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  • URBAN DRAINAGE
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    URBAN DRAINAGE
    DAVID BUTLER / CHRISTOPHER DIGMAN / CHRISTOS MAKROPOULOS / JOHN W. DAVIES
    This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the health, environmental, and engineering aspects of the management of rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new systems but also with the analysis and upgrading of existing infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice, and re...

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  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
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    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
    JOHN BOOTH DAVIES
    What happens when we listen to music? Why are certain forms pleasing and others not? John Davies was both a psychologist and a talented musician and The Psychology of Music, originally published in 1978, explores the nature of man’s eternal need for, and love of, music. Drawing on current research in psychology and social psychology at the time, he explores the processes beneat...

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  • WHAT'S IN A NAME?
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    WHAT'S IN A NAME?
    C STELLA DAVIES / JOHN LEVITT
    First Published in 1970, What's in a Name is intended for the layman who feels some curiosity about local names and would like to know more about them- their history, the clues they hold to the life of the past, and the methods of discovering what they have to tell. Place-names can, as the authors of this book put it, ‘help to unravel the beginnings of English history’. Books o...

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  • DRUGSPEAK
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    DRUGSPEAK
    JOHN BOOTH DAVIES
    Drugspeak The Analysis of Drug Discourse describes the way in which conversations between drug users vary and change according to context and circumstance in ways that suggest that there is no single truth about the state we call addicted. The central thesis of the book is that the explanations that drug users give for their drug use make sense not so much as sources of facts...

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  • SERVING THE STATE
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    SERVING THE STATE
    MORTON R. DAVIES / JOHN GREENWOOD / NICHOLAS WALKLEY
    This title was first published in 2000:  Serving the State is an invaluable two-volume exploration of global trends in public administration education and training. Volume 2 of this important reference work explores traditions and contexts. Included for examination are the French and Islamic traditions, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Latin America, Small Island States and former...

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  • CARING FOR OLDER PEOPLE
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    CARING FOR OLDER PEOPLE
    LINDA BAULD / JOHN CHESTERMAN / BLEDDYN DAVIES / KEN JUDGE
    This title was first published in 2000:  Caring for Older People provides a unique insight into the world of community care in the 1990’s. It presents findings from a national study of social care from the perspectives of older service users, their carers and care managers. Descriptive findings from this longitudinal study - conducted by the PSSRU from 1994 and funded by the De...

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  • SAFETY MANAGEMENT
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    SAFETY MANAGEMENT
    JOHN DAVIES / ALASTAIR ROSS / BRENDAN WALLACE
    Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles. However, many of the existing techniques in ergonomics and risk management concentrate on plant and technical issues and downplay human factors and "subjectivity." Safety Management: A Qualitative Systems Approach describes a body o...

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  • NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL THEORY, EDUCATION AND EMBODIMENT
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    NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL THEORY, EDUCATION AND EMBODIMENT
    JOHN EVANS / BRIAN DAVIES
    This book exemplifies the nurturing spirit of inter-discursive debate with a view to opening up new theoretical and empirical insights, understanding, and engagement, with debates on issues relating to pedagogy, policy, equity and embodiment. From a variety of social science perspectives, an international force of contributors apply a multitude of concepts to research agendas w...

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  • NEWNES RADIO ENGINEER'S POCKET BOOK
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    NEWNES RADIO ENGINEER'S POCKET BOOK
    JOHN DAVIES
    Newnes Radio Engineer's Pocket Book focuses on various processes employed in radio engineering, including frequency, wavelength, radio waves, resonant circuits, and oscillators. The book first elaborates on the propagation of radio waves, decibel scale, and transmission lines. Discussions focus on radio frequency lines, impedance matching, waveguides, decibels referred to abso...

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  • HEALTHY CITIES
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    HEALTHY CITIES
    DAVIES, JOHN K / KELLY, MICHAEL
    The growth of health promotion as a topic for discussion and a principle for practice is widespread, and affects all groups of health professionals. The Healthy Cities project, like Health for All, was inaugurated by the World Health Organization and has informed policy throughout the world. Healthy Cities: Research and Practice examines the application of the project in a numb...

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  • DRUG USE IN PRISONS
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    DRUG USE IN PRISONS
    DAVID SHEWAN / JOHN B. DAVIES
    First Published in 2000. In this title, the author argues that drug users end up in gaol for many reasons, but in the most general terms they divide the drug-using part of a prison population along three lines. Those incarcerated because of their use or possession of drugs with intent to supply, those gaoled for offences other than drug use, but who happen to be involved in dru...

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  • MYTH OF ADDICTION
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    MYTH OF ADDICTION
    JOHN BOOTH DAVIES
    First published in 1998. This study explains addiction in terms of social psychological processes, looks at the fundamental nature of addiction and its causes, pharmacology, attribution and volitional theories, as well as a context for drug problems. ...

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  • HINDU PHILOSOPHY
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    HINDU PHILOSOPHY
    JOHN DAVIES
    First Published in 2000.This is Volume VII of fourteen of a series on India- its language and literature. The Bhagavad Gita is a Sanskrit philosophical poem, written in the usual verse form of the Hindu epic poems, and is an episode in the sixth book, or Bhlshma Parvan, of the Mahabharata, an epic poem devoted mainly to the deeds of the rival princes, who, though descended from...

