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  • QUANTUM COMMUNICATION AND QUANTUM INTERNET APPLICATIONS
    DANIEL MINOLI / BENEDICT OCCHIOGROSSO
    Quantum computing, particularly in conjunction with a high level of interconnectivity facilitated by quantum connectivity, can facilitate a host of new, previously unattainable applications—these include blind quantum computation, (information) teleporting, clock synchronization, quantum key distribution, secure access to remote quantum computers, superdense coding, secure iden...

    $1,380.00

  • CONTEMPLATION AND FREEDOM
    BENEDICT R. SHOUP
    How does prayer shape action? How does sustained engagement in deep prayer shape our very freedom to act? This volume explores the relationship between Christian contemplative prayer and the exercise of freedom. Over the past half century, the desire for a better integration of spirituality and theology has emerged as a significant theme in theological writing. While the questi...

    $532.00

  • PRACTISING WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE
    JAMES BENEDICT BROWN / FRANCESCO CAMILLI
    In the stark light of the climate emergency, using wood instead of concrete, steel, or masonry is increasingly seen as a way of reducing the environmental impact of architecture and construction. More and more new buildings are showcasing innovative ways to work with wood. Wood can help architects achieve ambitious sustainability targets, including the United Nations’ Sustainab...

    $1,040.00

  • EDUCATING EVERYONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO RELATIONAL INCLUSION IN SCHOOLS
    ANTHONY BENEDICT / ALAN BRAVEN
    Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research and rooted in good practice, Educating Everyone presents the concept of Relational Inclusion, encouraging schools to reconsider their traditional perspectives on mental health and behaviour. The authors pose thought-provoking questions about longstanding conventional approaches to behaviour management in schools that have remained ...

    $560.00

  • SEX WORK AND LANGUAGE
    ROWLETT, BENEDICT J.L.
    This collection brings together established and exciting new voices to shed light on the language of and about sex work, offering an empirically nuanced understanding of commercial sex through language. While there is burgeoning literature on sex work in the social sciences, there has been little work to date centering it from a linguistic perspective. Chapters make the case fo...

    $1,240.00

  • WARFARE ETHICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
    SUMNER B. TWISS, PING-CHEUNG LO, BENEDICT S. B. CHAN
    This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of war and peace. Through cross-cultural comparison and dialogue between East and West, this work charts a new trajectory in the development of applied ethics. A sequel to the volume Chinese Just War Ethics, it expands the range of the earlier work and includes ...

    $1,120.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH-MEDIUM INSTRUCTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    KINGSLEY BOLTON, WERNER BOTHA, BENEDICT LIN
    This Handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide. It highlights issues relating to EMI pedagogy, varying motivations for EMI education, and the delivery of EMI in diverse contexts across the world. The spread of English as a teaching medium and the lingua franca of the academic wor...

    $1,380.00

  • SUSTAINABLE FUTURES FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION
    BENEDICT ANDERSON
    Considering sustainability as a flawed and restrictive term in practice, Sustainable Futures for Climate Adaptation argues that we must radically adapt humanity and reform society, cities, buildings, and our approach to migration in order to coexist in harmony with our natural environments. The book conceives an Earth–human coexistence where the world’s regions are shared globa...

    $1,240.00

  • BIG HOUSE LITTLE CITY
    BENEDICT ZUCCHI
    ***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024*** Combining architectural and urban thinking in an unusual and engaging way, this book presents an integrated approach to architectural theory and design. Leon Battista Alberti’s assertion in his famous Renaissance treatise that ‘the city is like a big house, and the house is in turn like a little city’ forms the springboar...

    $860.00

  • THE LANGUAGE OF SYMMETRY
    BENEDICT RATTIGAN, DENIS NOBLE AND AFIQ HATTA
    The Language of Symmetry is a re-assessment of the structure and reach of symmetry, by an interdisciplinary group of specialists from the arts, humanities, and sciences at Oxford University. It explores, amongst other topics: order and chaos in the formation of planetary systems entropy and symmetry in physics group theory, fractals, and self-similarity symmetrical structures i...

