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1. Bill Clinton

   Building a Bridge to the New Millennium

   By David H. Bennett

   Series: Routledge Historical Americans

   In 1993, William J. Clinton, began his eight year stint as forty-second president of the United States. A key figure of change in the Democratic party, Clinton's political and personal actions ensured his lasting status as a controversial figure. In Bill Clinton, David Bennett traces the...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
2. Sustainable Concrete Architecture

   By David Bennett

   Based on fresh thinking and real world evidence, this book offers a rational method for accounting for the carbon impact of concrete in contemporary architecture. It sets out a series of case studies of different building types constructed in concrete. Based on new thinking and real world evidence,...

   Published February 28th 2010 by RIBA Publishing
3. Culture, Class, Distinction

   By Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal, David Wright

   Series: CRESC

   Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s...

   Published August 16th 2009 by Routledge
4. Playing the Identity Card

   Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective

   Edited by Colin J Bennett, David Lyon

   National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the...

   Published July 21st 2008 by Routledge
5. Architectural Insitu Concrete

   By David Bennett

   Provides the reader with technical guidance and practical information on the mechanics and fundamentals on how to achieve a fine concrete finish. This book examines the techniques of concrete compaction and placement; the surface treatment of cast concrete to prevent dirt ingress and staining; and...

   Published August 31st 2007 by RIBA Publishing
6. Performance Measurement

   Current Perspectives and Future Challenges

   Edited by Winston Bennett, Charles E. Lance, David J. Woehr

   Series: Applied Psychology Series

   Over the course of the past few years, teaching, research, and practice has underscored the importance of performance measurement and criterion development as topics of great interest, considerable debate, and some misunderstanding. It has also become clear that the field needs to address a...

   Published April 27th 2006 by Psychology Press
7. School Leadership

   National and International Perspectives

   By David Bennett, John Dunford, Richard Fawcett

   This work challenges the notion that there is "one right way" to approach school leadership. Presenting key policies and approaches to organization and management of 14 school leaders from the UK and internationally, it seeks to reflect the diversity of approaches possible in given situations....

   Published October 31st 2000 by Routledge
8. Multicultural States

   Rethinking Difference and Identity

   Edited by David Bennett

   The idea of the nation is globally in crisis, but multiculturalism has often seemed to name a specifically national debate. Multicultural States challenges the national focus of these debates by investigating theories, policies and practices of cultural pluralism across eight countries with...

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge