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This title sets out the essentials of aviation human factors in four wide-ranging parts: the general aviation context and airline safety requirements; the main features of human factors and their role; the component elements and infrastructure; an...

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This is an edited volume of invited papers on human factors issues, psycho acoustic approaches and applications of auditory warnings. Since the use of warnings of all kinds, especially alarms, is increasingly important to safety in a range of indu...

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Though not a textbook, this title should prove a useful basis for courses on intellectual property law and related professional issues. It aims to be an introduction an guide to this area of law. Law is a fast-moving field, and since the first edi...

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Volume four of "Landscape Construction" covers the construction and placing of steps, ramps and small structures in the landscape. The small structures described are mainly of masonary or timber and include bridges, walkways, screens, sh...

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Arrangements for corporate social and environmental reporting are seen as lacking credibility, largely due to the absence of any guarantee of completeness, comparability, consistency of measurement, and credible external verification. Stakeholders...

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"Mediterranean Studies" is an interdisciplinary annual concerned with the ideas and ideals of Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries. Topics c...

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An analysis of some of the different ways in which identities were fashioned in and with art during the Renaissance, taken as meaning the period c. 1300 to 1600. The notion of such a search for new identities, expressed in a variety of new themes,...

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A history of the Caseg Press. A small isolated venture, it was very much an artist's press, drawing on the dramatic landscape of Snowdonia for its inspiration. The Press owed its origins to the youthful idealism of John Petts and Brenda Chamberlai...

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God's House at Ewelme is an extraordinary survival from England's late-medieval past: a well-documented and preserved chantry foundation established in 1437 by William and Alice de la Pole, then Earl and Countess of Suffolk. As originally constitu...

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An interdisciplinary annual concerned with the ideas and ideals of Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries. Topics concerning any aspect of the history, ...

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An interdisciplinary annual concerned with the ideas and ideals of Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries. Topics concerning any aspect of the history, ...

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"Mediterranean Studies" is an interdisciplinary annual concerned with the ideas and ideals of Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries. Topics c...

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"Mediterranean Studies" is an interdisciplinary annual concerned with the ideas and ideals of Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries. Topics c...

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George Ripley (c1415-1490), was an authoritive figure of alchemical wisdom. His alchemical poem "The Compound of Alchemy" was first published in 1591 with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth, and it promted many commentaries in the two centu...

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In this study, Alan Fowler takes an in-depth look at the Lancashire cotton industry in the first half of the 20th century through the prism of its workers, their families and organizations. It is their experiences above all that illuminate the his...

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Joseph Black (1728-1799) was one of the central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. His friends and colleagues included David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, William Robertson, William Cullen and James Hutton; together, they formed a celebrate...

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The story of the origins, development, growth and survival of a small country brewery in Hampshire. Employing and analyzing documentation, it examines the local environment both before establishment of the brewery and during the 150 years of its e...

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This is an interdisciplinary annual concerned with the ideas and ideals of Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment, and their influence beyond those geographical and temporal boundaries.

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The Scottish coalfields were among the first areas in Britain to develop socialist politics from the 1880s onwards, although widespread electoral support for the Labour Party was not established until after the First World War. Sections of the Sco...

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A study of iron shipbuilding on the Thames. A.J. Arnold examines the initial domination of the iron shipbuilding trade by Thames firms from the launch of the first iron vessel on the river in 1832 to the end of serious Thames-side shipbuilding in ...

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With the advent of World War II, fascism became inextricably associated with anti-Semitism. It is hardly surprising, therefore, to find that a significant number of Jewish people were politically inclined towards the left and were actively involve...

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Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), the English author of 41 "domestic novels", was continuously in print from 1868 until at least 1924 and yet she is virtually unknown today. This in-depth study of Carey's work assesses both her immense p...

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The conservative character of traditional hand-made pottery in Cyprus has long attracted the interest of archaeologists and ethnoarchaeologists. But these have mainly been concerned with manufacturing techniques, while this book considers the subj...

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Much of the nineteenth-century British labour movement was characterised by impressive membership emblems. The lapel badge emerged towards the end of the century and signalled a further outward expression of self-worth, affording the trade union m...

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There are few students of European economic history who will not have come across the writings of Derek H. Aldcroft. His contributions to the field of economic and social history are vast and distinguish him as one of the most prolific economic hi...

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As attested to by scholars from Macaulay via Virginia Woolf to more recent critics, the letters of Dorothy Osborne (b. 1627) are not only the most elegant, but are also the most consistently readable in the language. In this revised and updated ed...

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Niels W. Gade (1817-1890) was an influential musical figure in 19th century Denmark. This work presents an in-depth study in English of Gade's life and works. It describes the evolution of Gade's compositional style as reflected in his early orche...

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This book redefines our interpretation of Iamblichus' theurgy and religiosity, as revealed in his only complete surviving work, the De Mysteriis. Clarke argues that the existence and operation of the supernatural, or the miraculous, is the sine qu...

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This text uses detailed analysis of the eigth-mode tracts in addressing some of the still unresolved questions of chant scholarship. The first question is that of the nature of the relationship between Old Roman and Gregorian chant, the second, of...

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