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  • APPROACHING DEMOCRACY
    LARRY BERMAN
    Democracy cannot be taken for granted, whether at home or internationally, and eternal vigilance (along with civic intelligence) is required to protect it. Approaching Democracy provides students with a framework to analyze the structure, process, and action of US government, institutions, and social movements. It also invites comparison with other countries. This globalizing p...

    $1,659.00

  • PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
    EVAN M. BERMAN / IMANE HIJAL-MOGHRABI
    Managing for results is increasingly important for the success of public organizations. Performance and Innovation in the Public Sector is a comprehensive textbook that examines a broad range of performance strategies. Today’s public managers require a broad toolkit and a deep, current understanding of the following: performance management, digital government, collaboration, st...

    $979.00

  • AMERICA'S ARAB NATIONALISTS
    AARON BERMAN
    America’s Arab Nationalists focuses in on the relationship between Arab nationalists and Americans in the struggle for independence in an era when idealistic Americans could see the Arab nationalist struggle as an expression of their own values. In the first three decades of the twentieth century (from the 1908 Ottoman revolution to the rise of Hitler), important and influentia...

    $1,099.00

  • BEYOND THE SMILE: THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH
    LINDA BERMAN
    Linda Berman explores the importance of photographs in our lives, highlighting the hidden messages behind the images. She describes different ways of using photographs in therapy and shows how by triggering memory and emotion and revealing family patterns they can be used to help the patient. Detailed case studies, with appropriate illustrations, show how photographs can be use...

    $1,099.00

  • LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATES
    DAVID BERMAN
    This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the conflict among them, and an analysis of contemporary problems concerning local authority, local revenues, state interventions and takeovers, and the restructuring of local governments...

    $999.00

  • AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
    VICENTE NAVARRO / DANIEL M. BERMAN
    While the health effects of many aspects of life, from diet to marital status, have been extensively explored, little study has been made of the health effects of work. Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers, the role of unions in worker protection, and occupational health in both developed and developing countries, this collection of articles conclusively demonstrates the ...

    $1,399.00

  • WORDS LIKE COLORED GLASS
    DANIEL K BERMAN
    A study of the contribution of the Press to the democratization process in Taiwan. Combining ideas from political science, communication theory and Chinese studies, the author challenges conventional wisdom on the subject. ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE AGE OF TRANSLATION
    ANTOINE BERMAN
    The Age of Translation is the first English translation of Antoine Berman’s commentary on Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay ‘The Task of the Translator’. Chantal Wright’s translation includes an introduction which positions the text in relation to current developments in translation studies, and provides prefatory explanations before each section as a guide to Walter Benjamin’s i...

    $1,039.00

  • A WORKBOOK OF ACCEPTANCE-BASED APPROACHES FOR WEIGHT CONCERNS
    MARGIT BERMAN
    This three-part workbook offers a concise and forgiving research- based guide to clients’ diffi culties with sustained weight loss. Part 1 is a review of your client’s previous efforts at weight control and image change, as well as information and a review of research to help your client understand why weight loss might not have worked in the past. Part 2 contains information a...

    $739.00

  • A CLINICIAN’S GUIDE TO ACCEPTANCE-BASED APPROACHES FOR WEIGHT CONCERNS
    MARGIT BERMAN
    This clinician manual presents the Accept Yourself! Program, which is derived from empirically supported interventions (including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Health At Every Size) that have a demonstrated ability to enhance women’s mental and physical health. This book offers a clear, research-based, and forgiving explanation for clients’ failure to lose weight, helpf...

    $939.00

  • LEARNING INTERVENTION
    JEANETTE BERMAN / LORRAINE GRAHAM
    This book explores what learning intervention means in inclusive classroom settings. It provides educational professionals with the knowledge and skills they require to reflect on, and respond to students’ individual learning needs, and enables them to choose, implement and evaluate evidence-based strategies for learning intervention. Taking an ecological perspective, and placi...

    $999.00

  • PRECISION MEDICINE AND THE REINVENTION OF HUMAN DISEASE
    JULES J. BERMAN
    Despite what you may have read in the popular press and in social media, Precision Medicine is not devoted to finding unique treatments for individuals, based on analyzing their DNA. To the contrary, the goal of Precision Medicine is to find general treatments that are highly effective for large numbers of individuals who fall into precisely diagnosed groups. We now know that...

    $1,662.00

  • PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
    EVAN M. BERMAN
    While public administration practice and education in general has become considerably professionalized in the last decade, existing knowledge on public administration in Southeast Asia is fragmented at best, and often devoid of a useful reference. While journal articles and government reports provide decentralized information, Public Administration in Southeast Asia: Thailand, ...

    $1,179.00

  • SOJOURNS AND EXTREMES OF STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
    SIMEON BERMAN
    Sojourns and Extremes of Stochastic Processes is a research monograph in the area of probability theory. During the past thirty years Berman has made many contributions to the theory of the extreme values and sojourn times of the sample functions of broad classes of stochastic processes. These processes arise in theoretical and applied models, and are presented here in a unif...

    $1,659.00

  • DEATH EDUCATION IN THE WRITING CLASSROOM
    JEFFREY BERMAN
    Death is often encountered in English courses—Hamlet’s death, celebrity death, death from the terrorist attacks on 9/11—but students rarely have the opportunity to write about their own experiences with death. In Death Education in the Writing Classroom, Jeffrey Berman shows how college students can write safely about dying, death, and bereavement. The book is based on an under...

