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  • SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
    BRUCE TAYLOR
    Engineers have applied science to land people on the moon, design the cars we drive, and cram the power of a 20th-century supercomputer into the phones we carry. But what can happen when engineering’s systemic problem-solving skills are applied to improving the sustainability of business? This book stands on the shoulders of sustainability engineering insights to supplement bus...

    $1,860.00

  • MYSTERIES OF THE SOCIAL BRAIN
    BRUCE L. MILLER / VIRGINIA STURM
    Mysteries of the Social Brain describes the scientific underpinnings of human behavior and values. Through the retelling of fascinating clinical stories of people with neurological conditions, this book explores the parts of the brain that allow humans to thrive as social and creative beings. The authors reveal the relevance of our brain circuits to our well‑being—and the well‑...

    $640.00

  • GROUTED SOIL AND ROCK ANCHORS
    DEVON MOTHERSILLE / DONALD A. BRUCE / STUART LITTLEJOHN
    This book delves deep into the crucial aspects of grouted soil and rock anchors, providing a contemporary perspective on the best practices in anchor technology that are directly applicable to the work of consulting engineers, contractors and students in the field. The book comprehensively covers aspects of anchor design, construction, testing, durability and maintenance, as we...

    $3,800.00

  • CYBERSECURITY LEADERSHIP FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    BRADLEY FOWLER / BRUCE G. CHAUNDY
    Healthcare organizations and institutions of higher education have become prime targets of increased cyberattacks. This book explores current cybersecurity trends and effective software applications, AI, and decision-making processes to combat cyberattacks. It emphasizes the importance of compliance, provides downloadable digital forensics software, and examines the psychology ...

    $1,170.00

  • INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES
    BRUCE E. LARSON
    Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies for pre-service social studies teachers. This fully updated text includes new topics and assessment examples, expanded discussi...

    $1,660.00

  • ELEMENTARY SOCIAL STUDIES
    S.G. GRANT / BRUCE A. VANSLEDRIGHT / ANNE-LISE HALVORSEN
    The fully updated fifth edition of Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. Organized around four commonplaces of education—learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment—and deeply rooted in inquiry-based teaching and learning, this ...

    $1,900.00

  • LANGFORD'S BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY
    MICHAEL LANGFORD / ANDREW BRUCE / ANNA FOX / RICHARD SAWDON SMITH
    This seminal photography text, now in its 11th edition, has been revamped, reorganized, and modernized to include the most up-to-date and need-to-know information for photographers. Introducing all the key concepts and fundamentals of photography, this book is a must-have for any photographer’s bookcase. Providing examples and practical information throughout to allow photograp...

    $1,420.00

  • VIGOR MORTIS
    BRUCE, SCOTT G.
    This volume explores the enduring presence and participation of the dead in the lives of premodern people from the Carolingian period to the end of the Middle Ages. Unlike modern states, which erect barriers to separate the dying and the deceased from their families, friends, and associates, premodern societies in western Europe fostered an on-going relationship between the liv...

    $1,480.00

  • THE PROCESS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM
    BRUCE WOOD
    Originally published in 1976, this book examines how and why local government reforms came about and what influences, pressures and compromises were involved. At the time of publication it provided the most detailed account so far of the process by which the 1972 Local Government Act was approved by Parliament following the Redcliffe-Maud report and two White Papers. At the sam...

    $860.00

  • TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN DIPLOID FIBROBLASTS
    GEORGE E. MILO / BRUCE C. CASTO
    This comprehensive publication draws together the important aspects of carcinogen-cell interaction. This interesting work describes the regulation of normal cell proliferation, cellular responses to carcinogen damage, the biologic consequences of cellular DNA modification, the structural and genomic changes resulting from carcinogen insult, and the possible involvement of such ...

    $9,000.00

  • BRITISH CABINET MINISTERS
    BRUCE HEADEY
    First published in 1974, British Cabinet Ministers is about the opportunities and constraints of executive political office. It is mainly based on interviews with fifty contemporary British Ministers and twenty-five senior civil servants. Hitherto political observers have referred simply to ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ Ministers, which begs the question ‘“strong” or “weak” at what?’ Her...

    $860.00

  • THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF EURASIA
    KAREN DAWISHA / BRUCE PARROTT
    This ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the post-Soviet successor states. Each volume considers a different factor influencing the relationship between internal politics and international relations in Russia and in the western and southern tiers of newly independent states. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the discred...

    $1,480.00

  • CELL SIGNALING
    WENDELL A. LIM / BRUCE J. MAYER
    Cell Signaling provides undergraduate and graduate students with the conceptual tools needed to make sense of the dizzying array of pathways that cells use to detect, process, and respond to signals from the environment. By emphasizing the common design principles and molecular processes that underlie all signaling mechanisms, the book develops a broad conceptual framework thro...

    $2,420.00

  • TO BE A DISCIPLE
    BRUCE L. TAYLOR
    To Be a Disciple is a fitting conclusion to Bruce Taylor's two published journeys through the Common Lectionary (Revised). Wise preaching encourages and promotes faithful discipleship. That is particularly true of this set of sermons for Sundays and feast days based on the readings for the second half of the lectionary cycle that features the Gospel of Luke. This collection hig...

    $479.00

  • LAND AND PEOPLE IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
    BRUCE M.S. CAMPBELL
    This is the third collection of articles by Bruce Campbell to appear in the Variorum series. Late medieval England was an overwhelmingly rural society. Never since has such a large proportion of the population lived in the countryside or relied so directly for its livelihood upon agriculture. The lot of a majority of that population was always a hard one - and never more so tha...

