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  • CHINA AND EUROPE RELATIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    AIFEN XING / PETER PRESTON
    This book argues that although relations between China and Europe are strained in many areas, including trade, human rights and views about political systems, nevertheless established linkages, especially when considered in the context of long-term historical linkages, development trajectories and intellectual cultures, offer good prospects for future progressive collaborative ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE SHE BOSS A WESTERN STORY
    ARTHUR PRESTON HANKINS
    Hankins did himself proud. Jo and Hirams characters were developed perfectly. Their integrity, determination and faithfulness was inspiration was so shining that everyone, except Lucy admired them. Even Drummand, the villain. Tweet used them but was, basically, a good soul. Hawkins knowledge of the true wests freighters wagons mighty teams and drivers was perfect. A true master...

    $39.70

  • THE VALLEY OF ARCANA
    ARTHUR PRESTON HANKINS
    The Valley of Arcana is a novel written by Arthur Preston Hankins in 1923. The book was published by Dodd, Mead and Company in United States and it's a fiction story. The book tells the story of a young woman who lost her husband and has to face the reality of being a widow and the difficulties that come with it. ...

    $39.70

  • HOW TO READ AND CRITIQUE RESEARCH
    HELEN AVEYARD / NANCY PRESTON / MORAG FARQUHAR
    Do you find research challenging to read? Do you struggle to get to grips with a research paper? Understanding, critiquing and using research is a key requirement of students studying nursing and healthcare. This book will equip you with the skills you need to understand research and use it in your practice and academic assignments. The approach used in this book is unique: eac...

    $579.78

  • INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
    MARTHA L. COTTAM / ELENA MASTORS / THOMAS PRESTON
    Introduction to Political Psychology explores the many psychological patterns that influence individual political behavior. The authors introduce readers to a broad range of theories, concepts, and case studies of political activity, arguing that individuals are driven or motivated to act in accordance with personality characteristics, values, beliefs, and attachments to groups...

    $1,839.00

  • THE SINGLE-MINDED ANIMAL
    PRESTON STOVALL
    This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology. Using the grasp of a natural language as a model for the autonomous or self-governed rationality of discursive cognition, the author uses a semantics for individual intentions, shared intentions,...

    $1,099.00

  • OLD GREEK FOLK STORIES TOLD ANEW
    JOSEPHNE PRESTON PEABODY
    Excerpt: "Pan led a merrier life than all the other gods together. He was beloved alike by shepherds and countrymen, and by the fauns and satyrs, birds and beasts, of his own kingdom. The care of flocks and herds was his, and for home he had all the world of woods and waters; he was lord of everything out-of-doors! Yet he felt the burden of it no more than he felt the shadow of...

    $39.70

  • SINGAPORE AFTER LEE KUAN YEW
    S. C. Y. LUK / P. W. PRESTON
    This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping Singapore, and goes on to consider specific new challenges, including rapid population ...

    $1,099.00

  • PROACTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT
    PRESTON G. SMITH / GUY M. MERRITT
    Listed as one of the 30 Best Business Books of 2002 by Executive Book Summaries. Proactive Risk Management's unique approach provides a model of risk that is scalable to any size project or program and easily deployable into any product development or project management life cycle. It offers methods for identifying drivers (causes) of risks so you can manage root causes rather ...

    $939.00

  • THE APPLIED THEATRE READER
    SHEILA PRESTON / TIM PRENTKI
    The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal and Chantal Mouffe. This new edition brings the field fully up to date with the breadth of applied theatre practice in th...

    $939.00

  • CAD/CAM DICTIONARY
    EDWARD J. PRESTON
    This book presents general computer definitions and abbreviations as well as application-specification terminology related to the world of CAD/CAM in alphabetical order. ...

    $1,299.00

  • CITY FOR EMPIRE
    PRESTON JONES
    The story of the early years of Alaska’s largest city, its surprisingly diverse people, and its role in twentieth-century American history.   First settled in 1915, Anchorage, in what was then known as the Territory of Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During World War I, it served as a conduit through which coal could be shipped to the Pacific, where the US...

    $229.00

  • HIGHWAYMAN
    MJ PRESTON
    First in the serial killer series from the author of Four. “A stunning achievement! . . . Prose of this quality is rare in horror stories.” —San Francisco Review of Books Meet Lance Belanger, he has only one ambition, to be the most infamous killer of all time. After murdering a single mom and her toddler child, Lance indoctrinates himself into the world of serial murder. Befor...

    $229.00

  • THE EQUINOX
    MJ PRESTON
    “For those looking for a throwback to the writings of Stephen King . . . The Equinox by MJ Preston . . . [brings] horror back to its core” (Philip C. Perron, Dark Discussions Podcast).   It has existed for centuries.   A dark curse held captive by an ancient ritual, a creature of insatiable hunger possessing the ability to change shape at will. During the spring and fall equino...

    $109.00

  • PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LARGE DATABASE MIGRATION
    PRESTON ZHANG
    It is a major challenge to migrate very large databases from one system, say for example, to transfer critical data from Oracle to SQL Server. One has to consider several issues such as loss of data being transferred, the security of the data, the cost and effort, technical aspects of the software involved, etc. There a very few books that provide practical tools and the method...

    $1,199.00

  • THE LOST
    NATASHA PRESTON
    New from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cellar It's a fight for survival in a building designed to ensure that no one makes it out alive. In Piper's hometown, teenagers keep disappearing, and everyone assumes they're just a bunch of runaways. But when yet another person vanishes, Piper and her best friend Hazel suspect something more sinister is going on. So th...

