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SPORT COACH LEARNING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

BOB MUIR / JOHN LYLE

Sport Coach Learning and Professional Development describes the genesis and theoretical foundations of an emerging workflow for supporting sport coaches learning and professional development in performance and high‑performance sport. It is the clear exposition and critical insight into coaches’ learning and professional development, and of coaching practice, that provides the f...

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BLACK BRITISH GOSPEL MUSIC

DULCIE A. DIXON MCKENZIE, PAULINE E. MUIR, MONIQUE M. INGALLS

Black British Gospel Music is a dynamic and multifaceted musical practice, a diasporic river rooted in the experiences of Black British Christian communities. This book examines gospel music in Britain in both historical and contemporary perspectives, demonstrating the importance of this this vital genre to scholars across disciplines. Drawing on a plurality of voices, the book...

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THE COMEDY OF MANNERS

KENNETH MUIR

Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and ...

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GREEK EYES ON EUROPE

JOHN MUIR

This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek from Corfu, who accompanied a diplomatic mission from Venice to England in the middle of the sixteenth century. He describes some of the great northern Italian cities, gives vivid impressions of picturesque Germany, of sober but enthusiastic Lutheran church...

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DEVIANT MATERNITY

ANGELA JOY MUIR

This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources, it examines the scope and context of Welsh illegitimacy, and the link between illegitimacy, courtship and economic precarity. It also goes beyond courtship to consider the different identities and relationships of the mothers and fathers...

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RECENT ADVANCES IN AQUACULTURE

JAMES MUIR / RONALD ROBERTS

It is a tribute to the vigour of research and development in aquaculture that we are able, in a relatively short time, to provide readers with a second volume in this series, which has such a diversity of high calibre research and developments to report. That the first volume was so well received has been a source of great satisfaction to the editors and supported their convict...

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THE WOODS WERE FULL OF MEN

IRMA LEE EMMERSON / JEAN MUIR

In this lively memoir, Irma Lee Emmerson tells the true account of her spontaneous, covert decision to leave the comforts of her sister's San Francisco home to work as a second cook at a logging camp in Coos Bay, Oregon. During this impulsive journey, Irma meets with obstacles and victories that give her insight into her capabilities as never before. After years of rejection fr...

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THE LEGACY OF ISOCRATES AND A PLATONIC ALTERNATIVE

JAMES R. MUIR

Bringing together the history of educational philosophy, political philosophy, and rhetoric, this book examines the influence of the philosopher Isocrates on educational thought and the history of education. Unifying philosophical and historical arguments, Muir discusses the role of Isocrates in raising two central questions: What is the value of education? By what methods ough...

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GEOTECHNICAL MODELLING

DAVID MUIR WOOD

Modelling forms an implicit part of all engineering design but many engineers engage in modelling without consciously considering the nature, validity and consequences of the supporting assumptions. Derived from courses given to postgraduate and final year undergraduate MEng students, this book presents some of the models that form a part of the typical undergraduate geotechnic...

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EARLY CHRISTIAN RITUAL LIFE

RICHARD DEMARIS / JASON LAMOREAUX / STEVEN MUIR

Scholars across many fields have come to realize that ritual is an integral element of human life and a vital aspect of all human societies. Yet, this realization has been slow to develop among scholars of early Christianity. Early Christian Ritual Life attempts to counteract the undervaluing of ritual by placing it at the forefront of early Christian life. Rather than treating...

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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HUMAN FACTORS AND AVIATION SAFETY

HELEN C. MUIR

Every issue of Ashgate's Human Factors and Aerospace Safety: An International Journal publishes an invited, critical review of a key area from a widely-respected researcher. To celebrate a successful first three years of the journal and to make these papers available to a wider audience, they have been collated here into a single volume. The book is divided into three sections,...

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THE RECORD OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

RAMSAY MUIR

The introduction of the National Government in 1931 came about due to the Wall Street Crash leading to a British Government run by members of all parties, more commonly known as a coalition government today. With public opinion split on how to deal with the financial crisis, this was initially seen as a positive step by many, but for many, the national government was not the id...

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ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH MUSIC IN ENGLAND, 1791–1914: A HANDMAID OF THE LITURGY?

T.E. MUIR

Roman Catholic church music in England served the needs of a vigorous, vibrant and multi-faceted community that grew from about 70,000 to 1.7 million people during the long nineteenth century. Contemporary literature of all kinds abounds, along with numerous collections of sheet music, some running to hundreds, occasionally even thousands, of separate pieces, many of which have...

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THE TONE FROM THE TOP

IAN MUIR

Many companies have been criticised for weak business ethics, including in some cases breaking the law. Numerous scandals have rocked industries as diverse as banking, insurance, oil, supermarkets, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and the media. But ethical lapses are not confined to business; few sectors of society can claim the moral high ground. This year, like every other ye...

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WAGNER IN RUSSIA, POLAND AND THE CZECH LANDS

STEPHEN MUIR / ANASTASIA BELINA-JOHNSON

Richard Wagner has arguably the greatest and most long-term influence on wider European culture of all nineteenth-century composers. And yet, among the copious English-language literature examining Wagner's works, influence, and character, research into the composer’s impact and role in Russia and Eastern European countries, and perceptions of him from within those countries, i...

