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  • PRACTISING WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE
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    PRACTISING WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE
    JAMES BENEDICT BROWN / FRANCESCO CAMILLI
    In the stark light of the climate emergency, using wood instead of concrete, steel, or masonry is increasingly seen as a way of reducing the environmental impact of architecture and construction. More and more new buildings are showcasing innovative ways to work with wood. Wood can help architects achieve ambitious sustainability targets, including the United Nations’ Sustainab...

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  • VICARIOUS LIABILITY IN THE SPORTS INDUSTRY
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    VICARIOUS LIABILITY IN THE SPORTS INDUSTRY
    JAMES BROWN
    This timely book is the first to critically examine the doctrine of vicarious liability in the context of the sports industry. Drawing on theoretical, empirical and interdisciplinary research, the book focuses on the close connection test at stage two of vicarious liability, highlighting how vicarious liability could be used to hold sports employers strictly liable for a wide r...

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  • THE REGIONALIZATION OF WARFARE
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    THE REGIONALIZATION OF WARFARE
    JAMES BROWN
    Three wars have dominated world events in recent years: The conflict which erupted between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands; the multinational conflict in Lebanon involving Irsaeli, Syrian, and FLO forces in Lebanon; and the savage struggles between ground and air units of the Iranian and Iraqi forces. The scale and intensity of these wars, th...

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  • SHAPING LEARNERS’ PRONUNCIATION
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    SHAPING LEARNERS’ PRONUNCIATION
    JAMES DEAN BROWN / DUSTIN CROWTHER
    A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word st...

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  • SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK
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    SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK
    SHIRLEY J. HANSEN / JAMES W. BROWN
    A strong sustainability program requires leadership to draw on a solid knowledge base, manage resources wisely, identify sustainability opportunities, make difficult choices, and accept the challenge to lead, influence, and persuade colleagues. This book cuts through the hyperbole and offers practical steps for protecting the world around us. Rich in case studies, it addresses ...

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  • INVESTMENT GRADE ENERGY AUDIT
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    INVESTMENT GRADE ENERGY AUDIT
    SHIRLEY J. HANSEN / JAMES W. BROWN
    This book was written to give energy-involved professionals the tools they need to take their energy audits to the next level, and use them to accurately predict a building's future energy use and true savings potential. Going beyond the conventional energy audit, which can lead to projections which are frequently off by as much as 20%, this book provides detailed guidelines on...

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  • MEDIATED SPACE
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    MEDIATED SPACE
    JAMES BROWN
    As the social media revolution embeds itself in our daily lives, and as those who once consumed media become producers, established broadcast media producers are witnessing the dissolution of trust in their established authority. Mediated Space critiques contemporary intersections of Architecture and broadcast media that exploit spaces and places that are real, imagined or hybr...

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  • THE DECLINE OF MILITARY REGIMES
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    THE DECLINE OF MILITARY REGIMES
    CONSTANTINE P DANOPOULOS / ROBIN A REMINGTON / JAMES BROWN / CLAUDE WELCH
    Many generous people deserve special thanks for their assistance in the preparation and completion of this project. I wish to express my gratitude to each of the contributors for agreeing to tackle a difficult and inherently controversial subject. I am only sorry that C.I. Eugene Kim did not live long enough to see the fruits of his labor; he will be sorely missed by all of us ...

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  • MATERIALISM
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    MATERIALISM
    ROBIN BROWN / JAMES LADYMAN
    The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has been aligned with toleration and enlightened thinking, but it has also aroused strong, often violent, passions amongst both its opponents and proponents. This book explores the development of materialism in an engaging and thought-provoking way and defends the fo...

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  • EVIDENCE-BASED SCIENCE ACTIVITIES IN GRADES 3–5
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    EVIDENCE-BASED SCIENCE ACTIVITIES IN GRADES 3–5
    PATRICK BROWN / JAMES CONCANNON
    This new book shows elementary teachers how evidence-based science activities help students achieve deeper conceptual understanding. Drawing on a wealth of research, authors Patrick Brown and James Concannon demonstrate how direct, hands-on experience in the science classroom can enable your students to become more self-reliant learners. They also provide a plethora of model le...

