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  • GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS
    WALTER W. STROUP / MARINA PTUKHINA / JULIE GARAI
    Generalized Linear Mixed Models: Modern Concepts, Methods, and Applications (2nd edition) presents an updated introduction to linear modeling using the generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) as the overarching conceptual framework. For students new to statistical modeling, this book helps them see the big picture – linear modeling as broadly understood and its intimate connectio...

    $1,999.00

  • I, THE UNSPEAKABLE AND TWO MORE STORIES
    WALTER J. SHELDON
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three stories by Walter J. Sheldon: "I, The Unspeakable", "Your Time Is Up", "Houlihan's Equation", and "The Shrine". ...

    $39.70

  • THIS IS KLON CALLING AND FOUR MORE STORIES
    WALTER J. SHELDON
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five stories by Walter J. Sheldon: "This Is Klon Calling", "Two Plus Two Makes Crazy", "Houlihan's Equation", "Jimsy And The Monsters, and "Brink Of Madness". ...

    $39.70

  • ICONOCLASTIC SEX
    HENRY WALTER SPAULDING III
    Christian sexual ethics operates from a place of privilege when it does not consider those impacted by its moral prescriptions. A large majority of publications on Christian sexual ethics consider choices and images abstracted from lived conditions of the people called to make these decisions. As such, it leaves out many for whom sex is neither welcome nor a choice. As such, th...

    $550.00

  • ALTERNATIVE TO THE BREAD OF AFFLICTION
    WALTER BRUEGGEMANN
    Table of Contents1 Alternative to the Bread of Affliction2 Preaching the Psalms3 On Tenacious Parenting4 The Litigation of Scarcity5 Twin Themes for Ecumenical Singing: The Psalms6 In the "Thou" Business: The Travail of Biblical Language . . . Again7 Reaping the Whirlwind8 The Poem: Subversion and Summons9 The Impossible Possibility of Forgiveness10 On Appearing before the Auth...

    $515.00

  • GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE FOR SMART LAND MANAGEMENT
    WALTER TIMO DE VRIES
    Responsible land distribution in Asia, with ever-increasing limitations in space, requires the use of smart technologies, sophisticated models, intelligent algorithms, and big data repositories. This book presents new land management perspectives and fit-for-purpose, flexible, dynamic, and effective solutions for land management and land administration problems. Written by glob...

    $4,000.00

  • CRIMINAL LAW, PROCEDURE, AND EVIDENCE
    WALTER P. SIGNORELLI
    Providing a complete view of U.S. legal principles, this book addresses distinct issues as well as the overlays and connections between them. It presents as a cohesive whole the interrelationships between constitutional principles, statutory criminal laws, procedural law, and common-law evidentiary doctrines. This fully revised and updated new edition also includes discussion q...

    $1,799.00

  • A GLOBAL ATLAS OF ATOLLS
    WALTER M. GOLDBERG / EUGENE C. RANKEY
    Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the world’s tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons and reefs teeming with colorful marine life have captured the public imagination. They have also been the homeland of millions of people for millennia as various groups of migrants spread across the far reaches if the Pacific, Indian ...

    $5,600.00

  • A PHILOSOPHY FOR THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS
    WALTER VEIT
    This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the "final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution" by developing a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness. It advocates a Darwinian bottom-up approach that treats consciousness as a complex, evolved, and multidimensional phenomenon in nature rather than a mysterious all-or-nothing property immune to the...

    $999.00

  • BARBARIANS, MAPS, AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
    WALTER GOFFART
    To complement his first collection of articles (Rome's Fall and After, 1989), Walter Goffart presents here a further set of essays, all but two published between 1988 and 2007. They mainly focus on two types of historiography: early medieval narratives, with special attention to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica; and printed maps designed to portray and teach history, with special ...

    $1,339.00

  • JAZZ AND DEATH
    WALTER VAN DE LEUR
    Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music’s own presumed death. It looks at how fans, critics, journalists, historians, writers, the media, and musicians have narrated, mythol...

    $979.00

  • THE KATCINA ALTARS IN HOPI WORSHIP
    JESSE WALTER FEWKES
    The Katcina Altars in Hopi Worship is a non-fiction book written by Jesse Walter Fewkes. The book explores the religious practices and beliefs of the Hopi people, with a particular focus on their use of Katcina altars in their worship. The Hopi are a Native American tribe who live in the southwestern United States, primarily in the state of Arizona. The tribe has a rich and com...

    $39.70

  • DECK AND PORT, OR, INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS TO CALIFORNIA
    WALTER COLTON
    Deck and Port, or Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California is a memoir written by Walter Colton, an American chaplain, and writer, about his experiences during a naval expedition to California in 1846-1847. The book describes the journey of the U.S. Frigate Congress from Boston to the Pacific Coast, including their encounters with Native America...

    $39.70

  • THE LAND OF GOLD THREE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA
    WALTER COLTON
    The Land of Gold: Three Years in California is a memoir written by Walter Colton, who was a chaplain in the United States Navy and the first American alcalde, or mayor, of Monterey, California. The book chronicles his experiences in California from 1846 to 1849, during the time of the California Gold Rush. Colton describes his journey to California, his work as a chaplain, and ...

    $39.70

  • ANGEL FACE
    WALTER PROBYN
    First published in 1977, Angel Face documents the penal life of Walter Probyn, who spent 30 out of 44 years in prison and escaped 15 times. He describes the succession of events which began when he was a nine-year-old ‘blitz kid’ who ‘stole’ a can of peas from a bombed shop, and tells in absorbing and harrowing detail his time in prison and on the run. Important though his desc...