    $700.00

  • THE GREATEST OF THEIR TIME
    BENEDICT BERMANGE
    For a great deal of the 1930s, Don Bradman was considered the most famous sportsman in the world. By any measure – stats, acclaim – it appeared to be a straightforward decision. The same could be argued for Mohammad Ali in the 1960s or Lionel Messi in the 2010s. But when, exactly, did they take their titles, from whom, and when did their reigns come to an end? For boxers it mig...

    $329.00

  • THE GREATEST OF THEIR TIME
    BENEDICT BERMANGE
    For a great deal of the 1930s, Don Bradman was considered the most famous sportsman in the world. By any measure – stats, acclaim – it appeared to be a straightforward decision. The same could be argued for Mohammad Ali in the 1960s or Lionel Messi in the 2010s. But when, exactly, did they take their titles, from whom, and when did their reigns come to an end? For boxers it mig...

    $166.19

  • AI FOR LEARNING
    CARMEL KENT / BENEDICT DU BOULAY
    What is artificial intelligence (AI)? How can AI help a learner, a teacher or a system designer? What are the positive impacts of AI on human learning? AI for Learning examines how artificial intelligence can, and should, positively impact human learning, whether it be in formal or informal educational and training contexts. The notion of ‘can’ is bound up with ongoing technolo...

    $680.00

  • WHOLE PERSON EDUCATION IN EAST ASIAN UNIVERSITIES
    BENEDICT S. B. CHAN
    This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills, to explore ethical challenges in the surrounding community, and to acquire a broad based foundation of knowledge in hu...

    $1,200.00

  • EXPLAINING WEALTH INEQUALITY
    BENEDICT ATKINSON
    This book discusses the origins of wealth inequality and explains how societies can reform to avoid the catastrophe of inequality-induced social breakdown. It develops a theoretical and practical understanding of the principles behind the concept of ownership and property, complete with historical examples. It proposes a new research perspective focusing on how the problem of w...

    $580.00

  • THE FINAL FRCR
    AMANDA RABONE / BENEDICT THOMSON / NICKY DINEEN / VINCENT HELYAR / AIDAN SHAW
    This is an SBA question book aimed at the post-graduate radiology market, specifically those taking the Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiology (FRCR) part 2 ('final') exams. This is a complementary title to The Final FRCR: Complete Revision Notes, which published in 2018. Part 2 of the FRCR is itself composed of two elements. Part 2a is a series of six multiple choice exa...

    $960.00

  • THE CITY IN TRANSGRESSION
    BENEDICT ANDERSON
    The City in Transgression explores the unacknowledged, neglected, and ill-defined spaces of the built environment and their transition into places of resistance and residence by refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, the homeless, and the disadvantaged. The book draws on urban and spatial theory, socio-economic factors, public space, and architecture to offer an intimate look at h...

    $1,160.00

  • UNEXPLAINED FEVER
    BENEDICT ISAAC / SERGE KERNBAUM / MICHAEL J. BURKE
    This book covers pathophysiology of fever, the general approach to the febrile patient, and offers a systematic, in-depth discussion regarding the differential diagnosis of unexplained fever. The authors define an unexplained fever as a fever which lasts a minimum of 14 days and whose etiology is not known. This one-of-a-kind publication highlights the main causes of fever, spe...

    $4,000.00

  • PATTERNS OF CULTURE
    RUTH BENEDICT
    This book was originally published in 1935. For some years past the scientific study of primitive peoples has experimented in a variety of directions for new methods of investigation. Criticism of the comparative method, of which Sir James Frazer is recognized as the foremost exponent all the world over, has been directed mainly against the fragmentary character of its evidence...

