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1. European Politics

   Pasts, presents, futures

   Edited by Klaus H Goetz, Peter Mair, Gordon Smith

   Series: WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS

   This book arises out of a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It examines the profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, including the fall of Communism; progressive European integration; territorial...

   Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge
2. Philosophers as Educational Reformers (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 10)

   The Influence of Idealism on British Educational Thought

   By Peter Gordon, John White

   This volume assesses how far the ideas and achievements of the 19th century British Idealist philosophical reformers are still important for us today when considering fundamental questions about the structure and objectives of the education system in England and Wales. Part 1 examines...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
3. Women, Clubs and Associations in Britain

   By David Doughan, Peter Gordon

   Women have been consistently excluded from all manner of clubs and associations over the years, whether as the direct result of an anti-woman policy or indirectly through prohibitive entry requirements, social constraints, or conflict of interests and tastes. Retaliation from women has...

   Published September 6th 2009 by Routledge
4. Conductive Electroactive Polymers

   Intelligent Polymer Systems, Third Edition

   By Gordon G. Wallace, Peter R. Teasdale, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Leon A. P. Kane-Maguire

   Rapid advances in synthetic polymer science and nanotechnology have revealed new avenues of development in conductive electroactive polymers that take greater advantage of this versatile class of materials’ unique properties. This third edition of Conductive Electroactive Polymers: Intelligent...

   Published October 21st 2008 by CRC Press
5. Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2

   The Environmental Assessment Methods

   Edited by Mark Deakin, Gordon Mitchell, Peter Nijkamp, Ron Vreeker

   Series: Sustainable Urban Development Series

   In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, Volume 2 examines how well...

   Published April 4th 2007 by Routledge
6. Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges

   From Local to Global and Back

   Edited by Peter J. Marcotullio, Gordon McGranahan

   ?Think globally, act locally? emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing...

   Published November 30th 2006 by Routledge
7. Musical Visitors to Britain

   By Peter Gordon

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   Britain has attracted many musical visitors to its shores. A varied and often eccentric collection of individuals, some were invited by royalty with musical tastes, some were refugees from religious or political oppression, some were spies, and others came to escape debt or even charges of murder....

   Published September 11th 2005 by Routledge
8. Understanding History

   International Review of History Education 4

   Edited by Ros Ashby, Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Lee

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   What sense do children and young people make of history? How do they cope with competing historical accounts in textbooks? How do they think historical or archaeological claims are supported or rejected? And whatever students think about history, how do their teachers see history...

   Published May 11th 2005 by Routledge
9. Politics and Society

   The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley 1885-1913

   By Peter Gordon

   Louisa Mary, Lady Knightley of Fawnsley, was a woman of unusually wide interests, especially in the field of public affairs. In an age when few opportunities arose for women to make a contribution to political and feminist matters, Lady Knightley was an early pioneer of both causes. Denied the vote...

   Published August 25th 2004 by Routledge
10. Royal Education

    Past, Present and Future

    By Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon, Professor Denis Lawton, Denis Lawton

    Series: Woburn Education Series

    Many people assume that kings and queens have generally received a "good education", perhaps the best that money could buy at the time. This book investigates the reality: what is known about the education of British sovereigns from the beginning of the Tudor period to the end of the 20th...

    Published August 29th 2003 by Routledge