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  • DAY FIGHTER ACES OF THE LUFTWAFFE
    JEREMY DIXON
    The German fighter pilots of the Second World War are among the undoubted heroes of the conflict, their reputation for flying skill, single-minded determination and solitary courage hasn’t diminished or been clouded by controversy over the years. Their daring and commitment, often displayed when, towards the end of the war, they were fighting against the odds, matches that of a...

    $319.85

  • AFRICA
    TONY BINNS / ETIENNE NEL / ALAN DIXON / KENNETH LYNCH
    Africa: Diversity and Development introduces and de-mystifies Africa’s diversity and dynamism, and considers how its peoples and environments have interacted through time and space. The book examines the background and diversity of Africa’s social, cultural, economic, political and environmental systems, as well as key development issues which have affected Africa in the past a...

    $1,099.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
    KEITH SMITH / CARINA J. FEARNLEY / DEBORAH DIXON / DEANNE K. BIRD / ILAN KELMAN
    The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental hazards and their management, illustrating how natural and human systems i...

    $1,099.00

  • THEORISING PUBLIC PEDAGOGY
    KAREN CHARMAN / MARY DIXON
    Drawing on the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, this book extends the theoretical understanding of public pedagogy and brings into sharp focus the elements that constitute the public realm; the site of public pedagogy. Karen Charman and Mary Dixon offer a new theorisation of the public, a term at the heart of debate in the field, heightened in this post-truth era by ...

    $1,099.00

  • MODERN LAND LAW
    MARTIN DIXON
    Modern Land Law is one of the most current and reliable textbooks available on land law today, offering a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system. Providing an accessible approach to a complex subject, this compact textbook provides an absorbing analysis of all the key legal principles relating to land. Written with studen...

    $1,059.00

  • THE SECRET OF THE OLD MILL
    FRANKLIN W. DIXON
    Frank and Joe help prevent Ken Blake from getting killed in a cycling accident. The Hardy Boys learn that their friend Chet Morton was swindles when he made change for what turned out to be a counterfeit twenty dollar bill, something that the police later confirm is becoming more common in their town of Bayport. Later, Joe is awakened by a clattering sound and sees a mysteriou...

    $19.00

  • THE HOUSE ON THE CLIFF
    FRANKLIN W. DIXON
    Fenton Hardy, the famous private detective and father of the Hardy Boys, asks his sons to help him with his latest case involving the illegal drug trade. Hardy sends Frank and Joe to a house on the cliff, whose location offers an excellent vantage point to watch for smugglers. The Hardy Boys are tricked into going inside the house by cries for help, and find themselves trapped...

    $19.00

  • THE TOWER TREASURE
    FRANKLIN W. DIXON
    Frank and Joe Hardy were driving along on their motorcycles one pleasant afternoon when a roadster driven by an apparent madman almost ran them down. The event happened so fast that all the boys noticed was the drivers' bright red hair. Later, that same red-haired driver attempted to rob a ferry boat office, and successfully made off with a yellow roadster called Queen from th...

    $9.00

  • ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY FOR BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS
    MARK R. DIXON / STEVEN C. HAYES / JORDAN BELISLE
    This book provides a thorough discussion of acceptance and commitment therapy or training (ACT) and a guide for its use by behavior analysts. The book emphasizes how the intentional development of six core behavioral processes – values, committed action, acceptance, defusion, self-as-context, and present moment awareness – help establish the psychological flexibility needed to ...

    $1,239.00

  • KEEPING THE PEACE
    STEVEN K DIXON
    The complete operational history of an outstanding Marine fighter squadron throughout the Cold War. The Thunderbolts of VMFA-251 were reactivated as a Marine Air Reserve squadron in 1946. Their Cold War only included a few weeks of traditional combat operations—in Korea—but they would undertake constant training exercises and deployments from 1946 to 1991 as they prepared for a...

    $293.62

  • DESIGN, PHILOSOPHY AND MAKING THINGS HAPPEN
    BRIAN DIXON
    Drawing from the work of Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to the practice of engaging in design research for change. These insights are explored and presented as a set of potential strategies for grounding transformative design research within an intellectual context which both embraces and celebrates experience, proce...

