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  • POSITIVE LANGUAGE EDUCATION
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    POSITIVE LANGUAGE EDUCATION
    ANTONIA CLARE / TAMMY GREGERSEN / SARAH MERCER
    This innovative book integrates theory and practice in the teaching of contemporary life skills alongside and as part of language teaching that looks at the 'whole student'. Introducing their Positive Language Education framework, the authors expertly outline the theoretical background for integrating linguistic objectives with a wide range of holistic 21st century competencies...

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  • SOMEONE SAID PARENTAL ALIENATION
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    SOMEONE SAID PARENTAL ALIENATION
    JEAN MERCER
    This book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions. PA is essentially a legal concept without validated psychological definition, assuming that children who resist contact with one divorced parent have in many cases been “brainwashed” or persuaded ...

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  • SEXUALISED MASCULINITY
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    SEXUALISED MASCULINITY
    JOHN MERCER / CLARISSA SMITH
    Sexualised Masculinity: Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture explores evolving portrayals of masculinity in contemporary media, focusing on the increasing eroticisation of the male body. This book examines how traditional and digital media – from films and television to social media platforms and fashion – have transformed the ways masculinity is represented and perceived...

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  • DNAPL SITE EVALUATION
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    DNAPL SITE EVALUATION
    JAMES W. MERCER / ROBERT M. COHEN
    DNAPL Site Evaluation covers long-term contamination of ground water by DNAPL (dense non-aqueous phase liquids) chemicals. The book develops a framework for planning and implementing DNAPL site characterization activities. It provides detailed methods to identify, characterize, and monitor sites and analyzes their utility, limitations, risks, availability, and cost. Methods to ...

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  • RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF FAME
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    RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF FAME
    MERCER, JOHN
    This book explores the connections between drag stardom and contemporary sexual and cultural politics in the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise. With Drag Race alumni achieving fame in fields such as music, fashion, theatre and beyond, this edited collection interrogates the relationships between gender, sexuality, performance, identity and celebrity culture that lie at the very hear...

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  • STEPHEN KING AND THE UNCANNY IMAGINARY
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    STEPHEN KING AND THE UNCANNY IMAGINARY
    ERIN MERCER
    Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny. It demonstrates how entrenched King’s work is in a literary tradition influenced by psychoanalytic theory, as well as the ways that King evades and amends Freud. Such an approach positions King’s texts not simply as objects of in...

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  • CLARK'S ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO MAMMOGRAPHY
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    CLARK'S ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO MAMMOGRAPHY
    CLAIRE BORRELLI / CLAIRE MERCER
    This easy-to-understand pocketbook in the highly respected Clark’s stable of imaging texts is an invaluable tool and training aid, providing essential information for mammographic positioning, technique and interpretation for mammography practitioners at all levels. Adopting a systematic and structured approach facilitating rapid reference in the clinical setting, the book cove...

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  • TOXIC MASCULINITY
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    TOXIC MASCULINITY
    MARK MCGLASHAN AND JOHN MERCER
    Toxic Masculinity brings together scholars across disciplines to explore the ways in which toxic masculinity is constructed, configured and represented online. What is "toxic masculinity"? Examining what it means in the media and public discourse, the contributors have explored a constellation of behaviours, cultures and practices that have been labelled as (or associated with)...

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  • CHALLENGING PARENTAL ALIENATION
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    CHALLENGING PARENTAL ALIENATION
    JEAN MERCER
    This book addresses the concept of parental alienation – the belief that when a child of divorced parents avoids one parent, it may be because the preferred parent has persuaded the child to do this. It argues against the unquestioning use of parental alienation concepts in child custody conflicts. Increasing use of this concept in family courts has led at times to placement of...

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  • USING ENGLISH
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    USING ENGLISH
    JANET MAYBIN / NEIL MERCER / ANN HEWINGS
    Using English provides an invaluable introduction to the study of English for students of language and linguistics. It examines the way in which the English language is used today in different contexts and in many parts of the world, by both native and non-native speakers. Issues of language use in speech and writing, in work and play, and in persuading and informing are explor...

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  • LEARNING ENGLISH
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    LEARNING ENGLISH
    NEIL MERCER / BARBARA MAYOR / JOAN SWANN
    Learning English focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in monolingual and bilingual contexts and explores the debates surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world.  English is learned in most parts of the world, both through use in the home and community,...

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  • OBJECTIFICATION
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    OBJECTIFICATION
    SUSANNA PAASONEN / FEONA ATTWOOD / ALAN MCKEE / JOHN MERCER / CLARISSA SMITH
    This is a concise and accessible introduction into the concept of objectification, one of the most frequently recurring terms in both academic and media debates on the gendered politics of contemporary culture, and core to critiquing the social positions of sex and sexism. Objectification is an issue of media representation and everyday experiences alike. Central to theories of...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON DIALOGIC EDUCATION
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    THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON DIALOGIC EDUCATION
    NEIL MERCER
    The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education provides a comprehensive overview of the main ideas and themes that make up the exciting and diverse field of Dialogic Education. With contributions from the world’s leading researchers, it describes underpinning theoretical approaches, debates, methodologies, evidence of impact, how Dialogic Education relat...

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  • THE COLLABORATIVE LITERARY RELATIONSHIP OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AND MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
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    THE COLLABORATIVE LITERARY RELATIONSHIP OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AND MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
    ANNA MERCER
    How did Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, two of the most iconic and celebrated authors of the Romantic Period, contribute to each other’s achievements? This book is the first to dedicate a full-length study to exploring the nature of the Shelleys’ literary relationship in depth. It offers new insights into the works of these talented individuals who were bo...

