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  • A MONTH OF SUNDAYS
    A. E. BALL
    Anne is a resident of the future New Earth and she's been given permission by the King of the universe to write to an old friend back on the old earth. A letter is delivered to the mailbox of her "dear friend" every Sunday for thirty-one Sundays. Ever wondered about the age beyond this one? Join Anne's friend by entering into the wonders of the Kingdom to come . . . and the hop...

    $196.00

  • PUBLIUS QUINCTILIUS VARUS
    JOANNE BALL
    This unique full-length English biography of Varus reassesses how he has been held responsible for one of the most infamous and humiliating defeats in Roman history. Publius Quinctilius Varus is famous as the incompetent commander duped into an ambush that wiped out three legions in one of the most humiliating defeats in Roman history. Yet this is the first full length biograph...

    $319.99

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS AROUND THE WORLD
    MARTIN J. BALL
    Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social settings, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World was originally the first single-volume collection surveying the current research trends in international sociolinguistics. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and significantly expanded, and now includes more than 50 chapters written ...

    $1,179.00

  • MICROWAVE COOKING FOR ONE & TWO
    CAROL BOWEN BALL
    Do you own a microwave? Probably. But did you know that recent research has shown that because of the lack of power that it uses, compared with conventional cooking methods, the microwave works out the cheapest of all the cooking appliances? And with energy costs spiraling to unthinkable levels, it seems that the microwave’s moment has come – and not before time. Because of its...

    $126.99

  • THE AUSTRALIAN POLICY HANDBOOK
    CATHERINE ALTHAUS / SARAH BALL / PETER BRIDGMAN / GLYN DAVIS / DAVID THRELFALL
    The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public engagement and policy success and failure. The Australian Policy Handbook shows how public policy permeates every aspect of our lives. ...

    $979.00

  • BEHAVIOURAL PUBLIC POLICY IN AUSTRALIA
    SARAH BALL
    Using rich ethnographic data and first-hand experience, Ball presents a detailed account of Australia’s attempts to incorporate behavioural insights into its public policy. Ball identifies three competing interpretations of behavioural public policy, and how these interpretations have influenced the use of this approach in practice. The first sees the process as an opportunity ...

    $1,099.00

  • STOP, ASK, EXPLORE
    JOAN P. BALL
    Interruptions and disruptions are a threshold to uncharted territory. You can learn to navigate uncertain transitions - and to flourish in times of unrelenting change. This book offers readers a practical framework for navigating life's inevitable turning points, thresholds and transitions - at work, at home and in between. Drawing upon more than a decade of research and work w...

    $379.00

  • MANUAL OF CLINICAL PHONETICS
    MARTIN J. BALL
    This comprehensive collection equips readers with a state-of-the-art description of clinical phonetics and a practical guide on how to employ phonetic techniques in disordered speech analysis. Divided into four sections, the manual covers the foundations of phonetics, sociophonetic variation and its clinical application, clinical phonetic transcription, and instrumental approac...

    $1,559.00

  • SURVIVING DEPENDENCE
    MARY M BALL / FRANK J WHITTINGTON
    To date there has not been a clear look at the home care experience of older African Americans. "Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders" attempts to meet the need for recording and interpreting the ordinary life of elderly African Americans on their own terms, in their own surroundings, and in so far as possible, in their own words. Ball and Whittington's resea...

    $2,200.00

  • UNCOMMON PSYCHIATRIC SYNDROMES
    DAVID ENOCH / BASANT K. PURI / HADRIAN BALL
    This book explores the historical background to, and present-day understanding of, a number of unusual psychiatric disorders. This fully revised new edition contains a new chapter on a range of recently emerging conditions as well as updated literature and a collection of new and updated cases. Since the publication of the fourth edition, there have been many developments in th...

    $1,499.00

  • MODERN REPRESENTATIONS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
    SÉBASTIEN LEFAIT / LORI MAGUIRE / SUSAN BALL
    This book examines how representations of African in the Anglophone West have changed in the post-imperial age. The period since the Second World War has seen profound changes in sub-Saharan Africa, notably because of decolonization, the creation of independent nation-states and the transformation of the relationships with the West. Using a range of case studies from news media...

    $1,099.00

  • BIOS INSTANT NOTES IN ECOLOGY
    AULAY MACKENZIE / ANDY BALL / SONIA VIRDEE
    This book is designed to give students rapid and easy access to key ecological material to assist learning and revision. Key topics such as populations and interactions, ecosystems, population genetics, community patterns and many more are structured into manageable sections, each cross-referenced, to allow easy navigation through the information. ...

    $999.00

  • STRATEGY AND SECURITY IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
    ROBERT AYSON / DES BALL
    From the war on terror to the rise of China, this book unlocks the major strategic themes and security challenges of the early twenty-first century. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of this complex but exciting strategic universe. Offering a unique mix of global strategic thinking and Asia-Pacific security analysi...

    $699.00

  • POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL
    TERENCE BALL / RICHARD DAGGER / DANIEL I O'NEILL
    Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology, from a political science perspective. This best-selling title promotes open-mindedness and develops critical thinking skills. It covers a wide variety of political ideologies from the traditional liberalism and conservatism t...

    $2,300.00

  • GOVERNING BY NUMBERS
    STEPHEN J. BALL
    Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life. Issues around big data, national test results, and output and performance statistics are now routinely reported and debated in the media. Numbers are a powerful resource for governments as a means to manage and ‘improve’ their populations, and we are increasingly represented...

