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  • WHAT SHOULD INDIVIDUALS DO ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
    MARION HOURDEQUIN / DAN C. SHAHAR
    Climate change is a pressing problem. Does each of us have a moral responsibility to help tackle it? In this volume, Marion Hourdequin and Dan Shahar debate the timely issue of individual behavior and climate change, examining what it takes to live morally in a warming world. Hourdequin argues there are important reasons for people to translate their concerns about climate chan...

    $1,040.00

  • THE QUEST FOR SIGNIFICANCE
    ARIE W. KRUGLANSKI / DAN RAVIV
    The Quest for Significance: Harnessing the Need that Makes the World Go Round is a fascinating exploration of why we all seek Significance – a fundamental human motivation – and how we can understand it to help us lead better lives. Renowned psychologist Arie Kruglanski and journalist Dan Raviv show how the Quest for Significance propels our actions, governs our feelings, and d...

    $580.00

  • SYSTEM RELIABILITY, RISK, LONGEVITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND OPTIMAL DECISION MAKING
    DAN M FRANGOPOL / SUNYONG KIM
    This book provides the concepts and methodologies of probabilistic structural performance assessments and predictions for deteriorating structures, with emphasis on marine structures and special consideration of system reliability, risk, longevity, sustainability, and optimal decision making. It introduces a comprehensive framework for time-dependent structural performance anal...

    $1,480.00

  • TEACHING FOR CHANGE IN THE ELA CLASSROOM
    DAN STOCKWELL
    This book can help you incorporate critical literacy pedagogy into your high school English Language Arts (ELA) classroom, so that your students can use what they study in class to work toward making a more just and equitable world. Through the acronym CHANGE, the book explores how critical literacy pedagogy can support students as they Challenge injustice to Help make a differ...

    $700.00

  • ENGAGING TEAMS
    NICK SMALLMAN / DAN PARRY
    Is disengagement undermining your organization's performance and profitability? Engaging Teams by Nick Smallman and Dan Parry is a strategic guide for senior leaders and HR executives seeking proven tools for reversing disengagement, driving productivity and strengthening workforce resilience. Drawing on academic research, business data and C-suite insights, this book offers a ...

    $879.00

  • THE REVELATION OF RESTORATION
    DAN SALTER
    The Revelation of Restoration invites readers on a profound journey through Scripture's most powerful themes: the fall, the promise of renewal, and the ultimate fulfillment of God's plan for creation. This work explores the depths of divine purpose, examining who God is, his motivations, and his redemptive mission for his image bearers. By uncovering the powerful symbols woven ...

    $763.00

  • PHENOMENOLOGY: THE BASICS
    DAN ZAHAVI
    Phenomenology: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to one of the important philosophical movements of the twentieth century and to a subject that continues to grow and diversify. Yet it is also a challenging subject, the elements of which can be hard to grasp. This lucid book provides an introduction to the core ideas of phenomenology and to the arguments of its p...

    $540.00

  • THE PASTOR AS FRIEND?
    DAN HOLDER
    Have you ever wondered what it means for pastors to be friends with people in their churches? This is the fascinating question that Dan Holder dives into in this thought-provoking book. He uses in-depth interviews with ordained pastors and their real-life struggles and joys to get close to the essence of what friendship and friendliness mean in the pastoral setting. Reflecting ...

    $621.00

  • TRANSFORMING TRADITIONAL TEACHING FOR TODAY'S COLLEGE STUDENTS
    AMY DRISCOLL / DAN SHAPIRO
    By giving students a greater voice in how their learning is facilitated, this book offers a fresh spin on classic college teaching methods. Seasoned faculty developers Driscoll and Shapiro cover seven common teaching approaches and how they can be leveraged to support the development of students as co-teachers. The easily digestible, practical strategies throughout each chapter...

    $1,000.00

  • THE ECONOMICS OF AUDITING
    DAN A. SIMUNIC
    The financial information provided to governments, creditors, investors etc. by businesses has been verified by auditors since ancient times. In its modern form, the independent public accounting profession has its roots in 19th century Scotland. A distinctive feature of this profession is that it consists of private for-profit businesses – operating as sole practitioners, part...

    $1,240.00

  • ADVANCES IN HIGH-ORDER PREDICTIVE MODELING
    DAN GABRIEL CACUCI
    Continuing the author’s previous work on modeling, this book presents the most recent advances in high-order predictive modeling. The author begins with the mathematical framework of the 2nd-BERRU-PM methodology, an acronym that designates the “second-order best-estimate with reduced uncertainties (2nd-BERRU) predictive modeling (PM).” The 2nd-BERRU-PM methodology is fundamenta...

    $1,480.00

  • DISCOURSE AND STYLE
    DAN SHEN
    This book examines overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative. Narratology identifies discourse as one of its two main objects of study (story being the other), and stylistics, of course, designates style as its concern. Too often, however, work in ...

    $1,480.00

  • DESIGNED FORESTS
    DAN HANDEL
    Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest’s influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of “forest thinking” for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today. It tackles these subjects by focusing on architecture’s own dispositions, which stem ...

