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  • POLICE INTELLIGENCE
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    POLICE INTELLIGENCE
    WAYNE L. DAVIS / PAUL J. LESLIE / ASHLEY B. DAVIS
    Police Intelligence: Totality of Circumstances is an essential resource and is designed for any individual who may encounter the field of criminal justice, whether the person is a police chief who oversees the department’s standard operating procedures, a police officer who enforces the law, a civilian who is expected to follow the law, a lawyer who may challenge an action in c...

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  • LAND AND FAMILY IN PISTICCI
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    LAND AND FAMILY IN PISTICCI
    J. DAVIS
    The study of family and inheritance systems is a traditionally anthropological one. Dr Davis has examined a South Italian town with records from 1814 and concludes that the present 'typical' European system is of recent adoption, a response to the gradual and peculiar integration of Pisticci into a nation-state and national economy. The account of landholding distinguishes care...

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  • CHOICE AND CHANGE
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    CHOICE AND CHANGE
    J. DAVIS
    This volume in honour of Professor Mair reflects the range of her interests, and those of the Department in which she taught, in many areas of social anthropology, for it reports on research in Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean, on the tensions between tradition and modernity, between the individual and society, deviance and conformity, stability and conflict. The ambiguities ...

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  • EUROPEAN COMPETITION
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    EUROPEAN COMPETITION
    F.J.L. SOMERS / K.E. DAVIS-OST / J.E. FRENCKEN / E. HEUTEN
    Europe is increasingly becoming an everyday reality for many companies, not only for large corporations but small and medium-sized enterprises as well. European Competition offers students an introduction to the field of competition, cooperation and competition policy in the EU. To increase students' understanding of the workings of the Internal Market, most chapters start with...

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  • RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT
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    RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT
    JOHN SAUNDERS / J. MICHAEL DAVIS / GALEN MOSES / JAMES E ROSS
    Financing distribution of electric energy to rural areas in developing countries is a relatively recent activity. The United States Agency for International Development (AID) was the first to loan funds for this purpose. In 1963 it authorized $400, 000 to establish an electric cooperative in Nicaragua. Since then 15 loans have been made by AID for establishing or expanding elec...

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  • MODERN INDUSTRY AND THE AFRICAN
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    MODERN INDUSTRY AND THE AFRICAN
    J. MERLE DAVIS
    Originally published in 1933, at the time of its publication, Modern Industry and the African represented a progressive, essentially liberal approach to the development of the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia and the response thereto of the Christian Church. It expressed the authors' very real fears that urbanization would irreparably damage the foundations of indigenous life an...

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  • REDUCING DISASTER RISKS
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    REDUCING DISASTER RISKS
    IAN DAVIS, STEPHEN O. BENDER, FREDRICK KRIMGOLD AND FRANKLIN J. MCDONALD
    Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments? In 1984, leading disaster risk management professionals and researchers met in Jamaica for the Ocho Rios conference on Disaster Mitigation. In this collection, key experts reflect on the progress made in disaster risk reduction since that conference, with a particular emphasis on the Caribbean. Areas of focus include: t...

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  • AVOIDING THE DARK
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    AVOIDING THE DARK
    DARIEN J. DAVIS
    First published in 1999. This work examines the processes by which Brazilian nationalists forged and propagated an all-inclusive national identity, which attempted to promote racial harmony in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Specific emphasis is given to the rising patriotic feelings under the administration of President Getulio Vargas, which culminated in the ...

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  • DOCK WORKERS
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    DOCK WORKERS
    SAM DAVIES / COLIN J. DAVIS / DAVID DE VRIES / LEX HEERMA VAN VOSS / LIDEWIJ HESSELINK / KLAUS WEINHAUER
    Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop a genuinely comparative international perspective...

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  • BEGINNING WITH DISABILITY
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    BEGINNING WITH DISABILITY
    LENNARD J. DAVIS
    While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory primer for disaibility studies aimed at first year students in two- and four-year colleges. This volume of essays across disciplines—including education, sociology, communications, psycho...

