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  • CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND GREEN FINANCE
    GISELE ARRUDA / LARA JOHANNSDOTTIR
    This book presents specific case studies of climate finance in the Arctic and examines how the green revolution could be a game changer in this sensitive region. Bringing together contributions from a range of experts in the field, Climate Change Adaptation and Green Finance assesses the costs of inaction versus the costs of action based on case study examples of climate financ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE ART OF DINING IN MEDIEVAL BYZANTIUM
    LARA FRENTROP
    Thousands of intact ceramic bowls and plates as well as fragments made in the medieval Byzantine empire survive to this day. Decorated with figural and non-figural imagery applied in a variety of techniques and adorned with colourful paints and glazes, the vessels can tell us much about those who owned them and those who looked at them. In addition to innumerable ceramic vessel...

    $1,099.00

  • LEARNING FROM SERIAL WINNING COACHES
    CLIFF MALLETT / SERGIO LARA-BERCIAL
    Learning from Serial Winning Coaches provides performance coaches and directors, coach developers, and researchers with the knowledge and tools to affirm and challenge policy and practice and conduct further research to inform future policy and practice in the identification, recruitment, and development of performance coaches. Leading an athlete or team to an Olympic or world ...

    $999.00

  • HOLY PRESENCE, HOLY PREACHING
    MARIA TERESA MONTES LARA OP / VINCENT J. PASTRO
    Almost 500 years ago, a Mexica survivor of the conquista was on his way to catechism lessons just outside present-day Mexico City. He experienced a holy presence on the hill of Tepeyac that changed the hermeneutic of the dignity of the poor forever. This book is about Our Lady of Guadalupe under her popular title "Santa Maria Tonantzin Guadalupe." It centers on her indigenous a...

    $479.00

  • PSYCHOANALYSIS UNDER OCCUPATION
    LARA SHEEHI / STEPHEN SHEEHI
    Heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engaging the theories of decoloniality and liberatory psychoanalysis, Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi platform the lives, perspectives, and insights of psychoanalytically inflected Palestinian psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals, centering the stories that non-clinical Palestinians have entrusted t...

    $1,039.00

  • CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE ARCTIC
    GISELE M. ARRUDA / LARA JOHANNSDOTTIR
    Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arctic considers the new trends and frontiers of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) studies that are shaping the future of global business strategy and ethics. This book systematically approaches the CSR framework of internal and external factors and their impact on the social responsibility of businesses within the sensitive environmen...

    $1,099.00

  • DECENTERING SUBJECTIVITY IN EVERYDAY EATING AND DRINKING
    ALI LARA
    This important book offers a model to analyze the configurations of reality as manifested in everyday practices of eating and drinking in relation to the development of human subjectivity. The author uses concrete examples from daily life related to eating and drinking habits such as "eating tacos" or "taking a shot of mezcal", to offer an interface of interaction between body/...

    $1,039.00

  • THE SCENOGRAPHY OF HOWARD BARKER
    LARA MALEEN KIPP
    Influential contemporary British playwright and director Howard Barker has been engaging with the scenography of the Wrestling School’s productions since 1998. Despite this active involvement in the design of set, costume, lighting, and sound, no in-depth published study on this aspect of his work exists to date. This monograph therefore offers the first comprehensive and detai...

    $1,059.00

  • AMATEUR HOUR
    LARA BROWN
    This book assesses the impact of presidential character on the popularity, productivity, and ethics of contemporary presidents. Through comparative analyses, author Lara Brown demonstrates that the character of a president’s leadership does not change in office and that the success of future presidents can be evaluated before they step into the White House. She traces the rise ...

    $999.00

  • VIRTUAL REALITY DESIGNS
    ADRIANA PEÑA PÉREZ NEGRÓN / ‎GRACIELA LARA LÓPEZ / ‎HÉCTOR RAFAEL OROZCO AGUIRRE
    Virtual Reality is not real life. Instead it is life-like creations using computer-generated scenarios. Human behavior is replicated in virtual scenarios, where every detail is controlled by computers, and in situations that can be repeated under the same conditions. Based on technology and design, the user can experience presence. In the virtual world, users are embodied in av...

