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  • PRINCIPLES OF HORTICULTURE
    CHARLES ADAMS / JANE BROOK / DAVID FRANCIS / MIKE EARLY
    Gardening and horticulture generally are essentially practical activities much enhanced by an understanding of how plants grow. This colourful guide will introduce you to the fundamentals of horticulture. It is written in a clear and accessible style and covers the principles that underpin growing plants for the garden and allotment, with reference to how these are tackled by p...

    $1,420.00

  • THE LAW OF SHIP MORTGAGES
    DAVID OSBORNE / CHARLES BUSS / JOANNE CHAMPKINS
    This fully updated and comprehensive 3rd edition of The Law of Ship Mortgages provides readers with a practical, commercially based and definitive guide to the English law of ship mortgages. The authors, being seasoned practitioners, bring their extensive experience to bear on a number of difficult and developing areas of the law, such as: mortgagees’ duties, liability to chart...

    $14,000.00

  • THE IMPROV DICTIONARY
    DAVID CHARLES
    The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a multitude of movements and schools of thought to enhance spontaneous and collaborative creativity. This accessible resource reveals and interrogates the inherited wisdoms contained in the very words we use to describe modern improv. Each...

    $800.00

  • MICROBIAL DIVERSITY IN HONEYBEES
    CHARLES WICK / DAVID WICK
    Honeybees are an important link in our food chain because they are major pollinators of food crops. In recent years, honeybee populations have declined precipitously perhaps due to changes in their microbiome. This book describes and identifies the bee microbiome using a proteomics technology. Chapters include the detection and identification of microbes found in honeybees coll...

    $1,320.00

  • MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR MEDICAL CAREER
    DAVID MCGOWAN / HELEN SIMS / JOSEPH NORRIS / NATALIE SMITH / CHARLES ZAMMIT
    This book provides an excellent and easy-to-read path to making the most of your medical career starting as a student...and a ready source of really useful hints and tips that will help anyone reading this book maximise their personal and professional development.' From the Foreword by Dr Inam Haq Want to optimise your chances of success? Take a fresh look at the clinical world...

    $1,100.00

  • LANDMARK ESSAYS ON WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
    CHARLES BAZERMAN / DAVID R. RUSSELL
    Rhetoric, as a general teaching -- while preaching locality of action and guidelines for handling that locality -- has tended from the beginning to serve as a universality. It has offered a generalized techne with only limited categories, appropriate for all discursive situations, at least for those that were not excluded from the realm of rhetoric. Nonetheless, from its beginn...

    $2,120.00

  • LEADERSHIP AND SUPERVISION IN SPECIAL SERVICES
    CHARLES A MAHER / DAVID E GREENBURG / LEONARD BURRELLO
    Here is an authoritative reference on a range of subjects vital to supervisory personnel whose responsibilities include children with learning and/or behavior problems. Leading professionals - serving as members of a special writing team of the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) - offer a rich source of ideas especially for administrative personnel involved i...

    $1,280.00

  • REGULATORY REFORM RECONSIDERED
    GREGORY A DANEKE / DAVID J LEMAK / CHARLES L KENNEDY / GERALD BARKDOLL
    Bringing together a broad group of leading scholars, government officials, and corporate representatives, this book provides a critical analysis of recent regulatory reform efforts. The contributors focus on social and environmental regulation as they evaluate problems of costly and ineffective regulatory measures. They argue that, although some pr ...

    $1,060.00

  • THE MILITARY IN NEW TIMES
    JAMES BURK / ROBERT J WALDMAN / DAVID R SEGAL / CHARLES C MOSKOS
    What role will armed forces play in a world that is turbulent yet no longer organized by the bipolar conflict of East and West? In this volume, leading experts from several disciplines assess the rapidly changing global strategic and cultural landscape, examining how it will affect the responsibilities and social standing of the modern military. There are provocative disagreeme...

    $1,060.00

  • DEBATING COUNTERFORCE
    CHARLES-PHILIPPE DAVID
    Since the U.S. presidential elections of 1980, debate has intensified between those who believe that nuclear weapons can only deter a war not intended to be fought and those who see nuclear weapons as an advancement in weaponry that allows for the waging and winning of a nuclear war. At the focal point of this debate is the rise of the “counterforc ...

