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  • CHANGING LEGAL AND CIVIC CULTURE IN AN ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY
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    CHANGING LEGAL AND CIVIC CULTURE IN AN ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY
    ISTVÁN H. SZILÁGYI / LÁSZLÓ KELEMEN / SAM GILCHRIST HALL
    Changing Legal and Civic Culture in an Illiberal Democracy is a unique empirical study on recent developments in legal and civic consciousness in Hungary. Drawing its methodology from social psychology, this book illuminates a shift in legal consciousness during the time in which Orbán’s government has cemented Hungary’s reputation as an illiberal democracy. The book foreground...

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  • REFLECTIONS: 50 YEARS OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 1957-2007: NO. 30
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    REFLECTIONS: 50 YEARS OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 1957-2007: NO. 30
    ROBERTA GILCHRIST
    This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology (established in 1957), presenting reflections on the history, development and future prospects of the discipline. The papers are drawn from a series of conferences and workshops that took place in 2007-08, in addition to a number of contributions that were commissioned especially for the volume....

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  • THE CIRCLE OF NINE
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    THE CIRCLE OF NINE
    CHERRY GILCHRIST
    As women seek to cultivate an understanding of their lives, a mythological model can provide a tool for self-discovery and realizing individual potential. The Circle of Nine presents nine archetypes that represent different, but equally important aspects of the feminine psyche. They portray both the life of the individual and the story of woman as a whole—a circle of ever-chang...

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  • MANAGING FOR PROFIT
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    MANAGING FOR PROFIT
    R. R. GILCHRIST
    In this book, first published in 1971, the author develops and tests a productivity system based on Added Value as the measure of company income and output. The theory behind the system is that the behaviour of a company can best be explained in terms of its need to create an income. From this, it follows that its effectiveness depends on the efficiency with which it uses all t...

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  • PRACTITIONER ENQUIRY
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    PRACTITIONER ENQUIRY
    GEORGE GILCHRIST
    Practitioner Enquiry: Professional Development with Impact for Teachers, Schools and Systems offers an accessible, step-by-step guide to practitioner enquiry, describing what practitioner enquiry is, what its adoption in schools entails, and what research and experience says about its benefits and possible pitfalls. Written by an experienced Headteacher who has worked with many...

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  • REMOTE PERFORMANCES IN NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
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    REMOTE PERFORMANCES IN NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
    BRUCE GILCHRIST / JO JOELSON
    Outlandia is an off-grid artists’ fieldstation, a treehouse imagined by artists London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson) and designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects, situated in Glen Nevis, opposite Ben Nevis. It is performative architecture that immerses its occupants in a particular environment, provoking creative interaction between artists and the land. This book expl...

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  • A PRACTICAL COURSE IN AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY
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    A PRACTICAL COURSE IN AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY
    D. W. GILCHRIST SHIRLAW
    A Practical Course in Agricultural Chemistry provides practical methods in agricultural chemistry. This book discusses the major developments in agricultural analysis, including the atomic absorption technique and gas chromatography. Organized into six chapters, this book starts with an overview of the best instrument to use in soil sampling. This text then discusses a number ...

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  • AN AGRICULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF GREAT BRITAIN
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    AN AGRICULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF GREAT BRITAIN
    D. W. GILCHRIST SHIRLAW
    An Agricultural Geography of Great Britain is a comprehensive account of Great Britain's agricultural geography. The relationship between agriculture and geography is highlighted, with emphasis on the points of contact between them, including soils, geology, climate, and systems of farming. The farming systems of Great Britain are described, along with the agriculture of Scotla...

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  • THE POLITICS OF SPORT
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    THE POLITICS OF SPORT
    PAUL GILCHRIST
    Sport is an essential part of community structure, membership and identity. Whether on the field of play, in stadia, or on the streets, sport has consistently brought together disparate individuals to share culture, values and memories. Nowadays these relationships are being rewritten through the effects of global socio-economic practices, the interventions of government, the i...

