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The UK as a medium maritime power in the 21st century: Logistics for influence (2016)
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Martin, C. (2016). The UK as a medium maritime power in the 21st century: Logistics for influence. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-01237-1

This book argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and opponents that threaten the UK's interests in the 21st century, and that its means is the Royal Navy. However, unlike other studies,... Read More about The UK as a medium maritime power in the 21st century: Logistics for influence.

Islamic law and transnational diplomatic law: A quest for complementarity in divergent legal theories (2016)
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Ismail, M. (2016). Islamic law and transnational diplomatic law: A quest for complementarity in divergent legal theories. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137558770

This book, in its effort to formulate compatibility between Islamic law and the principles of international diplomatic law, argues that the need to harmonize the two legal systems and have a thorough cross-cultural understanding amongst nations gener... Read More about Islamic law and transnational diplomatic law: A quest for complementarity in divergent legal theories.

Marketing rural tourism: Experience and enterprise (2016)
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Saxena, G. (2016). Marketing rural tourism: Experience and enterprise. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784710880

Gunjan Saxena seeks to encourage a fuller understanding of rural tourism marketing by uncovering the lived experiences and enterprise of different actor groups as they respond to the impact of tourism on their communities and cultural identities. In... Read More about Marketing rural tourism: Experience and enterprise.

Business-state relations in Brazil: Challenges of the port reform lobby (2016)
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Doctor, M. (2017). Business-state relations in Brazil: Challenges of the port reform lobby. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203744031

© 2017 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. In recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure-for example, on its capacity to deal with the high demand expected during the W... Read More about Business-state relations in Brazil: Challenges of the port reform lobby.

Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodiment and Empathy in Performance (2016)
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Edinborough, C. (2016). Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodiment and Empathy in Performance. Bristol: Intellect

Performance, dramaturgy, and scenography are often explored in isolation, but in Theatrical Reality, Campbell Edinborough describes their connectedness in order to investigate how the experience of reality is constructed and understood during perform... Read More about Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodiment and Empathy in Performance.

Leading with emotional intelligence: Effective change implementation in today’s complex context (2016)
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Higgs, M., & Dulewicz, V. (2016). Leading with emotional intelligence: Effective change implementation in today’s complex context. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32637-5

Drawing on research into leadership and emotional intelligence, this book presents a framework that can lead to effective change implementation. Set against a backdrop of increasing complexity, volatility and uncertainty, the book responds to the nee... Read More about Leading with emotional intelligence: Effective change implementation in today’s complex context.

Hard Wired (2016)
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McKay, K. (2016). Hard Wired. Moth publishing

September 1996. Newcastle United have just bought Alan Shearer for a record-breaking £15 million from Blackburn Rovers and across the city regeneration and investment are reshaping the landscape. Charlie works in the local bail hostel where, exhauste... Read More about Hard Wired.

The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (2016)
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Burnard, T., & Garrigus, J. (2016). The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293012

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by plan... Read More about The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica.

Key questions in education (2016)
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Smith, J. (2016). Key questions in education. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

The media is full of reference to failing schools, troublesome pupils, underperforming boys, disappearing childhood and a teaching profession in crisis as more and more teachers contemplate abandoning their careers. Key Questions in Education looks a... Read More about Key questions in education.

Watching the red dawn: the American avant-garde and the Soviet Union (2016)
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Haran, B. (2016). Watching the red dawn: the American avant-garde and the Soviet Union. Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097225.001.0001

© Barnaby Haran 2016. All rights reserved. This book offers the first sustained examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation. From the formation of the USSR in 1922 until its recogn... Read More about Watching the red dawn: the American avant-garde and the Soviet Union.

Tainted Love (2016)
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Chilvers, A. (2016). Tainted Love. Hebden Bridge: Bluemoose Books

'Secre.ts and stones have settled in Hawden where everything stays as it is; the past is hidden, or rewritten. Lauren lives with her dad and Mr Lion after her mother left her when she was three months old. Her boyfriend Peter is struggling with his i... Read More about Tainted Love.

Researching and Evaluating iPad in Learning (2016)
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Burden, K., & Jones, S. (2016). Researching and Evaluating iPad in Learning. Apple Books

As mobile devices, like iPad, become more common in classrooms and schools there is a growing demand from school leaders and teachers to better understand the impact these devices are having on learning. This is not an academic interest but a practic... Read More about Researching and Evaluating iPad in Learning.

Victorian Convicts: 100 Criminal Lives (2016)
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Johnston, H., Godfrey, B., & Cox, D. J. (2016). Victorian Convicts: 100 Criminal Lives. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books

Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World (2016)
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Bottery, M. (2016). Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World. Bloomsbury Publishing

Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World argues that current crises in educational policies and practice, including the recruitment and retention of educational leaders, ultimately derive from the interactions between four key challenges w... Read More about Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World.

Global injustice and crime control (2016)
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Laverick, W. (2016). Global injustice and crime control. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739434

Global Injustice and Crime Control places cross-border, cross-national and international crime and crime control within its wider context. It examines theory from a range of disciplines and introduces students to the frequently neglected area of the... Read More about Global injustice and crime control.