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  • PASTICHE
    RICHARD DYER
    Writing with his customary wit and style, Richard Dyer argues that while pastiche can be used to describe works which contain montage or collage, it can also be used to describe works which are a kind of imitation of previous works. Investigating a wide range of cultural texts drawn from films, videos, novels, poetry, rap tracks, music and painting, Richard Dyer explores issues...

    $1,100.00

  • THE POWER OF COMPANY CULTURE
    CHRIS DYER
    Learn how to enhance workforce performance, strengthen workforce retention and better your leadership by cultivating and expanding on your company's culture with The Power of Company Culture. This new edition provides detailed insights on the need for company transparency at work, the importance of a strong and positive culture and how leaders can go from supervising to support...

    $799.00

  • RINGING THE CHANGES
    GILL DYER / GINA MITCHELL / MOIRA MONTEITH
    First published in 1991. Ringing the Changes is a realistic and practical guide that provides ideas, information and advice for women planning a return to work or study after a career break. Gill Dyer, Gina Mitchell and Moira Monteith draw widely upon their own experiences both as tutors and as women juggling with the conflicting demands of personal and work commitments. This h...

    $740.00

  • PROFESSIONALISM AND LEADERSHIP IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
    MARY A. DYER / SAMANTHA MCMAHON
    Professionalism and Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care explores the tension between what early years practitioners are expected to achieve, and the level of expertise and understanding required to underpin this. It examines the impact of recent policies on the agency of individual practitioners, and the culture and ethos of their settings, and questions the drivin...

    $600.00

  • RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY SCIENCE
    KATHLEEN D. DYER
    Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) is an interdisciplinary and applied field that draws from developmental science, family science, and other social sciences. Research Foundations of Human Development and Family Science is a textbook that provides an introduction to the diverse scientific research methods that form the foundation of scholarship and practice in HDFS. In...

    $1,800.00

  • REMOTE WORK
    CHRIS DYER / KIM SHEPHERD
    How can I develop a team if they're not in the same place? How can I build a company culture that works for employees in an office, working at home and in co-work spaces? How can I maintain organizational oversight if I can't see my employees? Remote Work answers all these questions and more and provides guidance on how to build a successful remote working strategy that engages...

    $879.00

  • SHAPING THE FUTURE OF WORK
    THOMAS KOCHAN / LEE DYER
    This book provides a clear roadmap for the roles workers and leaders in business, labor, education, and government must play in building a new social contract for all to prosper. It is a call to action for a collaborative effort to develop both high-quality jobs and strong, successful businesses while simultaneously overcoming the deep social and economic divisions that are all...

    $1,060.00

  • A COMMON-SENSE METHOD OF DOUBLE-ENTRY BOOKKEEPING ON FIRST PRINCIPLES
    S. DYER
    This 1897 book, first reissued in 1984, is a key historical document from the early years of accounting, and carefully explains the various points of double entry bookkeeping. Originally intended as a new method of instruction for students of accounting, it now serves to stand as a vital piece of the puzzle of the development of the accounting profession itself. ...

    $1,000.00

  • THE FAÇADE OF EXCELLENCE
    JOHN DYER
    The crucial need to substitute true leadership for bad management practices such as Management By Objectives (MBO) and the use of fear is now well known and was often championed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming. While significant progress has been made, many organizations (especially outside of manufacturing) are either just getting started with their improvement efforts or they are fa...

    $800.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO MECHANISM DESIGN
    ERIC CONSTANS / KARL B. DYER
    Introduction to Mechanism Design: with Computer Applications provides an updated approach to undergraduate Mechanism Design and Kinematics courses/modules for engineering students. The use of web-based simulations, solid modeling, and software such as MATLAB and Excel is employed to link the design process with the latest software tools for the design and analysis of mechanisms...

    $4,000.00

  • THE SCIENTIA ARTIS MUSICE OF HÉLIE SALOMON: TEACHING MUSIC IN THE LATE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
    JOSEPH DYER
    Hélie Salomon’s Scientia artis musice (1274), is a practical manual devoted to basic concepts, psalmody, vocal pedagogy, the musical hand in singing, clefs as indicators of the tone (mode) to which a piece belongs, and practical instruction in the singing of four-voice parallel organum. Joseph Dyer presents the first, much-needed, modern edition of Salomon’s treatise, accompani...

    $1,240.00

  • WHITE
    RICHARD DYER
    Now twenty years since its initial release, Richard Dyer’s classic text White remains a groundbreaking and insightful study of the representation of whiteness in Western visual culture. White explores how, while racial representation is central to the organisation of the contemporary world, white people have remained a largely unexamined category in sharp contrast to the many s...

    $1,100.00

  • BIODETERIORATION OF CONCRETE
    THOMAS DYER
    Awareness of the importance of ensuring durability of concrete has been a growing concern of engineers, and there is now considerable understanding of the mechanisms, which cause its deterioration, and means of limiting such damage through the use of appropriate materials and approaches to design. Many of the deterioration mechanisms, which affect concrete, are the result of in...

    $1,360.00

  • SUCCESSFUL SCRUMBUTT
    NOAH DYER
    Have you ever seen a promising project get abandoned right when it seemed like it was getting ready to launch, or a project that always seemed like it was going to launch "next month," but took many months or even years before it actually launched? Scrum may be the solution to such woes. It is a project management methodology that, when applied faithfully, will increase the rat...

    $1,340.00

  • LEARNING MYSQL AND MARIADB
    RUSSELL J.T. DYER
    If you’re a programmer new to databases—or just new to MySQL and its community-driven variant, MariaDB—you’ve found the perfect introduction. This hands-on guide provides an easy, step-by-step approach to installing, using, and maintaining these popular relational database engines. Author Russell Dyer, Curriculum Manager at MariaDB and former editor of the MySQL Knowledge Base,...

