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  • ENVIRONMENTAL LOBBYING AT THE UNITED NATIONS
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    ENVIRONMENTAL LOBBYING AT THE UNITED NATIONS
    FELIX DODDS / CHRIS SPENCE
    This book provides a step-by-step, insiders’ guide on how to lobby and engage successfully at the United Nations. It reveals how the United Nations, which plays such a key role on issues from climate change to pollution of our air, land and sea, really works. In a world of rapid climate change, a flood of forever chemicals and plastic pollution, and the extinction of so much wi...

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  • THE MYTHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
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    THE MYTHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
    LEWIS SPENCE
    The myths and legends of the Algonquins, Iroquois, Pawnees, Sioux, and northern and northwestern Indians offer rich insights into the character and beliefs of the tribes that once dominated extensive territories of North America. The distinguished British anthropologist and folklorist Lewis Spence has collected many of the most interesting and compelling of these myths and pres...

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  • MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
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    MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
    LEWIS SPENCE
    In this classic study Lewis Spence, a noted mythologist, made perhaps the first serious attempt to review the religious history of ancient Egypt in the light of the science of modern mythology. Instead of regarding Egyptian mythology and legend as unique, "classic" and inviolate, as did many Egyptologists, Spence saw Egyptian religious thought as part of world mythology, rooted...

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  • THE POPOL VUH THE MYTHIC AND HEROIC SAGAS OF THE KICHÉS OF CENTRAL AMERICA
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    THE POPOL VUH THE MYTHIC AND HEROIC SAGAS OF THE KICHÉS OF CENTRAL AMERICA
    LEWIS SPENCE
    The Popol Vuh (Book of the Community) is a Mayan sacred text compiled around the middle of the 16th century by the K'iche' people in what is now Guatemala. This text gives an account of the creation of the universe and all living things, including humans and the K'iche' themselves. ...

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  • MYTHS & LEGENDS OF BABYLONIA & ASSYRIA
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    MYTHS & LEGENDS OF BABYLONIA & ASSYRIA
    LEWIS SPENCE
    Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria, originally published in November 1916, is a beautiful book that includes explanations of Babylonian and Assyrian legends and myths as well as the myths themselves. Lewis Spence, in the Preface, describes his purpose in writing the book as providing the reader with "the treasures of romance latent in the subject, the peculiar richness ...

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  • THE GODS OF MEXICO
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    THE GODS OF MEXICO
    LEWIS SPENCE
    The Myths of Mexico & Peru is a detailed study on the history and mythology of ancient Aztecs and Incas, providing valuable information to allow understanding into the background of Latin American heritage. The book includes tales of the myths of creations, legends of numerous Mesoamerican Gods, such as Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc, Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli, and many other inte...

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  • LEGENDS AND ROMANCES OF SPAIN
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    LEGENDS AND ROMANCES OF SPAIN
    LEWIS SPENCE
    Legends and Romances of Spain by Scottish folklorist Lewis Spence, was first published in 1920. The book explores the romantic and chivalric literature of Spain, as well as it's ballads. It contains thirteen sections including: The Source of Spanish Romance; The Cantares de Gesta and the Poema del Cid; Amadis de Gaul; The Sequels to Amadis de Gaul; The Palmerin Romances; Catalo...

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  • LEGENDS AND ROMANCES OF BRITTANY
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    LEGENDS AND ROMANCES OF BRITTANY
    LEWIS SPENCE
    In this fully illustrated book, Lewis Spence recounts tales of knights, kings and saints, some more or less historical in nature, others set in the timeless land of the fairy-tales. Brittany also has extensive lore of fairy-folk, including several unique species, such as the Korrigan, Nain, Goric, and the dread Ankou, a female spirit of death. Chapters include: The Land, The Pe...

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  • LANGUAGE, HEALTH AND CULTURE
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    LANGUAGE, HEALTH AND CULTURE
    OLGA ZAYTS-SPENCE
    Language, Health and Culture brings together contributions by linguistic scholars working in the area of health communication in Asia—in particular, in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan. Olga Zayts-Spence and Susan M. Bridges, along with the contributors, draw on a diverse range of authentic data from different (primary, secondary, digital) healthcare conte...

