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  • SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS AND RETIREMENT AROUND THE WORLD
    AXEL BÖRSCH-SUPAN AND COURTNEY C. COILE
    A global analysis of the effects of social security reforms on the retirement incentives and labor force trends of older workers. Employment among older men and women has increased dramatically in recent years, reversing a downward trend in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World examines how changing retirement inc...

    $2,446.74

  • TURNING IT AROUND
    TODD WHITAKER / COURTNEY MONTERECY
    What needs to be improved at your school? In this essential new book, Todd Whitaker and Courtney Monterecy provide a clear roadmap to making the changes that will bring lasting benefits to your students and staff, whether those changes are small tweaks or larger overhauls. You’ll learn step-by-step ways to diagnose the issues and listen to your staff about what needs to change,...

    $700.00

  • JAMES VI, BRITANNIC PRINCE
    ALEXANDER COURTNEY
    By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI & I’s life from his birth in 1566 to his accession to the throne of England and Ireland in 1603. The only son of Mary Stuart and heir (apparent but not uncontested) to Elizabeth I, James VI of Scotland was, f...

    $1,120.00

  • ACTING GODS, PLAYING HEROES, AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND GREEK DRAMA IN THE EARLY COMMON ERA
    COURTNEY J. P. FRIESEN
    Winner of the 2025 Canadian Society of Biblical Studies’ Beare Award. While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the ideals of Jews and Christians had already been shaped by it in profound and lasting ways. Readers...

    $1,200.00

  • ECO-PERFORMANCE, ART, AND SPATIAL JUSTICE IN THE US
    COURTNEY B. RYAN
    In Eco-Performance, Art, and Spatial Justice in the US, Courtney B. Ryan traces how urban artists in the US from the 1970s until today contend with environmental domestication and spatial injustice through performance. In theater, art, film, and digital media, the artists featured in this book perform everyday, spatialized micro-acts to contest the mutual containment of urbanit...

    $1,060.00

  • INCLUSIVE INNOVATION
    ROBYN KLINGLER-VIDRA / ALEX GLENNIE / COURTNEY SAVIE LAWRENCE
    Innovation offers potential: to cure diseases, to better connect people, and to make the way we live and work more efficient and enjoyable. At the same time, innovation can fuel inequality, decimate livelihoods, and harm mental health. This book contends that inclusive innovation – innovation motivated by environmental and social aims – is able to uplift the benefits of innovat...

    $1,099.00

  • AMERICA IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1890–1917
    LEWIS L. GOULD / COURTNEY Q. SHAH
    Now in its second edition, America in the Progressive Era, 1890–1917 provides a readable, analytical narrative of the emergence, influence, and decline of the spirit of progressive reform that animated American politics and culture around the turn of the twentieth century. Covering the turbulent 1890s to the American entry into World War I, the text examines the political, soci...

    $1,100.00

  • THE INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM
    PAR ENGSTROM / COURTNEY HILLEBRECHT
    At the time of the adoption of the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man in 1948, there was little indication that the Declaration would ultimately yield a highly institutionalized system comprised of a quasi-judicial Inter-American Commission and an authoritative Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Today, however, the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS)...

    $1,200.00

  • DIRECTING THE DOCUMENTARY
    MICHAEL RABIGER / COURTNEY HERMANN
    Directing the Documentary is the definitive book on the documentary form, that will allow you to master the craft of documentary filmmaking. Focusing on the hands-on work needed to make your concept a reality, it covers the documentary filmmaking process from top to bottom, providing in-depth lessons on every aspect of preproduction, production, and postproduction. The book inc...

    $1,800.00

  • INFANT PLAY THERAPY
    JANET A. COURTNEY
    Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and children under the age of three. The impressive list of expert contributors in the fields of play therapy and infant mental health cover a wide range of early intervention play-based m...

    $800.00

  • THE WHISKEY ROW FIRE OF 1900
    BRADLEY G. COURTNEY
    A fire of frightening magnitude was not a question of "if" but "when" in young Prescott, and on July 14, 1900, the feared conflagration found its spark. After several years of drought, a candle slipping from its holder was all it took to utterly destroy Prescott's business district, red-light district and famous Whiskey Row. People grabbed what they could to rescue it from the ...

    $229.00

  • SPECTRUMS OF SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSDRESSING
    COURTNEY BAILEY PARKER
    Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines these varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order t...

    $1,240.00

  • THE CHARISMA OF DISTANT PLACES
    COURTNEY LUCKHARDT
    This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of Distant Places, Courtney Luckhardt enriches our understanding of migration through her examination of religious movement. Vertical links to God and horizontal links to distant regions ...

    $1,240.00

  • DOING RESEARCH IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
    DIANA MACCALLUM / COURTNEY BABB / CAREY CURTIS
    Doing Research in Urban and Regional Planning provides a basic introduction to methodology and methods in planning research. It brings together the methods most commonly used in planning, explaining their key applications and basic protocols. It addresses the unique needs of planners by dealing with concerns which cut across the social, economic, and physical sciences, showing ...

    $1,100.00

  • WHY ADULTS LEARN
    SEAN COURTNEY
    Originally published in 1992 this book looks at the phenomenon of adult education by exploring the nature of the motivation that moves people to return to school or to seek involvement inorganized learning activities. The book challenges the psychological emphasis of much research on adult learning. It concentrates on the concept of social participation and its implications for...

    $960.00

  • JUST LET GO
    COURTNEY WALSH
    For Quinn Collins, buying the flower shop in downtown Harbor Pointe fulfills a childhood dream, but also gives her the chance to stick it to her mom, who owned the store before skipping town twenty years ago and never looking back. Completing much-needed renovations, however, while also competing for a prestigious flower competition with her mother as the head judge, soon has Q...

