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  • ADVANCING AGROECOLOGY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
    ROB AMOS
    Producing enough food is a basic human priority and a critical challenge in the face of a growing population and the deteriorating ecological health of the planet. Modern agricultural practices promise to maximise the productive efficiency of available land but are one of the main drivers of agro- and biodiversity loss. Agroecology, which places ecological sustainability and di...

    $1,099.00

  • UNCOVERING THE PEARL
    AMOS YONG
    Asia is by far the largest continent in the world. The global expansion of the church, which emanated from the Middle East (as explored in the first book in the series) moved along various routes to take root in Asia proper. Christianity in Asia is extraordinarily diverse, with very ancient forms of the faith dating to the time of the apostles. The western church will be enligh...

    $710.00

  • BECOMING A READING TEACHER
    JANE SPIRO / AMOS PARAN
    This book encourages readers to think about reading not only as an encounter with written language, but as a lifelong habit of engagement with ideas. We look at reading in four different ways: as linguistic process, personal experience, collective experience, and as classroom practice. We think about how reading influences a life, how it changes over time, how we might return a...

    $1,039.00

  • LOSING FACE
    ILANA KRAUSMAN BEN-AMOS
    This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era. Using insights drawn from the social sciences, the book investigates multiple meanings and manifestations of shame in everyday lives and across private and public domains, exploring the practi...

    $1,099.00

  • REVISITING JAPAN’S RESTORATION
    TIMOTHY D. AMOS
    This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths of the most recent interpretative trends in history writing on Japan while simultaneously offering new research pathways. On a ...

    $999.00

  • SHADOW TRADES
    AMOS OWEN THOMAS
    Alongside burgeoning global business, which asserts its legality, ethics and social responsibility, there exists a dark side of shadow trades manifesting various shades of legitimacy.  Not only do the latter’s corrupt practices, dubious supply chains and other illicit operations run in tandem with global business, these borderless trades intersect with economic structures and c...

    $828.25

  • INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION LAW
    ROB AMOS
    Through a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches, this book explores the role of international environmental law in protecting and conserving plants. Underpinning every ecosystem on the planet, plants provide the most basic requirements: food, shelter and clear air. Yet the world’s plants are in trouble; a fifth of all plant species are at risk of extinction, with ...

    $1,099.00

  • CASTE IN EARLY MODERN JAPAN
    TIMOTHY AMOS
    "Caste", a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship. This has not always been the case, and the term was often used among earlier generations of scholars, who introduced the Buraku problem to Western audiences. Amos argues that time for reappraisal is well overdue and that a combination of ideas, beli...

    $1,099.00

  • PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGINATION
    AMOS MORRIS-REICH
    As the prototypical exemplar of modern visual technology, photography was once viewed as a way to enable vision to bypass imagination, producing more reliable representations of reality. But as an achievement of technological modernity, photography can also be seen as a way to realize a creation of the imagination more vividly than can painting or drawing. Photography and Imagi...

    $1,099.00

  • INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
    AMOS LAKOS
    The international system comprises a plurality of sovereign states often pursuing conflicting interests. One means of resolving or managing conflicts between those states is diplomatic bargaining or negotiation. In the last fifteen years, the study of negotiation has attracted researchers from various disciplines in the social sciences, and the vol ...

    $1,099.00

  • LATINA BILINGUAL EDUCATION TEACHERS
    YUKARI TAKIMOTO AMOS
    Using critical race theory and whiteness studies as theoretical frameworks, this book traces two Latina bilingual education teachers in three different professional phases: as paraprofessionals, teacher candidates, and certified teachers. Grounded in a longitudinal case study, this book sheds light on the effects of institutional racism when Latina/o educational professionals a...

    $1,099.00

  • TRANSFORMATION TO AGILITY
    JEFFREY AMOS
    History is replete with examples of one political system replacing another, one scientific discovery invalidating another – and this cycle has occurred repeatedly in the production of goods and products for society. This book, first published in 1998, examines the massive transition currently taking place: the decline of the system of mass manufacturing. Various global changes ...

    $579.00

  • HANDBOOK OF MICROALGAL MASS CULTURE (1986)
    AMOS RICHMOND
    This handbook is devoted to the mass production of microalgae, and in my part, is based on some 10 years of experience in growing and studying microalgal cultures maintained at high polulation densities under laboratory conditions and in outdoor ponds ...

    $1,999.00

  • THE EDUCATION OF A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
    N. SCOTT AMOS / ANDREW PETTEGREE
    Throughout the sixteenth century, political and intellectual developments in Britain and The Netherlands were closely intertwined. At different times religious refugees from one or other country found a secure haven across the Channel, and a constant interchange of books, ideas and personnel underscored the affinity of lands which both made a painful progress towards Protestant...

    $1,059.00

  • CYBERSECURITY
    AMOS N. GUIORA
    This book examines the legal and policy aspects of cyber-security. It takes a much needed look at cyber-security from a geopolitical perspective. Through this lens, it seeks to broaden the reader's understanding of the legal and political considerations of individuals, corporations, law enforcement and regulatory bodies and management of the complex relationships between them. ...

