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  • AMAZING STORIES VOLUME 179
    RICHARD BANKS
    Amazing Stories Volume 179 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "The Last Class" by Richard Banks, "A Prison Make" by William W. Stuart, "Requiem" by Edmond Hamilton, "Sunfire" by Edmond Hamilton, and "The Silent Invaders" by Robert Silverberg. ...

    $39.70

  • THE AMERICAN LEGAL PROFESSION
    CHRISTOPHER P. BANKS
    This book is a tight and fresh analysis of the American legal profession and its significance to society and its citizens. The book’s primary objective is to expose, and correct, the principal misconceptions - myths - surrounding prelaw study, law school admission, law school, and the American legal profession itself. These issues are vitally important to prelaw advisors and in...

    $979.00

  • GLOBAL MIGRATION AND CIVIC EDUCATION
    BANKS, JAMES A.
    Global migration, the rise of popular nationalism, and the quest by diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious groups for recognition, civic equality, and structural inclusion within their nation-states have complicated the attainment of citizenship in countries around the world. Virulent and pernicious nationalism in some nations, including the United States, ...

    $1,339.00

  • HUMAN FACTORS ON THE FLIGHT DECK
    KATIE J. PARNELL / VICTORIA A. BANKS / RACHAEL A. WYNNE / NEVILLE A. STANTON / KATHERINE L. PLANT
    This book presents the Human Factors methodologies and applications thereof that can be utilised across the design, modelling and evaluation stages of the design lifecycle of new technologies entering future commercial aircraft. As advances are made to the architecture of commercial aircraft cockpits, Human Factors on the Flight Deck argues that it is vitally important that the...

    $2,400.00

  • VICTORIAN VALUES
    J A BANKS
    First published in 1981, Victorian Values is an investigation into the social causes behind the decline of the birth rate and the size of families in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. The author looks at the interplay of the rising standard of living, the emancipation of women, the attitude to children and education and the effects of the meritocratic ideal,...

    $1,339.00

  • AFFECT AND BELONGING IN POLITICAL USES OF THE PAST
    DAVID FARRELL-BANKS
    Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past examines key political events of the past decade, to analyse the relationship between the representation of certain pasts in ‘official’ heritage settings and the use of the same pasts in political discourse. Drawing on data gathered from museums, heritage sites, news articles, political speeches, manifestos, and through digital...

    $1,099.00

  • THE MANCHESTER MAN
    MRS. G. LINNAEUS BANKS
    The Manchester Man is a novel by the British writer Isabella Banks. It was first published in three volumes in 1876 under her married name, Mrs G. Linnæus Banks. The story follows the life of a Manchester resident, Jabez Clegg, during the nineteenth century and his rise to prosperity in the booming industrial city. It depicts a number of real historical events such as the Peter...

    $39.70

  • TEACHING STEM IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL
    FRANK BANKS / DAVID BARLEX
    This book looks at the purpose and pedagogy of STEM teaching and explores the ways in which STEM subjects can interact in the curriculum to enhance student understanding, achievement and motivation. By reaching outside their own classroom, teachers can collaborate across STEM subjects to enrich learning and help students relate school science, technology and maths to the wider ...

    $779.00

  • HANDBOOK OF FORENSIC STATISTICS
    DAVID BANKS, KAREN KAFADAR, DAVID H. KAYE AND MARIA TACKETT
    Handbook of Forensic Statistics is a collection of chapters by leading authorities in forensic statistics. Written for statisticians, scientists, and legal professionals having a broad range of statistical expertise, it summarizes and compares basic methods of statistical inference (frequentist, likelihoodist, and Bayesian) for trace and other evidence that links individuals to...

    $1,839.00

  • DIVERSITY, TRANSFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE, AND CIVIC EDUCATION
    JAMES A. BANKS
    WINNER 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award The essays collected in this book, by James A. Banks, a foundational figure in the field of multicultural education, illuminate the interconnection between the author’s work on knowledge construction and civic education. In pieces both poignant and personal, Banks shares some of his most groundbreaking and in...

    $1,099.00

  • THE INSTRUMENTAL CONSORT REPERTORY OF THE LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
    JON BANKS
    Though individual pieces from the late fifteenth century are widely accepted as being written for instruments rather than voices, they are traditionally considered as exceptions within the context of a mainstream of vocal polyphony. After a rigorous examination of the criteria by which music of this period may be judged to be instrumental, Dr Jon Banks isolates all such pieces ...

    $1,059.00

  • WHITE COUNSELLORS – BLACK CLIENTS
    NICK BANKS
    Published in 1999. British cross-cultural counselling practice issues are examined through a survey of the attitudes of white British Counsellors and their self-reported practices with African-Caribbean and South Asian clients. The book has sections which review the literature on cross-cultural counselling and the relative significance of 'race', ethnicity and culture, the whit...

    $859.00

  • DIVERSITY AND PHILANTHROPY AT AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMS
    PATRICIA A. BANKS
    Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums is the first scholarly book to analyze contemporary African American museums from a multifaceted perspective. While it puts a spotlight on the issues and challenges related to racial politics that black museums collectively face in the 21st century, it also shines a light on how they intersect with corporate culture, youth ...

    $1,099.00

  • CLEVELAND IN WORLD WAR II
    BRIAN ALBRECHT / JAMES BANKS
    Berthed on the Cleveland lakefront, the battle-hardened submarine USS Cod serves as a proud reminder of the wartime contributions from the Greater Cleveland community. Clevelanders did their duty and more, from round-the-clock work on the factory assembly lines to the four Medal of Honor recipients on the front lines. The Cleveland Bomber Plant churned out thousands of B-29 par...