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  • PIONEER VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE
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    PIONEER VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE
    JAMES M. BROWN
    This book honors Naomi Weisstein’s foreshortened span of work published from 1964 to 1992. Naomi Weisstein was a pioneer in the areas we now call visual neuroscience, visual cognition, and cognitive neuroscience. Her enthusiastic pursuit of the mind was infectious, inspiring many others to take up the challenge. Despite her time as an active researcher being cut short, Weisstei...

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  • INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE ACTIVITIES IN GRADES 6-12
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    INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE ACTIVITIES IN GRADES 6-12
    PATRICK BROWN / JAMES CONCANNON
    This new book shows middle and high school science teachers how to use evidence-based inquiry to help students achieve deeper conceptual understanding. Drawing on a wealth of research, authors Pat Brown and Jim Concannon demonstrate how direct, hands-on experience in the science classroom can enable your students to become more self-reliant learners. They also provide a plethor...

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  • GETTYSBURG
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    GETTYSBURG
    EARL SCHENCK MIERS / RICHARD A. BROWN / JAMES L. ROBERTSON JR
    Originally published in 1948, this book tells the story of the three fateful days of Gettysburg in the words of the men and women who lived it. No mere chronicle of troop movements and military decisions, it is a path-breaking work in the reporting of Civil War history. Praised by "The New York Times Book Review" as "the very best collection of firsthand accounts, written by so...

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  • THE JOB MARKET OF THE FUTURE
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    THE JOB MARKET OF THE FUTURE
    JAMES COOKE BROWN
    This book presents a bold, new invention - the Computerized Job Market (CJM) - that could, in the future, come to replace the labor market as we and our forebears have known it since the industrial revolution. James Cooke Brown, who also invented the popular board game Careers, first introduced CJM's in his science fiction book The Troika Incident. The Job Market of the Future ...

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  • JAPAN, RUSSIA AND THEIR TERRITORIAL DISPUTE
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    JAPAN, RUSSIA AND THEIR TERRITORIAL DISPUTE
    JAMES D. J. BROWN
    The territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over four islands off the northeast coast of Hokkaidō has been an enduring obstacle to closer relations between the two powers and therefore an important determinant of geopolitics in North-East Asia. Having emerged at the end of World War II, this conflict has now existed for more than seven decades. And yet, despite the passage...

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  • TEACHING AND ASSESSING EIL IN LOCAL CONTEXTS AROUND THE WORLD
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    TEACHING AND ASSESSING EIL IN LOCAL CONTEXTS AROUND THE WORLD
    SANDRA LEE MCKAY / JAMES DEAN BROWN
    English today is a global language embedded in a great variety of social contexts, resulting in linguistic and pedagogical variation. Taking a new look at the teaching and assessing of English as an international language (EIL), this text highlights overarching principles and provides specific strategies for responding to questions and challenges posed by the changing demograph...

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  • THE RATIONAL AND THE SOCIAL (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
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    THE RATIONAL AND THE SOCIAL (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    JAMES ROBERT BROWN
    To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching recent sociological approaches to science, notably the strong programme – Bloor’s ‘science of science’ and Barnes’s ‘finitism’ – and that of the ‘anthropologists in the lab’, Collins and Latour and Woolgar. The author argu...

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  • PLATONISM, NATURALISM, AND MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
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    PLATONISM, NATURALISM, AND MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
    JAMES ROBERT BROWN
    This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing that only a Platonistic approach can account for concept acquisition in a number o...

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  • AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION EASY GLUTEN-FREE
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    AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION EASY GLUTEN-FREE
    MARLISA BROWN / TRICIA THOMPSON / SHAUNA JAMES AHERN
    From the ADA-the complete guide to a healthy gluten-free diet Have you or a family member been diagnosed with celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity? Are you worried that "gluten-free" means boring, bland, and lacking in nutrition? Worry no more. This book will show you how to bring the benefits of delicious, gluten-free whole grains back into your diet and whip up del...

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  • TELEVISION ',CRITICAL VIEWING SKILLS', EDUCATION
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    TELEVISION ',CRITICAL VIEWING SKILLS', EDUCATION
    JAMES A. BROWN
    Representing a significant survey and evaluation of major media literacy projects in the U.S. and selected countries throughout the world, this book covers all aspects of critical viewing skills. It provides comprehensive, theoretical and historical background about the field, the criteria for its evaluation, and various structured programs including the CVS projects and progra...

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  • THE LABORATORY OF THE MIND
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    THE LABORATORY OF THE MIND
    JAMES ROBERT BROWN
    Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrödinger's cat – these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? Are they really experiments at all? Can they help us gain a greater understanding of the natural world? How is it possible that we can learn new things just by thinking? In this revise...

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  • PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
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    PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
    JAMES ROBERT BROWN
    In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real value? This clear and engaging book takes a unique approach, encompassing non-s...

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  • THE LABORATORY OF THE MIND
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    THE LABORATORY OF THE MIND
    JAMES ROBERT BROWN
    Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though most scientists and philosophers would admit their great importance, there has been very little serious study of them. This volume is the first book-length investigation of thought e...

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  • PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
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    PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
    JAMES ROBERT BROWN
    Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following topics: * the mathematical image * platonism * picture-proofs * applied mathematics * Hilbert and Godel * knots and nations * definitions * picture-proofs and Wittgenstein * computa...

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  • SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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    SMOKE AND MIRRORS
    JAMES ROBERT BROWN
    Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible. Yet this wonderful picture of humanity's best efforts at knowledge has been badly bruised by numerous critics. James Robert Brown in Smoke and Mirrors fights back against figures such as Richard Rorty, Bruno Latour, Michael Ruse and Hilary Putnam who have attacked realist acco...

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  • GAMESTORMING - JOUER POUR INNOVER
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    GAMESTORMING - JOUER POUR INNOVER
    DAVE GRAY / SUNNI BROWN / JAMES MACANUFO
    Ce livre propose plus de 80 jeux avec des explications précises, accompagnés de dessins et croquis qui vous permettront de trouver des solutions en équipe à des problématiques auxquelles vous n’auriez peut-être jamais pensé. ...

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  • THE CZ MODELS 50 AND 70
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    THE CZ MODELS 50 AND 70
    JAMES D. BROWN
    In the West, these pistols were unavailable and little understood for decades. Now they are widely available to purchase, and this book fills the information gap.  ...

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  • THE COMPLETE BOOK OF OUTDOOR COOKERY
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    THE COMPLETE BOOK OF OUTDOOR COOKERY
    JAMES BEARD / HELEN EVANS BROWN
    Two preeminent culinary experts take the gourmet dining experience outdoors From the traditional American backyard barbecue to the portable grill on an apartment rooftop, this cookbook showcases the simple, charming pleasures of cooking and eating outside. This complete and detailed guide offers indispensible tips and lessons on a wide range of scrumptious dishes—including pine...

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  • FOUNDATIONS OF MACROECOLOGY
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    FOUNDATIONS OF MACROECOLOGY
    FELISA A. SMITH AND JOHN L. GITTLEMAN AND JAMES H. BROWN (EDITORS)
    Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial phrase an ecological twist. The term itself was first introduced to the modern literature by James H. Brown and Brian A. Maurer in a 1989 pape...

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  • THIS RIVER
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    THIS RIVER
    JAMES BROWN
    “Continues where Brown’s first memoir, The Los Angeles Diaries, left off. It’s molten stuff, the story of his efforts to control his river of rage.” —Los Angeles Times Award–winning author James Brown gained a cult following after chronicling his turbulent childhood and spiraling drug addiction in The Los Angeles Diaries. This River picks up where Brown left off in his first me...

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