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  • PRACTICING THE PROMISE
    BRUCE L. TAYLOR
    The Scripture readings for Year C of the Common Lectionary (Revised) pair the Gospel of Luke, rich in its unique stories surrounding Jesus' birth, Jesus' care for the marginalized, and parables at once beloved and profound, with Old Testament and epistolary testimony to life-imparting faith in God's promises. Bruce Taylor's homiletical proclamation through the first half of Yea...

    $479.00

  • CURRENTLY AWAY
    BRUCE TATE
    The walls were closing in on Bruce and Maggie Tate. Isolation forced on them by the pandemic, combined with America's growing political factionalism, threatened their bonds with community and family. Something had to change. Maggie's surprising answer: buy a boat, learn to pilot it, and embark on the Great Loop. For nine months Bruce and Maggie navigated rivers, coastal waters,...

    $347.00

  • FACE PERCEPTION
    ANDY YOUNG / VICKI BRUCE
    Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex, and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive or approachable. Face Perception, second edition, has been thoroughly updated throughout, pr...

    $1,179.00

  • DEMOCRACY’S ACHILLES HEEL
    BRUCE FLEMING
    Democracy’s Achilles Heel argues that the structure of democracy is a combination of two incompatible worldviews: one relativist and liberal, the other absolutist and conservative. This combination of opposites is essential for its survival, yet places democracy at risk since each worldview is prone to trying to engulf the other, creating threats from both the right and the lef...

    $1,039.00

  • CHALLENGING THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ABOUT RESIDENTIAL CARE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
    BRUCE B. HENDERSON
    Is residential care 'inherently harmful'? This book argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong and is, itself, harmful to a significant number of children and youth. The presumptive view is based largely on overgeneralizations from research with infants and very young children raised in extremely deprived environments. A careful analysis of the available research supports th...

    $1,099.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO JOURNALISM IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    BRUCE MUTSVAIRO
    Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opportunities presented to journalists and journalism educators if they choose to pa...

    $1,179.00

  • INTRODUCTORY ELEMENTS OF ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
    BRUCE C. GATES / ROBERT L. POWELL
    Introductory Elements of Analysis and Design in Chemical Engineering introduces readers to how chemical engineers think. It explains the application of analytical methods to phenomena important in chemical engineering and teaches analytical skills in the context of engineering design. A principle goal is to help readers reinforce their understanding of mathematics (especially c...

    $1,799.00

  • TRUTH BE TOLD
    BRUCE L. TAYLOR
    In his latest volume of sermons for the Common Lectionary (Revised), homilist Bruce Taylor has compiled more of his traditional and story form proclamations for the Sundays and feast days from Pentecost through Christ the King in Year B of the three-year lectionary cycle. Preached in various congregational settings, these sermons are theologically rich, sacramentally sensitive,...

    $497.00

  • SCHOOLING, HUMAN CAPITAL AND CIVILIZATION
    BRUCE MOGHTADER
    This book explores the formation of human capital in education, interrogating its social and ethical implications, and examining its role in generating policies and practices that govern curriculum studies as an academic field. Using an inquiry approach and offering an intellectual history of human capital theory through a genealogical methodology, the author begins by contextu...

    $1,099.00

  • THE UNITED STATES NAVY’S PIVOT TO ASIA
    BRUCE A. ELLEMAN
    This book examines the origins of the US Navy’s 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the US government’s “Pivot to Asia” strategy, and the most recent revisions to this strategy that focus more specifically on China. Besides examining the details of this strategy formulation, the book explores the internal and external repercussions on the US Navy of the Pivot to Asia. It d...

    $1,099.00

  • WHAT DOES ‘ART’ MEAN NOW?
    BRUCE FLEMING
    What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now? asks, and answers, fundamental questions about the nature of aesthetic experience and role of the arts in contemporary society. The Modern Age, Romanticism and beyond, viewed art as something transcending and separated from life, and usually something encountered in museums or classrooms. Nowadays, however, art tends to be defined not by a commonly agr...

    $999.00

  • CÁLCULO DIFERENCIAL
    RON LARSON / BRUCE EDWARDS
    La nueva edición revisada y mejorada del clásico y exitoso libro de Ron Larson y Bruce Edwards, Cálculo diferencial, proporciona instrucciones claras, matemáticas precisas y una amplia cobertura para su curso. Esta obra forma parte de una serie de libros elaborados para cubrir de manera específica planes y programas de estudio de los principales cursos a nivel superior. ...

    $289.00

  • PROFESSIONAL FEATURE WRITING
    BRUCE GARRISON
    Professional Feature Writing provides an essential introduction to the basics of news media feature writing and establishes a solid foundation for students and writers making feature writing their careers. This sixth edition offers a thorough and up-to-date look at newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and online publications, with emphasis on daily newspapers, consumer magazines...

    $1,559.00

  • AIRLINE OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
    GERALD N. COOK / BRUCE G. BILLIG
    Airline Operations and Management: A Management Textbook presents a survey of the airline industry, with a strong managerial perspective. It integrates and applies the fundamentals of several management disciplines, particularly operations, marketing, economics and finance, to develop a comprehensive overview. It also provides readers with a solid historical background, and off...

    $1,439.00

  • EARSHOT
    BRUCE JOHNSON
    Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture. Although beginning with reference to antiquity, the primary focus is the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over the last six hundred years, covering the transition from the medieval period to the contemporary world. Since mythic times,...

