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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SPORT AND SOCIAL MEDIA
    BILLINGS, ANDREW C.
    This handbook takes an in-depth look at the transformative impact of social media on sport. With broader and deeper coverage than any previous book on this topic, the handbook explores how sports media is co-created and curated, collectively, at the individual, group and organisational level, and considers the implications for the ways in which sports media, through social medi...

    $1,380.00

  • HARDTACK AND COFFEE
    JOHN DAVIS BILLINGS
    Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day—in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded. ...

    $39.70

  • REGULATING REFUGEE PROTECTION THROUGH SOCIAL WELFARE
    PETER BILLINGS
    This book analyses the use and abuse of social welfare as a means of border control for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia. Offering an unparalleled critique of the regulation and deterrence of protection seekers via the denial or depletion of social welfare supports, the book includes contributions from legal scholars, social scientists, behavioural scientists, and philo...

    $1,200.00

  • AVIATION AUTOMATION
    CHARLES E. BILLINGS
    The advent of very compact, very powerful digital computers has made it possible to automate a great many processes that formerly required large, complex machinery. Digital computers have made possible revolutionary changes in industry, commerce, and transportation. This book, an expansion and revision of the author's earlier technical papers on this subject, describes the deve...

    $1,680.00

  • OLYMPIC TELEVISION
    ANDREW C. BILLINGS / JAMES R. ANGELINI / PAUL J. MACARTHUR
    As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast coverage becomes bigger, more complex, and more sophisticated. Part sporting event, part reality show, and part global festival, the Olympics can be seen as both intensely nationalistic and a celebration of a shared sense of international community. This book sheds new light on how the Olympic experience has been shaped by television an...

    $1,120.00

  • SPORT, MEDIA AND MEGA-EVENTS
    LAWRENCE A. WENNER AND ANDREW C. BILLINGS
    Bringing together many of the most influential scholars in sport and media studies, this book examines the diverse ways that media influences our understanding of the world’s most important sport events, dubbed sports mega-events. It sheds new light on how these events have been changed by the media, and have, in turn, adapted to media to further their brand’s cultural influenc...

    $1,620.00

  • DEFINING SPORT COMMUNICATION
    ANDREW C. BILLINGS
    Defining Sport Communication is a comprehensive resource addressing core topics and issues, including humanistic, organizational, relational, and mediated approaches to the study of sport communication. It provides foundational work in sport communication for students and scholars, reflecting the abundance of research published in recent years and the ever-increasing interest i...

    $1,480.00

  • THE BETTER WRITING BREAKTHROUGH
    ELEANOR DOUGHERTY / LAURA BILLINGS / TERRY ROBERTS
    Every teacher knows the challenge of trying to engage reluctant readers and struggling writers—students whose typical response to a writing prompt is a few sentence fragments scribbled on a sheet of paper followed by an elaborate shrug of the shoulders.The best way to engage less confident readers and writers is to give them something powerful to think about. The Discours...

    $585.00

  • THE MAINE LOBSTER INDUSTRY
    CATHY BILLINGS
    An inside look at the history and traditions behind this New England delicacy.   Since the first recorded lobster catch in 1605, the Maine lobster fishery has grown into a multibillion-dollar force. In this book, Cathy Billings of the University of Maine Lobster Institute embarks on a journey from trap to plate, introducing readers to lobstermen, boat builders, bait dealers, ma...

    $229.00

  • TEACHING CRITICAL THINKING
    LAURA BILLINGS / TERRY ROBERTS
    Help students meet today’s literacy demands with this new book from Terry Roberts and Laura Billings. The authors show how a seminar approach can lead students deeper into a text and improve their speaking, listening, and writing skills, as recommended by the Common Core State Standards. Roberts and Billings provide easy-to-follow information on implementing Paideia Seminars, i...

    $740.00

  • ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY IN GEOLOGY
    ERNEST E. ANGINO / GALE K. BILLINGS
    Atomic Absorption Spectrometry in Geology focuses on the applications of atomic absorption spectrometry in geology, including the analysis of metals, rocks, sediments, and minerals. The manuscript first offers information on the theory of atomic absorption spectrophotometry and instrumentation. Discussions focus on the relationship of atomic absorption with atomic concentrati...

    $425.00

  • A GUIDE TO THE SOLAR CORONA
    DONALD E. BILLINGS
    A Guide to the Solar Corona is specifically directed to the space scientist or engineer who is not a specialist in solar physics, but whose work requires a fairly detailed knowledge of the corona. It is hoped that the material may prove useful to most graduate students in astrophysics, while solar physicists may find some topics of interest and value to them. The book contains...

    $970.00

  • THE PAIDEIA CLASSROOM
    LAURA BILLINGS / TERRY ROBERTS
    With sample lesson plans, student assessment forms (with rubrics), and other practical materials, this book shows how the principles of the Paideia Program can result in student learning and understanding. ...

    $560.00

  • THE FANTASY SPORT INDUSTRY
    ANDREW BILLINGS / BRODY RUIHLEY
    Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 33 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone, spending $3bn annually, with many millions more around the world. This is the first in-depth study of fantasy sport as a cultural and social phenomenon and a significant and growing component of the contemporary sports economy. This book p...

    $1,560.00

  • SPORTS MEDIA
    ANDREW C. BILLINGS
    Looking toward a future with increasingly hybridized media offerings, Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption examines sports media scholarship and its role in facilitating understanding of the increasingly complex world of sports media. Acknowledging that consumer demand for sports media content has influenced nearly every major technology innovation of the past...

    $1,420.00

  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ESQ.
    ROGER BILLINGS AND FRANK J. WILLIAMS
    Lincoln scholars explore the president's law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution. As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practice...

    $229.00

  • OLYMPIC MEDIA
    ANDREW BILLINGS
    Located in the United States, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is the biggest and most powerful Olympic network in the world, having won the rights to televise both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games. By way of attracting more viewers of both sexes and all ages and ethnicities than any other sporting event, and through the production of breathtaking spectacles and absor...

    $1,600.00

  • CROSSING OVER TO CANAAN: THE JOURNEY OF NEW TEACHERS IN DIVERSE CLASSROOMS
    GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS
    Pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators, staff developers, school administrators ...

    $380.00

  • NONLINEAR SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION
    STEPHEN A. BILLINGS
    Nonlinear System Identification: NARMAX Methods in the Time, Frequency, and Spatio-Temporal Domains describes a comprehensive framework for the identification and analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems in the time, frequency, and spatio-temporal domains. This book is written with an emphasis on making the algorithms accessible so that they can be applied and used in practice. In...

    $2,119.00

  • POLICING, POLITICS, AND FAITH
    ALAN BILLINGS
    As the elected police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire, Alan Billings was in a unique position to witness how the criminal justice system worked for victims of crime. When Covid struck and the country went into lockdown, he began to publish a weekly diary chronicling how the police struggled to understand fast-changing government instructions and enforce the law witho...

    $515.00

  • SPECIAL DUTIES PILOT
    JOHN M. BILLINGS
    If there was ever a man who was born to fly, it is John M. Billings. He took his first plane ride in 1926, began taking piloting lessons in 1938, and joined the US Army Air Force in July 1942. After training he was assigned to fly Consolidated B-24 Liberator long-range bombers. He joined the 825th Bombardment Squadron of the 484th Bombardment Group. After flying fifteen dayligh...

    $229.00

  • METODO BILLINGS
    BILLINGS
    Agotado

    $410.00

  • CINCO MIL MILLONES DE AÑOS DE SOLEDAD
    LEE BILLINGS
    Agotado

    $35.00