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  • INTRODUCING SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
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    INTRODUCING SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
    PHILIP GARDNER / JOHN DWYFOR DAVIES
    Pressure of time means that the complex topic of special educational needs (SEN) at initial teacher training and post-graduate levels can often be covered at too swift a pace. The unfortunate result is that a newly qualified teacher faced with the pressures of today's typically inclusive classrooms can feel unprepared or lacking in knowledge about this vitally important area. T...

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  • HINDU PHILOSOPHY
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    HINDU PHILOSOPHY
    JOHN DAVIES
    This is Volume VI of ten in the Oriental series on India: Religion and Philosophy. First published in 1881 this book focuses on Hindu Philosophy- The Sankhya Karika of Iswara Krishna, an exposition of the system of Kapila, with an appendix that also includes the Nyaya and Vaiseshika systems. ...

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  • EDUCATION, DISORDERED EATING AND OBESITY DISCOURSE
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    EDUCATION, DISORDERED EATING AND OBESITY DISCOURSE
    JOHN EVANS / EMMA RICH / BRIAN DAVIES / RACHEL ALLWOOD
    Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'. Rarely, however, is thought given to how these messages are interpreted and whether they are in fact inherently healthy. Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse investigates how 'body centred talk' about weight, fat, food and exercise is recycled in schools, ...

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  • THE $100,000+ CAREER
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    THE $100,000+ CAREER
    JOHN DAVIES
    The $100,000+ Career unlocks the power of networking to help build your executive career and land the job you want. It's not enough to find an executive job - this guide will show you how to land a job you love and are well-compensated for. By following Davies's method, you'll discover which industry, job type, location, company size, salary and other factors are right for you....

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  • EDUCATION POLICY AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
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    EDUCATION POLICY AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
    JOHN FITZ / BRIAN DAVIES / JOHN EVANS
    This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an established fact for the first time. Comprehensive schools largely replaced a system based on academic selection. Now, under choice and competition policies, all schools are subject to the rigours of local education markets. Wha...

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  • RAILWAYS AND INDUSTRY IN THE TONDU VALLEYS
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    RAILWAYS AND INDUSTRY IN THE TONDU VALLEYS
    JOHN HODGE / STUART DAVIES
    The books give a history of the railway, coal mining and other industrial aspects of each Valley that combine to make up the Tondu Valleys with detailed comments on the operation of the railway, passenger and freight, and details of each colliery within the area and their place within the South Wales coalfield. Details are provided on individual aspects of railway operation. Ea...

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  • HEAVEN AIN’T GOIN’ THERE
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    HEAVEN AIN’T GOIN’ THERE
    JOHN A. DAVIES
    This book issues a provocative challenge to the notion, prevalent in Christian circles, that people (or their "souls") go to heaven when they die. Though deeply entrenched in Christian and Western culture, there is little or no biblical warrant for such a belief. John Davies presents a biblical theology of heaven, informed by mainstream biblical scholarship, and in the process ...

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  • RAILWAYS AND INDUSTRY IN THE TONDU VALLEYS
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    RAILWAYS AND INDUSTRY IN THE TONDU VALLEYS
    JOHN HODGE / STUART V DAVIES
    A comprehensive history of a Welsh railway hub and the coal companies and passengers it has served.   The book begins with a history of the industrial development of the Tondu Valleys, including the succession of great industrialists who led the way in the area. This is followed by a chapter on the position of the Tondu Valleys in the South Wales Coalfield with colliery and col...

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  • CASTLES AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD
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    CASTLES AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD
    JOHN A. DAVIES
    Castles and the Anglo-Norman World is a major new synthesis drawing together a series of 20 papers by 26 French and English specialists in the field of Anglo-Norman studies. It includes summaries of current knowledge and new research into important Norman castles in England and Normandy, drawing on information from recent excavations. Sections consider the evolution of Anglo-No...

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  • MSP430 MICROCONTROLLER BASICS
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    MSP430 MICROCONTROLLER BASICS
    DAVIES, JOHN H.
    The MSP430 microcontroller family offers ultra-low power mixed signal, 16-bit architecture that is perfect for wireless low-power industrial and portable medical applications. This book begins with an overview of embedded systems and microcontrollers followed by a comprehensive in-depth look at the MSP430. The coverage included a tour of the microcontroller's architecture and f...

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  • LIFT UP YOUR HEADS
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    LIFT UP YOUR HEADS
    JOHN A. DAVIES
    We are increasingly conscious of the significance of our body language in our everyday interactions. The writers of the Bible were also aware of the role this nonverbal form of communication played and have recorded aspects of this in their narratives, or used idioms based on such gestures as head or hand movements, eye contact, and modes of dress. As with spoken or written lan...

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  • RAILWAYS AND INDUSTRY IN THE TONDU VALLEYS
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    RAILWAYS AND INDUSTRY IN THE TONDU VALLEYS
    JOHN HODGE / STUART DAVIES
    A photo-filled history of this part of Welsh coal country and its freight and passenger service.   Following the first volume dealing with the Llynfi Valley, this book provides details on individual aspects of railways operation focusing on the Ogmore, Garw, and Porthcawl branches in this area of South Wales. The books give a history of the railway, coal mining, and other indus...

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  • THE RED ATLAS
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    THE RED ATLAS
    JOHN DAVIES / ALEXANDER J. KENT
    Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large.  Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks, but long before we had satellite imagery of any neighborhood at a finger’s reach, the amount the Soviet gov...

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