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  • Francine’s quest.
    Brian Martin
    This is a fictional story for activists and potential activists so they can better understand what’s going on in the academic world and figure out what, if anything, they might be able to learn from it.Francine is a nurse, but her passion is helping activists be more effective. She decides to find out what activists can learn from academic work - maybe nothing! How better to do...
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    27,57 €

  • Better?
    Brian Martin
    Over the past fifty years, have things been getting better or worse? Brian Martin sets out to address this big question by looking at a range of topics, from climate to feminism, from happiness to war, from deschooling to death. Along the way, he offers personal stories and assessments of key studies. This is an invitation to avoid excessive gloom and unwarranted optimism by th...
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    27,71 €

  • Golden Bells Daily Devotional Volume 1
    Andy McIlree / Brian Johnston / Martin Jones
    For a number of decades, Golden Bells has been feeding Christians around the world with God’s word in tear-off wall and desk calendar formats. For the first time, Golden Bells is now also being made available in book format - taking an ’evergreen’ undated approach so that you can start reading the daily thoughts at any time during the year. In this volume, each 7 days cycle thr...
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    12,94 €

  • Isuren and Other Stories
    Henri Martin / Brian Stableford
    Henri Martin (1810-1883), a part of the coterie surrounding Honoré de Balzac, though largely forgotten today, deserves credit for writing 'Isuren,' the first significant French contribution to what eventually became a subgenre of 'prehistoric fantasy,' extensively developed in the belle époque, when the censorious privileges of the Church had finally evaporated, by such neo-Rom...
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    16,68 €

  • Persistent Panics
    Brian Martin
    Drugs, crime, terrorism and war are all serious problems. What should be done about them? How about declaring war on them? Yet the war approach hasn’t fixed any of these problems but instead seems to have made things worse.The wars on drugs, crime, terrorism and war can be understood as persistent panics. They each share features with what are called moral panics, as well as fe...
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    36,59 €

  • Immortal Latin
    Marie-Madeleine Martin / Brian Welter
    In 1964-65, the Roman Catholic Church brutally and almost universally abandoned the Latin language. This sparked a violent polemic in some places, with often superficial arguments. At that point, a French writer published a far-reaching study. The historian Marie-Madeleine Martin, former student of the École des Chartes and first female winner of the Grand Prix Gobert d’Histoir...
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    25,21 €

  • Immortal Latin
    Marie-Madeleine Martin / Brian Welter
    In 1964-65, the Roman Catholic Church brutally and almost universally abandoned the Latin language. This sparked a violent polemic in some places, with often superficial arguments. At that point, a French writer published a far-reaching study. The historian Marie-Madeleine Martin, former student of the École des Chartes and first female winner of the Grand Prix Gobert d’Histoir...
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    20,87 €

  • Barney Dreyfuss
    Brian Martin
    A young German immigrant, Barney Dreyfuss was an American success story in business and in baseball. He fell in love with the game after settling in Paducah, Kentucky, where he discovered he had a knack for assembling good players on the diamond. Relocating to Louisville, he became involved in the professional game with the Colonels. Faced with ouster from the National Leagu...
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    58,59 €

  • Truth Tactics
    Brian Martin
    You’re searching for the truth. What sources of information should you use and trust? Brian Martin recommends reflecting on a topic that you know a lot about and taking note of which information sources were useful or misleading. To illustrate this process of reflection, he tells of his own experiences learning about the effects of nuclear war, the origin-of-AIDS debate and the...
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    24,11 €

  • Official Channels
    Brian Martin
    Official channels are things like grievance procedures, ombudsmen and courts. They are supposed to resolve problems and provide justice. However, trust in official channels can be misplaced: in many cases they may give only an illusion of a solution. In Official Channels, Brian Martin tells what he has learned about formal procedures set up to deal with problems associated with...
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    23,92 €

  • The Man Who Made Babe Ruth
    Brian Martin
    At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited Boutilier--known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation of St. Francis Xavier--with making him the man and the baseball player he became. Matthias saw something in the troubled sev...
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    42,86 €

  • The Curriculum
    Brian Holmes / Martin McLean
    Originally published in 1989. What should be taught in schools? This book explores the differing curriculum traditions in Britain, Europe, the USA, Latin America, India and the Far East and the possibilities for change. For the practising teacher and the educationalist it opens up the debates about ’quality’ in education which have been intense in many countries throughout the ...
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    63,73 €

  • A Village Voice
    Brian Martin
    Brian Flanagan, grandson of Irish immigrants, has just landed a job with a leading bank in New York City. Like so many others, he hopes to make his family proud while chasing the American dream. Brian is aware of his family's ties to the Irish Republican movement and to organized crime in the city. He is determined to write a new chapter in the family history. Just as Brian bel...
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    8,61 €

  • Social defence
    Brian Martin / Jørgen Johansen
    Social defence is nonviolent community resistance to aggression and repression, as an alternative to military forces. Given the enormous damage caused by military systems, social defence is an alternative worth investigating and pursuing.Since the 1980s, J?rgen Johansen and Brian Martin have been involved in promoting social defence. In this book, they provide an up-to-date tre...
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    20,65 €

