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  • STEPS TOWARD A TIBETAN UNDERSTANDING OF PURITY
    JAMES E. MORRISON
    Though of little concern to most westerners, notions of what is considered clean and unclean, pure and impure are of great importance to many cultures. Both ritual and moral purity and impurity are significant concerns for Tibetan Buddhists and Buddhists at large, being foundational to how they live their everyday lives. Steps Towards a Tibetan Understanding of Purity provides ...

    $710.00

  • STUDY GUIDE AND WORKBOOK FOR SPIRITUAL AND CHURCH RENEWAL
    JAMES M. DAWSEY / SHARON E. WRIGHT / SCOTT SIKES
    The decline this century in church attendance has been pronounced. And polls show disconcerting ignorance about religious matters even among churchgoers. Is there a path to spiritual and church renewal? And what will become the shape of American Christianity this century?As an accompanying volume to James M. Dawsey's Handbook for the Christian Faith, this workbook offers a summ...

    $391.00

  • UNDERSTANDING POLICE OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
    JAMES E. MCCABE / PAUL E. O'CONNELL / DEMOSTHENES LONG / CAROL RASOR-CORDERO
    Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work. This book provides an easy-to-read, comprehensive overview of the key indicators of successful internal operations of police agencies in the United States, and equips readers with the tools needed to bring police organizations to top per...

    $960.00

  • SOIL SOLARIZATION
    JAACOV KATAN / JAMES E. DEVAY
    Soil Solarization describes the principles and technology of soil solarization and the use of soil solarization for different crops and cropping systems. The book evaluates and interprets the extensive amount of literature available on soil solarization in relation to climatic effects and changes in populations of soil-borne microorganisms and weeds. It also compares the advant...

    $9,600.00

  • THE TOWNSEND FAMILY IN THE EMERGING AMERICAN WEST, 1856–1926
    SUSAN E. JAMES
    This book examines the life of the Townsend family and the events that occurred during the period of 1856–1926 that shaped an expanding American West. Bryant and Julia (Riley) Townsend and their three children were born into an age of rapid change and competing cultures. Witnesses to a century of events that shaped a nation, their lives define the complexities and challenges of...

    $1,240.00

  • SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING AND LIFE SATISFACTION
    JAMES E. MADDUX
    This comprehensive and updated new edition offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on the social psychological influences on subjective well-being and life satisfaction. Among the topics covered are types of relationships (e.g., romantic relationships, friendships, online relationships) and types of interactions with others (e.g., forgiveness, gratitude, helping behav...

    $1,340.00

  • ENGLISH CONVENTS IN EXILE, 1600–1800, PART II, VOL 5
    CAROLINE BOWDEN / KATRIEN DAEMEN-DE GELDER / JAMES E KELLY / RICHARD G WILLIAMS / CARMEN M MANGION / MICH
    Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource. ...

    $5,100.00

  • INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT IN MODERN BRITAIN
    JAMES E CRONIN
    First Published in 1979, Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain examines the unique rhythm of British strikes since the 1880’s and suggests that the explosive pattern of recurring strike waves provides the key to understanding both the evolution of British industrial relations and the major changes that have taken place in working class culture and behaviour. Two major themes em...

    $860.00

  • PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
    JAMES E. MADDUX / BARBARA A. WINSTEAD
    Psychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding is a comprehensive textbook about the etiology and treatment of the most important psychological disorders. The chapters are written by leading experts in the field of psychopathology who provide up-to-date information on theory, research, and clinical practice. The book is unique in its strong emphasis on critical t...

    $1,800.00

  • ENGLISH CONVENTS IN EXILE, 1600–1800, PART II, VOL 6
    CAROLINE BOWDEN / KATRIEN DAEMEN-DE GELDER / JAMES E KELLY / RICHARD G WILLIAMS / CARMEN M MANGION / MICH
    Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource. ...

    $1,460.00

  • ENGLISH CONVENTS IN EXILE, 1600–1800, PART II, VOL 4
    CAROLINE BOWDEN / KATRIEN DAEMEN-DE GELDER / JAMES E KELLY / RICHARD G WILLIAMS / CARMEN M MANGION / MICH
    Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource. ...

    $1,360.00

  • THE U.S. NAVY AND THE RISE OF GREAT POWER COMPETITION
    JAMES J. WIRTZ / JEFFREY E. KLINE / JAMES A. RUSSELL
    This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs. A mix of original and previously published material, this volume describes how the 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general, and U.S. Navy operations in the Western Pacific in particular. The rise of an assertive China and i...

    $1,240.00

  • BRITISH METHODIST REVIVALISM AND THE ECLIPSE OF ECCLESIOLOGY
    JAMES E. PEDLAR
    Revivalism was one of the main causes of division in nineteenth-century British Methodism, but the role of revivalist theology in these splits has received scant scholarly attention. In this book, James E. Pedlar demonstrates how the revivalist variant of Methodist spirituality and theology empowered its adherents and helped foster new movements, even as it undermined the Spiri...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ART OF CHANGING THE BRAIN
    JAMES E. ZULL
    Neuroscience tells us that the products of the mind--thought, emotions, artistic creation--are the result of the interactions of the biological brain with our senses and the physical world: in short, that thinking and learning are the products of a biological process.This realization, that learning actually alters the brain by changing the number and strength of synapses, offer...

    $740.00

  • THE CURRICULAR APPROACH TO STUDENT AFFAIRS
    KATHLEEN G. KERR / KEITH E. EDWARDS / JAMES F. TWEEDY / HILARY LICHTERMAN / AMANDA R. KNERR
    The curricular approach aligns the mission, goals, outcomes, and practices of a student affairs division, unit, or other unit that works to educate students beyond the classroom with those of the institution, and organizes intentional and developmentally sequenced strategies to facilitate student learning. In this book, the authors explain how to implement a curricular approach...

