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ChileGlobal Seminars UK 2013-2014 (2014)
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Devilat, B., Wagemann, E., Stuardo, M., Brablec, D., & Soza, C. (Eds.). ChileGlobal Seminars UK 2013-2014

This book gathers the presentations given at the ChileGlobal Seminars UK since its creation in 2013 until 2014 in London. ChileGlobal Seminars UK is a series of seminars organised by Chileans studying and/or working in the UK with the support of Chil... Read More about ChileGlobal Seminars UK 2013-2014.

Stesichorus: The Poems (2014)
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Stesichorus. (2014). M. Davies, & P. Finglass (Eds.), Stesichorus: The Poems. Cambridge University Press

Stesichorus' lyric poetry vividly recreates the most dramatic episodes of Greek myth: the labours of Heracles, the sack of Troy, the vengeance of Orestes, and more besides. It can be appreciated today as never before, thanks to the recent discovery o... Read More about Stesichorus: The Poems.

New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City (2014)
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Wilson, R. (2014). New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598215

The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced. Due to its pre-eminent position as a financial and trading centre, its role in the conflict was realised far so... Read More about New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City.

Performance features in clinical skills assessment: Linguistic and cultural factors in the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners examination (2014)
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Roberts, C., Atkins, S., & Hawthorne, K. (2014). Performance features in clinical skills assessment: Linguistic and cultural factors in the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners examination. King's College London with The University of Nottingham

This book is based on research looking at performance in clinical skills assessment
from a linguistic and cultural perspective, with a view to understanding why there are
such differential pass rates and giving suggestions on how this issue can be... Read More about Performance features in clinical skills assessment: Linguistic and cultural factors in the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners examination.

Bede and the Future (2014)
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Darby, P., & Wallis, F. (2014). P. Darby (Ed.). Bede and the Future. Ashgate

Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion (2014)
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Crouch, C. (2014). Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion. Atlanta, Georgia: SBL Press

Crouch focuses on Deuteronomy’s subversive intent, asking what would be required in order for Deuteronomy to successfully subvert either a specific Assyrian source or Assyrian ideology more generally. The book reconsiders the nature of the relationsh... Read More about Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion.

Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights (2014)
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O'Connell, R., Harvey, C., & Nolan, A. (Eds.). (2014). Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights. Hart Publishing

This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and... Read More about Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights.

Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India (2014)
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Legg, S. (2014). Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822376170

fficially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of s... Read More about Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India.

The Globalization of Executive Search: Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World (2014)
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Beaverstock, J. V., Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. J. (2014). The Globalization of Executive Search: Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315771427

Executive search, headhunting, is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services, as well as a labor market intermediary bound up with globalization. In this book, the authors examine the key actors in the process of executiv... Read More about The Globalization of Executive Search: Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World.