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  • THE DISABILITY STUDIES READER
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    THE DISABILITY STUDIES READER
    LENNARD J. DAVIS
    The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binar...

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  • STUDIES IN PERCEPTION AND ACTION XII
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    STUDIES IN PERCEPTION AND ACTION XII
    TEHRAN J. DAVIS
    Since 1991, the edited book series Studies in Perception and Action has appeared in conjunction with the biennial International Conference of Perception and Action (ICPA). ICPA provides a forum for researchers and academics who share a common interest in ecological psychology to come together, present new research, and foster ideas towards the advancement of the field. This vol...

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  • ANCIENT LOONS
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    ANCIENT LOONS
    PHILIP J. DAVIS
    "Ah, I'm Pingree. We meet again. Splendid. Won't you sit down?"I looked around David's room. Short of the library stacks, I had never seen so many books piled into a single room. Where could I sit down? Every square inch of horizontal surface was covered. Books, papers, notes, manuscripts-all congregated in random and chaotic disorder.This small en ...

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  • MUSIC AND TRANSCENDENCE
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    MUSIC AND TRANSCENDENCE
    FERDIA J. STONE-DAVIS
    Music and Transcendence explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing together the disciplines of musicology, philosophy and theology, thereby uncovering congruencies between them that have often been obscured. Music has the capacity to take one outside of oneself and place one in relation to that which is ’other’. This ’other’ can be conceived in an ’ab...

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  • WOMEN AND DEVIANCE: ISSUES IN SOCIAL CONFLICT AND CHANGE
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    WOMEN AND DEVIANCE: ISSUES IN SOCIAL CONFLICT AND CHANGE
    NANETTE J. DAVIS / JONE M. KEITH
    This book, first published in 1984, is a selective, annotated bibliography on women and deviance that includes historical, cross cultural, sociological, psychological, political, legal, philosophical, and social policy perspectives. This title is concerned with the origins, change, conflict, and consequences of deviant behaviour and "women’s adaptation to their changing roles."...

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  • TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
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    TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
    CARL J. GUARNERI / JIM DAVIS
    This comprehensive resource is an invaluable teaching aid for adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory American history courses to an international view.The contribut...

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  • PEOPLE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
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    PEOPLE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
    J. DAVIS
    The Mediterranean countries have long attracted the attention of social anthropologists, from Frazer and Durkheim to the present day. In this volume, first published in 1977, Dr Davis reviews the extensive anthropological material collected and published by people who have worked in the area and claims that social anthropologists have a distinctive opportunity to compare simila...

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  • SHALL I SAY A KISS?
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    SHALL I SAY A KISS?
    LENNARD J. DAVIS
    Upon the death of his father Morris at age 82, Lennard Davis found among his effects a trove of letters, kept in careful chronological order, that dated from 1936. The letters ended in 1938, when Eva Weintrobe came to America to marry Morris, and they provide the core of Shall I Say A Kiss?, their courtship by correspondence. In his framing comments, Davis speculates that his p...

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  • RESISTING NOVELS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    RESISTING NOVELS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    LENNARD J. DAVIS
    "By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is also a defensive structure positioning us against alienation and loneliness: the ...

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  • COMPUTABILITY, COMPLEXITY, AND LANGUAGES
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    COMPUTABILITY, COMPLEXITY, AND LANGUAGES
    MARTIN D. DAVIS / ELAINE J. WEYUKER
    Computability, Complexity, and Languages: Fundamentals of Theoretical Computer Science provides an introduction to the various aspects of theoretical computer science. Theoretical computer science is the mathematical study of models of computation. This text is composed of five parts encompassing 17 chapters, and begins with an introduction to the use of proofs in mathematics...

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  • METHODS OF NUMERICAL INTEGRATION
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    METHODS OF NUMERICAL INTEGRATION
    PHILIP J. DAVIS / PHILIP RABINOWITZ
    Methods of Numerical Integration, Second Edition describes the theoretical and practical aspects of major methods of numerical integration. Numerical integration is the study of how the numerical value of an integral can be found. This book contains six chapters and begins with a discussion of the basic principles and limitations of numerical integration. The succeeding chapt...

