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  • RECONCEPTUALISING THE LEARNING CRISIS IN AFRICA
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    RECONCEPTUALISING THE LEARNING CRISIS IN AFRICA
    KWAME AKYEAMPONG / SEAN HIGGINS
    This book offers a powerful, post‑colonial rejection of the so‑called global ‘learning crisis’ that offers deficit models of the experiences, knowledges, identities and relationships of African children, eroding their agency and dignity and undermining their learning opportunities and potential. Three case studies of three accelerated learning programmes (ALPs) for out‑of‑schoo...

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  • THINKING FRENCH TRANSLATION
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    THINKING FRENCH TRANSLATION
    SÁNDOR HERVEY / IAN HIGGINS
    The new edition of this popular course in translation from French into English offers a challenging practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved. A variety of translation issues are considered including: *cultural differences *register and dialect *genre *revision and editing. The course now covers texts...

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  • GREEK AND ROMAN JEWELLERY
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    GREEK AND ROMAN JEWELLERY
    R.A. HIGGINS
    Greek and Roman Jewellery (1961) covers jewellery from the Classical lands from the early Bronze Age to the late Roman period, almost 3,000 years of continuous development and innovation in the craft. A full account of the technical methods of making jewellery is followed by a description, period by period, of the jewellery itself. ...

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  • THE CRISIS OF CONVERSION
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    THE CRISIS OF CONVERSION
    J. AUGUST HIGGINS
    This book attempts to identify a central problem within the North American evangelical imagination around the issue of religious experience and its relationship to the basic hermeneutical stance of biblical and theological interpretation. The relatively recent emergence of the academic discipline of Christian spirituality offers a new set of methodological insights that may hel...

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  • UNDERSTANDING VICTIMOLOGY
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    UNDERSTANDING VICTIMOLOGY
    SHELLY CLEVENGER / JORDANA N. NAVARRO / CATHERINE D. MARCUM / GEORGE E. HIGGINS
    Understanding Victimology: An Active Learning Approach is the only textbook with extensive discussion of both online and offline victimization reinforced by group and individual learning activities. Our textbook offers instructors a variety of active learning exercises – in the book itself and in the authors’ ancillaries – that engage students in the material and shed light on ...

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  • AESTHETICS IN GRIEF AND MOURNING
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    AESTHETICS IN GRIEF AND MOURNING
    KATHLEEN MARIE HIGGINS
    A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement. In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins reflects on the ways that aesthetics aids people experiencing loss. Some practices related to bereavement, such as funerals, are scripted, but many others are recursive, improvisational, mundane—telling stories, listening to music, and ...

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  • GUDERIAN 1941
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    GUDERIAN 1941
    DAVID R. HIGGINS
    An in-depth account of the advance of Heinz Guderian's Second Panzer Group across the central Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. During the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Heinz Guderian's Second Panzer Group played a leading role, cutting through the defenses on the border, then taking part in the massive encirclem...

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  • OUTDOOR LEARNING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
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    OUTDOOR LEARNING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
    SIMON BEAMES / PETER HIGGINS / ROBBIE NICOL / HEIDI SMITH
    Following the acclaim for Learning Outside the Classroom in 2012, this latest book more deeply explains how well constructed outdoor learning experiences can benefit children and young people’s academic development and health and wellbeing. Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum outlines the theory and practice to enable preservice and experienced primary and secondary school t...

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  • THE GREAT UNHEARD AT WORK
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    THE GREAT UNHEARD AT WORK
    MARK COLE / JOHN HIGGINS
    Silence always has something to say – it’s never neutral and speaks volumes if people are willing to hear. Our response to silence is often to dismiss or end it, to block it out with noise. Instead, silence needs to be taken seriously. This book explores the importance of understanding silence and shows how we can move from merely listening to truly hearing those around us. The...

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  • PEACE THROUGH TOURISM
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    PEACE THROUGH TOURISM
    HIGGINS-DESBIOLLES, FREYA
    Peace through Tourism considers the possibilities for tourism to contribute to efforts to unmask conflict and promote peace. This edited volume considers the intersections between tourism, peace, justice and sustainability through conceptual and empirical works surveying practices, problems and challenges all around the globe. It presents a complex and critical approach, arguin...

