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  • COLLABORATIVE POETRY TRANSLATION
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    COLLABORATIVE POETRY TRANSLATION
    W.N. HERBERT / FRANCIS R. JONES / FIONA SAMPSON
    This volume provides an account of collaborative poetry translation in practice. The book focuses on the 'poettrio' method as a case study. This process brings together the source-language poet, the target-language poet, and a language advisor serving as a bilingual mediator between the two. Drawing on data from over 100 hours of recorded footage and interviews, Collaborative P...

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  • GREAT AMERICAN CITY
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    GREAT AMERICAN CITY
    ROBERT J. SAMPSON
    Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place.   Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Robert J. Sampson’s Great American City presents the fruits of over a decade’s research to support an argument that we all feel and experience every day: life is decisively shaped by your neighborhood. Engaging with the streets...

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  • SEA-TIME
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    SEA-TIME
    HELEN SAMPSON
    This book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard fieldwork in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time. Change over time and the experience of time on board are organising themes throughout the text. They are contextualised with accounts of transformation in the...

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  • USING LANGUAGE, FICTION, AND STORY IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
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    USING LANGUAGE, FICTION, AND STORY IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
    DARA SAMPSON / AMANDA HOWARD
    This book provides an accessible, research-informed text for social work educators, students, and practitioners interested in the use of story to engender the connection of human experiences with ideas, theories, and skills. A broad lens is also taken to the ways in which fiction has been used as a teaching tool in other degrees, ranging from medicine to engineering to philosop...

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  • BIG FEELINGS DAYS
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    BIG FEELINGS DAYS
    AUBREY SAMPSON
    Help little kids with big emotions know God that loves them and is right next to them, no matter what they feel. Speaker, pastor, podcaster, and author of The Louder Song, Aubrey Sampson has dealt with a lot of big feelings and heartache in her life and has written about lament for a grown-up audience. Knowing that adults don’t have a monopoly on strong, difficult emotions, Aub...

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  • AMARNA CITY OF AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI
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    AMARNA CITY OF AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI
    JULIA SAMPSON
    Tell el-Amarna is the modern name for the ancient Egyptian city of Akhenaten, situated in a bay of hills formed by the cliffs of the eastern desert about halfway between Cairo and Luxor. The city was founded in the 14th century BC by the Pharaoh Akhenaten to be a royal palace for himself and his wife Nefertiti, the capital of all Egypt and the center of the state cult of the Su...

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  • THE BATTLE OF PHARSALUS (48 BC)
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    THE BATTLE OF PHARSALUS (48 BC)
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    In August 48 BC, following the earlier battle at Dyrrhachium, the two greatest Roman commanders of their generation met in battle again at Pharsalus in Greece. Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, had been defeated at Dyrrhachium and forced to retreat but now stood at bay to face Pompey the Great, conqueror of the East. At stake lay the future of the ailing Roman Republic, each ma...

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  • SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES RESPONSIBILITIES IN A TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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    SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES RESPONSIBILITIES IN A TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    AMANDA HOWARD / MARGOT RAWSTHORNE / PAM JOSEPH / MAREESE TERARE / DARA SAMPSON / MEAGHAN KATRAK HARRIS
    This book provides an accessible, research-informed text for students, social workers and other social service workers and community development workers focused on practically linking climate change to social justice. The book is designed for: Those who want to embed an understanding of climate change and its social justice impacts in their everyday practice Those keen to explo...

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  • THE BATTLE OF DYRRHACHIUM, 48 BC
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    THE BATTLE OF DYRRHACHIUM, 48 BC
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    An in-depth study of the rivalry between two of Rome's greatest military commanders—and the battle where they met in combat. In 49 BC the Roman Republic collapsed once more into civil war, with opposing sides led by Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. These former allies had built their own factions within the Roman oligarchy and now refused to compromise. Yet their violent str...

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  • JOSIE O'GORMAN AND THE MEDDLESOME MAJOR
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    JOSIE O'GORMAN AND THE MEDDLESOME MAJOR
    EMMA SPEED SAMPSON
    Mary Louise Burrows is a fifteen-year-old girl with unusual maturity and sleuthing abilities. Josie is the daughter of federal agent John O'Gorman who he has trained to function as an investigator. Together Mary Louise and Josie are a formidable match for any criminal and prove this once again in Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman the eighth book in the Mary Louise detective series...

