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  • G T 3 THE UNREALISED DREAM
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    G T 3 THE UNREALISED DREAM
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    Tells the story of John Hughes' persistent efforts to develop gas turbine locomotives, culminating in the creation of the GT3. During the 1930s, with the end of steam locomotion being actively considered, many looked to develop engines powered by diesel and electricity. But for the coming of war in 1939, and the acute recession that followed, much more might have been accomplis...

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  • MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN
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    MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    “As an examination of what made Montgomery and Rommel tick, this offers excellent analysis. … a nice, fast, well-written read.” -Historical Miniatures Gaming Society It is more than a hundred years since the First World War fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen was killed in combat on the Western Front. By then, due to a strange twist of fate, his name was becoming as well known i...

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  • THE ETHICS OF STATE RESPONSES TO REFUGEES
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    THE ETHICS OF STATE RESPONSES TO REFUGEES
    BRADLEY HILLIER-SMITH
    This book appears at a time of intense debate on how states should respond to refugees: some philosophers argue states are not necessarily obligated to admit a single refugee, others argue states should continually admit refugees until the point of societal collapse. Some politicians argue for increasing refugee resettlement, others seek to prevent refugees from arriving at the...

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  • FLYING SCOTSMAN, AND THE STORY OF GRESLEY'S FIRST PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVES
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    FLYING SCOTSMAN, AND THE STORY OF GRESLEY'S FIRST PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVES
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    Herbert Nigel Gresley's first Pacifics, though notable in their day, were made universally famous by one of their number – 4722 Flying Scotsman. Throughout her life she has been feted and glamorised far more than any of her sisters and yet when appearing from the LNER Works at Doncaster in 1923 she was just another member of the class, but at some stage, early in her career, sh...

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  • GRESLEY'S MASTER ENGINEER, BERT SPENCER
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    GRESLEY'S MASTER ENGINEER, BERT SPENCER
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    The great and the good rarely, if ever, accomplish all they wish to achieve without the able assistance of many skilled men and women. To have a very capable person beside you acting as guide, confidant and adviser is essential. Even better when it is someone with a depth of knowledge equal to, or even better than your own. If all these skills can be combined in one trusted, as...

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  • THE A4 PACIFICS AFTER GRESLEY
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    THE A4 PACIFICS AFTER GRESLEY
    RONALD HILLIER / TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    In their book 'Gresley's Silver Link' the authors analyzed the evolution of the A4s Gresley's and their service up to Gresley's death in 1941. This book takes this compelling story from the early years of the war up to their demise in the 1960s After four years of service pulling the LNER's most prestigious trains the A4s took on a more utilitarian role and for six years worked...

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  • SUCCULENT STYLE
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    SUCCULENT STYLE
    JULIA HILLIER
    The Ultimate Succulents Book for Gardeners and Crafters #1 New Release in Cacti & Succulents, Ornamental Plants, Gardening, Horticulture, and Landscape We know —killing your plants succs. A crash course on all things succulents, this engaging and easy-to-use succulents book offers everything you need to know so you can both successfully grow these gorgeous plants and create coo...

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  • REVIVAL: AN ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY OF PEKING COLLOQUIAL (1945)
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    REVIVAL: AN ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY OF PEKING COLLOQUIAL (1945)
    WALTER CAINE HILLIER
    Many of the marks attached to the phonetic rendering of the Chinese words in this volume differ from those assigned to them in the dictionaries. These apparent discrepencies are intentional, the tones being given as they are applied, or appear to the ear of the compiler to be applied, by the natives of Peking. ...

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  • CONNECTIONS
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    CONNECTIONS
    JEAN HILLIER / JONATHAN METZGER
    The professional practice as well as the academic discipline of planning has been fundamentally re-invented all over the world in recent decades. In this astonishing transition, the thinking and scholarship of Patsy Healey appears as a constantly recurring influence and inspiration around the globe. The purpose of this book is to present, discuss and celebrate Healey’s seminal...

