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  • THE RESOLUTION OF SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISES
    JEANNETTE ABEL
    The insolvency of states is by no means a rare or new phenomenon. Despite this, it still seems to be widely felt that states do not go bankrupt. As of yet, there are no regulated insolvency proceedings for states. This book examines the current mechanisms for solving sovereign debt crises. It presents an analysis of their weaknesses and shows possibilities for dealing with such...

    $1,240.00

  • BION IN THE CONSULTING ROOM
    JOSEPH AGUAYO / R. HINSHELWOOD / SIRA DERMEN / NICOLA ABEL-HIRSCH
    Bion in the Consulting Room addresses the long-unanswered question of Bion’s clinical and supervisorial technique and examines the way Bion’s conceptual model and clinical practices informed his theoretical work. As Bion wrote about technique so rarely, the authors set about looking at many of his clinical and supervisorial examples to infer what might be learned from them. Thi...

    $860.00

  • ODD AFFINITIES
    ELIZABETH ABEL
    A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of “long modernism.” In recent decades, Virginia Woolf’s contribution to literary history has been located primarily within a female tradition. Elizabeth Abel dislodges Woolf from her iconic place within this tradition to uncover her shadowy presence in other literary genealogies. Abel elicits unexpected echoes of Woolf in four maj...

    $559.12

  • HOW AUTOCRATS SEEK POWER
    RICHARD L. ABEL
    Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump’s populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Au...

    $1,060.00

  • HOW AUTOCRATS ABUSE POWER
    RICHARD L. ABEL
    Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of both Trump’s efforts to erode democracy’s essential elements and opposition to those efforts. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Autocrats blur or bre...

    $1,100.00

  • HOW AUTOCRATS ATTACK EXPERTISE
    RICHARD L. ABEL
    Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of Trump’s assault on truth and his populist attacks on expertise, as well as scientific and legal opposition to them. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage....

    $1,100.00

  • LOW-CODE AI
    GWENDOLYN STRIPLING / MICHAEL ABEL
    Take a data-first and use-case–driven approach with Low-Code AI to understand machine learning and deep learning concepts. This hands-on guide presents three problem-focused ways to learn no-code ML using AutoML, low-code using BigQuery ML, and custom code using scikit-learn and Keras. In each case, you'll learn key ML concepts by using real-world datasets with realistic proble...

    $801.00

  • FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME
    ERNEST L. ABEL
    Recognition of the relationship between alcohol abuse and adverse prenatal outcomes is reflected in the warning labels on every alcoholic beverage sold in the United States. Because alcohol abuse has serious consequences for both individuals and society as a whole, much research has been devoted to this problem. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome provides straightforward facts regarding th...

    $5,100.00

  • THE SELF-FIELD
    CHRIS ABEL
    In this incisive study of the biological and cultural origins of the human self, the author challenges readers to re-think ideas about the self and consciousness as being exclusive to humans. In their place, he expounds a metatheoretical approach to the self as a purposeful system of extended cognition common to animal life: the invisible medium maintaining mind, body and envir...

    $1,120.00

  • DEVELOPING TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE APPROACHES TO STUDENT DISCIPLINE
    KIRK EGGLESTON / ERINN J. GREEN / SHAWN ABEL / STEPHANIE POE / CHAROL SHAKESHAFT
    Building on comprehensive research conducted in US schools, this accessible volume offers an effective model of school leadership to develop and implement school-wide, trauma-responsive approaches to student discipline. Recognizing that challenging student behaviours are often rooted in early experiences of trauma, the volume builds on a model from the Substance Abuse and Menta...

    $580.00

  • LIMITED STATEHOOD AND INFORMAL GOVERNANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
    ABEL POLESE / RUTH HANAU SANTINI / ROB KEVLIHAN
    Hybrid forms of governance – where the central state authority does not possess a monopoly of violence and fails to exercise control – are not only an epiphenomena, but a reality likely to persist. This book explores this phenomenon drawing on examples from the Middle East and Africa. It considers the different sorts of actors – state and non-state, public and private, national...

    $1,200.00

  • RETHINKING STATEHOOD IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
    ABEL POLESE / ‎RUTH HANAU SANTINI
    Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the authors explore non-standard...

    $1,200.00

  • ROAD VEHICLE DYNAMICS
    GEORG RILL / ABEL ARRIETA CASTRO
    Road Vehicle Dynamics: Fundamentals and Modeling with MATLAB®, Second Edition combines coverage of vehicle dynamics concepts with MATLAB v9.4 programming routines and results, along with examples and numerous chapter exercises. Improved and updated, the revised text offers new coverage of active safety systems, rear wheel steering, race car suspension systems, airsprings, four-...

    $1,380.00

  • MOTOR CITY MOVIE CULTURE, 1916-1925
    RICHARD ABEL
    Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life. Tapping a wealth of primary source material—...

