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Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

This book is a practical guide for students or those already running or thinking of running a small practice on how to set up and run a small architectural practice and how to run multiple small projects efficiently. It is split into three distinct sections: Part 1 begins with the practicalities of setting up a small architectural business; Part 2 goes into detail on how to run your small practice including valuable advice on business planning and cash flow; and Part 3 follows with guidance on running multiple small projects. Structured around the RIBA Plan of Work this section has plenty of examples of the kinds of projects - both domestic and non-domestic - that the small practice might take on and finishing with 10 illustrated case studies of domestic and commercial projects from £50 000–£750 000. | Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

GBP 35.00
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Learning Electrocardiography A Complete Course

Learning Electrocardiography A Complete Course

Designed not only to give you the facts but to help you understand and remember them Learning Electrocardiography: A Complete Course Fourth Edition is a learning tool for students and a reference for advanced trainees and technicians. The author's step-by-step teaching method lets you focus on the information as you need it and proceed at your own pace. He combines twenty years of teaching experience with the latest information on new methods and uses of electrocardiography. Brief and to the point the text explains how an electrocardiograph works how to draw a hexaxial system plot vectors produce a good ECG tracing and draw a spatial vector. You will learn how to produce a technically good electrocardiograph perform an office exercise test without a treadmill and recognize the presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease without the necessity of diagnosing right ventricular hypertrophy. Providing a logical clear and complete approach to the subject Learning Electrocardiography: A Complete Course Fourth Edition is the resource to use when learning or reviewing electrocardiography. | Learning Electrocardiography A Complete Course

GBP 59.99
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Identity Conflict and Cooperation in International River Systems

Identity Conflict and Cooperation in International River Systems

Kalpakian tests the dominant assumption that water disputes cause violent conflict between states and other actors in world politics. Using case studies from arid regions to bias the effort towards this assumption he finds that issues related to identity have been the real source of conflict in the river basins studied. This essential volume: - challenges conventional assumptions about water and conflict - displaces the state as the sole actor in violent conflict - reveals the link between conflict and identity This book invites the reader to address the complexity in the relationships binding peoples and states in an international river basin. | Identity Conflict and Cooperation in International River Systems

GBP 29.99
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Optimizing Engineering Problems through Heuristic Techniques

Optimizing Engineering Problems through Heuristic Techniques

This book will cover heuristic optimization techniques and applications in engineering problems. The book will be divided into three sections that will provide coverage of the techniques which can be employed by engineers researchers and manufacturing industries to improve their productivity with the sole motive of socio-economic development. This will be the first book in the category of heuristic techniques with relevance to engineering problems and achieving optimal solutions. FeaturesExplains the concept of optimization and the relevance of using heuristic techniques for optimal solutions in engineering problems Illustrates the various heuristics techniques Describes evolutionary heuristic techniques like genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization Contains natural based techniques like ant colony optimization bee algorithm firefly optimization and cuckoo search Offers sample problems and their optimization using various heuristic techniques | Optimizing Engineering Problems through Heuristic Techniques

GBP 44.99
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Crisis Spaces Structures Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe

Crisis Spaces Structures Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe

The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe – Spain Portugal Italy and in its most extreme case Greece – has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations. This book shifts the emphasis from macroeconomics to the relationship between uneven geographical development financialisation and politics. It deconstructs the myth that debt both public and private in Southern Europe is the sole outcome of the spendthrift ways of Greece Spain Italy and Portugal offering a fresh perspective on the material social and ideological parameters of the economic crisis and the spaces where it unfolded. Featuring a range of case examples that complement and expand the main discussion Crisis Spaces will appeal to students and scholars of human geography economics regional development political science cultural studies and social movements studies. | Crisis Spaces Structures Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe

GBP 38.99
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Serendipity in Anthropological Research The Nomadic Turn

Serendipity in Anthropological Research The Nomadic Turn

Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data and that standard methods are the sole route to fruitful analysis Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic journey of discovery in which the world yields an infinite number of unexplored issues and innumerable ways of studying them each study producing its own questions and demanding its own methodologies. Drawing together the latest research from a team of senior scholars from around the world to reflect on the experience of research Serendipity in Anthropological Research presents rich new case studies from Europe and the Middle East to examine both new and old questions in novel and enriching ways. An engaging examination of methodology and anthropological fieldwork this book will appeal to all those concerned with writing ethnography. | Serendipity in Anthropological Research The Nomadic Turn

