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  • NIRVANA
    MARC BURROWS
    Nirvana's meteoric rise and tragic end, details their impact on music with a day-by-day account. After Nirvana, everything changed. Kurt Cobain and his band ushered in a new era in music, bringing the authenticity of US underground punk to mainstream rock audiences. Award-winning biographer and music critic Marc Burrows dives into the world of Nirvana, providing an exhaustive d...

    $216.99

  • A CHOREOGRAPHER'S HANDBOOK
    JONATHAN BURROWS
    On choreography: ‘Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.’ On rules: ‘Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis.’ The updated and revised edition of 'A Choreographer’s Handbook' invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, questions, ideas a...

    $780.00

  • THE LONDON BOYS
    MARC BURROWS
    Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths. From the day they met in 1965 as Davie Jones and Mark Feld, rock 'n' roll wannabes painting their manager's office in London's Denmark Street, they would remain friends and rivals, each watc...

    $229.00

  • THE LONDON BOYS
    MARC BURROWS
    Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths. From the day they met in 1965 as Davie Jones and Mark Feld, rock 'n' roll wannabes painting their manager's office in London's Denmark Street, they would remain friends and rivals, each watc...

    $216.99

  • JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA
    J. F. BURROWS
    First published in 1968, Jane Austen’s Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen’s last completed novel. While often pausing to analyse and comment on major contemporary critics, Dr. Burrows provides a detailed insight into this outstanding novel. He has clarified certain of the book’s qualities, placing detail back into its proper context and perspective. Comic relief is contras...

    $840.00

  • EMPOWERING MINDFULNESS FOR WOMEN
    LEIGH BURROWS
    Empowering Mindfulness for Women is centred around a a 5-day intensive mindfulness course attended by eight women from different backgrounds. The reader is invited to imagine they are actively participating in the teaching and learning moments and turning points encountered in teaching and learning mindfulness around themes such as making space for mindfulness, safeguarding min...

    $1,000.00

  • PROPHETIC WITNESS AND THE REIMAGINING OF THE WORLD
    HILARY DAVIES / JOSEPHINE VON ZITZEWITZ / MARK S. BURROWS
    This book explores the prophetic characteristics of literature, particularly poetry, that seek to reimagine the world in which it is written. Using theological and philosophical insights it charts the relentless impulse of literature to propose alternative visions, practicable or utopian, and point toward possibilities of renewal and change. Drawing from each of the three main ...

    $1,240.00

  • UNDERSTANDING STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING AS SPORT COACHING
    TANIA CASSIDY / PHIL HANDCOCK / BRIAN GEARITY / LISETTE BURROWS
    Contemporary strength and conditioning coaching is, for the most part, informed by the exercise sciences, with little engagement being made with sociocultural and pedagogical perspectives which have emerged in sports coaching research over the last two decades. In Understanding Strength and Conditioning as Sport Coaching: Bridging the Biophysical, Pedagogical and Sociocultural ...

    $1,160.00

  • CRITICAL HOSPITAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
    DANIEL BURROWS
    Critical Hospital Social Work Practice sheds light on the fast-paced, high pressure role of the hospital social worker. At a time of public concern over the state of the NHS and the needs of a growing older population, the hospital social worker’s job is more important than ever. Yet, it is poorly understood and often overlooked by policy makers, managers and other professional...

    $1,160.00

  • BRITISH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
    TOBY BURROWS
    British university libraries face major financial, technological, and organizational challenges. Cuts in funding, the spread of new technology, and changes to the provision of university education as a whole are combining to fundamentally alter the circumstances in which university libraries operate. This book, first published in 1989, provides a thorough understanding of the m...

    $1,000.00

  • THE ECONOMICS OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
    MARK M. HAUSER / PAUL BURROWS
    First published in 1969. This book analyses the role of Unemployment Insurance in a high-employment economy. It emphasises the social requirements of an income-maintenance scheme in the context of various economic policies, particularly government intervention in the labour market. The authors discuss other related problems including the relationship between Unemployment Insura...

    $1,060.00

  • COLLECTING THE PAST
    TOBY BURROWS
    Today’s libraries and museums are heavily indebted to the passions and obsessions of numerous individual collectors who devoted their lives to amassing collections of books, manuscripts, artworks, and other culturally significant objects. Collecting the Past brings together the latest research on a wide range of significant British collectors from the eighteenth to the twentiet...

    $660.00

  • TWO OLD FRENCH SATIRES ON THE POWER OF THE KEYS
    DARON BURROWS
    "The thirteenth-century French comic dits of Les Escommeniemanz au lecheor and Le Pardon de foutre are two of the earliest vernacular texts to articulate anticlerical satire against the abuse of excommunications and indulgences. In Les Escommeniemanz, a relentless series of excommunications is promulgated against a broad range of social groups accused of activities ranging from...

    $1,360.00

  • GROWTH MANAGEMENT
    LAWRENCE B. BURROWS
    There are specific topics which, in microcosm, bring together many of the strands of a whole society. The pressures at work in responding to the problems involved in these topics both in implementing and retarding their resolution, provide a unique insight into the strains of our time. In many ways, the subject of growth controls is a prime exemplar of this species. Grouped und...

    $1,320.00

  • REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
    A. J. BROWN / E. M. BURROWS
    Originally published in 1977. This book provides the first concise non-technical account of what the main kinds of regional problems are, how they arise, and the kinds of policy which have been used to tackle them in the UK, USA and Western Europe. The book starts with a discussion of why "regional problems" really are situations which call for special action, followed by a sho...

