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  • VAMPIRES NEVER SAY DIE
    GLORIA DUKE
    You thought life was hard for a vampire? Try being the newest Slayer on the block. Yet just when Carrie Adams thought it couldn't get any worse, she learns that in the world of the unexpectedly supernatural, nothing is ever what it seems. Meet Carrie Adams: Serious. Disciplined. Focused. But as an aspiring actress, she's at the mercy of casting directors who barely glance at he...

    $202.00

  • PREPARING TO STUDY ABROAD
    STEVEN T. DUKE
    Study abroad is a potentially valuable experience in today’s global economy. With proper preparation it can be transformational. It can open you to the appreciation of other cultures; develop the transferable intercultural skills for interacting with people from different backgrounds; and deepen your self-awareness about your values and expectations. It can build confidence as ...

    $640.00

  • WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU VAMPIRES
    GLORIA DUKE
    Bridget Jones for the vampire obsessed: fans of Olivia Dade, Tessa Bailey, and Julie Murphy will love to sink their teeth into this charming romantic comedy. Single (plus size) vampire, desperately in search of a life. Twenty-five year old Lily Baines is used to waking up hungover, overweight, and underemployed. Waking up with fangs? Not so much. But when a little light necking...

    $324.00

  • HANDBOOK OF MEDICINAL MINTS ( AROMATHEMATICS)
    JAMES A. DUKE / STEPHEN M BECKSTROM-STERNBERG
    This handbook provides the most complete collection of chemical data available on aromatic mints (Lamiaceae). The authors thoroughly introduce the field of aromathematics. Handbook of Medicinal Mints (Aromatics): Phytochemicals and Biological Activities contains a wealth of quantitative data, including more than 500 references on 10,839 chemicals from 251 assays of 205 unique t...

    $1,480.00

  • X-RAY OPTICS AND MICROANALYSIS 1992, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH INT CONFERENCE, 31 AUGUST-4 SEPTEMBER 1992, MANCHESTER, UK
    P.B. KENWAY / P.J. DUKE
    The first ICXOM congress held in Cambridge was the brain-child of Dr. Ellis Cosslett, founder of the Electron Optics Section of the Cavendish Laboratory. Dr. Cosslett pioneered research in x-ray optics and microanalysis and retained a close interest in all subject applications for this area of research, including physics, materials science, chemistry, and biology. X-Ray Optics ...

    $4,500.00

  • REVIEW FOR THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE AND BODYWORK EXAMS ENHANCED EDITION
    JOSEPH ASHTON / DUKE CASSEL
    Review for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Exams, Enhanced Third Edition is the most comprehensive study guide for any massage student or practitioner preparing for the NCETM or MBLEx exams. Each topic is presented in a concise outline format, and review questions are included after each part. Practice tests are offered that enable the user to simulate taking the actual exam. ...

    $376.27

  • TOURISM IN CHANGING NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
    NATALIE OOI / ‎ESTHER A. DUKE / ‎JOSEPH O'LEARY
    Natural environments, and the human interactions that occur within, are continuously changing and evolving. This comprehensive volume explores how the impacts of climate change, natural and man-made disasters, economic instability, and other macro-environmental factors can have profound implications for local and global economies, fragile ecosystems, and human cultures and live...

    $1,200.00

  • DATABASE OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE PHYTOCHEMICALS & THEIR ACTIVITY
    JAMES A. DUKE
    Database of Biologically Active Phytochemicals and Their Activities presents an alphabetical tabulation of some 3,000 biologically active phytochemicals (elements and compounds) from higher plants. The data includes at least one and in some cases as many as 25 biological activities for each phytochemical. The database also provides data on effective dose, inhibitory concentrati...

    $11,700.00

  • THE DEMOCRATS MUST LEAD
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS / WILLIAM J CROTTY / LOIS LOVELACE DUKE / LAWRENCE D LONGLEY
    All over the world, political parties are being born and political pluralism is being fostered. Ironically, here in the United States, the parties are blurring together ideologically, and the political process is suffering. One of the messages of this book is that a vital two-party system is essential to America’s political health. The last thing this country needs, the authors...

