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  • SYMBOLIC DISTANCE
    S. BUCHANAN
    First Published in 1932 Symbolic Distance presents the grammatical account of the structure of symbols and the description of the field within which fictions arise. The author argues that it seems improbable that distance should become an exact technical term in art criticism as long as the divorce between works of art and symbols is maintained. The book discusses important the...

    $1,339.00

  • ADVANCED DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
    BILL BUCHANAN
    The use of data communications and computer networks is constantly increasing, bringing benefits to most of the countries and peoples of the world, and serving as the lifeline of industry. Now there is a textbook that discusses data communications and networking in a readable form that can be easily understood by students who will become the IS professionals of the future. Adva...

    $2,800.00

  • THE CURSE OF THE TURTLE
    SUZANNE BUCHANAN
    Koh Tao--a small island in the Gulf of Thailand, surrounded by pristine beaches, swathed in sunshine, and a mecca for tourists, divers and backpackers. But "Turtle Island" has its dark side. In 2014, Koh Tao was the site of the brutal double murders of two British backpackers, but theirs weren't the only suspicious backpacker deaths. My name is Suzanne Buchanan. I am the former...

    $229.00

  • DIGITAL ANALYSIS OF VAULTS IN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE
    ALEXANDRINA BUCHANAN / JAMES HILLSON / NICHOLAS WEBB
    Medieval churches are one of the most remarkable creative and technical achievements in architectural history. The complex vaults spanning their vast interiors have fascinated both visitors and worshippers alike for over 900 years, prompting many to ask: ‘How did they do that?’ Yet very few original texts or drawings survive to explain the processes behind their design or const...

    $999.00

  • INCLUSIVE GROWTH IN AUSTRALIA
    JOHN BUCHANAN / PAUL SMYTH
    Inclusive Growth in Australia overturns two decades of assumptions that social policy is wasteful and a source of dependency. It reflects a global resurgence of the understanding that an active and effective social policy regime is vital not only for a flourishing society, but also for a strong economy. It explains this new paradigm of inclusive growth and shows how it can be i...

    $799.00

  • THE ROLE OF GRANDPARENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    ANN BUCHANAN / ‎ANNA ROTKIRCH
    Across the world, the role of grandparents is changing. This book highlights the changing roles, and the consequences of these changes, for both grandchildren and grandparents, by drawing together leading international authorities on grandparenting and intergenerational relations. The book includes scholarly summaries of research as well as new research findings. It should be a...

    $1,099.00

  • POWER, POLITICS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
    DAVID BUCHANAN / RICHARD BADHAM
    Organization politics can be seen as a game in which players compete for different kinds of territory such as status, power, and influence. In Power, Politics and Organizational Change, David Buchanan and Richard Badham ask: What’s the relevance of politics to change and innovation? What kind of game is this? What, if any, are the rules? How is the game played? What ethical iss...

    $1,069.34

  • SEVEN SISTERS AND A BROTHER
    JOYCE FRISBY BAYNES / HAROLD S BUCHANAN / JANNETTE O. DOMINGO / MARILYN J. HOLIFIELD / AUNDREA WHITE KEL
    The Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement “Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today.” ─Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald #1 New Release in 1960s History ...

    $229.00

  • WILD THINKING
    NICK LIDDELL / RICHARD BUCHANAN
    Who is McLaren's greatest nemesis? What disappoints Ocado about their competitors? What wakes Google up at 4am? Why does Wimbledon sweat the small stuff? Wild Thinking will provide readers with the confidence to run their business differently, through unique access to thinking from the most original organizations in business today. The most successful businesses in the world ar...

    $629.00

  • PROGRESS IN PREVENTING AIDS?
    DAVID ROSS BUCHANAN / GEORGE PETER CERNADA
    Originally published in the "International Quarterly of Community Health Education", this work presents twenty-one chapters about the state of HIV/AIDS prevention programs in a global context. ...

    $2,800.00

  • CERAMIC MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONICS
    RELVA C. BUCHANAN
    The Third Edition of Ceramic Materials for Electronics studies a wide range of ceramic materials, including insulators, conductors, piezoelectrics, and ferroelectrics, through detailed discussion of their properties, characterization, fabrication, and applications in electronics. The author summarizes the latest trends and advancements in the field, and explores important topic...

    $1,599.00

  • PARENTING, SCHOOLING AND CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOUR
    ANN BUCHANAN
    Published in 1998, this book brings together some of the key findings in parenting and educational programmes from researchers at the University of Oxford, working in primary health care, educational studies, clinical psychology and applied social studies. At a time of considerable changes in family life and society in general, there is concern that some children are not achiev...

    $899.00

  • ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DURING JAPAN'S POST-WAR OCCUPATION
    MAYUMI OHARA / JOHN BUCHANAN
    In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government. This scholarly book is based on in-depth interviews with people, now aged, who were school students at the time of the Occupation and who experienced firs...

    $1,099.00

  • HIGH PERFORMANCE WORK SYSTEMS
    DAVID A. BUCHANAN / JAMES MCCALMAN
    Originally published in 1989. Management styles in developed western countries are undergoing a crisis phase. Increased levels of international competition and volatile trading conditions are creating new demands of job skills and responsibilities. The management challenge is to find work organization and employment strategies that sustain and develop employee performance and c...

    $899.00

  • MOTHERING BABIES IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    FIONA BUCHANAN
    This unique book offers an innovative feminist critique of attachment theory that offers an alternative understanding of relationships between women and their babies in domestic violence. Fiona Buchanan identifies a way forward for working with women, babies and people who have grown up with domestic violence focusing on strengths not deficits. In doing so, she raises new possi...