    $1,099.00

  • INFANTICIDE
    RACHEL DIXON
    Infanticide examines medical expert evidence in infanticide cases, focusing specifically on the shifting notion of "certainty" in medical testimony. Beginning in the Early Modern period and concluding in the mid-twentieth century, it considers how courts determined whether an infant died from natural causes or other reasons, including violence. The book explores expert evidence...

    $1,099.00

  • INFINITE GROUPS
    MARTYN R. DIXON / LEONID A. KURDACHENKO / IGOR YA. SUBBOTIN
    In recent times, group theory has found wider applications in various fields of algebra and mathematics in general. But in order to apply this or that result, you need to know about it, and such results are often diffuse and difficult to locate, necessitating that readers construct an extended search through multiple monographs, articles, and papers. Such readers must wade thro...

    $4,600.00

  • VENUS WAS HER NAME
    PATRICIA DIXON
    “Oh wow! The read of the summer—stunning and beautiful, I smiled and I cried . . . heart stopping . . . truly magnificent.” —Goodreads reviewer, five stars Time is running out for an ageing rock star living in France, in this compelling epic by the author of Birthright . . . Older and wiser, Joe Jarrett, who was once the lead singer of one of the biggest rock bands on the plane...

    $149.00

  • THE HUMAN SIDE OF ANIMALS
    ROYAL DIXON
    Excerpt: "In this book I have attempted to bring together many old and new observations which tend to show the human-like qualities of animals. The treatment is neither formal nor scholastic, in fact I do not always remain within the logical confines of the title. My sole purpose is to make the reader self-active, observative, free from hide-bound prejudice, and reborn as a par...

    $39.70

  • PERSONALITY OF PLANTS
    ROYAL DIXON
    Excerpt: "It is largely the object of this book to explore the inner recesses of breathing and thinking plantdom—to take the reader beyond the limits of text-book botany into regions of sympathetic insight—to show how even human arts and sciences are unchangeably bound up with the lives and hopes of the grasses and flowers To do this comprehensively, it has been thought wise no...

    $39.70

  • FOREST FRIENDS
    ROYAL DIXON
    Excerpt: "It was a beautiful evening in the forest, and under the moonlight there was a great gathering of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Elephant, and the Kangaroos, the Foxes, and the handsome Leopards, even sprightly little Miss Lynx, and a number of the aristocratic jungle Deer were seated, all in a great circle, around the pleasant pool which shone in the moonlight, and displayed t...

    $39.70

  • LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
    J. KELLY COKER, PHD, LCMHC, NCC, BC-TMH / KRISTI B. CANNON, PHD, LPC, NCC / SAVITRI V. DIXON-SAXON, PH
    It's refreshing to see a lifespan text written by helping professionals for helping professionals. This is the exact textbook I have been searching for since I began teaching this course 15 years ago. I know my students will gain a lot of insight from the case studies and podcasts. This is an essential text for my class and I am grateful for all the supplemental instructional r...

    $1,862.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK TO THE MUSIC OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE
    GAVIN DIXON
    The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century. Each piece is discussed in detail, with particular attention to the composer’s groundbreaking polystylism, as well as his unique approach to musical symbolism and his deep engagement with Christian themes. This is ...

    $1,179.00

  • THE WORLD OF POPE'S SATIRES
    PETER DIXON
    First published in 1968, The World of Pope’s Satires is a stimulating and challenging book showing how the satires written by Pope during the 1730s were not only expressions of his own .poetic personality but were also responsive to the habits and attitudes of the age. The author considers Pope’s uses of some current conversational technique (especially that of ‘raillery’) and ...

    $859.00

  • DEMYSTIFYING AI FOR THE ENTERPRISE
    PRASHANT NATARAJAN / BOB ROGERS / EDWARD DIXON / JONAS CHRISTENSEN / KIRK BORNE / LELAND WILKINSON / SHANT
    Artificial intelligence (AI) in its various forms –– machine learning, chatbots, robots, agents, etc. –– is increasingly being seen as a core component of enterprise business workflow and information management systems. The current promise and hype around AI are being driven by software vendors, academic research projects, and startups. However, we posit that the greatest promi...