    $2,000.00

  • THE LIMITS OF EXPERTISE
    R. KEY DISMUKES / BENJAMIN A. BERMAN / LOUKIA LOUKOPOULOS
    Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights? The majority of all aviation accidents are attributed primarily to human error, but this is often misinterpreted as evidence of lack of skill, vigilance, or conscientiousness of the pilots. The Limits of Expertise is a fresh look...

    $1,279.00

  • GERMANS ON THE KENYAN COAST
    NINA BERMAN
    “Shed[s] light on the romantic, psychosexual and psychosocial, and economic entanglements that tie German tourists to their Kenyan hosts.” —Daily Nation Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tou...

    $251.00

  • ON THE SEMANTICS OF WH-CLAUSES
    STEPHEN BERMAN
    First published in 1994, this book is concerned with certain kinds of wh-clauses, whose interpretations are easily and, the author argues, plausibly rendered by a logicosemantic analysis on which wh-phrases translate as open sentences, that is, as expressions of the semantically interpreted representation which contain free variables. After a review of influential contemporary ...

    $459.00

  • THE BLUEPRINT FOR STRATEGIC ADVERTISING
    MARGO BERMAN
    The Blueprint for Strategic Advertising’s step-by-step approach takes a comprehensive and exclusive look into the strategic use of visual, verbal, social media, integrated, and global of advertising communication. Its deconstructive process analyzes one aspect at a time, creating an invaluable research tool that students, professors, small business owners and entrepreneurs will...

    $1,279.00

  • THE PROFESSIONAL EDGE
    JAMES S. BOWMAN / JONATHAN P. WEST / MARGO BERMAN / MONTGOMERY VAN WART
    The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, multi-sector careers - require enhanced technical, ethical, and leadership skills. This concise and readable work describes what it means to be a consummate professional public servant. It sets standards for everyone who conducts the public's business and links them with...

    $1,599.00

  • METROPOLITAN JEWS
    LILA CORWIN BERMAN
    In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit’s Jews played in the city’s well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked toward Detroit to understand twentieth-century urban transformations, Metropolitan Jews tells the story of Jews leaving the city whil...

    $329.00

  • RADIOLOGÍA DE URGENCIAS Y EMERGENCIAS
    NIGEL RABY / LAURENCE BERMAN / SIMON MORLEY / GERALD DE LACEY
    Desde la publicación de su primera edición, esta obra, centrada en la interpretación de las imágenes de radiografía simple, se ha convertido en un referente esencial para todos aquellos profesionales que trabajan en los servicios de urgencias. La precisión en el diagnóstico radiológico depende, principalmente, de un sólido conocimiento de la anatomía normal. El cumplimiento de ...

    $518.00

  • A COLLECTION OF PROBLEMS ON A COURSE OF MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
    G. N. BERMAN
    Collection of Problems on a Course of Mathematical Analysis contains selected problems and exercises on the main branches of a Technical College course of mathematical analysis. This book covers the topics of functions, limits, derivatives, differential calculus, curves, definite integral, integral calculus, methods of evaluating definite integrals, and their applications. Ot...

    $1,249.00

  • TRANSPARENCY MASTERS FOR MATHEMATICS REVEALED
    ELIZABETH BERMAN
    Transparency Masters for Mathematics Revealed focuses on master diagrams that can be used for transparencies for an overhead projector or duplicator masters for worksheets. The book offers information on a compilation of master diagrams prepared by John R. Stafford, Jr., audiovisual supervisor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Some of the transparencies are design...

    $425.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO COMBINATORICS
    GERALD BERMAN / K. D. FRYER
    Introduction to Combinatorics focuses on the applications, processes, methodologies, and approaches involved in combinatorics or discrete mathematics. The book first offers information on introductory examples, permutations and combinations, and the inclusion-exclusion principle. Discussions focus on some applications of the inclusion-exclusion principle, derangements, calcul...

    $970.00

  • MATHEMATICS REVEALED
    ELIZABETH BERMAN
    Mathematics Revealed focuses on the principles, processes, operations, and exercises in mathematics. The book first offers information on whole numbers, fractions, and decimals and percents. Discussions focus on measuring length, percent, decimals, numbers as products, addition and subtraction of fractions, mixed numbers and ratios, division of fractions, addition, subtraction...

    $1,249.00

  • NONNEGATIVE MATRICES IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
    ABRAHAM BERMAN / ROBERT J. PLEMMONS
    Nonnegative Matrices in the Mathematical Sciences provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of the theory of nonnegative matrices. This book describes selected applications of the theory to numerical analysis, probability, economics, and operations research. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the properties of nonnegative matrices....

    $970.00

  • A HISTORY OF ATHEISM IN BRITAIN
    DAVID BERMAN
    Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism. This first history of British atheism, first published in 1987, tries to explain this reaction while exhibiting the development of atheism from Hobbes to Russell. Although avowed atheism appeared surprisingly late – 1782 in Britain – there were covert atheists in the middle seventeenth century. By tracing its...

    $1,179.00

  • GEORGE BERKELEY ALCIPHRON IN FOCUS
    DAVID BERMAN
    Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732) is Berkeley's main work of philosophical theology and a crucial source of his views on meaning and language. This edition contains the four most important dialogues and a selection of critical essays and commentaries reflecting the response of such writers as Hutcheson, Mill and Antony Flew. The only single edition currently in print,...

    $999.00

  • THE GREATEST MOMENTS IN SPORTS: UPSETS AND UNDERDOGS
    LEN BERMAN
    Everyone loves an underdog - and now you can experience and share the greatest upsets in sports history with The Greatest Moments in Sports: Upsets and Underdogs! This book plus audio CD is all about "the little guy," the athlete or team that seemingly has no chance. Any yet somehow they emerge victorious. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Moments in Sp...

    $405.00


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