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  • INTEGRATED TRANSPORT POLICY
    JOHN PRESTON
    This title was first published in 2000. With an emphasis on land-based passenger transport - particularly rail and road - this collection assesses the implications for regulation and competition of integrated transport policies. Contributions to the volume trace the evolution of transport policy, focus on the pricing of infrastructure, examine the effectiveness of competition a...

    $980.00

  • OPERATION MARKET GARDEN
    JOHN BUCKLEY / PETER PRESTON-HOUGH
    In September 1944 the Western Allies mounted an audacious attempt to seize a crossing over the Rhine into Germany in a bid to end the Second World War quickly. Yet despite the deployment of thousands of American, British and Polish airborne troops, in conjunction with the efforts of ground forces to link up with them, ultimately at Arnhem in the Netherlands, the plan failed spe...

    $293.99

  • INTERSECTIONALITY AND RACE IN EDUCATION
    KALWANT BHOPAL AND JOHN PRESTON
    Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on empirical and theoretical research to examine the intersections of "race," gender and cl...

    $1,540.00

  • THE BENEFITS OF LEARNING
    TOM SCHULLER / JOHN PRESTON / CATHIE HAMMOND / ANGELA BRASSETT-GRUNDY / JOHN BYNNER
    How do education and learning really impact on people's lives? The Benefits of Learning is a detailed, systematic and vivid account of the impact of formal and informal education on people's lives. Based on extended interviews with adults of all ages, it shows how learning affects their health, family lives and participation in civic life, revealing the downsides of education a...

    $1,380.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE CAPITALIST UNIVERSITY
    JOHN PRESTON
    Using Marxist critique, this book explores manifestations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education and demonstrates how it contributes to the functioning and existence of the capitalist university. Challenging the idea that AI is a break from previous capitalist technologies, the book offers nuanced examination of the impacts of AI on the control and regulation of ac...

    $979.00