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Police Work
Principles and Practice
This book provides a highly readable account of police work. It builds upon Introduction to Police Work (Rogers and Lewis 2007) to provide a comprehensive, in depth and critical understanding of policing in today's diverse society. Police Work: Principles and Practice meets the need for an...
Published May 23rd 2011 by Willan
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Preference Data for Environmental Valuation
Combining Revealed and Stated Approaches
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
The monetary valuation of environmental goods and services has evolved from a fringe field of study in the late 1970s and early 1980s to a primary focus of environmental economists over the past decade. Despite its rapid growth, practitioners of valuation techniques often find themselves defending...
Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
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Human Factors for the Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Mining Equipment
Machines increasingly pervade the mining industry, reducing manual labor and raising production. While the use of new technologies such as remote control, vision enhancement technologies, continuous haulage, and automated equipment has grown, so has the potential for new health and safety risks....
Published July 15th 2010 by CRC Press
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The GM Debate
Risk, Politics and Public Engagement
Series: Genetics and Society
This book tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in public participation: the government-sponsored debate on the possible commercialization of ‘GM’ crops in the UK. Giving a unique and systematic account of the debate process, this revealing volume sets it within its political and...
Published July 13th 2009 by Routledge
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Molecular Biology of the Cell 5E - The Problems Book
5th Edition
The Problems Book helps students appreciate the ways in which experiments and simple calculations can lead to an understanding of how cells work by introducing the experimental foundation of cell and molecular biology. Each chapter will review key terms, test for understanding basic concepts, and...
Published November 27th 2007 by Garland Science
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Regional Planning
Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
Regional Planning provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK. Drawing on examples from throughout the UK, it provides students and practitioners with a descriptive and analytical foundation for understanding this rapidly changing area of planning...
Published November 14th 2007 by Routledge
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East African Running
Toward a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
What makes East African middle and long distance runners the best in the world? How should contemporary academia approach this question? The success of East African distance runners has generated a plethora of studies but much of the 'evidence' presented to support hypotheses is anecdotal,...
Published December 13th 2006 by Routledge
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The United States, 1763–2001
Series: Spotlight History
This book takes a new approach to teaching and learning early US history from 1763 to 2001 at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's revised AS and A2 exams. In a unique style, The United States, 1763-2001 focuses on the key topics within the period. Each topic is...
Published October 13th 2004 by Routledge
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Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies
2nd Edition
Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies is a book to help you `come to terms' with terms. Communication and Cultural Studies says new things in new ways, resulting in not only new words, concepts and theories, but also in the reworking of concepts and terms from a wide-range of...
Published March 2nd 1994 by Routledge
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Mapping the Futures
Local Cultures, Global Change
Series: FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis
There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these? Mapping the Futures is the first...
Published March 10th 1993 by Routledge