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  • THE DREAM LIVES ON
    JACOB W. ELIAS
    Dorothy Word, an African American woman dreaming of a hopeful future for her people, advocated for African American scientists, athletes, inventors, and others often not recognized for their contributions. She writes not as noted scholar, politician, or journalist, but as a layperson from the back row of public visibility. As a retired teacher in several elementary schools she ...

    $266.00

  • GENOMIC SELECTION IN PLANTS
    ANI A. ELIAS
    Genomic selection (GS) is a promising tool in the field of breeding especially in the era where genomic data is becoming cheaper. The potential of this tool has not been realized due to its limited adaptation in various crops. Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) has been the method of choice for plant breeders while using the genomic information in the breeding pipeline. MAS, howev...

    $1,339.00

  • STUDENTS TAKING ACTION TOGETHER
    LAUREN M. FULLMER / LAURA F. BOND / CRYSTAL N. MOLYNEAUX / SAMUEL J. NAYMAN / MAURICE J. ELIAS
    A field-tested, classroom-based approach for developing the critical thinking, social-emotional, problem-solving, and discussion skills students need to be good citizens and effective changemakers.We often hear that a key purpose of schooling is to prepare students for informed and active citizenship. But what does this look like in practice? How do teachers pursue this goal am...

    $568.00

  • SOCIALIST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    ALBERTO GABRIELE / ELIAS JABBOUR
    Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is still dominant worldwide, although its hegemony is no longer undisputed, and humankind is now faced with a key existential challenge. This book proposes an alternative path to overcomi...

    $1,099.00

  • CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PRACTICE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
    MATTHEW PEPPER / ORIANA MILANI PRICE / ARUN ELIAS
    Local government plays a critical role in the provision of governance, infrastructure, and services for local communities. Over the past 30 years this sector has undergone significant reforms because of various superordinate governments policy changes. Continuous improvement and quality programs have been a common tactical response undertaken by various local government organis...

    $539.00

  • DEVELOPING GLOBAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN ASIA
    JANE LOCKWOOD / NEIL ELIAS
    This book is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to develop successful business communication. It provides authentic and memorable workplace scenarios where learners become English communicators when solving authentic problems doing business together. The book aims to help learners: Use authentic workplace materials to solve problems using English Understand how language c...

    $899.00

  • EU AND CARICOM
    WINFRIED HUCK / STEPHEN HARDY / ALICIA ELIAS ROBERTS
    Investigating the unique EU-CARICOM legal relationship, this book explores the major theme of globalisation, which shapes inter-regional organisations individually and determines their relationship to one another. It evaluates how EU-CARICOM relations have fostered trade, security and other development measures, reflecting on the past, future and present of the Caribbean states...

    $1,039.00

  • ARAB INDUSTRIAL INTEGRATION (RLE ECONOMY OF MIDDLE EAST)
    ELIAS T. GHANTUS
    The Arab countries are increasingly recognising their importance as a regional economic grouping. Given the highly skewed distribution of natural, human and financial resources, the course of economic development in the Arab countries seems to be interrelated. Through pooling their resources and markets these countries will not only be able to optimise investment decisions but ...

    $399.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF AFRICAN THEOLOGY
    ELIAS KIFON BONGMBA
    Theology has a rich tradition across the African continent, and has taken myriad directions since Christianity first arrived on its shores. This handbook charts both historical developments and contemporary issues in the formation and application of theologies across the member countries of the African Union. Written by a panel of expert international contributors, chapters fir...

    $1,179.00

  • RUSSIA AND THE QUESTION OF WORLD ORDER
    ELIAS GÖTZ / ‎CAMILLERENAUD MERLEN
    Russia and the Question of World Order engages with three sets of questions that cut to the heart of the ongoing debate about Russia’s role in the present world order. Firstly, the book asks what are Russia’s aims and objectives? Is Russia a highly revisionist power bent on overturning established rules and institutions, or is it best understood as a country with limited ambiti...