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  • LIGHTNESS, BRIGHTNESS AND TRANSPARENCY
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    LIGHTNESS, BRIGHTNESS AND TRANSPARENCY
    ALAN L. GILCHRIST
    This volume deals with the visual perception of lightness, brightness, and transparency of surfaces, both under minimal laboratory conditions and in complex images typical of everyday life. Each chapter analyzes the challenging problem of how a pattern of light intensities on the retina is transformed into the visual experience of varying shades of grey, transparent surfaces, a...

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  • GENDER AND MATERIAL CULTURE
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    GENDER AND MATERIAL CULTURE
    ROBERTA GILCHRIST
    Gender and Material Culture is the first complete study in the archaeology of gender, exploring the differences between the religious life of men and women. Gender in medieval monasticism influenced landscape contexts and strategies of economic management, the form and development of buildings and their symbolic and iconographic content. Women's religious experience was often p...

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  • GENDER AND ARCHAEOLOGY
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    GENDER AND ARCHAEOLOGY
    ROBERTA GILCHRIST
    Gender and Archaeology is the first volume to critically review the development of this now key topic internationally, across a range of periods and material culture. ^l Roberta Gilchrist explores the significance of the feminist epistemologies. She shows the unique perspective that gender archaeology can bring to bear on issues such as division of labour and the life course. S...

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  • THESAURUS CONSTRUCTION AND USE
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    THESAURUS CONSTRUCTION AND USE
    JEAN AITCHISON / DAVID BAWDEN / ALAN GILCHRIST
    A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT Compound Term Rules. The US ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Thesaurus construction standard is also co...

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  • NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS
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    NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS
    BRIAN F. GILCHRIST
    The literature on NEC (necrotizing Enterocolitis), especially in the major textbooks, merely recapitulated what had been written in the past; there has been no new guidance. NEC was viewed as a fait accompli; a sometimes-dire disease that was to be confronted only after it reared its perfidious head. This monograph asks the reader to rethink their ...

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  • STATISTICAL MODELLING WITH QUANTILE FUNCTIONS
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    STATISTICAL MODELLING WITH QUANTILE FUNCTIONS
    WARREN GILCHRIST
    Galton used quantiles more than a hundred years ago in describing data. Tukey and Parzen used them in the 60s and 70s in describing populations. Since then, the authors of many papers, both theoretical and practical, have used various aspects of quantiles in their work. Until now, however, no one put all the ideas together to form what turns out to ...

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  • FUELS, FURNACES AND REFRACTORIES: INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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    FUELS, FURNACES AND REFRACTORIES: INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    GILCHRIST, J. D.
    Fuels, Furnaces and Refractories ...

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  • LIGHT CAN BE BOTH WAVE AND PARTICLE
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    LIGHT CAN BE BOTH WAVE AND PARTICLE
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    Fiction from a National Book Award-winning author  and  "short-story writer of substantial gifts and reputation" ( The New York Times).    From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by the  Washington Post as "a national treasure," comes a colorful collection of short stories integrating favorite characters with captivating newcomers...

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  • STARCARBON
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    STARCARBON
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    Three couples struggle through tricky relationships in a novel "shot through with an offhand lyricism, snippets of wisdom, and a ready humor" ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer). After her first year in college, Olivia de Havilland Hand returns home to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, amid tornadoes and the chance for rekindled love. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, her half-sister Jessie tries to kee...

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  • RHODA
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    RHODA
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    A fiction collection, including two new stories, from the award-winning author: "Rhoda is a fully realized creation. And not one to be dismissed lightly."— Entertainment Weekly   From Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner and "national treasure" ( The Washington Post), this volume includes twenty-three stories starring Rhoda Manning—"the shining manifestation of Gilchri...

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  • SARAH CONLEY
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    SARAH CONLEY
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by the  Washington Post as "a national treasure," comes a poignant novel about contemporary living and the sacrifices we make through the various stages of our life."Gilchrist keeps you in the palm of her hand when she tells a story." – Kirkus ReviewSarah Conley is a successful journalist an...

