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  • THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN FLAMSTEED, THE FIRST ASTRONOMER ROYAL
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    THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN FLAMSTEED, THE FIRST ASTRONOMER ROYAL
    ERIC G. FORBES
    Professor Eric Forbes left behind at his death an important collection of the letters of John Flamsteed (1646-1719), First Astronomer Royal. A leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars all over the world touches on many of the scientific discussions of the day.A detaile...

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  • THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN FLAMSTEED, THE FIRST ASTRONOMER ROYAL
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    THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN FLAMSTEED, THE FIRST ASTRONOMER ROYAL
    ERIC G. FORBES
    The Correspondence of John Flamsteed: The First Astronomer Royal, Volume Two contains the letters Flamsteed wrote and received from June 1682 to the spring of 1703. A leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars touches on many of the scientific discussions of the day. Som...

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  • PHILOSOPHY OF TIME: THE BASICS
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    PHILOSOPHY OF TIME: THE BASICS
    GRAEME FORBES
    What is time? Does it pass? Is the future open? Why do we care? Philosophy of Time: The Basics doesn’t answer these questions. It does give you an opinionated introduction to thinking a bit more deeply about them. Written in a way that assumes no philosophical background from its readers, this book looks at central topics in philosophy of time and shows how they relate to other...

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  • INTERVIEWING
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    INTERVIEWING
    GAIL SEDORKIN / AMY FORBES
    This is an essential guide to the art of interviewing, with checklists, tips and examples from leading journalists and PR specialists, covering basic to advanced techniques. Sedorkin and Forbes provide a comprehensive, step-by-step overview of how to manage the interview process. They cover: best practice for preparing for an interview (and what to do when you don’t have time t...

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  • DAHOMEY AND THE DAHOMANS
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    DAHOMEY AND THE DAHOMANS
    FREDRICK E. FORBES
    According to Forbes the object of these Journals is "to illustrate the dreadful slave hunts and savages, the annihilations and exterminations consequent on this trade", with the aim of encouraging the British public in its efforts to end slavery. ...

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  • IDEALS OF EMPIRE V3
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    IDEALS OF EMPIRE V3
    VALERY E. FORBES
    First published in 2004. This 6 volume set focuses on the influential economic and political commentators who saw weaknesses in the infrastructure of the British Empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Dubbed Idealists of Empire, they saw that the British Empire seemed to have no governing principles, no structure and no guiding ideals. Sir John Seeley's famous quote of 18...

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  • GENETICS AND ECOTOXICOLOGY
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    GENETICS AND ECOTOXICOLOGY
    VALERY E. FORBES
    This first volume in the series provides a detailed treatment in ecotoxicology and stresses why genetics is important in understanding if and how chemical contaminants affect populations. Written by an array of international contributors from various fields covering mammals, invertebrates, fish, plants, as well as molecular ecotoxicology, this book considers both ecological/evo...

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  • DOING BUSINESS WITH THE NAZIS
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    DOING BUSINESS WITH THE NAZIS
    NEIL FORBES
    Britain's financial and economic relations with Nazi Germany are assessed in this book. The structure and formulation of British policy, the interaction of government and business and the relationship between British business interests and Nazi germany are looked at. A particular focus of the book is on the crisis of uncertainty felt in Britain over the rejection of economic in...

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  • SPORT OFFICIATING
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    SPORT OFFICIATING
    LORI LIVINGSTON / SUSAN L. FORBES / NICK WATTIE / IAN CUNNINGHAM
    Sport officials are tasked with maintaining order and adjudicating sport contests. Given their multifaceted role in enforcing rules, standardizing competitions, and keeping sport safe for all participants, they are a requisite part of the sport workforce. With ongoing reports of annual attrition rates in officiating in excess of 20-35% for various sports around the world, there...

