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  • A THEORY OF DE FACTO STATES
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    A THEORY OF DE FACTO STATES
    LUCAS KNOTTER
    A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states — political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition — zooming in on two prominent examples, Somaliland and Kosovo. Employing a thorough understanding of classical realist theories of international relations, this book ...

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  • SPATIALITIES OF SPECULATIVE FICTION
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    SPATIALITIES OF SPECULATIVE FICTION
    GWILYM LUCAS EADES
    This book examines science fiction, fantasy and horror novels utilizing a conceptual toolkit of the ten duties of speculative fiction. Building on previous work in the discipline of geography it will demonstrate the value of speculation in the visualisation of Anthropocene futures. The book presents insights into how novels produce specifically geographical knowledge about the ...

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  • TRAVEL WRITING AND RE-ENACTMENT
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    TRAVEL WRITING AND RE-ENACTMENT
    LUCAS TROMLY
    Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such re-enactments as quests for aura in which travellers seek to capture a sense of distinction and historical profundity. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment frames the re-enactm...

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  • SENSING THE SACRED
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    SENSING THE SACRED
    HANNA J. LUCAS
    This book offers a theological vision of learning informed by the mystagogical homilies of Ambrose of Milan, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, and Theodore of Mopsuestia. In dialogue with these four mystagogues, Hanna Lucas walks through the rites and liturgy surrounding baptism and the eucharist in order to establish a theological epistemology that sees knowledge as part of...

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  • THE JAINA WORLDVIEW
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    THE JAINA WORLDVIEW
    LUCAS DEN BOER
    This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvārthādhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way. The book also includes the first English translation of its oldest commentary, the Tattvārthādhigamabhāṣya (TABh). Focusing on the philosophical sections of the TA a...

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  • LAW, ETHICS AND EMERGING MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES
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    LAW, ETHICS AND EMERGING MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES
    GEORGE LUCAS
    This book addresses issues of legal and moral governance arising in the development, deployment, and eventual uses of emerging technologies in military operations. Proverbial wisdom has it that law and morality always lag behind technological innovation. Hence, the book aims to identify, enumerate, and constructively address the problems of adequate governance for the developme...

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  • ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITUATIONS
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    ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITUATIONS
    GAVIN LUCAS
    This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology – but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start. Rather than see theory as something worked from the outside in, this book explores theory from the inside out, which means it focuses on s...

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  • HIGH SCHOOL AND UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS PRACTICALS
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    HIGH SCHOOL AND UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS PRACTICALS
    ROBERT LUCAS
    This book describes more than thirty physics practicals at high school and undergraduate levels with background information on each one, a description of the equipment needed, and instructions on how the experiment is performed. Uniquely, for those without access to a real laboratory, the book provides access to highly detailed 3D simulations of all the experiments. The simulat...

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  • RURAL TRANSITIONS TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
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    RURAL TRANSITIONS TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
    SUE TIMMIS / THEA DE WET / KIBASHINI NAIDOO / SHEILA TRAHAR / LISA LUCAS / EMMANUEL MFANAFUTHI MGQWASHU /  
    This unique and timely book focuses on research conducted into the experiences of students from rural backgrounds in South Africa: foregrounding decolonial perspectives on their negotiation of access and transitions to higher education. This book highlights not only the challenges of coming from a rural background against the historical backdrop of apartheid and ongoing colonia...

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  • CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TIME
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    CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TIME
    GAVIN LUCAS / LAURENT OLIVIER
    This book presents a conversation between two prominent archaeologists who have been exploring the concept of time in their discipline for several decades. It is a discussion on key issues of time in archaeology filtered through their unique perspectives, which sometimes meet and at other times, clash. Key features include discussions on the nature of change and time in the arc...

