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  • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789-17-1795
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    THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789-17-1795
    BERTHA MERITON GARDINER
    Excerpt: "Like the rest of Western Europe, France, in the Middle Ages, was ruled by a feudal nobility, holding their lands of the king. Nowhere in Western Europe in the tenth century was the power of the king less, or the power of the nobles greater. The weight of their authority, therefore, fell heavily upon the peasants on their estates, and upon the inhabitants of the little...

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  • SPEED QUEENS
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    SPEED QUEENS
    RACHEL HARRIS-GARDINER
    Speed Queens is a history of women in motorsport, from the very beginning in 1897 to the modern era. Tracing the different ways that women have found into motor racing and rallying, it covers over a century of stories across the world. Each chapter takes a particular event as an introduction to a racer and her contemporaries, taking a different theme each time and moving forwar...

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  • DIALOGUES ON CLIMATE JUSTICE
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    DIALOGUES ON CLIMATE JUSTICE
    STEPHEN M. GARDINER / ARTHUR OBST
    Written both for general readers and college students, Dialogues on Climate Justice provides an engaging philosophical introduction to climate justice, and should be of interest to anyone wanting to think seriously about the climate crisis. The story follows the life and conversations of Hope, a fictional protagonist whose life is shaped by a terrifyingly real problem: climate ...

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  • THE AGE-FRIENDLY LENS
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    THE AGE-FRIENDLY LENS
    GARDINER, CHRISTIE M.
    This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle to improve understandings of ageism. Drawing from traditionally distinct fields, the text demonstrates theoretical and applied dim...

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  • LEVELLING UP LEFT BEHIND PLACES
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    LEVELLING UP LEFT BEHIND PLACES
    RON MARTIN / BEN GARDINER / ANDY PIKE / PETER SUNLEY / PETER TYLER
    This book aims to understand the predicaments of ‘left behind places’ and the scale of the policy challenge of ‘levelling up’ their economic prosperity. Drawing out lessons of wider international significance, it examines how places (cities, towns and localities) have grown apart over recent decades amidst deindustrialisation, post-industrial transition and the disruptive shock...

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  • THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF THE UK 3RD EDITION
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    THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF THE UK 3RD EDITION
    HUGH MATTHEWS / VINCE GARDINER
    This book presents a full description and interpretation of the changes that have occurred in the United Kingdom during the 1990s. It offers an understanding of the social, economic, political, and physical forces bringing about the changes in the United Kingdom. ...

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  • SANDY HOOK'S LOST HIGHLAND BEACH RESORT
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    SANDY HOOK'S LOST HIGHLAND BEACH RESORT
    SUSAN SANDLASS GARDINER
    Built by William Sandlass during the Golden Age of the Jersey Shore, the Highland Beach excursion resort was an iconic landmark for more than seven decades. The resort put Sandy Hook on the map, as hordes of tourists were brought by trains, ferries and automobiles to soak up the sun and enjoy the plentiful amusements. At the once magical playground enjoyed by so many, the famil...

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  • THE ETHICS OF “GEOENGINEERING” THE GLOBAL CLIMATE
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    THE ETHICS OF “GEOENGINEERING” THE GLOBAL CLIMATE
    STEPHEN M. GARDINER / ‎CATRIONA MCKINNON / ‎AUGUSTIN FRAGNIÈRE
    In the face of limited time and escalating impacts, some scientists and politicians are talking about attempting "grand technological interventions" into the Earth’s basic physical and biological systems ("geoengineering") to combat global warming. Early ideas include spraying particles into the stratosphere to block some incoming sunlight, or "enhancing" natural biological sys...

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  • BAKHTIN IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME
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    BAKHTIN IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME
    CRAIG BRANDIST / ‎MICHAEL E. GARDINER / ‎E JAYNE WHITE
    This book takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. While Bakhtin’s work has been widely received in educational studies in recent years, the academic literature does not sufficiently convey the sophistication of his cultural-historical works. Selected works on the limits and ...