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  • MAYBE TEACHING IS A BAD IDEA
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    MAYBE TEACHING IS A BAD IDEA
    LARRY D. SPENCE
    Deep and lasting learning results when we teach human brains in ways responsive to how they’re structured and how they function, which is not how we imagine they work or wish they would work. This book proposes a radical restructuring of teaching so that it conforms to how people learn. Spence maintains that teaching cannot and should not be aimed at transferring knowledge from...

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  • EDUCATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FOR LITERACY TEACHERS
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    EDUCATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FOR LITERACY TEACHERS
    LUCY SPENCE / AYAN MITRA
    Bridging the world of reading instruction and applied cognitive neuroscience, this book presents research-backed reading instructional methods and explains how they can be understood through the lens of brain processes. Dispelling myths about neuroscience, Spence and Mitra explore how brain-based research informs literacy research in a way that is clear and accessible to pre-se...

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  • INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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    INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
    SPENCE, NICHOLAS D.
    This book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and assesses the policy responses taken by governments and Indigenous communities across the world. Bringing together innovative research and policy insights from a range of disciplines, this book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-b...

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  • LIFE EVENTS AND EMOTIONAL DISORDER REVISITED
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    LIFE EVENTS AND EMOTIONAL DISORDER REVISITED
    ANTONIA BIFULCO / RUTH SPENCE / LISA KAGAN
    Life Events and Emotional Disorder Revisited explores the variety of events that can occur, their inherent characteristics and how they affect our lives and emotions, and in turn their impact on our mental health and wellbeing. The book focuses on current social problems nationally and internationally, showing the reach of life events research including those linked to Covid-19...

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  • EVERYTHING IS NOW
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    EVERYTHING IS NOW
    BILL SPENCE
    This engaging and beautifully written book gives an authoritative but accessible account of some of the most exciting and unexpected recent developments in theoretical physics. – Professor Lionel J Mason, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford String theory is often paraded as a theory of everything, but there are a large number of untold stories in which string theory gi...

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  • MEDIA ETHICS IN AUSTRALIA
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    MEDIA ETHICS IN AUSTRALIA
    EDWARD SPENCE
    This issue compromises a selection of papers presented at the Inaugural International Media Ethics Conference held in Canberra Australia in July 2002. The papers selected are representative of some of the central themes of the conference, such as managing the newsroom and editorial independence, limits on press freedom, ethical standards and credibility, investigative journalis...

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  • SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
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    SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
    JACK SPENCE
    I originally became interested in the law and society nature of this research project through a law school and then graduate political science educational background. This led me to consider courts in a number of settings, including the popular tribunals in Cuba. Before going to Chile, I wrote a lengthy paper comparing local court institutions in tribal, peasant, urban U.S. and...

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  • SOMEWHERE NORTH OF WHERE I WAS
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    SOMEWHERE NORTH OF WHERE I WAS
    NICOLE SPENCE
    A memoir of a young Nova Scotia girl's troubled childhood, her loss of innocence, and her struggle to survive and persevere.   Somewhere North of Where I Was is the heartrending story of a young girl whose childhood innocence was stolen. Retold with the reflective voice of a woman who has survived and transcended the trauma of childhood poverty, neglect, and abuse, Spence's wis...

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  • CHILDREN BEYOND LABELS
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    CHILDREN BEYOND LABELS
    RHIAN SPENCE
    Children Beyond Labels is an accessible guide to understanding standardised assessment and managing high incidence additional learning needs in the primary school. It offers jargon-free insight into the results of formal assessments which are often used within professional reports and cuts to the core of how primary education professionals and parents can identify, understand a...

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  • COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL INTERVIEWING FOR ADULT DISORDERS
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    COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL INTERVIEWING FOR ADULT DISORDERS
    PETER H. WILSON / SUSAN H SPENCE / DAVID J. KAVANAGH
    Originally published in 1989, the primary aim of this text was to provide a guide to the interview assessment of a wide range of common adult psychological problems. Emphasis is placed on the kinds of problems that were frequently encountered in outpatient centres at the time. The authors provide a general introduction to the nature and causes of each of the selected problems, ...

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  • GLOBAL CULTURAL ECONOMY
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    GLOBAL CULTURAL ECONOMY
    CHRISTIAAN DE BEUKELAER / KIM-MARIE SPENCE
    Global Cultural Economy critically interrogates the role cultural and creative industries play in societies. By locating these industries in their broader cultural and economic contexts, Christiaan De Beukelaer and Kim-Marie Spence combine their repertoires of empirical work across four continents to define the ‘cultural economy’ as the system of production, distribution, and c...

