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  • BURIED DREAMER
    DAVID BROWN HOWELL
    In 1847, Samantha waits tables and serves grog at Logan's Tavern in Campbeltown, Scotland. She joins the love of her life, the local Presbyterian minister, on an ill-fated voyage. The Reverend Charles Stuart is forced into exile (because of his zealous passion for the poor) and placed on an overloaded sailing ship to Wilmington, North Carolina. The ship barely survives the stor...

    $479.00

  • ESSENTIALS OF MARKETING
    DAVID BROWN / ALEX THOMPSON
    This comprehensive textbook introduces students to all the core principles of marketing practice using an employability-focused approach. Essentials of Marketing is underpinned by six pillars, which flow through each chapter: marketing ethics, sustainability, stakeholder engagement, globalisation, the power of new media, and measuring success. The book demystifies theory by pla...

    $1,279.00

  • SANTERÍA ENTHRONED
    DAVID H. BROWN
    Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. Originally published in 2003 Santería Enthroned combines art, history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious pra...

    $899.00

  • METALS IN GROUNDWATER
    HERBERT E. ALLEN / E. MICHAEL PERDUE / DAVID S. BROWN
    Metal contamination of groundwater results from many human activities, including agriculture, mining, and the disposal of municipal waste and fly ash. Metals in Groundwater describes the transport of metals to groundwater from these and other sources. It also covers risk assessment of metals in groundwater, coupling of chemicals and hydrological models, and sorption of metals o...

    $1,559.00

  • INTERNAL MARKETING
    DAVID M. BROWN
    This book traces the development of internal marketing from initial conceptualisation through to the current issues. It identifies both significant underlying tensions between major theorists and areas in which new perspectives may enrich our understanding of this crucial subject. Internal marketing is the use of traditional strategies by organisations to market themselves to t...

    $1,099.00

  • YOUTH JUSTICE AND PENALITY IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXT
    BARRY GOLDSON / CHRIS CUNNEEN / SOPHIE RUSSELL / DAVID BROWN / EILEEN BALDRY / MELANIE SCHWARTZ / DAMON BR
    This book represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality to be published and it makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of comparative criminology. By exploring trends in law, policy and practice over a forty-year period, the book critically surveys the ‘moving images’ of youth justice regimes and penal cu...

    $1,039.00

  • A CONCISE AMERICAN HISTORY
    DAVID BROWN / THOMAS HEINRICH / SIMON MIDDLETON / VIVIEN MILLER
    Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the shifting political climate of the past decade, this highly readable textbook provides a compelling overview of American development over the last five centuries. This book avoids either ce...

    $979.00

  • THE LIGHT INSIDE
    DAVID H. BROWN
    Originally published in 2003, The Light Inside is a ground-breaking study of an Afro-Cuban secret society, its sacred arts, and their role in modern Cuban cultural history. Enslaved Africans and creoles developed the Abakuá Society, a system of men’s fraternal lodges, in urban Cuba beginnings in 1836. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the country, the book’s novel approach build...

    $979.00

  • JAZZ AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART
    LEE B. BROWN / DAVID GOLDBLATT / THEODORE GRACYK
    Co-authored by three prominent philosophers of art, Jazz and the Philosophy of Art is the first book in English to be exclusively devoted to philosophical issues in jazz. It covers such diverse topics as minstrelsy, bebop, Voodoo, social and tap dancing, parades, phonography, musical forgeries, and jazz singing, as well as Goodman’s allographic/autographic distinction, Adorno’s...

    $1,039.00

  • THE UTILITY OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
    DAVID LEYTON-BROWN
    The debate over the imposition of sanctions against South Africa indicated that economic sanctions had become a controversial feature of the international political scene. This book, first published in 1987, is an authoritative review of the problem of economic sanctions. Each chapter looks at a particular international economic sanction in detail; and all address a common set ...

    $899.00

  • AESTHETICS
    DAVID GOLDBLATT / LEE B. BROWN / STEPHANIE PATRIDGE
    Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Sections include topics that are familiar to students such as painting, photography and movies, architecture, music, literature, and perform...

    $2,800.00

  • GEORGE W. BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICIES
    DONETTE MURRAY / DAVID BROWN / MARTIN A. SMITH
    This book offers a fresh assessment of George W. Bush’s foreign policies. It is not designed to offer an evaluation of the totality of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. Instead, the analysis will focus on the key aspects of his foreign and security policy record, in each case considering the interplay between principle and pragmatism. The underpinning contention here is that pol...

    $1,039.00

  • THE FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST'S REPORT WRITING GUIDE
    SARAH BROWN, ERICA BOWEN, DAVID PRESCOTT
    The Forensic Psychologist’s Reporting Writing Guide is the first book to provide both student trainees and practitioners with best practice guidance for one of the core skills of their role. Written and edited by an international range of experts from the UK, North America and Australasia, it provides clear advice on a range of assessments, from psychometric tests to personalit...

    $1,139.00

  • DIVINE GENEROSITY AND HUMAN CREATIVITY
    DAVID BROWN
    Partly in a desire to defend divine freedom and partly because it is seen as the only way of preserving a distinctive voice for theology, much contemporary theology has artificially restricted revelation and religious experience, effectively cutting off those who find God beyond the walls of the Church. Against this tendency, David Brown argues for divine generosity and a broad...

    $1,239.00

  • GOD IN A SINGLE VISION
    DAVID BROWN
    In the ancient conversation between Western philosophy and Christian theology, powerful contemporary voices are arguing for monologue rather than dialogue. Instead of these two disciplines learning from and mutually informing each other, both philosophers and theologians are increasingly disconnected from, and thus unable to hear, what the other is saying, especially in Anglo-A...

