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  • THERE'S NO HOME
    ALEXANDER BARON
    In August 1943, Sergeant Craddock leads his battle-weary platoon down Via Garibaldi in Catania, Sicily. Struck by the oppressive heat and their alien new surroundings, the men soon settle into this lull in their combat experience. The next few weeks take on a dreamlike quality as newfound relationships flourish and the war itself – let alone homelife in Britain – recedes into t...

    $165.99

  • RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS IN PSYCHOLOGY
    S ALEXANDER HASLAM / CRAIG MCGARTY / TEGAN CRUWYS / NIKLAS K. STEFFENS
    Updated with new chapters on multiple regression and high-level research methods, this 4th edition of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology delivers all you need to develop a practical understanding of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in psychology. In particular, this book guides you through the range of choices and considerations involved in re...

    $984.47

  • THE BLIND SCIENTIST
    ALEXANDER J. BONITTO / JOHN S. KNOX
    This book investigates potential neo-Darwinian fallacies, specifically regarding a priori assumptions, that may have led to weak scientific methodology and praxis. It was proposed that five concepts must be true for neo-Darwinism to be true. These are gradualism, the tree of life hypothesis, the evidence of microevolutionary change accounting for macroevolutionary change, time ...

    $373.00

  • THE TRUTH ABOUT IRELAND, OR THROUGH THE EMERALD ISLE WITH AN AEROPLANE
    ALEXANDER CORKEY
    Excerpt: "The aeroplane is man’s latest invention. Through it man has become lord of the air. The steamship and steam engine had already given him victory over sea and land. Now he is complete master of the situation. One of the most delightful uses of the aeroplane is in sightseeing. Aerial tourist travel will soon become popular, as a bird’s-eye view of a country is the most ...

    $39.70

  • THE CORPORATE VENTURING HANDBOOK
    DIETMAR GRICHNIK / MANUEL HESS / JANA REUTHER / ALEXANDER STOECKEL / MICHAEL HILB
    Corporate venturing is a key strategic growth tool, but it is also complex and most programmes fail. Learn how to successfully manage, measure and improve a corporate venturing programme with this one-stop strategic guide. The Corporate Venturing Handbook delivers phase-by-phase guidance on the effective set-up, operation and termination of a corporate venturing programme. Shed...

    $949.00

  • THE GERMAN LIBERATION WAR OF 1813
    ALEXANDER MIKABERIDZE / PETER G A PHILLIPS
    The second of three volumes, this book represents the first English translation of the memoirs that rank among the best in the vast Napoleonic memoir literature. The author, Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii, served with distinction during the wars against Napoleon and wrote down his reminisces shortly after the war based on the notes that he kept while campaigning. Born in 1788, ...

    $217.37

  • RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    LAURA E. ALEXANDER
    This book highlights perspectives from religious traditions worldwide, in conversation with other communities who promote, critique, or question the idea of human rights. It shows how human rights can provide a platform for dialogue among groups of people from diverse backgrounds who seek to address pressing issues of human well-being. In each chapter, readers will be introduce...

    $979.00

  • DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION BEYOND BREXIT
    ALEXANDER RADUNZ / RAFAŁ RIEDEL
    This book examines differentiated integration in Europe, providing incisive analyses of domestic politics determinants – political conflict, party responses, citizens’ preferences and other supply and demand side elements. The four countries compared – Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom – afford rich diversity and offer broad empirical material available for cr...

    $1,099.00

  • CALAMITY AT FREDERICK
    ALEXANDER B. ROSSINO
    The loss of Robert E. Lee’s Special Orders No. 191 is one of the Civil War’s enduring mysteries. In this meticulous study, Alexander Rossino presents a bold new interpretation of the evidence surrounding the orders’ creation, distribution, and loss outside Frederick, Maryland, in September 1862. Rossino makes extensive use of primary sources to explore these subjects and other ...

    $147.13

  • WOMEN’S HEALTHCARE IN ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING
    IVY M. ALEXANDER, PHD, APRN, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
    Holistically addresses women's health, encompassing the needs of transgender and nonbinary individuals and considering ethnicity, social class, and disability/ablenessDelivering incisive and comprehensive information on the healthcare needs of women, transgender, and nonbinary persons, the third edition of this distinguished text incorporates a strong focus on the provision of ...