    $920.00

  • THE WORLD AND THE CLOISTER
    BENEDICT WILLIAMSON
    First published in 1930: This book represents the life of Sister Teresa Eletta of Florence from her beginning Holy Orders, serving God, as a Missionary to her death. ...

    $980.00

  • THE CITY IN GEOGRAPHY
    BENEDICT ANDERSON
    Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress. The geography on and around which they are constructed, however, has come to be viewed merely in terms of its resources and is often laid to waste once its assets have been stripped. The City in Geography is an urban exploration through this phenomenon, fro...

    $1,260.00

  • RETAIL DISRUPTORS
    JAN-BENEDICT STEENKAMP / LAURENS SLOOT
    The rise of hard discounters like Aldi and Lidl has been monumental. Explore the very real threat they pose to traditional retailers and brand manufacturers and what you can learn from their growth. Hard discounters are stores that sell a limited selection of consumer-packaged goods and perishables - typically fewer than 2,000 Stock Keeping Units - for prices that are usually 5...

    $799.00

  • SUPER-RADIANCE
    M G BENEDICT, A M ERMOLAEV, V A MALYSHEV, I V SOKOLOV AND E D TRIFONOV
    Super-radiance: Multiatomic Coherent Emission provides a comprehensive, self-contained account of the theory and experiments of the quantum optic phenomenon of superradiance. Contributed by highly regarded researchers in the field, the book first presents the theory of superradiance at a level suitable for graduate physicists approaching the subject for the first time. This int...

    $1,800.00

  • VIETNAM'S RURAL TRANSFORMATION
    BENEDICT J TRIA KERKVLIET / FORD FOUNDATION- MARTHA UNIACK / DOUG J PORTER
    Since the mid-1980s, Vietnam has experienced remarkable economic, political, and social change. This is the first study in English to focus on rural Vietnam — where nearly 80 per cent of its people live, much of its economic production occurs, and political upheavals earlier this century changed the course of history. Analyzing the impact of economic liberalization on the count...

    $1,460.00

  • CARNEGIE'S MAID
    MARIE BENEDICT
    The USA Today Bestseller From the bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room comes a mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that asks what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty. Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter wit...

    $344.00

  • MODERN INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
    NDUKA OKAFOR / BENEDICT C. OKEKE
    The field of industrial microbiology involves a thorough knowledge of the microbial physiology behind the processes in the large-scale, profit-oriented production of microbe-related goods which are the subject of the field. In recent times a paradigm shift has occurred, and a molecular understanding of the various processes by which plants, animals and microorganisms are manipu...

    $1,360.00

  • NONTRADITIONAL MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
    GARY F. BENEDICT
    This book provides a convenient, single source of information on advanced machining, material forming, and joining processes. It describes available technologies that use tools, such as high velocity material jets, pulsed magnetic fields, light beams, electrochemical reactions, and more. Organized by type of process (mechanical, chemical, electrochemical, and thermal), the book...

    $1,900.00

  • AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT WORK
    RUTH BENEDICT
    An Anthropologist at Work is the product of a long collaboration between Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead. Mead, who was Benedict's student, colleague, and eventually her biographer, here has collected the bulk of Ruth Benedict's writings. This includes letters between these two seminal anthropologists, correspondence with Franz Boas (Benedict's teacher), Edward Sapir's poems, a...

    $1,380.00

  • ARTHUR SULLIVAN
    BENEDICT TAYLOR
    Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was Victorian Britain’s most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than that of any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan’s reputation is chiefly based have been consistently belittled or ignored by the British musicological establishment, while his serious works have until recently ...

    $1,340.00

  • BURIED CITY, UNEARTHING TEUFELSBERG
    BENEDICT ANDERSON
    Cities are built over the remnants of their past buried beneath their present. We build on what has been built before, whether over foundations formalising previous permanency or over the temporal occupations of ground. But what happens when you shift a city - when you dislodge its occupation of ground towards a new ground, bury it and forget it? Focusing on Berlin’s destructio...

    $1,320.00


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