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These essays, commissioned by John Rex, reflect the state of sociology in Britain today. Leading representatives of the diverse ‘schools’ provide lucid accounts of their own particular approaches to this complex discipline and in doing so demonstrate the techniques described. Topics covered include ... More

Garth Rylandd, editor of the Oakalla (Wisconsin) Reporter and part-time sleuth, is knocked cold while investigating the scream that disturbed his otherwise peaceful camping trip. Albert Vice, a local factory worker, later turns up dead, leading to Garth's entanglement in an intricate web of violence... More

John Rex is well known as one of Britain's leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology of the city. In the present book these two related areas are brought together. Professor Rex discusses imperialistic social systems, and examines the posi... More

This book provides a comprehensive look at the state of the art of externally driven and self-generated rotation as well as momentum transport in tokamak plasmas. In addition to recent developments, the book includes a review of rotation measurement techniques, measurements of directly and indirectl... More

Professor John Rex was one of Britain’s most eminent sociologists, and a teacher of a whole generation of sociology students. In this book he presents a stimulating introduction to the major issues of sociological theory and gives an account of the perspective which has informed his thinking and wri... More

Professor Rex’s controversial book concerns not only those who are professional sociologists but all thinking people who live in the modern world. One of the objects of sociology is to give ‘power to the people’, to make a contribution to the understanding of political problems. Rex writes from a de... More

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

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As the economies of western countries move from primarily resource-based to knowledge-based, and trade liberalization limits what governments can do through direct action, the landscape of innovation is changing and policymakers must react accordingly. This exciting new book examines the challenges ... More

This fresh and dynamic book offers a thorough investigation into the development of the cognitive processes that underpin judgements about mental states (often termed 'theory of mind') and addresses specific issues that have not been adequately dealt with in the past, and which are now being raised ... More

Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a British city. Based on a four-year research project in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, the book is a study of race and community relations – political, soci... More

What are the experiences of children and young people? How can we think about the challenges they face? What systems and practices can support them? How can we develop greater equality, participation and inclusion across diverse settings? This second edition of Equality, Participation and Inclusion ... More

As the journalism profession enters the 21st century, it faces major challenges. For one thing, the technology of journalism is changing so fast we aren't sure from one year to the next just how the news will be delivered. ... More

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 24th IFIP WG 10. 5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2016, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in September 2016.   The 11 papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected... More

The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a high quality, well documented package of open source software tools for molecular biology. EMBOSS includes extensive and extensible C programming libraries, providing a powerful and robust toolkit for developing new bioinformatics too... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Lean Educator Conference ELEC 2021, hosted in Trondheim, Norway, in October 2021 and sponsored by IFIP WG 5.7. The conference was held virtually. The 42 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submission... More

Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to e... More

Garth Ryland, editor of the Oakalla Reporter and honorary sheriffs deputy, finds homebound, four-hundred-pound Monroe Edmonds trapped in his own elevator and dead. Monroe had a penchant for flea markets and auctions, and his home was filled with a variety of rare and valuable items. So when a painti... More

The General Electric Company, with one of its main plants in Schenectady, began experimental broadcasts in conjunction with Union College in the early 1900s. When WGY officially began broadcasting in February 1922, General Electric started a long and storied history of pioneering radio technology an... More

Set in Oakalla, Wisconsin, shortly after a mild earthquake causes a tainted water supply, this Garth Ryland mystery puts the newspaperman on the trail of a missing father and five-year-old son. With the sometime help of the town sheriff, Ryland locates the boy (and the body of a missing judge), unco... More

[from inside flaps] "Garth Ryland, editor of the Oakalla (Wisconsin) Reporter, arrives at the Old Baldwin Place just as the fire he had dragged himself out of bed for is extinguished. Only it wasn't the house that was ablaze. It was a burning cross. Garth, as puzzled as everyone else, then helps St... More

It was the time in late February and early March in south-central Wisconsin of freeze and thaw, clear cold nights and sunny days, sap running, and maple syrup pots boiling. When cow manure spread while the ground is still frozen begins its waft of springtime aroma. It should not have been a time w... More

[From the back cover:] "The joke's on him. It seemed somehow fitting to bury Oakalla's #1 practical joker on April Fool's Day... Doc Baldwin says Si Buckles died of a heart attack. But Garth Ryland has a theory that's dead serious: Someone turned the tables on the town clown--and scared him to dea... More

[from the back cover] "The big chill There's a heat wave over Oakalla, but Garth Ryland is chilled to the core when his former lover disappears... beautiful Diana Baldwin went up north with her new beau, a college prof, and neither was heard from again. Tracking a murder suspect, Garth resolves to... More