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  • PLANNING LOCAL AUTHORITY SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY
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    PLANNING LOCAL AUTHORITY SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY
    GRETA SUMNER / RANDALL SMITH
    In the 1960s, planning the development of services for the elderly was a subject of considerable importance in Britain, both because existing services were known to be inadequate, and because the proportion of older people, especially of those over seventy-five, was expected to increase during the next thirty years. Originally published in 1969, this book describes how a sample...

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  • WARFARE ETHICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
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    WARFARE ETHICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
    SUMNER B. TWISS, PING-CHEUNG LO, BENEDICT S. B. CHAN
    This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of war and peace. Through cross-cultural comparison and dialogue between East and West, this work charts a new trajectory in the development of applied ethics. A sequel to the volume Chinese Just War Ethics, it expands the range of the earlier work and includes ...

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  • THE CAT'S PAW
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    THE CAT'S PAW
    NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN
    When Kitty's aunt and guardian is mysteriously murdered, the hunt is on for the killer. Through the tangles of a love triangle, jealousy, a terrible family secret and a hidden fortune, we follow Kitty... ...

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  • LYRIC EYE
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    LYRIC EYE
    TYNE DAILE SUMNER
    Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance presents the first detailed study of the relationship between poetry and surveillance. It critically examines the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning US state surveillance apparatus from 1920 to the 1960s. The book explores the myriad ways that poets—Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Au...

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  • AGRICULTURAL STABILITY AND FARM PROGRAMS
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    AGRICULTURAL STABILITY AND FARM PROGRAMS
    DANIEL A. SUMNER
    This book attempts to contribute to a fuller understanding of perennial issues underlying farm problems and agricultural policies in the United States thus contributing to better projections of policy effects, to better forecasts of policy changes, and perhaps to better policy for agriculture. ...

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  • PURITAN VILLAGE
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    PURITAN VILLAGE
    SUMNER CHILTON POWELL
    Pulitzer Prize Winner: "A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts." — Time In addition to drawing on local records from Sudbury, Massachusetts, the author of this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, traced the town's early families back to England to create an outstanding...

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  • WOMEN VETERANS
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    WOMEN VETERANS
    G.L.A. HARRIS / R. FINN SUMNER / M.C. GONZÁLEZ-PRATS
    Women who fight in wars also have to fight for their right to do so. But what are the obstacles impeding their progress in achieving equal status as both active service members and as veterans? This book, written by a team of female veterans and military scholars, demonstrates the ways in which women service members and veterans experience a unique set of challenges when attemp...

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  • EXPLORATIONS IN GLOBAL ETHICS
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    EXPLORATIONS IN GLOBAL ETHICS
    SUMNER TWISS / BRUCE GRELLE
    Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. The contributors draw from both communities of discourse in addressing questions of method and theory and global moral issuessuch as human rights, di...

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  • DEGRADABLE MATERIALS
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    DEGRADABLE MATERIALS
    SUMNER A. BARENBERG
    This book addresses the fields of biodegradation, environmental degradation, and photochemical degradation. The purpose of the book is to establish guidelines for terminology, nomenclature, characterization techniques and methodology, mechanisms of degradation, standard reference materials, and issues and needs. This is the first scientific book of this nature based on the find...

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  • ANCIENT LAW
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    ANCIENT LAW
    SIR HENRY SUMNER MAINE / DANTE J. SCALA
    Best known as a history of progress, Ancient Law is the enduring work of the 19th-century legal historian Henry Sumner Maine. Even those who have never read Ancient Law may find Maine's famous phrase "from status to contract" familiar. His narrative spans the ancient world, in which individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups, and the modern one, in which ind...

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  • QUALITY ASSURANCE IN CONSTRUCTION
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    QUALITY ASSURANCE IN CONSTRUCTION
    BRIAN THORPE / PETER SUMNER
    The need for quality assurance in construction is now widely accepted. As a result, pressure is currently being applied to contractors and those offering professional services to demonstrate QA capability prior to commission. This book, written by experts in the field of quality management, shows how construction companies can effectively apply QA within their own organizatio...

