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  • HARDTACK AND COFFEE
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    HARDTACK AND COFFEE
    JOHN DAVIS BILLINGS
    Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day—in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded. ...

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  • STRENGTH BASING, EMPOWERING AND REGENERATING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE EDUCATION
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    STRENGTH BASING, EMPOWERING AND REGENERATING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE EDUCATION
    JOHN DAVIS
    Strength Basing, Empowering and Regenerating Indigenous Knowledge Education demonstrates how to bring Indigenous Knowledges to the forefront of education practice and provides educators with the tools to enact culturally responsive curricula and pedagogies, ensuring positive educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and students. In this book, John...

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  • CASTLES OF WALES
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    CASTLES OF WALES
    JOHN PAUL DAVIS
    In 1277, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd, met with Edward I of England in Aberconwy to finalise a treaty that would change the fate of both nations. His hand forced by Edward's invasion earlier that year, Llywelyn's acceptance of the terms confirmed not only short-term peace but also that the rule of Wales would pass to Edward on his death. To augment his rising dominan...

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  • POETIC MEDITATIONS ON SELECTED SCRIPTURE
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    POETIC MEDITATIONS ON SELECTED SCRIPTURE
    JOHN P. DAVIS
    This devotional of poetic mediations grew out of forty-five years of expository preaching and self-reflection. The author's intermittent attempts at poetry reveal both his best and worst parts. These poems reflect experience as a follower of Jesus, an inward battle with sin, shame, sadness, defeats; yet, always the word of God leads to the gospel of Jesus Christ and his victory...

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  • THE GOSPEL IN GENESIS AND IN THE CITY
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    THE GOSPEL IN GENESIS AND IN THE CITY
    JOHN P. DAVIS
    Genesis offers insight and encouragement to those who live and minister in urban environments. Though the world began in a garden-temple, it eventually arrives at an urban temple. There are indications in Genesis that those who are made in God's image seek community, and urban living offers the promise of community. The first major attempt at city-building in Genesis represents...

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  • FAST TRACK TO WASTE-FREE MANUFACTURING
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    FAST TRACK TO WASTE-FREE MANUFACTURING
    JOHN W. DAVIS
    Manufacturing in the United States is currently undergoing a major transition, yet large numbers of manufacturers simply do not recognize what it is all about. Many still operate under out dated manufacturing practices and do not see that the enemy is not the competition, but rather their own system of production. ...

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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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  • CHINA'S GRAIN ECONOMY
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    CHINA'S GRAIN ECONOMY
    LIMING WANG / JOHN DAVIS
    This book was originally pubished in 2000. China is the largest developing country in the world and is still heavily based on agriculture. Currently, about 70 per cent of China's total of more than one bilion people live in rural areas, and about half of the total national labour force is involved in agricultural activities. It is clear that agriculture is the foundation for th...

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  • ECONOMICS OF MARKETABLE SURPLUS SUPPLY
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    ECONOMICS OF MARKETABLE SURPLUS SUPPLY
    PING ZONG / JOHN DAVIS
    Published in 1998. Chinese farm households have been at the centre of the rural reform process since the introduction of the Household Responsibility System in the late 1970’s. There can be little doubt that, for decades to come, they will continue to be a focus of interest both in academic and political circles. This is particularly true in relation to their role of grain sect...

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  • MOBILE DISRUPTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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    MOBILE DISRUPTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    JOHN PAVLIK / EVERETTE DENNIS / RACHEL DAVIS MERSEY / JUSTIN GENGLER
    Mobile Disruptions in the Middle East identifies trends in mobile media use in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and, more broadly, explores their impact on the nature of digital journalism. Mobility has long been an important aspect of life in the Middle East; therefore a study of this region presents a unique opportunity to examine the role of mobile media and its future dir...

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  • REFLEXIVITY AND ECONOMICS
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    REFLEXIVITY AND ECONOMICS
    JOHN B. DAVIS
    The form of ‘reflexivity’ – defined by the dictionary as that which is ‘directed back upon itself’ – that is most relevant to economic methodology is that where observation of the economy leads to ideas that change behavior, which in turn changes (is directed back upon) the economy itself. As George Soros explains: "if investors believe that markets are efficient then that beli...

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  • HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS
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    HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS
    JOHN B. DAVIS / ROBERT MCMASTER
    The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care. This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and therefore for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This book sets out an alternative approach, which places care at the center of an economics of health, showing how essen...

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  • SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR ADULT LEARNERS
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    SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR ADULT LEARNERS
    JOHN M. NORRIS / JOHN MCE. DAVIS / VERONIKA TIMPE-LAUGHLIN
    Second Language Educational Experiences for Adult Learners provides an up-to-date review of the theory and practice of adult second language education. The primary objective is to introduce core ideas that should inform the design, development, and delivery of language learning experiences that take the typical forms of materials, courses, teaching, and assessment. Divided into...

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  • ETHICS AT THE END OF LIFE
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    ETHICS AT THE END OF LIFE
    JOHN DAVIS
    The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously. At the same time, a reader can use this volume to become oriented to the established questions and positions in end of life ethics, bo...

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  • EL GRECO – THE CRETAN YEARS
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    EL GRECO – THE CRETAN YEARS
    NIKOLAOS M. PANAGIOTAKES / TRANSLATED BY JOHN C. DAVIS
    Exploring all the available sources, this study, which until now was only available in Greek, presents us with an account of El Greco's life up to the time he left Crete for Italy in 1567 at the age of twenty-six, already an accomplished professional painter. Nikolaos Panagiotakes provides a thorough assessment of earlier research on Crete of the 16th century then goes on to pr...