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POLITICS AND PROGRESS

RAMSAY MUIR

In Politics and Progress, Muir aims to outline the political and social aims of liberalism and how it differs from conservatism and socialism as well as philosophising what a truly liberal society would look like. Originally published in 1923, this study details the political situation as it stood then, the past achievements of liberalism and what immediate problems society is ...

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MOTIVATIONAL CURRENTS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

ZOLTÁN DÖRNYEI / ALASTAIR HENRY / CHRISTINE MUIR

Building on Zoltán Dörnyei’s authoritative work in the field of learner motivation, this book introduces a new conceptualization—Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs)—and sets out the defining aspects of what they are, what they are not, and how they are related to language learning motivation. Going beyond focused behavior in a single activity, DMCs concern intensive long-term...

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KING LEAR

KENNETH MUIR

Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents the best writing on one of Shakespeare’s most studied plays. The structure displays the changing responses to the play and includes a wide range of criticism from the likes of Coleridge, Hazlitt, Moulton, Granville-Barker, Orwell, Levin, Stampfer, Gardner and Speaight interspersed ...

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THE BROKEN PROMISE OF AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS

CAMERON MUIR

Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century. Ecological disorder and inequity is at the heart of our food system. This thoughtful and confronting book tells the story of how the development of modern agriculture promised ecological and social stability but instead descended into dysfunction. Contributing to ...

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THE SOURCES OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS

KENNETH MUIR

First published in 1977.This book ascertains what sources Shakespeare used for the plots of his plays and discusses the use he made of them; and secondly illustrates how his general reading is woven into the texture of his work. Few Elizabethan dramatists took such pains as Shakespeare in the collection of source-material. Frequently the sources were apparently incompatible, bu...

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ELIMINATING SERIOUS INJURY AND DEATH FROM ROAD TRANSPORT

IAN RONALD JOHNSTON / CARLYN MUIR / ERIC WILLIAM HOWARD

The book explodes the myths that currently drive society's view of traffic safety and limit progress in reducing death and serious injury. It presents current scientific knowledge in a non-technical way and draws parallels with other areas of public safety and public health. It uses examples from the media and from public policy debates to paint a clear picture of a flawed publ...

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THE VOYAGE TO ILLYRIA

KENNETH MUIR

First published in 1937.This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate entities; that they must be related to one another, to the poems and to the Sonnets; that each individual play acquires a deeper significance from its setting in the corpus. Muir and O'Loughlin's critical analysis takes place against the pers...

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SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC SEQUENCE

KENNETH MUIR

First published in 1972.The emphasis of this book is that each of Shakespeare's tragedies demanded its own individual form and that although certain themes run through most of the tragedies, nearly all critics refrain from the attempt to apply external rules to them. The plays are almost always concerned with one person; they end with the death of the hero; the suffering and ca...

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SHAKESPEARE'S SOURCES

KENNETH MUIR

First published in 1957.This book finds discovers what the sources to Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies really were, considers the dramatic reasons for Shakespeare's departure from them and provides many examples of the way in which he made use of his general reading for particular scenes and speeches. Kenneth Muir shows that Shakespeare frequently uses more than one source ...

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SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS

KENNETH MUIR

This edition first published in 1979.Discussing Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to sonnets by Italian, French and English poets, Kenneth Muir shows how they were influenced by Shakespeare's reading of Sidney, Erasmus and Ovid and discusses their art in terms of construction, sound patterns and imagery. He considers the relationship of the sonnets to Shakespeare's dramatic wri...

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SHAKESPEARE AS COLLABORATOR

KENNETH MUIR

This edition first published in 1960. This book discusses the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration in the plays of Edward III, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and the lost Cardenio. It includes chapters on the dramatic value of the plays irrespective of authorship. ...

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METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM SANSKRIT WRITERS

J. MUIR

First published in 2000. This title is Volume VIII in the XIV-Volume set titled India: Language and Literature, part of Truber's Oriental Series. This volume embraces the contents of the little work entitled Religious and Moral Sentiments, metrically rendered from Sanskrit Writers and presents with a detailed, line-by-line contents, appendix containing prose translations and in...

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ATTACHMENT THEORY

GOLDBERG, SUSAN / MUIR, ROY / KERR, JOHN

At a historic conference in Toronto in October 1993, developmental researchers and clinicians came together for the first time to explore the implications of current knowledge of attachment. This volume is the outcome of their labors. It offers innovative approaches to the understanding of such diverse clinical topics as child abuse, borderline personality disorder, dissociatio...

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TEXAS IN 1837

ANDREW FOREST MUIR

The earliest known eyewitness account of the first year of the Republic of Texas. Written anonymously in 1838–39 by a "Citizen of Ohio," Texas in 1837 is the earliest known account of the first year of the Texas republic. Providing information nowhere else available, the still-unknown author describes a land rich in potential but at the time "a more suitable arena for those w...

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PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND COMPLEXITY THEORY

MARY LEE RHODES / JOANNE MURPHY / JENNY MUIR / JOHN A. MURRAY

That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree. Existing theoretical frameworks in public management fail to address these features, relying more heavily on attempts to eliminate unpredictability through increased reliance on measurable performance objectives, improved financial and...

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