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  • THE GRAVITY OF FEATHERS
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    THE GRAVITY OF FEATHERS
    ANDREW FLEMING
    When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ lost its permanent population after five millennia. It has long been accepted that the islanders’ failure to adapt to the modern world was its demise. Andrew Fleming overturns the traditional view. Unafraid of highlighting dark tim...

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  • THE MUSICAL WORLD OF CHARLES AVISON
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    THE MUSICAL WORLD OF CHARLES AVISON
    SIMON D.I. FLEMING
    This book explores the works and influence of the eighteenth-century British composer Charles Avison. Although he spent most of his life in the northern town of Newcastle upon Tyne, Avison went on to have a marked impact on the musical life of Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century. His concertos become part of the national concert repertory, while his critica...

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  • SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
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    SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
    ROB FLEMING / SAGLINDA H ROBERTS / CHITSANZO ISAAC
    Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment. This groundbreaking and transformative textbook introduces sustainable design in a clear, concise, easy-to-read format. This new edition includes fully updated exercises and online res...

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  • PSYCHOLOGY
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    PSYCHOLOGY
    FLEMING ALLEN CLAY PERRIN / DAVID BALLIN KLEIN
    First published in 1927, the original blurb of Psychology: Its Methods and Principles reads: "In this book psychology is presented as the science of adaptive behavior. The writers are convinced that the study of such behaviour provides a more effective introduction to psychological science than the study of consciousness as such. They are not committed, however, to the tenets o...

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  • ACADEMIA VERSUS THE WORLD OUTSIDE
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    ACADEMIA VERSUS THE WORLD OUTSIDE
    BRUCE FLEMING
    Academia versus the World Outside lays out the givens of the knowledge industry located within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of the left–right animosity of our day. The knowledge industry, a crea...

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  • TIMOTHIE BRIGHT AND THE ORIGINS OF EARLY MODERN SHORTHAND
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    TIMOTHIE BRIGHT AND THE ORIGINS OF EARLY MODERN SHORTHAND
    JAMES DOUGAL FLEMING
    In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–161...

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  • DEMOCRACY’S ACHILLES HEEL
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    DEMOCRACY’S ACHILLES HEEL
    BRUCE FLEMING
    Democracy’s Achilles Heel argues that the structure of democracy is a combination of two incompatible worldviews: one relativist and liberal, the other absolutist and conservative. This combination of opposites is essential for its survival, yet places democracy at risk since each worldview is prone to trying to engulf the other, creating threats from both the right and the lef...

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  • FUTURE NORMAL
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    FUTURE NORMAL
    NICK BARTER / CHRISTOPHER FLEMING
    This is a book for leaders who think about legacy, their own and the one their business is leaving. Yet, none of us get to write our legacy, that is for those who come after us. This book and the lessons within will enable you to improve yours. The eight questions at the core of this book are underpinned by three big ideas: The questions we ask matter Businesses are the tools w...

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  • GENDER REVOLUTION
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    GENDER REVOLUTION
    PAMELA ARONSON / MATTHEW R. FLEMING
    Gender Revolution carefully examines the profound transformations happening in both public and private arenas of gender relations. It also draws critical attention to the simultaneous and potent challenges that have risen in response. The authors look to large-scale phenomena in this contemporary study and address how electoral politics and the #MeToo movement are reshaping eve...

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  • WHAT DOES ‘ART’ MEAN NOW?
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    WHAT DOES ‘ART’ MEAN NOW?
    BRUCE FLEMING
    What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now? asks, and answers, fundamental questions about the nature of aesthetic experience and role of the arts in contemporary society. The Modern Age, Romanticism and beyond, viewed art as something transcending and separated from life, and usually something encountered in museums or classrooms. Nowadays, however, art tends to be defined not by a commonly agr...

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  • COLLOQUIAL RUSSIAN
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    COLLOQUIAL RUSSIAN
    SVETLANA LE FLEMING / SUSAN E. KAY / MIKHAIL VODOPYANOV
    Colloquial Russian provides a step-by-step course in Russian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Russian in a broad range of situations, requiring no prior knowledge of the language. Features include: prog...

