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  • CLOUD NATIVE DEVELOPMENT WITH GOOGLE CLOUD
    DANIEL VAUGHAN
    Cloud native development gives you the power to rapidly build, secure, and scale software. But you still need to navigate many potential pitfalls along the way. Through practical examples, this book demonstrates how to use Google Cloud as a laboratory to enable rapid innovation, a factory to automate build and testing, and a citadel to operate applications at scale securely. Au...

    $681.00

  • DATA SCIENCE: THE HARD PARTS
    DANIEL VAUGHAN
    This practical guide provides a collection of techniques and best practices that are generally overlooked in most data engineering and data science pedagogy. A common misconception is that great data scientists are experts in the "big themes" of the discipline—machine learning and programming. But most of the time, these tools can only take us so far. In practice, the smaller t...

    $681.00

  • MARY PONDERED, SARAH LAUGHED
    THOMAS RONALD VAUGHAN
    This collection presents poems about the ordinary affairs of human existence: war and peace, love and hate, life and death. In addition, several selections attempt social comment through poetic interpretation of some of the more immediate and weighty issues of our time: race relations, injustice, warfare, domestic violence, murder, human exploitation. Everything here seeks to e...

    $196.00

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH IMMIGRATION LAW
    VAUGHAN BEVAN
    The Development of British Immigration Law (1986) examines the policies and laws of immigration law in the UK. It demonstrates that many modern issues have historical precedents. The justifications for immigration control are examined and linked to a discussion of nationality law and race relations. It is argued that the laws and practices of immigration are unnecessarily rigid...

    $899.00

  • ANATOMÍA DE UN ESCÁNDALO
    VAUGHAN, SARAH
    Tú quieres creer en tu marido.Ella quiere destruirlo.El marido de Sophie, James, es un padre amoroso, un hombre apuesto, una figura pública carismática y exitosa. Y sin embargo, se le acusa de un terrible crimen. Sophie está convencida de su inocencia y está desesperada por proteger a su preciosa familia de las mentiras que amenazan con separarla.Kate es la abogada encargada de...
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    $99.00

  • PROBABILITY, CHOICE, AND REASON
    LEIGHTON VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
    Much of our thinking is flawed because it is based on faulty intuition. By using the framework and tools of probability and statistics, we can overcome this to provide solutions to many real-world problems and paradoxes. We show how to do this, and find answers that are frequently very contrary to what we might expect. Along the way, we venture into diverse realms and thought e...

    $1,439.00

  • MANAGING A VIDEO PRODUCTION COMPANY
    TOM VAUGHAN-MOUNTFORD
    Providing a detailed break-down of the skills required to establish and grow a profitable production company, this book enables content creators and filmmakers to navigate the commercial video production world and the needs of its clients. Drawing on professional experience in the industry as well historical examples, author Tom Vaughan-Mountford illustrates the ways in which p...

    $899.00

  • CRITICAL SECURITY STUDIES
    COLUMBA PEOPLES / NICK VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS
    This textbook introduces students to the sub-field of critical security studies through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. This third edition contains two new chapters – on ‘Ontological security’ and ‘(In)Security and the everyday’ – and has been fully revised and updated. Written in an accessible and clear manner, Critical Security Studies: of...

    $979.00

  • BIOMECHANICS OF SPORT
    CHRISTOPHER L. VAUGHAN
    This informative text features current and thorough reviews of the biomechanics of sport for improved performance, etiology, and pre-vention of injuries. Winter sports and aquatics are covered, with an emphasis on developing training programs for ski-jumping, alpine, and cross country skiing. Other sports featured include modeling perspectives in speed skating, swimming, and th...

    $4,200.00

  • FUSSY FLAMINGO
    SHELLY VAUGHAN JAMES
    A hilarious and colorful children's book about a stubborn baby flamingo and her encouraging parents, perfect for fans of Grumpy Monkey and I Don't Want to Be a Frog. Meet Lola, the "no, no" flamingo. Lola will NOT eat shrimp, thank you very much. She does NOT care that it will turn her feathers pink. It is just plain yucky. But each time Lola sneaks a different food, she change...