    $2,837.00

  • MARITIME ACCIDENT AND INCIDENT INVESTIGATION
    ALEXANDER ARNFINN OLSEN
    Maritime Accident and Incident Investigation covers a wide range of topics relating to maritime-orientated organisational hazards and risks, as well as root cause analyses and techniques for analysing evidence. Its approach to maritime casualty and incident investigation caters to the unique needs of the maritime industry and covers the human element, machinery and engineering,...

    $1,659.00

  • INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    STEVEN C. ROACH / ALEXANDER D. BARDER
    Featuring 16 new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations. New entries include the following: Anthropocene Authoritarian populism Borders Brexit Dignity Hierarchy Intersectio...

    $979.00

  • KESSELSDORF 1745
    ALEXANDER QUERENGÄSSER
    When one thinks of the wars of the eighteenth century, one thinks of the significant clashes of great military powers: the War of the Spanish Succession and the Battles of Blenheim and Malplaquet, the Great Northern War and the Battles of Narva and Poltava, the War of the Austrian Succession and Fontenoy, the Seven Years War with Roßbach, Leuthen and Zorndorf, or the American W...

    $344.99

  • EVOLUTION OF THE AMMONOIDS
    KATE LOMEDICO MARRIOTT / ALEXANDER BARTHOLOMEW / DONALD R. PROTHERO
    Ammonites are an extinct and charismatic lineage that persisted for over 300 million years. They were used, with other fossils, to corroborate the principle of faunal succession and launch the field of biostratigraphy. Despite intense research, many important questions remain unanswered. Furthermore, outdated hypotheses persist. Many new findings include a better understanding ...

    $1,659.00

  • THE TUNGUSIC LANGUAGES
    ALEXANDER VOVIN
    The Tungusic Languages is a survey of Tungusic, a language family which is seriously endangered today, but which at the time of its maximum spread was present all over Northeast Asia. This volume offers a systematic succession of separate chapters on all the individual Tungusic languages, as well as a number of additional chapters containing contextual information on the langua...

    $1,179.00

  • TV SHOWS AND NONPLACE
    ALEXANDER GUTZMER
    This book scrutinizes the relationship between contemporary TV shows and space, focusing on the ways in which these shows use and narrate specific spatial structures, namely, spaces far away from traditional metropolises. Beginning with the observation that many shows are set in specific spatial settings, referred to in the book as “nonplace territories” – e.g., North Jersey, N...

    $539.00

  • BIANCO - OMICIDIO A LONDRA
    ALEXANDER COPPERWHITE
    Nella sua seconda avventura, Francisco si recherà a Londra e... Richard Nixton inizia la sua carriera politica nel miglior scenario possibile. Il Big Ben di Londra. Mentre i giornalisti attendono il suo arrivo, lui supervisiona l'iconico orologio. Tutto deve essere perfetto per il servizio fotografico che darà slancio alla sua carriera. Ma tarda a tornare alla festa dove deve a...

    $51.00

  • A DATA-DRIVEN ANALYSIS OF CEMETERIES AND SOCIAL REFORM IN PARIS, 1804–1924
    KAYLEE P. ALEXANDER
    This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure. This study represents the first full-length study of vernacular monuments in France and the entrepreneurs who made them. It also pro...

    $1,099.00

  • LONG-TERM STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
    ALEXANDER CHUDNOVSKY / KALYAN SEHANOBISH
    The physics of fracture processes, which includes Fracture mechanics, is crucial for understanding the longevity and reliability of any structure, from fracture initiation to propagation and final catastrophic failure. This textbook introduces the thermodynamics of irreversible processes along with entropy to address the time dependency of fracture. Working from observations of...

    $1,239.00

  • A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
    JEFFREY ALEXANDER / JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER / KENNETH THOMPSON / LAURA DESFOR EDLES / MOSHOULA CAPOUS-DESYL
    The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the ...