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  • ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF POLICE ETHNOGRAPHY
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    ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF POLICE ETHNOGRAPHY
    JENNY FLEMING
    Ethnography has a long history in the humanities and social sciences and has provided the base line in the field of police studies for over 60 years. We have recently witnessed a resurgence in ethnographic practice among police scholars, and this Handbook is a response to that revival. Students and academics are returning to the ethnography arena and the study of police in situ...

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  • MASCULINITY FROM THE INSIDE
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    MASCULINITY FROM THE INSIDE
    BRUCE FLEMING
    Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and understand themselves. Based on the author’s experience of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range of theory, it identifies a disconnect between academic discourses on “masculinity,” based as these are on theoreti...

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  • THE CIVILIZING PROCESS AND THE PAST WE NOW ABHOR
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    THE CIVILIZING PROCESS AND THE PAST WE NOW ABHOR
    BRUCE FLEMING
    Drawing on the thought of Norbert Elias and using as a thread a purposely apolitical example of cruelty to animals to focus on changes in attitudes, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor. As we struggle to deal with the fact that our past shapes us—indeed is us, but is not us—and cannot be changed, the modern tendency is to demand merely cos...

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  • THE END OF THE MODERNIST ERA IN ARTS AND ACADEMIA
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    THE END OF THE MODERNIST ERA IN ARTS AND ACADEMIA
    BRUCE FLEMING
    This book identifies the—now moribund—Modernist spirit of the twentieth century, with its "make it new" attitude in the arts, and its tendency towards abstraction and the scientific process, as the impetus behind the academic structures of universities and museums, together with the development of discrete scholarly disciplines such as literary theory, sociology, and art histor...

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  • BEYOND WHITE MINDFULNESS
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    BEYOND WHITE MINDFULNESS
    CRYSTAL M. FLEMING
    Beyond White Mindfulness: Critical Perspectives on Racism, Well-being, and Liberation brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on mind-body interventions, group-based identities, and social justice. Marshalling both empirical data and theoretical approaches, the book examines a broad range of questions related to mindfulness, meditation, and diverse communities. While the...

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  • MUSIC BY SUBSCRIPTION
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    MUSIC BY SUBSCRIPTION
    SIMON D. I. FLEMING
    This book breaks new ground in the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century music in Britain through the study of a hitherto neglected resource, the lists of subscribers that were attached to a wide variety of publications, including musical works. These lists shed considerable light on the nature of those who subscribed to music, including their social status, place o...

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  • ASSISTED ECO-DRIVING
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    ASSISTED ECO-DRIVING
    CRAIG K. ALLISON / JAMES M. FLEMING / XINGDA YAN / ROBERTO LOT / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    This book discusses an integrative approach combining Human Factors expertise with Automotive Engineering. It develops an in-depth case study of designing a fuel-efficient driving intervention and offers an examination of an innovative study of feed-forward eco-driving advice. Assisted Eco-Driving: A Practical Guide to the Design and Testing of an Eco-Driving Assistance System ...

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  • HOUSEBUILDING, PLANNING AND COMMUNITY ACTION
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    HOUSEBUILDING, PLANNING AND COMMUNITY ACTION
    JOHN R. SHORT / STEPHEN FLEMING / STEPHEN J. G. WITT
    First published in 1986, Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action was written as an examination of the conflicts and tensions resulting from private sector housing growth in Central Berkshire, part of Britain’s ‘Silicon Valley’ along the M4 motorway. The book provides a detailed consideration of the various ‘actors’ and their interactions and explores the fight from Communi...

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  • THE COLD WAR AND ITS ORIGINS, 1917-1960
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    THE COLD WAR AND ITS ORIGINS, 1917-1960
    D.F. FLEMING
    This book, first published in 1961, is an analysis of the great struggle of the twentieth century, the Cold War. It carefully examines the conflict’s origins in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and follows the thread of antagonism between west and east all the way up to 1960. These were the key years of the Cold War, when it seemed that the prospect of nuclear confrontation was ...

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  • THE COLD WAR AND ITS ORIGINS, 1917-1960
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    THE COLD WAR AND ITS ORIGINS, 1917-1960
    D.F. FLEMING
    This book, first published in 1961, is an analysis of the great struggle of the twentieth century, the Cold War. It carefully examines the conflict’s origins in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and follows the thread of antagonism between west and east all the way up to 1960. These were the key years of the Cold War, when it seemed that the prospect of nuclear confrontation was ...