    $121.00

  • FUSSY FLAMINGO
    SHELLY VAUGHAN JAMES
    A hilarious and colorful children's book about a stubborn baby flamingo and her encouraging parents, perfect for fans of Grumpy Monkey and I Don't Want to Be a Frog. Meet Lola, the "no, no" flamingo. Lola will NOT eat shrimp, thank you very much. She does NOT care that it will turn her feathers pink. It is just plain yucky. But each time Lola sneaks a different food, she change...

    $121.00

  • UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN ART
    VAUGHAN JUDGE / JENNY OLIN SHANAHAN / GREGORY YOUNG
    Undergraduate Research in Art: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, with examples of undergraduate research activities and case studies on projects in the various areas of the study of art—from art history, art education, and fine art therapy, to studio art, graphic design, and digital media. Although art degree programs don’t always call it rese...

    $979.00

  • WITTGENSTEINIAN VALUES
    EMYR VAUGHAN THOMAS
    This title was first published in 2001. This work examines the self-renouncing dimension which Wittgensteinian philosophy subscribes to ethico-religious ideals. "Wittensteinian values" are explored through a range of literary and cultural illustrations from Wittgenstein's own European milieu. The book also highlights an alternative model of self-renouncing faith, which has meth...

    $699.00

  • ARTISTIC BROTHERHOODS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
    LAURA MOROWITZ / WILLIAM VAUGHAN
    This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound together in communal production, sharing spiritual and aesthetic aims. Although it is widely acknowledged that this is an unique feature of the period, there has not previously been a separate study of the phenomenon. This collection of es...

    $1,299.00

  • RELUCTANT ENEMIES
    VIVIAN VAUGHAN
    “A western romance true to the enchanting landscape of New Mexico and as fired with sexual tension as a starry western sky.” —RT Book Reviews   New Mexico Territory, 1879. Will Radnor has never stopped looking for Charles Martin Kane, the man who murdered his father back in Philadelphia. Following the first good lead he’s had in years, Will accepts a position with a law firm in...

    $109.00

  • A WISH TO BUILD A DREAM ON
    VIVIAN VAUGHAN
    A warm-hearted tale of romance and adventure from “a superb writer who does Western Americana with flair and humor” (RT Book Reviews).   Reese Catlin is determined to get his herd from Texas to Kansas ahead of the rush so he can make enough money to buy the ranch of his dreams. An excellent chuck wagon cook is essential to the cattle drive, and after tasting the delectable lemo...

    $109.00

  • MATLAB FOR BEHAVIORAL SCIENTISTS
    DAVID A. ROSENBAUM / JONATHAN VAUGHAN / BRAD WYBLE
    Written specifically for those with no prior programming experience and minimal quantitative training, this accessible text walks behavioral science students and researchers through the process of programming using MATLAB. The book explores examples, terms, and programming needs relevant to those in the behavioral sciences and helps readers perform virtually any computational f...

    $1,499.00

  • EXPLORING CONTEMPORARY MIGRATION
    PAUL BOYLE / KEITH HALFACREE / VAUGHAN ROBINSON
    Exploring Contemporary Migration provides the first comprehensive introduction to the various aspects of population migration in both the developed and the developing worlds. Some of the most important quantitative and qualitative methods used for the description and analysis of migration are presented in a clearly structured and accessible way. The various theoretical approach...

    $2,100.00

  • GLOSSARY OF ECONOMICS
    M. CLIFFORD VAUGHAN
    Glossary of Economics: Including Soviet Terminology focuses on semantic development in the field of economics. The book first offers information on the abbreviations used in economics and language indicators. These include the abbreviations for colloquial, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural, and indicators of the French and German languages. The manuscript then provides a bas...

