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  • CULTURAL ECOLOGIES OF THE LAND
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    CULTURAL ECOLOGIES OF THE LAND
    PATRICK J. DILLON
    Cultural Ecologies of the Land is a radical and challenging reassessment of the way we relate to the land and to infrastructure. There was a time when the land defined us. Now, with each passing year, we are increasingly detached from it. It was once the centre stage of humanity; now it is the setting for a technological drama. What has happened, and why does it matter? This bo...

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  • AGILE RESILIENCE
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    AGILE RESILIENCE
    TOM DILLON
    Finalist in the Wellness and Wellbeing Category of the Business Book Awards 2023. Everything you need for strengthening and flexing your resilience muscle! Resilience can mean something different to everyone, yet it is increasingly necessary to survive in the modern workspace, whether that is at home, in an office or other place of work. Hard times for organisations generally m...

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  • THE GOLDEN CHAIN
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    THE GOLDEN CHAIN
    JOHN DILLON
    This volume gathers together a series of widely -scattered articles concerned with the great tradition of Platonic scholarship ” The Golden Chain” from the time of Plato himself up into the period of Middle Platonism. The main emphasis, however, is on the first three centuries AD. The first articles address the question of what exactly was the nature of the Platonic school at v...

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  • SACRAMENTAL IDENTITY
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    SACRAMENTAL IDENTITY
    T. RYAN DILLON
    Who am I? A theology of personal identity and an answer to that question should be integral to any theological anthropology. For some, the answer is found in what many have called "expressive individualism," an inward turn toward the self and who and what I feel is most authentic to that self. Christians respond that we are no longer that person, we are "in Christ." But do eith...

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  • FAMILY IN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
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    FAMILY IN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
    ELEANOR SPENCER AND JADE DILLON CRAIG
    Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children’s and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Written by intellectual leaders in the field from the UK, the Americas, Europe, and Australia, this collection of essays explores the significance of the family and of familial and quasi-...

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  • THE HYMNS OF SAINT LUKE
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    THE HYMNS OF SAINT LUKE
    RICHARD J. DILLON
    The four canticles of Luke's birth story--the Magnificat, Benedictus, Gloria in excelsis, and Nunc dimittis--are taken to be integral components of the narrative and a sustained lyrical prelude to the author's two-volume historical work. Each composition is analyzed in three steps: proximate context; text; and macrocontext, the last displaying, in each case, a graded contributi...

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  • UNDERSTANDING USERS
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    UNDERSTANDING USERS
    ANDREW DILLON
    Grounded in the user-centered design movement, this book offers a broad consideration of how our civilization has evolved its technical infrastructure for human purpose to help us make sense of our contemporary information infrastructure and online existence. The author incorporates historical, cultural, and aesthetic approaches to situating information and its underlying techn...

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  • DEBATES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
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    DEBATES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
    JUSTIN DILLON
    This fully revised second edition of Debates in Science Education explores the major issues that science teachers encounter in teaching their subject, encouraging the reader to make their own informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding. Brand new chapters written by a team of international experts provide fresh insight i...

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  • THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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    THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    MATTHEW DILLON / CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly over...

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  • STORYLISTENING
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    STORYLISTENING
    SARAH DILLON / CLAIRE CRAIG
    Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science. Focusing on the cognitive and the collective, Dillon and Craig show how stories of...

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  • CHINA IN THE AGE OF XI JINPING
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    CHINA IN THE AGE OF XI JINPING
    MICHAEL DILLON
    This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics, and international relations; China's history, especially the twentieth century; ...

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  • THE ANCIENT ROMANS
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    THE ANCIENT ROMANS
    MATTHEW DILLON / LYNDA GARLAND
    This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of the empire established by Augustus prior to his death in AD 14. Interspersed through the discussion of the political history of the period are crucial chapters on all aspects of Roma...

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  • CHILDREN IN ANTIQUITY
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    CHILDREN IN ANTIQUITY
    LESLEY A. BEAUMONT / NICOLA HARRINGTON / MATTHEW DILLON
    This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age...

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  • THE ARCHITECTURE OF WASTE
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    THE ARCHITECTURE OF WASTE
    CAROLINE O'DONNELL / DILLON PRANGER
    Global material crises are imminent. In the very near future, recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment, but a necessity for all. This means a paradigm shift in domestic behavior, manufacturing, construction, and design is inevitable. The Architecture of Waste provides a hopeful outlook through examining current recycling practices, reth...

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  • MANAGEMENT OF AQUIFER RECHARGE FOR SUSTAINABILITY
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    MANAGEMENT OF AQUIFER RECHARGE FOR SUSTAINABILITY
    PETER JAMES DILLON
    This title offers more than 100 papers originating in 20 countries, covering research on a widening range of methods for recharge enhancement and groundwater quality protection and improvement. These include: bank filtration; aquifer storage and recovery; and soil aquifer treatment, as well as rainwater harvesting and pond infiltration.  The emphasis is on understanding subsurf...

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  • THE DIGITAL GAMING HANDBOOK
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    THE DIGITAL GAMING HANDBOOK
    ROBERTO DILLON
    The Digital Gaming Handbook covers the state-of-the-art in video and digital game research and development, from traditional to emerging elements of gaming across multiple disciplines. Chapters are presented with applicability across all gaming platforms over a broad range of topics, from game content creation through gameplay at a level accessible for the professional game dev...