GBP 42.99
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BIID Interior Design Project Book

BIID Interior Design Project Book

The touchstone guide to running projects from the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID). By setting out actions step-by-step this essential handbook identifies the key obligations of the interior designer at each project stage. Straightforward explanation is supplemented by invaluable checklists and templates. Featuring crucial advice on administering construction contracts it references the new RIBA/BIID Domestic Professional Services Contract 2020 for interior design services. Reflecting the RIBA Plan of Work 2020 and contemporary working practice it provides a systematic operational framework that can be applied to all types of projects. Comprehensive in scope with a logical structure it embraces the theme of collaboration within the project team. It also addresses post-occupancy evaluation modern methods of construction and sustainability. Suitable for projects within any industry sector and practice type from large international firms to sole practitioners it is accessible to designers with different levels of experience. | BIID Interior Design Project Book

GBP 65.00
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Export–Import Theory Practices and Procedures

Export–Import Theory Practices and Procedures

This book remains the sole export–import textbook aimed squarely at the academic audience. Discussing theoretical issues in depth while maintaining a practical approach it offers a comprehensive exploration of import procedures and export regulations. In addition to updated cases this new edition includes: New major developments in bilateral and regional trade agreements Changes to INCOTERMS 2010 Coverage of the role of e-commerce Expanded updates on methods of payment export pricing and government export finance This clearly written and comprehensive textbook will ground students in theory and prepare them for the realities of a career in this fast-moving field. Suitable for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates of international trade the book stands alone in its blend of conceptual frameworks and cogent analysis. A related website filled with export–import resources opinion pieces cases and the latest news is located at: www. export-importtradecenter. com. | Export–Import Theory Practices and Procedures

GBP 74.99
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Use of Language Across the Secondary Curriculum

Use of Language Across the Secondary Curriculum

Educational policy is becoming more concerned with the need to ensure that people leave school or college fully literate. We need good oral communicators in the workplace and being able to understand and respond to different kinds of language is vital in today's society. Included here is a detailed and highly readable account of the ways in which language affects every aspect of study - it crosses all subject boundaries yet it is commonly seen as the sole responsibility of the English teacher to manage this area of the curriculum. The first section of the book looks at the ideology behind language while the second section considers how schools and local authorities have tackled improving levels of literacy. The third section is concerned with practical advice on how to teach language most successfully irrespective of subject. Latter sections focus on developing a critical eye and supporting pupils who have particular needs. | Use of Language Across the Secondary Curriculum

GBP 175.00
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Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

Architecture can be a high risk and low-income profession. Planning to manage risks is essential. Workloads tend to be cyclical and managing lean periods and booms whilst being prepared for the next downturn is a key requirement. This book is a how-to guide to build business resilience into your architectural practice offering methods for managing business-critical events and crises. It shows you how to analyse trouble pre-emptively tackle pitfalls and gives you confidence in decision-making to stay ahead. Featuring case studies with expert insight into sole shareholder and director experience of a small practice it’s aimed across all levels with straightforward honest and accessible advice. It is structured with people and organisations as the core framework exploring practice staff clients projects consultants and providers. It provides operational advice on the day-to-day running of practice and how to respond to disruption. | Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

GBP 32.00
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The Hard Sell An Ethnographic Study of the Direct Selling Industry

The Hard Sell An Ethnographic Study of the Direct Selling Industry

In this work John Bone provides a lively and engaging insight into the social world of direct selling organizations. He investigates these under-researched organizations via a detailed ethnography of two home improvement companies selling products such as fitted kitchens double glazing and conservatories as well as developing wider sociological debates on trust and interaction. These organizations tend to be loosely ordered and internally competitive collectives whose sole aim is to maximize short term profits through sales strategies that routinely employ the calculative exploitation of consumer norms and expectations. John Bone uses his findings to argue that amid the wave of increasing deregulation and liberalization that has supplanted the planned and regulated form of capitalism that predominated until the 1970s such conditions are now becoming prevalent in mainstream contemporary organizations threatening to unleash a latent disorder that underlies the rationality of 'modern' business. | The Hard Sell An Ethnographic Study of the Direct Selling Industry

GBP 38.99
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Human Factors and Aerospace Safety An International Journal: Volume 1