    $1,200.00

  • WEED CONTROL
    NICHOLAS E. KORRES, NILDA R. BURGOS, STEPHEN O. DUKE
    In light of public concerns about sustainable food production, the necessity for human and environmental protection, along with the evolution of herbicide resistant weeds, call for a review of current weed control strategies. Sustainable weed control requires an integrated approach based on knowledge of each crop and the weeds that threaten it. This book will be an invaluable s...

    $1,360.00

  • CRC HANDBOOK OF NUTS
    JAMES A. DUKE
    Over one hundred of the world's most important species of nuts are systematically accounted in this informative handbook. The text defines nuts and discusses their economic and nutritional value. For easy reference; there is an illustrated account of each nut by species, arranged alphabetically by scientific name. Each account includes the family name, several colloquial names,...

    $4,500.00

  • WEED PHYSIOLOGY
    STEPHEN O. DUKE
    Weeds are plants existing at places and/or times at which they are considered undesirable by man. Thys, man‘s primary interest in weeds is in dinging methods for eliminating their presences. Understanding the physiology of weeds and how it differs from that of crop plants is becoming increasingly important in discovering new chemical, genetic, and cultural methods of controllin...

    $1,480.00

  • WEED PHYSIOLOGY
    STEPHEN O. DUKE
    Volume 2 deals with the mechanisms of herbicide action and of resistance and tolerance to herbicides. The first five chapters of this volume cover the effects of herbicides and adjuvants on the physiology of plants. Professor Black‘s chapter begins by covering the effects of herbicides on photosynthesis, including photosynthetic assimilation of nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus....

    $5,100.00

  • HERBICIDE-RESISTANT CROPS
    STEPHEN O. DUKE
    Edited by a recognized leader in the field, Herbicide-Resistant Crops is the first book to cover all of the issues related to the controversial topic of herbicide-resistant crops. It provides extensive discussions of the modern biotechnological methods that have been used to develop such crops, and reviews the implications - both positive and negative - of developing crops that...

    $4,900.00

  • HANDBOOK OF PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENT GRASS, HERBS AND OTHER ECONOMIC PLANTS
    JAMES A. DUKE
    CRC Handbook of Phytochemical Constituents of GRAS Herbs and Other Economic Plants is a unique catalog that includes more than 15,000 phytochemical constituents from over 1,000 higher plant species. This volume covers all of the generally-recognized-as-safe (GRAS) herbs and at least 250 important food and medicinal plants. Each entry features the scientific name, one or more co...

    $8,400.00

  • HANDBOOK OF NUTS
    JAMES A. DUKE
    Over one hundred of the world's most important species of nuts are systematically accounted for in this informative handbook. The text defines nuts and discusses their economic and nutritional value. For easy reference, there is an illustrated account of each nut by species, arranged alphabetically by scientific name. Each account includes the family name, several colloquial na...

    $1,800.00

  • HANDBOOK OF EDIBLE WEEDS
    JAMES A. DUKE
    Handbook of Edible Weeds contains detailed descriptions and illustrations of 100 edible weeds, representing 100 genera of higher plant species. Some of the species are strictly American, but many are cosmopolitan weeds. Each account includes common names recognized by the Weed Science Society of America, standard Latin scientific names, uses, and distribution (geographic and ec...

    $4,500.00

  • DISSIDENT IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY MODERN LOW COUNTRIES
    ALASTAIR DUKE / ANDREW SPICER
    Alastair Duke has long been recognized as one of the leading scholars of the early modern Netherlands, known internationally for his important work on the impact of religious change on political events which was the focus of his Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990). Bringing together an updated selection of his previously published essays - together with one entir...

    $1,420.00

  • THE TOURISTS GAZE, THE CRETANS GLANCE
    PHILIP DUKE
    As researchers bring their analytic skills to bear on contemporary archaeological tourism, they find that it is as much about the present as the past. Philip Duke’s study of tourists gazing at the remains of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus between past and present, between exotic and mundane. Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews, site guidebooks, and tourist b...