    $1,200.00

  • IMPROVING OUTCOMES IN COLON & RECTAL SURGERY
    BRIAN R. KANN, DAVID E. BECK, DAVID A. MARGOLIN, H. DAVID VARGAS AND CHARLES B. WHITLOW
    Quality measures and outcomes are receiving greater attention by the lay and medical communities. The occurrence or mismanagement of complications often results in poor outcomes, increased cost, and significant morbidity. Answering the call for transparency and improvement requires action by all involved in the care of patients. The collection of objective data and quality meas...

    $5,100.00

  • NORTHERN EXPOSURES
    DAVID BENNETT / CHARLES LEVENSTEIN / ROBERT FORRANT / JOHN WOODING
    'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical philosopher sifting the evidence and the passionate partisan arguing for the righ...

    $1,540.00

  • THE ART OF SCIENCE IN THE CANADIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM
    DAVID MILWARD / CHARLES FERGUSON
    Part autobiography, part thought piece, part references, the book takes an insightful look at the experience and cases of renowned paediatrician and forensic expert witness Dr. Charles Ferguson. The book presents the interaction of science and law as it applies, specifically, the Canadian courts, but the justice process as a whole. Dr. Ferguson’s experience—from a scientist and...

    $1,460.00

  • ECOLOGY, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY IN NORTH WEST TANZANIA
    CHARLES DAVID SMITH
    Based on a decade of first-hand experience and secondary research, this richly detailed study follows daily life in four villages in Tanzania. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, this comprehensive account examines the regional economy, determinants of civil society and implications for democratization, AIDS, population growth, refugees, crops and go...

    $1,460.00

  • MORMONISM: THE BASICS
    JOHN CHARLES DUFFY / DAVID HOWLETT
    Although often regarded as marginal or obscure, Mormonism is a significant American religious minority, numerically and politically. The successes and struggles of this U.S. born religion reveal much about how religion operates in U.S. society. Mormonism: The Basics introduces the teachings, practices, evolution, and internal diversity of this movement, whose cultural icons ran...

    $640.00

  • MIXED ABILITY GROUPING
    CHARLES BAILEY / DAVID BRIDGES
    The book, first published in 1983, explores the argument that justifies mixed ability groupings in schools and the consequences of practicing the different justificatory arguments. The issues to be dealt with by staff making decisions about grouping arrangements in their schools are clearly worked out from basic principles rooted in social philosophy. The ideas of social justic...

    $1,060.00

  • METROPOLITANIZATION AND PUBLIC SERVICES
    CHARLES M. HAAR / JOHN G. WOFFORD / DAVID L. KIRP / DAVID K. COHEN / LEONARD J. DUHL / ALLEN V. HAEFELE
    Metropolitanization and Public Services is third in a series on the governance of metropolitan regions which aims to explore the welfare and development of Metropolitan America. Originally published in 1972, this study discusses who decides which essential public services need to be provided within a metropolitan area by looking at political reform as well as presenting ideas o...

    $980.00

  • AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY
    CHARLES P. THOMPSON, DOUGLAS J. HERRMANN, DARRYL BRUCE, J. DON READ, DAVID G. PAYNE AND MICHAEL P. T
    The organization of the first Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) conference centered around two specifically identifiable research topics -- autobiographical memory and eyewitness memory. These two areas -- long-time staples on the menu of investigators of memory in more natural settings -- differ on a variety of dimensions, perhaps most notably in th...

    $1,460.00

  • CANDIDATE CHARACTER TRAITS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
    DAVID B. HOLIAN / CHARLES L. PRYSBY
    Voter perceptions of the personal traits of presidential candidates are widely regarded to be important influences on the vote. Media pundits frequently explain the outcome of presidential elections in terms of the personal appeal of the candidates. Despite the emphasis on presidential character traits in the media, the scholarly investigation in this area is limited. In this b...

    $700.00

  • SELF-RECOVERY
    DAVID F O'CONNELL / CHARLES N ALEXANDER
    A valuable resource for addressing/promoting the spiritual awakening/development for patients based on a thoroughly researched system of meditation Nearly 40% of americans saw an alternative healthcare practitioner last year. Interest in Yogaan aspect of ayurvedais growing nationally and is starting to become part of more progressive treatment programs. Patients want more. Prov...