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  • MATERIAL BALANCES FOR CHEMICAL REACTING SYSTEMS
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    MATERIAL BALANCES FOR CHEMICAL REACTING SYSTEMS
    R.L. CERRO / B.G. HIGGINS / S. WHITAKER
    Written for use in the first course of a typical chemical engineering program, Material Balances for Chemical Reacting Systems introduces and teaches students a rigorous approach to solving the types of macroscopic balance problems they will encounter as chemical engineers. This first course is generally taken after students have completed their studies of calculus and vector a...

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  • SOCIAL COGNITION
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    SOCIAL COGNITION
    E. TORY HIGGINS
    Originally published in 1981, this volume presents papers from the first Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology held at the University of Western Ontario from August 25-27, 1978. The general theme of the symposium was social cognition. The chapters have been grouped into two major parts. Chapters 1-5 focus on the implications of cognitive structures for social c...

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  • TEACHING PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN REMOTE AND HYBRID SPACES
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    TEACHING PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN REMOTE AND HYBRID SPACES
    JEANMARIE HIGGINS
    This collection of insightful essays gives teachers’ perspectives on the role of space and presence in teaching performance. It explores how the demand for remote teaching can be met while at the same time successfully educating and working compassionately in this most ‘live’ of disciplines. Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces reframes prevailing ideas ab...

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  • LEADERSHIP UNRAVELLED
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    LEADERSHIP UNRAVELLED
    MARK COLE / JOHN HIGGINS
    Why is it that leaders – in social, political, and (most importantly) organisational contexts – are seemingly unable to address meaningfully the wicked problems and complex challenges that we currently face? There’s enormous busyness around reconfiguring departments and adopting ‘transformational’ operating models, but in general plus ca change, plus la meme chose. Eyewatering ...

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  • THE LOST GIANT, AND OTHER AMERICAN INDIAN TALES
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    THE LOST GIANT, AND OTHER AMERICAN INDIAN TALES
    VIOLET MOORE HIGGINS
    Excerpt: “A troubled history has all along been that of the great tongue of land which, occupying the same position in Asia as Italy in Europe, is equal to half our continent, with a population growing towards three hundred millions. Far back into fabulous ages, we see it threatened by mythical or shadowy conquerors, Hercules, Semiramis, Sesostris, Cyrus; whelmed beneath inroad...

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  • SOCIALISING TOURISM
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    SOCIALISING TOURISM
    FREYA HIGGINS-DESBIOLLES
    Once touted as the world’s largest industry and also a tool for fostering peace and global understanding, tourism has certainly been a major force shaping our world. The recent COVID-19 crisis has led to calls to transform tourism and reset it along more ethical and sustainable lines. It was in this context that calls to "socialise tourism" emerged (Higgins-Desbiolles, 2020). T...

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  • STELLA DALLAS
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    STELLA DALLAS
    OLIVE HIGGINS PROUTY
    Stella Dallas a pretty working class girl decides she wants more out of life than drudgery and work. She sets her sights on marry rich and she manages it. But she soon finds that marrying a rich man and keeping him are not the same things. Course and vulgar by upper class standards she is unable to bridge the cultural divide that separates them. When Stella and her husband inev...

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  • COMMUNITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
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    COMMUNITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
    VALERIE HIGGINS / DIANE DOUGLAS
    Communities and Cultural Heritage explores the relationship between communities, their cultural heritage and the global forces that control most of the world’s wealth and resources in today’s world. Bringing together scholars and heritage practitioners from nine countries, this book contributes to the ongoing dialogue on community heritage by analysing impediments to full commu...

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  • MATERIALS FOR ENGINEERS AND TECHNICIANS
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    MATERIALS FOR ENGINEERS AND TECHNICIANS
    WILLIAM BOLTON / R.A. HIGGINS
    For over forty years, Materials for Engineers and Technicians has given thousands of students an easily accessible introduction to materials engineering and manufacturing processes. This renowned text is a comprehensive overview of the wide-ranging subject area, written in a straightforward, readable style. It is devoid of excessive jargon and mathematical complexity, and retai...

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  • MEMBRANE ANALYSIS
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    MEMBRANE ANALYSIS
    DR JOHN GRAHAM / JOAN HIGGINS
    Membrane Analysis provides a comprehensive review of laboratory methods for membrane study, with an emphasis on isolating membranes, analysing their composition and architecture, and investigating membrane function. ...

