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  • HARDTACK AND COFFEE
    JOHN DAVIS BILLINGS
    Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day—in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded. ...

    $39.70

  • IN THE FOG
    RICHARD DAVIS
    A cleverly atmospheric story-within-a-story with a twist, wherein four members of an exclusive London Gentleman's Club take turns weaving a tale of a double murder. On the evening following the great fog of 1897, four strangers are dining at an exclusive gentleman's club, while a fifth, Sir Andrew, is just finishing the last few pages of a pulp mystery novel. As Sir Andrew rise...

    $202.00

  • THE KREMLIN OF KAZAN THROUGH THE AGES
    RAVIL BUKHARAEV / NIGEL DAVIS
    Within every ancient city lies a heart and soul which breathe life into it, creating its own special character, embodying the memories of the past, the confidence of the present, and the hopes for the future. In the thousand-year old city of Kazan, this living heart is the Kazan Kremlin, rising above the city, and for centuries a unique feature not only of Kazan, but also of th...

    $939.00

  • TEN-MINUTE SCRIPTURAL, EARTHY SERMONS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE
    NOEL W. DAVIS
    Ten Minute Scriptural, Earthy Sermons for the Contemporary Scene highlights the continued place of preaching in communicating the life and message of Jesus and the major contribution it makes to quality life. The forty chosen sermons are from various parts of the Bible (but mostly the Gospels) and are designedly brief in discussion. The questions following each sermon set out t...

    $355.00

  • EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER SCOPE AND STANDARDS OF PRACTICE
    WESLEY D. DAVIS, DNP, ENP-C, FNP-C, AGACNP-BC, CEN, FAANP, FAEN
    Delivers key knowledge for all stakeholders in the growing ENP fieldThis professional resource for ENPs delivers essential information supporting and delineating the growing role of the advanced practice nurse within emergency care settings. Co-published with the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners (AAENP), it provides the ENP with a standard of care and scope of ...

    $710.00

  • IL RUMORE DELLA GUERRA
    VINCENT B. DAVIS II
    Roma, 105 a.C. Quinto Sertorio combattè durante una delle più gravi sconfitte dell'esercito romano, che costò la vita a 90.000 dei suoi compagni. Combattendo contro gli incubi notturni e il senso di colpa tipico dei sopravvissuti, giura di preservare la sua amata Roma e si imbarca in una missione segreta in territorio nemico. Sertorio si fa crescere la barba e si traveste con g...

    $52.00

  • HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    JONATHAN CRAWSHAW / PAWAN BUDHWAR / ANN DAVIS
    This popular text treats international, strategic and contemporary issues as central to the study and practice of Human Resource Management. Its practical focus helps you develop the skills needed for the world of work, through learning features such as HRM in Practice, Developing Key Skills and Debating HRM.  The fourth edition has been thoroughly updated and brings you: • Cas...

    $977.34

  • 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

  • WHY IT'S OK TO OWN A GUN
    RYAN W. DAVIS
    Why It’s OK to Own a Gun explores the right to self-defense, but also looks beyond it to what gun ownership fundamentally means in American life. Guns can provide a source of meaning that doesn’t depend on how much money you have or how important your job is. Guns can offer a sense of shared identity that’s not hung up on intellectual credentials or ideological orthodoxy. For m...

    $499.00

  • THE EVERGLADES HANDBOOK
    THOMAS E. LODGE / STEPHEN E. DAVIS III
    The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem, Fifth Edition is packed with scientific information about the greater Everglades ecosystem, taking into account how drastically the Everglades has changed. The book covers disciplines ranging from ecology, geology, climatology, hydrology, simplified biogeochemistry, and anthropology to conservation biology. The fifth edition...

    $3,200.00

  • BRITAIN, FRANCE AND THE BATTLE FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF EUROPE, 1957-2007
    RICHARD DAVIS
    The book gives an account of an essential part of Britain’s troubled relationship with the rest of Europe after 1945 – particularly considering the rivalry of France and Britain between 1945 and 2007. The record of Britain’s relations with the rest of Europe, and in particular with France, from 1945 onwards was seen by the politicians and diplomats in charge of foreign policy v...

    $1,099.00

  • DAWN OF LEGACY
    LAWRENCE DAVIS
    Unexpected crucibles, gut-wrenching loss, and time in prison... The last few years have not been kind to Janzen Robinson. His tenure as the unelected Champion of Cleveland was rough, but it's hard not to catch glimpses of hope as tides of change have rippled throughout the city. Now out of prison, the Artificer is surprised to see just how much his mission and influence have ta...

    $229.00

  • THE GLOBALISATION OF NURSING
    VERENA TSCHUDIN / ANNE DAVIS
    Globalisation affects health, health care and nursing and has the potential to change the very nature of what we now take for granted in health care and how we obtain it. Nursing as a profession faces multiple challenges, many of them because of globalization. Nurses have always seen their profession as a passport to the world. In the past, the mov ...

    $779.00

  • POLICE INTELLIGENCE
    WAYNE L. DAVIS / PAUL J. LESLIE / ASHLEY B. DAVIS
    Police Intelligence: Totality of Circumstances is an essential resource and is designed for any individual who may encounter the field of criminal justice, whether the person is a police chief who oversees the department’s standard operating procedures, a police officer who enforces the law, a civilian who is expected to follow the law, a lawyer who may challenge an action in c...

    $1,439.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SCIENCE
    JERRY DAVIS
    Introduction to Environmental Data Science focuses on data science methods in the R language applied to environmental research, with sections on exploratory data analysis in R including data abstraction, transformation, and visualization; spatial data analysis in vector and raster models; statistics and modelling ranging from exploratory to modelling, considering confirmatory s...

