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  • RESISTING THE RULE OF LAW IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CEYLON
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    RESISTING THE RULE OF LAW IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CEYLON
    JAMES S. DUNCAN
    This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their “greatest gift.” The book argues that resistance can be understood as a form of negotiation to lessen oppressive colonial conditions, and that the cumulative impact caused continual adjustments to the criminal justic...

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  • IN THE SHADOWS OF THE TROPICS
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    IN THE SHADOWS OF THE TROPICS
    JAMES S. DUNCAN
    In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevennes...

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  • RISKY CURVES
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    RISKY CURVES
    DANIEL FRIEDMAN / R. MARK ISAAC / DUNCAN JAMES / SHYAM SUNDER
    For several decades, the orthodox economics approach to understanding choice under risk has been to assume that each individual person maximizes some sort of personal utility function defined over purchasing power. This new volume contests that even the best wisdom from the orthodox theory has not yet been able to do better than supposedly naïve models that use rules of thumb, ...

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  • THE POWER OF PLACE (RLE SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY)
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    THE POWER OF PLACE (RLE SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY)
    AGNEW, JOHN A. / DUNCAN, JAMES S
    Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological ‘imaginations’. The geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptiv...

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  • PLACE/CULTURE/REPRESENTATION
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    PLACE/CULTURE/REPRESENTATION
    JAMES S. DUNCAN
    Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as m...

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  • RAPID BIOASSESSMENT OF STREAM HEALTH
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    RAPID BIOASSESSMENT OF STREAM HEALTH
    DUNCAN L. HUGHES / JAMES GORE / MICHELE P. BROSSETT / JOHN R. OLSON
    Tasked by the Clean Water Act to restore and maintain the integrity of their waters, state and local governments must develop systems for assessing the health of the streams within their borders. They quickly find that one size does not fit all when it comes to sampling. Rapid Bioassessment of Stream Health examines the sampling techniques, laborat ...

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  • COCOA IN A NUTSHELL
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    COCOA IN A NUTSHELL
    MICHAEL BEAM / JAMES DUNCAN DAVIDSON
    Cocoa® is more than just a collection of classes, and is certainly more than a simple framework. Cocoa is a complete API set, class library, framework, and development environment for building applications and tools to run on Mac OS® X. With over 240 classes, Cocoa is divided into two essential frameworks: Foundation and Application Kit. Above all else, Cocoa is a toolkit for c...

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  • WRITES OF PASSAGE
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    WRITES OF PASSAGE
    DUNCAN, JAMES / GREGORY, DEREK
    Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imagin...

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  • COCOA IN A NUTSHELL
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    COCOA IN A NUTSHELL
    MICHAEL BEAM / JAMES DUNCAN DAVIDSON
    Cocoa® is more than just a collection of classes, and is certainly more than a simple framework. Cocoa is a complete API set, class library, framework, and development environment for building applications and tools to run on Mac OS® X. With over 240 classes, Cocoa is divided into two essential frameworks: Foundation and Application Kit. Above all else, Cocoa is a toolkit for c...

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  • SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE REINTEGRATION OF FORMER COMBATANTS
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    SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE REINTEGRATION OF FORMER COMBATANTS
    JAMES MEERNIK / GUSTAVO DUNCAN / JUAN CAMILO GAVIRIA HENAO / CLARITA TORO URIBE
    This book develops a theory of successful reintegration after intra-state conflict, centred on the development of social capital and its use by former combatants after demobilization. The book shows that those former combatants who are able to develop social ties and social capital in their communities, with their families and through involvement in peacebuilding activities wil...

    $1,240.00

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