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  • SACRAMENTAL IDENTITY
    T. RYAN DILLON
    Who am I? A theology of personal identity and an answer to that question should be integral to any theological anthropology. For some, the answer is found in what many have called "expressive individualism," an inward turn toward the self and who and what I feel is most authentic to that self. Christians respond that we are no longer that person, we are "in Christ." But do eith...

    $444.00

  • DRANESVILLE
    RYAN T. QUINT
    After the guns of Manassas fell silent, the opposing armies grappled for position wondering what would come next. Popular history has us believe it was “All quiet along the Potomac.” Reality was altogether different. The fall and early winter of 1861 was a hotbed of activity that culminated in the December combat at Dranesville. The Union victory, although small when measured a...

    $254.99

  • A GUIDEBOOK TO MONSTERS
    RYAN J. STARK
    Ryan J. Stark surveys the classic monsters in great literature and film, television, the Bible, and, perhaps unexpectedly, the world in which we live. Monsterdom is real, Stark observes, but often hidden beneath the concealment spell of modern secular thought. This guidebook aims to break that spell, and, if so, to confirm once more a world that brims with high strangeness, or ...

    $320.00

  • THE COMING JESUS AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
    RYAN LAMOTHE
    Melting glaciers and icecaps, massive forest fires, enormous storms, extensive and prolonged flooding, and desertification of large tracts of land are realities we currently face and will continue to struggle with as a result of climate change. Our climate crisis invites, if not demands, a critical evaluation of our political, religious, economic, and cultural narratives and ri...

    $515.00

  • WEB SCRAPING WITH PYTHON
    RYAN MITCHELL
    If programming is magic, then web scraping is surely a form of wizardry. By writing a simple automated program, you can query web servers, request data, and parse it to extract the information you need. This thoroughly updated third edition not only introduces you to web scraping but also serves as a comprehensive guide to scraping almost every type of data from the modern web....

    $681.00

  • NOT BAD FOR A GIRL
    ANASTASIA RYAN
    From hilariously awkward lunch breaks to cringe-worthy Zoom calls, this workplace comedy of errors is sure to put a smile on your face. Indiana "Ana" Aaron is a talented coder and IT specialist, but she doesn't always fit in at work. When she speaks up one too many times for her boss's ego, she's transferred to a remote team—and it's clear this is her last chance to blend in. A...

    $202.00

  • 52 WEEKS OF WELLBEING
    RYAN HOPKINS
    There's one thing that's more important than productivity and promotion: your wellbeing. Discover how you can lead a fulfilling work life with 52 inspiring insights, one for every week. Too often, a busy and competitive work life can distract us from focusing on our wellbeing and mental health. 52 Weeks of Wellbeing is packed full of practical and accessible tips that you can i...

    $299.00

  • SPORT AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN BUSINESS AND SOCIETY
    GASHAW ABEZA / RYAN KING-WHITE
    This concise, practical book examines the significance of social media for the sport industry, explaining key concepts and sharing tools and best practice for the use of social media in sport business communication. Accessibly written and avoiding jargon, the book considers the history, development, commercial impact, social effects, and the legal and ethical concerns of social...

    $539.00

  • THEY ALWAYS SCORE
    RYAN BALDI
    'Fascinating and original ... will tell you things even the most ardent United fan will not know' - Jim White, The Telegraph On 26 May 1999, Manchester United sealed their historic Treble of league, FA Cup and Champions League in the most dramatic fashion imaginable, scoring twice in stoppage time to snatch an unthinkable victory from Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou in Barcelona....

    $241.99

  • A DANCE IN MEDIAS RES
    RYAN KEATING
    This collection of poems moves from themes of transcendence to immanence and explores complex philosophical questions as well as relatable moments and movements in the spiritual life. Nuanced theological and philosophical topics are illuminated in fresh ways with poetic language and images. Poems about the hiddenness of God and poems about fish tacos both find a home in this co...

    $160.00

  • THE TREASURE TRAIL, A ROMANCE OF THE LAND OF GOLD AND SUNSHINE
    MARAH ELLIS RYAN
    The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine is a novel written by Marah Ellis Ryan. Set in the American West during the late 19th century, the story is a romantic adventure that incorporates elements of the Gold Rush era and the allure of treasure hunting. ...

    $39.70

  • THE COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
    RYAN MCVEIGH
    The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory. It isolates five key authors in the classical tradition and comprehensively explores their oeuvres for moments where they reflect on, engage with, and build from topics related to cognition, placing their work in co...

    $1,099.00

  • THE COLLABORATIVE BODY IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    BODIES COLLECTIVE / RYAN BITTINGER / CLAUDIA CANELLA / JESS ERB / SARAH HELPS / MARK HUHNEN / DAVINA KIRKP
    The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research challenges normative philosophies that have frequently neglected the body’s place in research and then illustrates how the body is essential for all meaning making. By ‘voicing the body’, the first part of this rebellious book problematizes how the body is used/assessed, yet often silenced in academic writing. This book then fluidl...

    $1,039.00

  • WHY IT'S OK TO OWN A GUN
    RYAN W. DAVIS
    Why It’s OK to Own a Gun explores the right to self-defense, but also looks beyond it to what gun ownership fundamentally means in American life. Guns can provide a source of meaning that doesn’t depend on how much money you have or how important your job is. Guns can offer a sense of shared identity that’s not hung up on intellectual credentials or ideological orthodoxy. For m...

    $499.00

  • EMOTIONAL VALUE IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM
    RYAN CRAWFORD
    Using the concept of "plasticity," or the brain’s ability to change through growth and reorganization, as a theoretical framework, this book argues that encouraging an exploration of the self better establishes emotional value in the composition classroom. This book explores recent evidence from studies in modern neuroscience to provide biological correlations between current a...

    $1,099.00

  • SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION OF INTIMATE VIOLENCE
    BRIDGET H. RYAN / VERONIQUE N. VALLIERE
    Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender. Crimes of intimate violence tend to compel investigators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys to fixate on the victim’s behavior to prove or disprove a case. Prosecutors can become helpless when faced with uncooperative victims, challenging facts, or attacks o...

    $899.00

  • NANOSCALE TECHNOLOGIES IN PLANT SCIENCES
    NADEESH M. ADASSOORIYA / RYAN RIENZIE / NADUN H. MADANAYAKE
    This book provides a detailed review on the interactions of nanomaterials with plants, nanodelivery systems in agriculture, the impacts of nanomaterials on seed germination, nanosensors for plant disease diagnosis and toxicity aspects of nanomaterials towards plants. In addition, nanomaterials synthesis and nanomaterials characterisation techniques, are discussed. This book als...

    $539.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SELF-DETERMINATION AND SECESSION
    RYAN D. GRIFFITHS
    The Routledge Handbook of Self-Determination and Secession explores the various debates surrounding the issues of self-determination and secession, and the legal, political, and normative implications they give rise to. Offering a broad survey of the state of the sub-discipline today, the chapters are divided into seven key parts: an Introduction, Self-Determination, Explaining...

    $1,179.00

  • ECO-PERFORMANCE, ART, AND SPATIAL JUSTICE IN THE US
    COURTNEY B. RYAN
    In Eco-Performance, Art, and Spatial Justice in the US, Courtney B. Ryan traces how urban artists in the US from the 1970s until today contend with environmental domestication and spatial injustice through performance. In theater, art, film, and digital media, the artists featured in this book perform everyday, spatialized micro-acts to contest the mutual containment of urbanit...

    $979.00

  • UNLOCKING CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
    MARK RYAN / STEVE FOSTER
    Unlocking Constitutional and Administrative Law provides an indispensable foundation in this core law curriculum subject, ensuring that you grasp the main concepts with ease. Containing accessible explanations in clear and precise terms that are easy to understand, it provides an excellent foundation for learning and revising Constitutional and Administrative Law. The informati...

    $1,039.00

  • DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
    RÓISÍN RYAN-FLOOD
    This book explores ‘difficult conversations’ in feminist theory as an integral part of social and theoretical transformations. Focusing on intersectionality within feminist theory, the book critically addresses questions of power and difference as a central feminist concern. It presents ethical, political, social, and emotional dilemmas while negotiating difficult conversations...

    $1,099.00

  • COVID-19: INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITIES
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities provides critical insights into the tensions between individual rights and community responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions about mandates, lockdowns, priorities, and broader questions related to neighborly responsibilities and human rights have been central to debates about how to confront the pandemi...

    $979.00

  • PANDEMIC PEDAGOGIES
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the education system, pedagogical approaches, and educational inequalities. Education is often touted as the best way to promote social mobility and produce informed members of society. The pandemic has significantly threatened those goals by tem...

    $979.00

  • YOU SHOULD SMILE MORE
    ANASTASIA RYAN
    "Reminiscent of The Office and 9 to 5, Ryan's debut is a slapstick blend of comedy and heart, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments and strong female heroines." —Kirkus When Vanessa Blair is fired because of her "resting bitch face," her friends help her get revenge... Telemarketer Vanessa Blair isn't in love with her job. It pays the bills and feeds her foster kittens, but off...

    $344.00

  • CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRIES
    LOUIS THEODORE / R. RYAN DUPONT
    The rapid growth and expansion of the chemical process industry during the past century have been accompanied by a simultaneous rise in human health problems as well as material and property losses because of fires, explosions, hazardous and toxic spills, equipment failures, other accidents, and business interruptions. Concern over the potential consequences of emissions of har...

    $2,400.00

  • COVID-19: SURVIVING A PANDEMIC
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic. A central question since this pandemic began has been how to survive it. That question has applied not just to staying alive, but also to staying healthy, both physically and mentally. Survival is certainly key, but sur...

    $979.00

  • COVID-19: CULTURAL CHANGE AND INSTITUTIONAL ADAPTATIONS
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cultures and institutions. The scholarship presented in this volume examines such important issues as the impact on health-care workers, changes in the interaction order, linguistic access, social stigma, policing, new understandings of ...

    $979.00

  • ORGANIZATIONAL CONSTITUTION IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    RYAN S. BISEL / DEANNA L. BISEL
    This book presents the seven entrepreneurial activities (SEA) model of new organizational constitution, a prescriptive extension of the four flows model tradition of communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) theory. Organizational Constitution in Entrepreneurship explains the SEA model in detail, illustrating it with autobiographical accounts from Deanna Bisel’s years o...

    $539.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL AUTISM STUDIES
    DAMIAN MILTON AND SARA RYAN
    This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline. Critical Autism Studies is a developing area occupying an exciting space of development within learning and teaching i...

    $1,179.00

  • A COMPLETE GUIDE TO LITERARY ANALYSIS AND THEORY
    MICHAEL RYAN
    A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory offers an accessible introduction to all the current approaches to literary analysis. Ranging from stylistics and historicism to post-humanism and new materialism, it also includes chapters on media studies and screen studies. The Guide is designed for use in introductory literature courses and as a primer in theory courses. Each...

    $919.00