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  • DEATH AND FUNERAL PRACTICES IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
    RUTH MCMANUS / DENISE BLAKE / JESSICA THOMPSON
    This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country-specific, ways of caring for the dead. It provides an account of diverse funerary practices that have taken shape through the various cultures that have settled here. In the backdrop of the colonising history of Aotearoa New Z...

    $580.00

  • DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? UNDERSTANDING MEMORY CONSTRAINTS AND MAXIMIZING LEARNING
    BLAKE HARVARD
    Do I Have Your Attention? explores memory processing, how students learn, and offers practical guidance to help teachers tailor their instruction to be the most efficient and effective for learning. Drawing on evidence from cognitive science, Part I offers an easy-to-understand explanation of the process of memory and highlights certain barriers that hinder students’ ability to...

    $540.00

  • A HISTORY OF RHODESIA
    ROBERT BLAKE
    First published in 1977, A History of Rhodesia is a history of the origins and course of modern European occupation of ‘Southern Rhodesia’, ‘Rhodesia’ as it has been termed since the old ‘Northern Rhodesia’ became independent under the name Zambia in 1963. Robert Blake describes the years of the Monomotapa; the Portuguese occupation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; t...

    $860.00

  • UM SIMPLES GUIA PRÁTICO PARA UTILIZAR O IPHONE 12, MINI, PRO, E PRO MAX
    DYLAN BLAKE / PATRICK GARNER
    Parabéns por adquirir um dos mais novos telefones carro-chefe da Apple. Agora que você tem essa belezinha, é hora de aproveitar tudo o que ele tem a oferecer, fazendo uso de um manual do usuário de bem ilustrado que desbloqueia todas as dicas e truques ocultos. Esse guia do usuário foi especialmente construído para dar precisamente aquilo que você necessita, com muitas dicas e ...

    $102.00

  • THE LONDON DM AND DMS BUSES - TWO DESIGNS ILL SUITED TO LONDON
    JIM BLAKE
    JIM BLAKE'S latest book on London's buses may come as a surprise, since he usually concentrated on older vehicles in the fleet. However, the unpopular, unsuccessful DMs and DMSs were still part of London Transport's history, so he recorded them too, particularly towards the end of the short working lives. Forced by central government to buy "off-the-peg" standard manufacturers'...

    $383.99

  • SEAMUS HEANEY
    BLAKE MORRISON
    In recent years Seamus Heaney has earned the reputation of being ‘the most important Irish poet since Yeats’. In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement, uncovering the sources of Heaney’s poems, placing his work within both Irish and Anglo-American traditions and explaining his poetry’s complex relation ...

    $700.00

  • BUSTING THE BRASS CEILING
    FANCHON BLAKE / LINDEN GROSS
    A policewoman chronicles her historic legal battle against sexism within the LAPD in this "valuable . . . and at times, frightening" memoir ( Kirkus Reviews). Former Army major Fanchon Blake dreamed of becoming a top cop. She joined the LAPD in 1948, confident that her efforts and talent would be rewarded. Instead, despite long hours and high achievement ratings, Blake—like all...

    $251.00

  • THE RHETORICITY OF PHILOSOPHY
    BLAKE D. SCOTT
    This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is better understood as a dimension of all human discourse and action—what the author calls “rhetoricity”. This book provides the first philosophical treatment of rhetoricity. It is m...

    $1,240.00

  • POLITICAL HUMILITY
    BLAKE ROEBER
    This book aims to change the way we think about politics, talk about politics, and vote. It does this in two ways. First, it shows it’s impossible for a Republican, Democrat, or voter in any political party to possess a significant level of knowledge of facts that would help their party secure or maintain political power. It calls this knowledge “political knowledge” and shows ...

    $1,060.00

  • THE WOMAN WITH NO NAME
    AUDREY BLAKE
    "Resilience, courage, and bravery outshine the enemy is this fast-paced, historical read." — Booklist Older, diminutive, overlooked…she becomes one of the most ferocious and feared espionage agents in the are against the Nazis. World War II London, 1942. Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellat's life is over. She's estranged from her husband, her d...

