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  • THE HUMAN ODYSSEY
    DUNCAN S. FERGUSON
    These are perilous times, and people need to prepare themselves to navigate these troubled days by staying informed about their challenging environment, structuring their lives in a healthy way, and striving for a level of maturity that allows them to cope and live in a manner that brings stability and deep peace. People can arrive at a place of stability and purpose by engagin...

    $497.00

  • TEACHING AND SUPPORTING ADULT LEARNERS
    JACKIE SCRUTON / BELINDA FERGUSON
    An accessible and up to date text on teaching and supporting adult learners, aimed at both student teachers and experienced practitioners. It explores teaching adult learners within a traditional further education (FE) context but also working with those adult learners on Higher Education (HE) courses taught within FE. Adult learners have a distinct set of needs and challenges ...

    $640.00

  • FRESH TAKES ON THE BIG QUESTIONS
    JAMES FERGUSON
    This book takes a fresh look at a wide range of life's big questions and provides a resource as readers search for answers individually or together in group discussion. The goal is to explore how Christian faith relates to aspects of modern science, the problems of suffering and evil, and issues such as gender and sexuality, war and peacemaking, immigration, artificial intellig...

    $373.00

  • LIVING WISELY AND WELL IN THE EVENING OF LIFE
    DUNCAN S. FERGUSON
    Living Wisely and Well in the Evening of Life addresses the increasing difficulty of those in our culture who are "in the evening of life," who must manage a rapidly changing society and a new world being born almost daily. There are several dimensions of life which have become especially difficult for those in this position, including loneliness, the sense of being set aside i...

    $532.00

  • PRACTICE-LED THEOLOGY
    NEIL K. FERGUSON
    Following a series of economic and political changes in the late 1980s, art/design schools and performing arts academies were incorporated into the university system. To justify their teachings as academic research, they developed the idea of practice‐led research. Practice-led research recognizes two or more languages--that is, the validity of both explicit/propositional knowl...

    $692.00

  • BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK
    LISA FERGUSON
    This book examines how the game of football and militarism have historically overlapped due to their shared celebration of strength, might, and besting a clear and definitive foe. Nevertheless, since September 11, a variety of staged patriotic vignettes dominated most NFL broadcasts, giving the once easy and unforced union a stilted feel. That the War on Terror became a fixture...

    $540.00

  • THE MILITARY LEGACY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
    MICHAEL P. FERGUSON / IAN WORTHINGTON
    Placing Alexander the Great’s leadership, command skills, and grand strategy within the context of twenty-first century military challenges, and thus showing continuities in leadership and warfare since his time, this volume demonstrates how and why Alexander is relevant to the modern world by emphasizing the need for human leadership in our digital era. Not only does this volu...

    $800.00

  • OPEN SECRETS
    PAMELA FERGUSON
    The poems in this delightful book, Open Secrets, focus on how we can discover spiritual truth from nature, the world around us and the creative arts. The first section, Nature and Grace, draws together insights from the natural world alongside poems inspired by gospel encounters where people find light and love through Jesus. The Deer's Cry, following St Patrick's Prayer, has p...

    $213.00

  • OPEN SECRETS
    PAMELA FERGUSON
    The poems in this delightful book, Open Secrets, focus on how we can discover spiritual truth from nature, the world around us and the creative arts. The first section, Nature and Grace, draws together insights from the natural world alongside poems inspired by gospel encounters where people find light and love through Jesus. The Deer's Cry, following St Patrick's Prayer, has p...

    $213.00

  • FATHER TOM AND THE POPE, OR, A NIGHT IN THE VATICAN
    SAMUEL FERGUSON
    Excerpt: "There are several questions which at this present time remain unsettled. One of them is, "who invented gunpowder?" Another is, which of them was it, Faust or Guttemberg, "that invented printing?" Another is, "whether the Deity created nature, or nature created itself?" That is a poser. Another is "whether the original egg was the parent of the chicken, or the egg was ...

