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  • THE BRITISH CHEER
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    THE BRITISH CHEER
    PAUL THOMPSON
    This is a bold, painstakingly researched and wide-ranging assessment of the British Cheer in the Napoleonic era. Reference to the Cheer in accounts of the time is virtually ubiquitous and repeatedly the claim was made for cheering as an integral part of British offensive operations. However, more recent historians have tended to overlook this evidence.  Based upon a vast range ...

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  • EVALUATING WHAT WORKS
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    EVALUATING WHAT WORKS
    DOROTHY V. M. BISHOP / PAUL THOMPSON
    Those who work in allied health professions and education aim to make people’s lives better. Often, however, it is hard to know how effective this work has been: would change have occurred if there was no intervention? Is it possible we are doing more harm than good? To answer these questions and develop a body of knowledge about what works, we need to evaluate interventions. O...

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  • HANDBOOK OF SYSTEMS THINKING METHODS
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    HANDBOOK OF SYSTEMS THINKING METHODS
    PAUL M. SALMON / NEVILLE A. STANTON / GUY H. WALKER / ADAM HULME / NATASSIA GOODE / JASON THOMPSON / GEMMA
    The systems thinking philosophy has become popular in human factors and ergonomics and safety science. These methods are being used to understand and resolve complex societal problems in areas such as transport safety, workplace safety, medication error, disaster management, child abuse, financial crises, terrorism, climate change and public health and wellbeing. This handbook ...

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  • ORGANISATIONAL MISBEHAVIOUR
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    ORGANISATIONAL MISBEHAVIOUR
    STEPHEN ACKROYD / PAUL THOMPSON
    Misbehaviour at work has traditionally focused on work limitation, pilferage, absenteeism and sabotage. These remain important, but the organisational landscape is changing. From new forms of satirical humour and use of social media, workplace bullying and sexual misconduct, to managerial misbehaviour and its consequences, the second edition of Organisational Misbehaviour explo...

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  • FUNDAMENTALS OF RISK MANAGEMENT
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    FUNDAMENTALS OF RISK MANAGEMENT
    CLIVE THOMPSON / PAUL HOPKIN
    Effective risk management allows opportunities to be maximized and uncertainty to be minimized. This guide for emerging professionals provides a comprehensive understanding of risk management with tools, tips and tactics on how to offer expert insights and drive success in an ever-changing area, covering everything from Covid-19 and digitization to climate change. Fundamentals ...

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  • BETWEEN GENERATIONS
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    BETWEEN GENERATIONS
    DANIEL BERTAUX / PAUL THOMPSON
    Between Generations concerns powerful memories that continue to shape the present, but in this case in almost all families throughout the world. What is it that parents pass down to their children? How can we understand the mixture of conscious and unconscious models, myths, and material inheritance that are intertwined in both family and individual life stories? These question...

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  • INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH DISCOURSE
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    INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH DISCOURSE
    PAUL THOMPSON / SUSAN HUNSTON
    Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals provides cutting-edge insights into the nature of communication in interdisciplinary research domains. Using a corpus of nearly 12,000 articles taken from 11 journals, this book addresses the key questions that surround writing for an interdisciplinary audience. This books also explores: the w...

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  • SACRED COWS AND HOT POTATOES
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    SACRED COWS AND HOT POTATOES
    WILLIAM P. BROWNE / JERRY R SKEES / LOUIS E SWANSON / PAUL THOMPSON
    Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes challenges many of the assumptions of current agricultural policies—such as equating "farm" with "rural," high farm prices with high farm incomes, or farm programs with food programs—and examines the agrarian roots of these policies. From the origins of agrarian myths to the latest controversies over farming and the environment, this book provides a...

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  • BEYOND THE LARGE FARM
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    BEYOND THE LARGE FARM
    PAUL B. THOMPSON
    This book examines the rationale for emphasizing productivity as the dominant goal of agricultural research and challenges in the form of alternative goals that scientists might seek in performing agricultural research. It presents bibliographic essays that review the criticisms of research. ...

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  • ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
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    ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
    PAUL THOMPSON
    Environmental justice is one of the most controversial and important issues in contemporary social science. Volume 8 of the Energy and Environmental Policy series challenges our understanding of environmental justice in a global context. It includes theoretical investigations and case studies by leading authors in the field. Global forces of technology and the development of gl...

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  • NARRATIVE AND GENRE
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    NARRATIVE AND GENRE
    PAUL THOMPSON
    Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also by art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself, but also the more complex expectations of ""genre,"" the forms expected within a given context and type of communication. This coll...

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  • PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
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    PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
    R. PAUL THOMPSON / ROSS UPSHUR
    What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be explained scientifically? Is disease a scientific concept, or do explanations of disease depend on values? What is "evidence-based" medicine? Are advances in neuroscience bringing us closer to a scientific understanding of the mind? The nature of medicine raises fundamental questions about explanation, causation, know...

