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  • WELL-BEING IN THE EARLY YEARS
    CAROLINE BLIGH / SUE CHAMBERS / CHELLE DAVISON / IAN LLOYD / JACKIE MUSGRAVE / JUNE O'SULLIVAN / SUSAN WAL
    A multi-disciplinary and holistic approach to the well-being of young children to support child development modules on a variety of programmes. The emotional, physical and social well-being of young children is a prime area of the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and is at the forefront of current policy and debate. This text goes beyond issues of safeguarding to address...

    $640.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF MODERN TIMES
    JAMES DAVISON HUNTER
    Peter Berger (1929-2017) was one of the pre-eminent sociologists of the twentieth century. His highly creative and controversial writing made a distinct impact not only in sociology but in such disciplines as political science, public policy, history, religious studies and theology.Originally published in 1986 Making Sense of Modern Times shows how Peter Berger struggled with t...

    $800.00

  • AN EDUCATOR'S GUIDE TO DUAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION
    GAYLE WESTERBERG / LESLIE DAVISON
    Comprehensively updated, the second edition is a user- friendly resource for teachers and administrators to ensure their school’s success in implementing and maintaining a dual language program. The book is filled with step-by-step instructions and strategies you can try immediately. The second edition includes key updates on technology, digital resources, and current demograph...

    $820.00

  • I AM SARAH
    JAMES DAVISON
    This is the entertaining and intriguing account of Sarah, a woman who has been alive for more than a millennium. She fell ill in her nineteenth year of life, died, and was resurrected by Jesus Christ. Pursued by the authorities who view her return to life as an abomination, she has been traveling through history with two others resurrected by Jesus, Lazarus of Bethany, and Elan...

    $337.00

  • I AM SARAH
    JAMES DAVISON
    This is the entertaining and intriguing account of Sarah, a woman who has been alive for more than a millennium. She fell ill in her nineteenth year of life, died, and was resurrected by Jesus Christ. Pursued by the authorities who view her return to life as an abomination, she has been traveling through history with two others resurrected by Jesus, Lazarus of Bethany, and Elan...

    $337.00

  • SPORT AND EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY TESTING GUIDELINES: VOLUME I - SPORT TESTING
    R. C. RICHARD DAVISON
    Since its first published edition more than 30 years ago, the BASES (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) Physiological Testing Guidelines have represented the leading knowledge base of current testing methodology for sport and exercise scientists. Sport and exercise physiologists conduct physiological assessments that have proven validity and reliability, both i...

    $1,480.00

  • SPORT AND EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY TESTING GUIDELINES: VOLUME II - EXERCISE AND CLINICAL TESTING
    R. C. RICHARD DAVISON
    Since its first published edition more than 30 years ago, the BASES (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) Physiological Testing Guidelines have represented the leading knowledge base of current testing methodology for sport and exercise scientists. Sport and exercise physiologists conduct physiological assessments that have proven validity and reliability, both i...

    $1,480.00

  • MARIE CORELLI: MODERNISM, MORALITY, AND METAPHYSICS
    CAROL MARGARET DAVISON / ELAINE M. HARTNELL
    This collection reappraises and retheorizes Marie Corelli’s diverse fictional writings and locates them in their contemporary literary and social context. Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was a fabulously popular novelist in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Yet, in her day, critics railed against her taste for sentimentality, melodrama, supernatural worlds, and overt...

    $1,200.00

  • THE OUTCASTS OF MELBOURNE
    GRAEME DAVISON / DAVID DUNSTAN / CHRIS MCCONVILLE
    Behind the glittering image of 'Marvellous Melbourne' there existed in the popular imagination another, very different, picture of the colonial metropolis. This was the city of 'low life', of crowded slums, poverty, disease and vice. The nine essays in The Outcasts of Melbourne attempt to reveal the social realities behind this picture. They include new accounts of the forces w...