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  • GEOMORPHOLOGICAL FIELD MANUAL
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    GEOMORPHOLOGICAL FIELD MANUAL
    R. DACKOMBE / V. GARDINER
    This book, first published in 1983, incorporates a wealth of reference material – keys, nomograms, tables, charts – likely to be needed in the field for actual fieldwork. The widest possible coverage of material is provided in anticipation of problems that individual specialists will encounter on the periphery of their main areas of interest. ...

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  • OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT FOR BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
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    OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT FOR BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
    DAVID GARDINER / HENDRIK REEFKE
    All businesses strive for excellence in today’s technology-based environment in which customers want solutions at the touch of a button. This highly regarded textbook provides in-depth coverage of the principles of operations and supply chain management and explains how to design, implement, and maintain processes for sustainable competitive advantage. This text offers a unique...

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  • THE BRITISH STAKE IN JAPANESE MODERNITY
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    THE BRITISH STAKE IN JAPANESE MODERNITY
    MICHAEL GARDINER
    This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts. From the mid-nineteenth century, and particularly as hastened by the spectre of China in the First Opium War, Japan’s modernity was bou...

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  • YALE NEEDS WOMEN
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    YALE NEEDS WOMEN
    ANNE GARDINER PERKINS
    WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE "Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting feminist pioneers come alive against the backdrop of the contemporaneous civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1970s, and offers observations that remain eerily relevant on U.S. campuses today."—...

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  • WINDFALLS
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    WINDFALLS
    A. G. GARDINER
    Excerpt: "I took a garden fork just now and went out to dig up the artichokes. When Jemima saw me crossing the orchard with a fork he called a committee meeting, or rather a general assembly, and after some joyous discussion it was decided nem. con. that the thing was worth looking into. Forthwith, the whole family of Indian runners lined up in single file, and led by Jemima fo...

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  • LEAVES IN THE WIND
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    LEAVES IN THE WIND
    A. G. GARDINER
    These essays were written over ninety five years ago, most of their subjects do not exist anymore. Despite this, the essays appear fresh, because the author's commentary about human nature, his observations about people, their thoughts, emotions are very perceptive and are true even today. While circumstances change, human nature does not change within just a hundred year. (Ama...

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  • MEDIEVAL VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL
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    MEDIEVAL VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL
    EILEEN GARDINER
    First Published in 1993. The present volume covers the currently identified Christian visions of heaven and hell (excluding D ante’s Divine Comedy) from western Europe during the Middle Ages from the late sixth through the fourteenth century. ...

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  • HILDEGARD VON BINGEN'S ORDO VIRTUTUM
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    HILDEGARD VON BINGEN'S ORDO VIRTUTUM
    MICHAEL GARDINER
    The Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingen’s twelfth-century music-drama, is one of the first known examples of a large-scale composition by a named composer in the Western canon. Not only does the Ordo’s expansive duration set it apart from its precursors, but also its complex imagery and non-biblical narrative have raised various questions concerning its context and genre. As a ...

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  • THE WOLF-MAN AND SIGMUND FREUD
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    THE WOLF-MAN AND SIGMUND FREUD
    MURIEL GARDINER
    It is a well known that the Wolf-Man was the subject of what James Strachey described as 'the most elaborate and no doubt the most important of all Freud's case histories'. It is less well known that he was still living in Vienna more than half a century since his analysis with Freud. In this remarkable biographical account, the Wolf-Man comes alive not only through Freud's cas...

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  • THE MODERN CORPORATION AND PRIVATE PROPERTY
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    THE MODERN CORPORATION AND PRIVATE PROPERTY
    GARDINER MEANS
    This monumental work on the corporation is one of those enduring classics that many cite but few have read. Graced with a new introduction by Weidenbaum and Jensen, this new edition makes this classic available to a new generation. Written in the early 1930s, The Modern Corporation and Private Property remains the fundamental introduction to the internal organization of the cor...

