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  • RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
    SAM SHIELDS / ALINA SCHARTNER / WILL CURTIS / MARK MURPHY
    This core text, now in its second edition, provides an easy-to-read, comprehensive introduction to educational research that will develop your understanding of research strategies, theories and methods, giving you the confidence and enthusiasm to discuss and write about your research effectively. Specifically written for undergraduate education studies students, the book guides...

    $820.00

  • HEALTH EFFECTS OF MUNICIPAL WASTE INCINERATION
    CURTIS C. TRAVIS / HOLLY A. HATTEMER-FREY
    This much-needed book provides an enlightening perspective on the environmental and human health impacts of municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration. Over 100 tables and figures allows speedy access to important data you will refer to again and again. The comprehensive text assesses the human health risks associated with exposure to facility emitted pollutants-especially the hi...

    $12,900.00

  • MESS AND CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE
    HARRIET CURTIS
    This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains. Using a queer feminist and intersectional critical framework, this book analyses how established and emerging artists mess with and mess ...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ATOMIC AGE
    M. L. OLIPHANT / P. M. S. BLACKETT / R. F. HARROD / BERTRAND RUSSELL / LIONEL CURTIS / D. W. BROGAN
    Originally published in 1949, this volume The Atomic Age contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust in 1948. Following the first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945 the Western world was very concerned about the impact of nuclear war. This book reflects on the consequences at that time from a number of different angles. This book is a re...

    $840.00

  • AGAINST AUTONOMY
    NEAL CURTIS
    This title was first published in 2001: Against Autonomy reassesses Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to philosophy and theory, and explores how his work challenges the privileged position of the principle of autonomy in contemporary liberal democratic thinking, as seen in such diverse thinkers as Rawls, Rorty and Fukuyama. Curtis argues that the political models autonomy le...

    $2,100.00

  • CONTEXTUALIZING IMPERIAL DISRUPTION AND UPHEAVALS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED RESEARCH CHALLENGES
    JANE E. FRANCIS & MICHAEL J. CURTIS
    The first in a major new series exploring the archaeology and early historic records of Crete from the Roman to the Byzantine periods. This volume follows on from papers presented at the 13th International Cretan Congress in 2022 and covers the period from the 1st century BC to 4th–5th centuries AD, with the articles in the volume set around the topic of upheavals and disruptio...

    $613.99

  • THE PTA HANDBOOK
    KATHLEEN A. CURTIS / PEGGY DECELLE NEWMAN
    The updated Second Edition of The PTA Handbook is a unique textbook that serves students from pre-admission into a physical therapist assistant program, through the academic program, up to career entry and practice as a physical therapist assistant. Dr. Kathleen A. Curtis and Peggy DeCelle Newman have updated this Second Edition to reflect current practice standards, including ...

    $1,760.00

  • COMPOSING FOR SILENT FILM
    JACK CURTIS DUBOWSKY
    Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today’s composers better understand and correctly interpret period silent f...

    $640.00

  • HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
    CURTIS P. MCLAUGHLIN / CRAIG D. MCLAUGHLIN
    Drawing from the perspectives of a variety of disciplines, this innovative text is unlike any others of its kind. Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Fourth Edition analyzes current U.S. health policy and proposes various alternatives for developing future health policy without pushing a single solution set—rather, it considers the viewpoints of health econom...

    $394.15

  • ATENCIÓN PRIMARIA DE BOLSILLO
    CURTIS R. CHONG
    Atención primaria de bolsillo pone al alcance de la mano y en cuestión de segundos las respuestas a las preguntas diagnósticas más comunes en el ámbito ambulatorio. Además, proporciona las mejores prácticas actuales basadas en la evidencia, así como orientación real sobre las principales subespecialidades, incluidos los exámenes apropiados y cuándo derivar. ...

    $1,000.00

  • MACHINE LEARNING FOR HIGH-RISK APPLICATIONS
    PATRICK HALL / JAMES CURTIS / PARUL PANDEY
    The past decade has witnessed the broad adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies. However, a lack of oversight in their widespread implementation has resulted in some incidents and harmful outcomes that could have been avoided with proper risk management. Before we can realize AI/ML's true benefit, practitioners must understand how to mitiga...

    $681.00

  • CHANGE
    CURTIS BATEMAN / MARCHÉ PLESHETTE / ANDY CINDRICH / CHRISTI PHILIPS
    Be the Captain of Your Change Journey "...a must-read for those seeking to thrive in an increasingly dynamic world and for leaders who have teams that are experiencing change." — Amazon review 2023 OWL Awards Longlist in Business Management #1 New Release in Business Mentoring & Coaching, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, and Business Management While every change is unique, t...

    $249.00

  • THE MIDDLE EAST
    MICHAEL CURTIS
    The Middle East provides a thematic analysis of major forces and trends in contemporary Middle East and a thorough examination of individual countries in the region. This comprehensive anthology, the first in more than two decades, explores the political environment, religious and ethnic factors, economic factors, the Arab world, the Palestinians and the territories, Israel, th...

    $2,800.00

  • THE BEAR FAMILY AT HOME, AND HOW THE CIRCUS CAME TO VISIT
    CURTIS D. WILBUR
    Excerpt: "Once a little cub bear was caught in a big log trap, and taken on a train to a circus. He lived in the circus a long, long while, and every day a great many people came to see the bear, and the lions, and the tigers, and the leopards, and the elephants, and the camels, and the other animals. Every night the animals would all be put in the wagons made for them, then th...

    $39.70

  • FROM THE ATACAMA TO THE ANDES
    ALAN CURTIS
    With the break up of the Spanish empire in South America, the continent split into nine independent states with often ill-defined boundaries. One of these was that between Bolivia and Chile, which were separated by the Atacama Desert, tone of the driest regions in the world. When it was realized that the area contained nitrates that the world needed for explosives and fertilize...