    $1,100.00

  • DEBATES IN ENGLISH TEACHING
    CAROLINE DALY / JON DAVISON
    Debates in English Teaching explores the major issues all English teachers encounter daily in their professional lives. Written by leading experts in the field, the chapters bring together theoretical knowledge and contemporary perspectives to offer fresh insight into the most salient debates in the field of English teaching. The book supports critical reflection and will help ...

    $800.00

  • AGRICULTURE, WOMEN, AND LAND
    JEAN DAVISON
    This book examines gender relations to land relations that are crucial to formulating policies through which African women's food producing capabilities can be advanced. It addresses the need to document historical changes in land tenure practices that have influenced women's household production. ...

    $860.00

  • IN THE WAKE
    NICOLA DAVISON
    Suspense builds slowly in this debut novel as two families deal with trust, mental illness, and ghosts from the past along the Canadian Atlantic coast.   When Emily and her family move back to Nova Scotia from Calgary, it is a return to the coastal landscape that already haunts her—and the waters where her father died. She meets her neighbors Linda, a gruff but loving widow, an...

    $149.00

  • WALLING, BOUNDARIES AND LIMINALITY
    AGNES HORVATH, MARIUS ION BENŢA AND JOAN DAVISON
    Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long durée by locating the social practice of walling and encirclement in the broadest context of human history, integrating...

    $1,200.00

  • THE NEW GLOBAL POLITICS OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC
    MICHAEL K. CONNORS / RÉMY DAVISON / JÖRN DOSCH
    Now in its new and fully updated third edition, The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific continues to provide a compelling analysis of a region undergoing dramatic changes. Based on new research and offering fresh interpretation, this edition evaluates the prospects for continuing US dominance in the ‘Asian Century’. Whilst presenting evidence for a multifaceted ‘Beijing Str...

    $1,240.00

  • THE WORLD IS MY HOME
    ANDREW DAVISON
    As recent events indicate, Iranian, Middle Eastern, and Islamic politics more broadly have been deeply influential in world affairs. Hamid Dabashi has been a highly visible and prominent commentator on these affairs, explaining, interpreting, and providing a critical perspective. This volume gathers together his most influential and insightful writings. As one of the foremost ...

    $1,340.00

  • THE ZAMBEZI RIVER BASIN
    JONATHAN LAUTZE, ZEBEDIAH PHIRI, VLADIMIR SMAKHTIN AND DAVISON SARUCHERA
    The Zambezi river is the fourth longest in Africa, crossing or bordering Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The river basin is widely recognised as one of the most important basins in southern Africa and is the focus of contested development, including water for hydropower and for agriculture and the environment. This book provides a thorough review of ...

    $1,200.00

  • HOLLYWOOD THEORY, NON-HOLLYWOOD PRACTICE
    ANNETTE DAVISON
    Relatively little has been written about film scores and soundtracks outside of Hollywood cinema. Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice addresses this gap by looking at the practices of film soundtrack composition for non-Hollywood films made after 1980. Annette Davison argues that since the mid-1970s the model of the classical Hollywood score has functioned as a form of dom...

    $1,540.00

  • THE MATCHING LAW
    MICHAEL DAVISON / DIANNE MCCARTHY
    Originally published in 1988, the purpose of this title was to present a coherent summary of the previous 30 years’ of research on the way in which animals and humans distribute their behaviour between alternative sources of reinforcement. There were three reasons why the book was needed at the time. First, it makes use of the empirical results available, something only partial...

    $1,160.00

  • THE CHALLENGES OF COMMAND
    ROBERT L. DAVISON
    In the period leading up to the First World War Britain's naval supremacy was challenged by an arms race with Germany, fuelled not only by military and geo-strategic rivalries, but an onrush of technological developments. As this book demonstrates, steam turbines, bigger guns, mechanical computing devices and ever increasing tonnage meant that the Royal Navy was forced to confr...

