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  • CHARCOAL MAKING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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    CHARCOAL MAKING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
    GERALD FOLEY
    Originally published in 1986, this book provides a detailed examination of programmes to introduce improved charcoal making techniques throughout the developing world. Charcoal making is widely regarded as an extremely wasteful use of scarce wood resources. The book includes a section on the physics and chemistry of charcoal and descriptions of the various traditional methods o...

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  • FARM AND COMUNITY FORESTRY
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    FARM AND COMUNITY FORESTRY
    GERALD FOLEY / GEOFFREY BARNARD
    In 1984, when this book was originally published the need to take forestry outside the forests and involve local people in tree growing was widely recognised. Projects to encourage farm and community forestry were launched in over 50 developing countries. This book describes the main approaches which were taken, discussing their scope and limitation. It examines the reasons why...

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  • STOVES AND TREES
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    STOVES AND TREES
    GERALD FOLEY / PATRICIA MOSS / LLOYD TIMBERLAKE
    Originally published in 1984, Stoves and Trees asks whether better stoves really help the two billion people in the developing world who rely on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating their homes. It also asks if improved stoves actually save fuel and if they can help slow down tropical deforestation. The book not only examines newer stoves but also ascertains how people buy...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND GLOBAL HEALTH
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    THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND GLOBAL HEALTH
    TSITSI B. MASVAWURE AND ELLEN E. FOLEY
    The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between anthropology and global health. The book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the intersection of anthropological concerns with health and disease as understood and intervened upon by the field of global health. The book is structured around five...

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  • THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS IN AUSTRALIA
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    THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS IN AUSTRALIA
    BRIDGET GRIFFEN-FOLEY
    At a time when the traditional media have been reshaped by digital technologies and audiences have fragmented, people are using mediated forms of communication to manage all aspects of their daily lives as well as for news and entertainment. The Media and Communications in Australia offers a systematic introduction to this dynamic field. Fully updated and expanded, this fifth e...

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  • THE SCOTTISH ECONOMY AND NATIONALISM
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    THE SCOTTISH ECONOMY AND NATIONALISM
    JAMES FOLEY
    Scotland’s economic capacity to prosper independently of Britain has become a key political issue, dominating the independence referendum of 2014 and continuing to influence British politics since. But, as this book shows, the Scottish economy is not merely a statistical object – it is also a political, sociological and cultural idea which has been imagined and constructed. The...

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  • RITES OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION
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    RITES OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION
    EDWARD FOLEY
    The rites of religious profession mark the initiation of women and men into the various religious communities of the church. These public liturgies of the church manifest and shape the relation of these women and men to the church and to the world.How are the rites of religious profession to be understood, prepared, and celebrated? Edward Foley offers an overview of their histo...

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  • STANDING TALL
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    STANDING TALL
    ROBERT F. FOLEY
    The Medal of Honor recipient chronicles his life and military career in this memoir while also sharing his thoughts on leadership. Robert Foley had only been in Vietnam for six months when he was promoted to captain and given command of a rifle company. In November 1966, Foley led his men on a mission to rescue another company that had been pinned down by Viet Cong forces. His ...

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  • DEATH AND RELIGION IN A CHANGING WORLD
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    DEATH AND RELIGION IN A CHANGING WORLD
    KATHLEEN GARCES-FOLEY
    Death and Religion in a Changing World is a comprehensive and accessible study of the intersection of death and religion, examining how everyday people enact religious responses to death in the twenty-first century. With contributions from leading religious studies scholars, this book moves away from the field’s focus on traditional beliefs to explore how religious traditions e...

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  • THE POWER TO SPEAK NAKED
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    THE POWER TO SPEAK NAKED
    SEAN TYLER FOLEY
    The Power To Speak Naked helps everyone unleash the power to speak the raw naked truth. For those who want to advance their career, increase their wage, improve their social standing, and skyrocket their confidence, The Power To Speak Naked gives them proven strategies to crush their fear of public speaking and empowers them to be able to speak in front of any audience, anywher...

