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  • EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS OF VENICE
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    EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS OF VENICE
    KATHLEEN FRENCH
    Early Modern Women Writers of Venice: Looking for Happiness explores the ways in which five women used their writing to challenge misogynistic views about female inferiority, develop a sense of agency, and form meaningful interpersonal relationships that would enable them to find happiness. They are the forerunners of later feminist thinkers. This book is the first full-length ...

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  • MAX WEBER, RUDOLF STEINER, AND MODERN WESTERN ESOTERICISM
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    MAX WEBER, RUDOLF STEINER, AND MODERN WESTERN ESOTERICISM
    AARON FRENCH
    This book challenges previous definitions of modernity by comparing Max Weber (1864–1920), often considered the most important sociologist of the 20th century, and Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), founder of Waldorfpädagogik and the esoteric social reform movement of anthroposophy. While acknowledging that Weber and Steiner were different in several respects, this research illustrat...

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  • ANCIENTS AND MODERNS IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
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    ANCIENTS AND MODERNS IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
    ROGER FRENCH
    The theme of this book is the growth of the European tradition of medical theory, from the early Middle Ages until its collapse in the seventeenth century. Central to this tradition were ancient texts and the respect accorded to the ancients themselves by the moderns, the teachers and practitioners of medicine of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The chapters examine how the anc...

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  • OPTICAL BRAIN–COMPUTER INTERFACE
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    OPTICAL BRAIN–COMPUTER INTERFACE
    DECHUAN SUN / CHRIS FRENCH / RANJITH R UNNITHAN
    In this shortform book, Sun, French, and Unnithan explore state- of- the- art optical recording techniques, with a focus on the revolutionary miniaturized fluorescence microscope – the miniscope – for real- time and in vivo monitoring of multi- neuronal dynamics during cognition- related events. The miniscope is a powerful tool that allows real- time in vivo optical recording o...

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  • THE STORY OF ROLF AND THE VIKING BOW
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    THE STORY OF ROLF AND THE VIKING BOW
    ALLEN FRENCH
    Rolf is the son of Hiarandi the Unlucky. Hiarandi, at the urging of his wife, does an unforgivable thing: he lights a signal fire on a dangerous point of his land, challenging the accepted custom that place lucrative salvage at a higher value than the saving of life. However, the life that is saved that night causes his own death and the unjust outlawing of his son Rolf. This t...

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  • THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
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    THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
    JULIAN LINDLEY-FRENCH
    This book is the concise story of NATO. It considers the origins, development, challenges, structure, and direction of the Alliance against the backdrop of a changing world and a changing Europe, the changing relationship of the United States to its Allies, the twin threats posed by both Russia and terrorism, the emerging challenge of China, and the EU-NATO relationship. Crucia...

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  • STRATEGIC PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
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    STRATEGIC PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
    GARY REES AND RAY FRENCH
    Strategic People Management and Development maps to the CIPD Level 7 module 'People Management and Development strategies for performance'. It focuses on the need for evidence-based and outcome-driven practice in the people profession and explains how HR and Learning and Development (L&D) professionals can create value and drive performance in an organisation. It provides a tho...

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  • THE WORSHIP OF THE GOLDEN CALF, A STORY OF WAGE-SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS
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    THE WORSHIP OF THE GOLDEN CALF, A STORY OF WAGE-SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS
    CHARLES SHELDON FRENCH
    Excerpt: "The snows had begun to disappear from the far-famed valleys of Berkshire; the mountain-tops and slopes were still white; in the softening air was the promise of the return of birds and flowers; Nature was relenting from her winter harshness, but man was less kindly than Nature. On Beauna Vista, one of the hillocks rising slightly above the level of the Housatonic Vall...

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  • THE REFORMATIONS IN BRITAIN, 1520–1603
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    THE REFORMATIONS IN BRITAIN, 1520–1603
    ANNA FRENCH
    This entirely fresh narrative of the "British Reformations" focuses on the emotional as well as the material experience of living through the reformations in Britain during the sixteenth century. The Protestant reformations that took place in England and Scotland during the sixteenth century were, even by the standards of the period, unusually and uniquely fractious and complic...

