Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter smith

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  • UNDERSTANDING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE FOR NURSING ASSOCIATES
    MELISSA OWENS / JENNY ADAMS / PETER ROGERS / HANNAH SMITH / VICKIE WELSH
    Providing evidence-based care is fundamental to working safely and effectively as a nursing associate. This book equips you with the skills to identify, evaluate and apply evidence and research to your practice. From day-to-day procedures and decision-making, to addressing health inequalities and implementing service improvement, it develops your confidence in using evidence to...

    $386.53

  • WHITE COLLAR WORKERS
    PETER ARMSTRONG / BOB CARTER / CHRIS SMITH / THEO NICHOLS
    Originally published in 1986, the 1970s and 80s saw the emergence of the ‘the new working class’ or ‘new middle class’. This book is an authoritative study of the ‘white collar workers’ relationship with their unions and analysis of their newly designated class. The authors drew extensively on original fieldwork and verbatim accounts from technical workers and foremen in indust...

    $1,339.00

  • THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PARADOX
    ZACHARY A. SMITH / PETER JACQUES
    Now in its eighth edition, The Environmental Policy Paradox continues the book's tradition of offering an accessible introduction to the social, economic, legal, and political matters pertaining to environmental policy while also developing the student’s own unique views. The text explains why some environmental ideas shape policy while others do not and illustrates that even w...

    $1,699.00

  • GUIDE TO THE PRIMARY CARE GUIDELINES
    PETER SMITH
    This interactive workbook covers all the physiological and pharmacological aspects of pain and pain control. Each topic such as the central nervous system the human experience of pain and pain management is concisely covered in nine separate sessions. The workbook includes activities assignments worked examples self-assessment questions relating to learning objectives and learn...

    $999.00

  • SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA VOL 2
    MARK M SMITH / PETER S CARMICHAEL / TIMOTHY LOCKLEY / JONATHAN DANIEL WELLS
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 2 includes the Revolutionary and Early National Period and covers the Anti-Slavery Impulse and Reaction to It and...

    $1,299.00

  • SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA VOL 3
    MARK M SMITH / PETER S CARMICHAEL / TIMOTHY LOCKLEY / JONATHAN DANIEL WELLS
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 3 includes the Antebellum Period from 1828 to 1859. ...

    $1,299.00

  • SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA VOL 1
    MARK M. SMITH / PETER S CARMICHAEL / TIMOTHY LOCKLEY / JONATHAN DANIEL WELLS
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 1 includes a general introduction and the colonial period covering slavery and the law, slave resistance, religio...

    $1,299.00

  • SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA VOL 4
    MARK M SMITH / PETER S CARMICHAEL / TIMOTHY LOCKLEY / JONATHAN DANIEL WELLS
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 4 includes the Civil War and Emancipation period from 1861 to 1866. ...

    $1,299.00

  • BEYOND DISCIPLINARITY
    CATHERINE HAYES / JOHN FULTON / ANDREW LIVINGSTONE / CLAIRE TODD / STEPHEN CAPPER / PETER SMITH
    This book provides a means of comprehensively grounding and considering the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of practice-based research epistemologies. By introducing readers to the diverse array of methodological tools and concepts that are necessary to underpin postgraduate research, this book develops an understanding of the distinctions between practice-led r...

    $1,039.00

  • BULLYING IN YOUTH SPORTS TRAINING
    MIGUEL NERY / CARLOS NETO / ANTÓNIO ROSADO / PETER K. SMITH
    Based on an extensive national research project with global relevance, this pioneering volume draws on unique data on bullying in youth sports training collected from both athletes and coaches using a variety of methodological approaches. Nery, Neto, Rosado and Smith use this research to establish a baseline of the prevalence of bullying among young male athletes, offering evid...

    $899.00

  • THE FAMILY IN RURAL SOCIETY
    RAYMOND T COWARD / WILLIAM M SMITH / PETER L HELLER / LOUIS A PLOCH
    Social and political attention often is focused on urban issues, neglecting the still-rural character of much of the United States. This volume of original papers provides a clear picture of present-day rural society, with special emphasis on the changing role and structure of the family. It describes demographic trends, discusses the family aspects of the new wave of inmigrant...

    $1,099.00

  • CITY AND NATION
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH / THOMAS BENDER
    This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, sociology, and history - these essays problematize the dynamic between the local ...

    $1,179.00

  • STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
    PETER WATTS JONES / PETER SMITH
    Based on a well-established and popular course taught by the authors over many years, Stochastic Processes: An Introduction, Third Edition, discusses the modelling and analysis of random experiments, where processes evolve over time. The text begins with a review of relevant fundamental probability. It then covers gambling problems, random walks, and Markov chains. The authors ...

    $1,279.00

  • MARGINAL SPACES
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH
    The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of resistance to continued modernization. In Marginal Spaces, Michael Smith has assembled case studies combining structural and historical analyses of the moves of powerful social interest...

    $779.00

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GRANDPARENTHOOD
    PETER K. SMITH
    The majority of people will now spend about one-third of their lives as grandparents, yet developmental psychologists have largely ignored the nature of the grandparental role, and the influence which grandparents can have on grandchildren. Originally published in 1991, this book redresses the balance and uses life-span evolutionary and psychodynamic theoretical frameworks to p...