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  • MAKE KEY STAGE 3 MATTER IN ENGLISH
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    MAKE KEY STAGE 3 MATTER IN ENGLISH
    LIZ HILLIER
    The KS3 curriculum plays a critical part in giving students the best possible start to their secondary education and preventing the need for intervention later on. This timely book provides detailed guidance on how to develop a robust, multifaceted, inclusive and challenging KS3 curriculum in English that provides a secure and progressive link between KS2 and KS4. Featuring exa...

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  • STRETCHING BEYOND THE HORIZON
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    STRETCHING BEYOND THE HORIZON
    JEAN HILLIER
    In this innovative work Jean Hillier develops a new theory for students and researchers of spatial planning and governance which is grounded primarily in the work of Gilles Deleuze. The theory recognizes the complex interrelation between place qualities and the multiple space-time relational dynamics of spatial governance. Using empirical examples from England and Australia, Hi...

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  • PLANNING IN TEN WORDS OR LESS
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    PLANNING IN TEN WORDS OR LESS
    MICHAEL GUNDER / JEAN HILLIER
    This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights that these terms, and others, are mere 'empty signifiers', meaning everything and ...

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  • COMPLEXITY AND PLANNING
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    COMPLEXITY AND PLANNING
    GERT DE ROO / JEAN HILLIER
    Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the vagaries of the real world when putting together proposals for future developm...

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  • COMMUNICATING HEALTH RISKS TO THE PUBLIC
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    COMMUNICATING HEALTH RISKS TO THE PUBLIC
    HILLIER, DAWN
    This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and examines and assesses the technical and psycho-sociological tools available to support risk communication plans. It brings together approaches to risk communication from a number of countries and describes the techniques, including drama, storytelling and scenarios that are used to identify and prioritise key c...

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  • A FIGHTER COMMAND STATION AT WAR
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    A FIGHTER COMMAND STATION AT WAR
    MARK HILLIER
    Situated close to the South Coast, on flat land to the north of Chichester in West Sussex, lies Goodwood Aerodrome. This pleasant rural airfield was once home to squadrons of Hurricanes, Spitfires and later Typhoons. RAF Westhampnett was at the forefront of the Battle of Britain as a satellite to the Sector (or controlling) Station of RAF Tangmere, part of 11 Group, which bore ...

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  • HEALTH CARE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN CHINA 1800-1982
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    HEALTH CARE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN CHINA 1800-1982
    S. M. HILLIER / TONY JEWELL
    First published in 1983.Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People's Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the conflicts of State bureaucracy, Party and medical profession in their attempts to match ...

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  • A THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF ANIMALS
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    A THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF ANIMALS
    W. T. HILLIER
    A Theory of the Formation of Animals describes the details of formation of man, the structure, development, and physiology. This book is composed of seven chapters and begins with an introduction to a theory of animal formation, namely, the theory of dual constitution. This theory hypothesize that if new types of animal arise through the fusion of two animals of dissimilar kin...

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  • CHILDBIRTH IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
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    CHILDBIRTH IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
    DAWN HILLIER
    Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'? Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience? If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it? These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth practices and its implica...

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  • SHADOWS OF POWER
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    SHADOWS OF POWER
    JEAN HILLIER
    Shadows of Power examines public policy and in particular, the communicative processes of policy and decision-making. It explore the important who, how and why issues of policy decisions. Who really takes the decisions? How are they arrived at and why were such processes used? What relations of power may be revealed between the various participants? Using stories from planning ...

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  • RESEARCHING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH
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    RESEARCHING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH
    MRS SHEILA HILLIER
    Significant concerns about the poor health and prevalence of chronic illness amongst a number of ethnic minority populations have led to heightened debates about how best to improve the situation. For some the answer is to see their experiences as part of the general social class inequality in health, but recent evidence questions the extent to which social class can explain th...

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  • PEPPERCORN, HIS LIFE & LOCOMOTIVES
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    PEPPERCORN, HIS LIFE & LOCOMOTIVES
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    Arthur Peppercorn, a vicar's son from Herefordshire, was the last L N E R Chief Mechanical Engineer. He managed his department for a very short time before it was swept away in the wholesale changes that followed Nationalisation of British Railways in 1948.Although a disciple and follower of Sir Nigel Gresley, he was his own man and developed his talent for production engineeri...