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  • A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO PERCEPTIONS OF ACADEMIC WRITING PRACTICES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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    A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO PERCEPTIONS OF ACADEMIC WRITING PRACTICES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    AMANDA FRENCH
    This book takes a philosophical approach to the question ‘what is academic writing?’ and specifically explores the question of how academic writing and writing development can be better understood and developed by lecturers in higher education. It examines how a number of interconnected and interdisciplinary political, linguistic, discursive, ontological and epistemological fra...

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  • THE PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING WORKBOOK
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    THE PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING WORKBOOK
    TIM FRENCH / TERRY WARDLE
    General practitioners need to know more and more about the complicated tests performed in hospitals. For most patients the GP is an accessible trusted and reliable source of information and advice. So when patients under hospital follow-up are confused about their treatment they often turn to their GP. In addition general practitioners have open access to an increasing array o...

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  • SHAKESPEARE AND HAPPINESS
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    SHAKESPEARE AND HAPPINESS
    KATHLEEN FRENCH
    Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare’s plays. It considers the conflicting influences of religion and Aristotelian philosophy in shaping attitudes to the possibility of attaining happiness. By being the first book to focus specifically on the representation of happiness in Shakespeare’s plays, it contribute...

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  • BUILDING RURAL COMMUNITY RESILIENCE THROUGH INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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    BUILDING RURAL COMMUNITY RESILIENCE THROUGH INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    CHARLIE FRENCH
    Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience. Innovation in rural places may come about as a result of new forms of collaboration; policies that leverage rural assets and address critical service or product ...

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  • THE EVOLUTION OF ETHICS IN AMERICA
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    THE EVOLUTION OF ETHICS IN AMERICA
    LAURENCE ARMAND FRENCH
    In this book, Laurence Armand French frames the emergence of medical, clinical, and legal ethical standards within the long history of institutional and systemic racial and gender biases in the United States. He explores the role that White privilege and elitism play in justifying long-held discriminatory practices ranging from the eugenics crusade a century ago to the #MeToo a...

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  • NEVER FIRE FIRST A CANADIAN NORTHWEST MOUNTED STORY
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    NEVER FIRE FIRST A CANADIAN NORTHWEST MOUNTED STORY
    JAMES FRENCH
    Excerpt: "From the "dig-in" of the snow-bank where he had spent the blizzard night in comparative comfort, Constable La Marr of the Royal Mounted looked out upon a full-grown day. The storm that had driven him to shelter had passed, or at least was taking a rest. For once he had overslept and where days, even in winter's youth, are but seven hours long, the fault caused him cha...

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  • GROWTH, CREATIVITY, AND COLLABORATION
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    GROWTH, CREATIVITY, AND COLLABORATION
    PATRICIA SHELDAHL FRENCH / MARGARET MERING
    The leading papers from the leading authorities in library serials Over the past few years electronic journals have flourished to become an integral part of a modern library system. The challenges of licensing, financing, developing, managing, and delivering seamless and integrated access are topics of crucial importance. Growth, Creativity, and Collaboration: Great Visions on ...

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  • READINGS IN DECISION ANALYSIS
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    READINGS IN DECISION ANALYSIS
    S. FRENCH
    Provides an introduction to decision analysis. This book is based upon a number of papers and articles taken from the Operational Research Society's journal and other publications. However, the book is not simply a 'collection of reprints': Professor French has provided extensive notes and commentary to weave the extracts into a coherent whole. Although techniques are presented...

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  • CHARLES I AND THE PURITAN UPHEAVAL
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    CHARLES I AND THE PURITAN UPHEAVAL
    ALLEN FRENCH
    Originally published in 1955 and based on research of public records and other contemporary sources, this book builds up an excellent picture of England before the Civil War. Through a series of case studies, it examines the type of person who emigrated to New England and their motivation for doing so. The wealth of evidence from original documents is clearly arranged and provi...

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  • MEDICINE FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO THE FRENCH DISEASE
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    MEDICINE FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO THE FRENCH DISEASE
    ROGER FRENCH / JON ARRIZABALAGA / ANDREW CUNNINGHAM / LUIS GARCÍA-BALLESTER
    Published in 1998, covering the period from the triumphant economic revival of Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, this book offers an examination of the state of contemporary medicine and the subsequent transplantation of European medicine worldwide. ...

