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  • IWO JIMA: THE MARINE CORPS’ EPIC VICTORY
    JON DIAMOND
    The campaign for Iwo Jima (Operation Detachment) from 19 February–26 March 1945 pitted the USMC Fifth Amphibious Corps (VAC) and the USN’s Fifth Fleet against the IJA 109th Division and assorted IJN ground troops under the command of Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. After neutralizing Japanese air assets on Iwo Jima, the objective was to seize Iwo Jima’s two completed ...

    $216.99

  • THE ALLIED NEUTRALISATION OF RABAUL
    JON DIAMOND
    “This series is basically a photo compilation with brief historical sections for each batch of images so we have some idea of what these images are all about. I've always been interested in this part of the war and very much enjoyed this one. I'm sure you will find it just as nice.” -ModelingMadness.Com Fierce Pacific ground, sea, and aerial combat raged between the Allies and ...

    $191.99

  • NORMANDY BEYOND THE BEACHES
    JON DIAMOND
    This latest Images of War series book examines the controversial development of the Allied campaign in Normandy in the weeks after the D-Day landings. After overcoming Rommel’s beach obstacles and ‘Atlantic Wall’ fortifications, a secure Allied lodgment of the five beaches developed along the Caen-Bayeux-Carentan axis with a period of consolidation while reinforcements and supp...

    $165.99

  • OTTO KERNBERG
    FRANK E. YEOMANS / DIANA DIAMOND / EVE CALIGOR
    In this book, Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond, and Eve Caligor provide a systemic review of Otto Kernberg’s multiple contributions to psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychology, and our understanding of the mind and group behavior. The book spans the full scope of Kernberg’s career, both highlighting the diversity of topics on which his writings have shed light and emphasizing conc...

    $520.00

  • THE HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
    A.S. DIAMOND
    First Published in 1959 The history and origin of language deals with one of the most important and most fascinating subject matter of all human historical problems-that of the origin and development of language. It is the first attempt to solve it, not by a priori methods, but by marshalling and analyzing the whole of the evidence. It is a work of great originality by a schola...

    $840.00

  • ALLIED VICTORY OVER JAPAN 1945
    JON DIAMOND
    "Jon Diamond is to be commended for his attention to detail, great use of maps and amazing photographs." — IPMS/USA In 1944 with the war in Europe turning in the Allies' favor, Japan still occupied vast swathes of South East Asia and the Pacific. In Burma, the seemly unstoppable Japanese advance was halted at Kohima and Imphal in June and July 1944. Six months later the advance...

    $251.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS
    ELENA DIAMOND / SHELLEY R. HART / AMY JANE GRIFFITHS / STEPHEN E. BROCK
    This engaging and practical book addresses the multitude of ways in which school-employed psychological service providers such as school counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers, can support the learning, behavioral, and mental health needs of students in school settings. Psychology in the Schools offers vignette examples to apply content to real-world contex...

    $1,240.00

  • THE DISCIPLINES SPEAK I
    ROBERT M. DIAMOND
    This set of two volumes offers statements from disciplinary/professional societies on what faculty work deserves recognition and reward in their unique culture/community. Volume I covers religion, history, geography, math, chemistry, the arts, business, journalism, and family/consumer science, plus the National Education Association. ...

    $800.00

  • EXPLORING BRITISH POLITICS
    MARK GARNETT / PETER DOREY / PATRICK DIAMOND
    Exploring British Politics is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the subject. Fully updated and revised, the new edition covers developments since 2016 in the role of the executive, parliament, the civil service, political parties, general elections, party ideology, and membership, as well as examining turmoil and leadership battles within the Labour and Conserva...

    $1,160.00

  • THE THREE BATTLES OF EL ALAMEIN
    JON DIAMOND
    The 80th Anniversary of the historic final Battle of El Alamein is the ideal time to study the events leading up to General Bernard Montgomery's famous victory over Field Marshal Rommel's Panzerarmee Africa in Autumn 1942. Four months earlier after the loss of Tobruk , Rommel's forces were in the ascendancy. Prime Minister Winston Churchill removed General Auchinleck from Comma...

    $200.00

  • BURMA VICTORY, 1944–1945
    JON DIAMOND
    General Stilwell's ad hoc force of Merrill's Marauders, American-trained Chinese divisions, Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate's Chindits conducted a northern Burmese offensive that led to the coup de main seizure of Myitkyina's airfield in May 1944. In August 1944, after a protracted siege, Myitkyina town on the Irrawaddy River fell to the Allies. At the same time elements ...

    $166.19

  • PSYCHOANALYTIC READINGS OF HAWTHORNE’S ROMANCES
    DAVID B. DIAMOND
    Offering innovative, psychoanalytic readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s four romances, this volume systematically applies Freudian theory to present significant new insights into the psychology of Hawthorne’s characters and their fates. By critically examining scenes in which the protagonists confront past traumas, Diamond underscores the transformative potential which Hawthorne ...

    $1,100.00

  • MASCULINITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
    MICHAEL J. DIAMOND
    Offering a uniquely psychoanalytic developmental perspective on male gender identity and the sense of maleness, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of masculinity in childhood and its continued evolution throughout a man’s life. Drawing on classical Freudian theory, as well as on more contemporary psychoanalytic theories, this book explores early infancy ...

    $960.00

  • THE MAGICIAN'S VISIT
    ISAAC LEIB PERETZ / BARBARA DIAMOND GOLDIN
    An evocative retelling of a classic Jewish tale by I. L. Peretz – one of the greatest classical Yiddish writers of all time, perfect for ages 4 to 8. Jonah and Rebecca have fallen on hard times and as Passover approaches, they cannot afford any of the things they need to celebrate the festival. “God will come to our aid,” Jonah insists, even on Seder night as the house is dark ...