    $3,200.00

  • TELLING STORIES WITH DATA
    ROHAN ALEXANDER
    The book equips students with the end-to-end skills needed to do data science. That means gathering, cleaning, preparing, and sharing data, then using statistical models to analyse data, writing about the results of those models, drawing conclusions from them, and finally, using the cloud to put a model into production, all done in a reproducible way. At the moment, there are a...

    $2,000.00

  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF HOPE
    ALEXANDER DOUGLAS
    Can philosophy be a source of hope? Today it is common to believe that the answer is no – that providing hope, if it is possible at all, belongs either to the predictive sciences or to religion. In this exciting and stimulating book, however, Alexander Douglas argues that the philosophy of Spinoza can offer something akin to religious hope. Douglas shows how Spinoza is able, wi...

    $999.00

  • EMPIRE AND EDUCATION
    MEANS, ALEXANDER J.
    Empire is in a state of emergency. A global pandemic and an ongoing secular crisis of capitalism, ecological instability, racism and ethnic conflict, geopolitical tensions, and specters of war all haunt the global order. Education preforms a key role in producing the subjective capacities that nourish Empire within its current neoliberal form. Simultaneously, education and peda...

    $1,339.00

  • FIREFIGHTING AND FIRE SAFETY SYSTEMS ON SHIPS
    ALEXANDER ARNFINN OLSEN
    This accessible reference introduces firefighting and fire safety systems on ships and is written in line with the IACS Classification Rules for Firefighting Systems. It covers the design, construction, use, and maintenance of firefighting and fire safety systems, with cross references to the American Bureau of Shipping rules and various Classification Society regulations which...

    $1,179.00

  • PAN-NATIONALISM AS A CATEGORY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
    MAXWELL, ALEXANDER
    How is pan-nationalism different from other forms of nationalism? This book explores the diversity of pan-nationalism in both theory and practice. Drawing on Rogers Brubaker, the book introduces "pan-nationalism" as a category of practice. It shows that pan-nationalism implied transcending political frontiers, intermittently possessed a pejorative subtext, and differed from unm...

    $1,339.00

  • CARING FOR THE WHOLE MUSICIAN: AWARENESS AND MINDFULNESS
    LARRY LEE HENSEL / ALEXANDER KAHN
    Caring for the Whole Musician brings together insights from two expert musicians and educators to consider the relationship between mental and physical health and artistic practice for musicians. Offering a holistic perspective that encompasses the whole being – body, mind, and heart – this book provides emerging musicians with tools, practices, and mindsets to address key chal...

    $539.00

  • ALGORITHM AND DESIGN COMPLEXITY
    ANLI SHERINE / MARY JASMINE / GENO PETER / S. ALBERT ALEXANDER
    Computational complexity is critical in analysis of algorithms and is important to be able to select algorithms for efficiency and solvability. Algorithm and Design Complexity initiates with discussion of algorithm analysis, time-space trade-off, symptotic notations, and so forth. It further includes algorithms that are definite and effective, known as computational procedures....

    $1,339.00

  • THE KREMLIN'S CHINESE ADVANCE GUARD
    DARIA ARINCHEVA / ALEXANDER PANTSOV
    This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the late 1930s. Including analysis of previously unknown documentary materials from th...

    $1,099.00

  • MARITIME CARGO OPERATIONS
    ALEXANDER ARNFINN OLSEN
    Maritime Cargo Operations presents the core concepts of cargo work for marine engineering students and cadets. It is built around the essential principles of the maritime profession and is a valuable guide to a broad range of key subject areas in the safe carriage, handling, stowage and securing of cargo, and cargo watches in port. It contributes to a sound understanding of car...

    $1,179.00

  • CAPTAIN KODAK A CAMERA STORY
    ALEXANDER BLACK
    Captain Kodak: A Camera Story is a children's book written by Alexander Black and published in 1899. The story follows a young boy named Harry Hastings who is passionate about photography and dreams of becoming a great photographer like his hero, Captain Kodak. After receiving a camera as a gift from his uncle, Harry sets out on a series of adventures with his friends, using hi...

    $39.70