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  • THE PUBLIC POLICY PERSPECTIVE
    BENJAMIN H. DEITCHMAN
    Public policy and public administration are fundamental to a functioning society. These fields are embedded into our institutions, everyday lives, and the greater culture. This book will explore public interest roles in 2025 from the student, scholar, and practitioner perspective, as well as from their impacts on people and the planet. As we live through unceasingly unprecedent...

    $640.00

  • THIS THING CALLED REASON
    BENJAMIN K. AKIH
    This book offers a conceptual analysis of reason, proposing a plausible theory to resolve persistent vagueness in the historical use of the concept. The proposed theory leads to the view that reason is fundamentally subjective and dependent on non-inferential matters of faith.Despite the inherent subjectivity, we can arrive at a consensus in reasoning exercises because we all p...

    $657.00

  • ENERGY USE IN BITCOIN MINING
    BENJAMIN A. JONES / ANDREW L. GOODKIND / ROBERT P. BERRENS
    This book provides a unique introduction to Bitcoin mining’s energy use and environmental impacts. Bitcoin, the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency, has ignited the world of decentralized finance and digital currencies. However, Bitcoin has a major problem: it uses massive amounts of energy to produce or ‘mine’ the coins, and this energy use has tremendous environmental ...

    $1,240.00

  • ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND CULTURE
    MARK G. EHRHART / BENJAMIN SCHNEIDER / WILLIAM H. MACEY
    Organizational Climate and Culture breaks down the barriers between the fields of organizational climate and organizational culture to encourage a broader understanding of how an organization’s environment affects its functioning and performance. Building on in-depth reviews of the development of both the organizational climate and organizational culture literatures, the book i...

    $1,900.00

  • MY SALVATION IS CLOSE AT HAND
    BENJAMIN D. GIFFONE
    Christians in the West are wondering just how God is at work their world today. North Americans are at a loss to explain why churches that used to be full are now in decline and why older models of evangelism and church growth seem less successful than anticipated.In response, Christians should seek to retrieve the Old Testament basis of their New Testament faith. Isaiah 56-66,...

    $568.00

  • WARS OF THE MEXICAN GULF
    BENJAMIN J SWENSON
    In turbulent 1830s Mexico, Texas and Yucatán declared independence, leading to the U.S.-Mexican War and European intrigue. One nation in turmoil, another seeking aggrandizement, smaller states jostling for security, mercenary expeditions, and political and racial armed struggles breaking out. In 1835 the northern Mexican state of Texas declared its independence and won it after...

    $216.99

  • THE INVADERS AND THREE MORE AMAZING TALES
    BENJAMIN FERRIS ET AL.
    "The Invaders and Three More Amazing Stories" is an anthology that delves into the realms of ambition, fear, love, and the supernatural. Each story presents a unique journey, exploring the depths of human experience and the mysteries that lie beyond the ordinary. In Benjamin Ferris's short story "The Invaders", the arrival of the enigmatic Big Joe Merklos and his family in the ...

    $39.70

  • THE EMBARRASSMENT OF BEING HUMAN
    BENJAMIN BOYSEN
    With the message that everything in a sense is alive, thus allowing us to join forces with new politico-ethical communities stretching across human and nonhuman realms, the new materialisms have captivated the minds of many academics, artists, and intellectuals by stressing that it is time to return to a premodern mindset and discard modernity and its concepts of secularization...

    $1,240.00

  • WORKBOOK FOR EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC THEORY
    DARIUSZ TEREFENKO / BENJAMIN WADSWORTH
    Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition. Providing a comprehensive textbook to support music theory curricula, along with an accompanying workbook, it includes extensive performance-based exercises in each chapter, alongside written ...

    $1,480.00

  • EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC THEORY
    DARIUSZ TEREFENKO / BENJAMIN WADSWORTH
    Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition. Providing a comprehensive textbook to support music theory curricula, along with an accompanying workbook, it includes extensive performance-based exercises in each chapter, alongside written ...

    $1,900.00

  • A CULTURAL HISTORY OF WASTE DISPOSAL
    BENJAMIN A. LAWSON
    This book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments. New York, Toronto, and Tel Aviv are currently redeveloping giant landfills into parks to much fanfare. The park redevelopments ...

    $1,140.00

  • CURRENT ISSUES FACING MEN AND BOYS
    BENJAMIN A. HINE
    This important book offers an accessible overview and timely examination of the unique challenges faced by men and boys in contemporary society. It covers a wide range of topics, including the male mental health crisis, the impact of media and popular culture on male identity, and issues related to body image, as well as education, work, sexual behaviour, relationships, and the...

    $860.00

  • HYBRIDITY AND IDEOLOGY
    LEONARD WILLIAMS / BENJAMIN FRANKS
    Hybridity and Ideology analyzes the structure, development, and significance of political perspectives that mix or fuse the distinct beliefs, practices, and identities found in other ideologies—for example, hybrid worldviews such as liberal nationalism, ecosocialism, and anarchafeminism. Employing concepts and methods drawn from ideology studies, discourse theory, and cultural ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE OTHER WORLD
    CRAIG ARCENEAUX / ANIKA LEITHNER / SARA LOPUS / BENJAMIN F. TIMMS / SHANRUO ZHANG
    Now in its eleventh edition, The Other World combines thematic and area studies approaches to explore contemporary global issues. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this textbook offers political, economic, social, and historical analyses of Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, and Asia. The Other World highlights similarities and differences as i...

