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  • FILM LANDSCAPES OF GLOBAL YOUTH
    STUART C. AITKEN, JACOB ROWLETT
    This book explores the dynamic landscapes of global youth through spatially grounded chapters focused on film and media. It is a collection of incredible works concerning children and young people in, out, and through media as well as an examination of what is possible for the future of research within the intersections of geography, film theory, and children’s studies. It cont...

    $1,240.00

  • YOUNG PEOPLE, RIGHTS AND PLACE
    STUART AITKEN
    Concern is growing about children’s rights and the curtailment of those rights through the excesses of neoliberal governance. This book discusses children’s spatial and citizenship rights, and the ways young people and their families push against diminished rights. Armed initially with theoretical concerns about the construction of children through the political status quo and ...

    $1,200.00

  • A NEW APPROACH TO CONSERVATION
    GILL AITKEN
    Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action. The safeguarding or promotion of biodiversity, it is believed, is the means by which nature is best protected. This book examines - and challenges - these general conservation assumptions. While reinforcing the need to halt extinction and value biodiversity, it shows that biodiversi...

    $1,120.00

  • COMMUNICATING
    ROY BERKO / ANDREW WOLVIN / DARLYN R. WOLVIN / JOAN E. AITKEN
    This highly-regarded introduction to communication book offers a comprehensive blend of basic communication theory, research, and skills, with a strong emphasis on relationship communication (social), workplace (career), and intercultural communication (culture). Communicating introduces the basic principles of communication and applies them to interpersonal, group, interviewin...

    $4,500.00

  • THE AWKWARD SPACES OF FATHERING
    STUART C. AITKEN
    Societal notions of fathers have evolved from the distant breadwinner through genial dad and masculine role model to today's equal co-parent. This book seeks to explore the spaces and movements of men-as-fathers. Weaving together theories of space, sexuality and political identity with the stories of fathers from a range of sources, including popular culture, it discusses the w...

    $1,460.00

  • THE ETHNOPOETICS OF SPACE AND TRANSFORMATION
    STUART C. AITKEN
    Change is inevitable, we are told. A job is lost, a couple falls in love, children leave home, an addict joins Narcotics Anonymous, two nations go to war, a family member's health deteriorates, a baby is born, a universal health care bill is voted into law. Life comprises events over which we have considerable, partial, or little or no control. The distance between the event ...

    $1,560.00

  • FRINGE FINANCE
    ROB AITKEN
    The most recent conversations about financial instability in International Political Economy have addressed the ongoing financial spasms of the past five years; a global financial spasm unleashed by the 2008 subprime debacle, ongoing Eurozone instability, and general price volatility in securities markets globally. Alongside and as part of these broader spasms, however, has bee...

    $1,200.00

  • SCIENCE-BASED DATING IN ARCHAEOLOGY
    M.J. AITKEN
    Archaeologists and archaeology students have long since needed an authoritative account of the techniques now available to them, designed to be understood by non-scientists. This book fills the gap and it offers a two-tier approach to the subject. The main text is a coherent introduction to the whole field of science-based dating, written in plain langauge for non-scientists. A...

    $1,620.00

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING THEORY (RLE ACCOUNTING)
    GAFFIKIN, MICHAEL / AITKEN, MICHAEL
    This book is a resource book for the comprehensive study of the development of accounting thought. It is designed to facilitate the study of the original works and stimulate further study of important accounting theory forbears. It covers: accounting theory accounting concepts of profit financial accounting and the foundations of accounting measurement accounting evaluation and...

    $1,320.00

  • YOUNG PEOPLE, BORDER SPACES AND REVOLUTIONARY IMAGINATIONS
    AITKEN, STUART / BOSCO, FERNANDO / HERMAN, THOMAS / SWANSON, KATE
    Drawing from discussions that pulled together child researchers working near the borders of Mexico, the United States and Canada, this book explores how material and metaphoric borders give way to young people's experimentations with cultural, social and political change. The contributors highlight the capacities of children to revolutionize thought and practice through creativ...

    $1,160.00

  • FILM AND REFORM
    IAN AITKEN
    Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most influential of British film theorists. This major assessment of Grierson and the documentary film movement examines the intellectual and aesthetic influences on his work, focusing on the mate...

    $1,340.00

  • TEACHING CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAFBLIND
    STUART AITKEN, MARIANNA BUULTJENS, CATHERINE CLARK, JANE T. EYRE, LAURA PEASE
    First published in 2000. Resources and training material about children who are deafblind are all too rare. The principles of contact, communication and learning are fundamental; they apply to us all. The process of putting these same principles into practice with children who are deafblind can be complex, incremental and challenging. This book rewards the reader by identifying...

