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Product Description: Introduction to Two-Dimensional Design, Second Edition provides a solid foundation in timeless design principles. With the help of more than 200 revealing illustrations, the book explores both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of 2D design, interweaving historical accounts with penetrating analyses of visual principles and issues found in important contemporary examples...read more

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Product Description: This book provides a detailed and authoritative survey of the law relating to public interest disclosure ("whistleblowing"). Six years on from the coming into force of the Public Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA), the book looks at how the new system has developed, and provides up to date guidance on the key issues that arise in practice...read more

Product Description: Textbook on Labour Law explores both the practical aspects of labour law and the theoretical issues and also considers future developments in this fast moving area of law. Covering all essential areas of employment and labour law, this text is the ideal resource for students studying law degrees...read more

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Product Description: "Textbook on Labour Law" has, in its seventh edition, been updated to include the wide-ranging provisions of every statutory development since it was last published. It includes the most up-to-date Employment Bill and the relevant cases in this fast-moving area of law...read more

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Product Description: The Colony. It was 1952 and James Jones had just published from Here to Eternity, a huge best seller that had taken the country by storm. His larger-than-life mentor, a formidable Midwest housewife by the name of Lowney Handy, set up a "writer's colony" in Marshall, Illinois, funded in large part by the proceeds of Eternity, to train an odd assortment of rules: No women; members literally copied pages from masters such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Dos Passos; no radios, newspapers, or TV; meals were Spartan; a neophyte from a tent to a barracks-like room if he abided by the rules; mail was scrutinized as in the Soviet Union; about every month members were let loose in Terre Haute for brothel time in Cherry Street and epic toots...read more

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Revisiting two Civil War battles that helped turn the tide to the North's favor, this rich, evocative history of Chickamauga and Chattanooga recalls the violence and valor shown on this important battlefield. Reprint.

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The author and teacher recounts his childhood, career, and family life, and describes some of the night people he has known