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  • SOUTHERN RAILWAY, LORD NELSON CLASS 4-6-0S
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    SOUTHERN RAILWAY, LORD NELSON CLASS 4-6-0S
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    A pictorial history of the sixteen-member British steam locomotive class all named after famous admirals. The Lord Nelson Class has come to be viewed as an "also ran" amongst express locomotives and is largely overlooked for that reason. It had the misfortune to be sandwiched on Southern metals between the classic and much revered King Arthurs and Schools and by Bullied's contr...

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  • ROYAL FLYING CORPS KITBAG
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    ROYAL FLYING CORPS KITBAG
    MARK HILLIER
    A complete guide to the WWI uniforms and equipment of RFC pilots and airmen—fully illustrated with color photos. When the First World War began in 1914, the newly formed Royal Flying Corps was put to the ultimate test. As the Great War raged, the developments in military aviation were profound, not only in terms of aerial warfare, but also—as this book reveals—in the uniforms a...

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  • GRESLEY AND HIS LOCOMOTIVES
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    GRESLEY AND HIS LOCOMOTIVES
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    An in-depth look at the team who worked with the renowned British railway engineer, with numerous photos included. To renowned engineer Nigel Gresley must go great credit for many of the London and North Eastern Railway's achievements, but those around him have faded into obscurity and are now largely forgotten, even though their contributions were immense. To redress this imba...

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  • THE MODIFIED BULLEID PACIFICS
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    THE MODIFIED BULLEID PACIFICS
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    This British Railways history recounts the life of a controversial steam engine and its miraculous transformation at the hands of a brilliant engineer.   As Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway, Oliver Bulleid designed what were perhaps the most controversial steam locomotives ever built in Britain: the Pacifics. Loved and loathed in equal measure, the debate over ...

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  • LMS LOCOMOTIVE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
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    LMS LOCOMOTIVE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    In 1958 one of Britain`s greatest locomotive designers died without public fanfare or recognition, mourned only by his family. Yet William Stanier, arguably one of our greatest engineers and his leader, said of him that without his Chief Draughtsman all he achieved with the LMS would not have been possible. How could such a man slip from our view and remain anonymous, although ...

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  • THE LUFTWAFFE BATTLE OF BRITAIN FIGHTER PILOT'S KITBAG
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    THE LUFTWAFFE BATTLE OF BRITAIN FIGHTER PILOT'S KITBAG
    MARK HILLIER
    "Detail[s] German fighter pilots' flying helmets, oxygen masks, goggles . . . and other ephemera . . . brilliantly done—and completely engrossing."—The Aviation Historian    Reichsmarschall Gring told Hitler that it would take less than a month for his much-vaunted Luftwaffe to conquer the RAF and pave the way for the German invasion of Great Britain. His prediction was to prov...

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  • THE RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN FIGHTER PILOT'S KITBAG
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    THE RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN FIGHTER PILOT'S KITBAG
    MARK HILLIER
    The scenes are familiar ones; the young Brylcream Boys sat at dispersal waiting for the haunting call of Scramble, lounging in their shirt sleeves and fur-lined boots, their leather flying helmets lying limp by their side. But what did the RAF fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain really wear, and what vital items would their kitbags have held?The casual air of the dashing pi...

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  • THE TURBOMOTIVE: STANIER'S ADVANCED PACIFIC
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    THE TURBOMOTIVE: STANIER'S ADVANCED PACIFIC
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    Turbomotive was unique in Britain's railway history, and an experimental engine that proved successful but came too late to effect the direction of steam development or deflect the onset of diesel and electric locomotives. It was the brainchild of two of the most influential engineers of the twentieth century William Stanier of the LMS and Henry Guy of Metropolitan Vickers. The...

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  • THE PRINCESS ROYAL PACIFICS
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    THE PRINCESS ROYAL PACIFICS
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    When Stanier joined the LMS in 1932, as their CME, he was expected to breathe new life into this ailing giant. Since its formation it had steadily lost ground to its main rival, the LNER. In Doncaster, Nigel Gresley and his team, with an eye to advancing locomotive design at the same time as making the company commercially successful, had quickly begun producing a series of hig...

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