Human Factors and Aerospace Safety An International Journal: Volume 1

This title was first published in 2001. There have been significant advances in the engineering design and production standards of the hardware and electronics in commercial aircraft. It is now uncommon for the principal (or sole) cause of an aircraft accident to be a component failure. Human error is now implicated in up to 80 per cent of all civil and military aviation accidents. The human being is now arguably the least reliable component left in the system. This basic premise forms the basis for this international journal. The journal focuses specifically on the human element in the aerospace system and its role in either causing accidents or incidents or in promoting safety. The journal solicits contributions from both academic researchers and practitioners from industry. Human factors and safety are applied sciences and this is reflected in the tone and composition of the papers in the journal. | Human Factors and Aerospace Safety An International Journal: Volume 1

GBP 64.99
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Human Factors and Aerospace Safety An International Journal: Volume 1

Human Factors and Aerospace Safety An International Journal: Volume 1

This title was first published in 2001. There have been significant advances in the engineering design and production standards of the hardware and electronics in commercial aircraft. It is now uncommon for the principal (or sole) cause of an aircraft accident to be a component failure. Human error is now implicated in up to 80 per cent of all civil and military aviation accidents. The human being is now arguably the least reliable component left in the system. This basic premise forms the basis for this international journal. The journal focuses specifically on the human element in the aerospace system and its role in either causing accidents or incidents or in promoting safety. The journal solicits contributions from both academic researchers and practitioners from industry. Human factors and safety are applied sciences and this is reflected in the tone and composition of the papers in the journal. | Human Factors and Aerospace Safety An International Journal: Volume 1

GBP 21.99
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Aeromedical Transportation A Clinical Guide

Aeromedical Transportation A Clinical Guide

Still the only book published anywhere in the world which is devoted entirely to the principles of aeromedical transport Aeromedical Transportation has rightly become known as the sole reference for the industry. This second edition has been radically revised and updated; featuring the latest research updated references and new chapters on the transport of intensive care patients and medical emergencies/death in flight. Since the first edition was published in 1996 the concept of 'evidence-based medicine' has been accepted as essential in any book which endeavours to be the accepted knowledge base in its subject area. A very practical text international in its approach much of its content is devoted to clinical matters. Administration and organisation are also discussed but are addressed from the standpoint of the clinical aeromedical escort. The text is suitable for medical paramedical and nursing personnel and for those working in organizations whose duties include the transportation of the sick and injured by air. | Aeromedical Transportation A Clinical Guide

GBP 180.00
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How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

You are a great designer but no-one knows. Now what? This indispensable book written by one of the most influential marketers in architecture will demystify Public Relations and marketing for all architects whether in large practices or practicing as sole practitioners. It bridges the distance between architects and marketing by giving practical tips best practice and anecdotes from an author with 20 years’ experience in architecture marketing. It explains all aspects of PR and Business Development for architects: for example how to write a good press release; how to make a fee proposal; how to prepare for a pitch. It gives examples of how others do it well and the pitfalls to avoid. In addition it discusses more general aspects which are linked to PR and BD such as being a good employer ethics for architects and the challenges when working abroad. Featuring vital insights from a wide variety of architects from multinational practices to small offices this book is an essential companion to any architectural office. | How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

GBP 34.00
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Complex Political Decision-Making Leadership Legitimacy and Communication

Complex Political Decision-Making Leadership Legitimacy and Communication

Political and societal elites are increasingly confronted with complex environments in which they need to take collective decisions. Decision-makers are faced with policy issues situated at different intertwined levels which need to be negotiated with different actors. The negotiation and decision-making processes raise issues of legitimacy leadership and communication. Modern societal systems are not only affected by horizontal specialization and diversity but also by a vertical expansion of governance layers. The national level is no longer the sole or even the most important level of governance. In these complex environments cognitive abilities and personalities of political and societal elites have gained importance. This book addresses the impact of an increasingly complex environment on the legitimacy and transparency of polities on the role of leadership and political personality and on motivated images rhetoric and communication. Examining how these issues interact at the macro and theoretical level the types of problems decision-makers face and how they communicate ideas with their audiences it brings together leading experts in political psychology law and political science to bridge the gap in the way these disciplines explore the issue of complex decision-making. | Complex Political Decision-Making Leadership Legitimacy and Communication

GBP 38.99
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Hyperconsumption Corporate Marketing vs. the Planet

