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  • CHINA'S STEALTH FIGHTER
    ABRAHAM ABRAMS
    A detailed exploration of China’s J-20 stealth fighter, its development, impact, and role in reshaping global power dynamics. The United States and Soviet Union began a race to develop the first and most capable fifth generation stealth fighters in the late 1970s. The Cold War’s end, however, was followed by both a near total collapse of Russian efforts and major cuts and delay...

    $255.99

  • J-20 MIGHTY DRAGON
    ABRAHAM ABRAMS
    The J-20 fifth generation stealth fighter program has epitomised China’s rise from a laggard in combat aviation into a potential world leader. J-20 Mighty Dragon: Asia’s First Stealth Fighter in the Era of China’s Military Rise details the J-20’s technologies, capabilities, production timeline, design priorities, roles, evolution, and the formations and locations where it has b...

    $229.99

  • THE SHOULDER
    RICHARD RYU / RICHARD ANGELO / JEFFREY ABRAMS
    Co-published with the Arthroscopy Association of North America, The Shoulder: AANA Advanced Arthroscopic Surgical Techniques is a comprehensive technique-based book that presents the latest diagnostic and reconstructive techniques in arthroscopic surgery for the shoulder. The Shoulder: AANA Advanced Arthroscopic Surgical Techniques is authored by premier arthroscopic surgeons D...

    $3,400.00

  • MANAGEMENT OF THE UNSTABLE SHOULDER
    JEFFREY ABRAMS
    Management of the Unstable Shoulder: Arthroscopic and Open Repair presents orthopedic surgeons, sports medicine specialists, therapists, and trainers with state-of-the-art treatment options, such as anatomic repair and precise rehabilitation techniques that will then enable them to provide athletes with the best chance of returning to their sport. The text is accompanied by an ...

    $4,300.00

  • FORENSIC STORYTELLING AND THE LITERARY ROOTS OF EARLY MODERN FEMINISM
    BARBARA ABRAMS
    The writing of letters and the rise of the novel provided a way for some women to express themselves at a time when the all-male French Academy defined the very parameters of French literary acceptability and tradition. Women who were consigned to convents, workhouses or prisons were in most respects deprived of agency, yet many found ways to respond to the legal documents serv...

    $640.00

  • WHAT MAKES TEACHERS UNHAPPY, AND WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT? BUILDING A CULTURE OF STAFF WELLBEING
    MARK SOLOMONS / FRAN ABRAMS
    Many teachers, support staff and school leaders are tired, stressed and overstretched. And even though this frequently makes the headlines, it isn’t a new problem. In this book, Mark Solomons and Fran Abrams argue staff wellbeing should be rooted in the culture and climate of our schools. They provide a roadmap to recovery for struggling schools which should lead to improvement...

    $580.00

  • THE RISE OF THE MASSES
    BENJAMIN ABRAMS
    An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and others as part of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, which is only one of the most recent examples of an immen...

    $524.17

  • THE JOY OF CANNABIS
    MELANIE ABRAMS / LARRY SMITH
    A sophisticated and humorous cannabis book to enhance your life and promote self-care through the science and magic of weed. With a toolkit of the basics to get you started and a curated set of 75 activities, The Joy of Cannabis is a road map to a higher and happier you. In each of the six sections, you'll find science-based research as well as charts, essays, and fun facts fro...

    $385.00

  • FOREST POLICY AND GOVERNANCE IN THE UNITED STATES
    JESSE ABRAMS
    This new textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to both the policy background and contemporary governance of forests in the United States. Starting with a history of the development of forest policies and conservation agencies, the book then explores the diversity of forest owners, users, and uses and examines emerging approaches to forest governance tha...

    $1,160.00

  • THE ART OF CITY SKETCHING
    MICHAEL ABRAMS
    The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual guides readers through the process of freehand architectural sketching and explains orthographic, diagrammatic, three-dimensional, and perceptual-type drawings. The book presents hundreds of drawings of historic buildings and urban spaces, examples, and exercises, which help readers develop their drawing skills and employ sketching as a...

    $1,360.00

  • REFUGEE EDUCATION
    JOANNA MCINTYRE / FRAN ABRAMS
    In the last five years, more child refugees have made perilous journeys into Europe than at any point since the Second World War. Once refugee children begin to establish their new lives, education becomes a priority. However, access to high-quality inclusive education can be challenging and is a social justice issue for schools, policymakers and for the research community. Und...

    $540.00

  • GENDER RELATIONS IN GERMAN HISTORY
    ELIZABETH HARVEY / LYNN ABRAMS
    This collection of essays examines the construction of gender norms in early modern and modern Germany.; The modes of reinforcement by the state, the church, the law and marriage, and the resistance to these norms by individuals, are central to each of the contributions.; It examines discourses of the body and sexuality and the relations between gender and power. Similarly, the...

    $1,160.00

  • GLASGOW
    LYNN ABRAMS / ADE KEARNS / BARRY HAZLEY / VALERIE WRIGHT
    In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high-rise estates on vacant sites ...

    $640.00

  • BRIDGES AND BARRIERS
    FILIPPOS PIERROS / JACOB MEUNIER / STAN ABRAMS
    Originally published in 1999, Bridges and Barriers is a detailed study of the European Union’s Mediterranean Policy from the initial agreements in the 1960s to the recent Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. The scope of this analysis includes the Maghreb and Mashreq countries in addition to Turkey, Malta, Israel, the Occupied Territories and Cyprus. The authors argue that the limit...

