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  • TIDY FIRST?
    KENT BECK
    Tidying up messy software is a must. And that means breaking up the code to make it more readable, and using guard clauses and helping functions to make it understandable. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of software patterns, suggests when and where you might apply tidyings in your code. Instead of trying to master tidying a...

    $454.00

  • ROYAL ICING COOKIES
    MORGAN BECK
    Craft stunning sweet treats Royal icing cookie decoration is the perfect, delicious craft to take any occasion to the next level. Royal Icing Cookies has everything you need to know to make 83 delightful cookie designs, from simple and cute, to complex and stunning. With reliable and delicious cookie dough and icing recipes, you'll always feel confident when it's time to start ...

    $399.00

  • HUMANS
    ALICE BECK KEHOE / ANDREW J PETTO
    Humans is a concise, jargon-free introduction to four-field anthropology. This book outlines and breaks down a complex discipline to identify some of the most important and relevant questions in anthropology. It provides students with an understanding of the unity of the human species, the adaptation of societies to their environments (physical and political), and an appreciati...

    $919.00

  • LANDSCAPE AND UTOPIA
    JODY BECK
    This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of large populations; radically altered relations between capital and labor; rapid technological developments; large investments in...

    $1,099.00

  • HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT CONTROL
    MICHELLE CARR / MATTHIAS BECK
    The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges to those responsible for the management of healthcare activities. These challenges require decision makers at all levels to possess a broad and comprehensive understanding of healthcare management tools, and especially of the interaction between formal control systems and the informal power dynamics which operate within...

    $539.00

  • COMMUNICATION IN THE 2020S
    CHRISTINA S. BECK
    This book provides an inside look at the discipline of Communication. In this collection of chapters, top scholars from a wide range of subfields discuss how they have experienced and how they study the crucial issues of our time. The 2020s opened with a series of events with massive implications for the ways we communicate, from the COVID-19 pandemic, a summer of protests for ...

    $999.00

  • BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE EUROPEAN EXPANSION, 1450–1800
    STEPHEN V. BECK
    ’Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.’ So wrote Charles Darwin in 1836. Though there has been considerable discussion concerning their precise demographic impact, reflected in the articles here, there is no doubt that the arrival of new diseases with the Europeans (such as typhus and smallpox) had a catastrophic effect on the indigenous populati...

    $4,800.00

  • M.E.SHARPE LIBRARY OF FRANKLIN D.ROOSEVELT STUDIES: V. 1: FRANKLIN D.ROOSEVELT AND THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE
    NANCY BECK YOUNG
    How did Americans respond to the economic catastrophe of 1929? In what ways did the social and cultural responses of the American people inform the politics of the period? How did changes in political beliefs alter cultural activities? This volume examines the presidency of FDR through a very distinctive set of lenses: the representation of FDR in film and popular culture, disc...

    $999.00

  • UNBOX YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
    TOBIAS BECK
    Develop Better Communication Techniques for Successful Relationships “Insightful, funny at times, and creative, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to live their best life...”―Scott Miller, Wall Street Journal bestselling author and former Chief Marketing Officer at FranklinCovey We are all connected with more people than ever before. Without guidance, it can be easy ...

    $229.00

  • DICTIONARY OF 21ST CENTURY ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, FINANCING AND SUSTAINABILITY
    CLP BECK CEM
    This comprehensive desktop reference addresses the diverse terms and acronyms that form the backbone of 21st century energy technologies, applications of those technologies, and the sustainability sector of the U.S. economy. The convergence of these disciplines has resulted in an explosion of specialized terms, acronyms, and jargon. The references encompass a wide range of lega...

    $3,600.00

  • GRID PARITY
    CLP BECK CEM
    Grid Parity provides an in-depth examination of the knowledge, insights, and techniques that are essential to success in financing renewable energy projects. An energy project finance expert with 35 years of experience in capital asset financing, the author provides a comprehensive overview of how to finance renewable energy projects in America today. He explores all components...

    $6,000.00

  • THE ENGINEERING GEOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY OF KARST TERRAINS
    BARRY F. BECK / J. BRAD STEPHENSON
    Engineers from around the world recount in this volume their successes and failures in attempting to deal with unique and quixotic landscapes. ...

    $8,000.00

  • LOCALISM AND THE ANCIENT GREEK CITY-STATE
    HANS BECK
    Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. While the local is often seen as less significant than the global stage of politics, religion, and culture, localism, argues histori...

    $329.00

  • CYBERNETIC PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTH
    TIMOTHY J. BECK
    This book explores the cultural importance of cybernetic technologies and their relationship to human experience through a critical theoretical lens. Bringing several often-marginalized histories of cybernetics, psychology, and mental health into dialogue with one another, Beck questions common assumptions about human life such as that our minds operate as information processin...

    $1,039.00

  • TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
    JOHN BECK / ‎CHRIS JENKS / ‎NELL KEDDIE
    By including material from literary, philosophical, and anthropological sources, and by selecting readings which consider educational practice both within and beyond formal educational contexts, this book broadens the character of sociological inquiry in education. The editors bring together material they have found valuable when working with students of education and sociology...

    $1,139.00

  • COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
    DAVE BECK / ROD PURCELL
    Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book integrates the realities of practice to key underpinning theories, human rights, values and a commitment to promoting social justice....

    $999.00

  • THE M.E.SHARPE LIBRARY OF FRANKLIN D.ROOSEVELT STUDIES: V. 2
    NANCY BECK YOUNG / WILLIAM D. PEDERSON / BYRON W. DAYNES
    This book assesses contrasting interpretations of President Roosevelt's relations with the Nye Committee. It explores the complexity confronting Rayburn in weighing the factors that influenced his actions during the New Deal portion of his near half century in Congress. ...

