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  • BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NORTH AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN EDUCATIONISTS
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    BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NORTH AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN EDUCATIONISTS
    RICHARD ALDRICH / PETER GORDON
    This is a guide to the lives and work of more than 500 Americans, Canadians and Europeans in the categories subsumed under the term "educationists". Entries are almost entirely restricted to those with main careers in the 19th and 20th centuries; none of the subjects is still living. ...

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  • THERMITIC THERMODYNAMICS
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    THERMITIC THERMODYNAMICS
    ANTHONY PETER GORDON SHAW
    Thermites, which are generally considered to be reactive mixtures of powdered metals and metal oxides, are an important subset of energetic materials. The underlying thermodynamic properties of a given mixture dictate whether it may undergo a self-sustaining reaction, liberating heat in the process. Thermodynamic information in the existing scientific literature regarding therm...

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  • A HISTORY OF WESTERN EDUCATIONAL IDEAS
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    A HISTORY OF WESTERN EDUCATIONAL IDEAS
    PROFESSOR PETER GORDON / PROFESSOR DENIS LAWTON
    It is important that all those concerned with education - parents, teachers, administrators and policymakers - should have a reasonable understanding of the present system and how it has developed, sometimes over a period of many years. This work traces the development of Western educational ideas from the Greek society of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, to the ideas and ideolog...

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  • THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES
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    THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES
    JAMES A COONEY / GORDON CRAIG / HANS-PETER SCHWARZ / FRITZ STERN
    This book examines the current and historical dimensions of relations between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, focusing on the complex economic issues that make the two countries interdependent and on the resulting policy implications. The contributors analyze the reasons for increasingly problematic relations between the United States and West Germany, ar...

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  • VICTORIAN SCHOOL MANAGER
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    VICTORIAN SCHOOL MANAGER
    PETER GORDON
    First published in 1974. Graham Balfour, in a lecture delivered in February 1921, first drew attention to the growing importance of the elementary school manager in the system of educational administration during the period with which this study is concerned: “Local administrators of education, other than trustees a hundred years ago, there were none. Indeed it is very curious...

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  • STUDY OF EDUCATION PB
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    STUDY OF EDUCATION PB
    PETER GORDON
    First published in 1980. This collection of inaugural lectures shows clearly the many changes which have influenced the university study of education during the period 1965 to 1978.1 Perhaps the most important has been the expansion in university student numbers, which by 1963 was more than double the pre-war figure. ...

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  • DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY
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    DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY
    ADRIAN GORDON / WARWICK GRACE / ROLAND BYRON-SCOTT / PETER SCHWERDTFEGER
    'Dynamic Meteorology: A Basic Course' is an introduction to the physics of the atmosphere. Starting from the basics, it provides students with an awareness of simple mathematics and enthusiastically proceeds to provide a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of meteorology. The authors lead students to a scientifically rigorous understanding of the behaviour of weather systems...

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  • DICTIONARY OF BRITISH EDUCATIONISTS
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    DICTIONARY OF BRITISH EDUCATIONISTS
    RICHARD ALDRICH / PETER GORDON
    This dictionary provides the reader with an easily accessible guide to the biographies of approximately 450 educationists. It covers the period from 1800 to the present day and includes a wide range of people who were active in promoting education at different levels. ...

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  • TEACHING THE HUMANITIES
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    TEACHING THE HUMANITIES
    PETER GORDON
    First Published in 1991. The contributors to this book share the belief that the teaching of humanities should form an essential part of the school curriculum. It includes the areas of the scope of humanities, the cultural dimension of classroom language learnings and cross-curricular subjects of Geography, Reglues Education, Art and History as well as looking at computer assis...

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  • WORKING CAPITAL
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    WORKING CAPITAL
    NICK BUCK / IAN GORDON / PETER HALL / MICHAEL HARLOE / MARK KLEINMAN
    For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low mobility and slow communications. But now, their potential to sustain creativity, culture and innovation is perceived as crucial to success in a much more competitive global ecomony. The vital requirement to secure and sustain this success is argued to be the achievement of social ...

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  • EUROPEAN POLITICS
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    EUROPEAN POLITICS
    GOETZ, KLAUS H / MAIR, PETER / SMITH, GORDON
    This book arises out of a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It examines the profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, including the fall of Communism; progressive European integration; territorial restructuring; public sector reforms at European, national, regional and local lev...

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  • UNDERSTANDING PARTY SYSTEM CHANGE IN WESTERN EUROPE
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    UNDERSTANDING PARTY SYSTEM CHANGE IN WESTERN EUROPE
    PETER MAIR / GORDON SMITH
    Published in the year 1990, Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics. ...

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  • THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION
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    THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION
    PETER GORDON / R. SZRETER
    This volume deals with the great changes which have taken place in the practice of the history of education in present years. It brings together a number of important articles on the subject which are not easily available to the ordinary reader. ...

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  • BUSINESS CULTURES IN EUROPE
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    BUSINESS CULTURES IN EUROPE
    WILLIAM BRIERLEY / COLIN GORDON / KEVIN BRUTON / PETER KING
    Major changes which have occurred since this book was first published have been included in this edition. In particular, the chapter on Germany has been substantially revised and now includes a separate section on easter Germany. The other five countries covered in the book have also witnessed changes in their business culture and these have been taken into consideration.This b...