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  • REGENERATIVE ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
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    REGENERATIVE ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
    DAVID M. GARDINER
    Regenerative Engineering and Developmental Biology: Principles and Applications examines cutting-edge developments in the field of regenerative engineering. Specific attention is given to activities that embrace the importance of integrating developmental biology and tissue engineering, and how this can move beyond repairing damage to body parts to instead regenerate tissues an...

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  • ART PRACTICE IN A DIGITAL CULTURE
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    ART PRACTICE IN A DIGITAL CULTURE
    HAZEL GARDINER
    Much as art history is in the process of being transformed by new information communication technologies, often in ways that are either disavowed or resisted, art practice is also being changed by those same technologies. One of the most obvious symptoms of this change is the increasing numbers of artists working in universities, and having their work facilitated and supported ...

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  • REVISUALIZING VISUAL CULTURE
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    REVISUALIZING VISUAL CULTURE
    CHRIS BAILEY / HAZEL GARDINER
    In the past twenty years digital technology has had a radical impact on all the disciplines associated with the visual arts - this book provides expert views of that impact. By looking at the advanced ICT methods now being employed, this volume details the long-lasting effects and advances now made possible in art history and its associated disciplines. The authors analyze the...

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  • A MONETARY THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT
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    A MONETARY THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT
    GARDINER C. MEANS / WARREN J. SAMUELS / LILY XIAO HONG LEE
    Presents the author's alternative monetary theory and macroeconomics to both the quality theory and Keynes's work. This text reveals Means's view of the economic processes in the real world, and the state of monetary and macroeconomics theory in the mid-1940s. ...

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  • NAVAL POWER IN THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO
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    NAVAL POWER IN THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO
    C. HARVEY GARDINER
    In this account of the naval aspect of Hernando Cortés's invasion of the Aztec Empire, C. Harvey Gardiner has added another dimension to the drama of Spanish conquest of the New World and to Cortés himself as a military strategist. The use of ships, in the climactic moment of the Spanish-Aztec clash, which brought about the fall of Tenochtitlán and consequently of all of Mexico...

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  • CONFRONTING CAPITAL
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    CONFRONTING CAPITAL
    PAULINE GARDINER BARBER
    This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward a vital, politically engaged form of scholarship. It advances the understanding of the struggles of ordinary people in the face of capitalist change. In the current economic moment when such changes are tumultuous and the instabilities of capitalism are starkly r...

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  • MIGRATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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    MIGRATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    PAULINE GARDINER BARBER
    This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the social consequences and asymmetries of twenty-first century capitalism’s global modali...

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  • SPORTS LAW
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    SPORTS LAW
    SIMON GARDINER / ROGER WELCH / SIMON BOYES / URVASI NAIDOO
    Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context, this refocused edition is divided into four core parts: Governance & Sport; Com...

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  • BUILDING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH SUSTAINED SILENT READING
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    BUILDING STUDENT LITERACY THROUGH SUSTAINED SILENT READING
    STEVE GARDINER
    Building Student Literacy Through Sustained Silent Reading offers a powerful solution for teachers who want to improve their students' reading ability: Let students choose what they read and give them the time to read it.For 27 years, high school teacher Steve Gardiner has used the sustained silent reading (SSR) program in his English classes to help students of all abilities a...

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  • SEX EQUALITY POLICY IN WESTERN EUROPE
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    SEX EQUALITY POLICY IN WESTERN EUROPE
    FRANCES GARDINER
    This book presents a wide-ranging comparative analysis of the development of sex-equality policies within Europe. The contributors, comprising both European and US-based scholars, address a very current political issue. This is an area of policy that has reached the decision-making stage in much of Europe and it is thus possible to assess the outcome of policy-making and to acc...

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  • STANDARD METHOD OF SPECIFYING FOR MINOR WORKS
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    STANDARD METHOD OF SPECIFYING FOR MINOR WORKS
    L. GARDINER
    There is no widely recognized method for producing specifications of repair, improvement and conversion work, yet consistent documentation is fundamental to good client communications and consistent pricing. This new edition of a highly regarded reference work sets out a method of producing specifications for minor works by prescribing the common terminology and a logical sequ...

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