Stephen Wise has been a regular contributor to GeoEurope and his 'Back to Basics' articles have provided a clear and simple introduction to the inner workings of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for a non-specialist audience. He now presents
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A powerful examination of the rightist resurgence in education and the challenges it presents to concerned educators, Official Knowledge analyzes the effects of conservative beliefs and strategies on educational policy and practice. Now revised
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Engineers need to understand the legal and commercial context in which they draw up technical specifications. This thoroughly up-dated edition of Haslam's successful Writing Engineering Specifications provides a concise guide to technical specifications
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Anthropologists now openly acknowledge that social anthropology can no longer fulfill its traditional aim of providing holistic, objective representations of people of "exotic" cultures. After Writing Culture asks what theoretical
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Many aspects of economic and social life are increasingly conducted "on the move" or away from "home." Modern technologies make it possible to be mobile and connected at the same time. Mobile communications technologies are playing an increasingly
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This book is a lively and accessible biographical guide to lesbian and gay literary culture from Sappho to modern pulp fiction. It includes fascinating entries on authors from W.H. Auden to Alice Walker, James Baldwin to Virginia Wolff, and also includes
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Throughout the 1990s, pictures of Albanian youngsters studying in makeshift classrooms became a symbol of Serbian state repression in Kosovo. The establishment of so-called parallel education in private houses and businesses in Kosovo became part
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Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it.

Two features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide.
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Spanning a wide array of topics relating to the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease, this reference collects the latest studies and recommendations from a team of 75 leading authorities on the subject-including the management of subarachnoid
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Mechanistic Toxicology is a timely textbook that provides an introduction to an important, but often neglected, area within the toxicological sciences. Using many examples and complementary background information, this volume gives new insights
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