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  • REFLECTIONS OF A MICROVASCULAR PLASTIC SURGEON
    FREDERIC WHITE-BROWN DELEYIANNIS
    This book discusses the scope and limitations of complex reconstructive surgery that few plastic surgeons master, and that the public rarely encounters, portraying both the technical challenges of advanced reconstructive microsurgery and the human connection between physician and patient as only a master surgeon can convey. For decades, Dr. Deleyiannis has practiced one of the ...

    $1,200.00

  • AMAZING TALES VOLUME 87
    FREDERIC BROWN ET AL.
    Embark on an awe-inspiring journey with "Amazing Tales Volume 87", a dazzling science fiction anthology offering an unparalleled expedition. This enthralling collection stretches the bounds of both imagination and reality, guiding readers across far-flung galaxies and futuristic vistas that captivate the senses and challenge the mind. Within these pages, themes of innovation, e...

    $39.70

  • THINKING
    FREDERIC BARTLETT
    First Published in 1958, Thinking Introduces a number of simple experiments which can all be repeated by anybody who is interested. They show that the thinker is all the time trying to fill up gaps in information that is available to him in such a manner that there is a good prospect that all other thinkers, given the same incomplete information, will agree with him. How, and w...

    $860.00

  • A SECOND CHANCE
    JUDGE FREDERIC BLOCK
    A sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences Murderous mafia capos. The police officer who brutalized Abner Louima. A purveyor of child pornography. These are some of the defendants to have come before U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block to ask for reductions in their prison sentence...

    $497.00

  • THE ORGANIZATION DESIGN GUIDE
    HERMAN VANTRAPPEN / FREDERIC WIRTZ
    Organization redesign exercises consume enormous time, resources and energy, and yet they so often get stuck midway or fail to deliver the aspired benefits. This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive guide, enabling executives and their teams to have nuanced and in-depth discussions about substantive design choices. Once these choices are clear, the teams can confidently i...

    $800.00

  • HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER
    FREDERIC L. PAXSON
    Though several historians had published works on America's westward expansion prior, Paxson's Pulitzer Prize winning study was groundbreaking in its complete and unified presentation. Beginning with a survey of the frontier at the end of the French and Indian War and proceeding to follow the frontier westward until the close of the period of settlement in about 1890, Paxson's c...

    $229.00

  • SYSTEMIC CREATIVE COGNITION
    FRÉDÉRIC VALLÉE-TOURANGEAU
    This unique book explores how the conceptual framework of science and technology studies can be applied to creativity and problem-solving research, drawing from and building on the work of Bruno Latour. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book outlines new research practices to capture the origin of ideas. Latour enjoins researchers to adopt a resolutely ethnographic metho...

    $1,100.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ANTHROPOCENTRISM
    VINCENT CHAPAUX, FRÉDÉRIC MÉGRET AND USHA NATARAJAN
    This handbook explores, contextualises and critiques the relationship between anthropocentrism – the idea that human beings are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos – and international law. While the critical study of anthropocentrism has been under way for several years, it has either focused on specific subfields of international law or emanated from two disti...

    $1,179.00

  • FIRST HARVESTS AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF MRS. LEVISON GOWER A SATIRE
    FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON
    First Harvests: An Episode in the Life of Mrs. Levison Gower is a satirical novel written by Frederic Jesup Stimson and published in 1897. The book follows the life of Mrs. Levison Gower, a wealthy New York socialite who has recently purchased a farm in the countryside. As Mrs. Gower begins to involve herself in the daily operations of the farm, she quickly realizes that she ha...

    $39.70

  • UISNEACH OR THE CENTER OF IRELAND
    FRÉDÉRIC ARMAO
    The hill of Uisneach lies almost exactly at the geographical center of Ireland. Remarkably, a fraction at least of the ancient Irish population was aware of that fact. There is no doubt that the place of Uisneach in Irish mythology, and more broadly speaking the Celtic world, was of utmost importance: Uisneach was – and probably still is – best defined as a sacred hill at the c...

    $1,100.00

  • MIRÈIO
    FREDERIC MISTRAL
    Das Hauptthema des Gedichts, die vereitelte Liebe eines jungen Paares, das mit sozialen Vorurteilen konfrontiert ist, würde sich tatsächlich auf eine Episode in Mistrals Leben beziehen. ...

    $39.70

  • STORYTELLING AND MARKET RESEARCH
    C. FREDERIC JOHN
    Showing how market researchers can get a seat at the decision-making table, this book is the essential guide to mastering storytelling techniques that can dramatically enhance the impact of research reports and presentations, commanding full audience engagement and buy-in. While demand for storytelling in marketing research reports and presentations has mushroomed in recent yea...

    $980.00

  • GALILEE DIVIDED
    FREDERIC C HOF
    This monograph looks at the problems on and around the southern boundary of Lebanon from the time it was first established by the French and British after World War I. The author turns to the Zionist thirst for the waters of the Litani River, the impotence and neglect of the southern region and its Shia inhabitants on the part of all Lebanese governments, the coming of the PLO,...

    $1,200.00

  • COOPERATION AND CONFLICT BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA
    DEMBIŃSKA, MAGDALENA AND MÉRAND, FRÉDÉRIC
    When thinking about relations between Europe and Russia, International Relations scholars focus on why conflict has replaced cooperation. The "geostrategic debate" excludes the possible coexistence of cooperation and conflict. Tracking the evolution of conflict and cooperation patterns in three zones of contact (Estonia, Kaliningrad, and Moldova) between 1991 and 2016, this edi...

    $1,200.00

  • CONFINEMENT, PUNISHMENT AND PRISONS IN AFRICA
    MARIE MORELLE, FRÉDÉRIC LE MARCIS AND JULIA HORNBERGER
    This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa. The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first pa...

