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The Science and Technology of Plasma and Vacuum Processing
This book presents the fundamental principles of vacuum technology. It introduces the working principles and operating regimes of different vacuum pumps and vacuum sensors and discusses vacuum systems design concepts and trouble-shooting of vacuum problems. Demonstrating the wide range of vacuum...
To Be Published April 25th 2014 by Taylor & Francis
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Neo-liberal Educational Reforms
A Critical Analysis
Series: Routledge Research in Education
This volume gathers a cast of eminent scholars for a critical and comparitive analysis of how neoliberal education policies have functioned in a range of countries in different stages of economic development. Treating case studies from Europe, Asia, the Americas and...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Activities for Teaching Citizenship in Secondary Schools
Lesson Plans Across the Curriculum
A resource for teachers wishing to develop citizenship in their teaching activities. It provides activities for use in teaching, and includes lesson plans, photocopiable work sheets and guides to further resources....
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Biologising the Social Sciences
Challenging Darwinian and Neuroscience Explanations
Series: Contemporary Issues in Social Science
You can hardly open a paper or read an academic journal without some attempt to explain an aspect of human behaviour or experience by reference to neuroscience, biological or evolutionary processes. This ‘biologising’ has had rather a free ride until now, being generally accepted by the public at...
To Be Published August 5th 2013 by Routledge
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Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
Bodies, Images and Experiences
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
Imagining Physical Impairment
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in...
Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Britain and European Integration since 1945
On the Sidelines
This book provides both a comprehensive introduction and a perceptive examination of Britain’s relations with the European Community and the European Union since 1945, combining an historical account with political analysis to illustrate the changing and multifaceted nature of British and European...
Published October 26th 2009 by Routledge
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Activities for Teaching Citizenship in Secondary Schools
Lesson Plans Across the Curriculum
A resource for teachers wishing to develop citizenship in their teaching activities. It provides activities for use in teaching, and includes lesson plans, photocopiable work sheets and guides to further resources....
Published September 30th 2000 by Routledge
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Developing Citizenship in Schools
A Whole School Resource for Secondary Schools
This practical guide and resource has been written to provide whole-school approaches to developing citizenship. It is based around a detailed range of core activities, including the development of a school council, school elections and community links....
Published September 30th 2000 by Routledge
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Britain and European Integration 1945-1998
A Documentary History
An illuminating and comprehensive exploration of a subject which has dominated the British political scene for much of the period since the Second World War. Through a wide and varied collection of documents, complemented by detailed and perceptive analysis, this book explores Britain's reactions...
Published August 23rd 2000 by Routledge