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  • PHILOSOPHERS AS EDUCATIONAL REFORMERS (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 10)
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    PHILOSOPHERS AS EDUCATIONAL REFORMERS (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 10)
    PETER GORDON / JOHN WHITE
    This volume assesses how far the ideas and achievements of the 19th century British Idealist philosophical reformers are still important for us today when considering fundamental questions about the structure and objectives of the education system in England and Wales. Part 1 examines those ideas of the Idealists, especially T. H. Green, which had most bearing on the educationa...

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  • CONDUCTIVE ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS
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    CONDUCTIVE ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS
    GORDON G. WALLACE / PETER R. TEASDALE / GEOFFREY M. SPINKS / LEON A. P. KANE-MAGUIRE
    Rapid advances in synthetic polymer science and nanotechnology have revealed new avenues of development in conductive electroactive polymers that take greater advantage of this versatile class of materials' unique properties. This third edition of Conductive Electroactive Polymers: Intelligent Polymer Systems continues to provide an in-depth unders ...

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  • MUSICAL VISITORS TO BRITAIN
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    MUSICAL VISITORS TO BRITAIN
    PETER GORDON
    Britain has attracted many musical visitors to its shores. A varied and often eccentric collection of individuals, some were invited by royalty with musical tastes, some were refugees from religious or political oppression, some were spies, and others came to escape debt or even charges of murder. This book paints a broad picture of the changing nature of musical life in Britai...

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  • SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 2
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    SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 2
    DEAKIN, MARK / MITCHELL, GORDON / NIJKAMP, PETER / VREEKER, RON
    In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, Volume 2 examines how well the environmental assessment methods evaluate the ecological integrity of urban dev...

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  • WOMEN, CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN BRITAIN
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    WOMEN, CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN BRITAIN
    DAVID DOUGHAN / PETER GORDON
    Women have been consistently excluded from all manner of clubs and associations over the years, whether as the direct result of an anti-woman policy or indirectly through prohibitive entry requirements, social constraints, or conflict of interests and tastes. Retaliation from women has taken two directions: some women have set up their own exclusive clubs that reflect their own...

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  • POLITICS AND SOCIETY
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    POLITICS AND SOCIETY
    PETER GORDON
    Louisa Mary, Lady Knightley of Fawnsley, was a woman of unusually wide interests, especially in the field of public affairs. In an age when few opportunities arose for women to make a contribution to political and feminist matters, Lady Knightley was an early pioneer of both causes. Denied the vote as a woman, she was a leading advocate of the campaign for constitutional, non-m...

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  • DICTIONARY OF BRITISH EDUCATION
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    DICTIONARY OF BRITISH EDUCATION
    PROFESSOR PETER GORDON / PETER GORDON / PROFESSOR DENIS LAWTON / DENIS LAWTON
    This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors , students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly complex world of education. The main section provides a dictionary that is more than a simple set of definitions: many words in education have been put into some kind of historical context to become fully meaningful. The second ...

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  • TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL PATTERNS OF THE FACE
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    TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL PATTERNS OF THE FACE
    PETER W. HALLINAN / GAILE GORDON / A. L. YUILLE / PETER GIBLIN / DAVID MUMFORD
    The human face is perhaps the most familiar and easily recognized object in the world, yet both its three-dimensional shape and its two-dimensional images are complex and hard to characterize. This book develops the vocabulary of ridges and parabolic curves, of illumination eigenfaces and elastic warpings for describing the perceptually salient fea ...

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  • EDUCATION AND POLICY IN ENGLAND IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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    EDUCATION AND POLICY IN ENGLAND IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    RICHARD ALDRICH / DENNIS DEAN / PETER GORDON
    In the 1990s education has become one of the major social and political questions of the day. This book has been written to provide an authoritative guide to the issues which underlie the formulation of educational policy. It stands both as a substantial historical study in its own right and as an essential background and introduction to the current educational debate. ...

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  • INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES USED IN GIS
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    INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES USED IN GIS
    GORDON YE / PETER DALE
    GIS technology and applications have advanced as fast as computing technology to enhance business analytics, predictive modeling, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. The third edition addresses these new topics of interest to students and practitioners who are using geographic information systems but have a limited mathematical background. Thoroughly updated and reorg...

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  • A PRECARIOUS HAPPINESS
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    A PRECARIOUS HAPPINESS
    PETER E. GORDON
    A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness—now in paperback. "Gordon’s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno’s negativism."—Jürgen Habermas   Theodor Adorno is often portrayed as a totalizing negativist, a scowling contrarian who looked upon modern society with des...

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  • AUTHORITARIANISM
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    AUTHORITARIANISM
    WENDY BROWN / PETER E. GORDON / MAX PENSKY
    Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most of the postwar era?  Does it herald a new wave of ...

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  • THE TRACE OF GOD
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    THE TRACE OF GOD
    EDWARD BARING AND PETER E. GORDON
    "Derrida's most lasting legacy might well be his writings on religion . . . If the perplexed seek a guide, they can do no better than this excellent volume." —Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania Jacques Derrida's writings on the question of religion have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace of God provides a compact...

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  • ROCKABILLY: THE TWANG HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD
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    ROCKABILLY: THE TWANG HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD
    GREIL MARCUS / PETER GURALNICK / LUC SANTE / ROBERT GORDON
    It was the twang heard 'round the world: Rockabilly was born out of country, bluegrass, jazz, and the blues in the 1950s, becoming rock 'n' roll and ruling the world. Here's the story of Elvis Presley's first Sun records that inspired all. And here's Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and many more rockabillies from the golden ...

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