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  • MOSQUITOES
    WILLIAM FAULKNER
    One of Faulkner's most controversial novels! A lesser-known but compelling novel from the author of Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury. Have you ever wondered what speaks to the tortured soul of an artist? What would it be like to be stuck on a yacht with only the musings of the world and a group of artists as your company? In the heat of the late Louisiana summer, Fa...

    $119.00

  • REPRESENTING ABORIGINAL CHILDHOOD
    JOANNE FAULKNER
    This book critically investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children and childhood figure in Australia’s cultural life to mediate Australians’ ambivalence about the colonial origins of the nation, as well as its possible post-colonial futures. Engaging with representations in literature, film, governmental discourse, and news and infotainment media, it shows how ways of repr...

    $1,140.00

  • THE WHITE ELEPHANT, AND OTHER TALES FROM INDIA
    GEORGENE FAULKNER
    Indian folk tales as old as the Ganges. Well, maybe not that old, but as the compiler points out in her introduction 'some have come down to us from the early days of Buddha, and were taken from a book, called the Jataka Tales.' That's the 4th century BC. As she also points out, you would certainly have come across some of these before in Westernised versions. The title story i...

    $39.70

  • KEEP HER SAFE
    JEN FAULKNER
    "I couldn't put this down . . . Loved this! This is a really gripping story . . . I was addicted from the start." —Amazon reviewer, five stars A mother is gripped by fear as her daughter approaches adulthood, in this novel of attachments, anxieties, and buried secrets . . . How far would you go to protect your daughter?   Catherine's daughter is about to leave for university. A...

    $164.00

  • INTEGRITY OF OFFSHORE STRUCTURES
    D. FAULKNER
    Papers presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Integrity of Offshore Structures, 2-3 July 1990, Kelvin Conference Centre, University of Glasgow, Scotland organized by the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. ...

    $14,000.00

  • INSIDE RELATIONSHIPS
    SANDRA L FAULKNER
    The second edition of this book again uses original case studies as a means to bring home to students, through lived experiences, the theories and concepts of interpersonal communication. Each piece takes an arts-based approach—spanning essays, short stories, scripts, photographs, poetry— and has been newly written for this edition by communication researchers, writers, and art...

    $1,100.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
    STUART BIDDLE / NANETTE MUTRIE / TRISH GORELY / GUY FAULKNER
    The positive benefits of physical activity for physical and mental health are now widely acknowledged, yet levels of physical inactivity continue to be a major concern throughout the world. Understanding the psychology of physical activity has therefore become an important issue for scientists, health professionals and policy-makers alike as they address the challenge of behavi...

    $1,800.00

  • INTERNATIONAL CHILD LAW
    RAJNAARA AKHTAR / CONRAD NYAMUTATA / ELIZABETH FAULKNER
    This book examines the rights of the child using the global framework of the United Nations International Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989. Analysing both public and private international legal aspects, this cross-disciplinary text promotes a holistic understanding of the ongoing development of child law, children’s rights and the protection of the child. In-depth ana...

    $860.00

  • ICELANDIC MEN AND ME
    ROBERT FAULKNER
    A sparsely populated island in the North Atlantic recently made worldwide headlines in the Global Financial Crisis and for volcanic eruptions that caused unprecedented chaos to international air travel. Large contemporary audiences have formed very different images of Iceland through the vocal music and music videos of Björk and Sigur Rós. Just below the Arctic Circle, Icelan...

    $1,240.00

  • POETIC INQUIRY
    SANDRA L. FAULKNER
    Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method and Practice examines the use of poetry as a form of qualitative research, representation, and method used by researchers, practitioners, and students from across the social sciences and humanities. It serves as a practical manual for using poetry in qualitative research through the presentation of varied examples of Poetic Inquiry. It provides how...

    $1,240.00

  • DREAM TEAM
    AARON TAIT / DAVE FAULKNER
    The world needs great individual educational changemakers capable of identifying problems and creating bold, scalable solutions. But the world also needs Dream Teams —groups of talented administrators, teachers, staff, students, and community members who are passionate about making things better for kids, believe that school-based change is the means to this end, and are ...

    $674.00

  • REAL WOMEN RUN
    SANDRA FAULKNER
    Real Women Run is an innovative feminist ethnography that consists of a series of linked essays and presentations about women who run at the intersections of queer, feminist, and running identities. Faulkner uses feminist grounded theory, poetic inquiry, and qualitative content analysis to examine women’s embodied stories of running: how they run, how running fits into the cont...

    $1,160.00

  • QUEERING FAMILIES, SCHOOLING PUBLICS
    ANNE HARRIS / STACY HOLMAN JONES / SANDRA FAULKNER / ELOISE BROOK
    At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility, same-sex families, and sexualities education, there is surprisingly little writing on what it means to queer notions of family and kinship networks in global context. Building on the recent wave of scholarship on queerness in families and how families inte...

    $1,160.00

  • LADIES OF THE BROWN
    DEBRA B. FAULKNER
    "Amusing and little-known anecdotes" about the hotel's female guests including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Baez, Helen Keller, and others ( The Denver Post).   Since the day it opened in 1892, Denver's Brown Palace Hotel has been the Mile High City's foremost destination for high-powered business travelers, celebrities, royalty and politicians. In Ladies of the ...

