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  • THE LAW OF SHIP MORTGAGES
    DAVID OSBORNE / CHARLES BUSS / JOANNE CHAMPKINS
    This fully updated and comprehensive 3rd edition of The Law of Ship Mortgages provides readers with a practical, commercially based and definitive guide to the English law of ship mortgages. The authors, being seasoned practitioners, bring their extensive experience to bear on a number of difficult and developing areas of the law, such as: mortgagees’ duties, liability to chart...

    $14,000.00

  • EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
    DAVID M. BUSS
    Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? In the seventh edition of this revolutionary textbook, David M. Buss examines human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, providing students with the conceptual tools needed to study evolutionary psychology and apply them to e...

    $2,100.00

  • GOOD SEX, SECOND EDITION
    MARTIN J. BUSS / NICKIE M. STIPE
    During the biblical period, society in a large part of the world, including that of the Bible, gave priority to males over females. The Bible thus gives instruction about how to live in such a society. But the Hebrew part of the Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, said that this condition was part of a punishment for disobeying God in the first time period. Later, w...

    $391.00

  • GOOD SEX, SECOND EDITION
    MARTIN J. BUSS / NICKIE M. STIPE
    During the biblical period, society in a large part of the world, including that of the Bible, gave priority to males over females. The Bible thus gives instruction about how to live in such a society. But the Hebrew part of the Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, said that this condition was part of a punishment for disobeying God in the first time period. Later, w...

    $391.00

  • THE (IN)VISIBILITY OF WOMEN AND MINING
    BLAIR RUTHERFORD AND DORIS BUSS
    The chapters in this book provide in- depth insight into the gender norms and contexts in which women work in the expanding informal mining sector in sub- Saharan Africa. Collectively, the research here provides a nuanced account of women’s livelihood strategies in artisanal and small- scale mining (ASM, as its generally known) in ways that challenge images of women— as either ...

    $1,160.00

  • PLANNING CITIES WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOLS
    DEBORAH L. MCKOY / AMANDA EPPLEY / SHIRL BUSS
    Offering the overlooked but essential viewpoint of young people from low-income communities of color and their public schools, Planning Cities With Young People and Schools offers an urgently needed set of best-practice recommendations for urban planners to change the status quo and reimagine the future of our cities for and with young people. Working with more than 10,000 stud...

    $980.00

  • ARCHITECTING MODERN DATA PLATFORMS
    JAN KUNIGK / IAN BUSS / PAUL WILKINSON / LARS GEORGE
    There’s a lot of information about big data technologies, but splicing these technologies into an end-to-end enterprise data platform is a daunting task not widely covered. With this practical book, you’ll learn how to build big data infrastructure both on-premises and in the cloud and successfully architect a modern data platform. Ideal for enterprise architects, IT managers, ...

    $681.00

  • SCHIZOPHRENIA
    GEORGE WILLISON / EDITH H. BUSS
    Seven controversial approaches to schizophrenia, each assuming a distinctive model, biological, psychological, or social, are presented by their leading exponents. Arnold and Edith Buss deal with such fundamental issues as: What is the nature of schizophrenia? What general approach does each theory represent? What does each theory assume, what evidence does it require for proof...

    $1,320.00

  • REENGINEERING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
    DONNA FABIANI / TERRY F. BUSS
    This timely book takes a wide-angled look at how the field of community development is evolving in an era of reduced resources, changing priorities, privatization, competition, and performance management at the federal, state, and local government levels, as well as for non-profits and private sector entities. It shows how community development organizations and programs are of...

    $660.00

  • INNOVATIONS IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    HANNAH S. SISTARE / MYRA HOWZE SHIPLETT / TERRY F. BUSS
    Human resource management is experiencing profound change, new challenges, exciting accomplishments, and much uncertainity. The public service has moved away from the old days of "personnel management" concerned mostly with processing "personal action" paperwork, to a system where public employees are managed as human capital to get the work of the government done more effectiv...

    $1,560.00

  • PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND BUDGETING
    F STEVENS REDBURN / ROBERT J. SHEA / TERRY F. BUSS / DAVID M. WALKER
    This book provides a fresh look at the process by which governments hold themselves accountable to their citizens for performance. Unlike the plethora of other books in the field, it examines all aspects of the Performance Management and Budgeting issue, not only from the federal, state, and local perspectives, but also internationally in both developing and developed countries...