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  • LEAN PROJECT DELIVERY AND INTEGRATED PRACTICES IN MODERN CONSTRUCTION
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    LEAN PROJECT DELIVERY AND INTEGRATED PRACTICES IN MODERN CONSTRUCTION
    LINCOLN H. FORBES / SYED M. AHMED
    Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction is the new and enhanced edition of the pioneering book Modern Construction by Lincoln H. Forbes and Syed M. Ahmed. This book provides a multi-faceted approach for applying lean methodologies to improve design and construction processes. Recognizing the wide diversity in the landscape of projects, and encompas...

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  • INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLISHING PLATFORMS
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    INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLISHING PLATFORMS
    MEGHAN FORBES
    With large-scale scholarly projects dedicated to digitizing print-based magazines and a concurrent turn towards digital mapping and data visualization, periodicals that were once accessible only in the archive now have the capacity to reach a wider audience, and make visible previously overlooked networks and connections enacted within and across the magazines. International Pe...

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  • MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE, POLITICAL RISK AND ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE
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    MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE, POLITICAL RISK AND ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE
    NEIL FORBES / TAKAFUMI KUROSAWA / BEN WUBS
    Hitherto, the organization of international business has been studied mostly from a managerial point of view or by examining the relationship between firms and the economy. Yet, the development of the modern, multinational firm - the most important type of business organisation - has been strongly influenced by the conflicts that bedeviled the twentieth century. The volatile ma...

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  • TODAY'S STUDENTS, TOMORROW'S DOCTORS
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    TODAY'S STUDENTS, TOMORROW'S DOCTORS
    KATHY FEEST / KAREN FORBES
    This work includes forewords by Sir Kenneth Calman, Lynn Calman, and Rita Charon. Respectively Vice-Chancellor and Warden, University of Durham and former Chief Medical Officer for England; Research Associate, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester; Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Columbia, New Yo...

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  • VIRDITION
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    VIRDITION
    FORBES RILEY / WILL QUINONES
    In this digital age, it is more exciting than ever to seek a career in the entertainment industry—from stuntmen and musicians to actresses, dancers, and even make-up artists. With the advent of social media, YouTube, Facebook, and more, someone with talent in any medium can (and needs to) create their own brand, steer their career, and master the art of "virtually auditioning" ...

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  • AVIAN MEDICINE AND SURGERY
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    AVIAN MEDICINE AND SURGERY
    NEIL A. FORBES AND DAVID SANCHEZ-MIGALLON GUZMAN
    This completely revamped second edition of Avian Medicine and Surgery includes over 260 all-new colour illustrated cases, with questions and answers fully exploring a breadth of diseases and disorders. Avian patients are a routine part of the veterinary case load and are being seen by many clinicians across the world. This book provides a unique quick reference for clinicians a...

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  • AN INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER RECALLS HER LIFE
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    AN INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER RECALLS HER LIFE
    MANMOHINI ZUTSHI SAHGAL / GERALDINE HANCOCK FORBES / B.K. NEHRU
    Manmohini, a member of the family of Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru and grandfather of Indira Gandhi, recalls her life, including her years in the anti-British campaign, her prison terms, her marriage and family, and her work in women's organizations and politics. ...

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  • HEAVEN AND EARTH IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
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    HEAVEN AND EARTH IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
    HELEN FOXHALL FORBES
    Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social values in early medieval England. The influence of the early medieval Church as an...

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  • MARX AND THE NEW INDIVIDUAL
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    MARX AND THE NEW INDIVIDUAL
    IAN FORBES
    In what is the first sustained analysis of Marx’s attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book, first published in 1990, challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx’s thought. The radical possibilities of individual agency in society are explored within a Marxian framework, and wit...

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  • MEMOIRS OF AN INDIAN WOMAN
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    MEMOIRS OF AN INDIAN WOMAN
    SHUDHA MAZUMDAR / GERALDINE HANCOCK FORBES
    This vivid memoir recounts the experience of Shudha Mazumdar, a woman born at the turn of the century to Indian parents whose ideas on child rearing differed greatly. Her father, a wealthy Europeanized Zamindar, tried to instill Western values, while Shudha's mother emphasized the traditional, even going as far as arranging a marriage for her daughter when she was thirteen. Alt...