    $344.99

  • TEMPTRESS OF PLANET DELIGHT
    BETSY CURTIS
    Exerpt: "When the alarm signalled the first whiff of the atmosphere of the next planet on his route, Herl Hofner stopped chinning by his strapping six-foot self and left the little gym. Slipping into the swivel chair at the desk he clipped the pile of loose papers into an empty niche at the side of the desk, spun the chair around to the instrument panel of the Krylla. Dialing w...

    $39.70

  • THE OLD ONES
    BETSY CURTIS
    Exerpt: "They had outlived their usefulness on Earth and society waited patiently for them to die. Thus it was only natural for them to seek a new world...." ...

    $39.70

  • REBUTTAL AND TWO MORE STORIES
    BETSY CURTIS
    Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Rebuttal", "The Trap", and "The Protector", all by Betsy Curtis. ...

    $39.70

  • HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING ADVOCACY
    CURTIS SMITH
    Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors reveals the creative and ambitious methods that social service providers use to house their clients despite the conflictual conditions posed by the policies and institutions that govern the housing process. Combining in-depth interviews, extensive fieldwork, and the author’s own pro...

    $1,120.00

  • TRANSFORMATIVE TEACHING AROUND THE WORLD
    CURTIS J. BONK
    Transformative Teaching Around the World compiles inspiring stories from Fulbright-awarded teachers whose instructional practices have impacted schools and communities globally. Whether thriving or struggling in their classrooms, instructing in person or online, or pushing for changes at high or low costs and risk levels, teachers devote intense energy and careful decision-maki...

    $960.00

  • LEAVING GETTYSBURG
    CURTIS CROCKETT
    In this novel of the American Civil War, a disgraced Union colonel races to stop Confederates fleeing Gettysburg. Pickett's charge has just ended, the battle of Gettysburg is over. The Confederate army is defeated and must retreat to the Potomac River forty miles away with thousands of wagons full of wounded soldiers, provisions and tens of thousands of animals. Asa Helms, a pr...

    $251.00

  • MISTAKING AFRICA
    CURTIS KEIM / CAROLYN SOMERVILLE
    For many in the west, the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, ferocious animals, sparsely dressed "tribesmen," and impenetrable jungles. Newspaper headlines rarely touch on Africa, but when they do, they often mention authoritarian rule, corruption, genocide, devastating illnesses, or civil war. Advertising, movies, amusement parks, cartoons, and many o...

    $1,100.00

  • HEALTH RISKS OF ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
    CURTIS TRAVIS
    This text examines occupational, public health, and environmental risks of the coal fuel cycle, the nuclear fuel cycle, and unconventional energy technologies. Includes detailed coverage of the relationship between energy economics and risk analysis, assessing the problems of applying traditional cost-benefit analysis to long-term environmental problems (such as global carbon d...

    $1,200.00

  • ANTISEMITISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    MICHAEL CURTIS
    Original essays by various scholars on the questions of whether there are new forms of antisemitism, whether there has been a resurgence of antisemitism in the current age, and whether critical attitudes towards Zionism or opposition to the State of Israel and its policies have given new impetus to antisemitism. The contributors also examine the complex relationship between th...

    $1,200.00

  • BRONZE-WORKING CENTRES OF WESTERN ASIA
    CURTIS
    First published in 1988, the present volume contains the texts of papers read at a three-day Colloquium on bronzeworking centres in Western Asia from 1000 BC until the beginning of the Achaemenian period in 539 BC, which was held in the British Museum in July 1986. Each paper has been revised in the light of the discussion which followed it. The Colloquium was organized by Dr J...

    $1,240.00

  • UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POVERTY
    SERENA COSGROVE / BENJAMIN CURTIS
    Understanding Global Poverty introduces students to the study and analysis of poverty, helping them to understand why it is pervasive across human societies, and how it can be reduced through proven policy solutions. The book uses the capabilities and human development approach to foreground the human aspects of poverty, keeping the voices, experiences, and needs of the world’s...

    $1,060.00

  • EASY LISTENING AND FILM SCORING 1948-78
    JACK CURTIS DUBOWSKY
    Composers, arrangers, conductors, session musicians, and executives worked in easy listening and scoring, complicating an academic focus that lionizes film music while ignoring or deriding easy listening. This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature. Fueled by the rise of the LP and home entertainment,...

    $1,160.00

  • MODERN DATA PROTECTION
    W. CURTIS PRESTON
    Give your organization the data protection it deserves without the uncertainty and cost overruns experienced by your predecessors or other companies. System and network administrators have their work cut out for them to protect physical and virtual machines in the data center and the cloud; mobile devices including laptops and tablets; SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Google W...

    $681.00

  • BELONGING THROUGH A PSYCHOANALYTIC LENS
    REBECCA COLEMAN CURTIS
    Watching people protest, one hypothesis is that underlying these actions for specific justifiable causes is a sense of wishing to belong, of wishing not to be alone. Recent knowledge from patients and empirical research shows the importance of belonging to groups to both psychological and physical well-being. The problems of many students, minority group members, immigrants, te...

    $800.00

  • LONDON'S ARTS LABS AND THE 60S AVANT-GARDE
    DAVID CURTIS
    This is the story of two short-lived artist-run spaces that are associated with some of the most innovative developments in the arts in Britain in the late 1960s. The Drury Lane Arts Lab (1967–69) was home to the first UK screenings of Andy Warhol's twin-screen 3 hour film Chelsea Girls, challenging exhibitions (John and Yoko / John Latham / Takis / Roelof Louw), poetry and mus...

    $251.00


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