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  • UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN TOP CHINESE UNIVERSITIES
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    UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN TOP CHINESE UNIVERSITIES
    LAZARUS OBED LIVINGSTONE BANDA / JIN LIU
    Combining theory and case studies, this book explores the factors that influence the academic success of international students in China. It emphasizes the importance of cultural understanding and tailored support systems in improving academic outcomes. The authors utilize the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) to examine how students' academic outcomes are shaped by personal, envir...

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  • THE BEST GRANDMOTHER NAMES EVER
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    THE BEST GRANDMOTHER NAMES EVER
    CATHY LIVINGSTONE
    The best baby shower, gender reveal, or just-because gift for new grandmothers! Congratulations, you are going to be a grandmother! And the fun begins with you getting to choose your unique grandmother name. Many of today's grandmas are vibrant, active women—not the "grannies" of yesteryear! From Bubbe to Mimi, Nana to Glamma, The Best Grandmother Names Ever features more than ...

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  • SOCIAL PROTECTION, PASTORALISM AND RESILIENCE IN ETHIOPIA
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    SOCIAL PROTECTION, PASTORALISM AND RESILIENCE IN ETHIOPIA
    ZEREMARIAM FRE, BEREKET TSEGAY, ARAYA M. TEKA, NICOLE KENTON AND JOHN LIVINGSTONE
    This book investigates the role of social protection amongst African pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, with a particular focus on Ethiopia. Based on rigorous empirical research, this book assesses the successes, failures, prospects and lessons learned from Africa’s largest social security intervention: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme. It goes beyond an analysis...

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  • SURVIVAL OF THE UNFITTEST
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    SURVIVAL OF THE UNFITTEST
    BERNARD ISAACS / MAUREEN LIVINGSTONE / YVONNE NEVILLE
    Originally published in 1972, this book is an analytical account of the socio-medical tribulations suffered by Glasgow’s east-end elderly leading to referral to geriatric wards. It examines why so many old people suffer from physical, mental and social deprivation in the final years of their lives. It shows by statistical studies and illustrative case histories that the basic c...

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  • BEYOND DISCIPLINARITY
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    BEYOND DISCIPLINARITY
    CATHERINE HAYES / JOHN FULTON / ANDREW LIVINGSTONE / CLAIRE TODD / STEPHEN CAPPER / PETER SMITH
    This book provides a means of comprehensively grounding and considering the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of practice-based research epistemologies. By introducing readers to the diverse array of methodological tools and concepts that are necessary to underpin postgraduate research, this book develops an understanding of the distinctions between practice-led r...

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  • SOCIOBIOLOGY: BEYOND NATURE/NURTURE?
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    SOCIOBIOLOGY: BEYOND NATURE/NURTURE?
    GEORGE W BARLOW / JAMES SILVERBERG / FRANK B LIVINGSTONE
    To most biologists, sociobiology represents the concept of strict Darwinian individual selection married to an analytical application of ecological principles and brought to bear on social behavior in an unusually exciting and productive way. Joining the biologists are a small number of social scientists. But there are radically divergent views as to how the field should be del...

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  • ABNORMAL HEMOGLOBINS IN HUMAN POPULATIONS
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    ABNORMAL HEMOGLOBINS IN HUMAN POPULATIONS
    FRANK. B. LIVINGSTONE / JONATHAN MARKS
    Research on abnormal human hemoglobins (protein in blood that carries oxygen), has taught us about the inheritance, biochemistry, and distribution of these traits. This knowledge, coupled with mathematical research using computer models of population genetics, has enabled researchers to marry biological fact and genetic theory. This volume places medical understanding in an evo...

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  • MEDIEVAL LIVES C. 1000-1292
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    MEDIEVAL LIVES C. 1000-1292
    AMY LIVINGSTONE
    Medieval Lives c. 1000–1292: The World of the Beaugency Family is a gateway into Europe during the Central Middle Ages. Through charting the lives of the Beaugency family, this book delves into the history of Western Europe and explores the impact of the changes and events of the period on those who experienced them. The Central Middle Ages were years of profound transformation...

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  • APPROACHING PSYCHOANALYSIS
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    APPROACHING PSYCHOANALYSIS
    DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH
    This book provides the scope and complexity of Freud's contributions and emphasizes the wide proliferation of the Lacanian approach. It describes psychoanalytical theories, and is helpful for the readers as a stimulus to independent investigation and critical thought. ...