    $1,179.00

  • HUMAN ASPECTS OF URBAN FORM
    AMOS RAPOPORT
    Human Aspects of Urban Form: Towards a Man—Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design discusses the man—environment interaction in urban setting. The book is comprised six chapters that provide a broad conceptual framework using a range of disciplines. The text first tackles urban design as the organization of space, time, meaning, and communication. The second chapter talk...

    $970.00

  • POLITICAL ROLES AND MILITARY RULERS
    AMOS PERLMUTTER
    This book represents three decades of Perlmutter's experiences and observations. The author studies the relationship between the military and politics in Middle East, focusing mainly on Egypt as a case study. He concludes by analysing the effect this internal relationship has on military performance. ...

    $3,400.00

  • MODERN GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY
    AMOS N. GUIORA
    The transformation from traditional war between nation-states to conflict between nation-states and nonstate actors requires decision makers, policy analysts, military commanders, intelligence officials, and legislators to answer the question: is there a strategy for an unwinnable conflict? This question takes on particular urgency given the extrao ...

    $3,400.00

  • PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE
    JOHN W. AMOS
    Palestinian Resistance: Organization of a Nationalist Movement presents the Palestinian conflict as a consequence of the emergence of Arab and Jewish nationalism in the 19th century. This book discusses the variables that intersect to produce Resistance politics. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the increasing threat to international stability o...

    $970.00

  • FOUNDATIONS OF WIRELESS AND ELECTRONICS
    M. G. SCROGGIE / S. W. AMOS
    Foundations of Wireless and Electronics, 10th Edition covers the cathode-ray and microwave tubes; modern pulse methods; f.m. detectors; basic processes of transmission; and reception, computers, and non-sinusoidal signal amplification. The book starts by giving a general overview of a complete electronic system, electricity and circuits, capacitance, and inductance. The text al...

    $1,249.00

  • ARAB-ISRAELI MILITARY/POLITICAL RELATIONS
    JOHN W. AMOS
    Arab-Israeli Military/Political Relations: Arab Perceptions and the Politics of Escalation examines the escalatory patterns of Israel's relations with Arab countries, paying particular attention to the preconditions, conditions, and ultimate precipitants of wars that have broken out with some repetitiveness in the Middle East. The impact of the October 1973 War (known as the Yo...

    $970.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS
    S W AMOS
    Principles of Transistor Circuits: Sixth Edition discusses the principles, concepts, and practices involved integrated circuits. The current edition includes up-to-date circuits, the section on thyristors has been revised to give more information on modern types, and dated information has been eliminated. The book covers related topics such as semiconductors and junction diode...

    $970.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS
    S W AMOS
    Principles of Transistor Circuits, Seventh Edition discusses the fundamental concepts of transistor circuits. The book is comprised of 16 chapters that cover amplifiers, oscillators, and generators. Chapter 1 discusses semiconductors and junction nodes, while Chapter 2 covers the basic principles of transistors. The subsequent chapters focus on amplifiers, where one of the cha...

    $970.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS
    S W AMOS / MIKE JAMES
    For over thirty years, Stan Amos has provided students and practitioners with a text they could rely on to keep them at the forefront of transistor circuit design. This seminal work has now been presented in a clear new format and completely updated to include the latest equipment such as laser diodes, Trapatt diodes, optocouplers and GaAs transistors, and the most recent line ...

    $970.00

  • NUCLEAR SHELL THEORY
    AMOS DE-SHALIT / IGAL TALMI
    Nuclear Shell Theory is a comprehensive textbook dealing with modern methods of the nuclear shell model. This book deals with the mathematical theory of a system of Fermions in a central field. It is divided into three parts. Part I discusses the single particle shell model. The second part focuses on the tensor algebra, two-particle systems. The last part covers three or more...

    $1,249.00

  • COOKING INNOVATIONS
    AMOS NUSSINOVITCH / MADOKA HIRASHIMA
    While hydrocolloids have been used for centuries, it took molecular gastronomy to bring them to the forefront of modern cuisine. They are among the most commonly used ingredients in the food industry, functioning as thickeners, gelling agents, texturizers, stabilizers, and emulsifiers. They also have applications in the areas of edible coatings and ...

    $1,299.00

  • HOMELAND SECURITY
    AMOS N. GUIORA
    With the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 now behind us, one critical question persists. Have policies enacted to protect us from terrorist attacks actually made us safer, or have they merely mollified the concerned public with a false sense of security? Homeland Security: What Is It and Where We Are Going combines professional experiences, personal re ...

    $3,400.00

  • PLANT GUM EXUDATES OF THE WORLD
    AMOS NUSSINOVITCH
    Plant Gum Exudates of the World: Sources, Distributions, Properties, and Applications is the most extensive collection of plant gum exudates in print, containing information on both well-established exudates and newer ones. It not only introduces an array of exudates never before described or reviewed, but also classifies gums according to their bo ...

    $5,400.00

  • STRATEGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
    JOHN GOOCH / AMOS PERLMUTTER
    This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. ...

    $1,379.00

  • TWO MINUTES OVER BAGHDAD
    URI BAR-JOSEPH / MICHAEL HANDEL / AMOS PERLMUTTER
    A detailed account of the way Israel dealt with the Iraqi nuclear buildup between its launch in 1974 and the destruction of the Tamuz I reactor on 7 June 1981. This updated account includes formerly classified information and photographs taken during the mission and from US spy satellites. ...

    $1,279.00


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