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  • EUROPE AND A WIDER WORLD
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    EUROPE AND A WIDER WORLD
    J. H. PARRY
    Originally published in 1949, and as a third revised edition in 1966, this is a fascinating, lucid and comprehensive survey of the complicated succession of colonial empires in east and west. The book begins with an analysis of the scientific knowledge and technical limitations of trade, exploration and discovery in the age of the Renaissance. It describes in turn the Portugues...

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  • ENGAGING TEAMS
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    ENGAGING TEAMS
    NICK SMALLMAN / DAN PARRY
    Is disengagement undermining your organization's performance and profitability? Engaging Teams by Nick Smallman and Dan Parry is a strategic guide for senior leaders and HR executives seeking proven tools for reversing disengagement, driving productivity and strengthening workforce resilience. Drawing on academic research, business data and C-suite insights, this book offers a ...

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  • THE ETHICS OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
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    THE ETHICS OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
    JONATHAN PARRY
    Few topics generate as much controversy and debate as armed humanitarian intervention. Military force involves death and destruction, as well as interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs. But, crucially, non-intervention is also controversial. When confronted with humanitarian crises abroad, many feel that outsiders are not only justified in using force to halt the abuse...

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  • ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FOR MANAGERS
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    ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FOR MANAGERS
    MATT BAMBER / SIMON PARRY
    The ideal textbook for business and management students needing to develop and understand accounting and finance skills. Taking a unique and practical approach that focuses on the financial aspects of business decisions, Accounting and Finance for Managers covers the core topics of accounting and finance. Now in its fourth edition, it includes new advice on budgetary control, o...

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  • SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY POETRY
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    SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY POETRY
    GRAHAM PARRY
    First published in 1985, Seventeenth-Century Poetry considers the way the poetry of the major seventeenth-century writers functioned in a social context: how it grew out of the poets’ social circumstances and ambitions, enhance their relationships with friends and patrons, how it proposed ideals of conduct and the good life. In the case of religious verse, the poetry is read wi...

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  • THE LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT HANDBOOK
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    THE LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT HANDBOOK
    MICHELLE PARRY-SLATER
    The skills needed in today's business world are not the same as they used to be. As a result companies must embrace upskilling, reskilling and developing staff to achieve the productivity, performance, personal well-being and revenue benefits that come from effective learning. Workplace learning works best when it is collaborative, accessible and immediate. The Learning and Dev...

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  • IMPACT IN DOCTORAL EDUCATION
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    IMPACT IN DOCTORAL EDUCATION
    EMMA PARRY / COLIN PILBEAM
    Demonstrating how impact can be created and derived from doctoral programmes, this book focuses on their influence on academic knowledge, policy and practice. Significantly, it highlights the crucial impact of these programmes on the individual and the enduring consequences of this. Drawing on their extensive experience and conversations with stakeholders in doctoral education ...

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  • THE MAKING OF THE SCOTTISH COUNTRYSIDE
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    THE MAKING OF THE SCOTTISH COUNTRYSIDE
    M. L. PARRY
    Originally published in 1980, this book examines the evolution of the Scottish landscape from pre-historic times to the mid-nineteenth century. It considers the way in which the structural base of agriculture and the changing farming ‘system’ came to alter the Scottish rural landscape. This book, with its focus on the underlying landscape processes, gives a developmental view o...

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  • SEX AND LEISURE
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    SEX AND LEISURE
    DIANA C. PARRY / COREY W. JOHNSON
    This book uses the emerging and cutting-edge area of leisure research to highlight the importance of sexuality and sexual activity and its relevance to leisure studies. It brings to the fore some complex issues associated with this topic using a range of substantive, epistemological, theoretical and methodological approaches. Drawing on international scholarship, the book exami...

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  • ENGINEERING CHARACTERISTICS OF ARID SOILS
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    ENGINEERING CHARACTERISTICS OF ARID SOILS
    P G FOOKES / R H G PARRY
    Soils formed or now existing under arid climatic conditions cover more than one-third of the world's land surface. Many have unique characteristics which can pose difficult geotechnical problems. This text considers these problems and suggests ways of overcoming them. ...

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  • THE BOTTOM LINE
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    THE BOTTOM LINE
    PAMELA PARRY
    The first step any company must take before it can begin ISO 14001 implementation is to secure 100 percent, enthusiastic commitment from top management. Top management is persuaded if ISO 14001 impacts the bottom line. This practical, how-to book helps you build a business case for ISO 14001. Implementing ISO 14001 brings a corporate culture change, resulting in cost savings, r...

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  • QUESTIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
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    QUESTIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
    RITA ASTUTI / ‎JONATHAN PARRY / ‎CHARLES STAFFORD
    Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work,...

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  • CLASSES OF LABOUR
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    CLASSES OF LABOUR
    JONATHAN PARRY
    Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to ...

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  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND WORLD AGRICULTURE
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    CLIMATE CHANGE AND WORLD AGRICULTURE
    MARTIN L. PARRY
    Originally published in 1990, this book analysed the sensitivity of the world food system and looked at the variety of ways in which it would be affected by climate change. It describes the effects of climate change on agriculture, estimates the impacts on plant and animal growth and looks at the geographical limits to different types of farming. It also considers the range of ...

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  • CHARLES I
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    CHARLES I
    MARK PARRY
    Charles I provides a detailed overview of Charles Stuart, placing his reign firmly within the wider context of this turbulent period and examining the nature of one of the most complex monarchs in British history. The book is organised chronologically, beginning in 1600 and covering Charles’ early life, his first difficulties with his parliaments, the Personal Rule, the outbrea...