    $321.00

  • LIVELIHOODS AND LEARNING
    CAROLINE DYER
    Current paradigms of ‘development’ generally serve mobile pastoralist groups poorly: their visibility in policy processes is minimal, and their mobility is constructed by the powerful as a ‘problem’, rather than as a rational livelihood strategy. Increasingly damaged eco-systems, shrinking natural resources, globalisation and urbanisation all put pressure on pastoralist livelih...

    $1,280.00

  • CLASS, STATE AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN EGYPT
    GRAHAM DYER
    The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is accepted as a "stylized fact" of agriculture in developing countries. This study uses Egyptian fieldwork data to examine factors creating this relationship, and the impact of economic and technological change on the relationship. ...

    $1,600.00

  • HANDBOOK OF REMOTIVATION THERAPY
    MICHAEL STOTTS, L. / JEAN DYER
    Finallya resource that describes the how, when, and with whom of remotivation therapy! In recent years, remotivation therapy has become an integral part of a patient care plan in a wide variety of settings. What started out as group therapy sessions in a psychiatric setting has expanded into a therapeutic modality effective in geriatric long-term and day care settings, social c...

    $820.00

  • NOW YOU SEE IT
    RICHARD DYER
    Revised for this second edition, Now You See It, Richard Dyer’s groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, now includes an outline of developments in queer cinema since 1990. Placing the book within lesbian and gay film history, Dyer examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D’Amour and Word is Out in their lesbian/gay context, as well as...

    $1,120.00

  • IN THE SPACE OF A SONG
    RICHARD DYER
    Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs themselves, the nature of the feelings they present, and who is allowed to present feelings how, when and where. In the Space of a Song explores this perception through a range of examples, f...

    $1,120.00

  • HEAVENLY BODIES
    RICHARD DYER
    Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since publication of the first edition in 1986. Dyer's illuminating study is based around case studies of three major stars: Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland. He draws on a wi...

    $1,120.00

  • THE MATTER OF IMAGES
    RICHARD DYER
    Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term ‘representation’, analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of, and the material realities they refer to. Richard Dyer’s analyses consider representations of ‘out’ groups and traditionally dominant groups alike, and encompass the eclectic texts of c...

    $1,120.00

  • POPULAR EUROPEAN CINEMA
    RICHARD DYER
    Popular European Cinema examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in any one European countha are seldom successful eslewhere. Audiences themselves represent diverse class, gender and ethnic identities that complicate th equestoin of national cinema, not least with recent developments in formerly communist Eastern Europe and post-colonialist Western Eu...

    $1,120.00

  • TEAM BUILDING: PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING TEAM PERFORMANCE
    JEFF DYER, JEFFREY H. DYER, WILLIAM G. DYER
    The newest edition of the book that has become a classic on team building, this fifth edition describes the Four Cs of the Team Development Model: Context-Laying the Foundation for Team Success; Composition-Getting the Right People on the Bus; Competencies-Developing Team Skills for High Performance; Change-Devising More Effective Ways of Working Together. The new edition featu...

    $609.00

  • GHOSTS OF MADISON, INDIANA
    VIRGINIA DYER JORGENSEN
    Downtown Madison, the largest contiguous National Historic Landmark in the United States, provides the perfect haunts for poltergeists and playful spirits.   Beautifully preserved mid-nineteenth-century buildings grace the streets of Madison, Indiana, providing a concrete connection to the past. But a more ethereal, ghostly link flits about these streets when night descends. Re...

    $229.00

  • COPING AND CONFORMITY IN WORLD POLITICS
    HUGH C. DYER
    Conformity is a common coping strategy for dealing with stresses in political situations, as well a strategy for dealing with the lack of agreed foundations. This work introduces the conceptual frameworks of coping and conformity to provide a new analysis of the ethical and political demands of international life. The volume argues that coping through conformity is the only mea...

    $1,320.00

  • MYSQL IN A NUTSHELL
    RUSSELL J.T. DYER
    When you need to find the right SQL keyword or MySQL client command-line option right away, turn to this convenient reference, known for the same speed and flexibility as the system it covers so thoroughly. MySQL is packed with so many capabilities that the odds of remembering a particular function or statement at the right moment are pretty slim. With MySQL in a Nutshell, you ...

    $374.00

  • ADVERTISING AS COMMUNICATION
    GILLIAN DYER
    Advertising is a form of communication that constantly impinges on our daily lives, yet we are often unaware of its more subtle form of persuasion, or of the extent to which it manipulates our (consumer) culture. This book sets out to examine advertising as a form of communication in contemporary society and also places it in its wider cultural and economic context. ...

    $1,100.00

  • ELDER ABUSE DETECTION AND INTERVENTION
    BONNIE BRANDL / CARMEL BITONDO DYER / CANDACE J. HEISLER / JOANNE MARLATT OTTO / LORI A. STIEGEL / RANDOL
    PRESERVING A LIFE OF PEACE AND DIGNITY FOR THE AGING This ground-breaking volume offers a new, collaborative approach geared to enhance case review, improve victim safety, raise abuser accountability, and promote system change. Sharing the common goal of promoting elder victim safety, experts in adult protective services, law enforcement, prosecution, health care, advocacy, and...

    $1,507.00

  • HOME AND IDENTITY IN LATE LIFE
    D. GRAHAM ROWLES / BITONDO CARMEL DYER
    Leading scholars, offering international and multidisciplinary viewpoints, examine the meaning of home to elders and the ways in which this meaning may be sustained, threatened, or modified according to changes associated with growing old. Organized into four sections--The Essence of Home, Disruptions of Home, Creating and Recreating Home, and Community Perspectives on the Mean...

    $1,773.00


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