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  • HEAD HUNTERS IN THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY
    DAN POOLE
    Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency investigates the infamous political scandal sparked after horrific photographs of war crimes during the Malayan Emergency were leaked to the British press. These photographs depicted British forces and their allies in Malaya scalping corpses and posing with decapitated human heads. The subsequent scandal, involving British generals, police,...

    $191.78

  • NEVER SUCH A CAMPAIGN
    DAN WELCH / KEVIN R. PAWLAK
    Historians Robert Orrison and Dan Welch follow Lee and Pope as they converge on ground once-bloodied just thirteen months earlier. In late June 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia drove back Maj. Gen. George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac from the gates of the Confederate capital. Richmond was safe—at least for the moment. Another threat soon emerged when the ...

    $127.99

  • IDENTITY AND BELONGING AMONG CHINESE CANADIAN YOUTH
    DAN CUI
    Identity and Belonging among Chinese Canadian Youth unveils how Chinese immigrant youth struggle as racialized minorities at school, in their family, and through their formative interactions with Canadian mainstream media. Utilizing rich interview data, the author explores how the contemporary forms of racism, multiculturalism, immigration, and transnationalism affect the ident...

    $1,099.00

  • DELTA LAKE: UP AND RUNNING
    BENNIE HAELEN / DAN DAVIS
    With the surge in big data and AI, organizations can rapidly create data products. However, the effectiveness of their analytics and machine learning models depends on the data's quality. Delta Lake's open source format offers a robust lakehouse framework over platforms like Amazon S3, ADLS, and GCS. This practical book shows data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts h...

    $681.00

  • EXPERIMENTING WITH EMERGING MEDIA PLATFORMS
    DAN PACHECO
    Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms teaches students in media tracks – journalism, advertising, film, and public relations – how to independently field test and evaluate emerging technologies that could impact how media is produced, consumed, and monetized in the future. Taking a unique trial-and-error approach, the author encourages students to go against their desire ...

    $919.00

  • SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS BY EXAMPLE
    YASEMIN BESEN-CASSINO / DAN CASSINO
    Social Research Methods by Example sharpens students understanding of the research process and the essential research methods and tools that researchers use to perform their work on the cutting edge of the social sciences. The text is broken up into three major sections; the first provides a foundation for conducting research and forming a research question, executing an ethica...

    $979.00

  • ORGANISED CRIME, FINANCIAL CRIME, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
    DAN JASINSKI, AMBER PHILLIPS, AND ED JOHNSTON
    Organised crime and financial crime are pressing global problems, increasingly recognised as policy priorities both by national governments and international bodies and corporations. This proudly interdisciplinary collection is built on the premise that these topics are too often artificially separated, both in scholarship and the classroom. Bringing together scholars from law,...

    $1,099.00

  • FUNDAMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY MEDIATED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
    KARIM SADEGHI AND DAN DOUGLAS
    Fundamental Considerations in Technology Mediated Language Assessment aims to address issues such as how the forced integration of technology into second language assessment has shaped our understanding of key traditional concepts like validity, reliability, washback, authenticity, ethics, fairness, test security, and more. Although computer-assisted language testing has been a...

    $1,039.00

  • FOUNDATIONS OF PROGRAMMING, STATISTICS, AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS
    RAM GOPAL / DAN PHILPS / TILLMAN WEYDE
    Business Analysts and Data Scientists are in huge demand, as global companies seek to digitally transform themselves and leverage their data resources to realize competitive advantage. This book covers all the fundamentals, from statistics to programming to business applications, to equip you with the solid foundational knowledge needed to progress in business analytics. Assumi...

    $1,010.47

  • UNDERSTANDING MOVEMENT PARTIES THROUGH THEIR COMMUNICATION
    MERCEA, DAN
    In many countries, movement parties have swayed large tracts of the electorate. Contributions to this edited book reflect on the place of movement parties in democratic politics through analyses of their communication. Reviewing evidence from several countries including cases from Europe, Australia and India where movement parties have gained ground in politics, this book illum...