    $1,339.00

  • GENDER, SEXUALITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE LIVES OF BRITISH LIFESTYLE MIGRANTS IN SPAIN
    LAURA DIXON
    This book takes an intimate look at the lives of British migrants in Sitges, an affluent coastal tourist town in Northern Spain and investigates ideas of gender, sexuality, and national identity as they are brought to life through the voices of British lifestyle migrants. Situating Sitges as a specifically affluent and "middle-class" location representing a particular form of "...

    $1,099.00

  • THEORY AND METHODS FOR PUBLIC PEDAGOGY RESEARCH
    KAREN CHARMAN / MARY DIXON
    Theory and Methods for Public Pedagogy Research introduces promising new methods of public pedagogy research centered around transforming rather than explaining knowledge. The new methods are premised on a new theorisation of public pedagogy which recognises the educative agent. The agency of the public to speak, to be heard, to know is manifest as the educative agent speaks th...

    $1,039.00

  • BLAME
    PATRICIA DIXON
    “A compelling exploration of the human psyche . . . stands out as an excellent piece of psychological fiction” from the bestselling author of #MeToo (Book Rant Reviews). What if the past came knocking? Frankie is running away from her past and the repercussions of a night that changed her life forever. Hoping for a fresh start she unexpectedly falls in love. Unbeknown to Franki...

    $189.00

  • THE DESTINY SERIES BOOKS ONE TO FIVE
    PATRICIA DIXON
    The heartwarming, complete five-book series about love, family, romance, and friendship, from the bestselling author of The Other Woman. Book 1: Rosie and Ruby Working-class Ruby and middle-class Rosie are cousins with a bond forged in childhood—and mothers who aren’t quite the best. But can Rosie and Ruby’s bond survive through time and hardship? And in Ruby’s hour of need, wi...

    $329.00

  • SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    KEITH DIXON
    Most professional sociologists claim that sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science. Keith Dixon argues here that this claim is formulated in such a way that a proper evaluation of its status is extremely difficult, and that the contingent objections to the possibility of sociological theorizing are sufficiently strong for such activity to be labelled as pretence. He ...

    $739.00

  • #METOO
    PATRICIA DIXON
    A woman is caught in a web of deceit when her ex is convicted of rape in this British psychological thriller based on true events. When Billie receives a desperate letter from the man she loves, she returns home to Manchester, determined to help him. Convicted of a crime he swears he didn’t commit, Stan is trying to make his case from prison. Meanwhile, his accuser, Kelly, is s...

    $109.00

  • LIARS
    ANITA WALLER / PATRICIA DIXON
    Two British masters of suspense weave a gripping tale of enduring friendship, buried secrets, and deadly revenge in this psychological thriller. Best friends since childhood, Wendy and Nell know each other better than anyone—or so they think. When someone threatens to reveal a secret that would destroy their bond, it alters the course of both their lives. Nell leaves for France...

    $179.00

  • PERIGLACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY
    ATHOL D. ABRAHAMS / ‎JOHN C. DIXON
    This book, first published in 1992, contains the proceedings of the 22nd Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, and highlights the quantity and diversity of periglacial geomorphic research being undertaken in Arctic and alpine environments. The articles explore a variety of geomorphic processes and examine the potential impacts of global change on the nature and extent of permafro...

    $979.00

  • LINEAR GROUPS
    MARTYN R. DIXON / LEONID A. KURDACHENKO / IGOR YA. SUBBOTIN
    Linear Groups: The Accent on Infinite Dimensionality explores some of the main results and ideas in the study of infinite-dimensional linear groups. The theory of finite dimensional linear groups is one of the best developed algebraic theories. The array of articles devoted to this topic is enormous, and there are many monographs concerned with matrix groups, ranging from old, ...

    $1,339.00


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