    $229.00

  • A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH
    DAVID BANKS
    Providing a simple – but not simplistic – introduction to the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) of English, this book serves as a launching pad for the beginning student and a review for the more seasoned linguist. With an introduction to SFG through lexicogrammar and the concept of rankshift, this book is the first introduction to SFG (including Appraisal) with examples exclus...

    $979.00

  • QUANTUM MECHANICS
    THOMAS BANKS
    This authoritative, advanced introduction provides a complete, modern perspective on quantum mechanics. It clarifies many common misconceptions regarding wave/particle duality and the correct interpretation of measurements. The author develops the text from the ground up, starting from the fundamentals and presenting information at an elementary level, avoiding unnecessarily de...

    $1,239.00

  • USING VISUAL DATA IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    MARCUS BANKS
    This book helps students and scholars get started on the exciting journey of using visual data in social research. It covers the many uses a researcher can make of images, from creating images as a part of the research process to collecting and analyzing images from diverse sources.  Exploring the opportunities and arming readers with tools to overcome some of the practical cha...

    $727.59

  • LEARNING GRAPHQL
    EVE PORCELLO / ALEX BANKS
    Why is GraphQL the most innovative technology for fetching data since Ajax? By providing a query language for your APIs and a runtime for fulfilling queries with your data, GraphQL presents a clear alternative to REST and ad hoc web service architectures. With this practical guide, Alex Banks and Eve Porcello deliver a clear learning path for frontend web developers, backend en...

    $454.00

  • ETHICS IN PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING
    SARAH BANKS
    Participatory research is well-established as an approach involving people with a direct interest in, or experience of, the issue being studied in carrying out research. However, it raises unique and challenging ethical issues. Traditional concerns with respect for the rights to confidentiality, consent, privacy and protection of ‘research informants’ do not translate easily in...

    $999.00

  • ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN RHETORIC
    KEITH GILYARD / ADAM BANKS
    On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism. The governing idea is to illustrate the basic call-response process of African-American culture and to demonstrate how this dynamic has been and continues to be central...

    $999.00

  • THE COMPUTER AND THE CLERK
    ENID MUMFORD / OLIVE BANKS
    Originally published in 1967 and the result of extensive interviews and case studies, this book examines the implications of technical change. Although focussed on the early introduction of computers the kinds of problems discussed in this book are found in technical change more widely and the book therefore continues to have enduring relevance. The book is divided into three p...

    $859.00

  • CONTROVERSIES IN AMERICAN FEDERALISM AND PUBLIC POLICY
    CHRISTOPHER P. BANKS
    This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s federalism jurisprudence and its effect on the development of national and state policies in key areas of constitutional jurisprudence. The contributors ad...

    $1,039.00

  • MONOPOLY TELEVISION
    JACK BANKS
    In this book, Jack Banks examines the historical development of music video as a commodity and analyzes the existing structures within which music video is produced, distributed, and exhibited on its premier music channel, MTV. }In August 1981, Music Televisionnow popularly known as MTVwas launched. Within a matter of years it revitalized a struggling record industry; made the ...

    $1,139.00

  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL GAS
    FERDINAND E. BANKS
    Originally published in 1987 this book presents a comprehensive survey of the global natural gas industry: it looks at the problems of supply, the pattern of demand, the economics of the industrya nd how the industry in the 1980s was being affected by changes in other energy sectors. As a key commodity in the world economy the supply of natural gas is increasingly affecting and...

    $919.00

  • VIRTUOUS POLICING
    DAVID G. BOLGIANO / L. MORGAN BANKS III / JAMES M. PATTERSON
    "It pulls no punches, shuns no controversial topic, and glosses over no issues or problems that beset America‘s law enforcement community in our day. For those who may be prone to suspect the motives of these self-confessed lovers of cops and warriors, the title of this book‘should be sufficient to allay such concerns." John C. Hall, Supervisory Sp ...

    $1,439.00

  • AUTOMOBILE AUTOMATION
    VICTORIA A. BANKS / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    Increasing levels of driving automation has changed the role of the driver from active operator to passive monitor. However, Systems Design has been plagued by criticism for failing to acknowledge the new role of the driver within the system network. To understand the driver's new role within an automated driving system, the theory of Distributed Cognition is adopted. This appr...

    $2,500.00

  • COSMOS AND IMAGE IN THE RENAISSANCE
    KATHRYN BANKS
    Renaissance images could be real as well as linguistic. Human beings were often believed to be an image of the cosmos, and the sun an image of God. Kathryn Banks explores the implications of this for poetic language and argues that linguistic images were a powerful tool for rethinking cosmic conceptions. She reassesses the role of natural-philosophical poetry in France, fo...

    $1,099.00

  • COSMOS AND IMAGE IN THE RENAISSANCE
    KATHRYN BANKS
    Renaissance images could be real as well as linguistic. Human beings were often believed to be an image of the cosmos, and the sun an image of God. Kathryn Banks explores the implications of this for poetic language and argues that linguistic images were a powerful tool for rethinking cosmic conceptions. She reassesses the role of natural-philosophical poetry in France, focusin...

    $1,059.00

  • A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR OF FRENCH
    DAVID BANKS
    A Systemic Functional Grammar of French provides an accessible introduction to systemic functional linguistics through French. This concise introduction to the systemic functional grammar (SFG) framework provides illustrations throughout that highlight how the framework can be used to analyse authentic language texts. This will be of interest to students in alternative linguist...

    $539.00

  • STUDENT WORKBOOK TO ACCOMPANY CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS
    KATHLEEN FEARN_BANKS / KATHLEEN FEARN-BANKS
    No company, organization, or individual whose livelihood depends on public reaction can afford to function without a crisis communications plan. This student workbook reviews the critical terminologies, processes, and skills needed for understanding and responding to crises. It prepares individuals for responding to crises in a variety of contexts, and reinforces strategies and...

    $1,099.00


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