  • Strategic Planning in Healthcare
    Brian C. Martin / Brian C. PhD MBA Martin / Brian CMartin
    4-Star Rating, Doody’s Medical ReviewsStrategic Planning in Healthcare: An Introduction for Health Professionals is a practical guide to the theory of strategic planning and the principles of strategic management that apply to all organizational settings, including large healthcare networks, small practices, and public health institutions, among many others. This text provides ...
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    109,61 €

  • The Curriculum
    Brian Holmes / Martin McLean
    Originally published in 1989. This book explores the differing curriculum traditions in Britain, Europe, the USA, Latin America, India and the Far East and the possibilities for change. Four major curriculum traditions are examined in historical context, then the difficulties of curriculum change are explored. ...
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    220,65 €

  • Vaccination Panic in Australia
    Brian Martin
    In 2009 in Australia, a citizens’ campaign was launched to silence public criticism of vaccination. This campaign involved an extraordinary variety of techniques to denigrate, harass and censor public vaccine critics. It was unlike anything seen in other scientific controversies, involving everything from alleging beliefs in conspiracy theories to rewriting Wikipedia entries.Va...
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    44,41 €

  • The Detroit Wolverines
    Brian Martin
    The Detroit Tigers were founding members of the American League and have been the Motor City’s team for more than a century. But the Wolverines were the city’s first major league club, playing in the National League beginning in 1881 and capturing the pennant in 1887. Playing in what was then one of the best ballparks in America, during an era when Detroit was known as the '...
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    50,24 €

  • The deceptive activist
    Brian Martin
    In your action group, is it ever beneficial to lie to other members? When is it wise to lie to authorities? If a member of your group has done something wrong, is it better to be open about it now or keep it hidden in the hope that outsiders will never know? What are the pros and cons of infiltrating opposition groups to collect information about harmful activities? Should ...
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    21,12 €

  • Ruling Tactics
    Brian Martin
    Most people think of the world as divided into countries, and many people identify with their 'own' country. Because there's nothing natural in this, governments and others need to continually encourage identification with the nation. This serves those with power and wealth. Ruling Tactics outlines the methods commonly used to foster everyday nationalism and how they can be ...
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    23,91 €

  • Pud Galvin
    Brian Martin
    Despite his outstanding pitching record, James Francis 'Pud' Galvin (1856-1902) was largely forgotten after his premature death. During his 18-year career with Pittsburgh, Buffalo and St. Louis, he was one of the best-paid players in the game--but died penniless. The diminutive hurler was the first to reach 300 wins (and only four pitchers have amassed more). A determined re...
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    42,73 €

  • Invincible
    Brian F. Martin
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    22,66 €

  • Nonviolence Unbound
    Brian Martin
    methods of nonviolent action can be used to bring down dictators. Nonviolence Unbound shows how insights into what makes nonviolent action eff ective can be applied to four completely diff erent arenas: defending against verbal abuse, responding to online defamatory pictures, and engaging in the struggles over euthanasia and vaccination. This investigation shows how to analyse ...
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    36,87 €

  • The Tecumsehs of the International Association
    Brian Martin
    This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an 1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball. The Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, were among the founding members of the International Association in 1877, the first league established to challenge the struggling National League, formed a year earlier. The team played against the top competition of t...
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    42,66 €

  • Be Infants in Evil
    Brian Martin
    Father Patrick is newly appointed to a parish in Dublin, and he needs to be alone. But two of his parishioners have other ideas. Noleen, a blind widow who knows more than she lets on, wants him to hear her confession. Jacinta, an unmarried mother and recent convert to Islam, needs proof that she has left the church. And then Henry arrives - twelve years old and on a quest of hi...
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    18,84 €

  • The Controversy Manual
    Brian Martin
    Climate change, psychiatric drugs, genetically modified organisms, nuclear power, fluoridation, stem cell research - these are just a few of the hundreds of issues involving science and technology that are vigorously debated. If you care about an issue, how can you be more effective in arguing for your viewpoint and campaigning in support of it? The Controversy Manual offers pr...
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    62,43 €

  • Baseball’s Creation Myth
    Brian Martin
    The story about baseball’s being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children’s game of rounders as had been believed. The tale, embraced by Americans, has long been proven false but to this day, Cooperstown is celebrated as the birthplace of baseball. ...
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    42,86 €

  • John Henry Newman-His Life and Work
    Brian Martin
    Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was one of the most eminent and controversial figures of the nineteenth century. His influence spread far beyond the country of his birth, the century in which he lived, and the Church in which he ended his life: he is not only of great importance in the history of religious thought but is known to a much wider circle for his hymns...
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    20,23 €

  • ESL Models and their Application
    Brian Bailey / Grant Martin
    IP Meta-Models for SoC Assembly and HW/SW Interfaces.- Functional Models.- Testbench Models.- Virtual Prototypes and Mixed Abstraction Modeling.- Processor-Centric Design: Processors, Multi-Processors, and Software.- Codesign Experiences Based on a Virtual Platform.- Transaction-Level Platform Creation.- C/C++ Hardware Design for the Real World. ...
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    169,94 €

  • Doing Good Things Better
    Brian Martin
    This is a book for how to improve what you are already doing well. How to improve your writings as an academic, playing skills as a musician, jogging as a runner or honour codes as a good citizen and friend. ...
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    39,78 €


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