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  • THE ARAB SPRING AND ARAB THAW
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    THE ARAB SPRING AND ARAB THAW
    JOHN DAVIS
    What were the unifying principles or strategies that governed the protest movements that swept the Middle East and North Africa in the spring of 2011? Who were the protestors and how did the different authoritarian regimes respond to them? How did regional and international institutions react to a region in turmoil? The Arab Spring and Arab Thaw; Unfinished Revolutions and t...

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  • PRESIDENTIAL POLICIES AND THE ROAD TO THE SECOND IRAQ WAR
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    PRESIDENTIAL POLICIES AND THE ROAD TO THE SECOND IRAQ WAR
    DAVIS, JOHN, PROFESSOR
    By virtually any means of measurement, postwar Iraq has become a more bloodied and embattled settlement than ever envisaged. But were the seeds of these problems sown long before military force had been committed? This lucid and detailed examination of US foreign policy evaluates the continuity and divergence in the strategies of the Bush, Clinton and Bush Jr administrations an...

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  • AFRICA AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM
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    AFRICA AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM
    DAVIS, JOHN, PROFESSOR
    Abject poverty and official corruption make parts of Africa a very attractive destination for terrorist organizations. Opportunities have developed during the pre- and post-9/11 periods in Africa for the recruitment of terrorists, attainment of bases of operations and sources of funding for Al Qaeda or its affiliated terror groups. This comprehensive volume provides an extensiv...

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  • THE FLATLANDERS
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    THE FLATLANDERS
    JOHN T. DAVIS
    "Conservative West Texas spawns radical creativity and lifelong bonds of friendship in this story of an unlikely band" from the renowned music journalist ( Kirkus Reviews).   A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn't released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then—twenty years...

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  • PARENT-BABY ATTACHMENT IN PREMATURE INFANTS (PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS)
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    PARENT-BABY ATTACHMENT IN PREMATURE INFANTS (PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS)
    JOHN A. DAVIS
    Originally published in 1983, in the two decades prior to publication, specialised neonatal units for the treatment of sick or preterm babies had been set up in most major neonatal centres. In the early years these units did little to prevent separation of parents and babies and evidence accumulated of the ill effects of this situation. In addition, we had gradually become awar...

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  • BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES
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    BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES
    BRUCE S. THORNTON / VICTOR DAVIS HANSON / JOHN HEATH
    With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of  Who Killed Homer? and  Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scho...

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  • GRAMSCI (RLE: GRAMSCI)
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    GRAMSCI (RLE: GRAMSCI)
    JOHN A. DAVIS
    Antonio Gramsci used the term ‘passive revolution’ to describe the limitations and weaknesses of the 19th century bourgeois state in Italy which permitted economic development whilst thwarting social and political progress. This detailed study consists of seven essays each exploring a different theme of the economic and social basis of the Liberal state, providing a broad under...

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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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  • WORKING IN MULTI-PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS
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    WORKING IN MULTI-PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS
    JOHN M DAVIS / MARY SMITH
    Making links between different professional roles, policies and practices, this book equips readers swith the skills, knowledge and understanding that managers, practitioners and students require to work in integrated multiprofessional settings. It draws on case studies to consider the dilemmas, challenges and complexities common within workplaces. Chapters cover: - roles, poli...

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  • INTEGRATED CHILDREN′S SERVICES
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    INTEGRATED CHILDREN′S SERVICES
    JOHN M DAVIS
    Working together with fellow professionals across different sectors of children′s services is central to good practice for all those who work with children and young people. This book looks at how children′s services can work together more effectively; by taking an approach that is grounded in research, the book engages critically with both the benefits and the pitfalls of inte...

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  • PROGRESSIVE KAIZEN:
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    PROGRESSIVE KAIZEN:
    JOHN W. DAVIS
    This book addresses how to make Kaizen a formidable competitive weapon. It serves as reinforcement for the key role the Lean coordinator holds in training and leading change that serves to make and keep a manufacturing firm world competitive. ...

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  • PROGRESSIVE KAIZEN:
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    PROGRESSIVE KAIZEN:
    JOHN W. DAVIS
    This book addresses how to make Kaizen a formidable competitive weapon. It serves as reinforcement for the key role the Lean coordinator holds in training and leading change that serves to make and keep a manufacturing firm world competitive. ...

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  • MORE BAD NEWS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    MORE BAD NEWS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PETER BEHARRELL / HOWARD DAVIS / JOHN ELDRIDGE / JOHN HEWITT / JEAN HART / GREGG PHILO / PAUL WALTON / BRIA
    First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint....

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  • BAD NEWS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    BAD NEWS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PETER BEHARRELL / HOWARD DAVIS / JOHN ELDRIDGE / JOHN HEWITT / JEAN HART / GREGG PHILO / PAUL WALTON / BRIA
    It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976. The authors undertook an exhaustive monitoring of all television broadcasts over 6 months, from January...

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  • THE THEORY OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN ECONOMICS
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    THE THEORY OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN ECONOMICS
    JOHN B DAVIS
    The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. All strands of thought at heart come down to a particular theory of the individual. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this hugely important concept without questioning how we theorise it. This superb book remedies this oversight.The new approach put forward by Da ...

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