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  • COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN LAND LAW
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    COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN LAND LAW
    SAMPSON OWUSU
    The first textbook to address land law as it relates to the Commonwealth Caribbean, it encompasses all areas covered in an undergraduate course on the law of real property in the Caribbean. Primary and secondary source material on the law of property in the whole of the Commonwealth Caribbean is made easily and readily accessible to law students and legal practitioners. Statuto...

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  • SOCIAL ASSESSMENT MANUAL
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    SOCIAL ASSESSMENT MANUAL
    JUDITH FITZSIMMONS / EDWARD SAMPSON
    A Social Well-Being Account is the product of an assessment of the comparative beneficial and adverse social effects likely to occur as a result of implementing—or not implementing—a particular development plan. This volume establishes procedures for conducting research and analyzing data in order to make this assessment for water development plans ...

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  • CELEBRATING THE OTHER
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    CELEBRATING THE OTHER
    EDWARD E. SAMPSON
    T he title, Celebrating the Other, is based on Clark and Holquist's (1984) reference to Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theory as a celebration of alterity. Like Bakhtin's work, mine is designed to provide a long overdue celebration of the other. For too long our major cultural and scientific views have been monologic and self celebratory - focusing more on the leading protagonist a...

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  • REMEDIAL EDUCATION
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    REMEDIAL EDUCATION
    OLIVE C. SAMPSON
    First published in 1975. Remedial education aims to help the pupil who is failing. It is richly rewarding to the committed teacher but makes great demands on him. Olive Sampson, whose conviction of the importance of this form of schooling is based on extensive personal experience and research, gives an objective account of its history, present status and best practices. ...

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  • PASTORAL DRAMA IN EARLY MODERN ITALY
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    PASTORAL DRAMA IN EARLY MODERN ITALY
    LISA SAMPSON
    "Emerging in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century, pastoral drama is one of the most characteristic genres of its time. Sampson traces its uneven development into the following century by exploring masterpieces by Tasso and Guarini, and many lesser known works, some by women writers. She examines the treatment of key themes of love, the Golden Age, and Nature and Art against...

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  • ROME SPREADS HER WINGS
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    ROME SPREADS HER WINGS
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    The two decades between the end of the First Punic War and the beginning of the Second represent a key period in the development of Romes imperial ambitions, both within Italy and beyond. Within Italy, Rome faced an invasion of Gauls from Northern Italy, which threatened the very existence of the Roman state. This war culminated at the Battle of Telamon and the final Roman vict...

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  • PUBLIC SUPPLIES WORK
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    PUBLIC SUPPLIES WORK
    G. R. SAMPSON
    Public Supplies Work: In Principle and Practice with Particular Reference to Hospitals considers the concepts of supply management. This book is composed of 12 chapters that discuss the nature of the job of supplies officer and the organization of the supplies department. The opening chapters deal with the purchasing for the public service; influence of provisioning on purchas...

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  • LEARNING CONTRACTS
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    LEARNING CONTRACTS
    GEOFF ANDERSON / DAVID BOUD / JANE SAMPSON
    Learning contracts have been a successful feature of many university/continuing education programmes over the last 20 years but many staff are still unfamiliar with them or have difficulty using them. This guide introduces the learning contract to those considering using them on their courses. ...

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  • THE COLLAPSE OF ROME
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    THE COLLAPSE OF ROME
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    The fall and rise of ancient Rome from more than two decades of internal conflict, as its aristocracy took up arms against each other.   By the early first century BC, the Roman Republic had already carved itself a massive empire and was easily the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Roman armies had marched victoriously over enemies far and wide, but the Roman heartland ...

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  • PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT IN URBAN SOLID WASTE COLLECTION
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    PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT IN URBAN SOLID WASTE COLLECTION
    SAMPSON ODURO-KWARTENG
    The private sector involvement in public service is intended to achieve efficiency gain and better service quality through increasing private sector finance and expertise. However, these benefits are most often not achieved in developing countries due to investment risk of private finance, and problems of capacity and regulation of the private sect ...

