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A comprehensive and accessible overview of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts.

Investigates 150 years of murder and presents it through a 'then and now' theme of comparison photographs. This title includes many of the 'headline' murderers like Jack the Ripper, Dr Crippen, Kennedy and Browne, the 'Black-out' Ripper, John Haigh, John Christie, Donald Hume, Ruth Ellis, Ronald Marwood, and Guenther Podola and the Roberts Gang.

An update to the bestselling first edition, this practical guidebook for implementing a school-wide RTI model clearly and concisely presents issues ranging from assessment and decision-making to Tiers I, II, and III interventions. New material includes a chapter on RTI in Early Childhood Settings and a section in each chapter on considerations for secondary schools"--

Written for academicians, policymakers, and students, this reference addresses fundamental questions about food security: the ability to physically and economically obtain basic food needs. The authors examine whether the food produced today will be hampered by climate change, food and fuel competition, or land use policy changes. The reference also analyzes and interprets current trends and emerging challenges to provide policymakers with the...

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Roderick Copper (67), retired Major, and Benny Gold (70), London cabbie, apply on the same morning for residential places with the Rudyard Trust for Retired Officers and Gentlemen. But its eccentric and drunken Director tells them the Trust is technically bankrupt, its multi-million-pound assets about to be divided between the Founder's descendants - a curious, motley crew. Banker Mark Treasure is called in when Copper and Gold's bizarre schem...

Eyes Everywhere provides an accessible and international perspective on the development of camera surveillance.It scrutinizes the quiet but massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent years, paying special attention to developments in Canada, the UK and the USA.

Fahim Fazli is a man of two worlds: Afghanistan, the country of his birth, and America, the nation he adopted and learned to love. He's also a man who escaped oppression, found his dream profession, and then paid it all forward by returning to Afghanistan as an interpreter with the U.S. Marines. When Fahim speaks, the story he tells is harrowing, fascinating, and inspiring. Born and raised in Kabul, Fahim saw his country and family torn ap...

In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines the broader social discourse about gaming, including: the way players are socialized into games, the impact of the lingering association of vid...

Bereits bei der Abfassung meines Buches "Metallische Dberziige"l) faBte ich den EntschluB, in gleicher Weise wie dieses Gebiet auch die nichtmetallischen Dberziige auf Metallen zu behandeln. In diesem EntschluB wurde ich noch durch mehrere Besprechungen meines Buches "Metallische Dberziige" verstarkt, in denen direkt der Wunsch nach einem Werke iiber die "Nichtmetallischen Dberziige" aus meiner Feder geauBert wurde. Auch aus der Praxis wurde m...

Jerzy Perzanowski's ideas were based on an original blend of logic and ontology in what he called onto/logic, where the slash is meant to suggest a quotient of ontology by logic. Perzanowski began as a logician, his early works being on modal logic, then gradually shifted his interest to "logical philosophy", meaning not so much philosophy of logic as philosophy informed by logic. Perzanowski was a rare breed of analytical philosopher who thou...

Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy: a treatise simultaneously on metaphysics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. It presents, in Spinoza's famous 'geometric method', his radical views on God, Nature, the human being, and happiness. In this wide-ranging introduction to the work, Steven Nadler explains the doctrines and argument...

The conventional opinion is that professional Canadian theatre began in 1953 with the founding of the Stratford Festival. But Susan McNicoll asks how this could be, when the majority of those taking the stage at Stratford were professional Canadian actors. To answer this question, McNicoll delves into the period to show how in fact the unbroken chain of Canadian professional theatre began just after World War Two, when a host of theatre people...

Sind wir wirklich eine intelligente und zivilisierte Gesellschaft? Eine Hochkultur? Ist unser Wissen wirklich so immens groß und von unschätzbarer Qualität? Tatsächlich kennen wir bis heute nicht einmal die Antworten auf die zwei grundlegendsten Fragen der Menschheit - Woher kommen wir und wohin gehen wir? Solche und andere gravierende Widersprüche unserer Gesellschaft will dieses Buch aufzeigen. Durch alle Lebensbereiche hindurch werden unse...

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SPORTS & RECREATION / Outdoor Skills

Debut picture book about a rabbit artist who vanishes, but lives on in his work.

Clinical Skills Explained bridges the gap between the major textbooks and the OSCE crammer books, it could be the only clinical skills books you need for the introductory clinical years!

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Presenting a nonparametric approach to modeling operational risk data, this book offers a practical perspective that combines statistical analysis and management orientations. It covers the statistical theory prerequisites and summarizes important contributions made in the past decade. The authors explain how to implement the new density estimation methods for analyzing the loss distribution in operational risk for banks and insurance companie...