    $1,160.00

  • FRANCOPHONE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
    CHARLES FORSDICK / DAVID MURPHY
    This landmark text constitutes the first comprehensive overview of Francophone Postcolonial Studies. Moving away from reductive geographical or linguistic surveys of the Francophone world, this collection of original essays provides a thematic discussion of the complex historical, political and cultural links between France and its former colonies. Providing a theoretical frame...

    $1,120.00

  • PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
    BENNETT, WINSTON / LANCE, CHARLES E. / WOEHR, DAVID J.
    Over the course of the past few years, teaching, research, and practice has underscored the importance of performance measurement and criterion development as topics of great interest, considerable debate, and some misunderstanding. It has also become clear that the field needs to address a compendium of research, applications, and issues. Performance Measurement: Current Persp...

    $1,560.00

  • 101 WAYS TO STITCH, CRAFT, CREATE VINTAGE
    THE EDITORS OF DAVID & CHARLES
    A collection of new crafting projects with old-fashioned style—clothes, jewelry, decor, and more! Get inspired with this fun collection of 101 unique vintage-themed projects. You can create stunning crafts for yourself or as gifts for friends and family, with a huge selection of vintage projects to choose from—including a button necklace, suffolk puff rings, fondant fancies, fa...

    $229.00

  • LOGIC FROM A TO Z
    JOHN B. BACON / MICHAEL DETLEFSEN / DAVID CHARLES MCCARTY
    First published in the most ambitious international philosophy project for a generation; the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Logic from A to Z is a unique glossary of terms used in formal logic and the philosophy of mathematics. Over 500 entries include key terms found in the study of: * Logic: Argument, Turing Machine, Variable * Set and model theory: Isomorphism, Functi...

    $1,100.00

  • CLIMATE GOVERNANCE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
    DAVID HELD / CHARLES ROGER / EVA-MARIA NAG
    Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, offering new, unexpected signs of climate leadership. Some scholars have gone so far as to argue that these targets are now even more ambitious than those put forward by their wealthier counterparts....

    $317.00

  • FINANCIAL REGULATION
    CHARLES GOODHART / PHILIPP HARTMANN / DAVID T. LLEWELLYN / LILIANA ROJAS-SUAREZ / STEVEN WEISBROD
    Financial Regulation presents an important restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature and costs of regulatory problems around the world, and look at what sort of countries and sectors require special attention and policies. Key topics covered include: * the need to recast the form of regulation *...

    $1,800.00

  • SCOTLAND DECIDES
    HUGH BOCHEL / DAVID DENVER / JAMES MITCHELL / CHARLES PATTIE
    Scotland has a parliament for the first time in almost 300 years, and this book is an account of how this came about. The authors trace the origins and history of the demand for home rule in Scotland, focusing particularly on developments following the failure of the first referendum on the issue in 1979, which culminated in a second referendum in September 1997. This major pol...

    $1,420.00

  • BRITISH ELECTIONS AND PARTIES REVIEW
    COWLEY, PHILIP / DENVER, DAVID / FISHER, JUSTIN / PATTIE, CHARLES
    After the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1997, the results were analyzed. Issues at the top of the agenda included party leader image, campaign strategy, the sleaze factor, the effect of the media and changes in the electoral geography of Britain. This volume records the discussion. ...

    $980.00

  • RISK MANAGEMENT IN PROJECTS
    MARTIN LOOSEMORE / JOHN RAFTERY / CHARLES REILLY / DAVID HIGGON
    Project managers in construction and civil engineering need to base their decisions on realistic information about risk and public perceptions of risk. This second edition of the original practical and straightforward text retains the easy-to-read format, but has been expanded to encompass the entire risk management process and to give a fuller presentation of how risk is gener...

    $1,420.00

  • CHILDREN'S ENCOUNTERS WITH DEATH, BEREAVEMENT, AND COPING
    CORR, CHARLES / BALK, DAVID
    "Childrenís Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping is a very well researched document and well written by an impressive cadre of scholars....The book is a must read for marriage and family therapists, clergy, and pediatric care givers whose work intersects the lives of children and the social and environmental systems in which they live."--NCFR's Certified Family Life E...

    $1,738.00


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