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  • VANISHING BORDERS
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    VANISHING BORDERS
    HILARY FRENCH
    The world is shrinking faster than ever. Goods, money, microbes, pollution, people and ideas are crossing boundaries ever more frequently. The implications for our future and for the health of the planet are profound. Vanishing Borders outlines the ecological challenges posed and then goes on to define the necessary strategies for tackling them. Presently, national governments ...

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  • STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN EAST EUROPEAN PORTS
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    STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN EAST EUROPEAN PORTS
    SUSANNE FRENCH / MICHAEL ROE
    First published in 1998, this volume emerged as part of the series Plymouth Studies in Contemporary Shipping, which represents a unique collection of papers and texts edited from the leading maritime institute in Western Europe at the University of Plymouth. Covering research from a range of geographical sectors but with a particular emphasis on Western Europe, developing count...

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  • ATTENTION, COOPERATION, PURPOSE
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    ATTENTION, COOPERATION, PURPOSE
    ROBERT FRENCH / PETER SIMPSON
    This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it, "every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The approach described here shows how individual group members'...

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM PHYSICS
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM PHYSICS
    A.P. FRENCH
    Provides comprehensive coverage of all the fundamentals of quantum physics. Full mathematical treatments are given. Uses examples from different areas of physics to demonstrate how theories work in practice. Text derived from lectures delivered at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

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  • NARRATIVES OF CONFLICT, BELONGING, AND THE STATE
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    NARRATIVES OF CONFLICT, BELONGING, AND THE STATE
    BRIGITTINE M. FRENCH
    Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of law, equality, and democratic representation in locally-meaningful ways to make their own national history in ways that may perpetuate violence and inequality. Focusing specifically on post-war conditions in Ireland, the author contextualizes commonplace practices by...

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  • ADVANCED CONSULTING IN FAMILY MEDICINE
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    ADVANCED CONSULTING IN FAMILY MEDICINE
    PETER WORRALL / ADRIAN FRENCH / LES ASHTON
    What distinguishes the consulting of experienced family doctors from their newly qualified colleagues? The question is often frustratingly hard answer clearly or objectively: unlike many professions, family doctors face a dearth of clear expectations of what constitutes advanced practice, a lack of defined standards against which to evaluate it, and an absence of expertise-rela...

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  • VIBRATIONS AND WAVES
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    VIBRATIONS AND WAVES
    A.P. FRENCH
    The M.I.T. Introductory Physics Series is the result of a program of careful study, planning, and development that began in 1960. The Education Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (formerly the Science Teaching Center) was established to study the process of instruction, aids thereto, and the learning process itself, with special reference to science te...

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  • WHY STATUES WEEP
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    WHY STATUES WEEP
    WENDY M. GROSSMAN / CHRISTOPHER C. FRENCH
    First Published in 2016. Why do statues weep? Did Nostradamus really predict 9/11? Is it true that we only use 10% of our brain power? Does quantum theory explain the mystery of consciousness? For 21 years, questions like these have been posed, and answered, in the pages of The Skeptic magazine, Britain's foremost and longest-running sceptical magazine, dedicated to the examina...

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  • DISABLED PEOPLE AND EMPLOYMENT
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    DISABLED PEOPLE AND EMPLOYMENT
    SALLY FRENCH
    This title was first published in 2001. Providing a detailed account of the working lives of visually impaired physiotherapists in Britain, this study also presents an overview of the employment position of disabled people in the UK, and is underpinned by a social model which views disability in terms of societal barriers rather than in terms of impairment. ...

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  • THE ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS HISTORY OF OCCUPIED JAPAN
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    THE ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS HISTORY OF OCCUPIED JAPAN
    THOMAS FRENCH
    The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a developmental model for much of the world. The period arguably saw the sowing of the seeds of the post-war flowering of what some term the ‘postwar Japanese economic miracle’. However, some scholars dispute this position and argue t...

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  • SPECIAL RELATIVITY
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    SPECIAL RELATIVITY
    A.P. FRENCH
    The book opens with a description of the smooth transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian behaviour from electrons as their energy is progressively increased, and this leads directly to the relativistic expressions for mass, momentum and energy of a particle. ...

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