    $1,099.00

  • GENDER POLITICS AND THE PURSUIT OF COMPETITIVENESS IN MALAYSIA
    JUANITA ELIAS
    This book is concerned with how the pursuit of national economic competitiveness by states has come to be intertwined with a globalised gender agenda—one in which women and the household economy are seen as ‘untapped’ resources. In many East and Southeast Asian economies, competitiveness and the dangers of the middle-income trap dominate economic policy agendas: states’ commitm...

    $1,099.00

  • NURTURING STUDENTS' CHARACTER
    JEFFREY S. KRESS / MAURICE J. ELIAS
    Nurturing Students’ Character is an easy-to-use guide to incorporating social-emotional and character development (SECD) into your teaching practice. The links are clear—elementary and middle school students have better odds of academic success if you nurture their social and emotional skills. Drawing on broad field experience and the latest research, this book offers intuitive...

    $779.00

  • CONTEMPORARY GREECE AND EUROPE
    ACHILLEAS MITSOS / ELIAS MOSSIALOS
    This title was first published in 2000:  Contemporary Greek society is characterized by an all-embracing trend for reform. This task, however, is constrained by problems of Greek polity rooted in the historical and political culture. This text explores the important facets of divergence between Greece and the EU, examining the process through which they affect the relative perf...

    $979.00

  • HEALTH CARE AND COST CONTAINMENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
    ELIAS MOSSIALOS
    First published in 1999, this volume aims to describe and analyse the experience of cost containment in Europe over the last fifteen years in order to understand that experience and to determine, as best we can, which methods were successful and which were not. Part I provides an overview of healthcare in the European Union, an overview of recent expenditure trends. Part II com...

    $1,379.00

  • BAYESIAN COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL TREATMENTS
    ELIAS MORENO / FRANCISCO JOSE VAZQUEZ-POLO / MIGUEL ANGEL NEGRÍN-HERNÁNDEZ
    Cost-effectiveness analysis is becoming an increasingly important tool for decision making in the health systems. Cost-Effectiveness of Medical Treatments formulates the cost-effectiveness analysis as a statistical decision problem, identifies the sources of uncertainty of the problem, and gives an overview of the frequentist and Bayesian statistical approaches for decision mak...

    $1,239.00

  • ADVANCED SPATIAL MODELING WITH STOCHASTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS USING R AND INLA
    ELIAS KRAINSKI / VIRGILIO GÓMEZ-RUBIO / HAAKON BAKKA / AMANDA LENZI / DANIELA CASTRO-CAMILO / DANIEL SIMP
    Modeling spatial and spatio-temporal continuous processes is an important and challenging problem in spatial statistics. Advanced Spatial Modeling with Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Using R and INLA describes in detail the stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) approach for modeling continuous spatial processes with a Matérn covariance, which has been impl...

    $1,239.00

  • STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL LEARNING
    ELIAS CARAYANNIS
    How do companies such as BMW, Airbus Industrie, and Bayer leverage technology and learn to thrive where others fail? This book provides a one-stop resource on technology, innovation, and knowledge management. It gives you a tool for gaining short-term, case-specific insight and long-term, industry-wide understanding of the best technology management and learning policies and pr...

    $2,800.00

  • RELIGION AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION IN AFRICA
    ELIAS KIFON BONGMBA
    Religion has played a major role in both the division and unification of peoples and countries within Africa. Its capacity to cause, and to heal, societal rifts has been well documented. This book addresses this powerful societal force, and explores the implications of a theology of reconstruction, most notably articulated by Jesse Mugambi. This way of thinking seeks to build o...

    $1,099.00

  • DOMINANT BELIEFS AND ALTERNATIVE VOICES
    JOAN ELIAS GORE
    This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality. ...