    $1,339.00

  • THE FIRE IN THE FLINT
    WALTER WHITE
    The Fire in the Flint is a 1924 novel by civil rights activist and writer Walter White, it was published by Knopf. The novel was written during the Harlem Renaissance and contains themes consistent with the New Negro Movement as well as promoting anti-racist themes and shedding light on racial oppression during the early 20th century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Kenneth Ha...

    $39.70

  • THE WORKERS
    WALTER AUGUSTUS WYCKOFF
    In July 1891, a slender, bookish Prince­ton graduate packed a small knapsack, put on a suit of old work clothes, and walked into a new existence as a member of the working class. The young scholar, Walter Augustus Wyckoff, Class of 1888, would spend a year and a half traveling from Connecticut to Cali­fornia, taking every job he could find, from digging ditches in Middletown, N...

    $39.70

  • WHISTLER, OR, THE MANLY BOY
    WALTER AIMWELL
    Excerpt: ““The Aimwell Stories” are designed to portray some of the leading phases of juvenile character, and to point out their tendencies to future good and evil. This they undertake to do, by describing the quiet, natural scenes and incidents of every-day life, in city and country, at home and abroad, at school and upon the play-ground, rather than by resorting to romantic a...

    $39.70

  • MARCUS, OR THE BOY -TAMER
    WALTER AIMWELL
    Excerpt: ““The Aimwell Stories” are designed to portray some of the leading phases of juvenile character, and to point out their tendencies to future good and evil. This they undertake to do, by describing the quiet, natural scenes and incidents of every-day life, in city and country, at home and abroad, at school and upon the play-ground, rather than by resorting to romantic a...

    $39.70

  • THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE
    WALTER RALEIGH
    The last Fight of 'The Revenge' at sea under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Grenville on the 10-11th of September 1591. Described by Sir Walter Raleigh, November 1591. Gervase Markham 1595., and Jan Huygen Linschoten. ...

    $39.70

  • PERSONALITY AND THE PREDICTION OF JOB PERFORMANCE
    WALTER C. BORMAN
    The three primary papers in this special issue explore personality measurement in both directions, that is, more narrow and specific and more broad and heterogeneous. The first paper reviews research on conditional reasoning, with a focus on the construct of aggression. Next, tolerance for contradiction is explored, which is defined as a mode of thinking that accepts and even t...

    $979.00

  • SECURITY THROUGH COOPERATION
    WALTER A. KEMP
    This book makes the case for why cooperation is the key to security within and between states, and for dealing with complex threats and challenges to international peace and security. It argues that cooperation is not altruism or liberal internationalism, rather it is in the self-interest of states. Drawing on both theory and practice, it looks at how cooperation can be promote...

    $999.00

  • LANGUAGE IN POPULAR FICTION
    WALTER NASH
    First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in thrillers and romantic fiction. The book examines the use of language across three interrelated levels: a level of verbal organisation, a level of narrative structure, and a level at which stylistic options and devices are related to n...

    $859.00

  • AN UNCOMMON TONGUE
    WALTER NASH
    First published in 1991, An Uncommon Tongue explores the theme of usage in its widest sense: usage as what we say or write; usage as a social question; usage as a literary convention; usage and creativity. The book reflects on the practice and status of the English language in the modern world and the demands it makes on its academic disciplines. It puts forward the argument th...

    $859.00

  • IT TAKES A THIEF
    WALTER MILLER JR.
    Strange gods were worshiped on Mars. But were they so clever? They’d lost their own world. “The ancient gods, our Fathers, rode down from the heavens in the Firebirds of the Sun. Coming into the world, they found no air for the breath of their souls. “How shall we breathe?” they asked of the Sun. And Sun gave them of His fire and beneath the earth they kindled the Blaze of the...

    $9.00

  • THE RENAISSANCE DUN
    WALTER PATER
    Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. included is his celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. This book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as possible. His cry of "art for art's sake" became the manifesto of the Aesthetic Mov...

    $19.00

  • CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY
    WALTER S. DEKESEREDY
    The concept of critical criminology – that crime and the present-day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society – is of more relevance today than it has been at any other time. Written by an internationally renowned scholar, Contemporary Critical Criminology introduces the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by...

    $979.00

  • THE POLITICS OF BAD IDEAS
    BRYAN JONES / WALTER WILLIAMS
    This highly anticipated addition to the "Great Questions in Politics" series offers a provocative argument about the persistence of bad ideas in shaping American economic policy. The result of a collaboration between political scientist Bryan D. Jones and economist Walter Williams, The Politics of Bad Ideas is indispensable reading for any study of American government, public p...

    $651.95

  • THE SOVIET UNION AND THE MIDDLE EAST
    WALTER Z. LAQUEUR (DEC'D)
    First Published in 1959, The Soviet Union and the Middle East attempts to shed light on the evolution of Soviet attitudes toward the Middle East, its problems, challenges, and opportunities since 1917. Divided into two parts, the first part "The Soviet Image of the Middle East" presents an investigation into the sources of Soviet policy in that area, while the second part "The ...

    $899.00

  • THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA
    WALTER RALEIGH
    The Discovery of Guiana is a book by Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to "Guiana", the Venezuelan region of Guayana. He also visited Trinidad. The book includes some material of a factual nature, but postulates the existence of a gold-rich civilisation on the basis of little evidence. ...

    $39.70