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  • NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 5
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    NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 5
    ALYSA LEVENE / STEVEN KING / ALANNAH TOMKINS / THOMAS NUTT / PETER KING / DEBORAH A SYMONDS / LISA ZUNSHIN
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ...

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  • NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 3
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    NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 3
    ALYSA LEVENE / STEVEN KING / ALANNAH TOMKINS / THOMAS NUTT / PETER KING / DEBORAH A SYMONDS / LISA ZUNSHIN
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ...

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  • NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 2
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    NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 2
    ALYSA LEVENE / STEVEN KING / ALANNAH TOMKINS / THOMAS NUTT / PETER KING / DEBORAH A SYMONDS / LISA ZUNSHIN
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ...

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  • NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 1
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    NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 1
    ALYSA LEVENE / STEVEN KING / ALANNAH TOMKINS / THOMAS NUTT / PETER KING / DEBORAH A SYMONDS / LISA ZUNSHIN
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ...

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  • NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 4
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    NARRATIVES OF THE POOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND VOL 4
    ALYSA LEVENE / STEVEN KING / ALANNAH TOMKINS / THOMAS NUTT / PETER KING / DEBORAH A SYMONDS / LISA ZUNSHIN
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials. ...

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  • ETHICS AT WAR
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    ETHICS AT WAR
    DEANE-PETER BAKER / RUFUS BLACK / ROGER HERBERT / IAIN KING
    This book debates competing approaches to ethical decision-making for members of the armed forces of liberal democratic states. In this volume, four prominent thinkers propose and debate competing approaches to ethical decision-making for military personnel. Deane-Peter Baker presents and expounds the ‘Ethical Triangulation’ model, an ethical decision-making method he has emplo...

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  • PRODUCTION SCHEDULING FOR THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
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    PRODUCTION SCHEDULING FOR THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
    PETER L. KING / MAC JACOB / NOEL PEBERDY
    This book is aimed at manufacturing and planning managers who struggle to bring a greater degree of stability and more effective use of assets to their operations, not realizing the degree to which production scheduling affects those objectives. It has been reported that 75% of the problems on the manufacturing floor are caused by activities outside the plant floor. Poor produc...

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  • SPECULATIONS ON THE QUESTION: WHAT IS HOUSING?
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    SPECULATIONS ON THE QUESTION: WHAT IS HOUSING?
    PETER KING
    This book consists of a single essay that speculates on the question what is housing?, and its opposite question, what is not housing? The essay is organised around two distinct discourses around which housing can be framed. The first, which is the dominant discourse, is what I term policy thinking. This is where housing is seen solely in terms of policy formulation and action....

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  • RADIOPHARMACY AND RADIOPHARMACOLOGY YEARBOOK
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    RADIOPHARMACY AND RADIOPHARMACOLOGY YEARBOOK
    PETER H. COX / CHRISTINE M. KING
    First Published in 1985, this yearbook is an annual reference providing a concise source of information concerning recent developments in the radiopharmaceutical sciences. ...

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  • LEAN FOR THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
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    LEAN FOR THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
    PETER L. KING
    Compared to its widespread implementation across almost all areas of production, Lean improvement efforts lag within the process industries. While many innovators have successfully applied Lean principles to these industries during the past three decades, most of those pioneering efforts were never recorded to guide the improvement efforts of others. Drawing on more than 40 yea...

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  • SPORT POLICY AND POLITICS IN AN ERA OF AUSTERITY
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    SPORT POLICY AND POLITICS IN AN ERA OF AUSTERITY
    DAN PARNELL, PETER MILLWARD, PAUL WIDDOP, NEIL KING AND ANTHONY MAY
    Austerity is perhaps the major challenge of our times, given the speed at which it arrived and the consequences of its impact upon society. The global financial crash and economic downturn was the catalyst for change and, against a backdrop of advice from experts adverse to Keynesian economics, the ideology of austerity grew and became the dominant thinking to steer economies o...

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  • THE PRODUCT WHEEL HANDBOOK
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    THE PRODUCT WHEEL HANDBOOK
    PETER L. KING
    The Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, minimizing changeover costs, and freeing up useful capacity. So much so, that the DuPont Company and Exxon Mobil are just a few companies that have used the product wheel concept to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.Breaking down a fairly comple ...

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  • THE COMMON PLACE
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    THE COMMON PLACE
    PETER KING
    Much of what constitutes our experience of our immediate environment is quite ordinary and familiar, in particular, where we live. While policymakers and academics are constantly seeking transformations in housing, what we seek from our own housing is stability and lack of change. We seek secure roots to our lives rather than step-changes and radical reform. This book considers...

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  • A SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF HOUSING
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    A SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF HOUSING
    PETER KING
    This title was first published in 2003. This text seeks to show the importance of housing to individuals and in the broader context of social welfare. It offers a universal philosophical justification for housing provision based on a detailed theoretical consideration of need, choice, rights and responsibility. The implications of basing housing policies on these concepts are c...

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  • AIRLINE OPERATIONS
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    AIRLINE OPERATIONS
    PETER J. BRUCE, YI GAO, AND JOHN M. C. KING
    Written by a range of international industry practitioners, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the essence and nature of airline operations in terms of an operational and regulatory framework, the myriad of planning activities leading up to the current day, and the nature of intense activity that typifies both normal and disrupted airline operations. The first part ou...

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  • VALUE STREAM MAPPING FOR THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
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    VALUE STREAM MAPPING FOR THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
    PETER L. KING / JENNIFER S. KING
    Providing a framework that highlights waste and its negative effects on process performance, value stream maps (VSMs) are essential components for successful Lean initiatives. While the conventional VSM format has the basic structure to effectively describe process operations, it must be adapted and expanded to serve its purpose in the process indu ...