    $229.00

  • THE DECLINE OF LAISSEZ FAIRE, 1897-1917
    HAROLD UNDERWOOD FAULKNER
    Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and growth of the factory system, labour movements and foreign and domestic commerce. ...

    $1,320.00

  • HOLLYWOOD STUDIO MUSICIANS
    ROBERT R. FAULKNER
    When originally published in 1971, Hollywood Studio Musicians was the first detailed analysis of the work and careers of production personnel in an industry devoted to mass culture. Previously, most researchers overlooked mass-culture industries as work settings, preferring to focus on content rather than the artists who created it. This lucid and insightful book looks under th...

    $1,320.00

  • UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOANALYSIS
    MATTHEW SHARPE / JOANNE FAULKNER
    "Understanding Psychoanalysis" presents a broad introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought. Charting pivotal moments in the theorization and reception of psychoanalysis, the book provides a comprehensive account of the concerns and development of Freud's work, as well as his most prominent successors, Melanie Klein and J...

    $1,160.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
    DOROTHY FAULKNER
    This book explores children's social relationships in and out of the classroom. Chapters focus on the growing importance of children's friendships and how these influence social participation and development later on in life. Issues such as peer rejection, bullying and adolescent development are analysed from both psychological and sociological perspectives. The book concludes ...

    $1,380.00

  • LEARNING RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CLASSROOM
    DOROTHY FAULKNER
    This reader explores the nature of interactions between children and their teachers in the classroom. It emphasises the importance of such relationships for children's learning and for educational practice. Part 1 looks at different cultural conceptions of the teacher-learner relationship, and how this relates to schooling, cognitive development and the aquisition of knowledge....

    $1,040.00

  • WILLIAM MORRIS
    PETER FAULKNER
    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selecte...

    $1,320.00

  • MODERNISM (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PETER FAULKNER
    First published in 1977, this book focuses on Modernism, one of the most frequently used terms in the discussion of twentieth-century literature and culture. It provides an historical account of the concept, showing the relation of Modernism to Victorian culture and uses the work of Henry James and W. B. Yeats in its analysis. The text focuses on the time period between 1910 an...

    $980.00

  • ROME
    NEIL FAULKNER
    The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. In this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that in fact, it was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved. Within the empire the landowning eli...

    $1,380.00

  • AGAINST THE AGE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PETER FAULKNER
    Students new to the work of William Morris will find the full range of his achievements covered in this reissue of Peter Faulkner's excellent biography, first published in 1980. The author has carefully placed Morris in the context of the Victorian age, but has also suggested the relevance of his ideas today. The six chapters are organised biographically and cover all aspects o...

    $1,160.00

  • REVIEW QUESTIONS FOR MRI
    CAROLYN KAUT ROTH / WILLIAM H. FAULKNER, JR.
    This book is intended for technologists who are actively involved in magnetic resonance imaging and who intend to sit for the American Registry of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists (ARMRIT) examination.  ...

    $735.00

  • GENOMICS IN ASIA
    MARGARET SLEEBOOM-FAULKNER
    "Genomics in Asia" focuses on issues dealing with the development and application of molecular biology and bioengineering technologies in Asian societies and cultures. The workshop on which this book is based aimed to gain an insight into bioethical issues with relation to the dynamics of Asian societies, cultures and religions. It was to generate debate on Asian Genomics and c...

    $640.00

  • EXPLORING CHILDREN'S CREATIVE NARRATIVES
    DOROTHY FAULKNER
    How should we understand children’s creativity? This fascinating collection of international research offers fresh perspectives on children’s creative processes and the expression of their creative imagination through dramatic play, stories, artwork, dance, music and conversation. Drawing on a range of research evidence from innovative educational initiatives in a wide variety ...

    $1,420.00

  • HUMAN GENETIC BIOBANKS IN ASIA
    SLEEBOOM-FAULKNER, MARGARET
    This volume investigates human genetic biobanking and its regulation in various Asian countries and areas, including Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India and Indonesia.. It sheds light on how cultural, socio-political and economic factors influence the set-up of bioethical regulation for human genetic biobanks and how bioethical sensitivities surrounding biobanks are...

    $860.00

  • EXERCISE, HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH
    GUY E.J. FAULKNER
    Exercise, Health and Mental Health provides an introduction to this emerging field and a platform for future research and practice. Written by internationally acclaimed exercise, health and medical scientists, it is the first systematic review of the evidence for the potential role of exercise in: treating and managing mental health problems including dementia, schizophrenia, d...

    $1,760.00

  • EMBRACING AND MANAGING CHANGE IN TOURISM
    BILL FAULKNER
    Embracing and Managing Change in Tourism examines management responses to the major changes taking place in international tourism and considers tourism itself as an agent of change. Including twenty-two detailed case studies from around the world this book explores two key principles. Firstly that change is enevitable and, if effectively managed, has the potential to benefit al...

    $640.00

  • SOLDIERS' PAY
    WILLIAM FAULKNER
    The unforgettable tale of an American soldier's return home from WWI by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Sound and the Fury. Lt. Donald Mahon served as a fighter pilot in the Great War. After suffering a terrible head injury, he was released from the hospital with lost memories and a disfiguring scar. Now, back in America, he makes his way home to Georgia with the help of ...

    $85.00


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