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  • RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY FROM GREEK INTO SYRIAC
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    RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY FROM GREEK INTO SYRIAC
    JOHN W. WATT
    Shortly after 500 CE, the Syriac-speaking priest and physician Sergius of Resh'aina, who had studied in Alexandria, wrote the first known exposition of Aristotle in a Semitic language. About four centuries later, Abu Bishr Matta, an alumnus of the monastic school of Dayr Qunna in Iraq, completed in Baghdad the Arabic version of the Aristotelian Organon with translations from th...

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  • CHALLENGES AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN JOURNALISM EDUCATION
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    CHALLENGES AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN JOURNALISM EDUCATION
    FOWLER-WATT, KAREN
    Drawing on original and innovative contributions from educators, practitioners and students, Challenges and New Directions in Journalism Education captures and informs our understanding of journalism pedagogy in the context of ongoing shifts in journalism practice. Journalism is once again facing challenges, accused of elitism and often branded as too far removed from the reali...

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  • STATISTICS FOR PSYCHOLOGY
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    STATISTICS FOR PSYCHOLOGY
    ROGER WATT
    Statistics for Psychology is an interactive, highly visual, and accessible guide to the statistical practices you will encounter as a psychology student. Its software-agnostic approach keeps the focus on the core principles, rather than getting bogged down in complicated formulae and jargon. This book is based on the authors′ BPS commended programme. It focusses on providing th...

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  • VISUAL PROCESSING
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    VISUAL PROCESSING
    ROGER WATT
    This highly original and interesting monograph puts forward ideas on visual processing and representation in the early stages of visual perception, and examines the computational requirements of the system and its psychological performance. Initially the author considers the computational theory of how the maximum amount of useful information about the scene can be registered f...

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  • UK ELECTION LAW
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    UK ELECTION LAW
    BOB WATT
    This book contains a critical analysis of the law and politics governing the conduct of statutory elections in the United Kingdom. The author argues that elections have now become a marketplace for 'buying' the most seemingly attractive political party on offer into power, rather than an expression of democratic self-government. Thematically arranged, he considers a number of i...

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  • BAWDY SONGBOOKS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, VOLUME 4
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    BAWDY SONGBOOKS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, VOLUME 4
    PATRICK SPEDDING / PAUL WATT / ED CRAY / DAVID GREGORY / DEREK B SCOTT
    The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away. Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period. ...

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  • BAWDY SONGBOOKS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, VOLUME 3
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    BAWDY SONGBOOKS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, VOLUME 3
    PATRICK SPEDDING / PAUL WATT / ED CRAY / DAVID GREGORY / DEREK B SCOTT
    The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away. Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period. ...

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  • BAWDY SONGBOOKS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, VOLUME 1
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    BAWDY SONGBOOKS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, VOLUME 1
    PATRICK SPEDDING / PAUL WATT / ED CRAY / DAVID GREGORY / DEREK B SCOTT
    The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away. Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period. ...

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  • BAWDY SONGBOOKS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, VOLUME 2
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    BAWDY SONGBOOKS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, VOLUME 2
    PATRICK SPEDDING / PAUL WATT / ED CRAY / DAVID GREGORY / DEREK B SCOTT
    The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away. Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period. ...

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  • THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION IN SYRIAC
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    THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION IN SYRIAC
    JOHN W. WATT
    This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th centuries, but also ranging to the 13th. It offers a wide range of articles, opening with surveys on the most important philosophical writers of the period before providing detailed studies of two Syriac prolegomena to Aristotle’s Categories and examining t...

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  • SHIP REGISTRATION: LAW AND PRACTICE
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    SHIP REGISTRATION: LAW AND PRACTICE
    EDWARD WATT
    Ship Registration Law and Practice is fully updated and now entering its third edition. Part of Lloyd’s Shipping Law Library, it is the most authoritative guide to the theory and practice of ship registration in the most popular jurisdictions. It contains the reference material needed to submit a vessel for registration at the leading ship registries world-wide, as well as extr...

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  • THE REGULATION AND REFORM OF MUSIC CRITICISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
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    THE REGULATION AND REFORM OF MUSIC CRITICISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
    PAUL WATT
    Music criticism in England underwent profound change from the 1880s to the 1920s. It gave rise to ‘New criticism’ that aimed to be rational, impartial and intellectually authoritative. It was a break from the criticism of old: the work of the opinionated journalist who wrote descriptive concert reviews with invective, cliché, bias and bombast. Critics such as Ernest Newman (186...

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  • ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
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    ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
    W. MONTGOMERY WATT
    Events are making clear to ever-widening circles of readers the need for something more than a superficial knowledge of non-European cultures. In particular, the blossoming into independence of numerous African states, many of which are largely Muslim or have a Muslim head of state, has made clear the growing political importance of the Islamic world, and, as a result, the desi...

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  • PARAPSYCHOLOGY
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    PARAPSYCHOLOGY
    CAROLINE WATT
    Many people believe that they have experienced paranormal phenomena and others claim to possess psychic abilities. For the past hundred years or so, researchers have undertaken systematic and scientific work into these alleged experiences and abilities. This collection of articles provides readers with a general sense of the methods used in this research, the findings that h...

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  • TEACHING VISUAL METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
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    TEACHING VISUAL METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
    SAL WATT AND CAROLINE WAKEFIELD
    Teaching Visual Methods in the Social Sciences presents a practical and theoretical framework for those wanting to introduce visual methods into their curricula. Drawing on the expertise of contributors from across the social sciences, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to visual methodology, learning and teaching theory, and the ethical considerations involved. Div...