Hyperconsumption Corporate Marketing vs. the Planet

Diving deep into the world of corporate marketing this incisive and eye-opening work shows how in the hands of the corporation business has become manipulative divisive and disastrously at odds with the needs of the natural world. It calls on us to rethink and rebel. The corporate marketing blitz is driven by a simple economic truth: profits depend on demand always exceeding supply. A multi-billion-dollar global industry has therefore been created with the sole aim of turning us into devout consumers. Gerard Hastings invites us to explore alternatives to a system that is threatening our survival. He explores what it is to be human how marketing can be used to do good rather than harm and the potential of alternative models that empower us to be citizens not just consumers. Professionals and students in the business marketing public health environmental and political sectors – as well as concerned citizens who know that business as usual is not an option – will value this accessible guide to what is going wrong with our current business models and how these failings can be addressed. | Hyperconsumption Corporate Marketing vs. the Planet

GBP 31.99
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The Trials of Evidence-based Education The Promises Opportunities and Problems of Trials in Education

The Trials of Evidence-based Education The Promises Opportunities and Problems of Trials in Education

The Trials of Evidence-based Education explores the promise limitations and achievements of evidence-based policy and practice as the attention of funders moves from a sole focus on attainment outcomes to political concern about character-building and wider educational impacts. Providing a detailed look at the pros cons and areas for improvement in evidence-based policy and practice this book includes consideration of the following: What is involved in a robust evaluation for education. The issues in conducting trials and how to assess the trustworthiness of research findings. New methods for the design conduct analysis and use of evidence from trials and examining their implications. What policy-makers head teachers and practitioners can learn from the evidence to inform practice. In this well-structured and thoughtful text the results and implications of over 20 studies conducted by the authors are combined with a much larger number of studies from their systematic reviews and the implications are spelled out for the research community policy-makers schools wanting to run their own evaluations and for practitioners using evidence. | The Trials of Evidence-based Education The Promises Opportunities and Problems of Trials in Education

GBP 36.99
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Heritage Ecologies

Heritage Ecologies

Heritage Ecologies presents an ecological understanding of heritage that furthers a concern for how its making and unmaking always involves a wide range of human and other-than-human actors. Recognizing the entangled nature-cultures of heritage is essential in the Anthropocene era where uncertainty and rapid environmental change force us to recast common conceptions of inheritance and to envision new strategies for preservation. Heritage sites are meant to be open and shared spaces and a recurring argument in the cases presented here is that this openness inevitably also overrides our selections orders and appreciations. Through a diverse range of case studies the chapters collected in this book aim to explore the affects and memories engendered by diverse heritage ecologies where humans are neither the sole makers nor the only inheritors. The common call is that the experiential perceptive and informational plenitude enabled through contributions of other-than-human actors is key to an ecological rethinking of heritage in the twenty-first century. Heritage Ecologies is unique in bringing heritage studies into closer proximity with a wide variety of non-representational and object-oriented theories and is an important volume for students and researchers in archaeology and heritage studies.

GBP 35.99
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Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires

Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires

This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created legitimized maintained or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe. Through chapters from contributors in North America Europe and Asia the book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the rise of the ethnolinguistic nation-state during the past century as the sole legitimate model of statehood in today’s Central Europe. The collection’s focus is on the last three decades namely the postcommunist period taking into consideration the effects of the recent rise of cyberspace and the resulting radical forms of populism across contemporary Central Europe. It analyzes languages and their uses not as given by history nature or deity but as constructs produced changed maintained and abandoned by humans and their groups. In this way the volume contributes saliently to the store of knowledge on the latest social (sociolinguistic) and political history of the region’s languages including their functioning in respective national polities and on the internet. Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires is a compelling resource for historians linguists and political scientists who work on Central and Eastern Europe.

GBP 130.00
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Fair Trial Rules of Evidence The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Fair Trial Rules of Evidence The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

This book examines how the European Court of Human Rights approaches the matter of evidence and how its judgments affect domestic law. The case law of the Court has affected many areas of law in Europe. One of these areas is the law of evidence and especially criminal evidence. This work examines the key defence rights that may touch upon evidence such as the right to adduce evidence the right to disclosure the privilege against self-incrimination and access to a lawyer entrapment and the right to cross-examine prosecution witnesses. It explains the relevant assessment criteria used by the Court and introduces a simple framework for understanding the various assessment models developed by the Court including the Perna test the Ibrahim criteria and the sole or decisive rule. The book provides a comprehensive overview on the relevant case law and will be a valuable asset for students and researchers as well as practitioners such as judges prosecutors and lawyers working in the areas of criminal procedure and human rights. | Fair Trial Rules of Evidence The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

GBP 130.00
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Hegemony and the US‒Japan Alliance