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  • BRITAIN'S RAILWAYS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    BRITAIN'S RAILWAYS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    MICHAEL FOLEY
    A fascinating account of the British Railways system's vital role in the defense of the country and support of the Allied forces during WWII. The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. The 'Big Four' companies put aside differences and worked together for the war effort. The logistics of transporting troops during the evacuatio...

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  • DIMENSIONS OF ADULT LEARNING
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    DIMENSIONS OF ADULT LEARNING
    GRIFF FOLEY
    Adult education has never been more important or urgent than it is today Few educators have had the impact on adult education of Griff Foley. Professor Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles This timely and valuable book makes an important contribution to our understanding of key recent developments in adult education and their significance. Reflecting the increas...

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  • UNDERSTANDING ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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    UNDERSTANDING ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING
    GRIFF FOLEY
    'This is an impressive book that will be of wide interest to adult educators everywhere.Many of the book's contributors work at the University of Technology, Sydney - surely the world's pre-eminent institution for the study of adult learning, and the most open and generous location for debate. Its virtues are the book's.' Alan Tuckett, National Institute of Adult Continuing Edu...

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  • STATE, CAPITAL, AND RURAL SOCIETY
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    STATE, CAPITAL, AND RURAL SOCIETY
    BEN ORLOVE / MICHAEL W FOLEY / THOMAS F LOVE
    This volume represents recent anthropological research on the political economy of Latin America. Dependency theories, modes of production analysis, and theories of the state all attempt to conceptualize the interrelations among "class," "interest," and, at some level, "power." All three, that is, focus on classical questions of political economy. The studies presented in this ...

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  • SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
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    SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
    HUGH J. FOLEY
    Maintaining the strong pedagogy, abundant student-friendly examples, and engaging conversational style of the previous editions, the sixth edition of this introductory textbook makes technical scientific information accessible to those who are beginning to specialize in cognitive psychology. Sensation and Perception, Sixth Edition is newly available in a more affordable paperba...

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  • PLANNING AND DESIGN OF ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
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    PLANNING AND DESIGN OF ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
    GRAEME DANDY / DAVID WALKER / TREVOR DANIELL / ROBERT WARNER / BERNADETTE FOLEY
    This newly updated book offers a comprehensive introduction to the scope and nature of engineering work, taking a rigorous but common sense approach to the solution of engineering problems. The text follows the planning, modelling and design phases of engineering projects through to implementation or construction, explaining the conceptual framework for undertaking projects, an...

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  • INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND THE RIGHT TO A SEXUAL LIFE
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    INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND THE RIGHT TO A SEXUAL LIFE
    SIMON FOLEY
    One of the perennial political/philosophical questions concerns whether it is ever justifiable for a third party to paternalistically restrict an adult’s freedom to ensure their own, or society’s, best interests are protected. Wherever one stands on this debate it remains the case that, unlike their non-impaired contemporaries, many intellectually disabled adults are subjected ...

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  • ESSENTIALS OF ONLINE TEACHING
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    ESSENTIALS OF ONLINE TEACHING
    MARGARET FOLEY MCCABE / PATRICIA GONZÁLEZ-FLORES
    Teachers’ active online participation and engagement with students are critical factors to the success of online courses. Essentials of Online Teaching is a standards-based, straightforward guide to teaching online in higher education, high school and vocational training, or corporate learning environments. This brief but powerful book encourages immediate application of concep...

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  • DEVELOPING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE JURISPRUDENCE
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    DEVELOPING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE JURISPRUDENCE
    TONY FOLEY
    What are the requirements for a just response to criminal wrongdoing? Drawing on comparative and empirical analysis of existing models of global practice, this book offers an approach aimed at restricting the current limitations of criminal justice process and addressing the current deficiencies. Putting restoration squarely alongside other aims of justice responses, the author...

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  • HEALING WATERS
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    HEALING WATERS
    RONAN FOLEY
    Bringing together a range of different place-studies, including holy wells, spa towns, Turkish baths and sweat-houses, sea-bathing and the modern spa, this book investigates associations between water, health, place and culture in Ireland. It is informed by a humanistic approach, showing how health and place are socially and culturally constructed and how health is embodied, ex...

