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  • PEREDUR, THE UNDISCOVERED TRUTH OF THE NAZI GRAIL QUEST
    DAVID JAMES SENIOR
    “… its meandering prose tracks Rahn's movement and the tales of Peredur / Perzival / Perceval.” -Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Peredur, The Undiscovered Truth of the Nazi Grail Quest is written in two parts. The first part of the book charts the life and adventures of Otto Rahn, the man tasked by the Nazis, in the 1930s, with finding and getting his hands on the Holy Gra...

    $191.99

  • THE SUBVERSIVE EDGE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
    DAVID JAMES FISHER
    The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis. The chapters included in this book span the course of David James Fisher’s career. They contextualize significant cases from the recent history of psychoanalysis, critically analyze key aspects of psychoanalytic work, consider the role of...

    $920.00

  • SOCIAL SKILLS IN PRISON AND THE COMMUNITY
    PHILIP PRIESTLEY / JAMES MCGUIRE / DAVID FLEGG / VALERIE HEMSLEY / DAVID WELHAM / ROSEMARY BARNITT
    ‘Gate fever’ is the name of a non-medical syndrome said to infect men in prison as the date of their discharge draws near. Its symptoms are euphoria and anxiety, mixed with irrational thinking; and the unfailing cure of the condition is the cold douche of reality which awaits the victim outside the prison gate. The primary aim of this book, originally published in 1984, is to d...

    $840.00

  • IT’S TIME FOR STRATEGIC SCHEDULING
    NATHAN LEVENSON / DAVID JAMES
    An accessible guide to creating schedules that amplify school and district priorities, support best practices in teaching and learning, heighten student engagement, and enhance equity.A school’s schedule can be as important to education outcomes as its budget or strategic plan. The secret to making the schedule a tool for school improvement is to approach schedule design not as...

    $656.00

  • THE VULVA AND VAGINAL MANUAL
    GRAEME DENNERSTEIN / JAMES SCURRY / JOHN BRENNAN / DAVID ALLEN / MARIA-GRAZIA MARIN
    This is a new book on the integrated management of vulvovaginal disease. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds - gynaecology, dermatology, pathology and psychology - and describe a multidisciplinary approach to these conditions. The book has the most complete classification of vulvovaginal disease published, based on the etiology of 275 conditions; coverage includes be...

    $1,420.00

  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMORY AND NATIONHOOD IN ANGLOPHONE AFRICA
    DAVID EKANEM UDOINWANG / JAMES TAR TSAAIOR
    This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa. By examining their self-narratives, we can better understand how decolonisation unfolded and how activist-politicians sought to immortalise their roles for posterity. Focusing on the autobiographies of Peter Abrahams, Albert Luthuli, Ruth Fi...

    $1,160.00

  • BEYOND ALGORITHMS
    JAMES LUKE / DAVID PORTER / PADMANABHAN SANTHANAM
    With so much artificial intelligence (AI) in the headlines, it is no surprise that businesses are scrambling to exploit this exciting and transformative technology. Clearly, those who are the first to deliver business-relevant AI will gain significant advantage. However, there is a problem! Our perception of AI success in society is primarily based on our experiences with consu...

    $1,140.00

  • IMPACT
    JAMES HOOK / DAVID BRAYLEY
    A portrayal of a young person following their dream in the game, a cracking read' – Alun Wyn Jones, Wales and the British & Irish Lions Jimmy Joseph is enjoying a long, hot summer with his friends, counting down the days until he attends his first ever training camp at the Eagles Academy, the youth section of his local pro club. He hopes this is going to be the first major step...

    $109.00

  • STAGFLATION (2 VOLUMES) (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DAVID VINES / JAN MACIEJOWSKI / JAMES E. MEADE
    Comprising Wage-Fixing (first published 1982), and Demand Management (first published 1983) this two volume reissued set is a vital and stimulating analysis of the causes and consequences of stagflation – a paralysing combination of mass unemployment and rapid inflation which affected a variety of economies across the developed world in the 1970s and early 1980s. Wage-Fixing, w...

