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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This thoroughly revised third edition of a best-selling textbook is carefully designed to reflect classic and new developments in the popular fields of gender and women's studies. Its unique breadth and depth makes it ideal for students taking courses for the first time at undergraduate and postgradu…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors. This best-selling, classic text provides a clear and straightforward account of the basic…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This insightful book looks at the phenomenon of low-cost innovation and explores what we can learn from the innovators in developing nations who are making amazing technical and social advances with scarce capital and resources.Charles Leadbeatershows how these methods can be applied and used whereve…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This title helps the undergraduate student through the process of using their reading in essays, from how to quote, paraphrase and summarise sources, through to editing their work. It focuses on the fundamental feature of all academic writing and work, why and how reading is used in academic writing.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. `Excellent: up-to-date, covers key topics, clearly written, superb tables. Number 4 is the best of the series.' - Professor G. Jones, London School of Economics `An answer to our prayers.' - Professor P. Pulzer, All Souls College, Oxford `The standard throughout [is] of the highest, and the book cohe…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. George Eliot's reception as a writer has been chequered from the start. Prejudice followed the reluctant revelation of her real identity as a woman, and she suffered from critical neglect at the start of the twentieth century, before a post-war renaissance of interest finally established her as one o…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. In this Readers' Guide, Sarah Gamble, herself a leading interpreter of Carter's work, examines the critical reception of her writing, including the much-debated non-fiction text,The Sadeian Woman. Drawing on interviews, articles, books and Carter's own assessments of her role as writer, it focuses on…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The Royal Navy was one of the largest and most complex organisations in the pre-industrial world. It was also an important contributing factor to the economic and political evolution of Britain. This book aims at introducing undergraduates to the complexity of the navy and its role in British history…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This text is designed to be both accessible and challenging providing a comprehensive introduction to Human Resource Management (HRM). Achieving a balance of theory and practice, the text critically evaluates late-1990's developments in the subject, such as strategic aspects of HRM, the challenge of…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Considering questions such as 'Where did language come from?' and 'Do animals know they exist?', Michael Hanlon explores possible theories and dispatches a few of the less likely ones in his quest to fill the gaping holes that science is littered with. The book has been read, but is in excellent cond…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Designed as a revision aid, this text text covers a large part of material for first-year civil engineering courses at universities and polytechnics. Topics include equilibrium of rigid structures, shearing forces and bending moments, various forms of stress, such as direct, bending, shear, torsional…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Why do some rules have the status of law while others do not? Is law simply a matter of rules anyway? What is justice? Is there a duty to obey a law even if it is unjust? Should the law concern itself with the activities of consenting adults in private? This work asks questions such as these and expl…

Paperback. Etat : Good. Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Ireland finally emerged in the late 1990s as the fastest-growing country in Europe, with the typical Irishman enjoying a higher standard of living than the average Brit. Just a few years after celebrating their newly-won statu…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Webster's theatre was also Shakespeare's theatre: but their tragedies are very different. Webster has a reputation for angst-ridden, obsessive and debased characters and the creation of a sick and decaying world. Yet his heroines are the amongst the strongest characters, male or female, in Jacobean d…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The novels of Toni Morrison, the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, are powerful not just because of their content - her themes include infanticide, rape, child abuse, murder and sexual jealousy - but because of their innovative form and language. This succinct criti…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. In this health-conscious age there is increasing concern about tobacco smoking and inappropriate consumption levels of alcohol. Alcoholism poses an important occupational health problem which can affect an individual's personal welfare and limit his or her efficiency at work. There is concern about t…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Ireland finally emerged in the late 1990s as the fastest-growing country in Europe, with the typical Irishman enjoying a higher standard of living than the average Brit. Just a few years after celebrating their newly-won…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This study is aimed at first year chemistry undergraduates. It aims to cover all the core topiccs taught at this level through concise summarie of the essential facts and examples explaining the application of theory. DR H.E.Avery is author of "Basic Reaction Kinetics and Mechanisms". The system rein…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This is a concise text for law students and students of related business and professional courses who need up-to-date legal knowledge of this subject. This third edition has been fully revised; the first part of the book centres on the general law of leases, their contractual nature and the interests…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The state of perpetual change that characterized British local government during the Thatcher/Major years did not end with the election of New Labour in 1997. The Blair administration developed its own "modernization agenda" for local government: democratic renewal, best value services, beacon counci…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. A concise and authoritative survey of the political and economic debate around Tony Blair's 'Big Idea' of stakeholding by leading exponents and their critics on both Left and Right. The book summarises and criticises the key stakeholder arguments as these have been applied to the economy and to socie…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This is a fully revised 2nd edition of a popular text on the comparative politics of contemporary Europe, west and east, very accessibly written for an introductory student market.It provides systematic coverage of European politics; east, west, north, south, central, periphery etc. Most competitors…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. A concise and comprehensive introduction to the policy initiatives and impact of the Thatcher governments elected in 1979, 1983 and 1987. The book provides substantial coverage of all the key policy areas together with an assessment of the policy process under Thatcher, the consistency of government…