    $1,460.00

  • ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN THE MAINSTREAM
    CONSTANT LEUNG / CHRISTINE DAVISON / BERNARD MOHAN
    Since it was first established in the 1970's the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology and education, the series explores key issues in language acquisition and lan...

    $1,620.00

  • QUANTITATIVE FINANCE
    MATT DAVISON
    Teach Your Students How to Become Successful Working QuantsQuantitative Finance: A Simulation-Based Introduction Using Excel provides an introduction to financial mathematics for students in applied mathematics, financial engineering, actuarial science, and business administration. The text not only enables students to practice with the basic techn ...

    $2,540.00

  • QUANTITATIVE FINANCE
    MATT DAVISON
    Teach Your Students How to Become Successful Working QuantsQuantitative Finance: A Simulation-Based Introduction Using Excel provides an introduction to financial mathematics for students in applied mathematics, financial engineering, actuarial science, and business administration. The text not only enables students to practice with the basic techn ...

    $2,540.00

  • SOCIAL LITERACY, CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM
    JAMES ARTHUR / JON DAVISON / WILLIAM STOW
    This timely book looks at social literacy within the revised National Curriculum which places an obligation on schools and teachers to promote social cohesion, community involvement and a sense of social responsibility among young people. Social Literacy, Citizenship Education and the National Curriculum is an introduction to the social purposes and aims contained in the revise...

    $1,660.00

  • BORDER THINKING ON THE EDGES OF THE WEST
    ANDREW DAVISON
    Drawing on scholarly and life experience on, and over, the historically posited borders between "West" and "East," the work identifies, interrogates, and challenges a particular, enduring, violent inheritance – what it means to cross over a border – from the classical origins of Western political thought. The study has two parts. The first is an effort to work within the Wester...

    $1,160.00

  • A SYNOPSIS OF RENAL DISEASES
    A. M. DAVISON
    A Synopsis of Renal Diseases presents the techniques employed for determining nephrotic syndrome. This book is composed of 15 chapters that discuss the physiology, morphology, and the blood flow to and from the kidneys. Some of the topics covered in the book are the different types of congenital deformities of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder; connections between kidneys, bl...

    $425.00

  • OSWALD'S GAME
    JEAN DAVISON
    While much was written in the wake of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President John F. Kennedy, few journalists stopped to ask who Oswald really was, and what was driving him. In  Oswald's Game, Davison slices to the core of the man, revealing Oswald's most formative moments, beginning with his days as a difficult but intelligent child. She traces his erratic service in t...

    $229.00

  • GAMES AND SIMULATIONS IN ACTION
    H A DAVISON / A. DAVISON
    First published in 1982. This practical handbook for teachers, youth leaders, group organisers and lecturers explores one of the most lively recent developments in education. It shows how to use role play, gaming and simulation as a central and everyday means of active learning in all subjects and at all levels of education, youth and community work. The authors see the classro...

    $1,200.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ACCOUNTING COMMUNICATION
    LISA JACK, JANE DAVISON AND RUSSELL CRAIG
    One of the prime purposes of accounting is to communicate and yet, to date, this fundamental aspect of the discipline has received relatively little attention. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication represents the first collection of contributions to focus on the power of communication in accounting. The chapters have a shared aim of addressing the misconception th...

    $1,460.00

  • CULTURAL ANALYSIS
    ROBERT WUTHNOW / JAMES DAVISON HUNTER / ALBERT J. BERGESEN / EDITH KURZWEIL
    First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the analysis of culture and shows the converging assumptions that the authors believe are ...

    $1,540.00

  • CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF GLASS
    SANDRA DAVISON / R.G. NEWTON
    Conservation and Restoration of Glass is an in-depth guide to the materials and practices required for the care and preservation of glass objects. It provides thorough coverage of both theoretical and practical aspects of glass conservation.This new edition of Newton and Davison's original book, Conservation of Glass, includes sections on the nature of glass, the historical dev...

    $800.00


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