    $7,000.00

  • BRITISH JACOBIN POLITICS, DESIRES, AND AFTERMATHS
    JAMES EPSTEIN / DAVID KARR
    This book explores the hopes, desires, and imagined futures that characterized British radicalism in the 1790s, and the resurfacing of this sense of possibility in the following decades. The articulation of “Jacobin” sentiments reflected the emotional investments of men and women inspired by the French Revolution and committed to political transformation. The authors emphasize ...

    $1,240.00

  • THE QUALITIES OF TIME
    WENDY JAMES / DAVID MILLS
    This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experienceour lives. Time is not just an abstract principle we live by or a local cultural construct: it is shaped, punctuated, organized, and suffered in complex ways by real people negotiating their lives and relations with ...

    $1,060.00

  • FIREFIGHTING STRATEGIES AND TACTICS INCLUDES NAVIGATE ADVANTAGE ACCESS
    JAMES S. ANGLE / MICHAEL F. GALA JR. / DAVID HARLOW / WILLIAM B. LOMBARDO
    The Fourth Edition of Firefighting Strategies and Tactics meets and exceeds the course outcomes of the National Fire Academy’s Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) course Strategy and Tactics (C0279). Firefighting Strategies and Tactics, Fourth Edition is a valuable resource for fire fighters studying for promotion or taking civil service examinations.The Fourth...

    $1,228.03

  • INSIDE THE OHIO PENETENTIARY
    DAVID MEYERS / ELISE MEYERS WALKER / JAMES DAILEY
    Explore one of history's most notorious maximum-security prisons through these tales of mayhem and madness. As "animal factories" go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America's first vampire, accused of sucking his victims' blood fi...

    $251.00

  • SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY
    JAMES N BARON / DAVID B GRUSKY / DONALD TREIMAN
    The essays included in this volume honor a truly gifted teacher and sociologist, John C. Pock. After a brief stint at the University of Illinois, Pock moved in 1955 to Reed College, a highly regarded but very small liberal arts institution (roughly 1,000 students) located in Portland, Oregon. Pock has spent the rest of his career (to date) there. During his forty-year tenure at...

    $1,200.00

  • 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

  • CULTURAL TURNS/GEOGRAPHICAL TURNS
    SIMON NAYLOR / JAMES RYAN / IAN COOK / DAVID CROUCH
    Introduces undergraduates to the key debates regarding space and culture and the key theoretical arguments which guide cultural geographical work. This book addresses the impact, significance, and characteristics of the 'cultural turn' in contemporary geography. It focuses on the development of the cultural geography subdiscipline and on what has made it a peculiar and unique r...

    $2,540.00

  • HIGH PERFORMANCE WORK SYSTEMS
    DAVID A. BUCHANAN / JAMES MCCALMAN
    Originally published in 1989. Management styles in developed western countries are undergoing a crisis phase. Increased levels of international competition and volatile trading conditions are creating new demands of job skills and responsibilities. The management challenge is to find work organization and employment strategies that sustain and develop employee performance and c...

    $980.00

  • CORROSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    DAVID E.J. TALBOT / JAMES D.R. TALBOT
    Twenty years after its first publication, Corrosion Science and Technology continues to be a relevant practical guide for students and professionals interested in material science. This Third Edition thoroughly covers the basic principles of corrosion science in the same reader-friendly manner that made the previous editioninvaluable, and enlarges the scope of the content with ...

    $1,800.00

  • THE POLITICAL USE OF MILITARY FORCE IN US FOREIGN POLICY
    JAMES DAVID MEERNIK
    From the Quasi War with France and the opening of Japan, to the numerous interventions of the 1990s, these events have been situated at the heart of US foreign policy. There are four different explanations as to why the US, throughout its history, has used military force just short of war. Some scholars have suggested that nations use military force on behalf of security object...

    $1,200.00

  • THE PULSE OF POLITICS
    JAMES DAVID BARBER
    Every four years, journalists propel a presidential campaign into the national consciousness. New candidates and issues become features of the political landscape while familiar rituals are reshaped by the unpredictability of personalities and events. Underlying this apparent process of change, however, is a recurrent cycle of political themes and social attitudes, a pulse of p...