    $970.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEUTRON KINETICS OF NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS
    J. G. TYROR / R. I. VAUGHAN
    An Introduction to the Neutron Kinetics of Nuclear Power Reactors introduces the reader to the neutron kinetics of nuclear power reactors. Topics covered include the neutron physics of reactor kinetics, feedback effects, water-moderated reactors, fast reactors, and methods of plant control. The reactor transients following faults are also discussed, along with the use of comput...

    $425.00

  • REGIONAL MODEL LIFE TABLES AND STABLE POPULATIONS
    ANSLEY J. COALE / PAUL DEMENY / BARBARA VAUGHAN
    Regional Model Life Tables and Stable Populations, Second Edition maintains the tradition of research on the analysis of fertility and mortality as related to population growth and composition. The tables presented are two principal forms: model life tables and model stable populations. The included models are models of mortality and age composition; "west" model life tables an...

    $1,249.00

  • MANAGING COMPLEX PROJECTS
    NEIL ALDERMAN / CHRIS IVORY / IAN MCLOUGHLIN / ROGER VAUGHAN
    Concerned with the management of complex long-term engineering projects, this important volume, of great interest to postgraduate students of business, technology management and engineering, reports on a set of rich, novel and unique findings concerning the conduct and management of three high profile and complex projects. The major investments which constitute complex long-ter...

    $1,139.00

  • TERRORISM, RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAW
    BARRY VAUGHAN / SHANE KILCOMMINS
    The rule of law is becoming a victim of the struggle against terrorism. Many countries are reviewing their security procedures and questioning whether due process rights hinder them in the war on terror. There is increasing emphasis on preventive detention or strategies of disablement that cut into the liberties of suspects who may not have committed a crime. The focus of this ...

    $1,039.00

  • VIOLENCE AT WORK
    MARTIN GILL, / FISHER, BONNIE S. / BOWIE, VAUGHAN
    Workplace violence has emerged as a growing concern in today's interdependent political economy, and increasing attention is being paid to the phenomenon both by business and in the academic world to identifying its causes and to devise strategies to prevent it. In this book a distinguished international team, composed of both academics and practitioners, identify and address t...

    $1,139.00

  • WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
    VAUGHAN BOWIE
    This book examines some of the key issues around violence at work which have emerged in the new millennium, including the events of September 11th 2001 and other terrorist-related incidents, identifying these as an extreme form of workplace violence. It builds upon the expanded typology of workplace violence in Violence at Work (Willan, 2001), and identifies four types of workp...

    $1,279.00

  • TRANSFORMING EDUCATION THROUGH THE ARTS
    BRIAN CALDWELL / TANYA VAUGHAN
    This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect the arts most severely. Drawing on the wealth of evidence already available on the impact of the ...

    $1,139.00

  • UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
    VAUGHAN COFFEY
    Since the early 1980s, researchers and practitioners in the organisational and management fields have presumed a link between organisational, or corporate, culture and organisational performance. Whilst many believe this exists, other authors have been critical of the validity of such studies. Part of this doubt stems from a reliance on measures of organisational performance th...

    $1,259.00

  • CRITICAL THEORISTS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    EDKINS, JENNY / VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, NICK
    A wide range of critical theorists is used in the study of international politics, and until now there has been no text that gives concise and accessible introductions to these figures. Critical Theorists and International Relations provides a wide-ranging introduction to thirty-two important theorists whose work has been influential in thinking about global politics. Each chap...

    $1,339.00

  • TERRORISM AND THE POLITICS OF RESPONSE
    STEPHENS, ANGHARAD CLOSS / VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, NICK
    This inter-disciplinary edited volume critically examines the dynamics of the War on Terror, focusing on the theme of the politics of response. The book explores both how responses to terrorism - by politicians, authorities and the media - legitimise particular forms of sovereign politics, and how terrorism can be understood as a response to global inequalities, colonial and im...

    $1,399.00

  • RURAL GOVERNANCE
    CHESHIRE, LYNDA / HIGGINS, VAUGHAN / LAWRENCE, GEOFFREY
    Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and development, which are said to ‘empower’ rural citizens and liberate them from the disablin...

    $1,179.00


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