    $339.00

  • HEIDEGGER ON LITERATURE, POETRY, AND EDUCATION AFTER THE "TURN"
    JAMES M. MAGRINI / ELIAS SCHWIELER
    Offering new and original readings of literature, poetry, and education as interpreted through the conceptual lens of Heidegger’s later philosophy of the "Turn", this book helps readers understand Heidegger’s later thought and presents new takes on how to engage the themes that emerged from his later writing. Suggesting novel ways to consider Heidegger’s ideas on literature, po...

    $1,059.00

  • VICTIMS OF THE SYSTEM
    ROBERT ELIAS
    This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves.Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows ho...

    $1,139.00

  • WASTE PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION IN THE METAL EXTRACTION INDUSTRY
    SEHLISELO NDLOVU / GEOFFREY S. SIMATE / ELIAS MATINDE
    Increasingly stringent environmental regulations and industry adoption of waste minimization guidelines have thus, stimulated the need for the development of recycling and reuse options for metal related waste. This book, therefore, gives an overview of the waste generation, recycle and reuse along the mining, beneficiation, extraction, manufacturing and post-consumer value cha...

    $1,199.00

  • WASTE PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION IN THE METAL EXTRACTION INDUSTRY
    SEHLISELO NDLOVU / GEOFFREY S. SIMATE / ELIAS MATINDE
    Increasingly stringent environmental regulations and industry adoption of waste minimization guidelines have thus, stimulated the need for the development of recycling and reuse options for metal related waste. This book, therefore, gives an overview of the waste generation, recycle and reuse along the mining, beneficiation, extraction, manufacturing and post-consumer value cha...

    $1,199.00

  • SOCIAL POLICY DEVELOPMENTS IN GREECE
    ELIAS MOSSIALOS
    In recent years there has been much debate surrounding the future of the welfare state in Europe, the complex factors influencing reform, and the extent to which responses to pressures on welfare could lead to irreversible systemic changes in social policy. By providing an in-depth analysis of social policy developments in Greece, this work furthers understanding of welfare r...

    $1,059.00

  • BASEBALL AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
    ROBERT ELIAS
    A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and ...

    $1,139.00

  • RACIAL THEORIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
    SEAN ELIAS / JOE R. FEAGIN
    Racial Theories in Social Science: A Systemic Racism Critique provides a critique of the white racial framing and lack of systemic-racism analysis prevalent in past and present mainstream race theory. As this book demonstrates, mainstream racial analysis, and social analysis more generally, remain stunted and uncritical because of this unhealthy white framing of knowledge and e...

    $979.00

  • INFLATION TARGETING AND POLICY RULES
    OSCAR R. MEDINA / ELIAS A. LAGUNA
    Inflation Targeting and Policy Rules is an essential book for understanding how Mexico's monetary policy has been evolving and functioning, from the beginning of the century to recent, highlighting the doctrine of policy rules and focusing on inflation targeting, both fundamental elements necessary to comprehend the operation of the main central ba ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE QUEST FOR THE MELODIC ELECTRIC BASS
    PER ELIAS DRABLØS
    The double bass - the preferred bass instrument in popular music during the 1960s - was challenged and subsequently superseded by the advent of a new electric bass instrument. From the mid-1960s and throughout the 1970s, a melismatic and inconsistent approach towards the bass role ensued, which contributed to a major change in how the electric bass was used in performance and p...

    $1,099.00

  • ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA
    ELIAS KIFON BONGMBA
    The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African continent and throughout a long historical span. The volume offers historical and thematic essays tracing the introduction of Christianity in Africa, as well as its growth, developments, and effects, including the lived experience of African Chris...

    $1,279.00

  • ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (RLE ECONOMY OF MIDDLE EAST)
    ELIAS TUMA
    In the early 1960s the Middle East suffered from political instability, inefficiency of government, widespread poverty and inequality, low productivity, and a mounting population pressure on the region’s resources. With the exception of some of the oil-exporting countries, the entire region still suffers from these same burdens. There have been many studies in the economic deve...

    $579.00


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