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  • WHAT AMERICA DID, A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT IN THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR
    FLORENCE FINCH KELLY
    Excerpt: "My purpose in this book has been to condense into a brief account just those things that the ordinary man or woman wants to know about how we prepared for and waged our share in the world war. I have tried to picture the large outlines of achievement, to present the important facts, and to show how it was all inspired and rushed forward by the flaming spirit of the pe...

    $39.70

  • RHODA OF THE UNDERGROUND
    FLORENCE FINCH KELLY
    Rhoda of the Underground by Florence Finch Kelly is a novel set in England during the 19th century. It follows the story of Rhoda, a young woman who lives in poverty and is forced to work in the London Underground. Despite the harsh conditions and struggles she faces, Rhoda remains optimistic and determined to improve her life. Through her journey, she faces challenges, makes n...

    $39.70

  • LEGAL PROFESSIONALS NEGOTIATING THE BORDERS OF IDENTITY
    JESSIE K. FINCH
    This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the México-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges. How do individuals negotiate situations in which their work-role identity is put in competition with their other social identities such as race/ethnicity, c...

    $1,099.00

  • HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN
    BRIAN FINCH
    If you are starting or selling your own business, or wanting to expand your company, business plans are essential. Get expert guidance on how to make an impact with your business plan and successfully communicate your strategic vision. Whether it is to raise finance, sell a business or develop a specific project, this is your one-stop guide to producing the most professional an...

    $329.00

  • APPLIED REGULARIZATION METHODS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
    HOLMES FINCH
    Researchers in the social sciences are faced with complex data sets in which they have relatively small samples and many variables (high dimensional data). Unlike the various technical guides currently on the market, Applied Regularization Methods for the Social Sciences provides and overview of a variety of models alongside clear examples of hands-on application. Each chapter ...

    $1,339.00

  • LITERARY URBAN STUDIES AND HOW TO PRACTICE IT
    JASON FINCH
    Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities’ ‘spatial turn’ of the 1990s and 2000s. The book introduces city literature, urban methods of reading, classics in LUS and new directions in the field. It outlines the located qualities of ...

    $979.00

  • BIG DATA IN SMALL SLICES: DATA VISUALIZATION FOR COMMUNICATORS
    DIANNE FINCH-CLAYDON
    This book offers an engaging and accessible introduction to data visualization for communicators, covering everything from data collection and analysis to the creation of effective data visuals. Straying from the typical "how to visualize data" genre often written for technical audiences, Big Data in Small Slices offers those new to data gathering and visualization the opportun...

    $999.00

  • CREATING EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT WORKSPACES
    EDWARD FINCH / GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA
    Emotions in the workplace have until recently been seen simply as a distraction. We often think of work as rational, logical and non-emotional. But organisations are waking up to the key role of emotions and affect at work. Emotions influence how we make decisions, how we relate with one another and how we make sense of our surroundings. Whilst organisations are slowly embracin...

    $1,279.00

  • BIM FOR CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY
    STEFAN MORDUE / ROLAND FINCH
    What is BIM and how does it affect the health and safety professional? How are BIM technologies used on a practical level? What opportunities are there for the use of BIM in the health and safety arena? This concise and practical guide aims to answer all these questions and more. The health and safety role is evolving towards collaboration, structured data and sharing of inform...

    $859.00

  • MULTILEVEL MODELING USING R
    W. HOLMES FINCH / JOCELYN E. BOLIN / KEN KELLEY
    Like its bestselling predecessor, Multilevel Modeling Using R, Second Edition provides the reader with a helpful guide to conducting multilevel data modeling using the R software environment. After reviewing standard linear models, the authors present the basics of multilevel models and explain how to fit these models using R. They then show how to employ multilevel modeling wi...

    $1,559.00

  • EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
    W. HOLMES FINCH / BRIAN F. FRENCH
    This new text provides the most current coverage of measurement and psychometrics in a single volume. Authors W. Holmes Finch and Brian F. French first review the basics of psychometrics and measurement, before moving on to more complex topics such as equating and scaling, item response theory, standard setting, and computer adaptive testing. Also included are discussions of cu...