    $1,939.00

  • BY THEIR SIDE
    LARA LYN BELL
    This practical resource guide shares essential information and personal stories from eating disorder survivors, family members, caretakers, and others. When someone you love is in the throes of an eating disorder, it can be difficult to believe recovery is possible. By Their Side offers help and hope to those fighting alongside a loved one in the struggle against this heartbrea...

    $229.00

  • BECOMING A HEALTH PSYCHOLOGIST
    TRACEY A. REVENSON / PATRICE G. SAAB / PEGGY M. ZOCCOLA / LARA N. TRAEGER
    Becoming a Health Psychologist provides an overview of the different training paths students can take to prepare themselves for graduate school and careers in the field of health psychology. You’ll find tips on how to choose and apply for graduate programs as well as numerous practical examples such as emails to potential advisors and questions to ask during interviews. Through...

    $779.00

  • SANFILIPPO'S TEXTBOOK OF PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY
    JOSEPH S. SANFILIPPO, EDUARDO LARA-TORRE AND VERONICA GOMEZ-LOBO
    This textbook provides a comprehensive review of all the common and less often encountered pediatric and adolescent gynecology problems in daily practice, both in the ambulatory as well as in the surgical setting. This new edition has been updated to keep it closely aligned to what general gynecologists or family physicians will want to know when dealing with a paediatric or ad...

    $1,199.00

  • EVERYDAY SELF-CARE FOR EDUCATORS
    CARLA TANTILLO PHILIBERT / CHRISTOPHER SOTO / LARA VEON
    If you’re an educator experiencing burnout, compassion fatigue, or vicarious trauma, this book will help you embrace tangible self-care practices to improve your well-being both in and out of the classroom. Using the framework of the "window of capacity"—the zone of the nervous system arousal in which a person is able to function most effectively—the authors illustrate not only...

    $779.00

  • RANGER'S JUSTICE
    LARA LACOMBE
    An FBI profiler and a ranger team up to stop a vicious predator prowling a national park in Texas . . . FBI profiler Rebecca Wade is used to tough, gruesome cases. But the prospect of a serial killer targeting women in Big Bend National Park gets under her skin in a way she never anticipated. She finds herself working with an unexpected partner—enigmatic park ranger Quinn Galla...

    $109.00

  • LORD STANTON'S LAST MISTRESS
    LARA TEMPLE
    He’s finally found the woman who saved his life—and now he can’t resist her—in this passionate Regency by an author with “a delightful gift with words” (RT Book Reviews). Lord Stanton’s long-ago stay on the island of Illiakos is shrouded in memories of fever—and his mysterious nurse. Years later, an Illiakan royal visit to Stanton Hall reveals the princess’s chaperone, Christin...

    $109.00

  • ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN
    LARA VAPNEK
    In 1906, fifteen-year old Elizabeth Gurley Flynn mounted a soapbox in Times Square to denounce capitalism and proclaim a new era for women's freedom. Quickly recognized as an outstanding public speaker and formidable organizer, she devoted her life to creating a socialist America, "free from poverty, exploitation, greed and injustice." Flynn became the most important female lea...

    $1,039.00

  • LORD RAVENSCAR'S INCONVENIENT BETROTHAL
    LARA TEMPLE
    A marquess and a stubborn heiress are trapped together—and the only solution is marriage . . . “Will thrill Regency fans.” —RT Book Reviews Alan Rothwell, Marquess of Ravenscar, is furious when unconventional heiress Lily Wallace refuses him purchase of her property. He can’t even win her over with his infamous charm. But then he is seized by fever and they’re trapped together....

    $109.00

  • LORD HUNTER'S CINDERELLA HEIRESS
    LARA TEMPLE
    She’s betrothed—to the wrong man! “Quite the swoon-worthy hero . . . I think I fell for him every bit as hard as Nell did.” —All About Romance Building a life away from her bullying family, schoolmistress Helen Tilney now needs to convince her childhood sweetheart she’s a worthy bride . . . despite being awkwardly tall and more comfortable with horses than house parties. But st...

    $109.00

  • SEX TRAFFICKING AND COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
    LARA B. GERASSI, PHD, LCSW / ANDREA J. NICHOLS, PHD
    This is the first comprehensive text to critically analyze the current research and best practices for working with children, adolescents, and adults involved in sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). With a unique, research-based focus on practice, the book synthesizes the key areas related to working with victims of sex trafficking/ CSE including prevention...