    $404.00

  • COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE, CLASSROOM INTERACTION, AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
    COURTNEY B. CAZDEN
    In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or practical contributions—so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers thus are able to follow the themes and stran...

    $1,160.00

  • EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
    STEVEN J. COURTNEY
    Educational Leadership brings together innovative perspectives on the crucial role of theory and theorising in educational leadership at a time when the multiple pressures of marketisation, competition and system fragmentation dominate the educational landscape. This original and highly thought-provoking edited collection is a much-needed counterbalance to the anti-theoretical ...

    $1,120.00

  • MY LITTLE CITIES
    COURTNEY ANGELA BRKIC
    In this delightful series written by BabyLit author Jennifer Adams and illustrated by kidlit darling Greg Pizzoli, each book showcases a different city with sweet baby-appropriate text, ridiculously charming illustrations, and a light introduction to rhyme and opposites. High-chair travelers can explore the City by the Bay: cruise along the majestic Golden Gate Bridge, play wit...

    $119.00

  • FROM CHILD ABUSE TO FOSTER CARE
    RICHARD P. BARTH / MARK E. COURTNEY / JILL DUERR BERRICK / VICKY N. ALBERT
    More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by additional professionals. A substantial number of children in these families will subsequently enter foster care. Until now, the re...

    $1,320.00

  • JUST LOOK UP
    COURTNEY WALSH
    After tirelessly climbing the ranks of her Chicago-based interior design firm, Lane Kelley is about to land her dream promotion when devastating news about her brother draws her back home—a quaint tourist town full of memories she’d just as soon forget. With her cell phone and laptop always within reach, Lane aims to check on her brother while staying focused on work—something ...

    $404.00

  • TOUCH IN CHILD COUNSELING AND PLAY THERAPY
    JANET A. COURTNEY
    Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy explores the professional and legal boundaries around physical contact in therapy and offers best-practice guidelines from a variety of perspectives. Chapters address issues around appropriate and sensitive therapist-initiated touch, therapeutic approaches that use touch as an intervention in child treatment, and both positive and chal...

    $1,160.00

  • PESTICIDES AND GLOBAL HEALTH
    COURTNEY MARIE DOWDALL / RYAN J KLOTZ
    This concise, accessible introduction to understanding agricultural chemicals and public health combines a broad synthesis on a global scale with rich ethnographic narratives on a human scale. Drawing on epidemiology, policy analysis, and social science research on the global commodity chain, the authors describe the system of global agrochemical dependence that constitutes a m...

    $1,120.00

  • TRAINING MANUAL FOR BEHAVIOR TECHNICIANS WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM
    JONATHAN TARBOX / COURTNEY TARBOX
    Training Manual for Behavior Technicians Working with Individuals with Autism is a practical manual and ongoing professional resource for frontline staff undergoing training to become Registered Behavior Technicians™ (RBT). RBT™ is the recommended certification of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board™ (BACB) for entry-level staff who implement behavior analytic services. Th...

    $531.00

  • PRACTICE-BASED CLINICAL INQUIRY IN NURSING FOR DNP AND PHD RESEARCH
    JOAN R. BLOCH, MAUREEN R. COURTNEY AND MYRA L. CLARK
    Meticulously compiled to serve the specific needs of APRNs and nurse executives engaged in doctoral-level research, this text provides evidence-based and practice-based scholarly methods not traditionally taught in PhD or DNP programs. Building on and expanding traditional nursing research methods, the book focuses on both existing and evolving methods of clinical inquiry, some...

    $1,685.00

  • POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE MAKING OF MODERN NATION-STATES
    EDWARD WEISBAND / COURTNEY I P THOMAS
    This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. Con...

    $1,600.00

  • THE ARCHITECTURE OF PRIVACY
    COURTNEY BOWMAN / ARI GESHER / JOHN K GRANT / DANIEL SLATE / ELISSA LERNER
    Technology’s influence on privacy not only concerns consumers, political leaders, and advocacy groups, but also the software architects who design new products. In this practical guide, experts in data analytics, software engineering, security, and privacy policy describe how software teams can make privacy-protective features a core part of product functionality, rather than a...

    $321.00

  • STUDY SKILLS FOR CHINESE STUDENTS
    MIKE COURTNEY / XIANGPING DU
    This is a really useful and comprehensive guide for Chinese students about the essential academic skills needed for successful study in higher education in the UK. It covers all skill areas as well as general information for Chinese students new to the UK academic environment.′ - Julie Watson, Principal Teaching Fellow in e-Learning and Head of eLanguages, University of Southam...

    $913.98

  • STUDY SKILLS FOR CHINESE STUDENTS
    MIKE COURTNEY / XIANGPING DU
    This is a really useful and comprehensive guide for Chinese students about the essential academic skills needed for successful study in higher education in the UK. It covers all skill areas as well as general information for Chinese students new to the UK academic environment.′ - Julie Watson, Principal Teaching Fellow in e-Learning and Head of eLanguages, University of Southam...

    $913.98

  • HAUNTED MYSTIC
    COURTNEY MCINVALE
    Journey to the Connecticut seaside and discover the ghosts that haunt this historical town . . . photos included!   Restless souls still linger along the docks and streets of Mystic, Connecticut. The old sea village has a dark and turbulent past, and there are supernatural sightings on both the Stonington and Groton sides of the Mystic River Bascule Bridge.   The Mystic Massacr...

    $229.00


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