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  • THE UNITED STATES AND THE LUSO-BRAZILIAN EMPIRES
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    THE UNITED STATES AND THE LUSO-BRAZILIAN EMPIRES
    EARL RICHARD DOWNES
    This volume highlights factors that led to the onset of the U.S. presence within colonial Brazil’s mercantilist economy and then the independent Brazilian empire’s agricultural, scientific, religious and educational institutions. The book examines the interaction of U.S. businessmen, explorers, scientists, immigrants, missionaries, and educators with the dominant institutions o...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN EDUCATION
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    THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN EDUCATION
    PAUL DOWNES, GUOFANG LI, LORE VAN PRAAG, STEPHEN LAMB
    Providing a cornerstone to the global debate on equity and inclusion within education, this handbook explores equity issues pertaining to poverty and social class, race, ethnicity, sociocultural, sociolinguistic exclusion in education and recognises intersectionality and gender across these dimensions. This carefully curated collection of essays written by international experts...

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  • PROMOTING INCLUSIVE SYSTEMS FOR MIGRANTS IN EDUCATION
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    PROMOTING INCLUSIVE SYSTEMS FOR MIGRANTS IN EDUCATION
    PAUL DOWNES, JIM ANDERSON, ALIREZA BEHTOUI, LORE VAN PRAAG
    This novel contribution examines the lived experiences of migrants in education in various international contexts, exploring common school system features that promote students’ inclusion and challenge their exclusion. With a range of international contributions and case studies from Canada, the US, Hong Kong, Japan and Europe, the book offers critical, theoretically innovative...

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  • HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION FOR ADVANCED PRACTICE: INTEGRATING EVIDENCE-BASED LIFESTYLE CONCEPTS
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    HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION FOR ADVANCED PRACTICE: INTEGRATING EVIDENCE-BASED LIFESTYLE CONCEPTS
    LOUREEN DOWNES / LILLY TRYON
    Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Advanced Practice: Integrating Evidence-Based Lifestyle Concepts is a unique new resource that is not afraid to address lifestyle concepts that can change the trajectory of healthcare in the United States and globally. It provides practical, evidence-based approaches to reduce the pandemic of preventable lifestyle-related chronic dise...

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  • BASIC SURGICAL SKILLS
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    BASIC SURGICAL SKILLS
    GRAEME DOWNES
    An easy to follow step-by-step guide to the most useful surgical skills from knot tying to simple procedures. Illustrated with colour photographs and video clips to demonstrate techniques, this book makes these practical skills as clear and easy to follow as possible. Including coverage of surgical instruments, wound management and suturing, and minor surgical procedures, it al...

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  • THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ENGLAND AND WALES
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    THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ENGLAND AND WALES
    DAVID DOWNES / TIM NEWBURN
    This book is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Previous volumes have focused on the moral reforms of the 1960s, the changes to the criminal courts and the introduction of an independent prosecution service, and the broad shifts in penal policy that have taken place in the post-war era. This volume examines the changing politics of law a...

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  • MUSIC AND SENTIMENTALISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
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    MUSIC AND SENTIMENTALISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gend...

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  • THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ENGLAND AND WALES
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    THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ENGLAND AND WALES
    DAVID DOWNES
    Volume III of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales draws on archival sources and individual accounts to offer a history of penal policymaking in England and Wales between 1959 and 1997. The book studies the changes underlying penal policymaking in the period, from a belief in the rehabilitative potential of imprisonment to a reaffirmation in 1993 that ‘...

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  • MODELS AND MODELING IN THE SCIENCES
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    MODELS AND MODELING IN THE SCIENCES
    STEPHEN M. DOWNES
    Biologists, climate scientists, and economists all rely on models to move their work forward. In this book, Stephen M. Downes explores the use of models in these and other fields to introduce readers to the various philosophical issues that arise in scientific modeling. Readers learn that paying attention to models plays a crucial role in appraising scientific work. This book f...