    $344.00

  • UM GUIA SIMPLES PARA USAR O SAMSUNG GALAXY S21, S21 PLUS E S21 ULTRA
    DYLAN BLAKE / PATRICK GARNER
    Se você é um senhor  ou alguém em busca de um guia passo a passo fácil, então este manual do usuário é para você!  Este guia do usuário é obrigatório para quem deseja saber como realmente operar qualquer um dos smartphones da série Galaxy s21. Uma pesquisa recente mostrou que mais de 80% dos usuários da Samsung subutilizam seus dispositivos móveis. Para ajudá-lo a maximizar tod...

    $83.00

  • UNDERSTANDING THE QUALITY USE OF RESEARCH EVIDENCE IN EDUCATION
    MARK RICKINSON / LUCAS WALSH / JOANNE GLEESON / BLAKE CUTLER / CONNIE CIRKONY / MANDY SALISBURY
    This book focuses on the question of how to understand quality use of research evidence in education, or what it means to use research evidence well. Internationally there are widespread efforts to increase the use of research evidence within educational policy and practice. Such efforts raise important questions about how we understand not just the quality of evidence, but als...

    $700.00

  • REVISION GUIDE FOR MRCPSYCH PAPER B
    ARUN BHASKARAN / ELIJAH CASPER-BLAKE / RICHARD WILLIAM KERSLAKE
    This text covers the key information necessary to pass Paper B of the postgraduate examination and become a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych). It provides candidates with comprehensive coverage of the Paper B syllabus, including information from a wide variety of sources to save candidates crucial time during exam revision. The content is accessible and pr...

    $860.00

  • SEEMINGS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF JUSTIFICATION
    BLAKE MCALLISTER
    All justified beliefs ultimately rest on attitudes that are immediately justified. This book illuminates the nature of immediate justification and the states that provide it. Simply put, immediate justification arises from how things appear to us—from all and only our "seemings." The author defends each aspect of this "seemings foundationalism," including the assumption of foun...

    $1,160.00

  • WEST AFRICA
    JOHN W. BLAKE
    West Africa (1977) surveys the first century of European enterprise – rivalry, and exploitation – in West Africa. It examines the achievements of the Portuguese during the century following their exploration of its shores, and the successive attempts of its rivals – Castilians, the French and English – to disrupt the commercial monopoly claimed by Portugal in West African water...

    $800.00

  • IN SPRINGTIME
    SARAH BLAKE
    In Sarah Blake's epic poem of survival, we follow a nameless main character lost in the woods. There, they discover the world anew, negotiating their place among the trees and the rain and the animals. Something brought them to the woods that nearly killed them, and they're not sure they want to live through this experience either. But the world surprises them again and again w...

    $200.00

  • VICTORIAN MURDERESSES
    DEBBIE BLAKE
    The Victorian belief that women were the 'weaker sex' who were expected to devote themselves entirely to family life, made it almost inconceivable that they could ever be capable of committing murder. What drove a woman to murder her husband, lover or even her own child? Were they tragic, mad or just plain evil? Using various sources including court records, newspaper accounts ...

    $255.99

  • VICTORIAN MURDERESSES
    DEBBIE BLAKE
    The Victorian belief that women were the 'weaker sex' who were expected to devote themselves entirely to family life, made it almost inconceivable that they could ever be capable of committing murder. What drove a woman to murder her husband, lover or even her own child? Were they tragic, mad or just plain evil? Using various sources including court records, newspaper accounts ...

    $274.00

  • LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES IN THE 1960S
    JIM BLAKE
    Just as life in Britain generally changed dramatically during the 1960s, so did London Transport's buses and their operations. Most striking was the abandonment of London's trolleybuses, once the world's biggest system, and their replacement by motorbuses. Begun in 1959 using surplus RT-types, it was completed by May 1962 using new Routemasters, designed specifically to replace...

