Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david nicholas

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  • THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT
    CLAIRE MCLOUGHLIN / SAMEEN ALI / KAILING XIE / NICHOLAS CHEESEMAN / DAVID E. HUDSON
    A pathbreaking introduction to the controversial, contested and deeply political topic of development. Written in an engaging and eminently readable style, leading authors invite readers to examine the political dynamics behind some of today’s most complex global issues, from rising inequality and social exclusion to the climate crisis. By confronting false assumptions and disp...

    $823.46

  • VIDEO GAMES
    NICHOLAS DAVID BOWMAN
    This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games, outlining the characteristics of them as cognitive, emotional, physical, and social demanding technologies, and introduces readers to current research on video games. The diverse array of contributors in this volume offer bleeding-edge perspect...

    $1,099.00

  • A MUSICOLOGY FOR LANDSCAPE
    DAVID NICHOLAS BUCK
    Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture’s inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised aspect of landscape architecture, while also ennobling sound in the sensory appreciation of landscape. A Musicology for Landsca...

    $1,699.00

  • DIGITAL HEALTH INFORMATION FOR THE CONSUMER
    DAVID NICHOLAS / PAUL HUNTINGTON / PETER WILLIAMS
    This unique book draws on research that constituted the first major nationwide evaluation of the use and impact of key digital health information platforms which were provided to thousands of health consumers in the UK. The authors offer the first comprehensive and detailed comparison of usage and impact of the three major ICT platforms delivering health information - the inte...

    $979.00

  • HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    ELIZABETH D. FREDERICKSEN / STEPHANIE L. WITT / W. DAVID PATTON / NICHOLAS P. LOVRICH
    Sound HRM practices matter—they are a sine qua non of effective governance in democratic government—equally so at the local, regional, state and national levels of government. The NASPAA (Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration) accreditation standards demand critical competencies for public managers that are vital to human resource managers and supervi...

    $2,500.00

  • THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
    DAVID M NICHOLAS
    This ambitious and wide-ranging study of the European Middle Ages respects the complexity and richness of its subject; always accessible, it is never merely superficial or over-simplistic. Stressing the long-term factors of continuity, evolution and change throughout, David Nicholas discusses the social and economic aspects of medieval civilization, and examines their links wit...

    $2,300.00

  • THE LATER MEDIEVAL CITY
    DAVID NICHOLAS
    The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use the two as a continuum.) This book covers a much shorter period than the first...

    $2,000.00

  • THE GROWTH OF THE MEDIEVAL CITY
    DAVID M NICHOLAS
    The first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own right. (It is also fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use it with its equally impressive sequel which is being published simultaneously.) In it, Professor Nicholas traces the slow regeneration of urban life in the early medieval peri...

    $1,439.00

  • NEW ORLEANS HURRICANES FROM THE START
    DAVID BASTIAN / NICHOLAS J. MEIS
    An encyclopedic history of the Crescent City’s most violent storms, with analysis, predictions, and suggestions for the future protections.   According to the US Army Corps of Engineers, the city of New Orleans is twice as likely to be struck by a hurricane as any other metropolitan area bordering the Gulf of Mexico. In this work, authors David F. Bastian and Nicholas J. Meis e...

    $229.00

  • MEDIEVAL FLANDERS
    DAVID M NICHOLAS
    Cradle of northern Europe's later urban and industrial pre-eminence, medieval Flanders was a region of immense political and economic importance -- and already, as so often later, the battleground of foreign powers. Yet this book is, remarkably, the first comprehensive modern history of the region. Within the framework of a clear political narrative, it presents a vivid portrai...

    $1,559.00

  • SUSTAINABLE URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
    DAVID RUDLIN / NICHOLAS FALK
    This successful title, previously known as 'Building the 21st Century Home' and now in its second edition, explores and explains the trends and issues that underlie the renaissance of UK towns and cities and describes the sustainable urban neighbourhood as a model for rebuilding urban areas. The book reviews the way that planning policies, architectural trends and economic forc...

    $1,139.00

  • ASSESSING INFORMATION NEEDS IN THE AGE OF THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
    DAVID NICHOLAS
    Aiming at ensuring that everyone obtains the rich rewards available in today's information-centred society, this book seeks to provide a systematic method for the understanding, appreciation and evaluation of information needs, which alone can guarantee the value of information to the consumer. Based on the insights gained from research projects involving hundreds of thousands ...

