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  • THE SPY WHO HELPED THE SOVIETS WIN STALINGRAD AND KURSK
    CHRIS JONES
    Liverpool-born Alexander Foote became a Soviet spy in Switzerland, transmitting German intelligence before facing betrayal and disillusionment. In his short life, Liverpool-born Alexander Foote went from being a volunteer in the International Brigade in Spain to becoming an agent of Soviet military intelligence in Switzerland. Pretending to his friends that he was a dim-witted ...

    $255.99

  • WHY BOTHER?
    CHRIS BUTTERWORTH / MORGAN JONES / PETER HINES
    This book focusses on the importance of creating an internal assessment program to periodically assess the maturity of the organizations transformation journey. It discusses the best approach to designing and implementing an assessment program by answering key questions posed when people resist. The book begins with selecting the positioning of the program not as an audit but a...

    $800.00

  • RADICAL SENSIBILITY
    CHRIS JONES
    First published in 1993. Radical Sensibility provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature, ideas and history in the eighteenth century’s Revolutionary decade. The book traces a continuity of ideas from Shaftesbury to Godwin and Wollstonecraft, and sets it beside a conservative tradition established in the work of Hume and Adam Smith. As a guide to the transfo...

    $980.00

  • SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
    NIALL RICHARD MURPHY / BETSY BEYER / CHRIS JONES / JENNIFER PETOFF
    The overwhelming majority of a software systemâ??s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems? In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Googleâ??s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitmen...

    $521.00

  • GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER CARTOGRAPHY
    CHRIS B. JONES
    A concise text presenting the fundamental concepts in Geographical Information Systems (GIS), emphasising an understanding of techniques in management, analysis and graphic display of spatial information. Divided into five parts - the first part reviews the development and application of GIS, followed by a summary of the characteristics and representation of geographical inform...

    $2,120.00

  • POVERTY, WELFARE AND THE DISCIPLINARY STATE
    CHRIS JONES / TONY NOVAK
    In a forward looking appraisal of the welfare state, Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State examines such issues as: *the current dynamics of poverty in Britain, drawing on similar developments in Europe and the US *the major areas of social policy within which this abandonment and demonisation of the poor is taking place *the historical antecendents to this relatio...

    $1,380.00

  • FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
    CHRIS JONES
    Whilst many undergraduate finance textbooks are largely descriptive in nature, the economic analysis in most graduate texts is too advanced for latter year undergraduates. This book bridges the gap between these two extremes, offering a textbook that studies economic activity in financial markets, focusing on how consumers determine future consumpt ...

    $1,760.00

  • WATERSHED HEALTH MONITORING
    CHRIS JONES / R. MARK PALMER / SUSAN MOTKALUK / MICHAEL WALTERS
    Watershed Health Monitoring: Emerging Technologies is a concise reference that defines the concept of watershed health and explains that monitoring the health of watersheds is a critical precursor to adaptive resource management on a watershed basis. The focus of the text is a clear description of an innovative "Closed Loop" model that specifies fo ...

    $1,900.00

  • SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
    NIALL RICHARD MURPHY / BETSY BEYER / CHRIS JONES / JENNIFER PETOFF
    The overwhelming majority of a software systemâ??s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems? In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Googleâ??s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitmen...

    $521.00

  • HEMATOLOGÍA. DIAGNÓSTICO Y TRATAMIENTO
    CHRIS S. R. HATTON , NEVIN C. HUGHES-JONES , DEBORAH HAY
    Hematología. Diagnóstico y tratamiento es un recurso de estudio excelente y de formato conciso, accesible y que delimita los fundamentos fisiopatológicos de las principales enfermedades de la sangre. Su contenido ha sido cuidado y actualizado para reflejar los avances contemporáneos en disciplinas relacionadas a esta especialidad médica como la biología molecular. Entre sus pri...

    $120.00

  • MENDED FAITH
    CORNELIA JUDE / CHRIS JONES
    Mended Faith shares Cornelia Jude's struggle to understand why she was the target of repetitive sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, and how unhealthy coping mechanisms—drug and alcohol abuse, reclusive behavior, and self-mutilation—didn't heal her, but added more brokenness to her already shattered life. Her story mirrors the accounts of many women today living in the shadow...

    $119.00

  • BEHIND THE BOOK
    CHRIS MACKENZIE JONES
    Every book has a story of its own, a path leading from the initial idea that sparked it to its emergence into the world in published form. No two books follow quite the same path, but all are shaped by a similar array of market forces and writing craft concerns as well as by a cast of characters stretching beyond the author. Behind the Book explores how eleven contemporary firs...

    $411.69

  • BIGGER, BRIGHTER, LOUDER
    CHRIS JONES
    The first known Chicago Tribune theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements—one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load of lumber ever to leave Chicago. “And thus Chicago’s priorities were starkly laid out right there on that page,” begins Chris Jones in...

    $519.13