    $960.00

  • SCIENCE 5-11
    KENDRA MCMAHON / ALAN HOWE / CHRIS COLLIER / SARAH EARLE / DAN DAVIES / DARREN MCKAY / KERRY-ANNE BARBER /  
    This fully updated fourth edition of the bestselling textbook Science 5-11 provides a comprehensive introduction to current research and professional practice for teaching science in the primary school. Chapters are organised into five sections, first introducing theory and practice, then providing specific guidance on teaching topics in biology, chemistry and physics, and fina...

    $780.00

  • LIFE BEYOND MURDER
    DAN GABRIEL RUSU
    Detailing the resettlement narratives of five men who have committed different types of murder (confrontational/revenge, financial gain, random, intimate partner femicide, and family feud), this book counters narratives of neoliberal, ‘responsibilizing’ messages of individualism to investigate what informs their experiences of resettlement. Life Beyond Murder: Exploring the Ide...

    $1,120.00

  • MANAGING SPORT ORGANIZATIONS
    DAN COVELL / SHARIANNE WALKER
    Now in a fully revised and updated fifth edition, Managing Sport Organizations introduces the fundamentals of sport management across every industry sector, from youth and intercollegiate sport to professional leagues, and from community-level sport to international sport. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book covers the key topics, issues, and concepts in con...

    $1,500.00

  • CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE DRIVE
    DAN COLLINS
    This thorough text provides a complete overview of the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Divided into four key areas, the book considers clinical, theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects of the drive, with editorial headnotes throughout. The introduction to the collection provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and history of the drive as a concept and is followed...

    $980.00

  • OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY ATLAS
    JULIE RODMAN / DAN ESMAILI
    Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) is a novel, non-invasive, dyeless imaging modality that has emerged as an indispensable tool in the fields of optometry and ophthalmology. OCTA provides three-dimensional volumetric images of the retinal and choroidal vasculature by using a motion-contrast decorrelation algorithm. This cutting-edge imaging technology has widesprea...

    $4,700.00

  • THE SURGEON’S GUIDE TO SMILE
    DAN REINSTEIN / TIMOTHY ARCHER / GLENN CARP
    Corneal refractive surgeons are likely already familiar with the theory behind small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) and the excellent postoperative outcomes it can achieve, but they were left without a thorough and comprehensive guide to performing the procedure, until now. The Surgeon’s Guide to SMILE: Small Incision Lenticule Extraction is designed to provide surgeons ...

    $4,500.00

  • FRIENDSHIP WITH JESUS
    DAN HEAVENOR
    Experiencing friendship with Jesus can feel elusive and yet he invites us to know him this way. How do we do this? This book invites the reader on a journey of friendship through imaginative prayer with Jesus. This book offers a framework to experience friendship with Jesus in a way similar to other friendships. Every friendship has a beginning--hearing about someone, meeting t...

    $373.00

  • EFFECTIVE TYPESCRIPT
    DAN VANDERKAM
    TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript with the potential to solve many of the headaches for which JavaScript is famous. But TypeScript has a learning curve of its own, and understanding how to use it effectively takes time and practice. Using the format popularized by Effective C++ and Effective Java (both Addison-Wesley), this practical book features 83 items that give ...

    $681.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF POSTCOLONIAL DISABILITY STUDIES
    TSITSI CHATAIKA, DAN GOODLEY
    This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. It argues that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies and that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns. By drawing these two su...

    $1,380.00

  • C BRAIN TEASERS
    DAN GOOKIN
    You thought you knew C, but can you solve 25 puzzles in this popular programming language? Noted C programmer and author Dan Gookin provides a series of pointed questions, puzzles, and problems to keep your C programming skills sharp. Each one will provide insight into various aspects of handling strings, numeric operations, and other activities, giving you techniques to take t...

    $387.00

  • CORRUPTION PROOFING IN AFRICA
    DAN KUWALI
    This book outlines evidence-based and data-driven strategies for combating grand corruption in Africa. Although the causes of corruption vary from country to country, this book suggests that corruption in Africa is often a direct consequence of poorly conceived legislation, policies, and institutional loopholes. The authors in this solution-oriented book converge in arguing tha...

    $1,240.00

  • SOCIAL MEDIA POLITICS
    DAN SCHILL, JOHN ALLEN HENDRICKS
    Social media and social networking services are integrated into the American political process and have profoundly influenced political communication and participation. Social media platforms have transformed the political landscape by revolutionizing information dissemination, citizen engagement, and public opinion formation and change. Politicians use social media to communic...

    $1,160.00

  • STRATEGIC CONTENT MARKETING
    DAN FARKAS / REBECCA GEIER
    Strategic Content Marketing offers a comprehensive guide to planning, creating, implementing and analyzing an effective content marketing strategy in practice. Each chapter marries established theory with modern practice, illustrating concepts with real-world case studies and examples alongside interviews with prominent content marketers, including a foreword by Joe Pulizzi, fo...

    $1,200.00

  • 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,...

    $251.00

  • 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...

    $1,200.00

  • 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

  • ADVANCING ASSESSMENT FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
    AMY DRISCOLL / SWARUP WOOD / DAN SHAPIRO / NELSON GRAFF
    This book is about student success and how to support and improve it. It takes as its point of departure that we--as faculty, assessment directors, student affairs professionals, and staff--reflect together in a purposeful and informed way about how our teaching, curricula, the co-curriculum, and assessment work in concert to support and improve student learning and success. It...

    $960.00