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  • THE IMPACT OF HIGHER EDUCATION RANKING SYSTEMS ON UNIVERSITIES
    KEVIN DOWNING / PETRUS JOHANNES LOOCK / SARAH GRAVETT
    This book, written by three generations of rankings academics with considerable experience from three very different regions of the globe, lifts the lid on the real impact of higher education ranking systems (HERS) on universities and their stakeholders. It critically analyses the criteria that make up the ‘Big Three’ global ranking systems and, using interviews with senior adm...

    $1,100.00

  • DEVELOPMENT OR DESTRUCTION
    THEODORE E. DOWNING
    This book is the outcome of a workshop on the conversion of tropical forest to pasture in Latin America convened in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1988. It examines the dynamics underlying this complex and destructive process and enlisted multiple perspectives in order to identify alternatives. ...

    $1,160.00

  • SELFISH WOMEN
    LISA DOWNING
    This book proceeds from a single and very simple observation: throughout history, and up to the present, women have received a clear message that we are not supposed to prioritize ourselves. Indeed, the whole question of "self" is a problem for women – and a problem that issues from a wide range of locations, including, in some cases, feminism itself. When women espouse discour...

    $1,120.00

  • HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE OUTER BANKS
    SARAH DOWNING
    Little-known stories of North Carolina's celebrated barrier islands, with photos included. The history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is as ancient and mesmerizing as its beaches. Much has been documented, but many stories were lost—until now. Join local historian Sarah Downing as she reveals a past of the Outer Banks eroded by time and tides. Revel in the nostalgic days of th...

    $251.00

  • SUFFERING AND HEALING IN AMERICA
    RAYMOND DOWNING / BEVERLEY HANCOCK
    This book contains a forword by Ron Pust, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Arizona, USA. Written by a practicing physician with 30 years experience both in America and Africa, "Suffering and Healing in America" takes a critical look at Western health care and examines its weaknesses. With a thought provoking rather than prescriptive approach, this extraordinary book ...

    $740.00

  • OUTPATIENT TREATMENT OF PSYCHOSIS
    DAVID L. DOWNING
    This book offers a practitioner's guide to evidence-based practice in working with psychotic patients in an outpatient setting by clinicians and scholars who are internationally recognized for their work in treating severe psychopathology. Topics cover conceptual, technical, and practical considerations in the parameters of working with adult and adolescent populations that exh...

    $1,160.00

  • CHRONICLES OF THE OUTER BANKS
    SARAH DOWNING
    Did you know that escapees from an escargot farm keep the snail police on their toes? The Outer Banks has a long history of unconventional characters and curious occurrences. A larger-than-life likeness of Sir Walter Raleigh was once beheaded in Manteo, and the town gave itself a royal makeover in honor of a visit from a princess. The village of Corolla was integral to the earl...

    $251.00

  • SALVATION FROM CINEMA
    CRYSTAL DOWNING
    Salvation from Cinema offers something new to the burgeoning field of "religion and film": the religious significance of film technique. Discussing the history of both cinematic devices and film theory, Crystal Downing argues that attention to the material medium echoes Christian doctrine about the materiality of Christ’s body as the medium of salvation. Downing cites Jewish, M...

    $1,360.00

  • ENGLISH GRAMMAR
    ANGELA DOWNING
    This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course, ideal for all students studying English Language, whether on a course or for self-study. Broadly based on Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar but also drawing on cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, English Grammar is accessible, avoiding overly theoretical or technical explanations. Divide...

    $1,700.00

  • TUNE UP YOUR TEACHING & TURN ON STUDENT LEARNING
    JOANN JURCHAN / CHUCK DOWNING
    Two teaching experts offer methods for maximizing student comprehension in all areas of education—with extensive research and practical examples.   All teachers want their students to think, learn, and understand. In this helpful guide, veteran educators Dr. JoAnn Jurchan and Dr. Chuck Downing examine what successful teachers are doing—and not doing—to achieve those goals. Ofte...

    $274.00

  • ON THIS DAY IN OUTER BANKS HISTORY
    SARAH DOWNING
    The Outer Banks is much more than an idyllic vacation destination. A day at a time through history, it has claimed its place as a colorful region of the Old North State. Author and historian Sarah Downing offers a daily look at the quirky and fascinating stories from the region's four-hundred-year history. During a fierce hand-to-hand battle off Ocracoke Island on November 22, ...

    $229.00

  • MEDITATION
    JIM DOWNING
    In John 15, Jesus commanded His disciples to abide in Him and share His very life. He promised that if they did, they would be fruitful. Scripture suggests three ways in which modern-day disciples can share in the life of Jesus: through the mind in meditation, through the affections in communion, and through the will in choosing and obeying. In this classic Navigator message re...

    $162.00

  • THE MOSCOW OPTION
    DAVID DOWNING
    This provocative alternative history looks at WWII from a new angle—what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941. Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic and grotesque consequences of a Third Reich triumphant. In this terrifyingly plausible scenario, the Germans fight their way into the ruins o...

    $119.00

  • ALZHEIMER'S DAY CARE
    DAVID A. LINDERMAN / NANCY H. CORBY / RACHEL DOWNING / BEVERLY SANBORN
    A book whose purpose is to offer guidance to individuals, organizations and agencies on how to develop day care programmes for patients with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. A range of programme aspects are covered from administrative details to social factors and evaluation techniques. ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED SOME BUGS
    JOHNETTE DOWNING
    A gross and giggle-inducing take on the classic children's song with "sly humor and a bit of the unexpected presented with bold art" ( School Library Journal).   There was an old lady who swallowed a fly . . . Young readers will love hearing about the fly and all the other creepy-crawly bugs the old lady gulps down in this fanciful feast. With a taste for slugs, the old lady en...

