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Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human c...

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Studying Literature: The Essential Companion is a unique guide for English undergraduates. It combines practical advice on study skills with key information on literary theories and theorists, offering invaluable support throughout any English deg...

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Significant changes in surgical training have occurred over the past decade, with the inevitable progress towards specialization in the various surgical specialties. The current edition of Essential Surgical Practice: Higher Surgical Training in G...

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This reader focuses on the definition and ideology of generic fascism, bringing together articles, essays, and political writings by several key figures to lay bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not only to Nazism but to the many fa...

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The concept of heritage relates to the ways in which contemporary society uses the past as a social, political or economic resource. However, heritage is open to interpretation and its value may be perceived from differing perspectives - often ref...

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Demographic ageing is a reality - within 25 years half the population of Western Europe will be over 50, one quarter over 65, and the Less Developed Countries will contain one billion elderly people. Ageing Societies examines the myths, challenges...

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Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated focussing on ...

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As coastal populations burgeon, problems of erosion, pollution and coastal change are becoming ever more serious and necessitate scientifically informed management strategies. This authoritative new study discusses the causes of, and possible solu...

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This book looks at all the main phases of British foreign policy from the 1890s to the 1990s. It not only explores such major events as the Boer War, Appeasement, and the Suez Crisis, but also looks well beyond traditional diplomacy, taking in str...

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The "German question" has been at the heart of European politics since 1800 and of significance for an even longer period. It has acquired a fresh stimulus from German reunification. The "question" itself has gone through many ...

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Mental health professionals have been forced to assume a range of new roles and responsibilities in the move towards community-centred mental health care. This book identifies these challenges, and promotes a multi-professional team approach to re...

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"Pharmacology in the Practice of Anaesthesia" outlines, in a highly-accessible manner, the principles of pharmacology as applied to anaesthesia and intensive care. Anaesthetists are expected to know not only the pharmacology of anaesthet...

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Revised and updated, this seventh edition provides clinical microbiologists and medical laboratory scientific officers with a guide to the most reliable methods for the scientific investigation of specimens received in their laboratories. It also ...

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In a space of little over 30 years, the world was transformed. The European great powers were no longer ascendant, even if that was not yet fully revealed to them, and the US, a regional power as of 1914, now belonged to the wholly new category of...

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This book uncovers some of the hidden agendas which have inhibited nursing and nurses from making their full potential contribution to health care, and stimulates new and positive initiatives. It explores nurses' behaviour patterns; employing...

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The formidable economic power and political influence the new Germany is likely to exert in Europe make more desirable than ever an understanding of its past. The latest edition of Carr's classic text and been thoroughly revised and includes a cha...

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Microbial and Parasitic Infection is a unique book for medical undergraduates and covers all aspects of infection and its causes in one volume. Infections are considered as they present a clinical setting, and include protozoa, helminths and fungi...

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A sibling of interwar Europe's other fascist regimes, Franco's Spain survived them all, growing to old age in an era of liberal democracy. It weathered the explosive social movements and student discontents of the 1960s and lingered into...

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Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-centu...

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Tensions between Paris and the provinces have played a significant role in French history. This book examines the effect of the French Revolution in the provinces, on the tensions between provincial interests and those of Paris, and the mediation ...

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This is designed to be a basic otological textbook for preparation of postgraduate otolaryngology specialty examinations.

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A German language course for adult beginners, both independent learners and those following adult education courses. It has been updated to reflect developments in the language and culture of German-speaking nations, and also the political changes...

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The Great War toppled four empires, cost the world 24 million lives, and sowed some of the seeds of another worldwide conflagration 20 years later. Yet, until now, there has been no comprehensive treatment of how Germany and Austria-Hungary - two ...

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"Postmodernism" is a valuable resource for the increasing numbers of teachers and students in higher education involved in courses on postmodernism and literary theory. It is a collection of the incessantly cited but nevertheless still w...

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All too often the medieval social past has been explored as an adjunct to high politics. The subject of this study is ordinary men and women, for whom the politics of the manor, the vill, or the borough were often far more real and pressing. It en...

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Widely praised and consistently popular since its first publication in 1987, Early Modern England now reflects in this new edition the invigorating and substantial changes that have swept the field over the past decade and more. It combines consid...

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At critical moments, Britain has played a crucial part in the political evolution of modern Europe, yet its stance has often been ambivalent: sometimes glad to be part of 'European civilization' but at other times rejoicing in the blessi...

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This text reassesses how women are talked about and constructed visually across a range of popular media. Arguing for the importance of a historical approach, this book examines continuities and changes in dominant myths of femininity, especially ...

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Nurses - in common with all professionals in the Health Service - are under constant pressure to improve performance and need guidance in quality assurance and goal setting in patient care. This book will help qualified nurses to set performance s...

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