    $223.00

  • LADY OLIVIA AND THE INFAMOUS RAKE
    JANICE PRESTON
    How utterly mortifying to be rejected by a rake! Sneaking off to Vauxhall Gardens lands Lady Olivia Beauchamp in a bit more trouble than she expected—but after being plucked from peril by resolute bachelor Lord Hugo Alastair, she is secretly outraged that he doesn’t even try to steal a kiss! He’s a notorious rake among the ton, and as a result, utterly forbidden to an innocent ...

    $229.00

  • LADY CECILY AND THE MYSTERIOUS MR. GRAY
    JANICE PRESTON
    He was thoroughly unsuitable—but hearts don’t always follow the rules . . . “One of the deepest, most lovable heroes I’ve read about in quite some time.” —All About Romance Lady Cecily Beauchamp has always put her family first. Until she falls under the spell of the mysterious Zachary Gray—a man of Romany descent. Knowing her family will forbid their match, Cecily steels hersel...

    $229.00

  • DYNAMICS OF CHANGE IN EAST ASIA
    P.W. PRESTON
    Over the past forty years, East Asia has been radically transformed from a war-damaged sub-continent to a region of global pre-eminence. With new, highly developed scientific resources, great economic strengths, significant global trading links and equally powerful financial resources, East Asia is now one of the most dynamic regions in the global system. This book illuminates ...

    $1,039.00

  • YOU WILL BE MINE
    NATASHA PRESTON
    Love turns deadly in a new heart-pounding thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cellar and The Cabin! ROSES ARE RED VIOLETS ARE BLUE WATCH YOUR BACK I'M COMING FOR YOU Lylah and her friends can't wait to spend a night out together. Partying is the perfect way to let loose from the stress of life and school, and Lylah hopes that hitting the dance floor wi...

    $223.00

  • PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR ORACLE SQL, T-SQL AND MYSQL
    PRESTON ZHANG
    SQL is a widely used to access most databases, therefore database developers and system administrators should be familiar with it. This hands-on SQL book will help beginner and intermediate users to write queries that apply complex conditions on a table. The book's unique side by side approach makes it easy for the reader to learn three major query languages in the IT industry....

    $1,339.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION
    PRESTON L SCHILLER / JEFFREY KENWORTHY
    Cities around the globe struggle to create better and more equitable access to important destinations and services, all the while reducing the energy consumption and environmental impacts of mobility. An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation illustrates a new planning paradigm for sustainable transportation through case studies from around the world with hundreds of valuab...

    $1,399.00

  • SCANDAL AND MISS MARKHAM
    JANICE PRESTON
    Scandal is a small price to pay to find her missing brother—and to find love . . . “A warm and lively romance . . . it truly is an enjoyable read.” — RT Book Reviews Glassmaker’s daughter Thea Markham is devastated when her brother Daniel goes missing. Then a mysterious lord turns up asking questions about Daniel and offers to find him. Unsure she can trust the handsome peer, T...

    $109.00

  • ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
    AARON PRESTON
    Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History explores the ways interpretation (of key figures, factions, texts, etc.) shaped the analytic tradition, from Frege to Dummet. It offers readers 17 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international cast of leading scholars. Some chapters are devoted to large, thematic issues like the relationship between analytic philos...

    $1,279.00

  • CINDERELLA AND THE DUKE
    JANICE PRESTON
    She thought she was doomed to a lonely life—until she fell for a duke in disguise! Never welcomed into society circles, Rosalind Allen gave up her marriage prospects long ago—life has taught her she’ll only get hurt. So she’s shocked when an encounter with a mysterious stranger makes her long to reconsider . . . Little does Rosalind know that her mystery man is Leo Beauchamp, D...

    $109.00

  • OPERATION MARKET GARDEN
    JOHN BUCKLEY / PETER PRESTON-HOUGH
    In September 1944 the Western Allies mounted an audacious attempt to seize a crossing over the Rhine into Germany in a bid to end the Second World War quickly. Yet despite the deployment of thousands of American, British and Polish airborne troops, in conjunction with the efforts of ground forces to link up with them, ultimately at Arnhem in the Netherlands, the plan failed spe...

    $293.99

  • LOUISE TALMA
    KENDRA PRESTON LEONARD
    American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974). This book anal...

    $1,099.00

  • BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND THE CHURCH
    ALLAN K. JENKINS / PATRICK PRESTON
    Conflicting claims to authority in relation to the translation and interpretation of the Bible have been a recurrent source of tension within the Christian church, and were a key issue in the Reformation debate. This book traces how the authority of the Septuagint and later that of the Vulgate was called into question by the return to the original languages of scripture, and h...

    $1,339.00

  • SAVED BY SCANDAL'S HEIR
    JANICE PRESTON
    It’s love lost and found for a brokenhearted widow and a baron mired in scandal in this dazzling Regency romance. Harriet, Lady Brierley, is a respectable widow, determined to keep the secrets of her broken heart deeply buried. But when Benedict Poole—the very man who deserted her—returns, Harriet’s safe world threatens to unravel. Believing Harriet left him for a wealthy lord,...

    $109.00

  • QUEEN BESS
    JENNIFER PRESTON
    This “fascinating” biography details the rise of the first Jewish Miss America, TV star, and political player—and the scandal that toppled her career (The New York Times). When Bess Myerson, the Bronx-born daughter of Jewish immigrants, was crowned Miss America in 1945, she was determined to break down gender barriers and be more than a beauty queen. Amid rampant anti-Semitism,...

    $229.00


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