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  • HIDDEN CONVERSATIONS
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    HIDDEN CONVERSATIONS
    DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH
    Hidden Conversations introduces Robert Langs radical reinterpretation of psychoanalysis by presenting and expanding his ideas in new and accessible ways. It is the first clear account of the theories underlying Langs approach, placing them within the context of the history of psychoanalysis and showing, for example, that Freud nearly discovered the communicative approach in the...

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  • THE EDUCATION-JOBS GAP
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    THE EDUCATION-JOBS GAP
    D W LIVINGSTONE
    According to Ivar Berg's performance criteria, over half of the U.S. workforce is now underemployed. Using analysis based on U.S. and Canadian surveys of work and learning experiences and other documental data, author David Livingstone exposes the myth of the "learning enterprise" and argues that the major problem in education-work relations is not education but the mismatch be...

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  • ATHENS
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    ATHENS
    NIALL LIVINGSTONE
    The citizens of ancient Athens were directly responsible for the development and power of its democracy; but how did they learn about politics and what their roles were within it? In this volume Livingstone argues that learning about political praxis (how to be a citizen) was an integral part of the everyday life of ancient Athenians. In the streets, shops and other meeting-pla...

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  • RELATIONSHIP POWER IN HEALTH CARE
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    RELATIONSHIP POWER IN HEALTH CARE
    JOHN B. LIVINGSTONE, M.D. / JOANNE GAFFNEY, R.N., LICSW
    The personal interface between clinician and patient is a misunderstood subject which can impact all areas of health care. Without adequate training in relationship science clinicians inadvertently contribute to empathic failure, poor medical decision process, difficulty changing health-related behavior, costly variation and derailment of care, extra litigation, and clinician b...

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  • RELATIONSHIP POWER IN HEALTH CARE
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    RELATIONSHIP POWER IN HEALTH CARE
    JOHN B. LIVINGSTONE, M.D. / JOANNE GAFFNEY, R.N., LICSW
    The personal interface between clinician and patient is a misunderstood subject which can impact all areas of health care. Without adequate training in relationship science clinicians inadvertently contribute to empathic failure, poor medical decision process, difficulty changing health-related behavior, costly variation and derailment of care, extra litigation, and clinician b...

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  • LIFELONG LEARNING IN PAID AND UNPAID WORK
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    LIFELONG LEARNING IN PAID AND UNPAID WORK
    D.W. LIVINGSTONE
    Lifelong Learning is essential to all individuals and in recent years has become a guiding principle for policy initiatives, ranging from national economic competition to issues of social cohesion and personal fulfilment. However, despite the importance of lifelong learning there is a critical absence of direct, international evidence on its extent, content and outcomes. Lifelo...

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  • CHILDREN AND THEIR CHANGING MEDIA ENVIRONMENT
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    CHILDREN AND THEIR CHANGING MEDIA ENVIRONMENT
    LIVINGSTONE, SONIA / BOVILL, MOIRA
    Focusing on the meanings, uses, and impacts of new media in childhood, family life, peer culture, and the relation between home and school, this volume sets out to address many of the questions, fears, and hopes regarding the changing place of media in the lives of today's children and young people. The scholars contributing to this work argue that such questions--intellectual,...

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  • MAKING SENSE OF TELEVISION
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    MAKING SENSE OF TELEVISION
    SONIA LIVINGSTONE
    Taking the soap opera as a case study, this book explores the 'parasocial interaction' people engage in with television programmes. It looks at the nature of the 'active viewer' and the role of the text in social psychology. It also investigates the existing theoretical models offered by social psychology and other discourses.This second edition takes into account recent resear...

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  • SOCIAL POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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    SOCIAL POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
    ARTHUR LIVINGSTONE
    This reissue, first published in 1969, is a study of contemporary social policy in developing countries, which places the emphasis upon the human needs and requirements for social change which confront any people and any government, wherever their political and international affiliations lie, whatever their economic and social convictions may be. ...

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  • CLASS, IDEOLOGIES AND EDUCATIONAL FUTURES
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    CLASS, IDEOLOGIES AND EDUCATIONAL FUTURES
    D LIVINGSTONE
    This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class differences in educational practices and the relative effects of class and other social background factors on public attitudes toward education. Secondly, the book offers an empirically-grounded summary of the contending educational i...

