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  • RELIGION, MATERIALISM AND ECOLOGY
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    RELIGION, MATERIALISM AND ECOLOGY
    SIGURD BERGMANN, KATE RIGBY AND PETER MANLEY SCOTT
    This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms. While there is little agreement on what ‘materialism’ means, it is evident that there is a resurgence in thinking about matter in more animated and active ways. The volume explores how debates...

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  • NEW PERSPECTIVES ON 20TH CENTURY EUROPEAN RETAILING
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    NEW PERSPECTIVES ON 20TH CENTURY EUROPEAN RETAILING
    PETER SCOTT / PATRICK FRIDENSON
    Despite the publication of several studies examining European retailing in relation to the USA, there is still a dearth of recent research, in English, that explores the development of retailing in specific European countries (with the obvious exception of Britain), over the twentieth century. Even for the UK, more research is needed to challenge claims such as the alleged "bac...

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  • STRATEGIES FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
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    STRATEGIES FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
    PETER SCOTT
    Originally published in 1975, Strategies for Postsecondary Education looks at how postsecondary education absorbs an increasing proportion of education budgets in developed countries. The book analyses the inequalities in the American postsecondary education system and compares its performance with France and the United Kingdom. The traditional concept of higher education with ...

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  • THE CRISIS OF THE UNIVERSITY
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    THE CRISIS OF THE UNIVERSITY
    PETER SCOTT
    Originally published in 1984, The Crisis of the University looks at the way in which changes to intellectual life relate to the development of the different institutions that make up higher education. It examines the evolution of the liberal university that flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries into the modern university that has grown up since 1945. It also looks at ...

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  • TRIUMPH OF THE SOUTH
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    TRIUMPH OF THE SOUTH
    PETER SCOTT
    This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and development of theNorth-South divide. Beginning with regional imbalance in the Victorian and Edwardian economies, the book goes on to discuss the effects on the First World War and its aftermath, which created a discernible split betw...

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  • GEOGRAPHY AND RETAILING
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    GEOGRAPHY AND RETAILING
    PETER SCOTT
    An important contribution to our understanding of the distribution of retail activities, particularly within cities, this book provides a critical review of the literature on the subject. It points out the major general propositions concerning retailing from the geographical point of view, and identifies key research problems, which need to be examined in order to push forward ...

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  • EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS UNDER COALITION GOVERNMENT
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    EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS UNDER COALITION GOVERNMENT
    STEVE WILLIAMS AND PETER SCOTT
    Drawing on a wide range of up-to-date research, Employment Relations under Coalition Government critically examines developments in UK employment relations during the period of Conservative-Liberal Democrat government between 2010 and 2015, against the background of the 2007-08 financial crisis, subsequent economic recession and in the context of the primacy accorded to neo-lib...

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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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  • WIND TUNNEL TESTING OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS
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    WIND TUNNEL TESTING OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS
    PETER IRWIN / ROY DENOON / DAVID SCOTT
    Since the 1960s, wind tunnel testing has become a commonly used tool in the design of tall buildings. It was pioneered, in large part, during the design of the World Trade Center Towers in New York. Since those early days of wind engineering, wind tunnel testing techniques have developed in sophistication, but these techniques are not widely understood by the designers using th...

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  • BAYESIAN ADAPTIVE METHODS FOR CLINICAL TRIALS
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    BAYESIAN ADAPTIVE METHODS FOR CLINICAL TRIALS
    SCOTT M. BERRY / BRADLEY P. CARLIN / J. JACK LEE / PETER MULLER
    Already popular in the analysis of medical device trials, adaptive Bayesian designs are increasingly being used in drug development for a wide variety of diseases and conditions, from Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis to obesity, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV. Written by leading pioneers of Bayesian clinical trial designs, Bayesian Adapti ...

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  • EMBRACING MATHEMATICS
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    EMBRACING MATHEMATICS
    PETER APPELBAUM / WITH DAVID SCOTT ALLEN
    This alternative textbook for courses on teaching mathematics asks teachers and prospective teachers to reflect on their relationships with mathematics and how these relationships influence their teaching and the experiences of their students. Applicable to all levels of schooling, the book covers basic topics such as planning and assessment, classroom management, and organizat...