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  • NATION BUILDING IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS
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    NATION BUILDING IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS
    PAUL THOMPSON
    What is and what makes a nation? What forces work for and against the emergence of new nations? What does the emergence of a nation mean to its people, and what does it mean to international stability? Nation Building in Comparative Contexts answers these questions. Nine leading area specialists compare and analyze the long history of nationalism in Europe, with its shorter his...

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  • PATHWAYS TO SOCIAL CLASS
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    PATHWAYS TO SOCIAL CLASS
    DANIEL BERTAUX / PAUL THOMPSON
    Calling for a broader, new approach to social mobility research, Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility moves beyond pure statistics to use qualitative techniques-such as life stories and family case studies-to examine more closely the dynamics of mobility and address more fundamental sociological questions. ...

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  • LIVING THROUGH THE SOVIET SYSTEM
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    LIVING THROUGH THE SOVIET SYSTEM
    LEO LOWENTHAL / PAUL THOMPSON
    For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The situation changed dramatically with the new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s. The result was a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television, and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and also b...

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  • THE SPIRIT OF THE SOIL
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    THE SPIRIT OF THE SOIL
    PAUL B. THOMPSON
    In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B. Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competing visions for agriculture. Productionists have sought increasing yields—to make two seeds grow where only one grew before—while traditional visions of good farming have stressed stewardship. These traditional visions have been chall...

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  • ISSUES IN UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK MANAGEMENT UST CLOSURE AND FINANCIAL ASSURANCE
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    ISSUES IN UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK MANAGEMENT UST CLOSURE AND FINANCIAL ASSURANCE
    JANET E. ROBINSON / PAUL S. THOMPSON / W. DAVID CONN / L. LEON GEYER
    Issues in Underground Storage Tank Management presents a comprehensive description of the many complex facets of hazardous waste management, tank closure, and site assessment. It is also the only book to cover financial assurance of UST remediation. Part I discusses UST closure including regulation, closure techniques, site assessment methods and d ...

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  • RE-WRITING CULTURE IN TAIWAN
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    RE-WRITING CULTURE IN TAIWAN
    SHIH, FANG-LONG / THOMPSON, STUART / TREMLETT, PAUL
    This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future. As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albe...

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  • NEW TECHNOLOGY @ WORK
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    NEW TECHNOLOGY @ WORK
    PAUL BOREHAM / RACHEL PARKER / PAUL THOMPSON / RICHARD HALL
    New computer and communications technologies have acted as the catalyst for a revolution in the way goods are produced and services delivered, leading to profound changes in the way work is organized and the way jobs are designed. This important book examines the nature, setting and impact of new technologies on work, organization and management. Conventional debates about new ...

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  • THE EDWARDIANS
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    THE EDWARDIANS
    PAUL R THOMPSON
    Everyone who lived during the reign of Edward VII was an Edwardian, not merely the rich, the literary or the scandalous. In this classic work, Paul Thompson records the life stories of some five hundred Edwardians born between 1872 and 1906 in a pioneering use of oral history, which captures a unique record of their times. Domestics, labourers, skilled and semi-skilled workers,...

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  • THE ROOTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS
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    THE ROOTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS
    HUSSEY, STEPHEN / THOMPSON, PAUL
    This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought. Containing a wealth of empirical source material, this book will be invaluable for sociologists and hi...

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  • COASTAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
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    COASTAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
    ZANUTTIGH, BARBARA / NICHOLLS, ROBERT J. / VANDERLINDEN, JEAN-PAUL / THOMPSON, RICHARD C. / BURCHARTH, H
    Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities. Professionals in this field need a more dynamic, systematic and multidisciplinary approach. Written by an international group of experts, Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate provides innovative, multidisciplinary best practices for...

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  • WHAT CAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LEARN FROM BIOTECHNOLOGY?: SOCIAL AND ETHICAL LESSONS FOR NANOSCIENCE FROM THE DEBATE OVER AGRIFOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GMOS
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    WHAT CAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LEARN FROM BIOTECHNOLOGY?: SOCIAL AND ETHICAL LESSONS FOR NANOSCIENCE FROM THE DEBATE OVER AGRIFOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GMOS
    DAVID, KENNETH / THOMPSON, PAUL B.
    What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology? presents diverse perspectives on biotechnology and nanotechnologies. Avoiding extreme perspectives, unwarranted hype and absolute rejection, this book explores the diverse territory of proponents and opponents of challenging but potentially risky technologies. Contributions from recognized experts in their fields represent the p...

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  • BLUETOOTH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING WITH THE JAVA APIS
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    BLUETOOTH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING WITH THE JAVA APIS
    KUMAR, C BALA / KLINE, PAUL J. / THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J.
    Adoption of Bluetooth wireless technology has made great strides in the last few years. One of the biggest steps forward—the standardization of Java APIs for Bluetooth wireless technology (JABWT)—is explained in detail in this book. The JABWT standard, defined by the JSR-82 specification, supports rapid development of Bluetooth applications that are portable, secure, and highly...

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