    $999.00

  • ACTS OF MODERNITY
    DAVID BUCHANAN
    In Acts of Modernity, David Buchanan reads nineteenth-century historical novels from Scotland, America, France, and Canada as instances of modern discourse reflective of community concerns and methods that were transatlantic in scope. Following on revolutionary events at home and abroad, the unique combination of history and romance initiated by Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814) f...

    $1,099.00

  • GUNPOWDER, EXPLOSIVES AND THE STATE
    BRENDA J. BUCHANAN
    Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. In this second volume by contributors who meet regularly at symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), the research is again rooted in the investigation of the techn...

    $1,059.00

  • BEARING WITNESS TO CHANGE
    EZRA E. H. GRIFFITH, MICHAEL A. NORKO, ALEC BUCHANAN, MADELON V. BARANOSKI AND HOWARD V. ZONANA
    This book explores the response of forensic psychiatry and psychology to changes over the last several decades. It presents the disciplines themselves as change agents that have shaped forensic work, public policy, and law. Topics include selected developments in forensic practice, the management and treatment of individuals who have had involvement with law enforcement systems...

    $1,599.00

  • SOUNDSCAPES FROM THE AMERICAS
    DONNA A. BUCHANAN
    Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis. President of the Society for Ethnomusicolo...

    $1,279.00

  • CANDID CONVERSATIONS WITH CONNIE, VOLUME 3
    KATHY BUCHANAN
    Lights, camera, action! Connie Kendall is at it again in this third volume in her advice series, doling out her sage-yet-witty wisdom to girls everywhere. Straight from her radio show aptly titled Candid Conversations with Connie, Connie helps girls explore their true beauty, the good and bad of media and technology, and more through unique activities. Known for making a great ...

    $169.00

  • CANDID CONVERSATIONS WITH CONNIE, VOLUME 2
    KATHY BUCHANAN
    Welcome to Candid Conversations with Connie, Volume 2! And these conversations are going to be very candid. In this book we’re only taking questions from girls! Yep, they can ask whatever they want, and I will answer from my vast knowledge and experience. (Well . . . maybe not vast.) If I don’t know the answer, I’ll ask my friend Penny. We’ve been where you are, and we know wha...

    $169.00

  • BRITT MONTERO SERIES
    EDNA BUCHANAN
    In one volume, the first five novels in the “irresistible series” starring a Miami crime reporter, from an Edgar Award–nominated author (Kirkus Reviews).   Being a crime reporter amid the sun and sin of Miami is a full-time job, one that Cuban-born Britt Montero does better than anyone else. But when you get that close to the criminal underworld, things have a way of sucking yo...

    $329.00

  • CANDID CONVERSATIONS WITH CONNIE, VOLUME 1
    KATHY BUCHANAN
    Welcome to Candid Conversations with Connie! And these conversations are going to be very candid. In this book we’re only taking questions from girls! Yep, they can ask whatever they want, and I will answer from my vast knowledge and experience. (Well . . . maybe not vast.) If I don’t know the answer, I’ll ask my friend Penny. We’ve been where you are, and we know what it’s lik...

    $169.00

  • THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES
    SCOTT BUCHANAN
    First published in 2000. This is Volume II of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1938, this text explores the author's interest in the freedom of speculation, and the doubts and fears of individual thinkers who may doubt the intellectual process and fear its consequences. He considers the profession of contemporary medicine who has...

    $1,399.00

  • CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE
    EDNA BUCHANAN
    From New York Times–bestselling author comes the first in the hard-hitting series starring a Miami crime reporter is “a crackling good page-turner” (USA Today).   A crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper, Cuban-born Britt Montero practically sleeps with a police scanner by her bedside. When a high-speed police chase leads to the death of a black football hero, Britt discove...

    $119.00

  • SACRED SEEDS OF REDEMPTION
    LELA GILLOW BUCHANAN
    How to find God at work in the midst of an often confusing world.   How often do we struggle to make sense of situations in life, wondering if, by some chance, we are just not following the right directions? Is there some secret life code that we were never taught? Suppose we all, inclusively, hold the tools but are merely unaware that we do? In Sacred Seeds of Redemption, the ...

    $229.00

  • RED DOG
    JAMES DAVID BUCHANAN
    Drug dealing is a dangerous business, and being the head of a drug ring is impossibly dangerous. Red Dog, a secretive one-dealer drug ring, operates on the West Coast, where he is nothing but a shadow. Red Dog is at his best when it comes to surviving. He makes the big bucks and manages to live through the week. At least until he crosses paths with Con Meehan. This novel will h...

    $119.00

  • DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISTIC ENTERPRISE IN INDIA
    DANIEL HOUSTON BUCHANAN
    First Published in 1966. Any person who resides in any one of the principal oriental countries is bound to stimulate a western mind to consider the differences between his own and eastern civilizations, and the reasons for these differences. During a dozen years as an economist in Japan, India and China, a number of conclusions which the author first formed tentatively have gra...

    $1,139.00

  • COMPLIANCE WITH TREATMENT IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
    ALEC BUCHANAN
    There is a myth that people with mental disorders comply poorly with treatment. In fact, psychiatric patients are no more likely than patients in other medical specialities to go against the advice of their doctor. That said, it is easy to find instances where psychotropic medication is refused by the supposed beneficiary. The value of neuroleptic treatment in schizophrenia is ...

    $459.00

  • PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND ACCOUNTABILITY
    BRUCE BUCHANAN
    Many analysts now believe that the growth of presidential war power relative to Congress is irreversible. This book was written to contest that view. Its purpose is to identify what would be required to restore presidential war power to constitutional specifications while leaving the president powerful enough to do what is truly necessary in the face of any emergency. Buchanan ...

    $1,039.00


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