    $920.00

  • MAKING THE MILITARY MORAL
    DON CARRICK, JAMES CONNELLY AND DAVID WHETHAM
    This book offers a critical analysis, both theoretical and practical, of ethics education in the military. In the twenty-first century, it has become increasingly important to ensure that the armed forces of Western and other democracies fight justly and behave ethically. The ‘good soldier’ has to be not only professionally skilled but morally intelligent. At a time of relentle...

    $1,200.00

  • VIRTUOUS POLICING
    DAVID G. BOLGIANO / L. MORGAN BANKS, III / JAMES M. PATTERSON
    "It pulls no punches, shuns no controversial topic, and glosses over no issues or problems that beset America‘s law enforcement community in our day. For those who may be prone to suspect the motives of these self-confessed lovers of cops and warriors, the title of this book‘should be sufficient to allay such concerns." John C. Hall, Supervisory Sp ...

    $1,600.00

  • BUDDHISM, VIRTUE AND ENVIRONMENT
    DAVID E. COOPER / SIMON P. JAMES
    Buddhism, one increasingly hears, is an 'eco-friendly' religion. It is often said that this is because it promotes an 'ecological' view of things, one stressing the essential unity of human beings and the natural world. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment presents a different view. While agreeing that Buddhism is, in many important respects, in tune with environmental concerns, Co...

    $1,200.00

  • RAIL TRANSIT STATION AREA DEVELOPMENT:
    RICHARD T GREEN / DAVID M. JAMES
    A study of past and prospective business development around rail transit stations in the Washington DC area. Washington has one of the very few new and extensive rail transit systems in America, although expectations of transit system-induced revitalization in this area have not uniformly been met. This book develops an econometric model of local development (LOCDEV) around maj...

    $1,480.00

  • ASIAN SECURITY HANDBOOK
    WILLIAM M. CARPENTER / DAVID G. WIENCEK / JAMES R. LILLEY
    This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Asian Security Handbook focuses on the new challenges to security in the Asia-Pacific region presented by international terrorism. It reviews old security realities covered in previous editions, and highlights more recent security issues in the region, including the North Korean threat, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, th...

    $5,100.00

  • CHINA'S MILITARY FACES THE FUTURE
    JAMES LILLEY / DAVID L. SHAMBAUGH
    This is the most up-to-date assessment of all aspects of the People's Liberation Army. Leading specialists on the Chinese military cover military leadership, defense doctrine and military readiness, preparations for high-tech warfare, military expenditure, military logistics, the scientific and technological base for defense procurement, and China's security concerns in Northea...

    $1,160.00

  • FILMED SCHOOL
    JAMES STILLWAGGON / DAVID JELINEK
    Filmed School examines the place that teaching holds in the public imaginary through its portrayal in cinema. From early films such as Mädchen in Uniform and La Maternelle to contemporary images of teaching in Notes on a Scandal and The History Boys, teachers’ roles in film have been consistently contradictory, portraying teachers as both seducers and selfless heroes, social ou...

    $1,380.00

  • MARKET SOCIALISM
    DAVID SCHWEICKART / JAMES LAWLER / HILLEL TICKTIN / BERTELL OLLMAN
    Aside from Post Modernism, probably the hottest topic today among socialist scholars world-wide is Market Socialism. In this book, four leading socialist scholars present both sides of the debate--two for, and two against--highlighting the different perspectives from which Market Socialism has been viewed. Arguing in favor of Market Socialism are the philosophers David Schweic...

    $1,360.00

  • OPEC BEHAVIOUR AND WORLD OIL PRICES
    JAMES M. GRIFFIN / DAVID J. TEECE
    This volume, originally published in 1982, brings together economists, political scientists and industry experts to explain OPEC’s past achievements and future (in the early 1980s) prospects. The book opens with a clear, concise amd easy to follow treatment of the economics of exhaustible resources under monopoly and competition, the framework frequently used to examine pricing...

    $1,040.00

  • HOW TO HIT A CURVEBALL, GRILL THE PERFECT STEAK, AND BECOME A REAL MAN
    STEPHEN JAMES / DAVID THOMAS
    What guy doesn't need some pointers on how to be the man he wants to be? And we know that being a man is so much more than building a successful career and mastering the mechanics of daily life (like oil changes), those functional things are really important too. By addressing the basic, primal, and archetypal moments that all men experience, this book helps men become more inv...

    $350.00


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