    $1,339.00

  • AGRICULTURAL AND KITCHEN WASTE
    DAN BAHADUR PAL
    Apart from being termed as a pollution source, agriculture and kitchen waste is also a rich source of carbohydrates, minerals, antioxidants and vitamins, and can be utilized to develop value-added products and for energy production, which is the main theme of this book. It also focuses on the minimization of this waste via different routes like conversion into bio-fertilizers, ...

    $1,339.00

  • DUAL NARRATIVE DYNAMICS
    DAN SHEN
    Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics consisting of plot development and covert progression and demonstrates the consequences for the interpretation of literary works. In narratives with such dynamics, writers work simultaneously with overt and covert trajectories of signification, establishing a range of relationships betwe...

    $1,099.00

  • EVENT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
    RUTH DOWSON / BERNADETTE ALBERT / DAN LOMAX
    Learn how to plan, deliver and evaluate successful events with this clear and comprehensive textbook which explores the latest developments in this challenging and fast-paced environment. Written by authors with extensive industry experience of working on a wide spectrum of events, this is an essential step-by-step resource for students and the next generation of event planners...

    $829.00

  • USING AI FOR DIALOGUING WITH TEXTS
    YAIR NEUMAN / MARCEL DANESI / DAN VILENCHIK
    This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences. The book outlines the affordances of new technologies for textual analysis, which has historically employed established approaches within the humanities. Ne...

    $539.00

  • HUME ON TESTIMONY
    DAN O'BRIEN
    This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. Hume is usually taken to be a reductionist with respect to testimony, with trust in others dependent on the evidence possessed by individuals concerning the reliability of texts or speakers. This account is taken from Hume’s essay on miracles in An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. O’Brien, though, looks wi...

    $1,099.00

  • A GENTLE INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
    DAN STANESCU / LONG LEE
    Scientific Computation has established itself as a stand-alone area of knowledge at the borderline between computer science and applied mathematics. Nonetheless, its interdisciplinary character cannot be denied: its methodologies are increasingly used in a wide variety of branches of science and engineering. A Gentle Introduction to Scientific Computing intends to serve a very ...

    $2,300.00

  • CROSS-DEVICE WEB SEARCH
    DAN WU / JING DONG / SHAOBO LIANG
    Cross-device Web Search is the first book to examine cross-device search behavior, which takes place when people utilize multiple devices and several sessions to research the same topic. Providing a comprehensive examination of cross-device search behaviors, the book also models and analyses their most important features and, by doing so, helps to elucidate the motivations behi...

    $899.00

  • THE CROSSLINGUISTIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
    DAN ISAAC SLOBIN
    Extending the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, this volume contains chapters on seven more languages, including a section on ergative languages. Languages in this volume include: Georgian; Greenlandic; K'iche Mayan; Warlpiri; Mandarin; Scandinavian and Sesotho. ...

    $339.00

  • BRIDGE SAFETY, MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT IN A LIFE-CYCLE CONTEXT
    DAN M. FRANGOPOL / SUNYONG KIM
    During the past two decades, it has been generally acknowledged that life-cycle bridge analysis can be a systematic tool to address efficient and effective bridge management under uncertainty life-cycle management at the bridge network level can lead to an improvement in the allocation of limited financial resources, ensuring the safety and functionality of the bridge network l...

    $1,339.00

  • PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN LATIN AMERICA
    DAN BERBECEL
    What explains variance in presidential power between countries? In Presidential Power in Latin America, Dan Berbecel provides a general, systematic theory for explaining presidential power in practice as opposed to presidential power in theory. Using expert survey data from Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) alongside interviews with high-level figures in politics, the judiciary, t...