    $39.70

  • ALCOHOL, CRIME AND PUBLIC HEALTH
    DOROTHY NEWBURY-BIRCH / JENNIFER FERGUSON
    Alcohol, Crime and Public Health explores the issue of drinking in the criminal justice system, providing an overview of the topic from both a criminal justice and a public health perspective. The majority of prisoners in the UK (70%) have an alcohol use disorder, and evidence tells us that risky drinking is high amongst those in contact with all areas of the criminal justice s...

    $1,160.00

  • THE SIBERIAN WORLD
    JOHN P. ZIKER, JENANNE FERGUSON, AND VLADIMIR DAVYDOV
    The Siberian World provides a window into the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local populations view their environments, adapt to change, promote traditions, and maintain infrastructure. Siberian society comprises more than 30 Indigenous groups, old Russian settlers, and more recent newcomers and their descendants from all ov...

    $1,179.00

  • THE WICKED PROBLEMS OF POLICE REFORM IN CANADA
    LAURA HUEY / LORNA FERGUSON / JENNIFER L. SCHULENBERG
    This book looks at police reform in Canada, arguing that no significant and sustainable reform can occur until steps are taken to answer the question of 'What exactly do we want police to do?' Adding challenge to this is that setting boundaries on what we expect the police to do requires grappling with the complex social problems we ask them to resolve. In public policy languag...

    $1,120.00

  • JESUS IN THE TIDE OF TIME
    JOHN FERGUSON
    First published in 1990, Jesus in the Tide of Time considers the historical Jesus and studies the ways in which he has subsequently been regarded by different people in different cultures. The book examines the political, social, economic and religious background to Jesus’ life. It also looks at what is known about Jesus as a historical personality, and considers the use of sym...

    $960.00

  • AMONG THE GODS
    JOHN FERGUSON
    First published in 1989, Among the Gods uses archaeological evidence to explore ancient Greek religion. The book analyses cult-statues and inscriptions to provide a detailed discussion of gods and goddesses, the priesthood, and healing sanctuaries. In doing so, it highlights the external, formal nature of religious practice in ancient Greece, such as pilgrimages, offerings, and...

    $960.00

  • IRIS MARION YOUNG
    FERGUSON, MICHAELE L.
    Iris Marion Young (1949-2006) was one of the most influential and innovative political theorists of her generation who had a significant impact on a wide range of topics such as democratic theory, feminist theory, and justice. She bridged many longstanding divides among political theorists, engaging in Continental and critical theory, but also insisting on the importance of nor...

    $1,200.00

  • DETECTION AVOIDANCE IN HOMICIDE
    CLAIRE FERGUSON
    Detection Avoidance in Homicides: Debates, Explanations and Responses presents theory and research on how offenders avoid detection and the challenges and opportunities these efforts pose to investigators. From a scholarly perspective, the book presents a continuing history of research on detection avoidance by offenders, discusses the features of complex death investigations i...

    $1,160.00

  • A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE USE OF PAUL IN THE GOSPEL OF MARK
    CAMERON EVAN FERGUSON
    This volume presents a detailed case for the plausible literary dependence of the Gospel of Mark on select letters of the apostle Paul. The book argues that Mark and Paul share a gospel narrative that tells the story of the life, death, resurrection, and second coming of Jesus Christ "in accordance with the scriptures," and it suggests that Mark presumed Paul and his mission to...

    $1,160.00

  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY: READINGS IN THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF AMERICAN PUBLIC POLICY
    THOMAS FERGUSON / JOEL ROGERS
    The Political Economy is ideally suited as a supplementary text for courses in American government and politics, policy studies, business-government relations, and economic issues and policy making. It integrates selections from the very finest new and classical works of political and economic analysis, by distinguished scholars, into a comprehensive overview of the American po...

    $1,160.00

  • A PHILOSOPHY OF LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION
    BRUCE FERGUSON
    A Philosophy of Landscape Construction outlines a philosophy of values in landscape construction, demonstrating how integral structures, such as pavements and walls, constitute a key element to how people interact with and inhabit the final design. The book discusses how these structures enable, assist and care for people, negotiating between the dynamic processes of site ecosy...