    $1,040.00

  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM 3-VOLUME SET
    IAN AITKEN
    The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' WorkersLeaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). This Encyclopedia provides a resource that critically analyzes that history in all its aspects. Not only does this Encyclopedia examine individual fi...

    $13,000.00

  • GLOBAL CHILDHOODS
    STUART AITKEN
    This astute book initiates a broad discussion from a variety of different disciplines about how we place children nationally, globally and within development discourses. Unlike other books of its kind, it does not seek to dwell solely on the abiding complexities of local comparisons. Rather, it elaborates larger concerns about the changing nature of childhood, young people’s ex...

    $1,280.00

  • ANOVA FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES RESEARCHER
    RUDOLF N. CARDINAL / MICHAEL R.F. AITKEN
    This new book provides a theoretical and practical guide to analysis of variance (ANOVA) for those who have not had a formal course in this technique, but need to use this analysis as part of their research. From their experience in teaching this material and applying it to research problems, the authors have created a summary of the statistical theory underlying ANOVA, togethe...

    $1,320.00

  • THE MULTINATIONAL MAN (RLE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS)
    THOMAS AITKEN
    The growth and proliferation of multinational companies has both imposed new responsibilities on and offered new opportunities to, the men who represent them around the world. This book dissects the functional responsibilities of the manager abroad in the light of his relationships with the home office and with his local environment, and explores the consequences of various typ...

    $1,320.00

  • THE CONCISE ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM
    IAN AITKEN
    The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). Previously published in three volumes, entries have been edited and updated for the new, concise edition and three new entries hav...

    $1,320.00

  • VALUE-DRIVEN IT MANAGEMENT
    IAIN AITKEN
    Value-Driven IT Management explains how huge sums are wasted by companies (and governments) on poorly aligned, poorly justified and poorly managed IT projects based on 'wishful thinking' cost and benefit assumptions and that even 'successful' projects rarely seem to realise the benefits promised. The author contends that the root cause of the disappointment and disillusion ofte...

    $2,020.00

  • DEVELOPING CHANGE LEADERS
    PAUL AITKEN / MALCOLM HIGGS
    Implementing change is a major business challenge. Is your leadership up to the task? With change initiatives failing so frequently despite many books on the market addressing separately the topics of leadership and change management, Developing Change Leaders tackles in one concise volume the all-important question of how to develop effective change leaders who make a differen...

    $1,320.00

  • MATHEMATICS FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENTISTS
    MIKE AITKEN / BILL BROADHURST / STEPHEN HLADKY
    Mathematics for Biological Scientists is a new undergraduate textbook which covers the mathematics necessary for biology students to understand, interpret and discuss biological questions. The book's twelve chapters are organized into four themes. The first theme covers the basic concepts of mathematics in biology, discussing the mathematics used in biological quantities, proce...

    $1,560.00

  • THE GEOGRAPHY OF YOUNG PEOPLE
    STUART C AITKEN
    The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up. This book brings coherency to the growing field of children's geographies by arguing that although most of it does not prescribe solution...

    $1,420.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY, DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
    GILL AITKEN / PAM ALLDRED / ROBIN ALLWOOD / TOM BILLINGTON / ERICA BURMAN / BRENDA GOLDBERG / COLLEEN HEEN
    What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitioners-researchers, this co-authored book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its "expert" knowledge to turn social marginalisation into pathology. Chapters address a range of cultural and institutional are...

    $1,380.00

  • THE USE OF STATISTICS IN FORENSIC SCIENCE
    C. G. G. AITKEN / DAVID A. STONEY
    Describes ways of assessing forensic science evidence and the means of communicating the assessment to a court of law. The aim of this work is to ensure that the courts consider seriously the probability of the evidence of association. ...

    $6,500.00

  • THE RIVER OF HEAVEN
    ROBERT AITKEN
    “In this, his final work, American senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken lovingly ties together two threads, Zen practice and haiku.” —Spirituality & Health Known to many as the study of quiet stillness and introspection, Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself through brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. In River of Heaven these concepts and pillars lend themselves...

    $189.00

  • GUIA EN 10 MIN.WORD 2000
    AITKEN
    Agotado

    $150.00

  • APRENDIENDO C EN 21 DIAS
    AITKEN
    Agotado

    $150.00

  • MS OFFICE 97 PROFES. 6 EN 1
    AITKEN
    Agotado

    $150.00

  • TECNOLOGIA CREATIVA
    AITKEN
    Agotado

    $880.00