    $980.00

  • SAFEGUARDING MINDFULNESS IN SCHOOLS AND HIGHER EDUCATION
    LEIGH BURROWS
    Although mindfulness can be located in a number of different traditions and disciplines, it was originally an esoteric and powerful practice based on developing a capacity attainable only by certain people. After previously publishing on the positive outcomes, in this book the author identifies a range of adverse effects of mindfulness meditation for some individuals that, from...

    $580.00

  • DEVELOPING LANGUAGE CONCEPTS
    BRIDGET BURROWS
    This book is a valuable resource for all speech language therapists, teachers and support assistants working with children in schools and community clinics. It provides practical, step-by-step photocopiable programmes to help with specific language concepts, such as amount, colour, size, time and shape. The programmes are intended for speech language therapists to copy and send...

    $1,380.00

  • SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION IN CHANGING TIMES
    DEANA LEAHY / LISETTE BURROWS / LOUISE MCCUAIG / JAN WRIGHT / DAWN PENNEY
    This book explores the complex nexus of discourses, principles and practices within which educators mobilise school-based health education. Through an interrogation of the ideas informing particular models and approaches to health education, the authors provide critical insights into the principles and practices underpinning approaches to health education policy, curriculum, pe...

    $1,300.00

  • RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION
    CHAS. R. BURROWS
    Radio Wave Propagation: Consolidated Summary Technical Report of the Committee on Propagation of the National Defense Research Committee presents all the scientific information and report of experiments. This book discusses the problems encountered in the propagation of radio waves. Organized into three volumes, this book begins with an overview of the technical developments i...

    $1,249.00

  • ONE CANDLELIT CHRISTMAS
    JULIA JUSTISS / ANNIE BURROWS / TERRI BRISBIN
    A collection of Regency romance novellas that will make you believe in the joy of the holiday season from three of Harlequin’s most popular authors. Christmas Wedding Wish by Julia Justiss Disenchanted with empty-headed society debutantes, dashing gentleman Allen Mansfell decides that, if he must marry, he will choose a lady whose mind and heart he’ll have to win over—a lady li...

    $109.00

  • TOWARDS A POST-FORDIST WELFARE STATE?
    ROGER BURROWS
    There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the individual, freedom of choice and flexibility, generating fresh debate and analysi...

    $1,380.00

  • CYBERSPACE/CYBERBODIES/CYBERPUNK
    MIKE FEATHERSTONE / ROGER BURROWS
    How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how changing relations between body and technology offer new arenas for cultural representations. At the same time, t...

    $2,079.87

  • COLD WAR TEST PILOT
    RON BURROWS
    A chief test pilot recounts his hair-raising experiences with the RAF in this detailed and often-witty memoir. Includes photos.   The Falkland Islands had been invaded and a Task Force was already steaming south at full speed. On board the carriers were the Harriers that would provide essential aerial cover for the British troops and ships sent to recapture the islands. They wo...

    $299.00

  • MANIC STREET PREACHERS
    MARC BURROWS
    In a career that's spanned thirty-five years and generated fourteen albums, fifty-three singles (two of them UK number ones), four Brit Awards, two Ivor Novellas and inspired literally hundreds of university dissertations, quite a few PhD's and the odd specialist subject on Mastermind, Manic Street Preachers have become, in the words of their 2011 singles collection, national t...

    $229.00

  • THE MAGIC OF TERRY PRATCHETT
    MARC BURROWS
    An in-depth look into the life and writings of the bestselling author of the Discworld novels, Good Omens, and Nation. The Magic of Terry Pratchett is the first full biography of Sir Terry Pratchett ever written. Sir Terry was Britain's bestselling living author*, and before his death in 2015 had sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide. Best known for the  Discw...

    $229.00

  • JACQUES DUPUIS FACES THE INQUISITION
    WILLIAM R. BURROWS
    The critique of Jacques Dupuis, SJ, by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the direction of Joseph Ratzinger was met by almost universal dismay by Christian theologians and participants in interfaith dialogue throughout the world. This book is comprised of both responses by Father Dupuis to the Vatican's criticisms (which he was forbidden to publish duri...

    $550.00

  • RECENT ADVANCES IN NEUROPSYCHO-PHARMACOLOGY: SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 12TH CONGRESS OF THE COLLEGIUM INTERNATIONALE NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICUM, GÖTEBORG, SWEDEN, 22-26 JUNE 1980
    ANGRIST, B. / BURROWS, G. D. / LADER, M.
    Recent Advances in Neuropsycho-Pharmacology ...

    $928.00

  • THE POSTIE AND THE PRIEST
    RON BURROWS
    A priest, a postie, a parish, a suburb, a city, a diocese, an unusual and deep friendship, a struggle to get a book published… The Postie and the Priest is part biography, part philosophy, part social commentary, part theological reflection. Here is a fly-on-the-wall account of the daily life of an iconic Melbourne priest who has a deep passion for the battlers of his city, wr...

    $905.00

  • FLORA OF TROPICAL EAST AFRICA - OPHIOGLOSSACEAE (2001)
    JOHN ERIC BURROWS / R.J. JOHNS
    This book is a comprehensive review of the genera of Ophioglossaceae, the adder's-tongue family, found in tropical East Africa. It presents information on their character, occurrence, habitat, phenotypic variations and distribution of each of the species under these genera. ...

    $820.00

  • MARIE ANTOINETTE
    MELANIE BURROWS
    An intimate biography revealing Marie Antoinette’s complex life, personal struggles, and dramatic fall from Versailles to the guillotine. A seemingly endless parade of books, films and television shows have kept Marie Antoinette in the spotlight for over two centuries since her execution in October 1793. For many, she is the ignorant embodiment of foolish, careless, decadent ex...

    $216.99


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