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  • MAKING TIME
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    MAKING TIME
    GAVIN LUCAS
    Making Time grapples with a range of issues that have crystallized in the wake of 15 years of discussion on time in archaeology, since the author's seminal volume The Archaeology of Time, synthesizing them for a new generation of scholars. The general understanding of time held by both archaeologists and non-archaeologists is often very simple: a linear notion where time flows ...

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  • HOMER: THE ILIAD; THE ODYSSEY
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    HOMER: THE ILIAD; THE ODYSSEY
    W. LUCAS COLLINS
    The Iliad, (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Mycenean Greek states (Achaeans), it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and t...

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  • LUHMANN AND SOCIO-LEGAL RESEARCH
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    LUHMANN AND SOCIO-LEGAL RESEARCH
    LUCAS FUCCI AMATO / MARCO ANTONIO LOSCHIAVO LEME DE BARROS / CELSO FERNANDES CAMPILONGO
    This book discusses the designs and applications of the social systems theory (built by Niklas Luhmann, 1927–1998) in relation to empirical socio-legal studies. This is a sociological and legal theory known for its highly complex and abstract conceptual apparatus. But how to change its scale in order to study more localised phenomena, and to deal with empirical data, such as ca...

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  • MEN, MASCULINITIES AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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    MEN, MASCULINITIES AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
    LUCAS GOTTZÉN / ‎MARGUNN BJØRNHOLT / ‎FLORETTA BOONZAIER
    Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence, as well as on how to involve men and boys in anti-violence work. The chapters explore partner violence from th...

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  • CHANGING THE GAME
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    CHANGING THE GAME
    LUCAS SIMONS / ANDRE NIJHOF
    We are at the beginning of the sustainability era. The biggest challenge of our generation is to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. For this we must be willing to understand and change the root causes that create these challenges in the first place. The system itself needs to change. But how to do that? This ground-breaking book Changing the Game reveals the missing insig...

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  • COLOR, THREAD & FREE-MOTION QUILTING
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    COLOR, THREAD & FREE-MOTION QUILTING
    TERI LUCAS
    Use color and thread to create the quilting of your dreams! With Color, Thread, & Free-motion Quilting, author Teri Lucas, a world-renowned master machine quilter, shares her brilliance and guidance to hone your machine quilting skills in a helpful, comprehensive, and understandable way. Quilters talk about building their fabric stashes but what about building their thread stas...

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  • 101 COACHING SUPERVISION TECHNIQUES, APPROACHES, ENQUIRIES AND EXPERIMENTS
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    101 COACHING SUPERVISION TECHNIQUES, APPROACHES, ENQUIRIES AND EXPERIMENTS
    MICHELLE LUCAS
    This book locates 101 practical coaching supervision techniques in their theoretical context. It is organised into ten chapters, each reflecting a different philosophical basis for the coaching supervision work: Existential, Gestalt, Person Centred, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic, Solution Focused, Systemic, Thinking Environment, Transpersonal and finally an Eclectic chapte...

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  • ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF MASCULINITY STUDIES
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    ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF MASCULINITY STUDIES
    LUCAS GOTTZÉN, ULF MELLSTRÖM, TAMARA SHEFER
    The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future. The forty-eight chapters of the handbook take an interdisciplinary approach to a range of ...

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  • ETHICS AND MILITARY STRATEGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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    ETHICS AND MILITARY STRATEGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    GEORGE LUCAS, JR.
    This book examines the importance of "military ethics" in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy. Clausewitz’s original analysis of war relegated ethics to the side-lines in favor of political realism, interpreting the proper use of military power solely to further the political goals of the state, whatever those may be. This book demonstrates how such si...

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  • DAILY LIFE IN FLORENCE
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    DAILY LIFE IN FLORENCE
    J. LUCAS-DUBRETON
    Originally published in 1960, paints a picture of what life was like in Renaissance Florence. It examines private and public life of Florentine citizens, governance and defence; the life of women; domestic arrangements; ritual and ceremony, siege and plague. ...