    $1,139.00

  • HELP--THERE'S A COMPUTER IN MY CLASSROOM!
    ALISON BALL
    Mastering basic computer skills can be a daunting task for any busy teacher. This book provides a solution with simple instructions backed up by pictures of what the computer screen should look like at each stage of an activity. Use this book to: find out what your computer can do; save and organise work on your computer; create activities for chil ...

    $299.00

  • HELP--THERE'S A COMPUTER IN MY CLASSROOM!
    ALISON BALL
    Mastering basic computer skills can be a daunting task for any busy teacher. This book provides a solution with simple instructions backed up by pictures of what the computer screen should look like at each stage of an activity. Use this book to: find out what your computer can do; save and organise work on your computer; create activities for chil ...

    $299.00

  • SELF-ASSEMBLY PROCESSES AT INTERFACES
    VINCENT BALL
    Self-Assembly Processes at Interfaces: Multiscale Phenomena provides the conceptual and unifying view of adsorption, self-assembly, and grafting processes at solid–liquid and liquid–gas interfaces, also describing experimental methods where applicable. An invaluable resource for (post)-graduate students looking to bridge the gap between acquiring the field’s existing knowledge...

    $2,858.00

  • INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
    RICK BALL
    This volume, first published in 1994, is the first collection of original research on the relationships between industrial property and economic development. The contributors, all specialists in their field, highlight the emerging conflicts between the users and the providers of industrial premises; conflicts that may undermine economic potential. The need for flexibility in th...

    $579.00

  • JAMES MADISON
    TERENCE BALL
    James Madison (1751-1836) - 'the Father of the American Constitution' - was a legal and political thinker of great originality and range. The essays by eminent scholars reprinted in this volume explore various facets and aspects of Madison's legal, constitutional and political thought. These include his views of human nature, republican political theory and practice, federalism...

    $899.00

  • INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF THINKING AND REASONING
    LINDEN J. BALL
    The Routledge International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is an authoritative reference work providing a balanced overview of current scholarship spanning the full breadth of the rapidly developing and expanding field of thinking and reasoning. It contains 35 chapters written by leading international researchers, covering foundational issues as well as state-of-the-art dev...

    $1,239.00

  • MICHEL FOUCAULT AND EDUCATION POLICY ANALYSIS
    STEPHEN J. BALL
    The work of Michel Foucault has become a major resource for educational researchers seeking to understand how education makes us what we are. In this book, a group of contributors explore how Foucault’s work is used in a variety of ways to explore the ‘hows’ and ‘whos’ of education policy – its technologies and its subjectivities, its oppressions and its freedoms. The book take...

    $1,259.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOMETRICS
    RAFAEL BALL
    An Introduction to Bibliometrics: New Development and Trends provides a comprehensible, readable and easy to read introduction to bibliometrics. Importantly, the book surveys the latest developments of bibliometrics (such as altmetrics, etc.) and how the field is likely to change over the next decade. In the literature, bibliometrics is generally discussed from one of two persp...

    $1,050.00

  • ANALYSING DESIGN THINKING: STUDIES OF CROSS-CULTURAL CO-CREATION
    BO T. CHRISTENSEN / LINDEN J. BALL / KIM HALSKOV
    The scientific analysis of design thinking continues to burgeon and is of considerable interest to academic scholars and design practitioners across many disciplines. This research tradition has generated a growing corpus of studies concerning how designers think during the creation of innovative products, although less focus has been given to analysing how designers think when...

    $1,499.00

  • INFLATION AND THE THEORY OF MONEY
    R. J. BALL
    Martin Bronfenbrenner in the Journal of Finance had this to say when the book was first released "A thoughtful, scholarly, and systematic treatise on the economics of inflation. If this reviewer were asked to hang a course on inflation theory upon one single text, it would almost certainly be this one." The principal concern of this book is to set out the elements that enter in...

    $1,199.00

  • REFORMING EDUCATION AND CHANGING SCHOOLS
    RICHARD BOWE / STEPHEN J. BALL / ANNE GOLD
    The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book, first published in 1992, was the first to look at the effects of the Act in all its aspects on the basis of empirical evidence gathered from schools over the first three years of the Act's implementation...

    $859.00

  • EDU.NET
    STEPHEN J. BALL / CAROLINA JUNEMANN / DIEGO SANTORI
    Edu.net builds upon, and extends, a series of research studies of education policy networks and global policy mobilities. It draws on comprehensive data resulting from a Leverhulme Trust research study focused on Africa, and a study funded by the British Academy focused on India, which explored the way in which global actors and organisations bring policy ideas to bear and are ...

    $999.00

  • HOUSING POLICY AND ECONOMIC POWER
    PROFESSOR MICHAEL BALL / MICHAEL BALL
    Published in 2002, Housing Policy and Economic Power is a valuable contribution to the field of Human Geography. ...

    $1,399.00

  • THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD
    RODNEY BALL / DAWN MARLEY
    The French-Speaking World is an accessible textbook that offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the French language and its role in the world. This new edition has been fully revised to reflect the many political and social changes of the last 15 years, including the impact of technology on language change. I...

    $1,279.00

  • ROME IN THE EAST
    WARWICK BALL
    This new edition of Rome in the East expands on the seminal work of the first edition, and examines the lasting impact of the near Eastern influence on Rome on our understanding of the development of European culture. Warwick Ball explores modern issues as well as ancient, and overturns conventional ideas about the spread of European culture to the East. This volume includes an...

    $1,299.00


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