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  • RECONSIDERING THE EAST ASIAN PEACE
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    RECONSIDERING THE EAST ASIAN PEACE
    THOMPSON, WILLIAM R.
    This volume re-examines the notion of the East Asian peace, arguing that it requires updating for the current and near-future context of US-Chinese rivalry. The “East Asian peace” refers to the remarkable change in conflict levels in eastern Eurasia over the past 80 years or even the past 130 years or so. Prior to the late 1970s, East Asia was regarded as the most conflictual r...

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  • THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH PROMOTION
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    THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH PROMOTION
    SUSAN R. THOMPSON
    Designed to help readers develop the practical skills needed to become effective public health practitioners, this concise text gives a highly accessible overview of the theory and practice of public health and health promotion. The book covers a comprehensive range of key topics, beginning with a discussion of theoretical models and approaches to public health, before addressi...

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  • GROUND SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGHLY STRESSED EXCAVATIONS
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    GROUND SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGHLY STRESSED EXCAVATIONS
    ERNESTO VILLAESCUSA / ALAN G THOMPSON / CHRISTOPHER R WINDSOR / JOHN R PLAYER
    The performance of ground support as a scheme is essential to constrain failures occurring at the rock surfaces of deep or highly stressed excavations. This book covers laboratory and theoretical developments coupled with field experiments and observations with the implementation of the methodology at mines. It explains the energy dissipation capabilities of reinforcement and s...

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  • CHRISTIANITY, ETHICS AND THE LAW
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    CHRISTIANITY, ETHICS AND THE LAW
    ZACHARY R. CALO, JOSHUA NEOH AND A. KEITH THOMPSON
    This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also inform conversations in philosophy and political theory. Love is the central category for Christian ethical understanding. Yet, the growing field of law and religion, and relatedly l...

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  • MONEY AND SCHOOLS
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    MONEY AND SCHOOLS
    R. CRAIG WOOD / DAVID C. THOMPSON / JEFFREY MAIDEN
    Money and Schools explains and demonstrates the relationship between money and equality of educational opportunity in a way that is clear, precise, and engaging. Grounded in research and best practices, this book provides a broad overview of school finance, budgeting, and resource allocation, an understanding of the underlying economic, social, legal, and political principles t...

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  • THE MONTGOMERY LEGEND
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    THE MONTGOMERY LEGEND
    R.W. THOMPSON
    This book, first published in 1967, examines the foundations and the substance of the Montgomery Legend. His appearance upon the scene in the Western Desert coincided with a change in warfare as ‘ironmongery replaced generalship’, as General Fuller observed, and with Montgomery’s victories came a British need for a Champion for all to see. The public needed a Hero as Britain’s ...

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  • MONTGOMERY THE FIELD MARSHAL
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    MONTGOMERY THE FIELD MARSHAL
    R.W. THOMPSON
    This book, first published in 1969, examines the achievement of Montgomery and the 21st Army Group in the campaign in Northwest Europe in 1944-45. The author observed the campaign first-hand, and has spent twenty years poring over war diaries and regimental papers to provide an in-depth analysis of Montgomery’s generalship, personality, complex relations with his American allie...

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  • THE YANKEE MARLBOROUGH
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    THE YANKEE MARLBOROUGH
    R.W. THOMPSON
    This book, first published in 1963, is an early biography of Winston Churchill, examining his personality and character that was woven so closely through the texture of Britain’s story in the first half of the twentieth century. In attempting to discover a complete and complex Churchill, in his character, ambitions and personal experiences, the book seeks to present a clearer i...

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  • CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
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    CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
    WILLIAM R. THOMPSON / LEILA ZAKHIROVA
    Environmental factors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have played a crucial role in the historical and social development of the region. The book delves into a broad set of historical literature from the past 15,000 years that neglected to consider environmental factors to their full effect. Beyond the broad historic analysis, the chapters derive conclusions for toda...

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  • WAR AND STATE MAKING
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    WAR AND STATE MAKING
    KAREN A. RASLER / WILLIAM R. THOMPSON
    Originally published in 1989, this is an empirical study of the impact of global war on the expansion and shaping of nation-states. Individual chapters examine the effects of such wars, and the preparation for them, on debt financing, expansion, military spending, welfare spending, GNP and domestic violence. The authors conclude that by virtue of the changes they spurn, global ...