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  • THINKING ON HOUSING
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    THINKING ON HOUSING
    PETER KING
    If we do stop to think on housing, what do we see? What is housing and what does it do? These seem deceptively simple questions, but they are often left unanswered. The reason for this is that a lot of discourse on housing is really a concern for policy-making and the critical evaluation of existing policies. Discourse, is not, properly speaking, on housing at all. It is concer...

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  • IN DWELLING
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    IN DWELLING
    PETER KING
    A 'dwelling', or the physical space we call a house, is full of meaning for us. It can be implacable, in that it can work for or against us, depending on how we are able to access and use it. This means that we have to learn to accept dwelling as it is and find some accommodation with our surrounding environment. This book develops a new approach to looking at dwelling and how ...

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  • THE ANTIMODERN CONDITION
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    THE ANTIMODERN CONDITION
    PETER KING
    Much of social and political thought over the last three centuries has been concerned with transgression and change, with progress and a focus on creating something ’better’ than we have now. But when many of these ideas are put into practice the result has been violence, turmoil and human misery. This, we might say, has been the result of grand ideals taking precedence over th...

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  • THE PRINCIPLES OF HOUSING
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    THE PRINCIPLES OF HOUSING
    PETER KING
    The Principles of Housing is an engaging and discursive introduction to the key topics within housing studies. Whereas many books get bogged down in country-specific policy or small innovations, this book argues that the fundamental concepts of what we call housing are relatively stable and unchangeable. By focusing on universal principles, the book provides an introduction to ...

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  • DEATH AL DENTE
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    DEATH AL DENTE
    PETER KING
    The grand opening of a gourmet market is soured by foul murder in this mystery full of "fast fun, delightful characters" ( Library Journal).   London's gourmet detective is contemplating an empty bank account and, worse, an empty stomach, when a phone call solves both problems at once. Over lunch, Desmond Lansdown, world-renowned actor and burgeoning restaurateur, hires the det...

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  • DINE AND DIE ON THE DANUBE EXPRESS
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    DINE AND DIE ON THE DANUBE EXPRESS
    PETER KING
    Aboard a vintage luxury train on a voyage through Eastern Europe, the gourmet detective encounters a thoroughly modern murder.   The Danube Express was once the most famous train on the continent. Linking east and west, it was the fastest route from the Alps to the Black Sea, until airplanes and automobiles made it obsolete. When a group of savvy investors revived it in the 197...

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  • DYING ON THE VINE
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    DYING ON THE VINE
    PETER KING
    "Frolic through the vineyards and fine restaurants of Provence" in this delectable mystery set in French wine country, where the time is ripe for murder ( Publishers Weekly). The vineyards of the Willesford Wine Group occupy a particularly choice section of French wine country. From the grapes of Provence, the owners of this impeccably managed syndicate have squeezed internatio...

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  • EAT, DRINK AND BE BURIED
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    EAT, DRINK AND BE BURIED
    PETER KING
    When a jousting match at a medieval fair turns into old-fashioned murder, the Gourmet Detective sets out to unmask the killer.   At Sir Gerald's medieval festival, the castle is authentic, the jousting is rousing, and the wenches are the sauciest in the land. The only thing missing is decent food. And so Sir Gerald calls in London's gourmet detective, an expert food finder, who...

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  • THE GOURMET DETECTIVE
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    THE GOURMET DETECTIVE
    PETER KING
    From sourcing rare ingredients to solving crimes, "this appealing detective serves up nuggets of culinary trivia and wry food humor" ( People).   They call him the gourmet detective; the only thing sharper than his mind is his palate. When chefs need a rare ingredient, an ancient wine, or simply a new idea to gain that extra Michelin-star boost, they come to the detective's coz...

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  • A HEALTHY PLACE TO DIE
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    A HEALTHY PLACE TO DIE
    PETER KING
    In this "feast of a food mystery" the Gourmet Detective visits a Swiss health spa where the treatments can be deadly ( Publishers Weekly). The gourmet detective realizes that the Alpine Springs health resort is not a typical spa somewhere in the middle of his first cocktail. Where other retreats promote abstinence, exercise, and bland food, this quiet little Swiss chalet preach...

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  • ROUX THE DAY
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    ROUX THE DAY
    PETER KING
    When a Crescent City culinary dynasty loses its family cookbook, the London-based detective is on the scene "in this whimsical and entertaining mystery" ( Library Journal).   For five generations, the Belvedere family restaurant has been a Louisiana landmark. Unfortunately, the Belvedere clan inherits more than a talent for cooking from each other—they also have an unfortunate ...

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  • SPICED TO DEATH
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    SPICED TO DEATH
    PETER KING
    "This appealing detective serves up nuggets of culinary trivia and wry food humor" ( People).   In the days of Marco Polo, men risked their lives for spices. And in an age when black pepper was so valuable that it was sold one peppercorn at a time, there was no spice more valuable than the legendary Ko Feng. Known as the Celestial Spice, it supposedly vanished five centuries ag...

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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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  • HOUSING BOOM AND BUST
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    HOUSING BOOM AND BUST
    PETER KING
    Housing bubbles burst, creating economic misery for millions. Over the past thirty years, the culture of property ownership has become so ingrained that policy makers, bankers and households have taken for granted that housing is a good investment and forgotten about the bust. Explaining how the current crisis in housing markets has arisen, this topical and sharp analysis consi...

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