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  • QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS FOR BUSINESS STUDENTS
    KINGSLEY O. OMEIHE / CHRISTIAN HARRISON
    Qualitative Research Methods for Business Students: A Global Approach provides a practical and accessible overview of qualitative research methods and their philosophical underpinnings. The textbook will empower you with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the dynamic landscape of qualitative research.   Key features include: Case Studies which showcase how qualitative ...

    $806.66

  • LEGITIMIZING AUTHORITY
    BORIS VORMANN / CHRISTIAN LAMMERT
    Legitimizing Authority places the American state apparatus back in the foreground to rethink the development of the country’s government in the context of its unfulfilled promise of equality. The book argues that the tensions between calls for equality and the simultaneous tolerance of inequality have accompanied the rise of modern mass society and, with it, of liberal democrac...

    $1,099.00

  • REINTRODUCING MARCEL MAUSS
    CHRISTIAN PAPILLOUD
    This reintroduction to the life and work of Marcel Mauss highlights his coherent and original thought both as an academic and an engaged intellectual of his time. Since his work regained attention in social sciences in the later 20th century, Reintroducing Marcel Mauss also emphasises the progression of research on Mauss’s thought, bringing to light various neglected aspects of...

    $999.00

  • COUNTERING TERRORIST AND CRIMINAL FINANCING
    SCOTT N ROMANIUK, CHRISTIAN KAUNERT, AND AMPARO PAMELA H FABE
    Countering Terrorist and Criminal Financing provides an up-to-date overview and critical analysis of terrorism financing, focusing on tactics and practical measures directed at preventing money laundering and countering the flow of terrorism funding. In doing so, the book details some of the major doctrines, outlining policies of states and key regional and global partnerships ...

    $1,799.00

  • GEOECONOMICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    CHRISTIAN PFEIFFER
    This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the concept of geoeconomics in International Relations (IR). It offers an accessible overview of the most important approaches, including their history, means and ends, methodology, ideological underpinnings, normative aspects, and practical relevance. Exploring the forgotten history of geoeconomics, and revealing it...

    $1,099.00

  • HOW MEDIEVAL EUROPE WAS RULED
    CHRISTIAN RAFFENSPERGER
    The vast majority of studies on rulership in medieval Europe focus on one kingdom; one type of rule; or one type of ruler. This volume attempts to break that mold and demonstrate the breadth of medieval Europe and the various kinds of rulership within it. How Medieval Europe was Ruled aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of types of rulers and polities that existed in medieval ...

    $999.00

  • SYNOPTIC COMPOSITION
    ADAM J. CHRISTIAN
    The fascination with literary dependency in the most popular approaches to the synoptic problem has been built upon a faulty presupposition: that oral tradition is incapable of producing the word for word verbal agreement found in the synoptic accounts. Recent research in the area of oral tradition has shown that this is not the case, but we still rely on increasingly complicat...

    $515.00

  • CHURCH AND THEOLOGY IN THE MODERN ERA
    FERDINAND CHRISTIAN BAUR
    Church and Theology in the Modern Era covers the period from the Reformation to the end of the eighteenth century and is based on lectures delivered by Baur in the 1840s and 1850s. It was published after his death as the fourth volume of his church history. The first and last volumes (Christianity and the Christian Church of the First Three Centuries and Church and Theology in ...

    $1,401.00

  • RULERS AND RULERSHIP IN THE ARC OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE, 1000-1200
    CHRISTIAN RAFFENSPERGER
    Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe challenges the dominant paradigm of what rulership is and who rulers are by decentering the narrative and providing a broad swath of examples from throughout medieval Europe. Within that territory, the prevalent idea of monarchy and kingship is overturned in favor of a broad definition of rulership. This book will demonstrate t...

    $999.00

  • RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO PANDEMICS AND CRISES
    SRAVANA BORKATAKY-VARMA, CHRISTIAN A. EBERHART, AND MARIANNE BJELLAND KARTZOW
    Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion. With their global scope, the contributions to this volume represent reflections on the rich and multifaceted spectrum of human responses in a variety of different religions and cultures to the current SARS-2-COVID-19 pandemic and similar...