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  • DEATH AND DYING
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    DEATH AND DYING
    GERRY R. COX / NEIL THOMPSON
    Death and Dying is an important core text for students and professionals interested in developing a holistic understanding of death and dying. Chapters are replete with case studies, activities, key point boxes, and other features that enable readers to develop a sociologically informed understanding of the broad range of complex issues that underpin death and dying. Written by...

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  • STANDARDS-BASED SCHOOL MATHEMATICS CURRICULA
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    STANDARDS-BASED SCHOOL MATHEMATICS CURRICULA
    SHARON L. SENK / DENISSE R. THOMPSON
    The Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1989 set forth a broad vision of mathematical content and pedagogy for grades K-12 in the United States. These Standards prompted the development of Standards-based mathematics curricula. What features characterize Standards-based curricula? How well do...

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  • CHINA'S ‘SINGAPORE MODEL’ AND AUTHORITARIAN LEARNING
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    CHINA'S ‘SINGAPORE MODEL’ AND AUTHORITARIAN LEARNING
    STEPHAN ORTMANN / MARK R. THOMPSON
    This book explores to what extent China has drawn lessons from Singapore, both in terms of its ruling ideology and through the policy-specific learning process. In so doing, it provides insights into the opportunities but also the challenges of this long-term learning process, focusing attention to how non-democratic regimes deal with modernization. The stellar line-up of inter...

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  • GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
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    GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
    STEPHEN MCCARTHY / MARK R. THOMPSON
    This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the theoretical tension between governance and democracy, it illuminates how this impacts political and civil societies across the region. Analysing the character, structure and current trajectories...

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  • BIRACIAL WOMEN IN THERAPY
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    BIRACIAL WOMEN IN THERAPY
    CATHY THOMPSON / ANGELA R GILLEM
    Get a unique perspective on the female biracial experience! Biracial Women in Therapy: Between the Rock of Gender and the Hard Place of Race examines how physical appearance, cultural knowledge, and cultural stereotypes affect the experience of mixed-race women in belonging to, and being accepted within, their cultures. This unique book combines empirical research, theoretical ...

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  • SACRED COWS AND HOT POTATOES
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    SACRED COWS AND HOT POTATOES
    WILLIAM P. BROWNE / JERRY R SKEES / LOUIS E SWANSON / PAUL THOMPSON
    Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes challenges many of the assumptions of current agricultural policies—such as equating "farm" with "rural," high farm prices with high farm incomes, or farm programs with food programs—and examines the agrarian roots of these policies. From the origins of agrarian myths to the latest controversies over farming and the environment, this book provides a...

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  • HISTORY OF PROTECTIVE TARIFF LAWS
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    HISTORY OF PROTECTIVE TARIFF LAWS
    R.W. THOMPSON
    This book, first published in 1888 and reprinted in 1974, offers a history of US protective tariffs and their consequences for that country’s international trade, particularly with Great Britain. Its aim was to present to the reader the arguments for and against the opposing principles of protection and free trade, and in this it is successful – the book is a comprehensive anal...

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  • PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
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    PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
    R. PAUL THOMPSON / ROSS UPSHUR
    What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be explained scientifically? Is disease a scientific concept, or do explanations of disease depend on values? What is "evidence-based" medicine? Are advances in neuroscience bringing us closer to a scientific understanding of the mind? The nature of medicine raises fundamental questions about explanation, causation, know...

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  • THE CHEMISTRY OF COPPER, SILVER AND GOLD
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    THE CHEMISTRY OF COPPER, SILVER AND GOLD
    A. G. MASSEY / N. R. THOMPSON / B. F. G. JOHNSON
    The Chemistry of Copper, Silver and Gold deals with the chemistry of copper, silver, and gold and covers topics ranging from the occurrence and metallurgy of copper to copper compounds and compounds containing copper-metal bonds, compounds of silver, and gold alloys. Hydrides and halides, cyanides and oxides, hydroxides and oxyacids, and thiocyanates and selenocyanates are also...

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  • THE CHEMISTRY OF COPPER, SILVER AND GOLD
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    THE CHEMISTRY OF COPPER, SILVER AND GOLD
    A. G. MASSEY / N. R. THOMPSON / B. F. G. JOHNSON
    The Chemistry of Copper, Silver and Gold represents chapters 27, 28 and 29 of Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry. These chapters were reprinted as a separate edition in response to readers’ requests and to provide specialists with copies for their own use. The chapters in this volume include corrections of misprints from the original volume, prefatory material and individual ind...