    $820.00

  • FROM BRAIN TO MIND
    JAMES E. ZULL
    Finalist for Foreword Magazine's 2011 Book of the YearWith his knack for making science intelligible for the layman, and his ability to illuminate scientific concepts through analogy and reference to personal experience, James Zull offers the reader an engrossing and coherent introduction to what neuroscience can tell us about cognitive development through experience, and its i...

    $740.00

  • ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    JAMES T. HARRIS / JASON E. LANE / JEFFREY C. SUN / GAIL F. BAKER
    Winner of the 2012 ASHE/CAHEP Barbara Townsend Lecture AwardTo prosper and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable national and global environment, U.S. higher education will need to adapt, innovate, and evolve once again, as it has during every major societal change over the past four centuries.The purpose of this new edition, published a turbulent decade after the first, is t...

    $1,040.00

  • INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGIES AND FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES
    HYUN JI RIM AND JAMES E. PLATTE
    This book examines key issue areas of Indo-Pacific strategies such as cyber security, space security, maritime security, emerging technologies, and institutional frameworks in the context of deepening US–China rivalry. With greater interconnectedness across various fields, the Indo-Pacific region faces greater security challenges including future strategic power competition. St...

    $1,160.00

  • SMART WATER MANAGEMENT
    HENNING BJORNLUND, STEPHANIE KUISMA, JAMES E. NICKUM AND RAYA MARINA STEPHAN
    This book contributes to the debate about the suitability and challenges of the Smart Water Management (SWM) approach. Smart Water Management has increasingly been promoted to manage water and wastewater more efficiently and cost effectively by industries and utilities in urban contexts at regional or city scales, while reducing overall consumption. It is based on the use of In...

    $1,160.00

  • ENGAGING FACULTY IN GROUP-LEVEL CHANGE FOR INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION
    J. KASI JACKSON / AMENA O. ANDERSON / LISA M. DILKS / MAJA HUSAR HOLMES / CHRISTINE E. KUNKLE / JAMES J.
    Diversifying the academic faculty remains an elusive goal marked by slow and uneven progress. This book describes an effective model for institutional transformation which is uniquely grounded in group-level processes. Efforts at institutional transformation continue to center individual actors. This is evident in the proliferation of programs that train individuals on implicit...

    $1,060.00

  • PRIMITIVE RITUAL AND BELIEF
    E.O. JAMES
    This book, first published in 1917, investigates the rites and beliefs of people who had remained in a ‘primitive’ state of culture throughout the ages. Special attention was paid to the ritual and mythology of the Aborigines of Australia, in what was then some of the first studies of their beliefs. ...

    $1,100.00

  • LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR
    JAMES E. MAZUR / AMY L. ODUM
    Learning and Behavior reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are changed because of learning. It describes the most important principles, theories, controversies, and experiments that pertain to learning and behavior that are applicable to diverse species and different learning situations. Both classic studies and recent trends and developments are explore...

    $5,600.00

  • HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION
    JAMES E. SCHUL
    This book explores the rich history and depth of the educational field of social studies in the United States and examines its capacity to moderate modern-day anti-democratic forces through a commitment to civic education. Drawing out key significant historical moments within the development of social studies education, it provides a compelling historical narrative of the ideas...

    $540.00

  • WICKED PROBLEMS OF WATER QUALITY GOVERNANCE
    NICKUM, JAMES E.
    This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.3 on Water and Sanitation emphasizes the centrality of improving water quality to attain sustainable development. Yet the obstacles to ac...

    $1,160.00

  • FIRST-GENERATION STUDENT EXPERIENCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    CARL E. JAMES / LEANNE E. TAYLOR
    In First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education: Counterstories, we meet eight students who attended university through an access program, and hear their stories of deciding to enter university, navigating and negotiating the institution, and bringing their university experiences with them into adult life. Their "counterstories"—drawn from application statements, we...

    $1,100.00

  • CRYOGENIC HEAT MANAGEMENT
    JONATHAN DEMKO / JAMES E. FESMIRE / QUAN-SHENG SHU
    Cryogenic engineering (cryogenics) is the production, preservation, and use or application of cold. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to designing systems to deal with heat – effective management of cold, exploring the directing (or redirecting), promoting, or inhibiting this flow of heat in a practical way. It provides a description of the necessary theory, desig...

    $1,320.00

  • A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN ENGLAND
    E.O. JAMES
    First published in 1949, A History of Christianity in England is a kaleidoscopic view of the religious situation in England for readers and students who wish to eventually take it up as a serious study. The author asserts that the influence of the Church and the State in the development of the English national life and character has also led to the growth of a unique English Ch...

    $860.00

  • BREAKING POINT AND TWO MORE STORIES
    JAMES E. GUNN
    Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Breaking Point", "The Gravity Business", and "The Stilled Patter", all by James E. Gunn. ...

    $39.70

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    JAMES E. CÔTÉ
    Higher education has come under increasing public scrutiny in recent years, assailed with demands for greater efficiency, accountability, cost reduction, and, above all, job training. Drawing upon examples from across the world, with an emphasis on Anglo-American higher-education systems, this handbook employs sociological approaches to address these pressing concerns. The seco...

    $1,260.00

  • THE WORLD THE COLD WAR MADE
    JAMES E. CRONIN
    An examination of the Cold War from the creation and structure of the postwar settlement to the eventual coming apart of the post war order in the 1980s and early 1990s. James Cronin explores the creation and structure of the postwar settlement and the eventual coming apart of the postwar order in the 1980s and early 1990s. Cronin argues that the current state of the world must...

    $1,060.00


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