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  • HEALTH PROMOTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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    HEALTH PROMOTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    MARY LOUISE FLEMING / LOUISE BALDWIN
    How should we invest precious health resources? At a time when chronic illness is increasing, inequality persists and climate change is starting to impact our health, how can health promotion improve health outcomes across the whole population? Health Promotion in the 21st Century offers a systematic introduction to the principles of health promotion today, and effective planni...

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  • HEALTH PROMOTION
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    HEALTH PROMOTION
    ELIZABETH PARKER / MARY-LOUISE FLEMING
    'An excellent introduction to the theory and practice of health promotion in a developed country such as Australia' From the foreword by Professor Brian Oldenburg This widely used text offers a comprehensive overview of the field of health promotion. Drawing on current Australian and international research, the authors provide a detailed review of health promotion principles. T...

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  • REVIVALS, NATIONALISM, AND LINGUISTIC DISCRIMINATION
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    REVIVALS, NATIONALISM, AND LINGUISTIC DISCRIMINATION
    KARA FLEMING / UMBERTO ANSALDO
    Is linguistic revival beneficiary to the plight of newly emerging, peripheral or even ‘threatened’ cultures? Or is it a smokescreen that hides the vestiges of ethnocentric ideologies, which ultimately create a hegemonic relationship? This book takes a critical look at revival exercises of special historical and geopolitical significance, and argues that a critical and cautious ...

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  • THE ANARCHIST WAY TO SOCIALISM
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    THE ANARCHIST WAY TO SOCIALISM
    MARIE FLEMING
    First published in 1979. Elisée Reclus was an important anarchist theorist whose contribution to the radical direction which the European anarchist movement assumed in the late nineteenth century, has been largely neglected by scholars. This study of his thought provides a basis for a general re-assessment of European anarchism, by contributing to an understanding of important ...

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  • SUCCESSFUL MIDDLE LEADERSHIP IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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    SUCCESSFUL MIDDLE LEADERSHIP IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
    PETER FLEMING
    This book aims to help those in middle leadership posts become more confident and effective in their roles. It will also assist anyone considering becoming a middle leader to prepare for the challenges ahead and avoid common mistakes made by the novice team leader. Packed with practical advice, the book encourages readers to engage with key issues, reflect on their approach and...

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  • SUCCESS FACTORS FOR MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING
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    SUCCESS FACTORS FOR MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING
    JACQUELINE FLEMING / IRVING MCPHAIL
    This book aims to isolate specific success factors for underrepresented minorities in undergraduate engineering programs. Based on a three-phase study spearheaded by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, the findings include evidence that hands-on exposure to problem-based courses, research, and especially internships are powerful catalysts for engineering ...

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  • THE ART OF DRAMA TEACHING
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    THE ART OF DRAMA TEACHING
    MIKE FLEMING
    This classic edition of Mike Fleming’s The Art of Drama Teaching provides a multitude of practical ideas for teachers of drama and for those who are interested in using drama to teach other subjects. It takes the form of detailed discussion of twenty-five drama techniques including but not limited to: beginnings and endings monologue and narration off-stage action and reported ...

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  • COLLOQUIAL RUSSIAN 2
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    COLLOQUIAL RUSSIAN 2
    OLGA SOBOLEV / NATASHA BERSHADSKI / SVETLANA LE FLEMING / SUSAN KAY
    Colloquial Russian 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills. Structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read lots of modern, everyday Russian, Colloquial Russian 2 has been developed to work systematically on reinforcing and extending your grasp of Russian grammar, vocabulary, intercultural communication skills, and und...

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  • COASTAL ENGINEERING
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    COASTAL ENGINEERING
    DOMINIC REEVE / ANDREW CHADWICK / CHRISTOPHER FLEMING
    Effective coastal engineering is expensive, but it is not as costly as neglect or ineffective intervention. Good practice needs to be based on sound principles, but theoretical work and modelling also need to be well grounded in practice, which is continuously evolving. Conceptual and detailed design has been advanced by new industry publications since the publication of the se...

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