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  • THE FRENCH ARMY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
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    THE FRENCH ARMY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    IAN SUMNER
    The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English histories of the conflict. Now, though, keen interest in the war in general and in the part the French played in it has prompted a fresh appreciation of their army and the men who served in it. Ian Sumner’s wide-ranging photographic ...

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  • SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY
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    SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY
    CHARLOTTE J SUMNER
    Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Disease Mechanisms and Therapy provides the latest information on a condition that is characterized by motoneuron loss and muscle atrophy, and is the leading genetic cause of infant mortality. Since the identification of the gene responsible for SMA in 1995, there have been important advances in the basic understanding of disease mechanisms, and in ther...

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  • THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND DIVORCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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    THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND DIVORCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    ANN SUMNER HOLMES
    Attitudes towards divorce have changed considerably over the past two centuries. As society has moved away from a Biblical definition of marriage as an indissoluble union, to that of an individual and personal relationship, secular laws have evolved as well. Using unpublished sources and previously inaccessible private collections, Holmes explores the significant role the Churc...

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  • EMERGING PATTERNS OF EAST ASIAN INVESTMENT IN CHINA: FROM KOREA, TAIWAN AND HONG KONG
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    EMERGING PATTERNS OF EAST ASIAN INVESTMENT IN CHINA: FROM KOREA, TAIWAN AND HONG KONG
    SUMNER J.LA CROIX
    Focuses on the recent surge of foreign and Taiwan investment to mainland China's coastal provinces. The 15 papers presented in this text provide data on the emerging pattern of East Asian investments in China and an understanding of the mistakes of early investors. ...

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  • STROLLING THROUGH ISTANBUL
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    STROLLING THROUGH ISTANBUL
    HILLARY SUMNER-BOYD / JOHN FREELY
    First published in 2005. Long acknowledged to be the 'best travel guide to Istanbul' (Times of London) this classic of travel literature is now available in a larger format in hardback binding. The work is both a useful and informative guide to the city with major useful monuments described in detail in terms of the history and architecture. Although the main emphasis of the bo...

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  • CHEMISTRY AND METHODS OF ENZYMES
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    CHEMISTRY AND METHODS OF ENZYMES
    JAMES B. SUMNER / G. FRED SOMERS
    Chemistry and Methods of Enzymes, Third Edition focuses on the processes, methodologies, and reactions in enzyme chemistry, as well as kinetics, nucleases, esterases, and carbohydrates. The publication first underscores the general properties of enzymes, including chemical nature, occurrence, numerical characterization of enzyme concentration, kinetics of enzyme reactions, pr...

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  • DETROIT IN WORLD WAR II
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    DETROIT IN WORLD WAR II
    GREGORY D. SUMNER
    A history of everyday life in the Motor City during the Second World War and the contributions its citizens made to the war effort. When President Roosevelt called for the country to be the great "Arsenal of Democracy," Detroit helped turn the tide against fascism with its industrial might. Locals were committed to the cause, putting careers and personal ambitions on hold. Fact...

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  • USING DATA FOR MONITORING AND TARGET SETTING
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    USING DATA FOR MONITORING AND TARGET SETTING
    IAN MCCALLUM / RAY SUMNER
    Using Data for Monitoring and Target Setting is a clear and practical guide for teachers and school administrative staff that shows how to use spreadsheets to create orderly records of assessment. These can then be used for the sort of statistical analyses which are now being demanded from schools. This guide is photocopiable and includes: *lots of practical examples *step-by-s...

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  • KNITTED SOCKS EAST AND WEST
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    KNITTED SOCKS EAST AND WEST
    JUDY SUMNER
    Open up a world of knitting possibilities with these fun and stylish sock designs using Japanese stitch techniques. In Knitted Socks East and West, author Judy Sumner compares knitting a sock to writing a haiku: both challenge you to create something beautiful and original within a sparse, strict format. In this, her first book, she recounts how she came to study hundreds of ex...

