Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan white

9 resultados

  • METHODS OF METAPHYSICS
    ALAN WHITE
    Originally published in 1987. This book comprises a critical exposition of the thoughts on metaphysics of the major philosophers of the tradition. It introduces the ideas of these philosophers to students but is of interest to teachers as well. The author begins with a survey of the metaphysical writings of Plato, Aristotle, Berkeley, Leibniz and Bradley, clarifying throughout ...

    $899.00

  • HAZARDOUS WAIST
    ALAN WHITE / MAGGIE PETTIFER
    This book includes a foreword by Peter Baker, Chief Executive, The Men's Health Forum. Male weight problems are a serious public health issue and can lead to hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes and cancer. If current trends continue, the prospect of the majority of men becoming overweight is a very real one, and urgent action is imperative. The middle-aged spread that most ...

    $259.00

  • PROMOTING MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH
    DAVID CONRAD / ALAN WHITE
    A welcome and important contribution to a thankfully growing debate. Mental illness remains in some ways the last great taboo in our society, a taboo which leads directly to stigma and discrimination which for some can be even worse than the symptoms of their illness. This book in part is about encouraging men who have reached crisis point to seek help. Equally it's about preve...

    $999.00

  • PRICING OPTIONS WITH FUTURES-STYLE MARGINING
    ALAN WHITE
    This book examines the applicability of a relatively new and powerful tool, genetic adaptive neural networks, to the field of option valuation. A genetic adaptive neural network model is developed to price option contracts with futures-style margining. This model is capable of estimating complex, non-linear relationships without having prior knowledge of the specific nature of ...

    $859.00

  • LIGHTNING UP
    ALAN WHITE
    Alan White served in the RAF from 1953 to 1987 roughly the period of the Cold War. His introduction to flying came in his University Air Squadron. This seduced him into dropping out of University and joining the RAF. He initially had success during the piston-engine stages of his training but damage to a Vampire T11 and a bad start on the Hunter Weaponry Course set his confiden...

    $251.00

  • MEN'S HEALTH
    DAVID CONRAD / ALAN WHITE
    This work includes Foreword by Ian Banks - President, Men's Health Forum. Traditionally, men have been seen as reluctant to access health services, but getting men to engage with their health isn't an impossible task once you're equipped with a few tricks of the trade. This concise, easy to read guide offers a no-nonsense, practical approach to the development and implementatio...

    $659.00

  • THE LONG MIDNIGHT
    ALAN WHITE
      “The action gets hot on the icy fjords” in this gripping novel of two British commandos in World War II Norway (Kirkus Reviews).   Norway, 1943. A land in the grip of Nazi occupation, where men and women still fight for freedom in constant danger from German murder squads and Norwegian traitors. It is to find such a traitor that two men are sent from Britain. Their mission is...

    $229.00

  • THE LONG NIGHT'S WALK
    ALAN WHITE
      There’s only one way home: straight through the enemy . . . An action-packed WWII tale filled with “snappy authenticity” (Kirkus Reviews).   Four British commandos parachute into occupied Holland. Their mission: to delay and impede German communications long enough to cover the escape of an Allied unit a few miles away. Soon the countryside is in chaos, and the whole German a...

    $229.00

  • THE LONG DAY'S DYING
    ALAN WHITE
      Cut off, surrounded, and desperate, three WWII commandos wait for the chaos to begin in this “fiercely authentic” novel of combat (Sunday Telegraph).   They were three soldiers, on watch in the French countryside, their base a disused barn. Three ordinary men seconded into the horrors of World War II, each with his own ideals, his own feelings, his own fears.   Their task was...

    $229.00