    $2,100.00

  • AGAINST MODERN FOOTBALL
    BENJAMIN PERASOVIĆ / CHRISTIAN BRANDT / MARKO MUSTAPIĆ
    This is the first book to offer in-depth analysis of the "Against Modern Football" movement through the comparison of two AMF clubs. The movement has emerged in opposition to the rampant commercialisation of football and the lack of supporters’ influence over the governance of the clubs they support. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, the book examines the foundation, ...

    $1,240.00

  • ADOLPHE AND THE RED NOTEBOOK
    BENJAMIN CONSTANT
    In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman. Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. To his friends and acquaintances, however, it was clear that Adolphe was really Benjamin himself. ...

    $860.00

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS MEMORIAL STADIUM
    KEVIN HINDERS / BENJAMIN BROSS
    This book offers a rigorous but graphically compelling narrative historic analysis of one of the most important civic buildings not only of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, or the State of Illinois, but arguably of the United States, Memorial Stadium. Like all spatial products, the design and construction of the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium embodies the s...

    $1,420.00

  • TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY AND TRADE
    ELIYAHU ASHTOR / BENJAMIN Z. KEDAR
    This is the fifth collection of articles by Eliyahu Ashtor to be published by Variorum and focuses on the fundamental question of why, during the later Middle Ages, technology and industry declined, even collapsed, in the Muslim Levant, while simultaneously making enormous progress in the Christian West. An indefatigable researcher in archives all over the Mediterranean, Ashtor...

    $1,100.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN POST-NAPOLEONIC FRANCE, PART II VOL 6
    STEPHEN BENDING / STEPHEN BYGRAVE / LUCY MORRISON / BENJAMIN COLBERT / PAUL HAGUE
    This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France. The volumes are facsimile editions and are introduced and edited by experts in their field. ...

    $1,480.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN POST-NAPOLEONIC FRANCE, PART II VOL 5
    STEPHEN BENDING / STEPHEN BYGRAVE / LUCY MORRISON / BENJAMIN COLBERT / PAUL HAGUE
    This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France. The volumes are facsimile editions and are introduced and edited by experts in their field. ...

    $1,480.00

  • FRANKS, MUSLIMS AND ORIENTAL CHRISTIANS IN THE LATIN LEVANT
    BENJAMIN Z. KEDAR
    Steven Runciman characterized intellectual life in the Frankish Levant as 'disappointing'; Joshua Prawer claimed that the Franks refused to open up to the East's intellectual achievements. The present collection, the second by Benjamin Kedar in the Variorum series, presents facts that require a modification of these still largely prevailing views. The earliest laws of the Kingd...

    $4,500.00

  • OPTIMIZING CLOUD NATIVE JAVA
    BENJAMIN J. EVANS / JAMES GOUGH
    Performance tuning is an experimental science, but that doesn't mean engineers should resort to guesswork and folklore to get the job done. Yet that's often the case. With this practical book, intermediate to advanced Java technologists working with complex platforms will learn how to tune Java cloud applications for performance using a quantitative, verifiable, and repeatable ...

    $801.00

  • PRACTICAL VISION SCIENCE
    BENJAMIN BALAS
    This workbook provides a collection of experiments and observations that use physical materials (rather than digital displays or resources) to reveal fundamental properties of the human visual system. Practical Vision Science centers discovery, observation, and critical thinking. By observing and manipulating visual phenomena, readers gain insights regarding visual processing f...

    $1,320.00

  • IS THERE SUCH A THING AS POPULISM?
    BENJAMIN ARDITI
    Is There Such a Thing as Populism? calls into question our common understanding of populism. Taken on their own, commonplace references to the people, leaders, or elites are more like dog whistles or false positives of populism than part of a serious attempt to address the phenomenon. Scholars asked themselves, “What is populism?” without realizing that this assumed there was s...

    $1,040.00

  • BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
    BENJAMIN BARSON
    Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies,...

    $399.00

  • DISASTERS IN WORLD HISTORY
    BENJAMIN REILLY
    Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as presenting historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters. Disasters, here defined as the complex interaction between natural hazards and specific human vulnerabilities, have frequently left a mark on human history. Cataclysms have toppled dynasties...

    $1,100.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN POST-NAPOLEONIC FRANCE, PART II VOL 8
    STEPHEN BENDING / STEPHEN BYGRAVE / LUCY MORRISON / BENJAMIN COLBERT / PAUL HAGUE
    This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France. The volumes are facsimile editions and are introduced and edited by experts in their field. ...

    $1,480.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN POST-NAPOLEONIC FRANCE, PART I VOL 4
    STEPHEN BENDING / STEPHEN BYGRAVE / LUCY MORRISON / BENJAMIN COLBERT
    This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France. The volumes are facsimile editions and are introduced and edited by experts in their field. ...

    $1,480.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN POST-NAPOLEONIC FRANCE, PART II VOL 7
    STEPHEN BENDING / STEPHEN BYGRAVE / LUCY MORRISON / BENJAMIN COLBERT / PAUL HAGUE
    This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France. The volumes are facsimile editions and are introduced and edited by experts in their field. ...

    $1,480.00

  • WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITINGS IN POST-NAPOLEONIC FRANCE, PART I VOL 2
    STEPHEN BENDING / STEPHEN BYGRAVE / LUCY MORRISON / BENJAMIN COLBERT
    This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France. The volumes are facsimile editions and are introduced and edited by experts in their field. ...

    $1,480.00