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  • KNITTED SOCKS EAST AND WEST
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    KNITTED SOCKS EAST AND WEST
    JUDY SUMNER
    Open up a world of knitting possibilities with these fun and stylish sock designs using Japanese stitch techniques. In Knitted Socks East and West, author Judy Sumner compares knitting a sock to writing a haiku: both challenge you to create something beautiful and original within a sparse, strict format. In this, her first book, she recounts how she came to study hundreds of ex...

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  • HANDBOOK OF SOIL SCIENCES
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    HANDBOOK OF SOIL SCIENCES
    PAN MING HUANG, YUNCONG LI, MALCOLM E. SUMNER
    An evolving, living organic/inorganic covering, soil is in dynamic equilibrium with the atmosphere above, the biosphere within, and the geology below. It acts as an anchor for roots, a purveyor of water and nutrients, a residence for a vast community of microorganisms and animals, a sanitizer of the environment, and a source of raw materials for co ...

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  • HANDBOOK OF SOIL SCIENCES
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    HANDBOOK OF SOIL SCIENCES
    PAN MING HUANG, YUNCONG LI, MALCOLM E. SUMNER
    An evolving, living organic/inorganic covering, soil is in dynamic equilibrium with the atmosphere above, the biosphere within, and the geology below. It acts as an anchor for roots, a purveyor of water and nutrients, a residence for a vast community of microorganisms and animals, a sanitizer of the environment, and a source of raw materials for co ...

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  • ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
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    ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
    MICHAEL TRIBE / FREDERICK NIXSON / ANDY SUMNER
    Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended to avoid significant economic content. However, without an understanding of the economic aspects of international development many of the more complex issues cannot be fully comprehended. Economics and Development Studies makes the economic dimension of discourse around controversial issues in international develop...

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  • MICHIGAN POW CAMPS IN WORLD WAR II
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    MICHIGAN POW CAMPS IN WORLD WAR II
    GREGORY D SUMNER
    During World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the Thumb, cut pulpwood in the Upper Peninsula and maintained parks and other public spaces in Detroit. The work programs were not flawless and not all of the prisoners were cooperati...

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  • INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
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    INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
    ANDREW SUMNER / MICHAEL A TRIBE
    ′A sure-footed and self-confident book, ambitious in scope, authoritative in execution and practical in its implications′ - Simon Maxwell, Director, Overseas Development Institute, London ′At last, a development studies text that encourages self-reflection from within the discipline. Highly recommended′ - Professor Ray Kiely, Chair in International Politics, Queen Mary Universi...

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  • CHALLENGES TO THE GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM
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    CHALLENGES TO THE GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM
    LA CROIX, SUMNER / PETRI, PETER A.
    International trade continues to expand robustly in East Asia and elsewhere, but global trade negotiations have collapsed and globalization is widely criticized. In this book, the participants of the thirtieth Pacific Trade and Development Conference—including the then-Director General of the World Trade Organization, and leading government officials, academics and executives f...

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  • VIOLENCE, CULTURE AND CENSURE
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    VIOLENCE, CULTURE AND CENSURE
    PROFESSOR COLIN SUMNER / COLIN SUMNER
    Essays reflecting on our understanding and moral judgement of violence. The essays argue that even serious violence is not a simple fact, but a category of thought and practice rooted in history, culture and society. ...

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  • THE ROLE OF ASSESSMENT IN SCHOOLS
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    THE ROLE OF ASSESSMENT IN SCHOOLS
    RAY SUMNER
    "The Role of Assessment in Schools" looks at the conceptual aspects of tests and testing and also gives practical guidelines on how to use tests to their best effect. It considers the development of tests, the types and scope of tests, their application and interpretation, and answers questions on who wants testing, whether the test is appropriate or biased, and whether the res...

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  • ROMAN WARRIORS
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    ROMAN WARRIORS
    GRAHAM SUMNER / SIMON ELLIOTT
    Gathering together stunning artwork from Graham Sumner’s impressive, expansive portfolio, featuring never-before-seen illustrations from the artist and reminding us of his exceptional ability to bring Ancient Rome to life through painting, this colorful, comprehensive anthology is a must-have for any enthusiast of the period, and of military history in general. Introduced with ...

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