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  • PASSING THE NATIONAL ADMISSIONS TEST FOR LAW (LNAT)
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    PASSING THE NATIONAL ADMISSIONS TEST FOR LAW (LNAT)
    ROSALIE HUTTON / GLENN HUTTON / FRASER SAMPSON
    This Third Edition provides a comprehensive and fully up to date guide for all those preparing to sit the National Admissions Test for Law. It has been thoroughly revised to take account of the recent changes to the test and to reflect the latest advice and guidance relevant for candidates. Readers will find all they need to face the exam with confidence, fulfil their potential...

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  • THE CRISIS OF ROME
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    THE CRISIS OF ROME
    GARETH C. SAMPSON / TIM CORNELL
    By drawing on a very large number of German sources, many of them previously unpublished, Jack Sheldon throws new light on a familiar story. In an account filled with graphic descriptions of life and death in the trenches, the author demonstrates that the dreadful losses of 1st July were a direct consequence of meticulous German planning and preparation. Although the Battle of ...

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  • ACTS OF ABUSE
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    ACTS OF ABUSE
    ADAM SAMPSON
    Sexual crime is a topic of massive public concern. Yet the debate over its causes and the appropriate responses of the criminal justice system is often fuelled by ignorance and prejudice, with little understanding of the reality of sexual crime. Acts of Abuse explores the response of the criminal justice system to this important issue. Its author, Adam Sampson, examines the exi...

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  • HOGAN
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    HOGAN
    CURT SAMPSON
    This updated edition of a NEW YORK TIMES best seller includes a final chapter, which chronicles the last years of his life and examines his enduring legacy. Included are quotes and tributes from many of golf's greats such as Byron Nelson and a perceptive assessment of the life and legend of the man who may have been the greatest golfer ever-Ben Hogan. ...

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  • THE PROMISE OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
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    THE PROMISE OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
    MARK SAMPSON
    Is social enterprise yet another example of the expansion of the market into all areas of life and society, in this case the marketization of poverty? Or does it offer genuine hope as part of a solution to some of the challenges facing contemporary society, and as an example of an economy of mutuality? Framing this question theologically, does it offer the potential of "faithfu...

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  • THE BATTLE OF DYRRHACHIUM, 48 BC
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    THE BATTLE OF DYRRHACHIUM, 48 BC
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    An in-depth study of the rivalry between two of Rome's greatest military commanders—and the battle where they met in combat. In 49 BC the Roman Republic collapsed once more into civil war, with opposing sides led by Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. These former allies had built their own factions within the Roman oligarchy and now refused to compromise. Yet their violent str...

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  • ROME'S GREAT EASTERN WAR
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    ROME'S GREAT EASTERN WAR
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    This military history of Ancient Rome analyses the empire's revitalized push against rising enemies to the East. In the century since Rome's defeat of the Seleucid Empire in the 180s BC, the East was dominated by the rise of new empires: Parthia, Armenia, and Pontus, each vying to recreate the glories of the Persian Empire. By the 80s BC, the Pontic Empire of Mithridates had gr...

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  • ROME & PARTHIA: EMPIRES AT WAR
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    ROME & PARTHIA: EMPIRES AT WAR
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    A Roman historian examines the motivation and strategy behind Marc Anthony's invasion of Parthia and the reasons for its ultimate defeat. In the mid-first century BC, the Roman Empire was rivaled only by the Parthian Empire to the east. The first war between these two ancient superpowers resulted in the total defeat of Rome and the death of Marcus Crassus. When Rome collapsed i...

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  • ROME, BLOOD & POWER
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    ROME, BLOOD & POWER
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    "C apture[s] the essence of the struggle within Rome for reform and power and dominance . . . a page turner of a book . . . that offers fresh insight." — Firetrench   Following the First Civil War the Roman Republic was able to rebuild itself and restore stability. Yet the problems which had plagued the previous seventy years of the Republic, of political reform being met with ...

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  • ROME, BLOOD & POLITICS
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    ROME, BLOOD & POLITICS
    GARETH C. SAMPSON
    This in-depth chronicle examines the series of political upheavals that led to division, violence, and civil war in the ancient Roman Republic. The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile politicians who proposed political or social reform programs, many of which culminated in acts of bloodshed on the street...

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