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  • THE CITY OF HIP-HOP
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    THE CITY OF HIP-HOP
    ROB SWIFT / RASUL A. MOWATT
    The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environment for Hip-Hop to specifically grow in the geographies of New York City and its boroughs. This book argues it was the political forces of the 1970s combined with the economic forces of free market capitalism and privatization of publ...

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  • PROVINCIAL POLICE REFORM IN EARLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND
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    PROVINCIAL POLICE REFORM IN EARLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND
    ROGER SWIFT
    The establishment of ‘new police’ forces in early Victorian England has long attracted historical enquiry and debate, albeit with a general focus on London and the urban-industrial communities of the Midlands and the North. This original study contributes to the debate by examining the nature and process of police reform, the changing relationship between the police and the pub...

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  • THE IRISH IN THE VICTORIAN CITY
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    THE IRISH IN THE VICTORIAN CITY
    ROGER SWIFT / SHERIDAN GILLEY
    First published in 1985, this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities, including Bristol, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stockport. With contributions from foremost scholars in the field, it provides a thorough critical study of Irish immigration, in its social, political, cultural and religious dimensions. This book will be of interest...

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  • MALAY PEASANT SOCIETY IN JELEBU
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    MALAY PEASANT SOCIETY IN JELEBU
    M. G. SWIFT
    First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts, but includes a new theoretical introduction; postscripts have also been supplied to some of the chapters comparing the perf...

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  • GULLIVERS REISEN
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    GULLIVERS REISEN
    JONATHAN SWIFT
    Gullivers Reisen (englisch Gulliver’s Travels) ist ein satirischer Roman des irischen Schriftstellers, anglikanischen Priesters und Politikers Jonathan Swift. In der Originalfassung besteht der Roman aus vier Teilen und wurde 1726 unter dem Titel Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Shi...

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  • A MODEST PROPOSAL
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    A MODEST PROPOSAL
    JONATHAN SWIFT
    A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick,[1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles b...

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  • STYLE AND FUNCTION IN ROMAN DECORATION
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    STYLE AND FUNCTION IN ROMAN DECORATION
    ELLEN SWIFT
    This important book puts forward a new interpretation of Roman decorative art, focusing on the function of decoration in the social context. It examines the three principal areas of social display and conspicuous consumption in the Roman world: social space, entertainment, and dress, and discusses the significance of the decoration of objects and interiors within these contexts...

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  • REVIVAL: PSYCHOLOGY AND THE DAY'S WORK (1918)
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    REVIVAL: PSYCHOLOGY AND THE DAY'S WORK (1918)
    EDGAR JAMES SWIFT
    Psychology considered as the science of human behavior is concerned with man's response to the impressions made upon him by objects, people, and events. They make up the situations that he meets. Behavior--the individual's way of dealing with these situations--if not a complete failure, results finally in some sort of adjustment to the conditions in which one lives; and this ad...

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  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
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    THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
    DONALD SWIFT
    First published in 1969, this book examines the educational process as a whole in relation to its society. The discussion is set within a specifically sociological frame of reference and looks at the school as an organisation as well as the social environment surrounding the school. It concludes by considering some of the basic issues concerning the functions of education for s...

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  • CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS: ARISTOCRATIC VICTORIAN RADICAL
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    CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS: ARISTOCRATIC VICTORIAN RADICAL
    ROGER SWIFT
    This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served the constituency of Wolverhampton for sixty-three...

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  • HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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    HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    CHRISTOPHER SWIFT
    The place of religion in public life continues to be a much-debated topic in Western nations. This book charts the changing role of hospital chaplains and examines through detailed case studies the realities of practice and the political debates which either threaten or sustain the service. This second edition includes a new introduction and updated material throughout to prese...