    $579.00

  • TRANSNATIONALISM FROM BELOW
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH
    Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political inst...

    $1,179.00

  • REINVENTING DETROIT
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH / LUCAS KIRKPATRICK
    This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City. Various answers to the former-deindustrialization, white flight, and a disappearing tax base-are now well understood. Less discussed are potential paths forward, stemming from alternative explanations of Detroit's long-term decline and reconsideration of the challe...

    $1,259.00

  • TRANSNATIONAL TIES
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH
    Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors and networks operate and nodes linking wider social formations traverse national borders. This book brings together a series of richly textured ethnographic studies that suggest new w...

    $779.00

  • ANALYSIS OF FAILURE AND SURVIVAL DATA
    PETER J. SMITH
    Analysis of Failure and Survival Data is an essential textbook for graduate-level students of survival analysis and reliability and a valuable reference for practitioners. It focuses on the many techniques that appear in popular software packages, including plotting product-limit survival curves, hazard plots, and probability plots in the context of censored data. The author in...

    $2,500.00

  • EXPLORATIONS IN URBAN THEORY
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH
    For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field. Smith refocuses attention on the cultural, social, and political practices of urban inhabitants...

    $1,179.00

  • HUMANITARIANS IN HOSTILE TERRITORY
    PETER W VAN ARSDALE / DERRIN R SMITH
    More than ever, humanitarian aid workers and diplomats are engaging with vulnerable populations in areas once considered too dangerous to touch. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience in conflict environments around the world, Van Arsdale and Smith offer this important and revealing guide to the ethics, theory, and practice of work outside so-called Green Zones of safet...

    $999.00

  • DOING ECONOMICS
    PETER SMITH
    Doing Economics offers a clear and accessible guide to the nature of Economics. Unlike many other mainstream disciplines, economics is a subject that many students meet for the first time when they arrive at University to study the subject at degree level. The way economics is studied at university level can vary greatly from economics as represented in the media, but this hand...

    $779.00

  • DEVELOPING AND LEADING EMERGENCE TEAMS
    PETER A.C. SMITH / TOM COCKBURN
    Developing and Leading Emergence Teams describes a future business landscape that seems to be complicated, complex and chaotic, in almost equal measures. The variety and diversity of the environments within which large organizations will be seeking to operate, require a similar variety of systems, process and structures if they are to respond successfully to emerging opportunit...

    $1,099.00

  • BUILDING COST PLANNING FOR THE DESIGN TEAM
    JIM SMITH / DAVID JAGGAR / PETER LOVE / OLUWOLE ALFRED OLATUNJE
    Cost management of all building projects has become increasingly important as clients in the public and private sector demand the highest quality cost planning services with accurate budgeting and cost control. All members of the design team must integrate their activities to ensure that a high quality project is delivered on time and within budget. This book considers building...

    $1,559.00

  • RETHINKING PHOTOGRAPHY
    PETER SMITH / CAROLYN LEFLEY
    Rethinking Photography is an accessible and illuminating critical introduction to the practice and interpretation of photography today. Peter Smith and Carolyn Lefley closely link critical approaches to photographic practices and present a detailed study of differing historical and contemporary perspectives on social and artistic functions of the medium, including photography a...

    $1,139.00

  • VOLUNTEER TOURISM
    JIM BUTCHER / PETER SMITH
    Just a generation ago the notion that holidays should be invested with ethical and political significance would have sounded odd. Today it is part of the lifestyle political landscape. Volunteer tourism is indicative of the growth of lifestyle strategies intended to exhibit care and responsibility towards others less fortunate, strategies aligned closely with developing one’s e...

    $1,339.00

  • EXPLORING SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PETER A. JACKSON / SUSAN J. SMITH
    Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. The argument emphasises the essentially spatial structure of social interaction, and includes a succinct discussion of geographical re...

    $1,039.00

  • UNDERSTANDING SCHOOL BULLYING
    PETER SMITH
    ′This extraordinarily comprehensive  book  authored by the leading international authority in the field integrates research, theory and practice on the topic of school bullying. In an already research saturated field Peter Smith’s writing captures the humanity of  why this topic strikes such a chord in the community. He reminds us in a thoughtful, practical and caring manner wh...

    $727.59

  • BLAST AND BALLISTIC LOADING OF STRUCTURES
    JOHN HETHERINGTON / PETER SMITH
    This book brings together, in a concise format, the key elements of the loads produced from explosive sources, and how they interact with structures. Explosive sources include gas, high explosives, dust and nuclear materials.It presents quantitative information and design methods in a useable form without recourse to extensive mathematical ana ...

    $1,559.00

  • CRUISE SHIPS
    PETER C. SMITH
    Peter C. Smith presents us here with the second release in his visually splendid Cruise Ships series. Whilst his first book concerned itself with the large-scale ships currently cruising through our seas (those weighing 40,000 GT and more) this volume focusses on the other end of the market; the ships that weigh in at less than 40,000 GT, but which are often much more stylish a...

    $249.00


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