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  • The Saxon in Ireland

    or, The Englishman in Search of a Settlement in the West of Ireland

    “The Saxon in Ireland: or, The Englishman in Search of a Settlement in the West of Ireland,” published in 1851 by John Hervey Ashworth, discusses the prospects of redeveloping lands in Ireland at the time, more than twenty years after the potato famine devastated Ireland, explained in terms helpful to English emigrants looking to resettle there. The state of Irish culture and society, agriculture ... Read more

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  • A Just Peace Ethic Primer

    Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence

    The just peace movement offers a critical shift in focus and imagination. Recognizing that all life is sacred and seeking peace through violence is unsustainable, the just peace approach turns our attention to rehumanization, participatory processes, nonviolent resistance, restorative justice, reconciliation, racial justice, and creative strategies of active nonviolence to build sustainable peace, ... Read more

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  • Best British Short Stories 2021

    Series Book 11 - Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering ... Read more

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  • The Republic in Crisis, 1848–1861

    by John Ashworth ...
    The Republic in Crisis, 1848–1861 analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War, offering for students and general readers a clear, chronological account of the sectional conflict and the beginning of the Civil War. Emerging from the tumultuous political events of the 1840s and 1850s, the Civil War was caused by the maturing of the North and South's separate, ... Read more

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  • Patents, Registered Designs, Trade Marks and Copyright For Dummies

    Do you have a great idea for the next big thing, an eye-catching new corporate logo, or an exciting new business concept? Understand how to safeguard your ideas and creations with this expert guide to the fundamentals of intellectual property. Walking you step-by-step through the processes involved in protecting your great ideas, this book offers all the advice you need to ensure that you're the ... Read more

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  • A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

    Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new ... Read more

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  • Science, Politics And The Pharmaceutical Industry

    Controversy And Bias In Drug Regulation

    Drug disasters from Thalidomide to Opren, and other less dramatic cases of drug injury, raise questions about whether the testing and control of medicines provides satisfactory protection for the public. In this revealing study, John Abrahan develops a theoretically challenging realist approach, in order to probe deeply into the work of scientists in the pharmaceutical industry and governmental ... Read more

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  • Engaging Heritage, Engaging Communities

    Across the global networks of heritage sites, museums, and galleries, the importance of communities to the interpretation and conservation of heritage is increasingly being recognised. Yet the very term "meaningful community engagement" betrays a myriad of contrary approaches and understandings. Who is a community? How can they engage with heritage and why would they want to? How do communities ... Read more

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  • Mass Tourism in a Small World

    This book reviews all aspects of the phenomenon of mass tourism. It covers theoretical perspectives (including political economy, ethics, sustainability and environmentalism), the historical context, and the current challenges to domestic, intra-regional and international mass tourism. As tourism and tourist numbers continue to grow around the world, it becomes increasingly important that this ... Read more

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  • A Geography of Heritage

    The concept of heritage relates to the ways in which contemporary society uses the past as a social, political or economic resource. However, heritage is open to interpretation and its value may be perceived from differing perspectives - often reflecting divisions in society. Moreover, the schism between the cultural and economic uses of heritage also gives rise to potential conflicts of interest ... Read more

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  • Postcolonialism and Political Theory

    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity ... Read more

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    This introductory text explains how anthropology is integral to the study of tourism dynamics. Starting with an overview of the development of anthropology as a social science, the author uses a wealth of international examples, including the UK, USA and Australia, to bring practical relevance to complex theories. With its lucid writing style, summaries, sample questions and suggestions for ... Read more

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