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  • SECURITY STUDIES
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    SECURITY STUDIES
    NORMA ROSSI / MALTE RIEMANN
    Security Studies: An Applied Introduction offers a transformative tool to understand, analyse, and engage with the complexities of security in the modern world. This groundbreaking new text redefines the landscape of security studies with the following features: Policy-Relevant: each chapter provides analysis of policy responses to empirical security issues. This practical appr...

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  • THE SEX LIFE OF THE FOOT AND SHOE
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    THE SEX LIFE OF THE FOOT AND SHOE
    WILLIAM A. ROSSI
    First published in 1977, The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe examines the realities of foot and shoe eroticism practised by almost all of us, whether consciously or unconsciously. Provocative often witty and always original, the book takes us on a walking tour through history: from Chinese footbinding (completely sexual in intent) and the medieval poulaine (perhaps the most blata...

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  • COMPRESSION TEXTILES FOR MEDICAL, SPORTS, AND ALLIED APPLICATIONS
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    COMPRESSION TEXTILES FOR MEDICAL, SPORTS, AND ALLIED APPLICATIONS
    NIMESH KANKARIYA AND RENÉ ROSSI
    Textile-based compression therapy is used in a range of applications, such as for athlete and sport recovery, enhanced proprioception, compression spacesuits, and in the management of chronic diseases. This book provides an overview of compression devices and products, testing methods to measure the properties of materials used in compression devices, and design considerations ...

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  • EGYPT, GREECE, AND ROME
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    EGYPT, GREECE, AND ROME
    CORINNA ROSSI
    Historical events literally took place in specific contexts; 'where things are' shapes 'how things are'. In this book, Corinna Rossi examines how three different ways of interacting with the surrounding world were shaped by their physical context in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Following a discussion on the relationship between history and geography, Rossi delves into the g...

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  • TEACHERS AS HEALTH WORKERS
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    TEACHERS AS HEALTH WORKERS
    LOUISE MCCUAIG / EIMEAR ENRIGHT / TONY ROSSI / DOUNE MACDONALD
    Schooling has long been held responsible for the health and well-being of children. However, against an international background of rising concern about students’ performance and well-being, schools and teachers have faced escalating expectations of their health-related work. While various stakeholders have ideas about what teachers’ health work entails, we know little about te...

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  • DIVERSITY, DIFFERENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
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    DIVERSITY, DIFFERENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
    BONNIE PANG / TONY ROSSI
    This book presents a detailed analysis of the experiences of (minority ethnic) physical education (PE) teachers in both schools and higher education contexts. It examines and questions the lack of ethnic diversity in PE teacher education in high-income developed countries and suggests important new directions for transformative pedagogy to address the ‘whiteness’ of PE. The boo...

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  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
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    ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
    SAMUEL P. BLACK / JOHN PAUL ROSSI
    Entrepreneurs play a central role in economic growth and development, but how they do so is the subject of considerable debate. This book explains that process through an historical case study of an automobile insurance entrepreneur, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build. It also recounts the largely untold history of American automobile insuranc...

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  • GHETTO REVOLTS
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    GHETTO REVOLTS
    PETER H. ROSSI
    For the past decade, transaction, and now Society, has dedicated itself to the task of reporting the strains and conflicts within the American system. The work done in the magazine has crossed disciplinary boundaries. This represents much more than simple cross-disciplinary "team efforts." It embodies rather a recognition that the social world cannot be easily carved into neat ...

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  • UNDER THE GUN
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    UNDER THE GUN
    PETER H. ROSSI
    In 1978, the Social and Demographic Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on weapons, crime, and violence in the United States. The purpose of the project is best described as a "sifting and winnowing" of the claims and counterclaims from both ...

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  • THE EDUCATION OF CATHOLIC AMERICANS
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    THE EDUCATION OF CATHOLIC AMERICANS
    ANDREW M. GREELEY / PETER H. ROSSI / STEPHEN M. KRASON
    First Published in 2017. The Education of Catholic Americans was a famous, comprehensive study of the effects of Catholic education in America by two very wellknown, heavily published sociologists, Fr. Andrew M. Greeley and Peter H. Rossi. The book was one of many seminal studies of different aspects of life and groups within American society sponsored by the National Opinion R...