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  • DANTE, COLUMBUS AND THE PROPHETIC TRADITION
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    DANTE, COLUMBUS AND THE PROPHETIC TRADITION
    MARY WATT
    Exploring the diverse factors that persuaded Christopher Columbus that he could reach the fabled "East" by sailing west, Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition considers, first, the impact of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the apocalyptic prophetic tradition that it reflects, on Columbus’s perception both of the cosmos and the eschatological meaning of his journey to what he ca...

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  • THE ARTS OF 17TH-CENTURY SCIENCE
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    THE ARTS OF 17TH-CENTURY SCIENCE
    CLAIRE JOWITT / DIANE WATT
    Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural world, but entered into competition with them. It is this complex process of competition and negotiation concerning ways of se...

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  • THE ALTERNATIVE SHERLOCK HOLMES
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    THE ALTERNATIVE SHERLOCK HOLMES
    PETER RIDGWAY WATT / JOSEPH GREEN
    Between 1887 and 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote sixty Sherlock Holmes stories, and his great Canon has become the most praised, most studied, and best-known chapter in the history of detective fiction. Over twenty thousand publications pertaining to the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon are known to have been published, most of them historical and critical studies. In addition, ho...

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  • THE FALLEN WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
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    THE FALLEN WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
    GEORGE WATT
    A sympathetic view of the fallen women in Victorian England begins in the novel. First published in 1984, this book shows that the fallen woman in the nineteenth-century novel is, amongst other things, a direct response to the new society. Through the examination of Dickens, Gaskell, Collins, Moore, Trollope, Gissing and Hardy, it demonstrates that the fallen woman is the first...

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  • THE ETHICS OF PREGNANCY, ABORTION AND CHILDBIRTH
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    THE ETHICS OF PREGNANCY, ABORTION AND CHILDBIRTH
    HELEN WATT
    The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth addresses the unique moral questions raised by pregnancy and its intimate bodily nature. From assisted reproduction to abortion and ‘vital conflict’ resolution to more everyday concerns of the pregnant woman, this book argues for pregnancy as a close human relationship with the woman as guardian or custodian. Four approaches to p...

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  • THE SENSORY BASIS AND STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE
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    THE SENSORY BASIS AND STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE
    HENRY J. WATT
    Originally published in 1925. If we are to know what intelligence is, how the brain can think, and what place mind holds in the scheme of things, we must first have a science of the sensory basis and structure of knowledge. This book supplies that need; it also serves as a short introduction to the systematic psychology of cognition. ...

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  • PARIS BISTRO COOKERY
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    PARIS BISTRO COOKERY
    ALEXANDER WATT
    Originally published in 1957, this delightful book offers 100 recipes from 50 of the best authentic Paris bistros, collected in the 1950s when these establishments were at their height. Part guidebook and part cookbook, this volume describes the bistros and their colourful denizens as they were, followed by their signature recipes. ...

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  • MULTITHREADING FOR VISUAL EFFECTS
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    MULTITHREADING FOR VISUAL EFFECTS
    MARTIN WATT / ERWIN COUMANS / GEORGE ELKOURA / RONALD HENDERSON / MANUEL KRAEMER / JEFF LAIT / JAMES REIND
    Tackle the Challenges of Parallel Programming in the Visual Effects Industry In Multithreading for Visual Effects, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software. They provide practical advice on multithreading techniques and visual effects used in popul...

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  • SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY PLAYS
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    SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY PLAYS
    ROBERT WATT
    Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English, national identities and gender roles. Interpretations of the history plays have been transformed since the 1980s by new theoret...

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  • HIGH SENSITIVITY COUNTING TECHNIQUES
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    HIGH SENSITIVITY COUNTING TECHNIQUES
    D. E. WATT / D. RAMSDEN
    International Series of Monographs on Electronics and Instrumentation, Volume 20: High Sensitivity Counting Techniques details the low background counting techniques for radiation detection. The book covers various areas of concerns in utilizing low background counting technique. The text first details the counting parameters, and then proceeds to discussing the attainment of ...

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  • GROWING UP IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS
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    GROWING UP IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS
    IRINA MOLODIKOVA / ALAN WATT
    Investigating changes in upbringing in the North Caucasus, a region notorious for violent conflict, this book explores the lives of the generation born after the dissolution of the USSR who grew up under conditions of turmoil and rapid social change. It avoids the ‘traditional’ presentation of the North Caucasus as a locus of violence, and instead presents the life of people in...

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  • MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    WILLIAM MONTGOMERY WATT
    First published in 1991, this title explores the myths and misperceptions that have underpinned Muslim-Christian relations throughout history, and which endure to the current day. William Montgomery Watt describes how the myths originated and developed, and argues that both Muslims and Christians need to have a more accurate knowledge and positive appreciation of the other reli...

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  • ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY TODAY
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    ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY TODAY
    W M WATT
    In this volume, originally published in 1983, W Montgomery Watt looks at the meeting of Christianity and Islam, how they see and have seen each other, and considers how they can aid each other in dealing with the problems of the world today. He emphasizes those beliefs which Christianity and Islam have in common, and shows how they may be justified intellectually. ...

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  • COMPANION TO THE QUR'AN
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    COMPANION TO THE QUR'AN
    W.M. WATT
    Originally published in 1967, this Companion is designed to help readers of the Qur’an by giving them necessary background information. An account is given of ideas peculiar to the Qur’an, and the main variant interpretations are noted. A full index of Qur’anic proper names and an index of words commented on has been provided. Based on A J Arberry’s translation, this Companion ...

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  • VLF RADIO ENGINEERING
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    VLF RADIO ENGINEERING
    ARTHUR D. WATT
    Electromagnetic Waves, Volume 14: VLF Radio Engineering provides a detailed coverage of the fields involved in very low frequency (VLF) radio engineering. This book serves as a guide for applying the information in the solution of practical problems. Comprised of seven chapters, this volume starts with an overview of the communications aspect following the flow of information ...

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