    $1,939.00

  • SURFING AND SOCIAL THEORY
    NICHOLAS J FORD / DAVID BROWN
    Surfing has emerged from ancient roots to become a twenty-first century phenomenon – an ‘alternative’ sport, lifestyle and art form with a global profile and ever-increasing numbers of participants. Drawing on popular surf culture, academic literature and the analytical tools of social theory, this book is the first sustained commentary on the contemporary social and cultural m...

    $1,279.00

  • THE ART OF TEACHING SECONDARY ENGLISH
    NICHOLAS MCGUINN / DAVID STEVENS
    At a time when school-based English is in danger of becoming reductive and mechanistic, the authors of this book reconsider the fundamental philosophy of English teaching, evaluate current practice and offer a practical framework for new approaches to teaching this important subject. The authors draw on recent initiatives in the area, including the National Literacy Strategy, b...

    $1,139.00

  • MICROBIOLOGY OF WATERBORNE DISEASES: MICROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND RISKS
    PERCIVAL, STEVEN L. / YATES, MARYLYNN V. / WILLIAMS, DAVID / CHALMERS, RACHEL / GRAY, NICHOLAS
    The second edition of Microbiology of Waterborne Diseases describes the diseases associated with water, their causative agents and the ways in which they gain access to water systems. The book is divided into sections covering bacteria, protozoa, and viruses. Other sections detail methods for detecting and identifying waterborne microorganisms, and the ways in which they are re...

    $2,415.00

  • THE GOOGLE GENERATION: ARE ICT INNOVATIONS CHANGING INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR?
    GUNTER, BARRIE / ROWLANDS, IAN / NICHOLAS, DAVID
    The Google Generation examines original and secondary research evidence from international sources to determine whether there is a younger generation of learners who are adopting different styles of information search behaviour from older generations as a function of their patterns of use of online technologies. The book addresses the questions: might the widespread availabilit...

    $1,081.00

  • ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND STRATEGY
    DAVID COGHLAN / NICHOLAS S. RASHFORD / JOÃO NEIVA DE FIGUEIREDO
    Organizations change, usually driven by strategies, yet strategic management and organizational change are generally understood as separate domains in the business world. This book integrates the behavioural dynamics of learning, change and strategy at and across individual, team, interdepartmental, group and organizational levels. This new edition emphasizes what can be done i...

    $1,799.00

  • CYBERCULTURE: THE KEY CONCEPTS
    DAVID J. BELL / BRIAN D LOADER / NICHOLAS PLEACE / DOUGLAS SCHULER
    The only A-Z guide available on this subject, this book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the fast-changing and increasingly important world of cyberculture. Its clear and accessible entries cover aspects ranging from the technical to the theoretical, and from movies to the everyday, including: artificial intelligence cyberfeminism cyberpunk electronic governme...

    $859.00

  • ASSESSING INFORMATION NEEDS
    DAVID NICHOLAS
    Provides a systematic method of identifying, evaluating and comparing information needs, as well as a framework to enable information services to gather information from users to aid information system design, and monitor the effectiveness of an information service. Examines the role of the Internet in meeting information needs.The section on collecting data now includes web lo...

    $659.00

  • CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH PREPARE! LEVEL 7 STUDENT'S BOOK AND ONLINE WORKBOOK
    STYRING JAMES, TIMS NICHOLAS, MCKEEGAN DAVID
    Prepare! is a lively 7-level general English course with comprehensive Cambridge English for Schools exam preparation integrated throughout. This flexible course brings together all the tools and technology you expect to get the results you need. Whether teaching general English or focusing on exams, Prepare! leaves you and your students genuinely ready for what comes next: rea...
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    $1,369.00

  • CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH PREPARE! 6 STUDENT S BOOK AND ONLINE WORKBOOK
    STYRING JAMES / TIME NICHOLAS / MCKEEGAN DAVID
    Prepare! es un curso vibrante de inglés general, que ofrece a los alumnos una completa preparación para los exámenes de inglés for Schools de Cambridge. Este curso flexible recoge todas las herramientas y la tecnología necesarias para conseguir los resultados que necesitas. Prepare! es el único curso para alumnos en edad escolar producido y avalado por Cambridge English Languag...
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    $1,369.00