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  • ARMED AND CONSIDERED DANGEROUS
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    ARMED AND CONSIDERED DANGEROUS
    PETER H. ROSSI
    Armed and Considered Dangerous is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average citizens own guns for sport, for recreation, for self-protection, and for other reasons generally regarded as appropriate or legitimate. Armed and Considered Dangerous is the most ambiti...

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  • THERMAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING FOR FIREFIGHTERS
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    THERMAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING FOR FIREFIGHTERS
    GUOWEN SONG / SUMIT MANDAL / RENÉ ROSSI
    Thermal Protective Clothing for Firefighters explores the materials, design, and usage of thermal protective clothing. The characteristics of fire hazards are discussed in detail, and the thermal environments faced by firefighters in these fire hazards are also examined. The different types of potential burn injuries and the heat stress that occurs to firefighters’ bodies when ...

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  • SPORTS AGENTS AND LABOUR MARKETS
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    SPORTS AGENTS AND LABOUR MARKETS
    GIAMBATTISTA ROSSI / ANNA SEMENS / JEAN FRANCOIS BROCARD
    The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, and why this is...

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  • SOCIAL MOVEMENT DYNAMICS
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    SOCIAL MOVEMENT DYNAMICS
    FEDERICO M. ROSSI / MARISA VON BÜLOW
    This book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative analyses of the recent changes in collective action across the region. Over the past decade, new repertoires of contention have emerged in parallel to changes in the configuration of actors, in previously established patterns of relat...

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  • JUSTICE, LEGITIMACY, AND DIVERSITY
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    JUSTICE, LEGITIMACY, AND DIVERSITY
    CEVA, EMANUELA / ROSSI, ENZO
    Most contemporary political philosophers take justice—rather than legitimacy—to be the fundamental virtue of political institutions vis-à-vis the challenges of ethical diversity. Justice-driven theorists are primarily concerned with finding mutually acceptable terms to arbitrate the claims of conflicting individuals and groups. Legitimacy-driven theorists, instead, focus on the...

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  • MONEY, WORK, AND CRIME
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    MONEY, WORK, AND CRIME
    PETER H. ROSSI / RICHARD A. BERK / KENNETH J. LENIHAN
    Money, Work, and Crime: Experimental Evidence presents the complete details of the Department of Labor’s $3.4 million Transitional Aid Research Project (TARP), a large-scale field experiment which attempted to reduce recidivism on the part of ex-felons. Beginning in January 1976, some prisoners released from state institutions in Texas and Georgia were offered financial aid f...

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  • NATURAL HAZARDS AND PUBLIC CHOICE
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    NATURAL HAZARDS AND PUBLIC CHOICE
    PETER H. ROSSI / JAMES D WRIGHT / ELEANOR WEBER-BURDIN
    Natural Hazards and Public Choice: The State and Local Politics of Hazard Mitigation presents a research project that emerged from a concern for estimating the balance of support versus opposition to prospective social policies that aim to reduce the risks of damage or injuries from major natural hazard events via the regulation of land use and establishment of building and occ...

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  • THE FEBRUARY MAN
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    THE FEBRUARY MAN
    MILTON H. ERICKSON / ERNEST LAWRENCE ROSSI
    This book is a fascinating case study that illustrates the use of multiple levels of consciousness and meaning to access and therapeutically reframe traumatic memories that were the source of very severe phobias and depression. A rare record of Erickson's pioneering genius in facilitating the evolution of new patterns of consciousness and identity in a patient. ...

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  • URBAN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES
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    URBAN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES
    UGO ROSSI / ALBERTO VANOLO
    "Ugo Rossi and Alberto Vanolo take us on a journey around the ascent and crisis of urban liberalism, providing a clear and highly readable analysis of key issues and debates in the field of urban political geography." - Ola Söderström, Université de Neuchâtel "It is in the city trenches that the crises, contradictions, and counterpolitics of neoliberalization are finding some o...

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  • THE RISE OF ITALIAN FASCISM (RLE RESPONDING TO FASCISM)
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    THE RISE OF ITALIAN FASCISM (RLE RESPONDING TO FASCISM)
    A ROSSI
    The rise of Italian fascism is often seen as a pre-condition, as well as a precursor of, later developments in Europe most notably in Germany. As such they were also much discussed in the English speaking world throughout the 1930’s. First published in English in 1938 this book gives an account of Italian history in the years immediately following the first world war, culminati...