    $1,120.00

  • THE RENAISSANCE AND THE POSTMODERN
    THOMAS L MARTIN / DUKE PESTA
    The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the novel approach of consulting major Renaissance writers about the values at work in postmodern representations of early modern...

    $1,240.00

  • NATURAL PRODUCTS FROM PLANTS
    LELAND J. CSEKE / ARA KIRAKOSYAN / PETER B. KAUFMAN / SARA WARBER / JAMES A. DUKE / HARRY L. BRIELMANN
    2008 NOMINEE The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature From medicinal, industrial, and culinary uses to cutting-edge laboratory techniques in modern research and plant conservation strategies, Natural Products from Plants ...

    $4,900.00

  • WORLDS OF MODERN CHINESE FICTION
    MICHAEL S. DUKE
    This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity provides balanced analysis of environmental problems and their potential solutions. ...

    $1,320.00

  • FOOTBALL, NATIONALITY AND THE STATE
    VIC DUKE / LIZ CROLLEY
    Football, Nationality and the State examines the complex and ever-changing relationship between football (its development and structure), nationality and the state. Divided into two parts the book first deals with the existence of more than one football nation within the same political state. Using international comparisons the authors argue that these divisions may result from...

    $1,420.00

  • AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR
    STEVEN B. DUKE / ALBERT C. GROSS
    America's war on drugs. It makes headlines, tops political agendas and provokes powerful emotions. But is it really worth it? That's the question posed by Steven Duke and Albert Gross in this groundbreaking book. They argue that America's biggest victories in the war on drugs are the erosion of our constitutional rights, the waste of billions of dollars and an overwhelmed court...

    $119.00

  • EXTRUSION REACTIONS
    B. P. STARK / A. J. DUKE
    Extrusion Reactions presents a critical review of the reactions which presents a rupture of both of the bonds connecting an atom or a small group of atoms into a ring system. It discusses the loss of small fragments from cyclic structures under non-catalyzed conditions. It addresses those reactions wherein the major output and starting materials are cyclic. It demonstrates the ...

    $970.00

  • COLLEGE LIBRARIES AND STUDENT CULTURE
    LYNDA M. DUKE / ANDREW D. ASHER
    How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments? In 2008, five large Illinois universities were awarded a Library Services and Technology Act Grant to try to answer that question. The resulting ongoing study has already yielded some eye-opening results. The findings suggest changes ranging from simple adjustments in service and resources to modifying t...

    $970.65

  • THE CHALLENGES OF SCHOOL DISTRICT LEADERSHIP
    DANIEL L. DUKE
    Despite the rising interest in school districts, there are relatively few comprehensive resources available for graduate students in educational leadership programs. The Challenges of School District Leadership takes the position that the best way to prepare the next generation of school district leaders is to make certain that they are prepared to address the unending challeng...

    $1,760.00

  • DUKE'S HANDBOOK OF MEDICINAL PLANTS OF LATIN AMERICA
    JAMES A. DUKE
    The greatest diversity of plants in the world occurs in tropical Latin America, which is home to nearly 100,000 of the world's 300,000 known species. Despite this diversity, Latin American flora remains the least investigated. As interest in medicinal plants continues to develop, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America provides complete coverage of nearly 500 of th...

    $6,100.00

  • DUKE'S HANDBOOK OF MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE BIBLE
    JAMES A. DUKE
    Readers have come to depend on Jim Duke's comprehensive handbooks for their ease of use and artful presentation of scientific information. Following the successful format of his other CRC handbooks, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible contains 150 herbs listed alphabetically and by scientific name. Each entry provides illustrations of the plant, synonyms, notes, co...

    $4,500.00

  • CHEMISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND EARTH SCIENCES
    CATHERINE VANESSA ANNE DUKE / CRAIG DENVER WILLIAMS
    Chemistry for Environmental and Earth Sciences focuses on the chemistry and processes behind environmental issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, water pollution, and soil contamination. Accessible to science as well as non-science majors, this textbook is divided into four intuitive chapters: Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. It uses worked examples and case stu...

    $2,100.00


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