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  • SOLUTION-FOCUSED SCHOOL COUNSELOR
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    SOLUTION-FOCUSED SCHOOL COUNSELOR
    TOM E. DAVIS / CYNTHIA J. OSBORN
    This text highlights the indispensable role of school counselors today, namely as change agents in an increasingly complex and fluctuating school system. Informed by emerging standards of practice and current research, the book adopts the salutary perspective of solution-focused brief therapy as its foundation. It outlines practical and time-sensitive strategies for school coun...

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  • SINGLE CASE RESEARCH IN SCHOOLS
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    SINGLE CASE RESEARCH IN SCHOOLS
    KIMBERLY J. VANNEST / JOHN L. DAVIS / RICHARD I. PARKER
    Single Case Research in Schools addresses and examines the variety of cutting-edge issues in single case research (SCR) in educational settings. Featuring simple and practical techniques for aggregating data for evidence-based practices, the book delves into methods of selecting behaviors of interest and measuring them reliably. The latter part of Single Case Research in School...

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  • BLACK POLITICS TODAY
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    BLACK POLITICS TODAY
    THEODORE J. DAVIS JR.
    The late 1980s ushered in a new era of black politics, the socioeconomic transition era. Coming on the heels of the protest era and politics era, the current stage is characterized by the emergence of a new black middle class that came of age after the Civil Rights struggle. Although class still isn’t a strong factor in the external politics of the black community, it is increa...

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  • THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANIMALS
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    THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANIMALS
    SIMON J. M. DAVIS
    Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoologists have taken to studying such "archaeofaunal" remains, and the science of "zoo-archaeology" has come into being.What was the nature of...

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  • MATHEMATICS & COMMON SENSE
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    MATHEMATICS & COMMON SENSE
    PHILIP J. DAVIS
    From the Preface: This book is addressed to all who are curious about the nature of mathematics and its role in society. It is neither a text book nor a specialists' book. It consists of a number of loosely linked essays that may be read independently and for which I have tried to provide a leitmotif by throwing light on the relationship between mathematics and common sense. In...

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  • THE SHAKESPEARE NAME DICTIONARY
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    THE SHAKESPEARE NAME DICTIONARY
    J. MADISON DAVIS / DANIEL A. FRANKFORTER
    Entries provide the likely sources for a name; describe historical and mythological backgrounds; examine Shakespeare's presentation of a character or place; and suggest various interpretations of a name. Each entry contains line citations to William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. A guide to the historical, mythological, fictional, and geographic references that appear in Shak...

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  • THE EDUCATION OF A MATHEMATICIAN
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    THE EDUCATION OF A MATHEMATICIAN
    PHILIP J. DAVIS
    In this charming memoir, a renowned mathematician and winner of the American Book Award traces his career in mathematics from early lessons in horse racing and the realities of life to his adventures on the lecture circuit. A thought-provoking mix of autobiography, history, and insights into the role of mathematics in everyday life, this highly ent ...

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  • GAP JUNCTIONS
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    GAP JUNCTIONS
    HALL, J.E. / ZAMPIGHI, GUIDO / DAVIS, R.M.
    Gap junctions are present in nearly all tissues, regardless of their embronic origin and have long been of great interest to scientists from many different disciplines. The international meeting on which this book is based brought together 157 scientists from 12 countries and almost as many scientific disciplines. The papers presented at the meeting were reviewed and updated pr...

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  • TRINITARIAN FORMATION
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    TRINITARIAN FORMATION
    J. CHASE DAVIS
    Are we following Jesus the wrong way? Do you ever wonder if maybe following Jesus has been a little too complicated? Like there are too many badges to earn or bridges to cross to be a disciple? What happens in many churches is very rarely discipleship. More often it is a nice religious service or class. It should be very concerning to us that we are not making disciples. If we ...

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