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  • THE BREAST CANCER COMPANION
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    THE BREAST CANCER COMPANION
    NANCY SOKOLOWSKI, RN, OCN / VALERIE ROSSI
    Guidance, organization, and timely ìinsiderî tips to help your breast cancer treatment and recovery go as smoothly and successfully as possible. Filled with the best-of-the-best advice from the available research, leading doctors, breast cancer survivors, and Nancy Sokolowskiís 30 years as one of the countryís most respected and sought after breast health specialists, The Brea...

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  • MONEY AND PAYMENTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
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    MONEY AND PAYMENTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
    SERGIO ROSSI
    International in scope and written by a leading young Post-Keynesian economist, this book focuses on the working of money and payments in a multi-bank settlement system within which banks and non-bank financial institutions have been expanding their operations outside their countries of incorporation.Departing from conventionally held beliefs, Serg ...

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  • MICRORNA METHODS
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    MICRORNA METHODS
    ROSSI, JOHN J.
    MicroRNAs (miRNA) are tiny bits of genetic material that were unknown nearly 10 years ago but now represent an exciting field of study in biology. Upon their discovery, researchers revealed for the first time a new mechanism by which microRNA can stop the function of messenger RNA (mRNA) by literally cutting it in half, interfering with the normal function of specific messenger...

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  • SILICON EPITAXY
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    SILICON EPITAXY
    ROSSI, J. A.
    Since its inception in 1966, the series of numbered volumes known as Semiconductors and Semimetals has distinguished itself through the careful selection of well-known authors, editors, and contributors. The Willardson and Beer series, as it is widely known, has succeeded in producing numerous landmark volumes and chapters. Not only did many of these volumes make an impact at t...

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  • MODELLING STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY: BRIDGING THE GAP TO CONTINUOUS TIME
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    MODELLING STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY: BRIDGING THE GAP TO CONTINUOUS TIME
    ROSSI, PETER H.
    This essay collection focuses on the relationship between continuous time models and Autoregressive Conditionally Heteroskedastic (ARCH) models and applications. For the first time, Modelling Stock Market Volatility provides new insights about the links between these two models and new work on practical estimation methods for continuous time models. Featuring the pioneering sch...

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  • TEXT AND TEXT PROCESSING
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    TEXT AND TEXT PROCESSING
    DENHIERE, G. / ROSSI, J.P.
    The book presents the state-of-the-art in major aspects of text analysis and cognitive text processing by some of the most well-known European and American researchers in the field of text-linguistics and cognitive psychology. Comprehensive views and new perspectives are proposed in the following topics: cognitive and metacognitive aspects of text processing, structures and pro...

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  • RNA INTERFERENCE
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    RNA INTERFERENCE
    ENGELKE, DAVID R. / ROSSI, JOHN J.
    The critically acclaimed laboratory standard, Methods in Enzymology, is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. The series contains much material still relevant today - truly an essential publication for researchers in all f...

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  • HANDBOOK OF CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING
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    HANDBOOK OF CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING
    FRANCESCA ROSSI
    Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, databases, programming languages, and operations research. Constraint programming is currently applied with success to many domains, such as scheduling, planning, vehicle routing, configuration, network...

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  • AN ARABIAN ADVENTURE
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    AN ARABIAN ADVENTURE
    GIFFORD S. ROSSI
    First published in 1996. This book is published posthumously by Gifford S. Rossi’ wife Marcella. Gifford S. Rossi died on 7 August 1994 and she undertook the task to fulfil his wish to publish this work, reliving what he once described as 'the most exciting adventure of our life'. ...

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  • FRANCIS BACON: FROM MAGIC TO SCIENCE
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    FRANCIS BACON: FROM MAGIC TO SCIENCE
    PAOLO ROSSI
    Originally published in 1968. This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon’s philosophy and was in turn influenced by it. It examines the influence of magical and alchemical traditions on Bacon and his opposition to these traditions, as well as illustrating the naturalist, materialist and ethico...

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