    $1,339.00

  • ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF RURAL STUDIES
    MARK SHUCKSMITH AND DAVID L. BROWN
    Rural societies around the world are changing in fundamental ways, both at their own initiative and in response to external forces. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies examines the organisation and transformation of rural society in more developed regions of the world, taking an interdisciplinary and problem-focused approach. Written by leading social scientis...

    $1,239.00

  • PENAL CULTURE AND HYPERINCARCERATION
    CHRIS CUNNEEN / EILEEN BALDRY / DAVID BROWN / MARK BROWN / MELANIE SCHWARTZ / ALEX STEEL
    What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and...

    $1,339.00

  • SUPPORTING PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AT HOME
    DAVID CHALLIS / CAROLINE SUTCLIFFE / JANE HUGHES / RICHARD VON ABENDORFF / PAMELA BROWN / JOHN CHESTERMAN
    Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. The authors use a quasi-experimental approach to compare how the individuals on the mental health team in one community were matched to a similar community without the service. They...

    $1,299.00

  • DESIGN PROBLEM SOLVING
    DAVID C. BROWN / B. CHANDRASEKARAN
    Design Problem Solving: Knowledge Structures and Control Strategies describes the application of the generic task methodology to the problem of routine design. This book discusses the generic task methodology and what constitutes the essence of the Al approach to problem solving, including the analysis of design as an information processing activity. The basic design problem s...

    $970.00

  • NAVAL OPERATIONS OF THE CAMPAIGN IN NORWAY, APRIL-JUNE 1940
    DAVID BROWN
    This is the official Naval Staff history of the Norway campaign, originally published internally in 1951. It covers the period from early April 1940 to the completion of operations in June. The operation involved most of the Royal Navy's ships in the Home theatre at the time. ...

    $1,379.00

  • THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
    DAVID BROWN
    This volume deals with the first 15 months of the Mediterranean Campaign including the preparations for war, the effect of the entry of Italy into the war in June, 1940, the tragic actions against the French Fleet, and the achievement of British command of the sea, which was the defining factor for all subsequent Mediterranean operations. It ends with the first Mediterranean co...

    $1,339.00

  • THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
    BROWN, DAVID
    This work covers a difficult period of the war for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet. It covers the destruction of the Italian Fleet at Taranto by naval aircraft from the carrier Illustrious, and the entry of the German Luftwaffe into the theatre with their attack on Illustrious in 1941. ...

    $1,139.00

  • SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH POST TRAMAUTIC STRESS DISORDER
    DAVID KINCHIN / ERICA BROWN
    It is estimated that at any one time around 135,000 school children are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They may be survivors of abuse (physical, emotional or sexual) or bullying. Some may have been involved in a road accident, an accident at home or any other traumatic event. This book provides teachers, support staff and other educational professionals w...

    $979.00

  • BRAIN DISEASES AND METALLOPROTEINS
    DAVID R. BROWN
    This book describes the latest research on neurodegenerative disease and metal-binding proteins. It lays strong emphasis on biochemistry and cell biology. The diseases covered in the book include Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, prion disease, and ALS. The chapters separately examine such issues as mechanisms of metal binding, metal-induce ...

    $1,179.00

  • MULTIPOLARITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    DONETTE MURRAY AND DAVID BROWN
    This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do. As the twenty-first century moves out of its first decade, American supremacy continues to generate intense debate about the nature, quality and sustainability of U...

    $1,139.00

  • SURFING AND SOCIAL THEORY
    NICHOLAS J FORD / DAVID BROWN
    Surfing has emerged from ancient roots to become a twenty-first century phenomenon – an ‘alternative’ sport, lifestyle and art form with a global profile and ever-increasing numbers of participants. Drawing on popular surf culture, academic literature and the analytical tools of social theory, this book is the first sustained commentary on the contemporary social and cultural m...

    $1,279.00

  • THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE
    DAVID MIDDLETON / STEVE D BROWN
    `A smart, thoughtful, and well-written book that takes social memory studies in a bold new direction and will attract an audience from across the social sciences for years to come′ - Theory & Psychology What informs the process of remembering and forgetting? Is it merely about our capability to store and retrieve experiences in a purely functional sense? What about ′collective ...

    $1,046.77

  • THE ROAD TO ORAN
    DAVID BROWN
    On 3 July 1940, soon after the collapse of the French front and France's request for an armistice, a reluctant Royal Navy commander opened fire on the French Navy squadron at Mers-el-Kebir. Some 1,300 French sailors lost their lives.The late David Brown's detailed account finally conveys an objective understanding of the course of events that led u ...

    $1,379.00

  • THE STATE AND ETHNIC POLITICS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
    DAVID BROWN
    Ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia represent a clear threat to the future stability of the region. David Brown's clear and systematic study outlines the patterns of ethnic politics in: * Burma * Singapore * Indonesia * Malaysia * Thailand The study considers the influence of the State on the formation of ethnic groups and investigates why some countries are more successful in 'm...

    $1,259.00

  • CARDIOVASCULAR PLAQUE RUPTURE
    DAVID L. BROWN
    Illustrating the development and determinants of possible plaque rupture, Cardiovascular Plaque Rupture provides an in-depth review of the pathology, etiology, cellular and molecular biology, diagnosis, and treatment of plaque in the cardiovascular system-exploring the roles of physical stress, inflammation, and infectious agents on the growth of c ...

    $3,000.00


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