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  • LANGUAGE AND THE JOINT CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE
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    LANGUAGE AND THE JOINT CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE
    NEIL MERCER
    In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strand...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
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    THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
    ILAN KELMAN, JESSICA MERCER, JC GAILLARD
    The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together. This long-awaited and welcomed volume makes a compelling case that a common research agenda and a series of practical p...

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  • SONG BOOK
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    SONG BOOK
    FFION MERCER / SPEECHMARK SPEECHMARK
    Featuring large clear print, the "Song Book" contains the words to 100 popular songs that are ideal for group sing-along sessions. The book is divided into six sections: traditional folk songs, choruses from old time variety, songs from World War II, post-war evergreens, hymns, and Christmas songs. ...

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  • INTERVIEWING FOR THE SELECTION OF STAFF
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    INTERVIEWING FOR THE SELECTION OF STAFF
    EDGAR ANSTEY / EDITH O. MERCER
    This book, first published in 1956, is intended for those who interview people to assess their suitability for appointment or promotion to a particular position of employment. The authors discuss different methods of interviewing, how to create appropriate questions for the interview, and how to reach conclusions with the answers given. The authors also include a section which ...

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  • REDISCOVERING VALUES
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    REDISCOVERING VALUES
    HUGH MERCER CURTLER
    The author's primary purpose in this short book is to clearly define the nature of value and restore it to a central place in discussions of ethical and aesthetic problems. He begins the book with a broad cultural perspective on the issue of postmodernism in general, then takes a closer look at recent attempts to reduce values to evaluation, to deny their objectivity. The centr...

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  • ASSESSING CHILDREN IN THE URBAN COMMUNITY
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    ASSESSING CHILDREN IN THE URBAN COMMUNITY
    BARBARA L MERCER
    This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their parents. "Assessing Children in the Urban Community" presents a semi-structured form of collaborative psychological assessment, designed to help clients gain new insights and make chan...

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  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE MENTALLY DISORDERED OFFENDER
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    THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE MENTALLY DISORDERED OFFENDER
    TOM MASON / DAVE MERCER
    In recent years mentally disordered offenders have attracted considerable attention in the media and there has been heated public debate as to the best treatment and prevention of re-offending. Simultaneously there has been a significant increase in the amount of research, specialist courses and training devoted to this particular, high profile area of mental health care. This ...

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  • EMBRACING EMPATHY
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    EMBRACING EMPATHY
    ANNEMIEKE P. BIKKER / PHILIP COTTON / STEWART W. MERCER
    This highly practical, user-friendly guide is based on a broad definition of relational empathy in the clinical context. With a clear focus on understanding the patient's situation, perspective and feelings, and communicating and acting on that understanding in beneficial way, the book establishes the flexible, person-centred CARE Approach. Connecting, Assessing, Responding and...

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  • RAILROADS AND LAND GRANT POLICY
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    RAILROADS AND LAND GRANT POLICY
    LLOYD J. MERCER
    Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention attempts to replace a major part of the railroad land grant legend (according to which the granting of federal and state land to private railroad firms benefitted these firms more than it contributed to society as a whole) with some real numbers and analysis. An attempt is made to put the income and wealth dis...

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  • WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
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    WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
    KOBENA MERCER
    Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new g...

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  • INTERTHINKING: PUTTING TALK TO WORK
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    INTERTHINKING: PUTTING TALK TO WORK
    KAREN LITTLETON / NEIL MERCER
    Through using spoken language, people are able to think creatively and productively together. This ability to ‘interthink’ is an important product of our evolutionary history that is just as important for our survival today. Many kinds of work activity depend on the success of groups or teams finding joint solutions to problems. Creative achievement is rarely the product of sol...

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  • COMMON KNOWLEDGE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    COMMON KNOWLEDGE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DEREK EDWARDS / NEIL MERCER
    First published in 1987, Common Knowledge offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned modern approaches to educational theory and practice. The authors present a study of education as the creation of ‘common knowledge’ or shared understanding between teacher and pupils. They show the presenting, receiving, sharing, contr...

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  • WOMEN AS THEY AGE, SECOND EDITION
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    WOMEN AS THEY AGE, SECOND EDITION
    SUSAN O MERCER / J DIANNE GARNER
    Explore the needs of older women and ways to provide for them!Written by women, about women, and for women, Women As They Age, Second Edition highlights the realities of being an aging woman in a youth-oriented, male-dominated society, in which socioeconomic and gender stratification are the norm.In the eleven years since the publication of the original Women as They Age, there...

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  • THE NEW YORK STATE CAPITOL AND THE GREAT FIRE OF 1911
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    THE NEW YORK STATE CAPITOL AND THE GREAT FIRE OF 1911
    PAUL MERCER / VICKI WEISS
    In the early morning hours of March 29, 1911, a fire broke out in the New York State Capitol at Albany. By sunset, the entire western portion of the building had sustained extensive structural damage. Within lay the entire collection of the New York State Library, almost completely reduced to ashes. Founded in 1818, this had been one of the finest research libraries in the coun...

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  • HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATION
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    HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATION
    JUSTINE MERCER / BERNARD BARKER / RICHARD BIRD
    The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for Learning series explores the connections between educational leadership, policy, ...

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  • EXPLORING TALK IN SCHOOL
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    EXPLORING TALK IN SCHOOL
    NEIL MERCER, STEVE HODGKINSON
    Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 Classroom talk, by which children make sense of what their peers and teachers mean, is the most important educational tool for guiding the development of understanding and for jointly constructing knowledge. So what practical steps can teachers take to develop effective classroom interaction? Bringing to...

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