    $1,540.00

  • EVIDENCE-BASED PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
    ANNA SHILLABEER / TERRY F. BUSS / DENISE M. ROUSSEAU
    Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book is the first systematic assessment of EBMgt and its potential application in public management. ...

    $1,360.00

  • FOREIGN AID AND FOREIGN POLICY
    LOUIS A. PICARD / ROBERT GROELSEMA / TERRY F. BUSS
    This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved in the past, and how they might be solved in the future. The book focuses primarily on U.S. foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization. The expert contributors examine issues cu...

    $1,420.00

  • TRANSFORMING PUBLIC LEADERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
    RICARDO S. MORSE / TERRY F. BUSS / C. MORGAN KINGHORN
    The forces of globalization are shifting our world, including the public sector, away from hierarchy and command and control toward one of collaboration and networks. The way public leadership is thought about and practiced must be, and is being, transformed. This volume in the "Transformational Trends in Governance & Democracy" series explores what the shift looks like and als...

    $1,320.00

  • MODERNIZING DEMOCRACY: INNOVATIONS IN CITIZEN PARTICIPATION
    TERRY F. BUSS / F STEVENS REDBURN / KRISTINA GUO
    How do you put the "public" in public management? How can the traditional ethos of professionalism and technical expertise be reconciled with norms of representation and citizen participation at a time when technology is transforming communication between citizens and government - in some ways enhancing the exchange and in other ways complicating it? "Modernizing Democracy: Inn...

    $1,320.00

  • INNOVATIONS IN PUBLIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
    RICARDO S. MORSE / TERRY F. BUSS
    This is the best single-source guide to leadership development in the public sector. It offers a wealth of advice for teachers, students, trainers, human resource officers, and established leaders. The all-original chapters include discussions of leadership frameworks, competencies for public leaders for the "new governance," and strategies for senior leaders in government.The ...

    $1,560.00

  • EXPANDING ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
    TERRY F. BUSS / PAUL N. VAN DE WATER
    The U.S. health care system faces well-known problems: 47 million people without health insurance, rapidly rising costs that consume 16 percent of the country's economic output, and widely uneven quality of care. Even many people with coverage are experiencing serious problems paying for the rapidly rising costs of health care and insurance.This book - a joint product of the Na...

    $1,340.00

  • TEMPERAMENT (PLE: EMOTION)
    ARNOLD H. BUSS / ROBERT PLOMIN
    Originally published in 1984, this title looks at the development of temperament in early life. At the time of publication there were three major perspectives on temperament: paediatrics, individual differences in infants, and inherited personality traits that appear in early life. Whatever the diversity of these perspectives, they converge on personality traits that develop ea...

    $1,460.00

  • SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY (PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS)
    ARNOLD H. BUSS
    The fields of social behaviour and personality had for the most part been studied separately, originally published in 1986, this title was one of the first to consider them together. Social behaviours and contexts are analysed and distinctions are suggested. Social behaviours not previously seen as similar are linked. This a great opportunity to rediscover the work of Arnold Bu...

    $1,100.00

  • PERSONALITY: EVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE AND HUMAN DISTINCTIVENESS
    ARNOLD H. BUSS
    This innovative study focuses on seven inherent personality traits humans share with primates; activity, fearfulness, impulsivity, sociability, altruism, aggressiveness, and dominance. The author discusses these traits from the dual perspective of our evolutionary history and our human uniqueness. ...

    $660.00

  • HANDBOOK OF PROOF THEORY
    BUSS, S.R.
    This volume contains articles covering a broad spectrum of proof theory, with an emphasis on its mathematical aspects. The articles should not only be interesting to specialists of proof theory, but should also be accessible to a diverse audience, including logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists and philosophers. Many of the central topics of proof theory have been incl...

    $2,988.00

  • PSICOLOGIA DE LA PERSONALIDAD 2°EDIC.
    LARSEN RANDY J. • BUSS DAVID M.
    El estudio de la personalidad es uno de los campos más excitantes de la psicología, cuyos avances han cobrado relevancia y actualidad.La presente edición ha incorporado novedosos e importantes temas, como una profunda exposición de las teorías de la personalidad y su evaluación: Cobertura de la IRMf a los métodos fisiológicos; Un novedoso y vasto tratamiento de la taxonomía de ...
    Agotado

    $546.00

  • DIFERENCIAS INDIVIDUALES RASGOS Y FACTORES
    BUSS
    Agotado

    $44.00