Hegemony and the US‒Japan Alliance

It is widely recognised that the increasing importance of the US‒Japan alliance is strongly linked to emerging threats in the Asia Pacific with China’s rise and the ambitions of North Korea having brought the two allies closer together. This book however seeks to question whether these factors are indeed the sole determinants of this enduring alliance. A pioneering study conducted through the lens of neo-Gramscianism this book unravels the intricate political dynamism involved in the US‒Japan alliance. It provides an innovative attempt to link the concept of alliances to hegemony and thus examines Japan’s relationship to US dominance in the region. Building on existing scholarship it also seeks to examine how Japan’s continuing dependence on the US and the burden it places of citizens living near US military bases may affect the durability of the alliance in the post-Cold War era. As such this book presents an alternative theoretical tool in the field of international relations to analyse the political nature of the alliance as well as US hegemony in the region. This book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Politics and foreign policymaking as well as International Relations and Security Studies more generally. | Hegemony and the US‒Japan Alliance

GBP 38.99
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Concrete Structures Subjected to Impact and Blast Loadings and Their Combinations

Concrete Structures Subjected to Impact and Blast Loadings and Their Combinations

Although much research focuses on investigating the responses of reinforced concrete (RC) structures under sole impact or blast loads the responses of RC structures under a combination of impact and blast loads currently represent a gap in our knowledge. The combined actions of impact and blast loadings may be applied to RC structures during accidental or intentional collision of vessels vehicles etc. carrying explosive materials. A comprehensive study on the vulnerability of various structural members is carried out using finite element (FE) simulations under combination of impact and blast loads with the variations of various loading- and structural-related parameters and key parameters. This book introduces various structural analysis approaches for concrete structures when subjected to extreme loads such as impact and blast loadings. The theory of the combinations of impact and blast loads is proposed that can provide primary insights to the specific readers to develop new ideas in impact and blast engineering including combined actions of extreme loads arising from real-world intentional or accidental events. This book will be of value to students (undergraduate or postgraduate) engineers and researchers in structural and civil engineering and specifically those who are studying and investigating the performances of concrete structures under extreme loads. | Concrete Structures Subjected to Impact and Blast Loadings and Their Combinations

GBP 82.99
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Public Funding of Religions in Europe

Public Funding of Religions in Europe

This collection brings together legal scholars canonists and political scientists to focus on the issue of public funding in support of religious activities and institutions in Europe. The study begins by revolving around the various mechanisms put in place by the domestic legal systems as well as those resulting from the European law of human rights and the law of the European Union. It then goes on to look at state support and particular religious groups. The presentation of European and national law is supplemented by theoretical and interdisciplinary contributions with the main focus being to bring into discussion and map the relationship between the funding of religions and the economy and to infer from it an attempt at a systematic examination or theorization of such funding. This collection is essential reading for those studying Law and Religion with particular focus on the countries of the UK France Belgium Germany Italy The Netherlands Spain and Turkey. The views expressed during the execution of the RELIGARE project in whatever form and or by whatever medium are the sole responsibility of the authors. The European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. | Public Funding of Religions in Europe

GBP 38.99
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Ubuntu Virtue Theory and Moral Character Formation Critically Reconstructing Ubuntu for the African Educational Context

Ubuntu Virtue Theory and Moral Character Formation Critically Reconstructing Ubuntu for the African Educational Context

This book investigates the ubuntu theory-based conception of virtue and moral character formation in the northern western and eastern regions of Africa suggesting a critical reconstruction of ubuntu by conceptualising the four different forms of practices in moral character formation. Arguing for the critical reconstruction of ubuntu virtue theory as more nuanced than simply the standard ubuntu normative virtue theories (which give priority to the community as the sole locus for understanding virtues and character formation in Africa) the book builds a comprehensive model of virtue and moral character formation that draws insights from the reconstructed notion of ubuntu and other theories within and beyond the African thought. Chapters feature experience from across Africa including Malawi Zambia Zimbabwe Uganda Kenya and South Africa and centre on topics such as traditional cultural views and practices political systems in various nations neoliberalist thought and primary secondary and tertiary education systems in Africa and further afield. This is a valuable resource for scholars academics and postgraduate students working in the fields of moral and values education philosophy of education and the theory of education more broadly. Those also interested in educational psychology may also find the volume of interest. | Ubuntu Virtue Theory and Moral Character Formation Critically Reconstructing Ubuntu for the African Educational Context

GBP 130.00
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