    $2,300.00

  • TRANSLATING SYSTEMS THINKING INTO PRACTICE
    NATASSIA GOODE / PAUL M. SALMON / MICHAEL LENNE / CAROLINE FINCH
    Systems thinking tells us that human error, violations and technology failures result from poorly designed and managed work systems. To help us understand and prevent injuries and incidents, incident reporting systems must be capable of collecting data on contributory factors from across the overall work system, in addition to factors relating to the immediate context of the ev...

    $3,400.00

  • POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH
    RICHARD G. TEDESCHI / JANE SHAKESPEARE-FINCH / KANAKO TAKU / LAWRENCE G. CALHOUN
    Posttraumatic Growth reworks and overhauls the seminal 2006 Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth. It provides a wide range of answers to questions concerning knowledge of posttraumatic growth (PTG) theory, its synthesis and contrast with other theories and models, and its applications in diverse settings. The book starts with an overview of the history, components, and outcomes of ...

    $1,059.00

  • THE ROLE OF GLOBAL AIR POLLUTION IN AGING AND DISEASE
    CALEB E. FINCH
    Global Air Pollution in Aging: Reading Smoke Signals is a complete reference connecting environmental pollution research to the human aging process. Since 1800, lifespans have more than doubled as infections declined and medicine improved. But the 20th century introduced a new global scourge of air pollution from fossil fuels with the potential to damage arteries, hearts and lu...

    $2,393.00

  • SEBALD'S BACHELORS
    HELEN FINCH
    "Why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)? In a series of readings of Sebald's major texts, from 'After Nature' to 'Austerlitz', Helen Finch's pioneering study shows that alternative masculinities subvert catastrophe in Sebald's works. From the schizophrenic poet Ernst Herbeck to the alluring shade of Kafka in Ve...

    $1,059.00

  • MULTILEVEL MODELING USING MPLUS
    HOLMES FINCH / JOCELYN BOLIN
    This book is designed primarily for upper level undergraduate and graduate level students taking a course in multilevel modelling and/or statistical modelling with a large multilevel modelling component. The focus is on presenting the theory and practice of major multilevel modelling techniques in a variety of contexts, using Mplus as the software tool, and demonstrating the va...

    $1,499.00

  • LATENT VARIABLE MODELING WITH R
    W. HOLMES FINCH / BRIAN F. FRENCH
    This book demonstrates how to conduct latent variable modeling (LVM) in R by highlighting the features of each model, their specialized uses, examples, sample code and output, and an interpretation of the results. Each chapter features a detailed example including the analysis of the data using R, the relevant theory, the assumptions underlying the model, and other statistical ...

    $1,399.00

  • GENERAL STUDIES
    IAN J. FINCH
    General Studies: A First Handbook for Technical Students deals with liberal, general, social and English studies. This handbook narrates the author's reminiscences of childhood in a large Welsh industrial town at the beginning of the Great War, about his grandpa, his first day in school, and the time when he takes his eleven plus test. At Technical College, he studies mathema...

    $425.00

  • PASSING ON
    JANET FINCH / JENNIFER MASON
    Inheritance, once the preserve of the propertied upper classes, has become a much more common experience. Many more people now than in the past have something of material value to bequeath when they die, mainly because of the spread of home ownership during the second half of the twentieth century. Passing On examines what these changes can tell us about kinship in England, thr...

    $1,279.00

  • SPELLS
    ANNIE FINCH
    A spellbinding collection from one of America's most original and magical poets Annie Finch's Spells brings together her most memorable and striking poems written over forty years. Finch's uniquely mysterious voice moves through the book, revealing insights on the classic themes of love, spirituality, death, nature, and the patterns of time. A feminist and pagan, Finch writes p...