    $2,000.00

  • A GENTLE MURDERER
    DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS
    Hailed by critic Anthony Boucher as "one of the best detective stories of modern times," this classic tale by Grand Master Dorothy Salisbury Davis combines suspense and psychological insight as a priest and a police detective both race to find a self-confessed murderer before he is compelled to kill again. "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned …" Father Duffy has heard many conf...

    $304.00

  • ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RELIGION FOR DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY
    RUBY QUANTSON DAVIS / ELIZABETH GISH / KUDAKWASHE CHITSIKE
    This exciting volume pioneers the study of the complex relationship between religion and deliberative democracy, a practice that places importance on the need for citizens to come together to identify shared concerns and issues, work through choices and options for action, weigh consequences and trade-offs, and possibly take collective action to influence decisions and policies...

    $499.00

  • BAREBOAT CHARTERS
    MARK DAVIS
    This book examines for the first time the Barecon 2001 form which was adopted by the Documentary Committee of BIMCO in November 2001. The title explains the nature and formation of a bareboat charter, and examines and comments upon each of the clauses contained in the new form, drawing comparisons with the Barecon 89 form. It gives separate consideration to the form and the iss...

    $14,500.00

  • CREATING VISUAL NARRATIVES THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY
    MIKE DAVIS
    This book provides photographers with the foundation to craft more compelling photos from concept all the way through to creation and distribution, on the path to making a living. Based on real-life practice and experience, former National Geographic and White House visual editor, Mike Davis, takes readers on a journey starting with addressing the motivation behind an image and...

    $919.00

  • A SYSTEMATIC GUIDE TO LEADERSHIP SELECTION USING TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
    LUIS RABELO / CHARLES W. DAVIS, JR. / AHMED ELATTAR / HAMED M. ALMALKI
    The old cliché states that not every manager is a leader, but the more important part of that sentiment is that to be a good manager, one has to be a good leader. This perception is because good managers do more than manage. They have to lead by inspiration, they have to lead by example, and they have to lead through the best times for their organizations as well as the absolut...

    $539.00

  • THE AUSTRALIAN POLICY HANDBOOK
    CATHERINE ALTHAUS / SARAH BALL / PETER BRIDGMAN / GLYN DAVIS / DAVID THRELFALL
    The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public engagement and policy success and failure. The Australian Policy Handbook shows how public policy permeates every aspect of our lives. ...

    $979.00

  • CLOSING THE CARE GAP WITH WEARABLE DEVICES
    MICHAEL W. DAVIS
    Patient-focused healthcare, driven by COVID-19 experiences, has become a hallmark for providing healthcare services to patients across all modalities of care and in the home. The ability to capture real-time patient data, no matter the location, via remote patient monitoring, and to transmit that data to providers and organizations approved by the consumer/patient, will become ...

    $1,239.00

  • THE WEST FROM A CAR WINDOW
    RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
    Excerpt: "It is somewhat disturbing to one who visits the West for the first time with the purpose of writing of it, to read on the back of a railroad map, before he reaches Harrisburg, that Texas “is one hundred thousand square miles larger than all the Eastern and Middle States, including Maryland and Delaware.” It gives him a sharp sensation of loneliness, a wish to apologiz...

    $39.70

  • THE BRITISH BONAPARTES
    EDWARD HILARY DAVIS
    A hitherto unexamined history of the wider Bonaparte family, presented in a new way and shedding fresh light on their eventful lives in Britain. From duels on Wimbledon Common and attempted suicides in Hyde Park, to public brawls and arrests in Shropshire and the sexual adventures of a princess who rescued Freud from the Nazis and brought him to Britain, this book exposes the c...

    $179.00

  • EARLY AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
    HOWARD DAVIS
    This book brings together key works of the noted architect and architectural theorist Christopher Alexander (1936–2022), many of which have not been published before. The book contains twenty-five essays and other works, many chosen from the newly organized Christopher Alexander archive, providing a window into the ideas and thought process of one of the most innovative archite...

    $999.00

  • FAST FACTS ABOUT DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION IN NURSING
    SANDRA DAVIS, PHD, DPM, ACNP-BC, FAANP / ANNE MARIE O'BRIEN, PHD, MA, WHNP-BC
    Delivers a comprehensive toolbox for understanding race and racism at structural, institutional, and individual levelsThis nursing handbook introduces and defines key terms about race and racism for nurses, nursing students, and nurse educators. It addresses how race and racism act as structural and core social determinants of health and propel health inequities. It moves beyon...

    $887.00

  • THE AGRICULTURAL DILEMMA
    GLENN DAVIS STONE
    The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population. This book is about the three fundamental forms of agriculture: Malthusian (expansion), industrialization (external-input-dependent), and intensification (labor-based). The best way to un...

    $999.00

  • HUMOUR IN ASIAN CULTURES
    JESSICA MILNER DAVIS
    This innovative book traces the impact of tradition on modern humour across several Asian countries and their cultures. Using examples from Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Chinese cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the contributors explore the different cultural rules for creating and sharing humour. Humour can be a powerful lubricant when correctly interpreted; mis-...

    $1,099.00

  • BIRTH AS AN AMERICAN RITE OF PASSAGE
    ROBBIE DAVIS-FLOYD
    This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the "standard procedures" that are routinely used to "manage" American childbirth. It was the first book to identify these non-evidence-ba...

    $999.00

  • BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH METHODS
    MARTA J. EICHSTELLER / HOWARD H. DAVIS
    Biographical data provide unique insights into social life, but they also pose some significant challenges for social science researchers. This book offers a systematic, flexible guide to using biographical narrative methods in your research project. Drawing upon the authors’ own research, as well as case studies from a range of international contexts and disciplines, the book ...

    $695.73