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  • SOCIOLOGY FOR EDUCATION STUDIES
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    SOCIOLOGY FOR EDUCATION STUDIES
    CATHERINE A. SIMON / GRAHAM DOWNES
    Sociology for Education Studies provides a fresh look at the sociology of education, focusing on themes such as habitus, hegemony and intersectionality. It supports students in applying sociological theory to their own educational experiences and developing an understanding of why social orders appear to be predetermined, why the state continues to create education policy in ce...

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  • CONCENTRIC SPACE AS A LIFE PRINCIPLE BEYOND SCHOPENHAUER, NIETZSCHE AND RICOEUR
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    CONCENTRIC SPACE AS A LIFE PRINCIPLE BEYOND SCHOPENHAUER, NIETZSCHE AND RICOEUR
    PAUL DOWNES
    Concentric Space as a Life Principle beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur invites a fresh vision of human experience and search for life meanings in terms of potential openings through relational space. Offering a radical spatial rereading of foundational ideas of influential thinkers Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur, it argues that these ideas can be rethought for a m...

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  • RECONSTRUCTING AGENCY IN DEVELOPMENTAL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
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    RECONSTRUCTING AGENCY IN DEVELOPMENTAL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
    PAUL DOWNES
    This book reconstructs the foundations of developmental and educational psychology and fills an important gap in the field by arguing for a specific spatial turn so that human growth, experience and development focus not only on time but space. This regards space not simply as place. Highlighting concrete cross-cultural relational spaces of concentric and diametric spatial syst...

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  • TRANSITION, COHESION AND REGIONAL POLICY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
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    TRANSITION, COHESION AND REGIONAL POLICY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
    RUTH DOWNES
    This title was first published in 2000. One of the most comprehensive overviews of regional development and policy emergence in the Central and East European countries to date, this book focuses on economic and social cohesion, bringing together a wide range of empirical research and discussion material. ...

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  • SEPARATION REVISITED
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    SEPARATION REVISITED
    CELIA DOWNES
    First published in 1992, this book draws on attachment theory to offer a framework for understanding adolescents’ reactions to the experience of being fostered. It discusses the three-way relationship between adolescents, their birth families and their foster families. The experiences of joining a new school or finding work, going missing and returning, and leaving the foster f...

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  • SZYMANOWSKI, EROTICISM AND THE VOICES OF MYTHOLOGY
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    SZYMANOWSKI, EROTICISM AND THE VOICES OF MYTHOLOGY
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    The desire to voice the artistic revelation of the truth of a precarious, multi-faceted, yet integrated self lies behind much of Szymanowski's work. This self is projected through the voices of deities who speak languages of love. The unifying figure is Eros, who may be embodied as Dionysus, Christ, Narcissus or Orpheus, and the gospel he proclaims tells of the resurrection and...

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  • WRITING WAR IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE, 1370-1854
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    WRITING WAR IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE, 1370-1854
    STEPHANIE DOWNES, ANDREW LYNCH AND KATRINA O’LOUGHLIN
    Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century, and Romantic studies. The assembled essays trace continuities and changes in the emotional register of war, as it has been mediated by the written record over six centuries. Through its wide selection of sites of utterance, genres o...

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  • IRAN'S UNRESOLVED REVOLUTION
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    IRAN'S UNRESOLVED REVOLUTION
    MARK DOWNES
    This title was first published in 2002. As Iran enters into the third decade since the 1979 revolution, the prospect of socio-political unrest remains ever present. Iran's political structure, its version of Islamic governance and the role of pluralism across all aspects of Iranian society are being questioned openly and defiantly. What this will mean for the future of Iran's t...

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  • THE MUSE AS EROS
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    THE MUSE AS EROS
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformat...

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  • JONATHAN HARVEY: SONG OFFERINGS AND WHITE AS JASMINE
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    JONATHAN HARVEY: SONG OFFERINGS AND WHITE AS JASMINE
    MICHAEL DOWNES
    Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was one of Britain's leading composers: his music is frequently performed throughout Europe, the United States (where he lived and worked) and Japan. He is particularly renowned for his electro-acoustic music, an aspect on which most previous writing on his work has focused. The present volume is the first detailed study of music from Harvey's consid...