    $999.00

  • THE GRENADA INVASION
    ROBERT J. BECK
    Robert Beck's study focuses principally on two related questions. First, how did the Reagan administration decide to launch the invasion of Grenada? And second, what role did international law play in that decision? The Grenada Invasion draws on extensive interviews and correspondence with key participants—and on the recently published memoirs of those who participated in or wi...

    $1,099.00

  • CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FAILURES IN THE OIL INDUSTRY
    CHARLES WOOLFSON AND MATTHIAS BECK
    Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry directly challenges the oil industry's claims of corporate good citizenship, now widely advanced as part of a global public relations initiative. The volume spans the industry's reach, from the troubled waters of the UK offshore Continental Shelf, with its horrendous legacy of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, to the ...

    $1,379.00

  • BERLIN NOIR
    ZOË BECK / ULRICH WOELK
    “A city with a rich noir past looks beyond its history to an equally unsettling present” in this anthology of original noir fiction set in Berlin (Kirkus Reviews).   From Christopher Isherwood to Philip Kerr, the long and rich tradition of noir fiction set in Berlin can make the genre a daunting challenge for contemporary German authors. But rather than retread the well-worn gr...

    $229.00

  • SECONDARY QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS IN THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
    CHERYL TATANO BECK
    Despite a long history in quantitative research, it is only recently that enthusiasm for secondary analysis of qualitative data has gained momentum across health and social science disciplines. Given that researchers have long known the inordinate amount of time and energy invested in conducting qualitative research, the appeal of secondary analysis of qualitative data is clear...

    $1,139.00

  • PSYCHODYNAMIC COACHING
    ULLA CHARLOTTE BECK
    In a postmodern age we all need a room of our own. A room - or space - where we can explore and reflect on how the rapidly changing world affects us. A room where it is possible to get a feeling of who we are, and wish to be, in the middle of the buzz of our everyday lives. Where it is possible to explore our challenges and possibilities and thus become a more robust human bein...

    $779.00

  • RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION
    LUKE BECK
    This book examines the origins of Australia’s constitutional religious freedom provision. It explores, on the one hand, the political activities and motives of religious leaders seeking to give the Australian Constitution a religious character and, on the other, the political activities and motives of a religious minority seeking to prevent the Australian Constitution having a ...

    $1,099.00

  • NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
    ALICE BECK KEHOE
    Written in an easy-to-read, narrative format, this volume provides the most comprehensive coverage of North American Indians from earliest evidence through 1990. It shows Indians as "a people with history" and not as primitives, covering current ideological issues and political situations including treaty rights, sovereignty, and repatriation. A must-read for anyone interested ...

    $1,499.00

  • METHODIST HERITAGE AND IDENTITY
    BRIAN E. BECK
    Brian Beck has had a long and distinguished career in Methodist studies, having additionally served as President of the UK Methodist Conference and helped lead the international Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies. This book is the first time that Beck’s seminal work on Methodism has been gathered together. It includes eighteen essays from the last twenty-five yea...

    $1,099.00

  • CLAVES CLÍNICAS DE LOS TRASTORNOS DEL SUEÑO EN PEDIATRÍA
    LOURDES DELROSSO / RICHARD B. BERRY / SUZANNE E. BECK / MARY H WAGNER / CAROLE L. MARCUS
    El objetivo principal de esta obra es condensar en una serie de 96 casos clínicos toda la información clave dirigida a los profesionales de la medicina del sueño y a pediatras que tratan a niños que presentan trastornos relacionados con el sueño. El formato, basado en casos clínicos cortos con diferentes puntos clave, se presenta como una manera óptima de asimilar la informaci...

    $631.74

  • PHYSICAL FITNESS LABORATORIES ON A BUDGET
    TERRY J. HOUSH / JOEL T. CRAMER / JOSEPH P. WEIR / TRAVIS W. BECK / GLEN O. JOHNSON
    This lab manual is designed to benefit those colleges and universities that offer courses with lab components in physical fitness, exercise physiology, and healthy lifestyles but do not have the facilities and/or budget to allow students to train in high-tech laboratory settings. This long-overdue book-essential for sports and exercise science departments on a budget-provides m...

    $1,439.00

  • LABORATORY MANUAL FOR EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY, EXERCISE TESTING, AND PHYSICAL FITNESS
    TERRY J. HOUSH / JOEL T. CRAMER / JOSEPH P. WEIR / TRAVIS W. BECK / GLEN O. JOHNSON
    Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology, Exercise Testing, and Physical Fitness is a comprehensive text that will provide students with meaningful lab experiences--whether they have access to sophisticated laboratories and expensive equipment, or they are looking for procedures that can be done without costly materials. It will be a useful resource as they prepare for a caree...

    $1,659.00

  • LEADING LEARNING FOR ELL STUDENTS
    CATHERINE BECK / HEIDI PACE
    Grounded in current research and award-winning practice, this important book provides a blueprint for school leaders to successfully implement programs and policies for creating an equitable learning environment for English Language Learners (ELLs). Full of accessible examples, strategies, checklists and solutions, this book covers topics such as elementary and secondary home v...

    $659.00

  • NORTH AMERICA BEFORE THE EUROPEAN INVASIONS
    ALICE BECK KEHOE
    North America Before the European Invasions tells the histories of North American peoples from first migrations in the Late Glacial Age, sixteen thousand years ago or more, to the European invasions following Columbus’s arrival. Contrary to invaders’ propaganda, North America was no wilderness, and its peoples had developed a variety of sophisticated resource uses, including in...

    $1,179.00


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