    $1,099.00

  • SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
    CHRISTIAN M.I.M. MATTHIESSEN / KAZUHIRO TERUYA
    This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Assuming no prior knowledge, this guide is divided into nine chapters which can be read independently of one another and used for purposes of reference. The reading section maps out and mediates the key SFL literature. The application guides show h...

    $1,339.00

  • DAS MÄRCHEN MEINES LEBENS. BAND I
    HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
    Auszug: "Mein Leben ist ein schönes Märchen, so reich, so überaus glücklich! Wäre mir, als ich, ein Knabe noch, arm und allein in die Welt hinausging, eine mächtige Fee begegnet und hätte sie mir gesagt: »wähle Deine Bahn und Dein Ziel, und je nach Deiner geistigen Entwickelung und wie es vernünftigerweise in dieser Welt zugehen muß, will ich Dich schützen und führen!« – mein G...

    $39.70

  • DAS MÄRCHEN MEINES LEBENS. BAND II
    HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
    Auszug: "Neun Jahre sind seit dem Schluß des ersten Bandes der Erzählung meiner Lebensereignisse vergangen, neun inhaltsreiche Jahre in der Zeitgeschichte, ernste und große Tage für Dänemark, traurig und auch froh für mich, denn sie brachten mir volle Anerkennung in meinem Vaterlande. Diese neun Jahre haben mich zwar älter gemacht, aber mich dennoch jung bewahrt; sie haben mir ...

    $39.70

  • FIELD GUIDE TO CLANDESTINE LABORATORY IDENTIFICATION AND INVESTIGATION
    DONNELL R. CHRISTIAN, JR.
    Clandestine labs that manufacture drugs or explosives may be encountered virtually anywhere. They can range from complex operations employing scientific equipment and exotic chemicals or simply kitchen utensils and chemicals purchased at a local grocery or hardware store. Regardless of their form, the key to detecting clandestine labs is the ability to recognize the combination...

    $1,179.00

  • RIVER BASINS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    CHRISTIAN PLOBERGER
    This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries. The volume applies the concept of regional cooperation to international river basins to highlight their relevance as a particular space in international relations, emphasizing both the in...

    $1,099.00

  • ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS: ON THE SIZES AND DISTANCES OF THE SUN AND MOON
    CHRISTIÁN C. CARMAN / RODOLFO P. BUZÓN
    This book offers the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samos’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, accompanied by a full introduction, detailed commentary, and relevant scholia. Aristarchus of Samos was active in the third century BC. He was one of the first Greek astronomers to apply geometry to the solution of astronomical problems as we can ...

    $1,099.00

  • KIERKEGAARD AND BIOETHICS
    JOHANN-CHRISTIAN PÕDER
    This book explores Kierkegaard’s significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard’s existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates. A bioethics inspired by Kierkegaard is not focused primarily on ethical codes, principles, or cases, but on the existential 'how' of our medical situation. Such a perspective focuses on the formative ethical experien...

    $1,099.00

  • WELLBEING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    MARCUS A. HENNING / CHRISTIAN U. KRÄGELOH / FIONA MOIR / YAN CHEN / CRAIG S. WEBSTER
    Drawing on holistic research and professional practice, this book provides rich empirical, scientific, and clinical lenses to the discourse on wellbeing in higher education. The authors have appraised the underlying, conceptual, empirical, and applied nature of existing mind-body programmes often utilized to cultivate wellbeing (e.g., seated meditation, yoga, Taijiquan, Pilates...

    $1,099.00

  • SCIENCE MEETS PHILOSOPHY
    HANS CHRISTIAN GARMANN JOHNSEN
    The book is an attempt to bring together what are often seen as incommensurable scientific and philosophical positions. Its core argument is that a main reason for the divisions about what constitutes scientific knowledge relates to disagreements on philosophical issues. The book explores what these disagreements are about, and discusses whether they can be overcome. Taking a h...

    $1,099.00

  • TABOOS AND CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
    CHRISTIAN LUDWIG
    This edited volume provides innovative insights into how critical language pedagogy and taboo topics can inform and transform the teaching and learning of foreign languages. The book investigates the potential as well as the challenges involved in dealing with taboo topics in the foreign language classroom. Traditionally subsumed under the acronym PARSNIP (politics, alcohol, re...