    $1,160.00

  • WRITING FOR PLEASURE
    ROSS YOUNG / FELICITY FERGUSON
    This book explores what writing for pleasure means, and how it can be realised as a much-needed pedagogy whose aim is to develop children, young people, and their teachers as extraordinary and life-long writers. The approach described is grounded in what global research has long been telling us are the most effective ways of teaching writing and contains a description of the au...

    $740.00

  • HISTORY OF INDIAN AND EASTERN ARCHITECTURE
    JAMES FERGUSON
    James Fergusson (1808-86) became one of the most respected architectural historians of India. His 1876 account was revised in two volumes in 1910 by archaeologist James Burgess (1832-1916) and architect Richard Spiers (1838-1916). Lavishly illustrated, it remains of relevance to students of Indian and Asian architecture. ...

    $39.70

  • REAL-WORLD WRITERS: A HANDBOOK FOR TEACHING WRITING WITH 7-11 YEAR OLDS
    ROSS YOUNG / FELICITY FERGUSON
    Real-World Writers shows teachers how they can teach their pupils to write well and with pleasure, purpose and power. It demonstrates how classrooms can be transformed into genuine communities of writers where talking, reading, writing and sharing give children confidence, motivation and a sense of the relevance writing has to their own lives and learning. Based on their practi...

    $740.00

  • SEXUAL DEMOCRACY
    ANN FERGUSON
    In a book that is both a critical analysis of contemporary society and the record of a feminist intellectual odyssey, Ann Ferguson, one of the most influential socialist-feminist theorists, develops a new theory of social domination. Tracing the development of socialist-feminist theory from its roots in the politics of the New Left to its present p ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ANNUAL, VOLUME 4
    RITA S GALLIN / ANNE E FERGUSON / JANICE HARPER
    This annual series, published in co-operation with the Women in International Development Program at Michigan State University, uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore women's experiences across a wide range of geographical areas, economic sectors, and societal institutions. The articles presented in each volume synthesize a growing body of literature on key issues, sugges...

    $1,160.00

  • THE WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ANNUAL, VOLUME 2
    RITA S GALLIN / ANNE FERGUSON
    This annual series, published in co-operation with the Women in International Development Program at Michigan State University, uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore women's experiences across a wide range of geographical areas, economic sectors, and societal institutions. The articles presented in each volume synthesize a growing body of literature on key issues, sugges...

    $1,160.00

  • THE WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ANNUAL, VOLUME 1
    RITA S GALLIN / MARILYN ARONOFF / ANNE FERGUSON
    This annual series, published in cooperation with the Women and International Development Program at Michigan State University, uses a multi-disciplinary approach to explore women's experiences across a wide range of geographical areas, economic sectors, and social institutions. The articles presented in each volume synthesize a growing body of literature on key issues, suggest...

    $1,200.00

  • THE RISE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTING IN BRITAIN
    MICHAEL FERGUSON
    This title was first published in 2002: The history of management consulting in Britain is a subject that has received little attention in the past in terms of research or publication. This work redresses the gap in the knowledge base of business and management history, presenting the historical situation in the context of management consulting. Identifying the beginnings of co...

    $980.00

  • CREATING A FREELANCE CAREER
    JILL FERGUSON
    Creating a Freelance Career covers everything anyone needs to know about becoming a freelance writer, graphic designer, copy editor, artist, musician or any other creative occupation. It includes chapters on how to get started with your career and where to look for work, how to write pitch or query letters, how to work with contract employers, and how to build and sustain your ...

    $860.00

  • THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN STATE KILLER
    MICHAEL MORFORD / MICHAEL FERGUSON
    By the creators of Criminology: a complete chronicle of the Golden State serial killer investigation, including photographs and documents.   In 1976, a serial rapist terrorized California's Sacramento County, breaking into homes and leaving a trail of destruction behind him. As the masked predator expanded his turf, his evil urges drove him to murder. In Northern California, he...

    $164.00


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