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  • THE RISE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
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    THE RISE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
    NOEL PARRY / JOSÉ PARRY
    Originally published in 1976 The Rise of the Medical Profession combines a sociological and historical approach to the rise of the medical profession in England. Sociologically it offers a theoretical framework which for the first time links the study of social mobility and professionalism with the theory of stratification. Historically, it examines the movement which led to th...

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  • MUSEUM THRESHOLDS
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    MUSEUM THRESHOLDS
    ROSS PARRY
    Museum Thresholds is a progressive, interdisciplinary volume and the first to explore the importance and potential of entrance spaces for visitor experience. Bringing together an international collection of writers from different disciplines, the chapters in this volume offer different theoretical perspectives on the nature of engagement, interaction and immersion in threshold ...

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  • GENERATIONAL DIVERSITY AT WORK
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    GENERATIONAL DIVERSITY AT WORK
    EMMA PARRY
    Over the past decade much attention has been paid to the apparent differences in consumption preferences or workplace attitudes and behaviours across generations. Within Western economies such as the USA, UK and Australia, it is commonly assumed that that there are now four generations in the workplace, namely Veterans (born 1925-1942), Baby Boomers (1943-1960), Generation X (1...

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  • PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN INDIA
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    PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN INDIA
    NANDINI GOOPTU AND JONATHAN PARRY
    What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty ...

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  • DENDRIMERS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE
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    DENDRIMERS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE
    ZAHOOR AHMAD PARRY / RAJESH PANDEY
    This valuable new book offers a new perspective on dendrimers that bridges the gap between basic research and applied nanomedicine. It explores the ultimate effectiveness of dendrimers in theranostics, a promising field that combines therapeutics and diagnostics into single multifunctional formulations used to affect therapy or treatment of a disease state. The authors examine ...

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  • BODIES ACROSS BORDERS
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    BODIES ACROSS BORDERS
    BRONWYN PARRY / BETH GREENHOUGH / ISABEL DYCK
    Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, transport and biotechnologies creating, in the process, a genuinely globalised sphere of biomedical production and consumption. This emerging market is characterised by the circulation of bodily materials (tissues, organs and bio-infor...

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  • WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE USA
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    WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE USA
    DOROTHY E. MCBRIDE / JANINE A. PARRY
    Women’s Rights in the USA is a rigorous examination of the intersection of gender roles and public policy and the implications for feminist activists. The book places full information on state and federal statutes and court decisions in the context of the ebb and flow of debates that have engaged the public since the founding of the Republic. This fifth edition includes updates...

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  • OSMOTIC AND IONIC REGULATION IN ANIMALS
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    OSMOTIC AND IONIC REGULATION IN ANIMALS
    W. T. W. POTTS / GWYNETH PARRY
    Osmotic and Ionic Regulation in Animals focuses on the processes involved in osmoregulation. The book first discusses general considerations of osmoregulation in animals, including the distinction of body fluids, definitions, and properties of solutions and membranes. The text also looks at the different types of excretory organs, including the differentiation of the excretory...

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  • NEGOTIATING A GOOD DEATH
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    NEGOTIATING A GOOD DEATH
    JOAN K PARRY / CARLTON MUNSON
    Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people and their families. The social workers who work most effectively with terminally ill patients and their families are the ones who best understand the multifaceted nature of the dying process and its impact on the the patient, the ...

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  • BIG CHANGE, BEST PATH
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    BIG CHANGE, BEST PATH
    WARREN PARRY
    SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2017 - Management Futures Category Using ground-breaking modelling, Big Change, Best Path brings unique insights to the dynamics and process of organizational change, understanding success and failure, defining and describing the drivers and conditions of change, and the patterns and paths of organizational change. Author Warr...

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  • DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION
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    DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION
    MICHAEL MORAN / GERAINT PARRY
    Following the collapse of the former regimes of Eastern and Central Europe and Latin America the choice of all of the democratising countries was to move towards liberal democracy. Likewise in Africa, many authoriatarian regimes seem to be in retreat, perhaps most significantly in South Africa. Democracy seems to be the only valued political system of the late twentieth centur...

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  • IMPLEMENTING A US CARBON TAX
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    IMPLEMENTING A US CARBON TAX
    IAN PARRY
    Although the future extent and effects of global climate change remain uncertain, the expected damages are not zero, and risks of serious environmental and macroeconomic consequences rise with increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Despite the uncertainties, reducing emissions now makes sense, and a carbon tax is the simplest, most effective, and least costly way...

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  • FROM TESTING TO ASSESSMENT
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    FROM TESTING TO ASSESSMENT
    CLIFFORD HILL / KATE PARRY
    From Testing to Assessment: English as an International Language provides a critical review of conventional and alternative approaches to the assessment of English literacy skills in various parts of the world. It presents empirical studies conducted in three major settings: in countries such as Japan and Brazil where English functions as the language of international commernce...

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  • THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN BRITAIN
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    THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN BRITAIN
    MARTIN PARRY
    Climate change could have a substantial economic impact, particularly on coastal states where seas level rises will be felt most strongly. Among these, the British Isles are likely to be significantly affected, and they provide an excellent case study of the consequences for specific sectors of the economy. In this book, leading experts - including several authors of reports by...

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  • OLYMPIC ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY
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    OLYMPIC ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY
    MCNAMEE, MIKE / PARRY, JIM
    This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games. The essays consider a range of topics including critical reflections on nationalism and internationalism within the Olympic movement, sexism in Olympic marketing and sponsorship, the preservation and corruption of Olympism, the underlying ...

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