    $101.99

  • THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY IN OPPOSITION AND POWER 1979-2019
    PATRICK DIAMOND
    This book provides a novel account of the Labour Party’s years in opposition and power since 1979, examining how New Labour fought to reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political ideas. It charts Labour’s sporadic recovery from political disaster in the 1980s, successfully making the arduous journey from opposition to power with the rise (and ultimately fall...

    $800.00

  • SOUTH ASIAN FOLKLORE
    PETER CLAUS / SARAH DIAMOND / MARGARET MILLS
    With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts. A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustration...

    $1,300.00

  • ON ANIMATION
    RON DIAMOND
    Be a fly on the wall as industry leaders Bill Kroyer and Tom Sito take us through insightful face-to-face interviews, revealing, in these two volumes, the journeys of 23 world-class directors as they candidly share their experiences and personal views on the process of making feature animated films. The interviews were produced and edited by Ron Diamond. Your job is not to be t...

    $1,140.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE POLITICS OF BREXIT
    PATRICK DIAMOND
    The surprise decision expressed by the British people in the referendum held in June 2016 to leave the European Union was remarkable. It also presents a "natural experiment" where the exposure of a society to an extraordinary event allows scholars to observe, in real time in the real world, the interaction of variables. The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Brexit takes sto...

    $1,360.00

  • IN SEARCH OF THE PRIMITIVE
    STANLEY DIAMOND
    Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Lévi...

    $1,240.00

  • THE PUBLIC NATURE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY
    MICHAEL DIAMOND
    What, exactly, is private property? Or, to ask the question another way, what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer, perhaps surprisingly to some, is that the public has not only a significant interest in regulating the use of private property but also in defining it, and establishing its contour and texture. In ...

    $1,460.00

  • JURY ETHICS
    JOHN KLEINIG / JAMES P. LEVINE / JEFFREY B. ABRAMSON / B. MICHAEL DANN / SHARI SEIDMAN DIAMOND / NORMAN J
    Trial by jury is one of the most important aspects of the U.S. legal system. A reflective look at how juries actually function brings out a number of ethical questions surrounding juror conduct and jury dynamics: Do citizens have a duty to serve as jurors? Might they seek exemptions? Is it acceptable for jurors to engage in after-hours research? Might a juror legitimately seek ...

    $2,100.00

  • WOMEN AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN FRANCE, 1939-1948
    HANNA DIAMOND
    This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and resistance, synthesising much recent scholarship on the subject in French and English, and drawing on the author's own extensive researc...

    $1,420.00

  • IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY
    LARRY DIAMOND
    This book evaluates the global status and prospects of democracy, with an emphasis on the quality of democratic institutions and the effectiveness of governance as key conditions for stable democracy. Bringing together a wide range of the author’s work over the past three decades, it advances a framework for assessing the quality of democracy and it analyzes alternative measure...

    $1,340.00

  • PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL POLITICS
    ELIN DIAMOND
    Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes:* Sex Play: Ste...

    $1,240.00

  • BEGINNING STATISTICS
    LIAM FOSTER / IAN DIAMOND / JULIE BANTON
    In the Second Edition of this bestselling textbook, the authors use real-world examples to introduce basic principles in statistics with no prior knowledge or experience assumed. With an emphasis on describing concepts, showing through example and illustrating points with graphs and displays, this book will provide readers with a step-by-step introduction to using statistics. C...

    $1,396.76

  • BEGINNING STATISTICS
    LIAM FOSTER / IAN DIAMOND / JULIE BANTON
    In the Second Edition of this bestselling textbook, the authors use real-world examples to introduce basic principles in statistics with no prior knowledge or experience assumed. With an emphasis on describing concepts, showing through example and illustrating points with graphs and displays, this book will provide readers with a step-by-step introduction to using statistics. C...

    $1,396.76

  • MARKETING INFORMATION
    MICHAEL R. OPPENHEIM / WENDY DIAMOND MULCAHY
    Help your patrons create effective marketing research plans with this sourcebook! Marketing Information: A Strategic Guide for Business and Finance Libraries identifies and describes secondary published sources of information for typical marketing questions and research projects. Experts in the field offer a guided tour of the signposts and landmarks in the world of marketing i...

    $640.00

  • PRIMITIVE LAW, PAST AND PRESENT
    A.S. DIAMOND
    This book is a study of the beginnings of law and the 'primitive' stages of its development, from the first rudimentary rules of conduct to the codes of the legal systems. Its scope extends to both cultures and legal systems from the ancient and medieval past: those of the Babylonians and Assyrians, Hittites, Hebrews, Romans, Hindus, English and other German peoples, and those ...

    $1,420.00

  • DIGITAL SOLIDARITY IN EDUCATION
    MARY T. KOLESINSKI / EVELYN NELSON-WEAVER / DARYL DIAMOND
    Digital Solidarity in Education is a book for educators, scholars, and students interested in better understanding both the role technology can play in schools and its potential for strengthening communities, optimizing the effects of globalization, and increasing educational access. The digital solidarity movement prioritizes the engagement and mobilization of students from di...

    $1,280.00

  • EMIGRATION AND EMPIRE
    MARION DIAMOND
    Maria S. Rye, a woman motivated by both feminist and philanthropic ideals, devoted her life to the migration of women and girls out of England. This biography gives an account of Rye's activities from her early engagement with liberal feminism through her association with the Langham Place group in the 1850s, her work as a journalist and with the Society for Promoting Women's E...

    $1,420.00


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