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  • REINVENTING EDUCATION: BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
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    REINVENTING EDUCATION: BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
    ALAN WATKINS / MATT SILVER
    The need for change in the education system is obvious and overwhelming. But each stakeholder group has its own ideas about why the system is broken and how to fix it. Competing priorities, political inertia and diminishing budgets maintain the dysfunctional status quo. This essential text examines the underlying causes behind the key challenges facing schools and argues that w...

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  • A HISTORY OF DRAGONS
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    A HISTORY OF DRAGONS
    SARAH-BETH WATKINS
    This book takes a comprehensive look at dragons, our most popular and beloved mythological creature, from a cultural and historical perspective. From Chinese Imperial dragons to the worms and wyverns of English folklore, dragons appear in myths and legends around the world and throughout history. Follow the evolution of the dragon from creation myths through to Medieval and Vik...

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  • BECOMING NEOLITHIC
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    BECOMING NEOLITHIC
    TREVOR WATKINS
    Becoming Neolithic examines the revolutionary transformation of human life that was taking place around 12,000 years ago in parts of southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherer communities were building the first permanent settlements, creating public monuments and symbolic imagery, and beginning to cultivate crops and manage animals. These communities changed the tempo of cultural, social...

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  • CHARLES II'S ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN
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    CHARLES II'S ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN
    SARAH-BETH WATKINS
    Charles II had at least twelve illegitimate children that we know of. Although his queen, Catherine of Braganza, fell pregnant several times she was not able to bear any children to full term. The king, who was known for his many mistresses, had his first recognized child out of wedlock in 1649; the child was James Croft who would become Duke of Monmouth and mastermind of an in...

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  • PRAGMATICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
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    PRAGMATICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
    JÚLIA BARÓN / MARÍA LUZ CELAYA / PETER WATKINS
    This innovative book links theory to practice with regard to teaching pragmatics. In laying out why this is useful, how it is achievable, and what to teach when it comes to pragmatics, this book outlines the theoretical background and offers a wide range of hands-on activities. While offering coverage of timely issues like pragmatics in text messaging, the authors expertly prov...

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  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY GRADUATE'S GUIDE
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    THE ANTHROPOLOGY GRADUATE'S GUIDE
    CAROL J. ELLICK / JOE E. WATKINS
    In this revised edition of The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide, Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins present a set of practical steps that guides the reader through the transition from student to professional, covering a wide range of career options for which an anthropology degree is applicable. It includes an overview of anthropology as a discipline, professional qualifications and key...

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  • THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF CONSUMER CAPITALISM
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    THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF CONSUMER CAPITALISM
    JOHN P. WATKINS
    Consumer capitalism arose with the second industrial revolution, the application of continuous-mass production to consumer goods during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book adopts a Veblenian, Keynesian viewpoint, presenting an evolutionary view of consumption combined with the need to increase demand to match increases in production. The book traces the...

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  • TOXIC LEADERSHIP
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    TOXIC LEADERSHIP
    STEVEN M. WALKER / DARYL WATKINS
    Toxic Leadership: Research and Cases presents research and cases on toxic leadership that emerged from qualitative research on the followers of toxic leaders. The goal is to help students, researchers, and academics understand how toxic leadership emerges, how leaders can spot toxic leadership within their organizations, and discuss what they can do to stop toxic leaders from d...

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  • LIE-ABILITY
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    LIE-ABILITY
    ALAN WATKINS / SIMON JONES
    Business success depends on the ability to build trust. Trusted brands succeed and sustain. Trusted leaders inspire followers, grow companies, revenues and futures. But sadly, deceit has infected business and become widespread. Far too many leaders now use their own "alternative facts", to mislead and misinform their customers, colleagues and communities. The skilfulness and ea...

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  • ARTHUR PLANTAGENET
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    ARTHUR PLANTAGENET
    SARAH-BETH WATKINS
    Illegitimate son to Edward IV and the uncle of Henry VIII, Arthur Plantagenet's life is an intriguing story. Raised in his father's court, he then became a trusted member of Henry VII's household and after his death, was a prominent figure at the court of Henry VIII. Henry VIII treated his uncle well in the early years of his reign, making him vice-admiral and then Lord Deputy ...