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  • POLITICS, MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN AUSTRALIA
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    POLITICS, MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN AUSTRALIA
    BRIAN MCNAIR / TERRY FLEW / STEPHEN HARRINGTON / ADAM SWIFT
    In Australia, as in many comparable democracies, the role of the media in the political process is high on the public agenda. There is a perception of widespread disillusionment with and disengagement from politics amongst voters, and criticism of the media for failing to fulfil their democratic responsibilities adequately. This book evaluates public perceptions of the performa...

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  • A COURSE IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS
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    A COURSE IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS
    STEPHEN A. WIRKUS / RANDALL J. SWIFT / RYAN SZYPOWSKI
    A Course in Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems, 2nd Edition adds additional content to the author’s successful A Course on Ordinary Differential Equations, 2nd Edition. This text addresses the need when the course is expanded. The focus of the text is on applications and methods of solution, both analytical and numerical, with emphasis on methods used in the ty...

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  • RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY, 1765-1996
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    RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY, 1765-1996
    DONALD C. SWIFT
    Religion in the USA manifests itself in many forms and this book examines them, from religion in the early republic, to early African American religion, reform, nativism movements, and fundamentalism, up to the contemporary culture wars, in a study that spans almost 250 years. ...

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  • A COURSE IN ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
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    A COURSE IN ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
    STEPHEN A. WIRKUS / RANDALL J. SWIFT
    A Course in Ordinary Differential Equations, Second Edition teaches students how to use analytical and numerical solution methods in typical engineering, physics, and mathematics applications. Lauded for its extensive computer code and student-friendly approach, the first edition of this popular textbook was the first on ordinary differential equat ...

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  • A COURSE IN ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
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    A COURSE IN ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
    STEPHEN A. WIRKUS / RANDALL J. SWIFT
    A Course in Ordinary Differential Equations, Second Edition teaches students how to use analytical and numerical solution methods in typical engineering, physics, and mathematics applications. Lauded for its extensive computer code and student-friendly approach, the first edition of this popular textbook was the first on ordinary differential equat ...

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  • GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
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    GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
    JONATHAN SWIFT
    From the world's greatest satirist, the classic adventures of the intrepid Gulliver Broken into four parts, Gulliver's Travels marks the progress of a gallant explorer as he sails into the unknown, visiting surreal worlds like Brobdingnag, a realm filled with gigantic men; Lilliput, a diminutive land filled with pint-size people; Laputa, a floating island in the sky; and even t...

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  • AUTO BIOGRAPHY
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    AUTO BIOGRAPHY
    EARL SWIFT
    A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his—while financial ruin, government bureaucrats and the FBI close in on him. Slumped among hundreds of other decrep...

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  • A PLACE WITH PROMISE
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    A PLACE WITH PROMISE
    EDWARD SWIFT
    The magical multigenerational saga of an unforgettable Texas family At the turn of the twentieth century, Isaac Overstreet goes looking for a bride and finds Elizabeth "Bessie" Treadway standing in the middle of the Sabine River. Leaving her sisters without explanation, carrying her three pet cranes, Bessie slips into Isaac's boat and returns with him to Camp Ruby—a tiny backwo...

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  • MOTHER OF PEARL
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    MOTHER OF PEARL
    EDWARD SWIFT
    The hilarious chronicle of the McAlister clan, a collection of bickering southern eccentrics whose family history is a parade of missteps, mishaps, and certifiable insanity In the later years of her life, widow and grandmother Pearl decides to return to East Texas and move in with her sister, Wanda Gay—despite the fact that the two have never agreed on anything. (It is no wonde...

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  • MISS SPELLBINDER'S POINT OF VIEW
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    MISS SPELLBINDER'S POINT OF VIEW
    EDWARD SWIFT
    In this "delightful and bizarre" novel, Clarissa Spellbinder spins the yarn of her truly unbelievable—and completely unverified—life ( The Boston Globe).   Miss Clarissa Spellbinder has lived a truly astonishing life . . . or so she tells us. Her father was the intrepid adventurer Lord Andrew Spellbinder and her mother, the fiery Latin songbird Amelita de la Luna, who traveled ...