    $4,500.00

  • TEACHING FOR RETENTION
    BRUCE M. MACKH
    This book provides actionable insights and strategies to help address the student retention problem that has plagued higher education. Designed for faculty, this book reframes the common question, “Why do students leave and how can we fix it?” to “What if we made sure that every student had a compelling reason to stay?” Drawing upon the Gallup-Purdue “Big Six,” – six key experi...

    $740.00

  • MACARTHUR'S BLOODY BUTCHERS
    BRIAN BRUCE
    “… a very good book and needed in the Army historiography for the war in the Pacific. It was entertaining and informative.”- The Saber and Scroll Journal An all-round account of the actions of Company G of the 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st Division, U.S. Army, during World War II in the Pacific. The narrative follows the company from training in the Pacific Northwest, to Austra...

    $267.99

  • THE US NAVY AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
    BRUCE A ELLEMAN
    This book explores the question “Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea at all?” It traces the history of diplomatic, economic, and military tensions among the People’s Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, outlining the origins of the United States-Vietnam relationship during the immediate post-World War II period, th...

    $1,240.00

  • ACADEMIA VERSUS THE WORLD OUTSIDE
    BRUCE FLEMING
    Academia versus the World Outside lays out the givens of the knowledge industry located within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of the left–right animosity of our day. The knowledge industry, a crea...

    $1,240.00

  • MODELS OF TEACHING
    BRUCE JOYCE / EMILY CALHOUN
    This fully updated edition of a classic text explores established approaches to teaching that are grounded in research and experience to ensure high levels of learning. Models of Teaching combines rationale and research with real-life examples and applications in the classroom, showing how teachers, professional learning communities, and school faculties can improve student att...

    $1,700.00

  • ON THE FRACTAL LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE
    BRUCE J. WEST / W. ALAN C. MUTCH
    On the Fractal Language of Medicine bridges a very clear gap among the knowledge gained over the last 20 years in the physical and life sciences on network theory, organ synchronicity and communication, the understanding of fractal signatures in health and disease and the importance of fractional calculus in integrating these concepts. The authors opine that the field of medici...

    $5,300.00

  • ALIGNED
    BRUCE MCCARTHY / MELISSA APPEL
    Product management naturally incorporates empathy, psychology, and thinking outside the box in pursuit of the best design for products. But how often do you apply those same skills to your relationships with people in your company? By breaking the art of stakeholder management into simple lessons and frameworks, this practical book shows product managers how to manage the cruci...

    $521.00

  • FRACTIONAL CALCULUS FOR SKEPTICS I
    BRUCE J. WEST / YANGQUAN CHEN
    This book is the first of its kind on fractional calculus (FC), dedicated to advocating for FC in STEM education and research. Fractional calculus is increasingly used today, but there remains a core population of skeptics regarding the utility of this "new" calculus. This book is intended for those who are skeptical about the need for fractional calculus to describe dynamic co...

    $5,300.00

  • GOD’S SIGNATURE IN THE STARS, VOLUME ONE
    BRUCE J. PATTERSON
    Are there credible reasons to believe many of the constellation and star names were given by inspiration of God? God's Signature in the Stars explores these ancient star names and their meanings to reveal the answer. The Bible states that God named the stars: "He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name" (Isa 40:26). These starry hosts appe...

    $692.00

  • GOD’S SIGNATURE IN THE STARS, VOLUME ONE
    BRUCE J. PATTERSON
    Are there credible reasons to believe many of the constellation and star names were given by inspiration of God? God's Signature in the Stars explores these ancient star names and their meanings to reveal the answer. The Bible states that God named the stars: "He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name" (Isa 40:26). These starry hosts appe...

    $692.00

  • DRUGS, AGEING AND SOCIETY
    BRUCE BURNS / CHRIS PHILLIPSON
    During the 1970s and 1980s prescription and over-the-counter drugs had come to play a major role in the health care of older people. Originally published in 1986, this book reviews the historical background to this development and explores its social and pharmacological implications. The main aim of the study was to provide a critical perspective on drug use together with a fra...

    $840.00

  • UNLOCKING THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN
    BRUCE ECKER / ROBIN TICIC / LAUREL HULLEY
    This highly influential volume, now in a much-expanded second edition, delivers major advances for psychotherapy, all empirically grounded in memory reconsolidation neuroscience. A great increase of therapeutic effectiveness can be gained, thanks to a clear map of the brain's innate core process of transformational change—a process that does not require use of any particular sy...

    $920.00

  • PRACTICING THE PROMISE
    BRUCE L. TAYLOR
    The Scripture readings for Year C of the Common Lectionary (Revised) pair the Gospel of Luke, rich in its unique stories surrounding Jesus' birth, Jesus' care for the marginalized, and parables at once beloved and profound, with Old Testament and epistolary testimony to life-imparting faith in God's promises. Bruce Taylor's homiletical proclamation through the first half of Yea...

    $479.00

  • IMPLEMENTING A 21ST CENTURY COMPETENCY-BASED CURRICULUM THROUGH LESSON STUDY
    ERIC C.K. CHENG, BRUCE LANDER
    Drawing from a comprehensive collection of university-funded teaching development projects, this edited volume explores the theories and practices behind developing pedagogies through Lesson Study for a 21st-century curriculum. It encompasses various aspects such as lesson observation, assessment literacy, online teaching pedagogy, values education, STEM education, language edu...

    $1,200.00

  • NATURE-BASED DESIGN IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
    BRUCE SHARKY
    Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture showcases a range of built works designed by landscape architects from many countries of the world representing diverse environmental regions and uses. These projects demonstrate the transformative potential of a nature-based approach to landscape architecture. The nature-based design approach supports and encourages natural regener...

    $1,040.00