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  • ARTHUR PLANTAGENET
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    ARTHUR PLANTAGENET
    SARAH-BETH WATKINS
    Illegitimate son to Edward IV and the uncle of Henry VIII, Arthur Plantagenet's life is an intriguing story. Raised in his father's court, he then became a trusted member of Henry VII's household and after his death, was a prominent figure at the court of Henry VIII. Henry VIII treated his uncle well in the early years of his reign, making him vice-admiral and then Lord Deputy ...

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  • 99 ECO-ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR PRIMARY SCHOOL
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    99 ECO-ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR PRIMARY SCHOOL
    SARAH WATKINS
    This book is packed with bright ideas and practical projects for children aged 4-11 to raise environmental awareness and prompt discussion about climate change. Encouraging children to take charge right from the start, the activities range from creating recycled kites, windsocks, and garden decorations, to upcycling old t-shirts, building minibeast hotels and designing campaign...

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  • STEP CHANGE
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    STEP CHANGE
    ALAN WATKINS
    No one likes change. Too often it’s viewed as something that must be endured; something to ‘get through’ as fast as possible so that everything can ‘return to normal'. We need to change our view of change and see it for the opportunity it really is. Step Change: The Leader’s Journey helps leaders to become gifted and skilful at moving through the change process gracefully and p...

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  • OUTDOOR PLAY FOR HEALTHY LITTLE MINDS
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    OUTDOOR PLAY FOR HEALTHY LITTLE MINDS
    SARAH WATKINS
    This essential resource is designed to help busy early years practitioners to support the mental health of young children through outdoor play. Promoting social and emotional wellbeing in childhood has never been more important, and outdoor play is a crucial tool to build resilience, develop healthy relationships, and boost self-esteem. Using relatable case studies that demonst...

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  • A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS WITH STATA
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    A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS WITH STATA
    MARLEY WATKINS
    This is a concise, easy to use, step-by-step guide for applied researchers conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using Stata. In this book, Dr. Watkins systematically reviews each decision step in EFA with screen shots of Stata code and recommends evidence-based best practice procedures. This is an eminently applied, practical approach with few or no formulas and is aime...

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  • COHERENCE
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    COHERENCE
    ALAN WATKINS
    Understand how to overcome the obstacles inhibiting performance and unlock the potential for brilliance that lies within every leader. Most leaders are operating nowhere near their optimal level of performance. In this book, Dr Alan Watkins helps leaders at every level understand how they can transform their output and unlock their true potential. He shares proven techniques th...

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  • A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS WITH SPSS
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    A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS WITH SPSS
    MARLEY W. WATKINS
    This is a concise, easy to use, step-by-step guide for applied researchers conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using SPSS. In this book, Dr. Watkins systematically reviews each decision step in EFA with screen shots and code from SPSS and recommends evidence-based best-practice procedures. This is an eminently applied, practical approach with few or no formulas and is ...

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  • INNOVATION SUCKS!
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    INNOVATION SUCKS!
    ALAN WATKINS / SIMON MAY
    Businesses spend billions on innovation with very little to show for their investment or effort. This book challenges some of the ‘ingrained truths’ of innovation and suggests a different approach. Innovation is not the creation of a novel idea. It is the successful commercialisation of that novel idea. Rather than starting with a costly, time-consuming problem assessment that ...

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  • CREATING GAMES WITH UNITY, SUBSTANCE PAINTER, & MAYA
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    CREATING GAMES WITH UNITY, SUBSTANCE PAINTER, & MAYA
    JINGTIAN LI / ADAM WATKINS / KASSANDRA AREVALO / MATTHEW TOVAR
    This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Unity, Substance Painter, and Maya. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to create game-ready assets. This includes polygonal modeling, UV layout, and custom texture painting. The book the...

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  • A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS WITH R AND RSTUDIO
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    A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS WITH R AND RSTUDIO
    MARLEY WATKINS
    This is a concise, easy to use, step-by-step guide for applied researchers conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using the open source software R. In this book, Dr. Watkins systematically reviews each decision step in EFA with screen shots of R and RStudio code, and recommends evidence-based best practice procedures. This is an eminently applied, practical approach with ...

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  • THE PURITAN EXPERIENCE
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    THE PURITAN EXPERIENCE
    OWEN C. WATKINS
    Originally published in 1972 and based on extensive research and use of source materials including manuscripts, this book examines Puritan spiritual autobiographies written before 1725 and sets them in the context of the literary tradition out of which they grew. As well as Bunyan, Baxter and Fox, this book also discusses important works which have received less attention, nota...