    $279.00

  • MARRIED TO THE JOB (RLE FEMINIST THEORY)
    JANET FINCH
    Married to the Job examines an important but under-researched area: the relationships of wives to their husbands’ work. Janet Finch looks both at the way women’s lives are directly affected by the work their husbands do and how they can get drawn into it. These she sees as the two sides of wives’ ‘incorporation’. Dr Finch discusses a wide range of occupations, from obvious ster...

    $1,139.00

  • THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NURSE LEADERS
    BARRON ANGELA MCBRIDE / P. LINDA FINCH
    p>Angela Barron McBride has a long and renowned history in nursing leadership and education. This book, which focuses on developing nurse leaders, carries on in the tradition of her previous successes, including The Growth and Development of Mothers, recognized as one of the best books of 1973 by both The New York Times and the American Journal of Nursing. From then to now, she...

    $1,738.00

  • MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
    CHRISTOPHER MABEY / TIM FINCH LEES
    `This is the first really thought-provoking book that I have read on management development. It is a book primarily addressed to students, but in this field, we are all students. It merits a wide readership both among practising managers as well as among those responsible for developing them′ - Max Boisot, ESADE `Mabey and Finch-Lees inject a breath of fresh air into the manage...

    $1,308.63

  • THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN LONGEVITY:: INFLAMMATION, NUTRITION, AND AGING IN THE EVOLUTION OF LIFESPANS
    FINCH, CALEB E.
    Written by Caleb Finch, one of the leading scientists of our time, The Biology of Human Longevity - Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans synthesizes several decades of top research on the topic of human aging and longevity particularly on the recent theories of inflammation and its effects on human health. The book expands a number of existing major ...

    $1,106.00

  • LOCKHART AND WISEMAN’S CROP HUSBANDRY INCLUDING GRASSLAND
    FINCH, STEVE / SAMUEL, ALISON / LANE, GERRY P.
    First published in 1966, Lockhart and Wiseman’s Crop Husbandry Including Grassland has established itself as the standard crop husbandry text for students and practitioners alike. Radically revised and expanded, and with a new team of authors, the eighth edition confirms and extends its reputation.Part one looks at the basic conditions for crop growth with chapters on plant str...

    $1,081.00

  • FAST FUN & EASY BOOK COVER ART
    JAKE FINCH
    Transform Everyday Books From Basic to Beautiful! 5 projects — and endless variations — for making your own one-of-a-kind book covers using these innovative techniques. From super simple to elegantly elaborate — even novice sewers will get stunning results unique to fabric choice, closure selection, and embellishment techniques. With simple sewing skills and a handful of embell...

    $129.00

  • TECHNOLOGY–BASED TRAINING: STATE OF THE ART REPORT
    LABINGER, M / FINCH, P J
    Technology–Based Training ...

    $928.00

  • THE HOME SECURITY HANDBOOK
    LYNNE FINCH
    An extensive, approachable guide to ensuring the safety of you and your family both in and out of the home. Do you know what to do if you think someone is in your house? What if an unmarked car is trying to pull you over on a dark and lonely road? Author Lynne Finch takes a comprehensive look at ways to improve your family’s immediate safety and methods for protecting them in t...

    $229.00

  • LOCKHART & WISEMAN’S CROP HUSBANDRY INCLUDING GRASSLAND
    FINCH, STEVE / SAMUEL, ALISON / LANE, GERRY P.
    The standard text on general agriculture, now updated with contemporary information on as sustainable crop management, precision farming, organic crop husbandry, and more ...

    $1,081.00

  • NEGOTIATING FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES
    JANET FINCH / PROFESSOR JANET V FINCH / JENNIFER MASON
    Negotiating Family Responsibilities provides a major new insight into contemporary family life, particularly kin relationships outside the nuclear family. While many people believe that the real meaning of 'family' has shrunk to the nuclear family household, there is considerable evidence to suggest that relationships with the wider kin group remain an important part of most pe...

    $1,259.00


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