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  • TEACHING MATHEMATICS TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
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    TEACHING MATHEMATICS TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
    GLADIS KERSAINT / DENISSE R. THOMPSON / MARIANA PETKOVA
    Today's mathematics classrooms increasingly include students for whom English is a second language. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides readers a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might address them in the secondary mathematics classroom. Framed by a research perspecti...

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  • HIV AND SOCIAL WORK
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    HIV AND SOCIAL WORK
    R DENNIS SHELBY / DAVID M ARONSTEIN / BRUCE J THOMPSON
    As HIV/AIDS continue to plague societies around the world, more and more social workers encounter HIV-infected individuals and their families and friends who are searching for help and support. In HIV and Social Work: A Practitioner's Guide, experienced social workers share their practice wisdom, knowledge, and skills on a broad range of issues. Their words of wisdom will give ...

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  • CBT FOR APPEARANCE ANXIETY
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    CBT FOR APPEARANCE ANXIETY
    ALEX CLARKE / ANDREW R. THOMPSON / ELIZABETH JENKINSON / NICHOLA RUMSEY / ROBERT NEWELL
    This clinical manual provides a CBT-based psychosocial intervention for use with individuals distressed about their appearance due to a disfigurement from birth, accident or illness, or those coping with another visible difference.   Contains a wealth of case material with specific relevance to physical health conditions that affect appearance, practical advice on assessment, a...

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  • LIMITS TO GLOBALIZATION
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    LIMITS TO GLOBALIZATION
    WILLIAM R. THOMPSON / RAFAEL REUVENY
    In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures. Yet the liberal assumption is that if the market does its job, the poor will catch up to the rich via trade-driven growth and the economies of developed and less developed c...

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  • GLOBALIZATION AS EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
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    GLOBALIZATION AS EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
    MODELSKI, GEORGE / DEVEZAS, TESSALENO / THOMPSON, WILLIAM R.
    The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity. In this volume the concept is seen in broader terms as leading international experts from a range of disciplines develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalization. The editors and contributors develop a ...

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  • DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS
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    DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS
    MARK R. THOMPSON
    Despite enormous differences between Asia and Eastern Europe, there are striking similarities between the peaceful, spontaneous, urban-based and cross-class democratic uprisings against unyielding dictatorships that have occurred in the two regions. The book explores the kind of non-democratic regimes that are particularly vulnerable to democratic revolutions. It examines why a...

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  • THE EDWARDIANS
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    THE EDWARDIANS
    PAUL R THOMPSON
    Everyone who lived during the reign of Edward VII was an Edwardian, not merely the rich, the literary or the scandalous. In this classic work, Paul Thompson records the life stories of some five hundred Edwardians born between 1872 and 1906 in a pioneering use of oral history, which captures a unique record of their times. Domestics, labourers, skilled and semi-skilled workers,...

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  • DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH STUDIES
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    DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH STUDIES
    COLIN R MARTIN / DAVID R THOMPSON
    This invaluable text on the design and analysis of clinical research studies explains the basis of experimental design and statistics in a way that is sensitive to the clinical context in which nurses work. It uses data from actual studies to illustrate how to:*design the study*use and select data*present research findings*use a computer for statistical analysis.The scope of th...

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  • STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT- HARDCOVER VERSION
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    STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT- HARDCOVER VERSION
    J. KORONACKI / J.R. THOMPSON
    The first edition of this groundbreaking text showed that the Statistical Process Control (SPC) paradigm of W. Edwards Deming was not at all the same as the Quality Control paradigm that has dominated American manufacturing since World War II. Its philosophy of good management is rooted in a paradigm as process-oriented as physics, yet produces a friendly and fulfilling work en...

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  • RATIO ET RES IPSA
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    RATIO ET RES IPSA
    S. P. OAKLEY / R. J. E. THOMPSON
    Since 1966, when James Diggle was elected to his Fellowship at Queen's College, Cambridge, his teaching and scholarly example have inspired many of his pupils to embark on their own academic careers. In this volume fourteen former pupils have contributed essays to mark his retirement. The contributions cover many of the diverse disciplines of Classics: Greek literature, Greek l...

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