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  • URBAN ECOLOGY
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    URBAN ECOLOGY
    PHILIP JAMES / IAN DOUGLAS
    This fully revised second edition reflects the great expansion in urban ecology research, action, and teaching since 2015. Urban ecology provides an understanding of urban ecosystems and uses nature-based techniques to enhance habitats and alleviate poor environmental conditions. Already the home to the majority of the world’s people, urban areas continue to grow, causing ecolo...

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  • NONLINEAR PEDAGOGY AND THE ATHLETIC SKILLS MODEL
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    NONLINEAR PEDAGOGY AND THE ATHLETIC SKILLS MODEL
    JAMES RUDD / IAN RENSHAW / GEERT SAVELSBERGH / JIA YI CHOW / WILL ROBERTS / DANIEL NEWCOMBE / KEITH DAVIDS
    This book offers an ecological conceptualisation of physical literacy. Re-embracing our ancestry as hunter gatherers we gain a new appreciation and understanding of the importance of play, not only in terms of how children learn, but also in showing us as educators how we can lay the foundations for lifelong physical activity. The concept of physical literacy has been recognise...

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  • GYM BODIES
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    GYM BODIES
    JAMES BRIGHTON / IAN WELLARD / AMY CLARK
    Drawing on empirical research, this fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of ‘gym goers’ and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces. Gym Bodies offers a personal, interactive, ethnographic account of the multiplicity of contemporary gym practices, spaces and cultures, including bodybuilding, CrossFit and Spinning. It argues tha...

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  • VICE EPISTEMOLOGY
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    VICE EPISTEMOLOGY
    IAN JAMES KIDD / HEATHER BATTALY / QUASSIM CASSAM
    Some of the most problematic human behaviors involve vices of the mind such as arrogance, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, gullibility, and intellectual cowardice, as well as wishful or conspiratorial thinking. What sorts of things are epistemic vices? How do we detect and mitigate them? How and why do these vices prevent us from acquiring knowledge, and what is their role in sust...

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  • HOME EXERCISE PROGRAMS FOR MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SPORTS INJURIES
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    HOME EXERCISE PROGRAMS FOR MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SPORTS INJURIES
    IAN WENDEL, DO / SHOUNUCK I. PATEL, DO / JAMES WYSS, MD, MPT
    Home Exercise Programs for Musculoskeletal and Sports Injuries: The Evidence-Based Guide for Practitioners is designed to assist and guide healthcare professionals in prescribing home exercise programs in an efficient and easy to follow format. With patient handouts that are comprehensive and customizable, this manual is intended for the busy practitioner in any medical special...

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  • WORKPLACE ATTACHMENTS
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    WORKPLACE ATTACHMENTS
    JAMES GRADY / VICTORIA GRADY / PATRICK MCCREESH / IAN NOAKES
    How fast can your organization change? How long does it take to adopt new technology? Do things run the same when you bring in a new leader? How does the culture evolve with new acquisitions? There is an underlying thread in all these questions. Workplace attachment or our instinctual (biological) response to attach to both tangible and intangible objects continuously throughou...

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  • NURSES WORK
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    NURSES WORK
    JAMES BUCHAN / IAN SECCOMBE
    First published in 1998, this volume emerged in the context of rapidly developing nursing and health care fields and features contributions on areas in the NHS and private nursing including nurses’ pay and education, the gender balance in the nursing labour market, working patterns, employment contracts and turnover. It is part of a series of monographs offers up-to-date report...

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  • CULTURAL TURNS/GEOGRAPHICAL TURNS
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    CULTURAL TURNS/GEOGRAPHICAL TURNS
    SIMON NAYLOR / JAMES RYAN / IAN COOK / DAVID CROUCH
    Introduces undergraduates to the key debates regarding space and culture and the key theoretical arguments which guide cultural geographical work. This book addresses the impact, significance, and characteristics of the 'cultural turn' in contemporary geography. It focuses on the development of the cultural geography subdiscipline and on what has made it a peculiar and unique r...

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  • THINKING ARABIC TRANSLATION
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    THINKING ARABIC TRANSLATION
    JAMES DICKINS / SÁNDOR HERVEY / IAN HIGGINS
    Thinking Arabic Translation is an indispensable book for linguists who want to develop their Arabic-to-English translation skills. Clear explanations, discussions, examples and exercises enable students to acquire the skills necessary for tackling a broad range of translation problems. The book has a practical orientation, addressing key issues for translators, such as cultural...

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  • LUCIDITY
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    LUCIDITY
    IAN JAMES AND EMMA WILSON
    This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites, forms of obscurity and darkness. They offer attention to problems of philosophical tho...

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  • SCIENCE AND THE SELF
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    SCIENCE AND THE SELF
    IAN JAMES KIDD
    Mary Midgley is one of the most important moral philosophers working today. Over the last thirty years, her writings have informed debates concerning animals, the environment and evolutionary theory. The invited essays in this volume offer critical reflections upon Midgley’s work and further developments of her ideas. The contributors include many of the leading commentators on...

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  • GREEN GRABBING: A NEW APPROPRIATION OF NATURE
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    GREEN GRABBING: A NEW APPROPRIATION OF NATURE
    JAMES FAIRHEAD / MELISSA LEACH / IAN SCOONES
    Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel. Yet in other cases, environmental gr...

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  • UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROCESSES
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    UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROCESSES
    JAMES KEELEY
    A critical analysis of the post-Rio consensus on environment and development which questions the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific expertise. It asks why certain understandings of environmental change stick with such tenacity. In exploring this, the authors unravel the politics of knowledge surrounding policymaking, looking particularly at Ethiopia,...

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  • THE ORIGINS, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF INFANT CRYING AND SLEEPING PROBLEMS
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    THE ORIGINS, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF INFANT CRYING AND SLEEPING PROBLEMS
    IAN ST JAMES-ROBERTS
    Babies who cry a lot, or are unsettled in the night, are common sources of concern for parents and, consequently, costly problems for health services. In this book, Ian St James-Roberts summarises the evidence concerning infant crying and sleeping problems to provide a new evidence-based approach to these common challenges for parents and health services. The book begins by dis...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE EDUCATION STUDIES TEXTBOOK
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    THE ROUTLEDGE EDUCATION STUDIES TEXTBOOK
    JAMES ARTHUR AND IAN DAVIES
    The Routledge Education Studies Textbook is an academically wide-ranging and appropriately challenging resource for students beyond the introductory stages of a degree programme in Education Studies. Written in a clear and engaging style, the chapters are divided into three sections that examine fundamental ideas and issues, explore educational contexts, and offer study and res...

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  • PAUL VIRILIO
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    PAUL VIRILIO
    IAN JAMES
    Paul Virilio is a challenging and original thinker whose work on technology, state power and war is increasingly relevant today. Exploring Virilio's main texts from their political and historical contexts, and case studies from contemporary culture and media in order to explain his philosophical concepts, Ian James introduces the key themes in Virlio's work, including: speed vi...

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  • CITIZENSHIP THROUGH SECONDARY HISTORY
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    CITIZENSHIP THROUGH SECONDARY HISTORY
    JAMES ARTHUR / IAN DAVIES / DAVID KERR / ANDREW WRENN
    Citizenship through Secondary History reveals the potential of history to engage with citizenship education and includes: a review of the links between citizenship education and the teaching and learning of history an analysis of how citizenship education is characterised, raising key issues about what could and should be achieved a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls t...

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