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  • AN O.S.S. SECRET AGENT BEHIND ENEMY LINES
    BROOK G BANGSBØLL
    The remarkable life of Leif Bangsboll, a Danish sailor, aviator, Green Beret, and O.S.S. secret agent during WWII. More than a Viking call to arms, An O.S.S. Secret Agent Behind Enemy Lines chronicles the incredible life of Leif Bangsboll up to and including the Second World War. Compiled by Bangsboll’s son, this book explores the life of, variously, a Danish sailor, Norwegian ...

    $293.99

  • AN O.S.S. SECRET AGENT BEHIND ENEMY LINES
    BROOK G BANGSBØLL
    “… tells how Lief began his military service, the unusual circumstances that led to his OSS recruitment, his training in Canada, and his ‘night parachute mission behind enemy lines in the European theater of war as an agent in the OSS.’” – Studies in Intelligence More than a Viking call to arms, An O.S.S. Secret Agent Behind Enemy Lines chronicles the incredible life of Leif Ba...

    $293.99

  • PRINCIPLES OF HORTICULTURE
    CHARLES ADAMS / JANE BROOK / DAVID FRANCIS / MIKE EARLY
    Gardening and horticulture generally are essentially practical activities much enhanced by an understanding of how plants grow. This colourful guide will introduce you to the fundamentals of horticulture. It is written in a clear and accessible style and covers the principles that underpin growing plants for the garden and allotment, with reference to how these are tackled by p...

    $1,420.00

  • TEACHING WOMEN'S HISTORY
    KELSIE BROOK ECKERT
    Teaching Women’s History: Breaking Barriers and Undoing Male Centrism in K-12 Social Studies challenges and guides K-12 history teachers to incorporate comprehensive and diverse women’s history into every region and era of their history curriculum. Providing a wealth of practical examples, ideas, and lesson plans – all backed by scholarly research – for secondary and middle sch...

    $780.00

  • IT’S ABOUT TIME
    BROOK A. THELANDER
    This book explores common challenges and joys in the life of faith by means of a guided tour through the seasons of the church year. Issues such as complacency, despair, unanswered prayer, evil, suffering, discerning God's will, adversity, achieving inner peace, and more are explored from the pastoral perspective of a shepherd's heart. Those new to the church year will discover...

    $515.00

  • IT’S ABOUT TIME
    BROOK A. THELANDER
    This book explores common challenges and joys in the life of faith by means of a guided tour through the seasons of the church year. Issues such as complacency, despair, unanswered prayer, evil, suffering, discerning God's will, adversity, achieving inner peace, and more are explored from the pastoral perspective of a shepherd's heart. Those new to the church year will discover...

    $515.00

  • REIMAGINING ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR DESIGN IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    BROOK S. KENNEDY
    Reimagining Alternative Technology for Design in the 21st Century presents a new approach to design that harnesses still-valuable alternative, traditional and abandoned technologies alongside the creation of new ones to address contemporary global problems. It focuses on design opportunities that reduce energy and material consumption to tackle issues such as climate change and...

    $960.00

  • PARALLEL LIVES
    KARL BAUGHMAN / BROOK POSTON
    This book compares selected Romans of the late Republic with American Founders in the style of Plutarch, encouraging readers to rethink how we view heroes and villains and their conceptions of republicanism. Through entertaining yet informative short comparisons, this volume demonstrates the humanity of heroes and villains from different times and places through their often idi...

    $1,120.00

  • TIMELESS
    KATHY BROOK
    In this allegorical journey, a traveler sets out on an expedition to discover life'Äôs greatest secret. The nature of time is an age-old question that has been pondered by mankind for centuries, leading to many a quest for the illusive fountain of youth. What is time? How is it measured? Can we affect time? How can it be optimized for people to fulfill their life'Äôs purpose? I...

    $119.00

  • BUILDING IN SECURITY AT AGILE SPEED
    JAMES RANSOME / BROOK SCHOENFIELD
    Today's high-speed and rapidly changing development environments demand equally high-speed security practices. Still, achieving security remains a human endeavor, a core part of designing, generating and verifying software. Dr. James Ransome and Brook S.E. Schoenfield have built upon their previous works to explain that security starts with people; ultimately, humans generate s...

    $1,280.00

  • COLD WAR CITIES
    RICHARD BROOK / ‎MARTIN DODGE / ‎JONATHAN HOGG
    This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US cities. The Cold War saw the birth of ‘atomic urbanisation’, central to which were pl...

    $1,200.00

  • THE FASCINATION OF STATISTICS
    RICHARD J. BROOK
    This book demonstrates how numbers open up new ways of thinking about problems and addresses current issues for which statistics has practical applications. The articles are classified according to probability, condensing data, testing, estimation, experimental design, prediction, and modelling. ...

    $1,760.00

  • SECRETS OF A CYBER SECURITY ARCHITECT
    BROOK S. E. SCHOENFIELD
    Any organization with valuable data has been or will be attacked, probably successfully, at some point and with some damage. And, don't all digitally connected organizations have at least some data that can be considered "valuable"? Cyber security is a big, messy, multivariate, multidimensional arena. A reasonable "defense-in-depth" requires many technologies; smart, highly ski...

    $1,200.00

  • TEXT AND TABLET
    ARTHUR GIBSON / BROOK W.R. PEARSON
    This title was first published in 2000. Text and Tablet balances a blend of logic, post-analytical philosophy, French philosophy and literary criticism to carefully introduce some of these issues to the reader. Just as writers such as Derrida and Kermode have been interested in relating religion and philosophy to literature, so this book extends the idea of multidisciplinary sy...