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  • EXPLORING INTELLIGENCE ARCHIVES
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    EXPLORING INTELLIGENCE ARCHIVES
    HUGHES, R. GERALD / JACKSON, PETER / SCOTT, LEN
    This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which are published here for the first time, accompanied by both overview and commentary s...

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  • PICTURES OF THE WORLD
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    PICTURES OF THE WORLD
    SCOTT STEINKERCHNER / PETER HUNTER
    What is real? What is the foundation of right and wrong? How can we know? There are many ways to answer these questions--Western religious views in which humanity is part of God's creation, Eastern religious views in which delusion traps humanity in a cycle of reincarnation, and secular views in which humanity evolved as part of the material universe driven by nothing other tha...

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  • BATTLESPACE 1865
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    BATTLESPACE 1865
    DOUGLAS D. SCOTT / PETER BLEED / AMANDA RENNER
    For a period of about week in February 1865, as the Civil War was winding down and Plains Indian communities were reeling in the wake of the Sand Creek massacre, combat swept across the Nebraska panhandle, especially along the Platte River. The fighting that marked this event barely compares to the massive campaigns and terrible carnage that marked the conflict that was taking ...

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  • CHANGING CLIMATE, CHANGING RELIGION
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    CHANGING CLIMATE, CHANGING RELIGION
    PETER MANLEY SCOTT / CELIA DEANE-DRUMMOND / GEMMA EDWARDS / FINLAY MALCOLM
    This book analyses the wide-ranging changes occurring across Christian theology as religious environmental activists and advocates understand their part in ‘saving the planet’. As the planet’s climate changes, so are the theologies of the Christians working to address it. Among the Christian organisations taking bold action to tackle the climate crisis, creative theological ide...

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  • DALLAS '63
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    DALLAS '63
    PETER DALE SCOTT
    "Our most provocative scholar of American power " reveals the forces behind the assassination of JFK—and their continuing influence over our world (David Talbot, Salon) .   On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Shortly after, Oswald himself was killed. These events led many to believe there was a far greater plan at work...

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  • HOME FRONT
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    HOME FRONT
    PETER JOHN BROWNLEE / SARAH BURNS / DIANE DILLON / DANIEL GREENE / SCOTT MANNING STEVENS
    More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as a battle over the future of slavery, often focusing on Lincoln’s determination to save the Union, or highlighting the brutality o...

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  • HIGHER EDUCATION RE-FORMED
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    HIGHER EDUCATION RE-FORMED
    PETER SCOTT
    Specially commissioned contributions edited by some of the most respected academics currently working in the field of higher education, drawing the situation as it is now and looking forward to the developments of the coming years. It asks questions such as will 'Dearing' prove to be little more than a stop-gap? What will be the balance of power between education institutions, ...

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  • THE NEW PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
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    THE NEW PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
    MICHAEL GIBBONS / CAMILLE LIMOGES / HELGA NOWOTNY / SIMON SCHWARTZMAN / PETER SCOTT / MARTIN TROW
    In this provocative and broad-ranging work, the authors argue that the ways in which knowledge - scientific, social and cultural - is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, pr...

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  • FORBIDDEN BOOKSHELF'S RESISTANCE IN AMERICA COLLECTION
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    FORBIDDEN BOOKSHELF'S RESISTANCE IN AMERICA COLLECTION
    NANCY HOWELL LEE / PETER DALE SCOTT / BERTRAM GROSS
    From creeping capitalism to abortion to government corruption, these three books shed light on controversial topics that are too often left in the dark. Curated by NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller, the Forbidden Bookshelf series resurrects books from America’s repressed history. All touching on bold and debated topics, these three books are more relevant today than ever.   Fri...

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  • THE BATTLE OF THE NARROW SEAS
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    THE BATTLE OF THE NARROW SEAS
    PETER SCOTT
    A WWII Royal Navy commander recounts the struggle to control the narrow seas between Britain and the rest of Europe throughout the war. A Motor Torpedo Boat Commander in the Second World War, Sir Peter Scott—the son of explorer Robert Scott—was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his bravery in battle. Combining his own experience with extensive military research, he te...

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