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  • DISCLOSING CHURCH
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    DISCLOSING CHURCH
    CLARE WATKINS
    From 2006 to 2011 researchers at Heythrop College and the Oxford Centre for ecclesiology and Practical Theology (OxCEPT, Ripon College Cuddesdon) worked on a theological and action research project: "Action Research – Church and Society (ARCS). 2010 saw the publication of Talking About God in Practice: Theological Action research and Practical Theology (SCM), which presented in...

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  • THE HR (R)EVOLUTION
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    THE HR (R)EVOLUTION
    ALAN WATKINS / NICK DALTON
    Many observers have suggested that capitalism is fast destroying our planet, concentrating power in a few big companies. Excessive short-termism, leveraged debt, digitisation, and disruption are the new normal. We stand at a critical juncture where the two paths ahead could lead to very different futures. One route could take us back to the harshest days of the early Industrial...

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  • IT GOVERNANCE
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    IT GOVERNANCE
    ALAN CALDER / STEVE WATKINS
    Faced with the compliance requirements of increasingly punitive information and privacy-related regulation, as well as the proliferation of complex threats to information security, there is an urgent need for organizations to adopt IT governance best practice. IT Governance is a key international resource for managers in organizations of all sizes and across industries, and dea...

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  • YOUNG PEOPLE’S TRANSITIONS INTO CREATIVE WORK
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    YOUNG PEOPLE’S TRANSITIONS INTO CREATIVE WORK
    JULIAN SEFTON-GREEN / S CRAIG WATKINS / BEN KIRSHNER
    Exploring how formal and informal education initiatives and training systems in the US, UK and Australia seek to achieve a socially diverse workforce, this insightful book offers a series of detailed case studies to reveal the initiative and ingenuity shown by today’s young people as they navigate entry into creative fields of work. Young People’s Journeys into Creative Work ac...

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  • ASIAN MIGRATION AND EDUCATION CULTURES IN THE ANGLOSPHERE
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    ASIAN MIGRATION AND EDUCATION CULTURES IN THE ANGLOSPHERE
    MEGAN WATKINS, CHRISTINA HO AND ROSE BUTLER
    Asian migration and mobilities are transforming education cultures in the Anglosphere, prompting mounting debates about ‘tiger mothers’ and ‘dragon children’, and competition and segregation in Anglosphere schools. This book challenges the cultural essentialism which prevails in much academic and popular discussion of ‘Asian success’ and in relation to Asian education mobilitie...

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  • THE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE CLINICAL YEAR: OB-GYN
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    THE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE CLINICAL YEAR: OB-GYN
    ELYSE WATKINS
    “A lifesaver – not just for PA students, but for faculty and administrators trying our best to prepare them. Perfect for students to read and use on rotation.” – James Van Rhee, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA, Program Director, Yale Physician Assistant Online Program The first pocket-size resource to guide PA students through their OB/GYN rotation Prepare for and thrive during your clinical ...

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  • L. MUNATIUS PLANCUS
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    L. MUNATIUS PLANCUS
    THOMAS H. WATKINS
    This volume examines the life and career of L. Munatius Plancus, and through him, explores the tumultuous final years of the Roman Republic. Plancus had very active and lengthy political career, from his initial appearance on the staff of Julius Caesar in Gaul in 54BC at least through the censorship of 22BC. During this time, he was in close contact for over 30 years with all t...

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  • DEPRESSION
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    DEPRESSION
    CONSTANCE HAMMEN / ED WATKINS
    Depression provides a valuable and accessible resource for students, practitioners, and researchers seeking an up-to-date overview and summary of research-based information about depression. With the help of clinical examples, the authors present chapters covering the hypothesized causes of depression, including genetic and biological factors, life stress, family, and interpers...

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  • JUDICIAL REVIEW AND CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRATIC THEORY
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    JUDICIAL REVIEW AND CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRATIC THEORY
    SCOTT E. LEMIEUX / DAVID J. WATKINS
    For decades, the question of judicial review’s status in a democratic political system has been adjudicated through the framework of what Alexander Bickel labeled "the counter-majoritarian difficulty." That is, the idea that judicial review is particularly problematic for democracy because it opposes the will of the majority. Judicial Review and Contemporary Democratic Theory b...

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