    $229.00

  • THE NEW STAGE OF PERESTROIKA
    ABEL AGANBEGYAN / TIMOR TIMOFEYEV
    This book focuses on the intrinsic linkage between Soviet radical domestic reforms—perestroika—and international economic changes, and their relationship to both internal stability and international security. ...

    $1,200.00

  • OPERA IN THE FLESH
    SAM ABEL
    Verdi, Wagner, polymorphous perversion, Puccini, Brunnhilde, Pinkerton, and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this delightful, poetic, insightful, sexual book sprung by one man's physical response to the power and exaggeration we call opera. Sam Abel applies a light touch as he considers the topic of opera and the eroticized body: Why do audiences respond to opera in a visceral way...

    $1,200.00

  • BION
    NICOLA ABEL-HIRSCH
    This is a book of 365 quotes from the work of the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion. Something of an enigma, Bion often doesn't write in the way one would expect of a psychoanalyst, but is being read ever-increasingly around the world, in and outside the psychoanalytic community. Certain of his comments are often quoted, whilst swathes of his work lie almost untouched. How to make som...

    $820.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH
    BRIAN ABEL-SMITH
    This book concerns itself with the key question: how to improve health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. What makes people healthy? Why are the poor less healthy than the rich? Why do some countries have a better health record than others? An Introduction to Health is divided into four parts comprising the determinants of health, health service planning, healt...

    $2,420.00

  • IMMIGRANT PUBLISHERS
    RICHARD ABEL
    In the first third of the twentieth century, the publishing industry in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by well-established and comfortable traditions pursued by family-dominated firms. The British trade was the preserve of self-satisfied men entirely certain of their superiority in the world of letters; their counterparts in North America were blissfully un...

    $1,320.00

  • IDENTITY AND NATION BUILDING IN EVERYDAY POST-SOCIALIST LIFE
    ABEL POLESE
    This book explores the function of the “everyday” in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region. Based on extensive original research including fieldwork, the book demonstrates how the study of everyday and mundane practices is a meaningful and useful way of understanding the socio-political process...

    $1,260.00

  • THE GUTENBERG REVOLUTION
    RICHARD ABEL
    One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without G...

    $1,380.00

  • THE NAZI MOVEMENT
    THEODORE ABEL
    This book identifies the main factors by which the Nazi movement rose to power and measures their relative importance. It discusses Hitler's leadership, the strategy of party tacticians, and the favorable circumstances of popular economic and social discontent. Based on more than 600 autobiographies obtained from followers of Hitler, The Nazi Movement explains the social bases ...

    $1,380.00

  • EVOLUTIONARY CRITICAL THEORY AND ITS ROLE IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
    CHARLES FEDERICK ABEL / ARTHUR JAY SEMENTELLI
    This work addresses one of the most central and timely subjects in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory and especially how to assess its implications for everyday practice. ...

    $1,320.00

  • GLOBAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
    ABEL ADEKOLA / BRUNO S. SERGI
    This book interweaves the concepts of the guidance on globalization, international management, and the intricacies of international business that many books on the market treat independently. It clarifies and explains culture, cultural misunderstandings, and cross-cultural interactions. Adekola and Sergi's text is unique in that it offers both the management perspective and the...

    $1,460.00

  • NATION-BUILDING AND IDENTITY IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE
    RICO ISAACS / ABEL POLESE
    Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth case studies from countries throughout the post-Soviet space it compares various...

    $1,200.00

  • URBAN GOVERNANCE IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
    ABEL ALBET
    The concept of governance has evolved into one of the most important but also controversial concepts in urban politics. While it encourages co-operation, participation and collective construction, at the same time, it has brought about new forms of public demission, oligarchic regimes and less local democracy. The dilemmas accompanying these changes are particularly relevant wh...

    $980.00

  • POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS
    RICHARD ABEL
    Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid. Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major legal campaigns including: challenges to pass laws; black trade union demands for recognition; state terror; censorship; resistance ...

    $1,600.00

  • TREATING ADDICTIONS WITH EMDR THERAPY AND THE STAGES OF CHANGE
    NANCY ABEL / JOHN O'BRIEN
    Mental health practitioners must be prepared to treat addiction-related issuesóaffecting up to 50% of mental health clientsówhether or not clients present with addiction as a primary concern. This practical roadmap to the treatment of addictions advocates an underutilizedóyet highly effectiveómethod of intervention: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. ...

    $1,241.00

  • THE CHEMISTRY OF GERMANIUM
    E. G. ROCHOW / E. W. ABEL
    Pergamon Texts in Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 14: The Chemistry of Germanium, Tin, and Lead focuses on the properties, characteristics, transformations, and reactions of lead, germanium, and tin. The book focuses on germanium and compounds of Ge(I) and Ge(II). Discussions focus on germanium(II) compounds of phosphorus and arsenic, germanium(II) imide and nitride, monohalides,...

    $425.00

  • AGRICULTURAL FLUCTUATIONS IN EUROPE
    WILHELM ABEL
    Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and his scholarship and approach have had a decisive effect on the orientation of economic and agricultural history. Using ...

    $1,420.00


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