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  • 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...

    $1,339.00

  • 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...

    $639.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • ACUTE AND CRITICAL CARE IN ADULT NURSING
    DESIREE TAIT / CATHERINE WILLIAMS / DAVID BARTON / JANE JAMES
    This book helps adult nursing students to competently manage care of critically and acutely ill patients, and to recognise and deal with the early signs of deterioration. The book takes a practical real-life approach to care, with each chapter focusing on patients with specific problems, then interweaving the knowledge and skills needed to care for that patient. The book focuse...

    $543.16

  • 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...

    $6,000.00

  • 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 ...

    $1,099.00

  • 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 ...

    $939.00

  • A HISTORY OF THE SMALL ARMS MADE BY THE STERLING ARMAMENT COMPANY
    PETER LAIDLER / JAMES EDMISTON / DAVID HOWROYD
    An in-depth history of the small arms made by the Sterling Company of Dagenham, Essex, England, from 1940 until the company closed in 1989. The Lanchester and the Patchett Machine Carbines were both developed at Sterling Engineering Co Ltd during World War II. With the appearance of the earliest Patchett prototypes the military began testing them in ever more rigorous trials, w...

    $229.00

  • 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...

    $229.00

  • 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...

    $1,299.00

  • ESTADÍSTICA PARA NEGOCIOS Y ECONOMÍA
    ANDERSON, DAVID R. / SWEENEY, DENNIS J. / WILLIAMS, THOMAS A. / CAMM, JEFFREY D. / COCHRAN, JAMES J.
    El propósito de este libro es proporcionar una introducción conceptual al campo de la estadística y sus aplicaciones a quienes se preparan en los campos académico y profesional de los negocios y la economía. Esta edición ofrece ahora una introducción a Minitab 17 y Microsoft® Office Excel 2016, y enfatiza el papel del software en la aplicación del análisis estadístico. ...

    $510.00

  • ADMINISTRACIÓN DE OPERACIONES.
    DAVID, ALLEN COLLIER / JAMES R., EVANS
    En la obra Administración de operaciones, David Allen Collier y James R. Evans explican con detalle los fundamentos, los métodos y las técnicas que los profesionales de esta área requieren para desempeñar efectivamente esta función dentro de las organizaciones. ...

    $589.00

  • FUNDAMENTOS DE MÉTODOS CUANTITATIVOS PARA LOS NEGOCIOS
    ANDERSON, DAVID R. / SWEENEY, DENNIS J. / WILLIAMS, THOMAS A. / CAMM, JEFFREY D. / COCHRAN, JAMES J. / FR
    El propósito de esta obra es proporcionar al estudiante universitario y de posgrado una comprensión conceptual del papel de los métodos cuantitativos en el proceso de toma de decisiones aplicadas a los negocios. Para ello, su enfoque se orienta hacia las aplicaciones, con énfasis en escenarios de solución de problemas. El desarrollo de la técnica o modelo cuantitativo incluye s...

    $524.00

  • 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...

    $2,200.00

  • 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...

    $899.00

  • URBAN DRAINAGE
    DAVID BUTLER / CHRISTOPHER JAMES DIGMAN / CHRISTOS MAKROPOULOS / JOHN W. DAVIES
    This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the environmental and engineering aspects of the management of rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and research, this n...

    $1,599.00

  • 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 ...

    $1,499.00

  • 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...

    $1,059.00

  • 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...

    $779.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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 ...

    $1,439.00

  • THE RACING GAME
    JAMES DAVID BARBER
    This study of a unique social world probes beneath the thrill and spectacle of horse racing into the lives of the "honest boys," the "gyps," the "manipulators," the "stoops," and the "Chalk eaters"--the constituents of race track society and the players of the racing game. With scientific precision and journalistic vigor, Scott describes the everyday activities--the objectives ...

    $1,139.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
    DAVID GOUGH, SANDY OLIVER, JAMES THOMAS
    Focused on actively using systematic review as method, this book provides clear, step-by-step advice on the logic and processes of systematic reviewing. Stressing the importance of precision and accuracy, this new edition carefully balances a need for insightful theory with real-world pragmatism; it introduces a wide range of cutting-edge approaches to research synthesis includ...

    $950.52

  • 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...

    $1,239.00

  • 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...

    $999.00

  • 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...

    $220.00

  • MÉTODOS CUANTITATIVOS PARA LOS NEGOCIOS.
    ANDERSON, DAVID / SWEENEY, DENNIS / WILLIAMS, THOMAS / CAMM, JEFFREY / COCHRAN, JAMES / FRY, MICHA
    La decimotercera edición de Métodos cuantitativos para los negocios proporciona a los estudiantes universitarios y de posgrado una comprensión conceptual del papel que juegan los métodos cuantitativos en el proceso de toma de decisiones. El libro describe los diversos métodos cuantitativos desarrollados a lo largo de los años, explica su funcionamiento y muestra cómo pueden usa...

    $588.00

  • AO ADMINISTRACIÓN DE OPERACIONES
    COLLIER, DAVID / EVANS, JAMES
    Creado con la participación de más de 150 estudiantes y profesores, AO5 proporciona una introducción simplificada de los conceptos básicos, técnicas y aplicaciones de la administración de operaciones contemporánea. Este texto conciso, atractivo y accesible incluye un conjunto completo de herramientas de aprendizaje integradas - incluyendo tarjetas, hojas de cálculo y juegos. ...

    $630.00

  • MACROECONOMIC POLICY
    MARTIN WEALE / ANDREW BLAKE / NICOS CHRISTODOULAKIS / JAMES MEADE / DAVID VINES
    This analysis of macroeconomic policy, originally published in 1989, argues that key government objectives, such as reduced inflation, decreased unemployment and an adequate level of national saving can be achieved only by employing both monetary and fiscal policies, in conjunction with supply-side policies expressly designed to improve the workings of the labour market. Part 1...

    $659.00


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