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  • LITERACY AND GROWTH
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    LITERACY AND GROWTH
    JOHN HODGSON / ANN HARRIS
    Literacy and Growth is a unique genealogical study of English teaching in the UK and abroad since the 18th century. Focusing specifically on the concepts of literacy and growth, this book explores key moments in the development of ideas about English teaching. Hodgson and Harris reveal the Enlightenment forebears of such contemporary concepts as “cultural capital” and “critical...

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  • PESTILENCE, INSANITY, AND TREES
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    PESTILENCE, INSANITY, AND TREES
    JOHN M. HARRIS JR.
    This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith, a consistent figure in the history of public health, mental health, housing reform in New York, and even urban...

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  • SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
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    SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
    JOHN HARRIS / JARED SMITH
    Is the human eye like a camera? What makes your ears ‘pop’ on a plane? Why did women in the Middle Ages put belladonna into their eyes? This fully updated 2nd edition of Sensation and Perception is an accessible introduction to the field of perception. It covers in detail the perceptual processes related to vision and hearing, taste and smell, touch and pain, as well as the ves...

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  • WORLD CRISIS
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    WORLD CRISIS
    NIGEL HARRIS AND JOHN PALMER
    The contributors to this book, first published in 1971, analyse as International Socialists the economic and social issues of modern society. Their findings were controversial, as was the alternative they proposed – the overthrow of the British system and its replacement by a society based on workers’ control. A central theme of the book is the need for socialists to have a sci...

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  • PRODUCTION KUBERNETES
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    PRODUCTION KUBERNETES
    JOSH ROSSO / RICH LANDER / ALEX BRAND / JOHN HARRIS
    Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestrator, but many organizations that have recently adopted this system are still struggling to run actual production workloads. In this practical book, four software engineers from VMware bring their shared experiences running Kubernetes in production and provide insight on key challenges and best practices. The brilliance of Ku...

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  • EXPLORING ROGUELIKE GAMES
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    EXPLORING ROGUELIKE GAMES
    JOHN HARRIS
    Since 1980, in-the-know computer gamers have been enthralled by the unpredictable, random, and incredibly deep gameplay of Rogue and those games inspired by it, known to fans as "roguelikes." For decades, this venerable genre was off the radar of most players and developers for a variety of reasons: deceptively simple graphics (often just text characters), high difficulty, and ...

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  • VIOLENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY
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    VIOLENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY
    JOHN HARRIS
    Originally published in 1980 this book argues that we are all responsible for the harm we could have prevented and explores the effect of this conclusion on a morality which makes fundamental the belief that we ought not to harm others if we can possibly avoid it. A theory of responsibility is developed and defended which has consequences for the way we live as well as for a nu...

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  • EARLY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
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    EARLY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
    JOHN HARRIS
    Language is of central importance in children’s development and vital for their success at school and in the world beyond. Designed for the many professionals involved in encouraging language development, Early Language Development, originally published in 1990, will enable them to get to grips with the practical issues of helping children with language difficulties. John Harri...

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  • MANAGEMENT SKILLS IN SOCIAL CARE
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    MANAGEMENT SKILLS IN SOCIAL CARE
    JOHN HARRIS / DES KELLY
    First published in 1992, this volume responds to the importance of management has been increasingly recognized in the personal social services but this recognition has materialized more slowly in some social day care settings. Staff in these settings who move on to management can face particular difficulties in adapting to their new role, especially if they have been promoted o...

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  • A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
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    A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
    LAWRENCE A. PALINKAS / BRUCE MURRAY HARRIS / JOHN S. PETTERSON
    This book provides two case studies that demonstrate the use of systems analysis to forecast the often far-reaching consequences of government policies and economic development for the social relations and cultural values of different communities. The case studies examine the potential effects of oil development in two rural Alaskan communities, co ...

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  • MANAGING STATE SOCIAL WORK
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    MANAGING STATE SOCIAL WORK
    JOHN HARRIS
    Published in 1998. The industrial model of the labour process developed by Braverman was applied to social work in the radical social work literature. The book engages in a more critical examination of the application of the labour process perspective to social work, with particular reference to front-line management in a local authority context. It begins with a review of the ...

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  • LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN SCHOOLS FOR CHILDREN WITH SEVERE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
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    LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN SCHOOLS FOR CHILDREN WITH SEVERE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
    JOHN HARRIS
    First published in 1988. Language is an important developmental ability which facilitates communication both at home and at school. It is also the foundation of many of a child’s learning experiences in school. A certain level of language is often a pre-requisite both for success in particular curriculum areas and for the ability to conceptualise generally. Language developing ...

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  • CHILD PSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
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    CHILD PSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
    JOHN HARRIS
    Originally published in 1986, there was a divorce between the immense amount of research taking place in child psychology and the real world of professional carers or teachers working with children at the time. The aim of this book was therefore to examine the relationship between research and practice in order to promote links between the two. The discussions are wide-ranging ...

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  • INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
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    INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
    JOHN R. HARRIS
    Britain and France were the leading industrial nations in 18th-century Europe. This book examines the rivalry which existed between the two nations and the methods used by France to obtain the skilled manpower and technology which had given Britain the edge - particularly in the new coal-based technologies. Despite the British Act of 1719 which outlawed industrial espionage and...

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  • MEDIEVAL THEATRE IN CONTEXT: AN INTRODUCTION
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    MEDIEVAL THEATRE IN CONTEXT: AN INTRODUCTION
    JOHN HARRIS
    First Published in 1992. Medieval Theatre in Context is the first systematic attempt to relate the development of medieval drama - both Christian and pagan - to contemporary society and the Christian church. ...

