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Product Description: The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, Second Edition, previously called Psychiatry in the Elderly, is an updated and revised version of this popular and highly respected textbook.The book has established itself as the standard textbook in its field due to its unique combination of comprehensive coverage, clear writing, and authoritative and up-to-date information...read more
By Alan Thomas (editor)

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9780199644957 | 2 har/psc edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2013), cover price $200.00 | About this edition: The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, Second Edition, previously called Psychiatry in the Elderly, is an updated and revised version of this popular and highly respected textbook.
9780199298099 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 15, 2008), cover price $299.00

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9780199298105 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 15, 2008), cover price $125.00

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Product Description: Nobody wants to grow old but what would you give for the chance of eternal youth? In this gripping novel an ambitious scientist sets out to prove that ageing is a 'disease' that can be cured - a quest that has devastating consequences...read more

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9781490457352 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 27, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Nobody wants to grow old but what would you give for the chance of eternal youth?

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9781484956601 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 10, 2013, cover price $11.90

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Product Description: Written by Australia's leading history educators, History for the Australian Curriculum is a comprehensive and compelling series for Years 7-10 that caters for the different learning styles and abilities in Australian classrooms without sacrificing the depth and quality of content needed to successfully understand historical concepts and skills...read more

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9781107607699 | 1 workbook edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 4, 2011), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Written by Australia's leading history educators, History for the Australian Curriculum is a comprehensive and compelling series for Years 7-10 that caters for the different learning styles and abilities in Australian classrooms without sacrificing the depth and quality of content needed to successfully understand historical concepts and skills.

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Product Description: Written by Australia's leading history educators, History for the Australian Curriculum is a comprehensive and compelling series for Years 7-10 that caters for the different learning styles and abilities in Australian classrooms without sacrificing the depth and quality of content needed to successfully understand historical concepts and skills...read more

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9781107667617 | 1 workbook edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 4, 2011), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Written by Australia's leading history educators, History for the Australian Curriculum is a comprehensive and compelling series for Years 7-10 that caters for the different learning styles and abilities in Australian classrooms without sacrificing the depth and quality of content needed to successfully understand historical concepts and skills.

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In Value and Context Alan Thomas articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge but it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not. In his exposition of "cognitive contextualism" in ethics and politics he makes wide-ranging use of contemporary work in epistemology, moral philosophy, and political theory.

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9780198250173 | Clarendon Pr, October 5, 2006, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In Value and Context Alan Thomas articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge but it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not.

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9780199587278 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 26, 2010, cover price $41.95

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Product Description: This is an integrated textbook on the cardiovascular system, covering the anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the system, all presented in a clinically relevant context appropriate for the first two years of the medical student course...read more

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9780702033742 | 2 edition (Churchill Livingstone, March 18, 2010), cover price $42.95 | also contains The Cardiovascular System | About this edition: This is an integrated textbook on the cardiovascular system, covering the anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the system, all presented in a clinically relevant context appropriate for the first two years of the medical student course.

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Product Description: Thomas begins by clarifying and defending Nagel's basic metaphysical contrast between subjective and objective ways of thinking about the world. He shows how a proper understanding of radically perspectival views of the world allows one to defend some of Nagel's most important claims about the mind, tracing his influential work in the philosophy of mind from his early paper on physicalism to his recent defence of a form of dual aspect theory...read more

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9780773535596 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, January 1, 2009, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Thomas begins by clarifying and defending Nagel's basic metaphysical contrast between subjective and objective ways of thinking about the world.
9781844650347 | Taylor & Francis Ltd, December 1, 2008, cover price $118.30 | About this edition: In the first systematic study of the philosophy of Thomas Nagel, Alan Thomas discusses Nagel's contrast between the "subjective" and the "objective" points of view throughout the various areas of his wide ranging philosophy.

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9780773535602 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, January 1, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Thomas begins by clarifying and defending Nagel's basic metaphysical contrast between subjective and objective ways of thinking about the world.
9781844650354 | Taylor & Francis Ltd, December 1, 2008, cover price $33.10 | About this edition: In the first systematic study of the philosophy of Thomas Nagel, Alan Thomas discusses Nagel's contrast between the "subjective" and the "objective" points of view throughout the various areas of his wide ranging philosophy.

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Product Description: In his Educating Children at Home, Alan Thomas found that many home educating families chose or gravitated towards an informal style of education, radically different from that found in schools. Such learning, also described as unschooling, natural or autonomous, takes place without most of the features considered essential for learning in school...read more

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9780826479983, titled "How Children Learn at Home: How Children Learn at Home" | Continuum Intl Pub Group, March 31, 2008, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: In his Educating Children at Home, Alan Thomas found that many home educating families chose or gravitated towards an informal style of education, radically different from that found in schools.

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9780826479990, titled "How Children Learn at Home: How Children Learn at Home" | 2 edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 31, 2008), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In his Educating Children at Home, Alan Thomas found that many home educating families chose or gravitated towards an informal style of education, radically different from that found in schools.

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Product Description: This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams's contribution to moral philosophy, a field in which Williams was one of the most influential of contemporary philosophers. The seven essays, which were specially commissioned for this volume, examine his work on moral objectivity, the nature of practical reason, moral emotion, the critique of the "morality system," Williams's assessment of the ethical thought of the ancient world, and his later adoption of Nietzsche's method of "genealogy...read more
By Alan Thomas (editor)

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9780521662161 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2007), cover price $110.00

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9780521665551 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2007), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams's contribution to moral philosophy, a field in which Williams was one of the most influential of contemporary philosophers.

