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.Research Methods for Sports Studies
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by: Chris Gratton, Ian Jones

October 23, 2003
I can speak from the view point of writing a sports studies dissertation and having the pleasure of meeting one of the authors (IAN) myself as he is a lecturer at my university. The book is perfect for anyone who wants a simple but through guide to writing a dissertation for sports studies. If I was to describe it in a few words:

Interesting
Thorough
Easy read
Covers all the main points

A must have for sports management/studies/leisure and tourism. Hope this helps !
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.Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
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by: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

April 20, 2001
I started first semester anthropologi accompanied by Eriksen's book. It has become my dictionary which i still consult after starting on my master degree. I will also recomend it for people who know nothing about anthropologi. Its interesting and you learn a lot. It is easy to read and gives you a good overview over anthropologi. People studying athropologi on a higher level will find the book a bit too easy and shallow if anything... But great and useful anyway! I love the book.
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.How to Write Better Essays (Palgrave Study Guides)
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by: Greetham, Bryan

February 29, 2008
This book is worth its weight in gold for anyone who needs to write essays and I have recommended it to many of my friends. I have always been able to write decent enough essays, getting A grade GCSEs and A/ B grade Alevels, but my undergraduate essays never quite seemed to reach the top marks. I couldn't quite understand this though because I always got top marks for my scientific reports, literature reviews, and exams yet my essays never seemed to go above a 2:1. If I put in a huge amount of effort I would be able to reach a high 2:1, while hardly any effort would get me a low 2:1, I just couldn't seem to break out of it! That was until I read this book.

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.Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Social Work (Transforming Social Work Practice) (Transforming Social Work Practice)
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by: Juliet Koprowska

July 09, 2008
This book is worth its weight in gold for anyone who needs to write essays and I have recommended it to many of my friends. I have always been able to write decent enough essays, getting A grade GCSEs and A/ B grade Alevels, but my undergraduate essays never quite seemed to reach the top marks. I couldn't quite understand this though because I always got top marks for my scientific reports, literature reviews, and exams yet my essays never seemed to go above a 2:1. If I put in a huge amount of effort I would be able to reach a high 2:1, while hardly any effort would get me a low 2:1, I just couldn't seem to break out of it! That was until I read this book.

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.Passing the Police Recruit Assessment Process (Practical Policing Skills)
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by: Peter Cox

April 16, 2007
Good book - lots of useful info - not so much that it becomes overwhelming tho.
If I had one criticism, it would be that it was a little light on info on passing the initial assessment form - it just kinda says "answer the questions.. don't make stuff up"... which is fine... but not really ground breaking!
If I get thru the paper-sift, this book will be invaluable tho; it was written by one of the guys who created the assessment process, so you've gotta think he knows what he's talking about! :)
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."The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift)
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by: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1998-02
This is a spine-tingling (not necessarily in a good way!) long short story with hauntingly gothic imagery that shifts and stirs beneath a prosaic surface.

The female protagonist is confined to her room as a 'rest cure' which might be associated with what we now recognise as post-natal depression, but the enforced 'rest' that is more akin to imprisonment releases something in her psyche that might be madness...

The yellow wallpaper of the title is both a kind of fairy-tale mirror and a window to another world that allows the narrator to see the female figures caught beneath it and living out their lives beneath its shadows, an incredibly haunting and indicting imagery for Victorian England.

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.Consider the Lobster
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by: David Foster Wallace

June 21, 2007

"It's odd," David Foster Wallace once said. "I don't really think of myself that much as a writer."
I can't be bothered wasting my time on a considered examination of this man's prose.
He went to that lobster event and all he got out of it was one long whinge about the pain of the lobster.
He is dull , colourless and uninteresting as a writer.
No colour , no life. Lots of footnotes.
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.101 French Proverbs (101... Language Series)
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by: Jean-Marie Cassagne

January 01, 1999
I bought this book just before moving to France 7 years ago. It's amusing and the ilustrations are great!
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.The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies
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by: Christopher Scarre

June 06, 2005
Do NOT buy this book.

This is meant to be the erudite textbook for an Open University course. Unfortunately, this book makes it impossible to read and concentrate on key concepts, when for some mystifying reason the publishers have chosen to use 'Americanese cod-spelling', instead of the correct printed form of Queen's English we use here in the UK.

This is extremely off-putting and should NOT be deployed in a UK textbook by UK academics writing for UK students in the UK. It may be an increasing, unwelcome and disgraceful trend in British universities - and if so, it is a 'trend' that should certainly be thoroughly resisted! No doubt some people will, in Orwellian fashion, deliberately misconstrue what I am saying as racist. ... Read More:
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.The Blackwell Companion to Social Work (Blackwell Companions) (Blackwell Companions)
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from: WileyBlackwell

October 01, 2007
This book covers a lot of the first year modules and gives a good basis from which to carry further research into a topic, allowing a clear starting point for any one who does not want to get too bogged down when starting an essay.

It is easy to use and the index works well.
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