    $1,000.00

  • APPLIED REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
    RICHARD J. BROOK / GREGORY C. ARNOLD
    For a solid foundation of important statistical methods, the concise, single-source text unites linear regression with analysis of experiments and provides students with the practical understanding needed to apply theory in real data analysis problems. Stressing principles while keeping computational and theoretical details at a manageable level, Applied Regression Analysis and...

    $1,800.00

  • THE ASIATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION IN CHINA
    TIMOTHY BROOK
    Brook (history, U. of Toronto) surveys the history of the concept of the AMP (a concept formulated by Karl Marx in the 1850s) in China in relation to debates elsewhere, and examines the particular issues raised in recent Chinese discussions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. ...

    $5,100.00

  • PRACTICAL VETERINARY DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY
    BROOK A. NIEMIEC / JERZY GAWOR / VLADIMÍR JEKL
    With over 1,000 clear, high-quality images, this in-depth full guide covers all aspects of veterinary dental radiography. Chapters explain the indications for – and importance of – this key area of veterinary practice, the equipment used, the essential techniques in developing and processing the radiograph, common errors made, and the pathology of the teeth. The book also explo...

    $2,800.00

  • QUEERING FAMILIES, SCHOOLING PUBLICS
    ANNE HARRIS / STACY HOLMAN JONES / SANDRA FAULKNER / ELOISE BROOK
    At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility, same-sex families, and sexualities education, there is surprisingly little writing on what it means to queer notions of family and kinship networks in global context. Building on the recent wave of scholarship on queerness in families and how families inte...

    $1,160.00

  • ESTIMATING AND TENDERING FOR CONSTRUCTION WORK
    MARTIN BROOK
    Estimators need to understand the consequences of entering into a contract, often defined by complex conditions and documents, as well as to appreciate the technical requirements of the project. Estimating and Tendering for Construction Work, 5th edition, explains the job of the estimator through every stage, from early cost studies to the creation of budgets for successful ten...

    $1,420.00

  • URBAN MAPS
    RICHARD BROOK / NICK DUNN
    This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems, artifacts, interventions and evidences that can inform our understanding of urban territories; on surfaces, in the margins or within voids. The diverse media of ar...

    $1,340.00

  • MALE LUST
    KERWIN BROOK / JILL NAGLE / BARUCH GOULD
    Men from a variety of sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds overturn myths about male sexuality and desire!Male sexuality comes of age in this provocative collection of personal essays and poetry. Male Lust's nearly 60 contributors explore emotional, social, and political aspects of sex and desire from a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and sexual orientations. Answ...

    $660.00

  • SECURING SYSTEMS
    BROOK S. E. SCHOENFIELD
    Internet attack on computer systems is pervasive. It can take from less than a minute to as much as eight hours for an unprotected machine connected to the Internet to be completely compromised. It is the information security architect's job to prevent attacks by securing computer systems. This book describes both the process and the practice of as ...

    $1,340.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF HORTICULTURE: LEVEL 3
    CHARLES ADAMS / MIKE EARLY / JANE BROOK / KATHERINE BAMFORD
    This colourful guide will explain the fundamentals of growing plants, whether you are taking a Level 3 RHS, City and Guilds or Edexcel course, are a grower or gardener in the industry, or are just a keen amateur. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book covers the principles that underpin plant production, the use of growing media and crop protection, but with referen...

    $1,420.00

  • CIVIL SOCIETY IN CHINA
    TIMOTHY BROOK / B. MICHAEL FROLIC
    The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China. ...

    $1,320.00

  • FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON THE BODY
    BARBARA BROOK
    Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political c...

    $1,600.00

  • ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN ADOLESCENCE
    JUDITH BROOK / BARRY STIMMEL
    This timely volume explores the possible reasons that young people turn to drugs, the most effective methods to manage those who are afflicted, and ways to educate youth to prevent their initial drug involvement. ...

    $1,200.00

  • ECOLOGY AND THE ARCHITECTURAL IMAGINATION
    BROOK MULLER
    By including ecological concerns in the design process from the outset, architecture can enhance life. Author Brook Muller understands how a designer’s predispositions and poetic judgement in dealing with complex and dynamic ecological systems impact the "greenness" of built outcomes. Ecology and the Architectural Imagination offers a series of speculations on architectural pos...

    $1,460.00

  • ASIA-PACIFIC IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER
    BROOK, CHRISTOPHER / MCGREW, ANTHONY
    Asia-Pacific in the New World Order critically explores the notion that a distinctive regional power bloc is developing linking countries bordering the Pacific, with East Asia at its core. This student-friendly volume sheds light on the complex interplay between global, regional and national forces which have transformed the Asia-Pacific area into one of the most vibrant and ec...

    $980.00

  • HETEROSEXUALITY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
    CHRIS BEASLEY / HEATHER BROOK / MARY HOLMES
    This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and accounts that cast heterosexuality in "sex critical, sex as danger" terms. Queer/femini...

    $1,560.00

  • SMALL ANIMAL DENTAL, ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL DISEASE
    BROOK NIEMIEC
    In an area of growing interest to veterinarians, the authors have produced a rapid reference to the practical clinical aspects of small animal dentistry. The text is arranged to reflect the clinician's thinking and approach to problems: background information, clinical relevance, key points, differential diagnoses, diagnostic tests, and management. ...

    $1,440.00


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