAPAN
    COWAN, C.D.
    First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...

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  • A HANDBOOK OF TECHNIQUES FOR FORMATIVE EVALUATION
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    A HANDBOOK OF TECHNIQUES FOR FORMATIVE EVALUATION
    JOHN COWAN / JUDITH GEORGE
    This handbook provides all those teaching in higher and further education with a reference on how to develop and use a "toolkit" which is capable of exploring and assessing all the relevant aspects of their students' learning. It discusses how readers can assess their own teaching quality. ...

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  • MEMORY SEARCH BY A MEMORIST
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    MEMORY SEARCH BY A MEMORIST
    CHARLES P. THOMPSON / THADDEUS M. COWAN
    This book describes the first comprehensive experimental research program on an individual who exhibits exceptional memory. Rajan Mahadevan, the subject of these investigations, won a place in the Guinness Book of Records for reciting pi to 31,811 decimal places, can learn matrices up to size 20 X 20, and can produce memory spans above 60 for digits. Utilizing the methodology a...

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  • FAMILY TRANSITIONS
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    FAMILY TRANSITIONS
    PHILIP A. COWAN
    This volume, the result of the second annual Summer Institute sponsored by the Family Research Consortium, focuses on family transitions--both normative and non-normative. The subject of family transitions has been a central concern of the consortium largely because studies of families in motion help to highlight mechanisms leading to adaptation and dysfunction. This text repre...

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  • THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    COWAN, C. D.
    First published in 1964, The Economic Development of South-East Asia: Studies in economic history and political economy contains eight papers originally written for a study group at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. The papers, edited by Professor C. D. Cowan, are written against a background of economic underdevelopment in large parts of Asia. Economic prob...

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  • WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY
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    WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY
    NELSON COWAN
    The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information a person can hold temporarily in an especially accessible form for use in the completion of almost an...

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