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  • THE MULTISENSORY DRIVER
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    THE MULTISENSORY DRIVER
    CRISTY HO / CHARLES SPENCE
    Driver inattention has been identified as one of the leading causes for car accidents. The problem of distraction while driving is likely to worsen, partly due to increasingly complex in-car technologies. However, intelligent transport systems are being developed to assist drivers and to ensure a safe road environment. One approach to the design of ergonomic automobile system...

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  • A PRIMER ON THEORY IN ARCHITECTURE
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    A PRIMER ON THEORY IN ARCHITECTURE
    KAREN CORDES SPENCE
    A Primer on Theory in Architecture discusses how theory is defined in architecture, how it is identified, its location in larger perspectives or worldviews, its relationships to other areas in architecture, and how it can be constructed. The book explores the definition, elements and characteristics of theory along with subjects associated with theory and how these associations...

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  • ENDING APARTHEID
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    ENDING APARTHEID
    JACK SPENCE / DAVID WELSH
    The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century. David Welsh and J. E. Spence here examine the complex forces which lay behind that drama. They chart the rise and decline of apartheid ideology in South Africa, the internal insurrection a...

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  • NEUROBIOLOGY OF ADDICTIONS
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    NEUROBIOLOGY OF ADDICTIONS
    SHULAMITH L A STRAUSSNER / RICHARD T. SPENCE / DIANA M. DINITTO
    Bridge the gap between the physical foundations of substance abuse and the psychosocial approaches that can treat it!This groundbreaking book offers helping professionals a thorough introduction to the neurobiological aspects of substance abuse. It presents the basic information on the subject, including the various neurobiological theories of addiction, and places them in a ps...

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  • BRITISH CITIES
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    BRITISH CITIES
    NIGEL SPENCE / ANDREW GILLESPIE / JOHN GODDARD
    Urban and Regional Planning Series, Volume 26: British Cities: An Analysis of Urban Change provides an overview of urban change in Britain. The title focuses on the demographic and economic aspects of the British urban system. The text first covers the British urban systems, and then proceeds to tackling population and employment in British cities. Next, the selection deals wit...

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  • STRESS ANALYSIS FOR CREEP
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    STRESS ANALYSIS FOR CREEP
    J.T. BOYLE / J. SPENCE
    Stress Analysis for Creep focuses on methods on creep analysis. The book first ponders on the occurrence of creep in mechanical engineering components, including background to stress analysis for creep and general-purpose computer programs for creep analysis. The text presents a phenomenological description of creep. The phenomenon of creep, physical mechanisms of creep, conve...

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  • VIOLENCE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
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    VIOLENCE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
    GUTTERIDGE, WILLIAM / SPENCE, J.E.
    Violence in southern Africa has occurred in a variety of modes including ethnic confrontation, liberation struggles and cross-border aggression and crime. This volume examines the degree to which violence however defined has influenced political change across the region. The contributions include analyses of the ramifications of violent disorder in Angola and Mozambique, the im...

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  • ESTIMATING FOR BUILDING & CIVIL ENGINEERING WORK
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    ESTIMATING FOR BUILDING & CIVIL ENGINEERING WORK
    JOHN WILLIAMS / SPENCE GEDES
    It deals in a practical and reasonable way with many of the estimating problems which can arise where building and civil engineering works are carried out and to include comprehensive estimating data within the guidelines of good practice. The early part of the book has been completely rewritten to contain chapters useful to students and practitioners alike for the development ...

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  • WOMEN, EDUCATION, AND AGENCY, 1600–2000
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    WOMEN, EDUCATION, AND AGENCY, 1600–2000
    JEAN SPENCE
    This collection of essays brings together an international roster of contributors to provide historical insight into women’s agency and activism in education throughout from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Topics discussed range from the strategies adopted by individual women to achieve a personal education and the influence of educated women upon their social environ...

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  • LEARNING TO TEACH PRIMARY PE
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    LEARNING TO TEACH PRIMARY PE
    IAN PICKUP / LAWRY PRICE / JULIE SHAUGHNESSY / JON SPENCE / MAXINE TRACE
    This book encourages effective teaching and learning in primary physical education, supporting the reader in meeting the QTS Standards and beyond. It explores the importance of PE for children′s learning and advocates a developmental approach to teaching; it also examines a model of professional practice based on personal reflection and self-appraisal, and emphasises the import...

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