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  • A STRANGE PROXIMITY
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    A STRANGE PROXIMITY
    JON FOLEY SHERMAN
    What happens in the relationship between audience and performer? What choices are made in the space of performance about how we attend to others? A Strange Proximity examines stage presence as key to thinking about performance and ethics. It is the first phenomenological account of ethics generated from, rather than applied to, contemporary theatrical productions. The ethical p...

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  • STEP DANCING IN IRELAND
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    STEP DANCING IN IRELAND
    CATHERINE E. FOLEY
    For many people step dancing is associated mainly with the Irish step-dance stage shows, Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, which assisted both in promoting the dance form and in placing Ireland globally. But, in this book, Catherine Foley illustrates that the practice and contexts of step dancing are much more complicated and fluid. Tracing the trajectory of step dancing in Ire...

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  • THE RETIREMENT BOOM
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    THE RETIREMENT BOOM
    CATHERINE ALLEN / NANCY BEARG / RITA FOLEY / JAYE SMITH
    Baby Boomers are reinventing retirement just as they have so many other aspects of their lives. They will live longer and be healthier than their parents and grandparents, and they plan to remain relevant, be fulfilled, and leave legacies. Many will continue to work well into their 70s and 80s, some because they want to, others because they need to.The Retirement Boom is a prac...

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  • PERFORMANCE AND PHENOMENOLOGY
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    PERFORMANCE AND PHENOMENOLOGY
    BLEEKER, MAAIKE / FOLEY SHERMAN, JON / NEDELKOPOULOU, EIRINI
    This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging twenty-first century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cogni...

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  • EVENTS AND SUSTAINABILITY
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    EVENTS AND SUSTAINABILITY
    KIRSTEN HOLMES / MICHAEL HUGHES / JUDITH MAIR / CARMEL FOLEY
    Increasing concerns over climate and environmental change, the global economic and financial crisis and impacts on host communities, audiences, participants and destinations has reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to events. Sustainability now features as part of the bid process for many mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, as well as significant regional and...

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  • ALBERT CAMUS
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    ALBERT CAMUS
    JOHN FOLEY
    Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing philosophy, literature, politics and history, John Foley examines the full breadth of Camus' ideas to provide a comprehensive and rigorous study of his political and philosophical thought and a significant contribution to a range of debates current in Camus research. Foley argues that the coherence of Camus' thought can best ...

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  • TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
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    TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
    DENNIS FOLEY
    Captain Jim Hollister returns for his third and final tour in Vietnam in the thrilling trilogy finale from the author of Long Range Patrol and Night Work. In the increasingly divided Juliet Company, racial tensions are running high and morale is at an all-time low. Combat readiness seems tenuous. Captain Jim Hollister's first order of business is to bring his company back into ...

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  • A REQUIEM FOR CROWS
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    A REQUIEM FOR CROWS
    DENNIS FOLEY
    A carefree young man, shipped to Vietnam in the early sixties, faces treachery in the midst of battle in this novel by the author of Long Range Patrol.   With "a bit of James Dean in his walk, Elvis in his smile and Jerry Lee Lewis in his attitude," Scotty Hayes is an unlikely candidate for the army. But the draft board is about to turn his world upside down. Two months after S...

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  • NIGHT WORK
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    NIGHT WORK
    DENNIS FOLEY
    Captain Jim Hollister leads his team on deadly missions through southern Vietnam in this gritty war novel from the author of Long Range Patrol. There is a little bit of Jim Hollister in all of us. Captain Jim Hollister ended his first tour of duty in Vietnam laid up in a field hospital. His most serious wounds were deep inside. Back home in America, he often woke up in the midd...

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  • LAWS, MEN AND MACHINES
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    LAWS, MEN AND MACHINES
    MICHAEL FOLEY
    First published in 1990, Laws, Men and Machines is an original interpretation of the lasting influence that Newtonian mechanics has had on the design and operation of the American political system. The author argues that it is this mechanistic tradition that now instinctively shapes the way we conceive of, analyse, and evaluate American politics, and that the Newtonian concepti...

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