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  • DRUNK WITH LOVE
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    DRUNK WITH LOVE
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    "There is not a single dud in this brilliant collection…crisp stories about marriage, blood, booze and death and the wayward passions fomented by them. "— Time Out From joyous moments to near insurmountable grief, National Book Award-winning author Ellen Gilchrist gives readers vignettes revealing the lives of some of her most memorable characters. In "Traceleen at Dawn," we se...

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  • THE COURTS OF LOVE
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    THE COURTS OF LOVE
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    "A winning collection, filled with humor, love, and just enough human meanness to make things interesting. Gilchrist knows how to tell a story." — Kirkus An indomitable cast of characters comes alive in this collection of shorts and a novella from acclaimed author Ellen Gilchrist. The unsinkable Nora Jane Whittington returns in "Nora Jane and Company," now married and the mothe...

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  • FALLING THROUGH SPACE
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    FALLING THROUGH SPACE
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    From a Southern storyteller and National Book Award–winning author, essays on her childhood, influences, and thoughts on writing and life. Now, with this collection of essays, readers can explore the author of Victory Over Japan throughout her career. From the Mississippi plantation of her childhood to pieces featured in Vogue, Outside, New Woman, and The Washington Post Sunday...

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  • FLIGHTS OF ANGELS
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    FLIGHTS OF ANGELS
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    The National Book Award–winning Southern authorhumorously explores themes of marriage, love, gender, race, age, and more in eighteen short stories. Unplanned pregnancy, born-again Christianity, and strained sibling relationships are explored through precocious sixteen-year-old narrator Aurora Harris in "The Triumph of Reason," "Have a Wonderful Nice Walk," and "Witness to the C...

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  • THE ANNA PAPERS
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    THE ANNA PAPERS
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    A writer's suicide sends ripples through the world she left behind: "A wonderful book…moving and tender and tough and unsentimental, all at the same time."— Chicago Tribune An accomplished author with a string of devoted lovers, Anna Hand savors life in all of its bittersweet, fleeting moments. So when she gets a letter and discovers her brother has a daughter he never knew abo...

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  • I CANNOT GET YOU CLOSE ENOUGH
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    I CANNOT GET YOU CLOSE ENOUGH
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    Three intertwining novellas about love, death, and the bonds of blood:  "To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing ."—Jonathan Yardley,  The Washington Post Journeying through the lives of different members of the Hand family, Ellen Gilchrist weaves together tumultuous relationships that are bound by blood. A harrowing custody battle leads An...

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  • ANABASIS
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    ANABASIS
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    "Gilchrist's youthful enthusiasm for her heroine is evident throughout this appealing short novel, which should interest both adult and young adult readers." —Starr E. Smith, Library Journal Born into slavery, but taken on as an apprentice to the gentle genius Philokrates as a child, Auria has only known a life of wonder and kindness. A fount of knowledge and philosophy, Philok...

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  • THE CABAL AND OTHER STORIES
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    THE CABAL AND OTHER STORIES
    ELLEN GILCHRIST
    "The world Ellen Gilchrist unfolds in her vivid new story collection is rich with intimate exchanges between finely etched characters." — The New York Times Book Review Ellen Gilchrist proves herself once again to be a master of the intertwining tale in this collection of stories following the lives of different members of a Mississippi social elite, humorously nicknamed "The C...

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  • ALCHEMY—THE GREAT WORK
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    ALCHEMY—THE GREAT WORK
    CHERRY GILCHRIST
    Alchemy is the art of transformation. At its simplest, the alchemist turns base metals into gold. However, this is only one dimension of alchemy--at a more sophisticated level the alchemist's "base metal" is symbolic of himself that needs to be worked upon and the "gold" produced is the alchemist himself in his or her quest to perfect his own nature. In short, true alchemy is a...

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  • PRINCESS DIANA AUDIO CD PACK
    PRINCESS DIANA AUDIO CD PACK
    GILCHRIST
    Agotado

    $87.00