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  • OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY IN TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND
    AUDREY ECCLES
    Originally published in 1982 Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England traces the development of obstetrics and gynaecology over the past two centuries. Between the 16th and 18th century midwifery passed from a female mystery, employing traditional medicines and superstitions, to a scientifically-based clinical skill, with both gains and losses to the patient. The ...

    $980.00

  • CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON LIFE SPAN/LIFE COURSE
    JACQUELYNNE S. ECCLES
    This special issue covers different aspects of life course development. The central argument of the first paper is that human development should be viewed as the product of the interpenetration of cultural and biological processes. The following article outlines how current sociology constructs life courses. The notion of developmental biocultural co-constructivism and specific...

    $1,100.00

  • CORPORATE REAL ESTATE ASSET MANAGEMENT
    BARRY HAYNES / NICK NUNNINGTON / TIMOTHY ECCLES
    The second edition of Corporate Real Estate Asset Management is fully up to date with the latest thought and practice on successful and efficient use of corporate office space. Written from an occupier’s perspective, the book presents a ten-point CREAM model that offers advice on issues such as sustainability, workplace productivity, real estate performance measurement, change ...

    $1,760.00

  • AGAINST THE LIGHT
    MARJORIE ECCLES
    Personal and political tensions collide when a baby is kidnapped in an absorbing historical whodunit from the author of the Gil Mayo Mysteries.   London, April, 1912. The third Irish Home Rule Bill is passing through Parliament and the situation is growing ever tense. Closely involved in the negotiations, cabinet minister Edmund Latimer finds himself under growing pressure—whic...

    $164.00

  • VAGRANCY IN LAW AND PRACTICE UNDER THE OLD POOR LAW
    AUDREY ECCLES
    In eighteenth-century England, the law surrounding vagrancy was complicated, and practice stood in complex relationship to law. Drawing on extensive archival research and in-depth study of both statute law and local administrative records, this book examines the complexities of vagrancy law and the realities of its practice during the long eighteenth century. It shows how settl...

    $1,340.00

  • THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN
    JOHN C. ECCLES / KARL POPPER
    The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind; and when we are writing a difficult letter, our mind acts upon our body and, th...

    $1,800.00

  • THE CUCKOO'S CHILD
    MARJORIE ECCLES
    A young woman comes of age and discovers her hidden past in this gripping historical mystery set in the north of England.   England, 1909. When twenty-one-year-old Laura Harcourt accepts a position in Wainthorpe, a small Yorkshire town, to catalog books in an old manor house owned by wealthy local Ainsley Beaumont, she does not dream that it will change her life forever. But sh...

    $164.00

  • EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN: CREATION OF THE SELF
    JOHN C. ECCLES
    Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human persons possessed of reflective consciousness. ...

    $1,160.00

  • ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES AS CONTEXTS OF DEVELOPMENT
    MAHONEY, JOSEPH L. / LARSON, REED W. / ECCLES, JACQUELYNNE S.
    School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as inconsequential or even counterproductive to the health and well-being of young persons. Recently, however, there has been a growing recognition that--along with family, peers, and school--the organized activities...

    $2,100.00

  • DEVELOPMENT OF ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION
    WIGFIELD, ALLAN / ECCLES, JACQUELYNNE S.
    This book discusses research and theory on how motivation changes as children progress through school, gender differences in motivation, and motivational differences as an aspect of ethnicity. Motivation is discussed within the context of school achievement as well as athletic and musical performance.Key Features* Coverage of the major theories and constructs in the motivation ...

    $1,516.00

  • THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SYNAPSES
    ECCLES, JOHN CAREW
    The Physiology of Synapses ...

    $928.00

  • PERVERSE ATTACHMENTS
    ANASTASIA ECCLES
    This new theory of reader response describes “perverse attachment,” or the powerful desire to intervene in a story, even when it is impossible to do so. Fiction has long inspired resistance in its readers: making them, for example, wish for a different plot, cringe at a moment of social discomfort, or itch to warn a character about an approaching calamity. These are symptoms of...

    $465.97

  • HEIRS AND ASSIGNS
    MARJORIE ECCLES
    Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon's debut mystery "will delight fans of the TV series Downton Abbey" ( Library Journal, starred review).   November, 1928. Family and friends have gathered at the Shropshire country home of Penrose Llewellyn to celebrate the retired wealthy businessman's 60th birthday. But the morning after what should have been a convivial supper party, their ...

    $164.00

  • THE FIREBIRD'S FEATHER
    MARJORIE ECCLES
    A sheltered young woman postpones her entry into Edwardian society to solve the untimely demise of her mother.   London, May, 1911. The new king, George V, is preparing for his coronation. The suffragettes are campaigning for women to get the vote. The East End seethes with unrest. And eighteen-year-old Kitty Challoner is looking forward to 'coming out' in London society.   But...

    $149.00

  • LA CONSERVACION DE LOS DIENTES
    ECCLES
    Agotado

    $260.00