    $1,064.00

  • TEACHING SCIENCE TO EVERY CHILD
    JOHN SETTLAGE / SHERRY A. SOUTHERLAND / LARA K. SMETANA / PAMELA S. LOTTERO-PERDUE
    Ambitious and encouraging, this text for prospective and practicing elementary and middle school science teachers, grounded in contemporary science education reform, is a valuable resource that supplies concrete approaches to support the science and science-integrated engineering learning of each and every student. At its core, it is based in the view that science is its own cu...

    $1,499.00

  • HER LIEUTENANT PROTECTOR
    LARA LACOMBE
    A mysterious outbreak propels a doctor and a wounded veteran into deadly danger on the high seas in this suspenseful medical romance. After a traumatic incident years before, Dr. Mallory Watkins doesn’t trust easily. As the resident doctor aboard the Abigail Adams cruise ship, she’ll be able to focus on her work and escape her troubled past. She’ll just have to be wary of sexy ...

    $109.00

  • DR. DO-OR-DIE
    LARA LACOMBE
    Two doctors are on thin ice as they race across the Antarctic to save the world from a deadly disease in this romantic medical thriller. Epidemic researcher Dr. Avery Thatcher has studied countless illnesses, but nothing could prepare her for what she finds at a remote Antarctic base. A mysterious ailment is ravaging inhabitants. And among those desperate to solve the crisis is...

    $109.00

  • THE RELUCTANT VISCOUNT
    LARA TEMPLE
    In this Regency romance, a viscount is accused of murder, and his childhood friend steps up to offer an alibi . . . and her hand in marriage. A decade ago, wallflower Alyssa Drake’s heart broke when Adam Alistair was banished from Mowbray. Now, he’s back—wealthy, titled and more cynical than before! And Alyssa’s determined not to fall under this notorious rake’s spell ever agai...

    $109.00

  • ENTICED BY THE OPERATIVE
    LARA LACOMBE
    The lives of a beautiful surgeon and her DEA agent protector are at stake in this thrilling tale!   On a medical mission to South America, Dr. Olivia Sandoval hardly expects to be threatened by a drug cartel. To save lives, Olivia agrees to transport drugs for them. When DEA agent Logan Murray appears as her partner-in-crime and rescuer, Olivia's relieved…and drawn to her knigh...

    $109.00

  • LORD CRAYLE'S SECRET WORLD
    LARA TEMPLE
    A desperate highwaywoman’s attempt to rob a dashing spymaster leads to an enticing arrangement in this thrilling Regency romance. Holding a lord at gunpoint, Miss Sari Trevor wonders how it came to this. One look into the icy gray eyes of Michael D’Alency Alistair, Earl of Crayle, and she knows she’s out of her depth. But then, this enigmatic lord makes Sari a mysterious offer ...

    $109.00

  • HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION
    MIGUEL A. LABRADOR / OSCAR D. LARA YEJAS
    Learn How to Design and Implement HAR Systems The pervasiveness and range of capabilities of today's mobile devices have enabled a wide spectrum of mobile applications that are transforming our daily lives, from smartphones equipped with GPS to integrated mobile sensors that acquire physiological data. Human Activity Recognition: Using Wearable Sen ...

    $1,299.00

  • SITUATING GLOBAL RESISTANCE
    LARA MONTESINOS COLEMAN AND KAREN TUCKER
    The book examines some of the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering. Grounded in analysis of concrete practices of discipline and dissent in specific contexts, it explores the ways in which resistance can be shaped by dominant ways of thinking, seeing or enacting politics and by the multiform relations of power at...

    $1,379.00

  • MORAL SELF-REGARD
    LARA DENIS
    Moral Self-Regard draws on the work of Marcia Baron, Joseph Butler and Allen Wood, among others in this first extensive study of the nature, foundation and significance of duties to oneself in Kant's moral theory. ...

    $1,399.00

  • RADIATION ONCOLOGY PRIMER AND REVIEW
    LARA BEST, MD / GEORGE RODRIGUES, MD FRCPC MSC / VIKRAM VELKER, MD
    Radiation Oncology Primer and Review describes the fundamental concepts, nomenclature and definitions of the field of radiation oncology that every trainee or practitioner needs to know. Divided into three sections, Radiation Oncology Primer and Review covers basic science, clinical science, and technical and planning issues to give the trainee a full overview of the core knowl...

    $1,472.00


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