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2026
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Cult Bees & Legends Volume Three dives deep into Brentford's rich post-war history, giving fans an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the club through the eyes of the people who lived it out there on the pitch. From dramatic promotions and painful relegations to unforgettable cup runs, play-off battles, and dressing room bust-ups – this book brings to life the moments etched in every Bees fan's memory. Terrace idols and cult heroes have been tracked down and interviewed, offering fresh, ...
Personal Power
Connecting to the Creative Force Within
2014
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Personal Power puts you in charge of your life, whereas the lack of it makes you vulnerable to becoming a victim to outside forces. In fact, you can measure how much Personal Power you have attained in life by gauging both the levels of freedom and clarity you enjoy and the lack of fear that you experience. Learn how to: • Gain greater control of your life. • Become financially and spiritually wealthy • Find and maintain happiness • Inspire and influence others • Improve your relationships...
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
Building Effective Database-Driven Web Sites
2004
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There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the background and tools to do the job safely and reliably.Web Database Applications with PHP and...
The End of Social Inequality?
Class, Status and Power under State Socialism
2024
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The End of Social Inequality (1982) examines class and social stratification under state socialism and in particular in the Soviet Union. Its discussion ranges over such aspects as income and education differentials, the rise of white-collar occupations, the position of women and ethnic groups, and social mobility.
New Directions
Ways of Advance for the Amateur Theatre
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- Routledge Revivals
2025
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New Directions (1970) is a handbook for amateur dramatists packed with ideas and practical advice on production, choosing plays, improvisation, make-up, costumes, street drama, scenery and documentaries. The authors offer choices of solutions to problems, and suggest ways to experiment and improvise.
Scenes from a Roman Century
1924-2024
2025
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Hollywood film stars, fascist assassins. Bombs on San Lorenzo, la dolce vita on Via Veneto. Baroque fountains, umbrella pines. Urban planning, unregulated house-building. After half a century living in Rome, David Lane turns his eye on events and streetscapes in the Eternal City over the past 100 years. Scenes from a Roman Century begins with the 1924 murder of Giacomo Matteotti--the beginning of the end for interwar democracy--and ends with the organized crime and political viole...
2024
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Orpheus and the MaenadsA Traditional Play in Blank VerseThe preternaturally great poet Orpheus has responded to the loss of his wife Eurydice to the Underworld by forsaking the society of his fellow men in Thrace, where he was a poet-king, and endlessly wandering through field and forest, using his poetic genius to lament his loss. Apollo, the god of poetry, urges him to give up his excessive mourning and return to Thrace and once more sing the dee...
Global Neoliberal Capitalism and the Alternatives
From Social Democracy to State Capitalisms
2023
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The twentieth century was an era of socialist revolutionary transformations and significant social-democratic reforms. By the twenty-first century, these socialist inspired movements have largely disappeared, their ideologies have been disavowed, and their institutions dismantled and replaced by global neoliberal capitalism.This book explores the social, political and economic forces driving these movements in Western Europe and in the USSR, explaining their initial triumphs and ho...
Global Neoliberal Capitalism and the Alternatives
From Social Democracy to State Capitalisms
2023
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The twentieth century was an era of socialist revolutionary transformations and significant social-democratic reforms. By the twenty-first century, these socialist inspired movements have largely disappeared, their ideologies have been disavowed, and their institutions dismantled and replaced by global neoliberal capitalism.This book explores the social, political and economic forces driving these movements in Western Europe and in the USSR, explaining their initial triumphs and ho...
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- Routledge Europe-Asia Studies
2013
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The dissolution of the communist system led to the creation of new states and the formation of new concepts of citizenship in the post-Soviet states of Central and Eastern Europe.The formation of national identity also occurred in the context of the process of increasing economic and political globalisation, particularly the widening of the European Union to include the central European post-socialist and Baltic States. Internationally, Russia sought to establish a new identity eit...
2018
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Regional associations have become major players in international politics and economics. The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), composed of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, is considered as a player which will strengthen the international influence and international trade of the post-socialist countries. It is intended to become a parallel association to the European Union.This comprehensive volume considers the potential global role of the EEU. A major problem outl...
2013
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The communist world was supposed to have had its ‘revolution’ in 1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at the end of 1991; and then, perplexingly, a series of irregular executive changes began to take place the following decade in countries that were already postcommunist. The focus in this collection is the changes that took place in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan between 2000 and 2005 that have together been called the ‘coloured revolutions’: of no parti...