    $1,240.00

  • AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION
    FREDERIC CHAUME
    Audiovisual Translation: Dubbing is an introductory textbook that provides a solid overview of the world of dubbing and is fundamentally interactive in approach. A companion to Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling, it follows a similar structure and is accompanied by downloadable resources. Based on first-hand experience in the field, the book combines translation practice with ...

    $1,480.00

  • FOR A NEW CLASSIC SOCIOLOGY
    ALAIN CAILLÉ / FREDERIC VANDENBERGHE
    This book examines the future of the social sciences and the reconstruction of society in contemporary times. Drawing on the lead piece For a New Classic Sociology, it calls for a new theoretical synthesis that overcomes the fragmentation, specialization and professionalization within the social sciences. The position paper and the responses by a team of world-class social theo...

    $1,160.00

  • EARTHMEN BEARING GIFTS AND FOUR MORE STORIES
    FREDERIC BROWN
    Five Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Frederic Brown. Featured here: "Earthmen Bearing Gifts", "Keep Out", "Hall of Mirrors", "Two Timer", and "The Star Mouse". ...

    $39.70

  • NETWORK MOBILIZATION DYNAMICS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
    FREDERIC VOLPI / JANINE A. CLARK
    This comprehensive volume investigates the dynamics of mobilization and demobilization of social networks before, during, and after episodes of political turbulence in the Middle East region, focusing particularly on the 2011 Arab uprisings. The authors consider important questions regarding agency, strategic action, and institutional outcomes that have significance for social ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE CITY READER
    RICHARD T. LEGATES / ‎FREDERIC STOUT
    The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city. Sixty-three selections are included: forty-five from the sixth edition and eighteen new selections, including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader. The anthology features a Prologue essay on "How to Study Cities", eight part introdu...

    $1,800.00

  • LITERATURE AND MATERIALISMS
    FREDERIC NEYRAT
    Literature and Materialisms sheds light on the current new wave of materialisms and assesses the impact on literary theory and criticism. It maps the similarities and differences between speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy, and vitalism. A genealogy of materialisms, vitalisms, empiricisms, and realist approaches - from Heraclitus to Badiou, including Lucretius, Spin...

    $1,120.00

  • ARCTIC SHIPPING
    FRÉDÉRIC LASSERRE
    This book considers both the present state of Arctic shipping and possible future trends with reference to the various sectors of maritime transportation: cruise tourism, container traffic and bulk shipping. Ports are analysed as tools that support the strategies of coastal states to foster the development of resource extraction, enhance the attractiveness of Arctic shipping la...

    $1,200.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY
    JEAN-LOUIS COUTAZ / FRÉDÉRIC GARET / VINCENT WALLACE
    Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) is a unique technique for characterizing the response of materials and devices in the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Based on the measurement of transmitted or reflected ultra-short electromagnetic pulses and on a Fourier-transform of the recorded waveforms, THz-TDS permits fast and precise determination of the ...

    $3,599.00

  • THE ASSAULT GERMANY BEFORE THE OUTBREAK AND ENGLAND IN WAR-TIME
    FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE
    Excerpt: "During the war I have lived in Germany, England and the United States--a week of it in Berlin, three months at different periods in America, and the rest of the time in London. My observations of Germany have not been confined to the six and a half days the Prussian police permitted me to tarry in their midst, for my work in London has dealt almost exclusively with da...

    $39.70

  • AGEING OF INFRASTRUCTURE
    FRANK COLLINS / FRÉDÉRIC BLIN
    The book addresses the problem of ageing infrastructure and how ageing can reduce the service life below expected levels. The rate of ageing is affected by the type of construction material, environmental exposure, function of the infrastructure, and loading: each of these factors is considered in the assessment of ageing. How do international design codes address ageing? Predi...

    $1,360.00

  • THE GLOBAL SPREAD OF ARMS
    FREDERIC S PEARSON
    This book surveys the broad terrain covered by the concept of ''the security dilemma'' and points out landmarks along the route proceeding from proliferation to economic interests, showing that the arms trade is built into development of both industrial technology and political competition. ...

    $1,160.00

  • A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO MANAGING THE COMPLEXITIES OF PROCESS INDUSTRIES
    FABIENNE-FARIBA SALIMI / FREDERIC SALIMI
    A Systems Approach to Managing the Complexities of Process Industries discusses the principles of system engineering, system thinking, complexity thinking and how these apply to the process industry, including benefits and implementation in process safety management systems. The book focuses on the ways system engineering skills, PLM, and IIoT can radically improve effectivenes...

    $1,463.00

  • EVERYDAY APPLIED GEOPHYSICS 1
    NICOLAS FLORSCH / FREDERIC MUHLACH
    Everyday Applied Geophysics 1 covers the physical methods permitting the environmental exploration of the sub-surface in 1, 2, 3 or 4 dimensions (the last is for time-lapse in terms of physical environmental state and geometry). The ground is transparent to electrical currents, electromagnetic induction, magnetic fields and seismic (acoustic) waves. All extend our senses by usi...

    $1,330.00

  • MICROECONOMIC THEORY
    FREDERIC S. LEE
    Microeconomic Theory: A Heterodox Approach develops a heterodox economic theory that explains the economy as the social provisioning process at the micro level. Heterodox microeconomics explores the economy with a focus on its constituent parts and their reproduction and recurrence, their integration qua interdependency by non-market and market arrangements and institutions, an...

    $1,040.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
    FREDERIC WAN
    This comprehensive text provides all information necessary for an introductory course on the calculus of variations and optimal control theory. Following a thorough discussion of the basic problem, including sufficient conditions for optimality, the theory and techniques are extended to problems with a free end point, a free boundary, auxiliary and inequality constraints, leadi...

    $1,760.00


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