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  • SPORT, TOURISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
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    SPORT, TOURISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
    JOHN HARRIS
    The role of both sport and tourism in the (re)creation and (re)presentation of national identities is well established, yet relatively little work has critically explored the inter-relationship between sport, tourism and the creation and maintenance of national identities. Despite the advances of globalization, the nation continues to be an important part of both sport and tour...

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  • MECHANICAL WORKING OF METALS
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    MECHANICAL WORKING OF METALS
    JOHN NOEL HARRIS
    Mechanical Working of Metals: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive examination of the stress–strain relationships involved in the principal methods of shaping materials by mechanical working. This book discusses the various processing equipment and its application. Organized into seven chapters, this book begins with an overview of the metals utilized on a substantial ...

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  • THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
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    THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
    VALERIE A. BROWN / JOHN A. HARRIS
    Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframin...

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  • CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
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    CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
    MEL AINSCOW / JOHN BERESFORD / ALMA HARRIS / DAVID HOPKINS / GEOFF SOUTHWORTH / MEL WEST
    First Published in 2001. This is the second edition of this school’s improvement handbook of staff development activities by the IQEA (Improving Education for All) project. This book is not about what changes should be introduced into a school but rather about creating the conditions for supporting those changes which schools or individuals believe should be introduced. To be e...

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  • TURBINE MAIN ENGINES
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    TURBINE MAIN ENGINES
    JOHN B. MAIN / F. R. HARRIS / C. W. HERBERT
    Turbine Main Engines deals with the principle of operation of turbine main engines. Topics covered include practical considerations that affect turbine design and efficiency; steam turbine rotors, blades, nozzles, and diaphragms; lubricating oil systems; and gas turbines for use with nuclear reactors. Gas turbines for naval boost propulsion, merchant ship propulsion, and naval ...

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  • TACKLING WICKED PROBLEMS
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    TACKLING WICKED PROBLEMS
    VALERIE A. BROWN / JOHN A. HARRIS / JACQUELINE RUSSELL
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressi...

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  • WORKING WITH OLDER PEOPLE
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    WORKING WITH OLDER PEOPLE
    JOHN HARRIS / DENISE TANNER
    Working with older people has become an increasingly important part of social work education and practice. Whether studying community care, adult services, human growth and development, or social work processes and interventions, this book will be a vital source of information and help. Working with Older People provides a framework of knowledge, skills and values pertinent to ...

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  • THE VALUE OF LIFE
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    THE VALUE OF LIFE
    JOHN HARRIS
    First published in 1985. Medical ethics is a vitally important subject and currently a highly controversial one. Recent cases have highlighted both the intellectual and moral challenges posed by the dilemmas of modern medicine and their significance for us all. John Harris fives a fully up-to-date survey of the issues in this crucial field of applied ethics, including in vitr...

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  • ON CLONING
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    ON CLONING
    JOHN HARRIS
    Cloning - few words have as much potential to grip our imagination or grab the headlines. No longer the stuff of science fiction or Star Wars - it is happening now. Yet human cloning is currently banned throughout the world, and therapeutic cloning banned in many countries.In this highly controversial book, John Harris does a lot more than ask why we are so afraid of cloning. H...

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  • THE SOCIAL WORK BUSINESS
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    THE SOCIAL WORK BUSINESS
    JOHN HARRIS
    Social work has become a business. The traditional distinction drawn between social work as a non-commercial activity in the public and voluntary sectors of the welfare state and private commercial activities driven by the market's profit motive has largely disappeared. In The Social Work Business John Harris addresses the introduction and consolidation of business thinking and...

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  • ETHICS & BIOTECHNOLOGY
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    ETHICS & BIOTECHNOLOGY
    ANTHONY DYSON / JOHN HARRIS
    The development of biotechnology has produced nothing short of a revolution, both in our capacity to manipulate living things from single plant cells to human nature itself, but also to manufacture brand new life forms. This power to shape and create forms of life has sometimes been described as the power to "play God" and this book is about the ethics of "playing God" in the f...

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  • SCOUR AND EROSION
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    SCOUR AND EROSION
    JOHN HARRIS
    Scour and Erosion includes four keynote lectures from world leading researchers cutting across the themes of scour and erosion, together with 132 peer-reviewed papers from 34 countries, covering the principal themes of: - internal erosion - sediment transport - grain scale to continuum scale - advanced numerical modelling of scour and erosion - terrestrial scour and erosion- ri...

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  • ELECTRON AND POSITRON SPECTROSCOPIES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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    ELECTRON AND POSITRON SPECTROSCOPIES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    BUCK, OTTO / TIEN, JOHN K / MARCUS, HARRIS L.
    Electron and Positron Spectroscopies in Materials Science and Engineering ...

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  • NEUROBIOLOGY OF ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
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    NEUROBIOLOGY OF ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
    NORONHA, ANTONIO / CUI, CHANGHAI / HARRIS, ROBERT ADRON / CRABBE, JOHN C.
    Recent scientific advances have provided substantial information on the brain circuits and pathways relevant to various aspects of dependence. Neurobiology of Alcohol Dependence highlights the most recent data at the molecular, cellular, neurocircuitry, and behavioral levels, fostering an understanding how neuroplasticity and neuroadaptation occur, and how different neural path...

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  • READING CHILDREN’S WRITING
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    READING CHILDREN’S WRITING
    JOHN HARRIS / JEFF WILKINSON
    While many books of the time explored pedagogical, psychological, and linguistics perspectives of children’s writing, Reading Children’s Writing (originally published in 1986) takes a fresh and innovative approach by examining text-organizational methods of analysis. The book considers ‘whole texts’ produced by children of either top junior or lower secondary age—a time of tran...

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