    $979.00

  • WORLD POLITICS
    JEFFREY HAYNES / PETER HOUGH / BRUCE PILBEAM
    How can we better resolve issues like climate change or global pandemics? When is resolution of armed conflict achievable? What impact does culture, religion or identity have on world events? Today’s world politics is complex, contested and changing fast. Sovereign states, big data, international institutions, world leaders, large companies, and citizens all have vest...

    $1,012.45

  • CÁLCULO DIFERENCIAL E INTEGRAL
    RON LARSON / BRUCE EDWARDS
    Cálculo diferencial e integral de Ron Larson y Bruce Edwards proporciona instrucciones claras, matemáticas precisas y la amplia cobertura que los profesores y alumnos esperan de su curso. ...

    $476.00

  • UNDERSTANDING MUNICIPAL FISCAL HEALTH
    CRAIG S. MAHER / SUNGHO PARK / BRUCE D. MCDONALD III / STEVEN C. DELLER
    Understanding Municipal Fiscal Health provides an in-depth assessment of the fiscal health of cities throughout the United States. The book examines the tools currently available to cities for designing a revenue structure, measuring fiscal conditions and measuring fiscal health. It explains how artificial policies such as tax and expenditure limitations influence fiscal polici...

    $1,239.00

  • A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
    BRUCE M. ROWE / DIANE P. LEVINE
    Now in its sixth edition, A Concise Introduction to Linguistics provides students with a detailed introduction to the core concepts of language as it relates to culture. The textbook includes a focus on linguistic anthropology, unpacking the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human communication and culture. Aimed at the general education student, the textbook al...

    $2,400.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN STEM EDUCATION
    FAN OUYANG, PENGCHENG JIAO, BRUCE M. MCLAREN AND AMIR H. ALAVI
    Artificial intelligence (AI) opens new opportunities for STEM education in K-12, higher education, and professional education contexts. This book summarizes AI in education (AIED) with a particular focus on the research, practice, and technological paradigmatic shifts of AIED in recent years. The 23 chapters in this edited collection track the paradigmatic shifts of AIED in STE...

    $4,600.00

  • TEMPORAL EXPERIMENTS
    BRUCE BARNHART
    Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature conducts an expansive exploration of different modes of timing. Its seven chapters pursue the question of time as it is embodied in key figures that shape both aesthetic and pragmatic life. Working closely with literary, visual, and musical artworks, the book aims to provoke new ways of engaging with the...

    $1,099.00

  • KARCH'S DRUG ABUSE HANDBOOK
    STEVEN B. KARCH AND BRUCE A. GOLDBERGER
    Karch’s Drug Abuse Handbook, Third Edition remains the quintessential compendium addressing the pharmacological, medical, and legal aspects of drugs and informing the forensic community of the latest scientific advances and emergent practices. For this edition, Dr. Karch has brought on clinical and forensic toxicology expert Dr. Bruce Goldberger, editor-in-chief of the Journal ...

    $1,179.00

  • MASCULINITY FROM THE INSIDE
    BRUCE FLEMING
    Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and understand themselves. Based on the author’s experience of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range of theory, it identifies a disconnect between academic discourses on “masculinity,” based as these are on theoreti...

    $999.00

  • WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    BRUCE D. MCDONALD III AND WILLIAM HATCHER
    This book explores the issue and struggle of work-life balance in higher education. It provides a rare opportunity to shape the conversation surrounding work-life balance in academia and provide a venue for dialogue around balance that had previously been forced into secret. The challenges that surround work-life balance are something that we must all confront, but they are als...

    $1,339.00

  • PARASITOLOGY
    ERIC S. LOKER / BRUCE V. HOFKIN
    Produced amidst the still rippling effects of a pandemic and as the world experiences the increasing burden of global warming and a rapidly changing biosphere, the second edition of Parasitology: A Conceptual Approach offers a timely overview of the eukaryotic parasites affecting human health and the health of domestic and wild animals and plants. The book offers a broadly enco...

    $2,500.00

  • METHODOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ECONOMICS
    BRUCE CALDWELL
    This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration into the influential work of Wade Hands, examining the changing relationship between methodology and the history of economics in connection with contemporary developments in economics. The papers in this volume fall into four parts, each devoted to an important theme in Wade Hands’ work. The first part explores the influence a...

    $1,099.00

  • NON SOLA SCRIPTURA
    BRUCE FUDGE
    William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume brings together 17 contributions to the study of the Qur’an and Islam, all influenced by his work. Contributions to this collection, by his colleagues and students, treat many different aspects of Islamic scripture, from textual interpretation and hermeneutics to rec...

    $1,099.00

  • THE DEEP ROOTS OF AMERICAN NEOLIBERALISM
    BRUCE N. WALLER
    Focusing on why neoliberalism gained such a unique strong hold in the United States, philosopher Bruce N. Waller in this book traces the source back to the country’s origins and the entwined core values of the nation’s Founding Fathers. Their extreme commitment to private property rights (as evinced in a unanimous vote for the Constitution’s Fugitive Slave Clause), an aversion ...

    $999.00

  • THE CIVILIZING PROCESS AND THE PAST WE NOW ABHOR
    BRUCE FLEMING
    Drawing on the thought of Norbert Elias and using as a thread a purposely apolitical example of cruelty to animals to focus on changes in attitudes, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor. As we struggle to deal with the fact that our past shapes us—indeed is us, but is not us—and cannot be changed, the modern tendency is to demand merely cos...

    $999.00

  • PARTICIPATORY DESIGN AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
    JOHN A. BRUCE
    Participatory Design and Social Transformation introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for society and the environment. Participatory artistic- and design-based research encounters – being, making, and learning with people, things, and situations – are explored through practi...

    $539.00