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  • QUESTIONING BENEFICENCE
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    QUESTIONING BENEFICENCE
    SAMUEL ARNOLD / JASON F. BRENNAN / RICHARD YETTER CHAPPELL / RYAN W. DAVIS
    Effective Altruism is a movement and a philosophy that has reinvigorated the debate about the nature of beneficence. At base, it is the consistent application of microeconomic principles to beneficent action. The movement has exposed that many forms of giving do little good (or do active harm), but others do tremendous good. Questioning Beneficence uses Effective Altruism as a ...

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  • IN THE FOG
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    IN THE FOG
    RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
    A cleverly atmospheric story-within-a-story with a twist, wherein four members of an exclusive London Gentleman's Club take turns weaving a tale of a double murder. On the evening following the great fog of 1897, four strangers are dining at an exclusive gentleman's club, while a fifth, Sir Andrew, is just finishing the last few pages of a pulp mystery novel. As Sir Andrew rise...

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  • BRITAIN, FRANCE AND THE BATTLE FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF EUROPE, 1957-2007
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    BRITAIN, FRANCE AND THE BATTLE FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF EUROPE, 1957-2007
    RICHARD DAVIS
    The book gives an account of an essential part of Britain’s troubled relationship with the rest of Europe after 1945 – particularly considering the rivalry of France and Britain between 1945 and 2007. The record of Britain’s relations with the rest of Europe, and in particular with France, from 1945 onwards was seen by the politicians and diplomats in charge of foreign policy v...

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  • THE WEST FROM A CAR WINDOW
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    THE WEST FROM A CAR WINDOW
    RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
    Excerpt: "It is somewhat disturbing to one who visits the West for the first time with the purpose of writing of it, to read on the back of a railroad map, before he reaches Harrisburg, that Texas “is one hundred thousand square miles larger than all the Eastern and Middle States, including Maryland and Delaware.” It gives him a sharp sensation of loneliness, a wish to apologiz...

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  • ON THE TRAIL OF JACK THE RIPPER
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    ON THE TRAIL OF JACK THE RIPPER
    RICHARD CHARLES COBB / MARK DAVIS
    For 132 years the ghastly and horrific murders committed in London's East End by the infamous 'Jack the Ripper' have gripped and baffled the world. The Ripper commenced his series of atrocities at the end of August and continued freely until the beginning of November 1888 when inexplicably the murders stopped… In all, five women were brutally murdered and savagely mutilated in ...

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  • SOFT CLIL AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
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    SOFT CLIL AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
    MAKOTO IKEDA / SHINICHI IZUMI / YOSHINORI WATANABE / RICHARD PINNER / MATTHEW DAVIS
    Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a transformative and powerful approach to language education and has had a significant impact on educational pedagogy in recent years. Despite burgeoning literature on the efficacy and implementation of CLIL, there remains a gap between CLIL and English Language Teaching (ELT). Many practitioners wonder how they can ‘do CLIL’ i...

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  • REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
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    REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
    RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
    (Excerpt): "MacIver was born on Christmas Day, 1841, at sea, a league off the shore of Virginia. His mother was Miss Anna Douglas of that State; Ronald MacIver, his father, was a Scot, a Rossshire gentleman, a younger son of the chief of the Clan MacIver. Until he was ten years old young MacIver played in Virginia at the home of his father. Then, in order that he might be educa...

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  • MANAGING CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS
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    MANAGING CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS
    RICHARD R.E. KANIA / RICHARDS P. DAVIS
    Managing Criminal Justice Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition, covers the formal and informal nature of the organizations involved in criminal justice. Kania and Davis provide an introduction to the administration, organization, and management of criminal justice organizations. This management aspect is the key to ensuring the proper running of cr...

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  • TWITTER AND ELECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
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    TWITTER AND ELECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
    RICHARD DAVIS
    Twitter already has become an important electoral communication tool between candidates, parties and their specific constituencies. No serious candidate campaign ignores Twitter, while political party organizations utilize Twitter to communicate with partisans, reinforce supporters, and mobilize voters. Whereas much scholarship to date has focused primarily on Twitter’s politic...

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  • HAMAS, POPULAR SUPPORT AND WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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    HAMAS, POPULAR SUPPORT AND WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    RICHARD DAVIS
    This book offers a new understanding of the nature of power-seeking insurgent groups by empirically examining the use of violence by Hamas in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Though Hamas has learned to ride the tides of popular support, it remains suspended between its quest to achieve the values of its ardent supporters (reclamation of land through force) and the desire to g...

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  • ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZING
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    ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZING
    W RICHARD SCOTT / GERALD F. DAVIS
    This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book, including economics, political science...

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  • METROPOLIS AND REGION
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    METROPOLIS AND REGION
    OTIS DUDLEY DUNCAN / WILLIAM RICHARD SCOTT / STANLEY LIEBERSON / BEVERLY DAVIS DUNCAN / HAL H. WINSBOROU
    This is Volume II of a series of six on Urban and Regional Economics originally published in 1960. This study discusses the future of urban developments in America. Has they already have megapolitan belts, sprawling regions of quasi-urban settlement stretching along coast lines or major transportation routes, current concepts of the community stand to be challenged. What will ...

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  • SINGLE CASE RESEARCH IN SCHOOLS
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    SINGLE CASE RESEARCH IN SCHOOLS
    KIMBERLY J. VANNEST / JOHN L. DAVIS / RICHARD I. PARKER
    Single Case Research in Schools addresses and examines the variety of cutting-edge issues in single case research (SCR) in educational settings. Featuring simple and practical techniques for aggregating data for evidence-based practices, the book delves into methods of selecting behaviors of interest and measuring them reliably. The latter part of Single Case Research in School...

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  • POLITICS ONLINE
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    POLITICS ONLINE
    RICHARD DAVIS
    Despite the growth of various forms of online discussion, their impact on American political life is only beginning to be examined systematically. In Politics Online Richard Davis provides a thorough analysis detailing the political attitudes, behavior, and demographic nature of the electronic discussion community contrasting that community with the general public. ...

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  • DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    RICHARD L. DAVIS
    Domestic violence does not begin the day an adult heterosexual male decides to beat and batter an adult heterosexual female. Domestic violence is a complicated and multifaceted enigma that includes child, sibling, spousal, intimate partner, and elder abuse. Despite spending billions of dollars on domestic violence, the number of some categories of ...

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  • IN THE FOG
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    IN THE FOG
    RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
    The members of an exclusive London club endeavor to solve a baffling murder in this masterpiece from the golden age of detective fiction Since the time of Shakespeare, there has been no group in London more influential than the Grill Club. A secret society whose members are drawn from the rich and the poor, the Grill is blind to politics, ideology, and wealth. The only demands ...

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  • A SEA WITHOUT FISH
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    A SEA WITHOUT FISH
    DAVID L. MEYER / RICHARD ARNOLD DAVIS
    A "superbly written, richly illustrated" guide to the animals who lived 450 million years ago—in the fossil-rich area where Cincinnati, Ohio now stands ( Rocks & Minerals). The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician...

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