    $980.00

  • BREATHE TO SUCCEED
    SANDY ABRAMS
    "Science has validated the power of breathing and mindfulness to enhance our well-being. Sandy Abrams' advice is a simple but incredibly effective way to make mindfulness a part of your life and help you thrive in our always-on world." --Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global Technology has revolutionized the business sector. Whether you're an entrepreneur, employee, ...

    $229.00

  • MANAGING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
    SANDRA SCHAMROTH ABRAMS / XIAOJUN CHEN / MICHAEL DOWNTON
    Managing Educational Technology examines the ways in which stakeholders from businesses, K-12 schools, and universities can influence the quality and success of technology integration in primary and secondary classrooms. Inspired by their experiences in the field as educators, education researchers, and technology evaluators, the authors present vignettes that highlight the ben...

    $1,620.00

  • DRESS LIKE A WOMAN
    ABRAMS BOOKS
    From factory worker to First Lady, "this photo book explores the history of female power dressing across different classes, cultures, and careers" ( InStyle). At a time in which a woman can be a firefighter, surgeon, astronaut, military officer, athlete, judge, and more, what does it mean to dress like a woman? This book turns that question on its head by sharing a myriad of in...

    $251.00

  • THE MAKING OF MODERN WOMAN
    LYNN ABRAMS
    Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should be and how she should act.  From domestic ideology to women's suffrage, this book charts the co...

    $1,540.00

  • ORAL HISTORY THEORY
    LYNN ABRAMS
    Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. Combining the study of theories drawn from disciplines ranging from linguistics to psychoanalysis with the observations of practitioners and including extensive e...

    $1,260.00

  • BRINGING VALUE TO HEALTHCARE
    RITA E. NUMEROF / MICHAEL ABRAMS
    In Bringing Value to Healthcare: Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model, Rita Numerof and Michael Abrams lay out the roadmap to a healthcare system that is accountable for delivering optimal patient outcomes at a sustainable cost. This is the handbook for payer, provider, pharmaceutical, and medical device executives seeking to preserve today‘s profitability while ...

    $960.00

  • JUDAISM AND DISABILITY
    JUDITH Z. ABRAMS
    The Jewish religion owns a virtually uninterrupted record of scripture and commentary dating back to 1,000 B.C.E. (B.C.), portions of which allow the new book Judaism and Disability: Portrayals in Ancient Texts from the Tanach through the Bavli to document attitudes toward disabled people in the earliest centuries of this ancient culture. Abrams examines the Tanach, the Hebrew ...

    $1,214.72

  • INTEGRATING VIRTUAL AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING IN 6-12 CLASSROOMS
    SANDRA SCHAMROTH ABRAMS
    Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms introduces a model of "layered literacies" as a framework for describing and illustrating how students’ digital experiences can inform educational methods. Through the lens of layered literacies, educators can envision opportunities to draw upon adolescents’ out-of-school interests and activities to meaningfully in...

    $1,420.00

  • WHEN PARENTS DIE
    REBECCA ABRAMS
    The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for adults too, a parent's death can be a tremendous blow. When Parents Die speaks to bereaved children of all ages. Rebecca Abrams draws on her personal and professional understandings ...

    $1,040.00

  • HEALTHCARE AT A TURNING POINT
    RITA E. NUMEROF / MICHAEL ABRAMS
    If the furious debate around the state of healthcare in the US has led to any consensus, it‘s that the system should be delivering better quality for less cost than it does. The truth is that our healthcare system is a sprawling mix of competing interests in which those of the patient are valued least. Too much discussion has devolved to simplistic ...

    $960.00

  • BONE HEALTH IN CHILDREN
    STEVEN A. ABRAMS / KELI M. HAWTHORNE
    Bone health is one of the most widely discussed topics in pediatric nutrition. Ensuring adequate calcium and vitamin D intake is essential, and other factors also play a significant role. Bone Health in Children explores the recent decades of research and public commentary on the subject, debunks popular myths, and clarifies the often confusing and ...

    $1,760.00

  • HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE SPORT AND LEISURE INDUSTRY
    CHRIS WOLSEY / SUE MINTEN / JEFFREY ABRAMS
    The sport and leisure sectors possess unique characteristics that pose particular challenges for managers and human resource professionals. The age profile of workers, seasonality, the pressure to achieve short-term results, media intrusion, wide differences in pay between elite and community levels, and the importance of competition and consumer (fan) behaviour, all combine to...

    $1,460.00

  • LEARNING TO FAIL
    FRAN ABRAMS
    During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue – youth unemployment. Even when economic growth was strong, one young person in 10 in the United Kingdom was neither working nor learning. As the boom ended, the number of young people dropping out after leaving school – already acknowledged t...

    $860.00

  • BISMARCK AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE
    LYNN ABRAMS
    Updated and expanded, this second edition of Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871–1918 is an accessible introduction to this important period in German history. Providing both a narrative of events at the time and an analysis of social and cultural developments across the period, Lynn Abrams examines the political, economic and social structures of the Empire. Including the lat...

    $1,120.00

  • SOCIAL IDENTIFICATIONS
    DOMINIC ABRAMS / MICHAEL A. HOGG
    The authors of Social Identifications set out to make accessible to students of social psychology the social identity approach developed by Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and their colleagues in Bristol during the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams give a comprehensive and readable account of social identity theory as well as setting it in the context of other approac...

    $1,160.00

  • SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE
    JEROME H. ABRAMS
    Presenting current perspectives on the physiology and metabolism of the critically ill, this reference demonstrates practical approaches for the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care of the critically ill patient with an abundance of clearly laid-out figures, case studies, graphs, and charts. ...

    $6,900.00


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