    $383.99

  • LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES IN THE 1960S
    JIM BLAKE
    Just as life in Britain generally changed dramatically during the 1960s, so did London Transport's buses and their operations. Most striking was the abandonment of London's trolleybuses, once the world's biggest system, and their replacement by motorbuses. Begun in 1959 using surplus RT-types, it was completed by May 1962 using new Routemasters, designed specifically to replace...

    $329.00

  • THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER
    AUDREY BLAKE
    SheReads Best Historical Fiction Of Summer 2022! "This is an intense, suspenseful, and insightful read about the challenges both women and doctors faced in the 19th century…Our heroine rises to the challenge with courage and determination." —Historical Novel Society From the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in His Shadow comes a riveting historical fiction novel about t...

    $344.00

  • ANTONIN ARTAUD
    BLAKE MORRIS
    Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Antonin Artaud was an active theatre-maker and theorist whose ideas reshaped contemporary approaches to performance. This is th...

    $1,100.00

  • PROGRAMMING ANDROID WITH KOTLIN
    PIERRE-OLIVIER LAURENCE / AMANDA HINCHMAN-DOMINGUEZ / G. BLAKE MEIKE / MIKE DUNN
    Developing applications for the Android mobile operating system can seem daunting, particularly if it requires learning a new programming language: Kotlin, now Androidâ??s officialdevelopment language. With this practical book, Android developers will learn how to make the transition from Java to Kotlin, including how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over a...

    $574.00

  • TEACHING ELECTRONIC MUSIC
    BLAKE STEVENS
    Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives offers innovative and practical techniques for teaching electronic music in a wide range of classroom settings. Across a dozen essays, an array of contributors—including practitioners in musicology, art history, ethnomusicology, music theory, performance, and composition—reflect on the challenges of teac...

    $1,120.00

  • THE CITY IN AMERICAN HISTORY
    BLAKE MCKELVEY
    Originally published in 1969, this book summarizes the findings of a comprehensive survey of the successive roles played by the explosive constellations of cities in American history. The book examines how and in what respects the planting and developing of cities influenced and was influenced by the colonial settlement, the achievement of independence, the occupation of the co...

    $920.00

  • BIOMECHANICS IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
    P. DOMENICI / R.W. BLAKE
    Biomechanics in Animal Behaviour offers a unique approach by integrating fully the fields of animal behaviour and biomechanics. It demonstrates how an understanding of biomechanical issues is an important part of evaluating and predicting animal behaviour. The book examines how behaviour is determined and/or constrained by biomechanical variables such as hydrodynamics, aerodyna...

    $1,480.00

  • THE GIRL IN HIS SHADOW
    AUDREY BLAKE
    THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "An exquisitely detailed journey through the harrowing field of medicine in mid-19th century London."—Tracey Enerson Wood, USA Today bestselling author of The Engineer's Wife and The War Nurse An unforgettable historical fiction novel about one woman who believed in scientific medicine before the world believed in her. London, 1845: Raised by the eccen...

    $344.00

  • CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY
    PETER BLAKE
    In this new edition Blake gives a personal account of his professional experience of working with children and adolescents over the last 45 years. Providing a wonderful integration of the conceptual and the practical, this book clarifies complex theory while giving practical advice for clinicians through a nuts and bolts description of how to interview parents, emotionally asse...

    $1,280.00

  • DANGERS OF DETERRENCE
    KAY POLE / NIGEL BLAKE
    Europe has everything to lose from nuclear war, and nothing to gain from it. Yet it is nuclear deterrence that we are relying on to shield us from war. More and more people are coming to believe that security under a nuclear shield is an illusion, and that nuclear deterrence embodies a dangerous paradox. It is too close to provocation, it cannot prevent nuclear blackmail, and i...

    $1,000.00

  • OBJECTIONS TO NUCLEAR DEFENCE
    KAY POLE / NIGEL BLAKE
    Moral and political questions are vitally relevant to the issue of survival in the nuclear age. Ethics has much to teach us about the meaning of national defence and civic responsibility in the nuclear state. For instance, those in NATO who argue for increased spending on such weapons do so with the intention of defending the values of the West. They must therefore be absolutel...

    $1,000.00


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