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Design of Liquid Retaining Concrete Structures, Third Edition
The third edition of a successful engineering text, Design of Liquid Retaining Concrete Structures clarifies the theoretical guidance given in the new suite of Eurocodes for the subject of retaining structures. The book qualifies the extensive set of guides in terms of the design of these...
To Be Published June 14th 2013 by Whittles Publishing
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Hydraulics in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fifth Edition
Now in its fifth edition, Hydraulics in Civil and Environmental Engineering combines thorough coverage of the basic principles of civil engineering hydraulics with wide-ranging treatment of practical, real-world applications. This classic text is carefully structured into two parts to address...
To Be Published March 11th 2013 by CRC Press
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Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports
Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series
Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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The Journalist's Guide to American Law
How do you report on the latest sensational criminal trial or newest controversial legislation without a basic understanding of how the American legal system works? This easy-to-use guidebook offers an overview of American law that should be found on the desk of any journalism student or...
Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa
Foreign direct investment and food and water security
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007. Current research has focused on human rights issues related to inward investment in land but...
Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre
Practical Projects for Secondary Schools, 2nd Edition
This revised and updated edition of Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre will be an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom. It presents a model teachers can use to draw together different methodologies of drama and theatre studies, exemplified by a series of contemporary,...
Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School
Projects to Promote Authentic Learning
Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School provides a rationale for the curricular centrality of drama together with rich and detailed examples of cross-phase thematic projects which are drama-led, but which promote learning across a wide range of curriculum areas, from the humanities and...
Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism
Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism brings together a range of scholarly research papers to examine the place of international migration in the modern world, starting with the overview of migration and development by Alejandro Portes. There are many aspects to migration today which are treated...
Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
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Gender, Race and Religion
Intersections and Challenges
Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
Gender, Race and Religion brings together a selection of original papers published in Ethnic and Racial Studies that address the intersections between gender relations, race and religion in our contemporary environment. Chapters address both theoretical and empirical aspects of this phenomenon, and...
Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
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Nationalism and National Identities
Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world. This volume brings together original papers from a number of countries dealing both with theories and case studies of particular national contexts. Taken together, these papers shed light on the processes through which...
Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge