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Faster, Fitter, Happier: 75 questions with a Sport Psychologist (2017)
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Westbury, T. (2017). Faster, Fitter, Happier: 75 questions with a Sport Psychologist. Oxford: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Faster, Fitter, Happier is the first book to bridge the gap between the practice of psychology across both professional and amateur sport, and the theoretical foundations on which the science is based. Author Tony Westbury has been working alongside... Read More about Faster, Fitter, Happier: 75 questions with a Sport Psychologist.

Cryptography (2017)
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Buchanan, B. (2017). Cryptography. River Publishers

Cryptography has proven to be one of the most contentious areas in modern society. For some it protects the rights of individuals to privacy and security, while for others it puts up barriers against the protection of our society. This book aims to d... Read More about Cryptography.

The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in the Postindustrial World (2017)
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High, S., MacKinnon, L., & Perchard, A. (Eds.). (2017). The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in the Postindustrial World. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press

Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban ar... Read More about The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in the Postindustrial World.

Professionalism in practice: new directions in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education (2017)
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Sambell, K., Brown, S., & Graham, L. (2017). Professionalism in practice: new directions in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education. Palgrave Macmillan

This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement... Read More about Professionalism in practice: new directions in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education.

The Legal Challenges of Social Media (2017)
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Mangan, D., & Gillies, L. E. (Eds.). (2017). The Legal Challenges of Social Media. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364518.00027

Social media enables instant access to individual self-expression and the sharing of information. Social media issues are boundless, permeating distinct legal disciplines. The law has struggled to adapt and for good reason: how does the law regulate... Read More about The Legal Challenges of Social Media.

False Hearts (2017)
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Lam, L. (2017). False Hearts. London, UK: Pan MacMillan

One night Tila stumbles home, terrified and covered in blood. She's then arrested for murder, the first by a civilian in decades. The San Francisco police suspect involvement with Verve, a powerful drug, and offer her twin sister Taema a chilling dea... Read More about False Hearts.

Shattered Minds (2017)
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Lam, L. (2017). Shattered Minds. (1). London, UK: Pan MacMillan

Ex-neuroscientist Carina struggles with a drug problem, her conscience, and urges to kill. She satisfies her cravings in dreams, fuelled by the addictive drug ‘Zeal’. Now she’s heading for self-destruction – until she has a vision of a dead girl.... Read More about Shattered Minds.

Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment (2017)
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Fraser, B., Mukherjee, T., & Sen, A. (Eds.). (2017). Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment. Edinburgh, Scotland: Luath Press

This collection of seminal correspondences between Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and Scottish polymath Robert Geddes are testimony to a great friendship and an even greater marriage between Eastern and Western schools of thought. This com... Read More about Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment.

How to Survive your Nursing or Midwifery Course (2017)
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Gribben, M., McLellan, S., McGirr, D., & Chenery-Morris, S. (2017). How to Survive your Nursing or Midwifery Course. (1). SAGE Publications

Nursing and midwifery are inspiring and amazing professions - but as your students face the realities of juggling work, study and life, they may now be thinking 'what did I let myself in for'? This book is designed to help students that are strugglin... Read More about How to Survive your Nursing or Midwifery Course.

Masquerade (2017)
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Lam, L. (2017). Masquerade. London, UK: Pan MacMillan

Micah's Chimaera powers are growing, until his dark visions overwhelm him. Drystan is forced to take him to Dr Pozzi, to save his life. But can they really trust the doctor, especially when a close friend is revealed to be his spy? Meanwhile, viol... Read More about Masquerade.

An Introduction to Management Science (2017)
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Anderson, D., Sweeney, D., Williams, T., Wisniewski, M., & Pierron, X. (2017). An Introduction to Management Science. (3rd). London: Cengage

The third edition of this highly-regarded text has been fully updated whilst maintaining the accessible and comprehensive style that makes this text so popular. Packed with diverse realistic examples from Scotland to Saudi Arabia, this truly internat... Read More about An Introduction to Management Science.

Restorative responses to sexual violence: Legal, social and therapeutic dimensions (2017)
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Zinsstag, E., & Keenan, M. (Eds.). (2017). Restorative responses to sexual violence: Legal, social and therapeutic dimensions. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315630595

Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not receive adequate ‘justice’ or redress. The theory and practice of restorative justice is rapidly developin... Read More about Restorative responses to sexual violence: Legal, social and therapeutic dimensions.

The Homing Bird (2017)
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Fraser, B. (2017). The Homing Bird. Devonshire, UK: Indigo Dreams Publishing

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Securing the Internet of Things (2017)
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Romdhani, I. (2017). S. Li, & L. Da Xu (Eds.), Securing the Internet of Things. Elsevier

Key Features Helps researchers and practitioners understand the security architecture in IoT and the state-of-the-art in IoT security countermeasures Explores how the threats in IoT are different from traditional ad hoc or infrastructural network... Read More about Securing the Internet of Things.

A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish: Intercultural Competence on the Gringo Trail? (2017)
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Stanley, P. (2017). A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish: Intercultural Competence on the Gringo Trail?. Routledge

The premise that intercultural contact produces intercultural competence underpins much rationalization of backpacker tourism and in-country language education. However, if insufficiently problematized, pre-existing constructions of cultural 'otherne... Read More about A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish: Intercultural Competence on the Gringo Trail?.

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education (2017)
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Dylan Smith, G., Moir, Z., Brennan, M., Rambarran, S., & Kirkman, P. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education. Routledge

Popular music is a growing presence in education, formal and otherwise, from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes, courses and modules in popular music studies, popular music performance, songwriting and areas of music technology are beco... Read More about The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education.