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  • PSYCHOANALYSIS IN FOCUS
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    PSYCHOANALYSIS IN FOCUS
    DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH
    `This is a thought provoking and passionately argued book, it is recommended as a thought provoking introduction to some of the key debates′ - Journal of Analytical Psychology `Psychoanalysis in Focus provides an excellent introduction to the basic problems besetting psychoanalytic theory and practice. David Livingstone Smith′s lucid survey of the major strands of the critical ...

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  • TALK ON TELEVISION
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    TALK ON TELEVISION
    SONIA LIVINGSTONE / PETER LUNT
    Not only is everyday conversation increasingly dependent on television, but more and more people are appearing on television to discuss social and personal issues. Is any public good served by these programmes or are they simply trashy entertainment which fills the schedules cheaply? Talk on Television examines the value and significance of televised public debate. Analysing a ...

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  • CAROLINE WALKER - IN EVERY DREAM HOME
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    CAROLINE WALKER - IN EVERY DREAM HOME
    MARCO LIVINGSTONE / JANE NEAL / MATT PRICE
    Caroline Walker (b. 1982, Dunfermline) has established herself as one of the UK’s most exciting figurative painters of her generation working internationally today. By means of an elegant and seductive yet forthright use of paint, Walker makes paintings that explore ideas of gender in relation to architecture. With a particular interest in femininity, she addresses people’s phy...

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  • SCOTTISH FESTIVALS
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    SCOTTISH FESTIVALS
    SHEILA LIVINGSTONE
    The origins of many Scottish festivals, such as Beltane and Hallowe’en, lie deep in the pagan past, and although the significance of many festivals may now be long forgotten, they have continued to evolve and evolve to satisfy the needs of the time. Including extracts from prose, poetry and historical documents, this book is an enthralling journey through the year and the pagea...

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  • THE BEST GRANDFATHER NAMES EVER
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    THE BEST GRANDFATHER NAMES EVER
    CATHY LIVINGSTONE
    The best baby shower, gender reveal, or just-because gift for new grandfathers! Congratulations, you're going to be a grandfather! Now the fun begins: with you choosing your unique grandfather name. Many of today's grandpas are vibrant, active men—not the "gramps" of yesteryear, so shouldn't your name reflect this? From Boss to Pappou, Nonno to Glampa, The Best Grandfather Name...

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  • JAMES
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    JAMES
    LIVINGSTONE
    The Life Application Bible Commentary series is the only commentary to offer sermon and lesson applications alongside stirring commentary. Each volume in the series provides in-depth explanation, background, and application for every verse in the text. Perfect for sermon preparation and lesson planning, this one-of-a-kind reference provides excellent quotes and a bibliography f...

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  • THE BLACK PRINCE AND THE CAPTURE OF A KING
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    THE BLACK PRINCE AND THE CAPTURE OF A KING
    MARILYN LIVINGSTONE / MORGEN WITZEL
    This "taut narrative" of the fourteenth-century conflict between England and France offers "a detailed, climactic account of a legendary battle" ( Publishers Weekly).   The epic fourteenth-century Battle of Poitiers marked a major turn in the Hundred Years' War between England and France. Prince Edward, known to all as the Black Prince, not only won a surprising victory in his ...

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  • GEOGRAPHIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE
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    GEOGRAPHIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE
    DAVID N. LIVINGSTONE
    In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity. Chapters from a distinguished range of contributors explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmissi...

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  • MEDIA REGULATION
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    MEDIA REGULATION
    PETER LUNT / SONIA LIVINGSTONE
    "An exemplary study of how media regulation works (and, by implication, how it could work better) set within a wider discussion of democratic theory and political values. It will be of interest not only to students and scholars but to people around the world grappling with the same problem: the need to regulate markets, and the difficulty of doing this well." - James Curran, Go...

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  • GEOGRAPHY AND REVOLUTION
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    GEOGRAPHY AND REVOLUTION
    DAVID N. LIVINGSTONE
    A term with myriad associations, revolution is commonly understood in its intellectual, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. Until now, almost no attention has been paid to revolution and questions of geography. Geography and Revolution examines the ways that place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers asse...

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  • PUTTING SCIENCE IN ITS PLACE
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    PUTTING SCIENCE IN ITS PLACE
    DAVID N. LIVINGSTONE
    We are accustomed to thinking of science and its findings as universal. After all, one atom of carbon plus two of oxygen yields carbon dioxide in Amazonia as well as in Alaska; a scientist in Bombay can use the same materials and techniques to challenge the work of a scientist in New York; and of course the laws of gravity apply worldwide. Why, then, should the spaces where sci...

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