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Acts as a guide to conducting investigations under time- and resource-pressured conditions, equipping readers with the key skills and approaches for research designed to influence or inform development policies. This book also provides a critique of various methods and situates these approaches within 'real life' organisational settings.
By Giles Mohan (editor) and Alan Thomas (editor)

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9781412945639 | 1 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, June 4, 2007), cover price $146.00 | About this edition: This book is a critical guide to conducting investigations under time- and resource-pressured conditions, equipping readers with the key skills and approaches for research designed to influence or inform development policies.

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9781412945646 | Sage Pubns Ltd, June 4, 2007, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Acts as a guide to conducting investigations under time- and resource-pressured conditions, equipping readers with the key skills and approaches for research designed to influence or inform development policies.

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Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

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9788484282044 | Alba Editorial S.L., November 21, 2003, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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Product Description: The recent growth of interest in the systematic study of management has transformed a once neglected area of research into one that now attracts a huge number of postgraduate students. Despite this, there has been a distinct lack of research guides tailored specifically for management studies...read more

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9780415268981 | Routledge, November 1, 2003, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: The recent growth of interest in the systematic study of management has transformed a once neglected area of research into one that now attracts a huge number of postgraduate students.

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9780415268998 | Routledge, November 1, 2003, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: The recent growth of interest in the systematic study of management has transformed a once neglected area of research into one that now attracts a huge number of postgraduate students.

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Product Description: What does home education involve? What are the advantages and disadvantages? How can you decide whether it is right for your child? If it is right, how do you go about it? And where can you go for help, advice for information. This practical self-help book for parents provides a one-stop resource for parents contemplating or embarking on home education with their children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780826452276 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 2002, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: What does home education involve?

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Product Description: This book examines the conditions under which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may exert influence on policies to conserve and sustainably use natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa. The book is unique in bringing together NGO campaigners in three African countries with academics specialising in development studies, systems and environmental policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Susan Carr (editor), David Humphreys (editor) and Alan Thomas (editor)

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9780415189637 | Routledge, November 1, 2000, cover price $176.00 | About this edition: This book examines the conditions under which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may exert influence on policies to conserve and sustainably use natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa.

By Tim Allen (editor) and Alan Thomas (editor)

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9780198776260 | Revised edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 24, 2000), cover price $85.00

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Product Description: Finding Out Fast provides readers with key skills and approaches for research designed to inform policies, particularly on development. Recognizing that policy decisions are typically made under pressure of time and on the basis of incomplete data or with limited resources with which to obtain information, the authors provide guidance on how to locate, evaluate and use relevant information, fast...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Joanna Chataway (editor), Alan Thomas (editor) and Marc Wuyts (editor)

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9780761958369 | Sage Pubns, April 1, 1999, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Finding Out Fast provides readers with key skills and approaches for research designed to inform policies, particularly on development.

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9780761958376 | Sage Pubns, August 1, 1999, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Finding Out Fast provides readers with key skills and approaches for research designed to inform policies, particularly on development.

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Product Description: With increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity exists to explore education outside the school environment. Parents often discover that classroom approaches to teaching and learning do not easily translate into the home...read more

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9780304701797 | Cassell, July 1, 1998, cover price $75.00 | also contains Die grossen fragen - Evolution, Die grossen fragen - Evolution | About this edition: With increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity now exists to explore education outside the school environment.

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9780304701803 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, July 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | also contains Die GroƔen Fragen - Gott | About this edition: With increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity now exists to explore education outside the school environment.
9780826452054 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 1, 1998, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: With increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity exists to explore education outside the school environment.

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Product Description: This text provides a set of cases to illustrate key topics in organizational behaviour. Each case is carefully designed to incorporate a variety of issues, covering such topics as: conflict management, international strategy, competitiveness, cycles of behaviour, culture change, and control...read more

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9780415118514 | Thomson Learning Emea, September 1, 1996, cover price $40.99 | About this edition: This text provides a set of cases to illustrate key topics in organizational behaviour.

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Text and maps introduce the third world, survey its history, and reveal contemporary conditions

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9781560323228 | 2 sub edition (Taylor & Francis, December 1, 1994), cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Text and maps introduce the third world, survey its history, and reveal contemporary conditions
9780335150151 | Open Univ Pr, July 1, 1984, cover price $55.00

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9781560323235 | 2 edition (Taylor & Francis, July 1, 1994), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Text and maps introduce the third world, survey its history, and reveal contemporary conditions

Product Description: Hunger and famine, disease, unemployment, environmental degradation--all these accompany appalling poverty in the so-called 'Third World'. Before possibilities for improving the situation in the 1990s can be assessed, an analysis of how this 'Third World' came to exist is necessary, as is an appreciation of the range of political, technical and cultural factors relating to development...read more
By Tim Allen and Alan Thomas (editor)

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9780198773306 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Hunger and famine, disease, unemployment, environmental degradation--all these accompany appalling poverty in the so-called 'Third World'.

Product Description: This work provides an introduction to some of the major issues and ways of comprehension involved in analyzing poverty and development in the 1990s. The editors seek to help readers past oversimple solutions and begin to delve into what is perhaps the world's most complex and yet pressing issue...read more
By Tim Allen, Open University (corporate author) and Alan Thomas (editor)

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9780198773313 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 11, 1992, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: This work provides an introduction to some of the major issues and ways of comprehension involved in analyzing poverty and development in the 1990s.

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