    $1,099.00

  • A NEW PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS
    CARSTEN HERRMANN-PILLATH / CHRISTIAN HEDERER
    Despite the dynamic development of the discipline of economics, the ways in which economics is taught and how it defines its basic principles have hardly changed, resulting in economics being criticised for its inability to provide relevant insights on global challenges. In response, this book defines new principles of economics and seeks to establish economics as the science o...

    $1,379.00

  • PATTERNS IN BORDER SECURITY
    LEUPRECHT, CHRISTIAN
    How do security communities transform into security regimes? This book compares the construction of cross-border security regimes across five regions of the world to illustrate how trust emerges from the day-to-day relations of coordination, cooperation, or collaboration. Patterns in Border Security: Regional Comparisons studies the way borderland communities develop, implement...

    $1,339.00

  • REVITALISING CRITICAL REFLECTION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH, PRACTICE AND EDUCATION
    CHRISTIAN FRANKLIN SVENSSON
    Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions. Critically reflecting on the subject, this book heightens critical consciousness among social work researchers, educators, practitioners and students about the structural dimensions of social problems and human suffering; it highlight...

    $1,099.00

  • A PRISONER OF STALIN
    CHRISTIAN HUBER / GERHARD EHLERT
    Leutnant Gerhard Ehlert was one of the few survivors of 2. Nachtaufklärungsstaffel, part of the Luftwaffe’s 6th Air Fleet, which operated on Eastern Front during the Second World War. Although he came from a family that spoke out against Hitler and the Nazi regime, he volunteered to join the Luftwaffe. He went on to undertake combat patrols under the most extreme circumstances....

    $229.00

  • EGYPTIAN FOREIGN RELATIONS UNDER AL-SISI
    CHRISTIAN ACHRAINER
    Considering both changes and continuities, this book examines how, why, and along which lines Egypt’s external alignments under the al-Sisi regime emerged and developed. Egypt’s foreign relations have changed substantially since the current regime took power in 2013. To assess this, the author develops and applies a unique analytical approach: the model of ‘two-staged alignment...

    $1,099.00

  • POSITIVE HEALTH
    JOLANTA BURKE / PÁDRAIC J. DUNNE / TRUDY MEEHAN / CIARAN A. O’BOYLE / CHRISTIAN VAN NIEUWERBURGH
    This comprehensive compendium offers a wealth of research-informed tools that can boost both physical and mental wellbeing throughout the lifespan. Filled with more than 100 activities to help you live life better, this book is the first of its kind to integrate the latest research from the fields of positive psychology and lifestyle medicine. Striking a careful balance between...

    $999.00

  • FLOURISHING IN MUSIC EDUCATION
    H. CHRISTIAN BERNHARD II
    Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology presents research, theory, and best practices about potential pitfalls, as well as strategies for how successful music teachers can negotiate issues in the wake of the COVID-19 climate, both on a daily and long-term basis. Masked and physically distanced classes have been particularly challenging for studio practi...

    $539.00

  • COLLECTIVE SECURITIZATION AND CRISIFICATION OF EU POLICY CHANGE
    CHRISTIAN KAUNERT AND SARAH LÉONARD
    This book represents the first attempt to evaluate the first two decades of the EU counterterrorism policy. It aims to assess the collective securitization process in EU counterterrorism, evaluating this as a process between a construction of security threats and the development of supranational governance through crisification. Compared to the lack of shared perception of the ...

    $1,339.00

  • SOLUTION TECHNIQUES FOR ELEMENTARY PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
    CHRISTIAN CONSTANDA
    "In my opinion, this is quite simply the best book of its kind that I have seen thus far." —Professor Peter Schiavone, University of Alberta, from the Foreword to the Fourth Edition Praise for the previous editions An ideal tool for students taking a first course in PDEs, as well as for the lecturers who teach such courses." —Marian Aron, Plymouth University, UK "This is one of...

    $1,559.00

  • NETWORK PROGRAMMABILITY AND AUTOMATION
    MATT OSWALT / CHRISTIAN ADELL / SCOTT S. LOWE / JASON EDELMAN
    Network engineers are finding it harder than ever to rely solely on manual processes to get their jobs done. New protocols, technologies, delivery models, and the need for businesses to become more agile and flexible have made network automation essential. The updated second edition of this practical guide shows network engineers how to use a range of technologies and tools, in...

    $681.00