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  • PEOPLE UNDER THREE
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    PEOPLE UNDER THREE
    SONIA JACKSON / RUTH FORBES
    Services for young children have gone through a period of rapid transformation in recent years, which have been paralleled by great advances in our knowledge of early child development. However, care and education in the first three years of life continues to be a neglected area. Thoroughly updated to take account of key policy and practice changes in childcare provision, this ...

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  • COMPUTATIONAL AND VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS USING CHIMERA
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    COMPUTATIONAL AND VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS USING CHIMERA
    FORBES J. BURKOWSKI
    A Step-by-Step Guide to Describing Biomolecular StructureComputational and Visualization Techniques for Structural Bioinformatics Using Chimera shows how to perform computations with Python scripts in the Chimera environment. It focuses on the three core areas needed to study structural bioinformatics: biochemistry, mathematics, and computation.Und ...

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  • COMPUTATIONAL AND VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS USING CHIMERA
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    COMPUTATIONAL AND VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS USING CHIMERA
    FORBES J. BURKOWSKI
    A Step-by-Step Guide to Describing Biomolecular StructureComputational and Visualization Techniques for Structural Bioinformatics Using Chimera shows how to perform computations with Python scripts in the Chimera environment. It focuses on the three core areas needed to study structural bioinformatics: biochemistry, mathematics, and computation.Und ...

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  • CONTEMPORARY FRANCE
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    CONTEMPORARY FRANCE
    JILL FORBES / NICHOLAS LAST KNOWN ADDRESS HEWLETT / FRANCOIS NECTOUX
    In one stimulating source this successful text provides a rigorous analysis of the political, economic and social developments in post-war France. The analysis is supported by specially selected French language texts and exercises. This text is suitable for undergraduate students of French (especially within a languages, social science, or business course) and for courses in Fr...

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  • NATURAL THERAPY
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    NATURAL THERAPY
    THOMAS D. LUKE / NORMAN HAY FORBES
    Natural Therapy: A Manual of Physiotherapeutics and Climatology discusses natural ways of healing and treating certain diseases and disorders. The authors discuss the use of water in bath-treatments as used by John Smedley, Winternitz, or through methods known as "Kaltwasser Kuranstalten," or "Kneipp cure." The book explains the general principles of hydrotherapy or the systema...

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  • THE VOLUNTARY FOOD INTAKE OF FARM ANIMALS
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    THE VOLUNTARY FOOD INTAKE OF FARM ANIMALS
    J. M. FORBES
    The Voluntary Food Intake of Farm Animals offers a wide discussion on food intake among farm animals. The book presents various studies, facts, details, and theories that are relevant to the subject. The first chapter begins by explaining the basic definition and significance of voluntary food intake. This topic is followed by discussions on meal patterns, the main features of...

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  • URBAN NATURE CONSERVATION
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    URBAN NATURE CONSERVATION
    STEPHEN FORBES / TONY KENDLE
    Urban nature conservation is a field that has grown rapidly in importance over the past 20 years and will continue to do so in the coming years as landscape ecology and greenspace planning become established disciplines. A widespread concern and interest in the wild plants and animal life found in urban areas now influences the policies and practices of land management organiz...

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  • AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR
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    AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR
    ELLA FORBES
    This study uses an abundance of primary sources to restore African American female participants in the Civil War to history by documenting their presence, contributions and experience.  Free and enslaved African American women took part in this process in a variety of ways, including black female charity and benevolence. These women were spies, soldiers, scouts, nurses, cooks, ...

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  • THE PRICE OF WAR
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    THE PRICE OF WAR
    NIGEL THRIFT / DEAN FORBES
    Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 19...

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  • PLANNING ASIAN CITIES
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    PLANNING ASIAN CITIES
    HAMNETT, STEPHEN / FORBES, DEAN
    In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. Tokyo is an ar...

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  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES
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    THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES
    FORBES, JOAN / WATSON, CATE
    Can we imagine different ways of working together to secure better outcomes for children and families? What are the complex issues that underlie the apparently simple call for ‘joined-up’ services? Children’s services in many countries around the world are being transformed as part of the call for ‘joined-up working for joined-up solutions’. Social, health and educational polic...

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