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  • THE SZYMANOWSKI COMPANION
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    THE SZYMANOWSKI COMPANION
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat Mater, as well as numerous piano, violin, vocal and choral compositions. The profile and popularity of Szymanowski's mus...

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  • AESTHETICS OF MUSIC
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    AESTHETICS OF MUSIC
    STEPHEN DOWNES
    Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay includes musical examples from works in the 18th, 19th, and into the 20th century. Topi...

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  • GAMBLING, WORK AND LEISURE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    GAMBLING, WORK AND LEISURE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DAVID DOWNES / D. M. DAVIES / M. E. DAVID / P. STONE
    Since the legalisation of off-course cash betting in 1960, and the rise of varying forms of gambling, the British have come to be known as a nation of gamblers. Until this study was published in 1976, barely any evidence existed against which to assess the claim that gambling had become a major social problem. The authors present data drawn from area surveys carried out in Swan...

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  • SPECIAL TRUST AND CONFIDENCE
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    SPECIAL TRUST AND CONFIDENCE
    CATHY DOWNES
    This is an examination and an analysis of the systems of recruitment, selection, education and training for junior officers in the British Armed Forces. It is a study based around four core institutions: The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, The Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, the Department of Initial Officer Training, Royal Air Force College, Cranwell and the Offic...

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  • THE DELINQUENT SOLUTION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    THE DELINQUENT SOLUTION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DAVID DOWNES
    First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures. The book discusses issues such as the concept and theory of subcultures, the life of delinquent gangs, and the English experience of delinquent subcultures. It also takes an in-depth look at the Stepney and Poplar survey on crime from 1960, analysing both statis...

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  • CRIME, SOCIAL CONTROL AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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    CRIME, SOCIAL CONTROL AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    DAVID DOWNES
    The work of Stanley Cohen over four decades has come to acquire a classical status in the fields of criminology, sociology and human rights. His writing, research, teaching and practical engagement in these fields have been at once rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring. It amounts to a unique contribution, immensely varied yet with several unifying themes, and it h...

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  • EDUCATING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN LOW-RESOURCE COUNTRIES
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    EDUCATING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN LOW-RESOURCE COUNTRIES
    JOYCE P. MURRAY / FRAN WENGER / SHELLY BROWNSBERGER TERRAZAS / ELIZABETH DOWNES
    The shortage of adequately prepared health professionals is the most significant threat to world health that we face. This book, a co--publication with The Carter Center, focuses on the training of health professional educators--both teachers and practitioners--in low--resource countries at different levels of technological and material sophistication. This comprehensive book t...

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  • BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH
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    BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH
    COLIN DOWNES
    A career pilot's memoir of flying fighter jets through two wars and through the evolution of aviation technology.   This is Colin Downes's firsthand account of flying with the Royal Air Force in war and peace during a career in military and civil aviation covering a half century. The text is filled with his personal experiences, reminiscences and impressions and is written in f...

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  • LANDSCAPES REVEALED
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    LANDSCAPES REVEALED
    AMANDA BREND / NICK CARD / JANE DOWNES / MARK EDMONDS / JAMES MOORE
    Winner, Current Archaeology 2023 Book of the Year 2023 This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a program of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. T...

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  • THE GHOSTS OF BORLEY
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    THE GHOSTS OF BORLEY
    WESLEY H. DOWNES
    A paranormal investigation into the haunting of the infamous Borley Rectory and other chilling lore of England.   Built in 1863, the Gothic-style parish in the Essex village of Borley gained a nerve-jangling notoriety. Claims of apparitions, unexplained footsteps, and a phantom carriage that rode the grounds after dark, made the mansion as forbidding to locals as it was a draw ...

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  • MEMORIES OF AN ESSEX GHOSTHUNTER
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    MEMORIES OF AN ESSEX GHOSTHUNTER
    WESLEY H. DOWNES
    A renowned psychic investigator reveals his most chilling cases in the haunted villages of Essex.   Headless coffin bearers. Evil rectories. Otherworldly church choirs. Mortuary stirrings. They're all part of Wesley Downes's job. After his own experience with the uncanny, Downes was invited to join The Ghost Club, Britain's most esteemed society of paranormal research. For near...

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