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  • USING STORIES FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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    USING STORIES FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    JAMES DILLON
    This book offers a selection of stories about teaching, learning, and school life that you can use in a variety of PD formats and settings. Grouped into four categories—students, teachers, administrators, and parents—these tales offer a powerful entry point for thinking and reflecting on your school environment in a new and meaningful way. Each brief tale is presented to spark ...

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  • CENTRAL EUROPEAN INDUSTRY IN THE INFORMATION AGE
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    CENTRAL EUROPEAN INDUSTRY IN THE INFORMATION AGE
    HANS VAN ZON / BRIAN DILLON / JERZY HAUSNER / DOROTA KWIECISKA
    This title was first published in 2000: A study of the diffusion and effective use of ICT in industry in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. It explores quantitative and qualitative overviews of the current state of affairs with respect to computer-networking in industry, and examines prospects and obstacles. ...

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  • THE CHALLENGE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
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    THE CHALLENGE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
    JEFFREY T RICHELSON / BERHANU ABEGAZ / PATRICIA DILLON / DAVID H FELDMAN
    The effort to establish economic, political, arid monetary integration in Europe is one of the great dramas of our time, and the implications of its success or failure are enormous for the rest of the world. In this volume distinguished economists and political scientists address the wide-ranging set of issues confronting the nations of Europe and explore the implications of th...

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  • A STUDY OF THE TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM
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    A STUDY OF THE TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM
    SHIGEO SHINGO / ANDREW P. DILLON
    This is the "green book" that started it all -- the first book in English on JIT, written from the engineer's viewpoint. When Omark Industries bought 500 copies and studied it companywide, Omark became the American pioneer in JIT.Here is Dr. Shingo's classic industrial engineering rationale for the priority of process-based over operational improvements in manufacturing. He exp...

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  • A REVOLUTION IN MANUFACTURING
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    A REVOLUTION IN MANUFACTURING
    ANDREW P. DILLON / SHIGEO SHINGO
    Written by the industrial engineer who developed SMED (single-minute exchange of die) for Toyota, A Revolution in Manufacturing provides a full overview of this powerful just in time production tool. It offers the most complete and detailed instructions available anywhere for transforming a manufacturing environment in ways that will speed up produ ...

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  • CHINESE MINORITIES AT HOME AND ABROAD
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    CHINESE MINORITIES AT HOME AND ABROAD
    MICHAEL DILLON
    The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to administer minority areas, despite the existence of a complicated web of subjective identities which potentially undermines efforts to use these categories effectively. This book offers a new, and sometimes unusual, perspective on et...

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  • MONTANA VIGILANTES, 1863–1870
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    MONTANA VIGILANTES, 1863–1870
    MARK C. DILLON
    A history and legal analysis of vigilantism in Montana in the 1860s, from a state Supreme Court justice and legal historian. Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the st...

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  • XINJIANG IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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    XINJIANG IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    MICHAEL DILLON
    There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, where the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim people who historically constituted the majority population, feel themselves displaced and discriminated against by the growing in-migrat...

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  • POWERFUL PARENT PARTNERSHIPS
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    POWERFUL PARENT PARTNERSHIPS
    ROBERT DILLON / MELISSA NIXON
    It is essential that we work together to craft powerful parent-teacher partnerships that meet the needs of today’s students and schools. In this important new book, authors Robert Dillon and Melissa Nixon explain how schools and families can work together so that the needs of children are always met. Whether you’re a parent hoping to work more effectively with your child’s teac...

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  • THE PLATONIC HERITAGE
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    THE PLATONIC HERITAGE
    JOHN DILLON
    This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Particular concerns evidenced in the papers are the continuities in the Platonic tradition, and th...

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  • OMENS AND ORACLES
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    OMENS AND ORACLES
    MATTHEW DILLON
    Addressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring together key types of divining, such as from birds, celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed animals and dreams. Oracular centres delivered prophetic pronouncements to enquirers, but in addit...

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  • GIFTS AND NATIONS
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    GIFTS AND NATIONS
    WILTON S. DILLON
    What can men in industrial nations learn from their "primitive" contemporaries, and the habits of earlier civilizations? This book by acclaimed cultural anthropologist Wilton S. Dillon suggests that modern political, religious, and scientific communities--and alliances--would be enhanced greatly if we understood how gift exchange and reciprocity helped to balance earlier instit...

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  • SMITHSONIAN STORIES
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    SMITHSONIAN STORIES
    WILTON S. DILLON
    Why is the Smithsonian more than the "Nation's Attic?" Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the institution we know today under the twenty-year leadership of "Sun King" S. Dillon Ripley.Ripley aspired to reinvent the Smithsonian as a great university with museums. Although little understood by the public at large, it began as a ba...

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  • 2D TO VR WITH UNITY5 AND GOOGLE CARDBOARD
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    2D TO VR WITH UNITY5 AND GOOGLE CARDBOARD
    ROBERTO DILLON
    The book provides an up-to-date introduction to the latest version of Unity and its workflow by guiding readers through various prototypes. These range from 2D to 3D game concepts for PC and mobile, will allow readers to get acquainted with several important concepts and allow them to become competent Unity developers able to learn at their own pace. The book starts by introduc...

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