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  • SHOPPING WHILE BLACK
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    SHOPPING WHILE BLACK
    SHAUN L. GABBIDON / GEORGE E. HIGGINS
    Winner of the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award! Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America lays out the results of nearly two decades of research on racial profiling in retail settings. Gabbidon and Higgins address the generally neglected racial profiling that occurs in retail settings. Although there is no existing national datab...

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  • TEACHING CRITICAL PERFORMANCE THEORY
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    TEACHING CRITICAL PERFORMANCE THEORY
    JEANMARIE HIGGINS
    Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. The book’s seventeen chapters collectively ask: What use is theory to an emerging theatre artist or scholar? Which theories should be taught, and to whom? How can theory pedagogies shape and respond to the...

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  • THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE DURING ARMED CONFLICT
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    THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE DURING ARMED CONFLICT
    NOELLE HIGGINS
    This book analyses the current legal framework seeking to protect cultural heritage during armed conflict and discusses proposed and emerging paradigms for its better protection. Cultural heritage has always been a victim of conflict, with monuments and artefacts frequently destroyed as collateral damage in wars throughout history. In addition, works of art have been viewed as ...

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  • BIKES FOR SALE
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    BIKES FOR SALE
    CARTER HIGGINS
    "A fun story of two bicycle enthusiasts who accidentally meet and develop a friendship . . . Full of musings about potential that can be inspiring." — School Library Journal   Maurice rides his bike to his shop every day. Lotta rides her bike to collect sticks every day. Both go about their separate routines, unaware of the friendship that awaits them just a few blocks away. Bu...

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  • BRITISH COTTON TEXTILES: MATURITY AND DECLINE
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    BRITISH COTTON TEXTILES: MATURITY AND DECLINE
    DAVID HIGGINS
    This book examines the decline of the cotton textiles industry, which defined Britain as an industrial nation, from its peak in the late nineteenth century to the state of the industry at the end of the twentieth century. Focusing on the owners and managers of cotton businesses, the authors examine how they mobilised financial resources; their attitudes to industry structure an...

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  • COLLAGE AND LITERATURE
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    COLLAGE AND LITERATURE
    SCARLETT HIGGINS
    Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, and what that change has meant for late modernism and postmodernism. Starting from Pablo Picasso’s 1912 gesture, breaking the fundamental logic of representation, of pasting a piece of oilcloth onto a canvas, and moving up to K...

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  • FAMILY SUPPORT - LINKING PROJECT EVALUATION TO POLICY ANALYSIS
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    FAMILY SUPPORT - LINKING PROJECT EVALUATION TO POLICY ANALYSIS
    JOHN PINKERTON / KATHRYN HIGGINS
    This title was first published in 2000:  This book provides an exploration of the link between individualized project evaluation and policy analysis. The conceptual and legislative frameworks which contextualize family support are explored in full. By drawing on existing literature and examining the political and legislative aspects of family support the book aims to provide in...

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  • HAZARDOUS WASTE MINIMIZATION HANDBOOK
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    HAZARDOUS WASTE MINIMIZATION HANDBOOK
    THOMAS E. HIGGINS
    This book, designed to assist industrial engineers and managers in making changes in purchasing, manufacturing, and waste handling practices to reduce the costs and liabilities of waste disposal, begins by defining waste minimization in the first two chapters. A description of the economic and regulatory incentives a company has for setting up a waste minimization program follo...

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  • EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT INFLATION
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    EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT INFLATION
    ECKHARDT WOHLERS / BENJAMIN HIGGINS
    The world economy has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades and theoretical structures inherited from the 1930s through the 1950s, while retaining large elements of truth, are inadequate to deal with current problems. Benjamin Higgins feels that for a society such as the United States a fiscal policy needs to be adopted that can deal simultaneously with exist...

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  • THIS IS NOT A VALENTINE
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    THIS IS NOT A VALENTINE
    CARTER HIGGINS
    In this picture book, a girl's gift of a Valentine to a boy prompts a tale with an enduring message of friendship. This book is not a valentine. It doesn't have lacey edges or sugary hearts. But it is full of lucky rocks, secret hiding spots, and gumball machine treasures. This is a book about waiting in line and wishing for cinnamon buns. About recognizing that if you care so ...

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