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  • DRAWING PARALLELS
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    DRAWING PARALLELS
    RAY LUCAS
    Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric, isometric, and oblique drawings. Ray Lucas argues that by retracing the marks made by architects, we can begin to engage more directly with their practice as it is only by redrawing the...

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  • WRITING THE PAST
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    WRITING THE PAST
    GAVIN LUCAS
    How do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories such as positivism and hermeneutics which have all but vanished today. By contrast, in recent years there has been a great deal of attention given to more concrete, practice-based study, such as fieldwork. But where one was too abst...

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  • THE BABY THE BILLIONAIRE DEMANDS
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    THE BABY THE BILLIONAIRE DEMANDS
    JENNIE LUCAS
    A Spanish billionaire’s steamy dalliance makes him a father and perhaps a husband in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Lola Price didn’t dare tell Rodrigo Cabrera she was pregnant, after he spurned her. But now that he’s discovered her secret, he’s determined his child will take his name! While their mutual desire in the marriage bed is undeniable, Ro...

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  • A TREATISE ON TIME AND SPACE
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    A TREATISE ON TIME AND SPACE
    J. R. LUCAS
    Originally published in 1976. This comprehensive study discusses in detail the philosophical, mathematical, physical, logical and theological aspects of our understanding of time and space. The text examines first the many different definitions of time that have been offered, beginning with some of the puzzles arising from our awareness of the passage of time and shows how time...

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  • A LIFE OF CRIME
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    A LIFE OF CRIME
    DOUGLAS LUCAS
    A Life of Crime: My Career in Forensic Science chronicles the career and experiences of world-renowned forensic scientist, Dr. Douglas Lucas. It is the culmination of his decades-worth of work in the field, developing innovative techniques that have revolutionized several aspects of forensic science. It is part professional reference, part career guide, part instructive referen...

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  • THE HEIR THE PRINCE SECURES
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    THE HEIR THE PRINCE SECURES
    JENNIE LUCAS
    She’s seduced by a stranger and claimed as his princess in this dramatic secret-baby story from the USA Today–bestselling author. After an exquisite encounter with a handsome Sicilian, idealistic Tess is left alone, penniless and pregnant. But when Stefano returns to New York, he discovers his unknown heir and reveals a secret of his own: he’s a prince! Stefano is determined to...

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  • THE SECRET THE ITALIAN CLAIMS
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    THE SECRET THE ITALIAN CLAIMS
    JENNIE LUCAS
    A billionaire hotel magnate discovers one of his maids is carrying his child in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Cristiano Moretti is furious that Hallie hid the consequences of their hot night together! He will not inflict his own childhood abandonment on his son, so he demands that Hallie marry him. Soon they realize the passion between them is as ...

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  • THE VICISSITUDES OF TOTEMISM
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    THE VICISSITUDES OF TOTEMISM
    GERARD LUCAS
    After being the subject of many studies up until 1914, totemism seemed to disappear from the literature. The publication of Freud’s work Totem and Taboo was initially greeted with silence, and subsequently with critical and hostile reactions. C. Lévi-Strauss was one of the few to devote a book to totemism but considered it as an illusion, although a number of prominent members ...

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  • PROTESTS IN THE INFORMATION AGE
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    PROTESTS IN THE INFORMATION AGE
    LUCAS MELGAÇO
    Information and communication technologies have transformed the dynamics of contention in contemporary society. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have increasingly played a central role in facilitating and mobilizing social movements throughout different parts of the world. Concurrently, the same technologies have been taken up by pub...

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  • PEER SUPERVISION IN COACHING AND MENTORING
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    PEER SUPERVISION IN COACHING AND MENTORING
    TAMMY TURNER / MICHELLE LUCAS / CAROL WHITAKER
    Supervision is increasingly required for a coach’s and a mentor's professional development, and engaging in reflective practice with peers can be a valuable way of meeting these needs. Peer supervision brings unique challenges though, including the possibility of collusion or stagnating at a shared developmental level. This book is written by practicing professional supervisors...

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