    $229.00

  • ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT IN EUROPEAN DRAMA
    DOWNING CLESS
    Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force. Though theater predominantly explores human and cultural themes, these plays fully dis...

    $1,340.00

  • FILM AND ETHICS
    LISA DOWNING / LIBBY SAXTON
    Film & Ethics considers a range of films and texts of film criticism alongside disparate philosophical discourses of ethics by Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Lacanian psychoanalysts and postmodern theorists. ...

    $1,120.00

  • WHY THE CRAWFISH LIVES IN THE MUD
    JOHNETTE DOWNING
    From the beloved children's performer, a "trickster tale jazzed up with Cajun French phrases defined both in the text and in a glossary" ( Kirkus Reviews).   A long time ago, when Crab and Crawfish were still best friends, Crawfish was feeling particularly lazy—and particularly hungry—as he loafed around the muggy bayou. When Crab arrived with a fish, Crawfish took one listen t...

    $229.00

  • ON WRITING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    MARGARET ANZUL / MARYANN DOWNING / MARGOT ELY / RUTH VINZ
    This text is both about writing up qualitative research and is itself a qualitative study. The written reflections of students on the writing process and the interpretations and presentations of their findings provide a base of data which the authors have, in turn, analyzed and incorporated into their text. They have added accounts of their own experiences, and those of their c...

    $1,760.00

  • CYNICS, PAUL AND THE PAULINE CHURCHES
    F. GERALD DOWNING
    F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society. F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament writings of Paul, explaining how he would have been seen, heard, perceived and understoo...

    $1,420.00

  • DEATH AND LIFE IN AMERICA, SECOND EDITION
    RAYMOND DOWNING
    Family physician Raymond Downing offers a bold critique of western medicine and sees medical care as one of the fallen "principalities and powers" in need of redemption. But Downing's hope lies beyond biomedicine--in biblical healing, especially the healing miracles of Jesus. In conversation with the Bible, Ivan Illich, William Stringfellow, Susan Sontag, and others, Downing re...

    $373.00

  • THE CASE OF STEPHEN DOWNING
    STEPHEN DOWNING
    The memoir of a man wrongfully convicted of murder and his 27 years spent in the U.K. prison system until his conviction was overturned. On September 12, 1973, seventeen-year-old, naïve gardener Stephen Downing returned from his lunch break to discover the badly beaten, unconscious, thirty-two-year-old Wendy Sewell lying on the footpath of Bakewell Cemetery close to Catcliff Wo...

    $229.00

  • BIOHEALTH
    RAYMOND DOWNING
    The development of modern medicine is on a very steep trajectory upward--a rise that began only about a hundred years ago. This rise is certainly quantitative, but it is accompanied by qualitative changes in the way we understand and deliver healthcare. This book begins with a look at three recognized periods of medical development--from 1900 until World War II, from the war un...

    $426.00

  • COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND READING IN THE USSR
    DOWNING, J.
    The ideas of Soviet specialists on the psychology and teaching of reading are here made available in English.The volume gives an overview of psychology and education in the U.S.S.R., and presents translations of the work of major Soviet authors, such as Elkonin and Luria. The contributions offer many valuable proposals for teaching literacy which are quite unique outside of the...

    $928.00

  • A COMPLETE COURSE IN CANNING AND RELATED PROCESSES: FUNDAMENTAL INFORMATION ON CANNING
    DOWNING, D L
    The 13th edition of A complete course in canning is ready for distribution for those interested in the canning, glass packing, and aseptic processing industries. This book has been totally revised and updated by Dr Donald Downing.The books are a technical reference and textbooks for students of food technology; food plant managers; product research and development specialists; ...

    $3,433.00

  • A COMPLETE COURSE IN CANNING AND RELATED PROCESSES: MICROBIOLOGY, PACKAGING, HACCP AND INGREDIENTS
    DOWNING, D L
    The 13th edition of A complete course in canning is ready for distribution for those interested in the canning, glass packing, and aseptic processing industries. This book has been totally revised and updated by Dr Donald Downing.The books are a technical reference and textbooks for students of food technology; food plant managers; product research and development specialists; ...

    $3,433.00

  • A COMPLETE COURSE IN CANNING AND RELATED PROCESSES: PROCESSING PROCEDURES FOR CANNED FOOD PRODUCTS
    DOWNING, D L
    The 13th edition of A complete course in canning is ready for distribution for those interested in the canning, glass packing, and aseptic processing industries. This book has been totally revised and updated by Dr Donald Downing.The books are a technical reference and textbooks for students of food technology; food plant managers; product research and development specialists; ...

    $3,433.00

  • FORMATION FOR KNOWING GOD
    F. GERALD DOWNING
    "God is Self-Revealed" we are assured by many Christians today. Yet this conviction stems only from eighteenth-century Enlightenment debates. Early and ongoing Christians, with their Jewish roots, trusted God as a committed and saving but heavily clouded presence (whether by God's choice, or our inadequacy, or both). Continuing Christian tradition has thus insisted that there i...

    $603.00

  • VIDEO INTERVENTION THERAPY
    GEORGE DOWNING
    This book offers a comprehensive guide to using video intervention in psychotherapy or mental health coaching. A video is made of a patient interacting with someone else. The patient and the therapist then explore it together, profiting from its rich information. Downing clearly elaborates each step of such an intervention. Numerous possible techniques are described. If and whe...

    $860.00

  • THE MOSCOW OPTION
    DAVID DOWNING
    On 30 September 1941, the Germans fight their way into the ruins of Moscow and the Soviet Union collapses. Although Russian resistance continues, German ambition multiplies after this success and offensives are launched in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Hitler's armies, assured of victory, make their leader's dreams reality and Allied hopes of recovery seem almo...

    $191.99


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