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  • PRINCIPIA MARTINDALE
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    PRINCIPIA MARTINDALE
    EDWARD SWIFT
    A wide-eyed redhead finds her true calling as a Christian evangelist in a broken-down town in Southwest Texas A large redheaded girl from a small East Texas town, Principia Martindale is fairly directionless. But she finds purpose at Hillister Baptist College. Principia was born to be a missionary, she realizes, and her religious fervor wins her a bus ticket to the pathetic Wes...

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  • THE DAUGHTER OF THE DOCTOR AND THE SAINT
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    THE DAUGHTER OF THE DOCTOR AND THE SAINT
    EDWARD SWIFT
    The magical saga of a remarkable family undone by madness, fate, and politics, and a dutiful daughter's lifelong pursuit of righteous retribution Josefina Esperon's parents came to Latin America together, but with separate missions. Her father, Dr. Alejandro Esperon, sought to better humankind by harnessing the curative powers of tropical plants. His wife, the beautiful, pious,...

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  • THE CHRISTOPHER PARK REGULARS
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    THE CHRISTOPHER PARK REGULARS
    EDWARD SWIFT
    The misadventures of a motley group of artists making their way in New York City A misfit collection of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres, the Christopher Park Regulars gather frequently in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village. Here they share their hopes, dreams, and memories (and in the case of the abnormally obsessed C.C. Wake, an irrational fear of earthquakes), as ...

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  • SPLENDORA
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    SPLENDORA
    EDWARD SWIFT
    The new librarian in the tiny town of Splendora, Texas, has a big secret A stunning and stylish femme fatale named Miss Jessie Gatewood has arrived in the dusty hamlet of Splendora. Miss Jessie is the new town librarian—but she has much bigger plans than just shelving books. She intends to give the town and its people a much-needed makeover. But even as she is influencing the f...

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  • IRISH IDENTITIES IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
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    IRISH IDENTITIES IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
    ROGER SWIFT
    Recent studies of the experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain have emphasized the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and accommodation in the creation of a rich and diverse migrant culture within which a variety of Irish identities co-existed and sometimes competed. In contributing to this burgeoning historiography, this book explores and an...

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  • SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE
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    SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE
    ROBERT E HESS / CAROLYN F SWIFT
    Prevention of a chronic societal problem such as sexual victimization requires looking beyond individuals to the systemic factors that maintain the problem. Sexual Assault and Abuse addresses the need to change social and cultural beliefs and practices that permit the sexual victimization of women and children. Potential rapists and victims are viewed within the context of the ...

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  • EFFECTING A QUALITY CHANGE
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    EFFECTING A QUALITY CHANGE
    S W FIELD / K G SWIFT
    Providing an understanding of what is meant by quality and its unique position in a manufacturing environment to improve competitive business performance, this text defines all the fundamental ingredients required to introduce an improvement in quality. Concise and easy to read, the theory is backed up by numerous industrial experiences, illustrating the practical obstacles whe...

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  • BAD COMPANY
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    BAD COMPANY
    VIRGINIA SWIFT
    Jubilee Days: Laramie, Wyoming's annual rodeo bash and sin fest. It's a whole week of broncos bucking, guitars twanging, and cash registers ringing. Nobody much wants to spoil the party, not even when a local loser turns up dead in the mountains east of town. Almost nobody. Sally Adler and Hawk Green, a couple of college professors out for an afternoon hike, find the body, and ...

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  • BYE, BYE, LOVE
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    BYE, BYE, LOVE
    VIRGINIA SWIFT
    In the third book in Virginia Swift's acclaimed mystery series, Sally Alder, hailed by USA Today as "Wyoming's version of TV's Jessica Fletcher or Agatha Christie's Miss Marple," is back with her colorful cohorts to investigate a bizarre murder. Okay, it's embarrassing for a woman of her professional stature and self-image still to have a crush on singer Thomas "Stone" Jackson,...

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