    $1,099.00

  • LEAN LEADERSHIP BASICS
    MICHAEL MEYERS / CHARLES PROTZMAN / DAN PROTZMAN / DAVIDE BARBON / WILLIAM KEEN / CLIFF OWENS
    This book explains how to sustain lean, or, continuous improvement practices. It introduces the BASICS® lean leadership development path, combining the "human aspect" with published BASICS® lean tools. It lays out the methodology to empower, lead, and drive ongoing improvements in your business. The book includes engaging stories and case studies to demonstrate the effectivenes...

    $1,099.00

  • MULTIMODALITY AND CLASSROOM LANGUAGING DYNAMICS
    DAN SHI
    This practical analytical guide to classroom languaging dynamics in L2 tertiary classrooms integrates multimodality, sociological theory of education and ecosocial semiotic perspectives. It offers a theoretical and methodological framework for conducting multimodal analysis of meaning-making processes in different pedagogical settings. The multimodal investigation of real-time ...

    $1,059.00

  • AN A-Z OF SOCIAL WORK SKILLS
    MICHAELA ROGERS / DAN ALLEN
    Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide. Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this book will introduce you to over 60 key skills in a concise and no-nonsense way. You can test your knowledge and how to apply each skill in pr...

    $496.95

  • SCARS
    DAN SCOTTOW
    The wounds you can’t see take the longest to heal in this modern gothic thriller from the bestselling author of Girl A and Damaged.   In an isolated cottage on the banks of a Scottish loch, a reclusive couple take on a new live-in carer.   As Lucy gets to know her employers, she realizes the house and the people in it aren’t what they seem. Is the house haunted or is something ...

    $119.00

  • THIS IS SOCIOLOGY
    DAN WOODMAN / STEVEN THREADGOLD
    This is Sociology is an engaging, concise introduction to the key concepts used for studying social life. It covers a diverse range of theorists from the rich history of sociology and shows how thinking sociologically can help us understand our lives, the groups we are part of, and the rapid social changes and inequalities that shape contemporary societies. Key features: Uses c...

    $646.04

  • THE CHEERFUL SUBVERSIVE'S GUIDE TO INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING
    DAN MIRVISH
    In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish gives you soup-to-nuts, cradle-to-grave advice on every aspect of the filmmaking lifestyle and craft. He drops advice on playing the Hollywood game, and shows you how to finance, cast, shoot and show your indie feature, documentary, episodic series, short film, s...

    $999.00

  • SILTING AND DESILTING OF RESERVOIRS
    DAN G. BATUCA / J.M. JORDAAN JR
    The creation of river dams and the storage of water have been a strategy for survival for many centuries. Reservoirs have diverse functions, providing irrigation, water supply, storage of water, flood control, navigation and power generation. The silting of a reservoir is an unavoidable process. Although it cannot be halted, silting can be slowed down and controlled by a variet...

    $6,500.00

  • GIRL A
    DAN SCOTTOW
    Someone thinks they know who she is—and what she did.“A psychological thriller with a chill factor off the charts! . . . a real nail-biter.” —The Eclectic Review All Beth has ever wanted is a quiet life for her and her family. And that is what she has, until one evening a note is pushed through the door, with two words scrawled in menacing black ink: Found you. As Beth’s neatly...

    $109.00

  • HANDBOOK OF HARNESSING BIOMATERIALS IN NANOMEDICINE
    DAN PEER
    Nanomedicine has emerged as a novel field in medicine integrating nano-scale technologies with materials sciences, chemistry and biology. The medical application of nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize diagnosis and therapy and bring this new field from a notion into reality while impacting the lives of millions around the world. This second edition compiles and de...

    $1,179.00

  • FASCISM, NAZISM AND THE HOLOCAUST
    DAN STONE
    This book contains essays on Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust by distinguished scholar Professor Dan Stone. It examines issues such as race science and the racial state, Nazi race ideology, slave labour, concentration camps, British reaction to the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, the search for missing persons in the chaos of postwar Europe and the postwar revival of fascism...

    $1,039.00