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  • NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
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    NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
    G. C. GALBRAITH
    Originally published in 1988, in several respects this book is a tribute to the outstanding career of the late Donald B. Lindsley (1907-2003) who, over a span of more than 55 years, had contributed greatly to the development of research in the fields of neurophysiology, psychophysiology, and experimental psychology. The impetus for the book was a conference held at UCLA to hono...

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  • WITHOUT QUARTER
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    WITHOUT QUARTER
    RUSSELL GALBRAITH
    Journalist and statesman Tom Johnston (1881-1965) was considered by many as the greatest Scotsman of his time. In founding the popular Glasgow-based newspaper, Forward, in 1906, he created a platform for lively socialist and nationalist debate in Scotland for over half a century. Johnston moved into active politics in 1922 to become one of the Clydeside group of MPs, rising to ...

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  • AMERICAN CAPITALISM
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    AMERICAN CAPITALISM
    JOHN GALBRAITH
    In his new introduction to this classic text on political economy, Galbraith reasserts the validity of the core thesis of American Capitalism: The best and established answer to economic power is the building of countervailing power. The trade union remains an equalizing force in the labor markets, and the chain store is the best answer to the market power of big food companies...

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  • FUNDAMENTALS OF PHARMACOLOGY
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    FUNDAMENTALS OF PHARMACOLOGY
    ALAN GALBRAITH
    Your comprehensive and current introduction to the fascinating field of Pharmacology, applied to Nursing and Health! Now fully updated in line with changes in clinical practice, new drugs and research developments. This clear and readable text will guide you through how drugs act within the body coupled with their clinical application. Sections covering social, legal and profes...

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  • ABERRANT BELIEFS AND REASONING
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    ABERRANT BELIEFS AND REASONING
    NIALL GALBRAITH
    An aberrant belief is extreme or unusual in nature. In the most serious cases these beliefs cause emotional distress in those who hold them, and typify the core symptoms of psychological disorders. Each of the chapters in this volume seeks to examine the role that biases in reasoning can play in the formation of aberrant beliefs. The chapters consider several conjectures about ...

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  • DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS
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    DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS
    JAY R. GALBRAITH
    This Third Edition of the groundbreaking book Designing Organizations offers a guide to the process of creating and managing an organization (no matter how complex) that will be positioned to respond effectively and rapidly to customer demands and have the ability to achieve unique competitive advantage. This latest edition includes fresh illustrative examples and references, w...

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  • STATISTICS FOR FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS
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    STATISTICS FOR FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS
    REX F. GALBRAITH
    Statistical analyses of the numbers, lengths, and orientations of fission tracks etched in minerals yield dating and thermal history information valuable in geological and geoscience applications, particularly in oil exploration. Fission tracks can be represented mathematically by a stochastic process of randomly oriented line segments in three dim ...

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  • PAINSTAKER
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    PAINSTAKER
    JEFFREY GALBRAITH
    In Painstaker, Galbraith takes stock of life, building an inventory of faith, regret, travel, parenthood, and hardship both physical and mental. These poems live in cities but remember the farm, with subjects ranging from fatherhood and machinery accidents to the uncertainties of faith. Galbraith calls on a number of absentees who are deceased, divine, distant, or too intimatel...

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  • TROUBLED WATERS
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    TROUBLED WATERS
    GILLIAN GALBRAITH
    Alice Rice—"a strong female detective on the Scottish crime scene"—must stem the tide of murder in a new thriller from the author of The Road to Hell ( The Bookbag).   A young disabled girl is lost on a winter's night in Leith, unable to help herself or find her way home. Someone is combing the streets, frantically searching for her. Within hours of her disappearance, a body is...

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  • THE GREAT TEXAS WIND RUSH
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    THE GREAT TEXAS WIND RUSH
    KATE GALBRAITH / ASHER PRICE
    From two environmental journalists, "the improbable story of how the oil and gas state became the nation's wind-power leader" ( The Texas Observer).   In the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has b...

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  • THE ROAD TO HELL
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    THE ROAD TO HELL
    GILLIAN GALBRAITH
    Scottish detective Alice Rice puts her career—and life—on the line in this "excellent crime novel" from the author of No Sorrow to Die ( Scottish Field).   When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing, and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of...

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  • THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
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    THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
    JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
    The classic by the renowned economist: "One of those rare works that forces a nation to re-examine its values" ( The New York Times).   One of the New York Public Library's "Books of the Century"   Hailed as a "masterpiece" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch), this examination of the "economics of abundance" cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) and lays b...

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  • A TENURED PROFESSOR
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    A TENURED PROFESSOR
    JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
    This biting satire of academia and high finance by the Harvard economist "is ingenious and humorous even as it chills and cuts close to the bone" ( The New York Times). John Kenneth Galbraith served in the Kennedy administration before becoming one of the twentieth century's foremost economists and public intellectuals. In A Tenured Professor, he spins his wealth of knowledge—a...

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  • MATHEMATICAL MODELLING: EDUCATION, ENGINEERING AND ECONOMICS - ICTMA 12
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    MATHEMATICAL MODELLING: EDUCATION, ENGINEERING AND ECONOMICS - ICTMA 12
    HAINES, C / GALBRAITH, P / BLUM, W / KHAN, S
    This book continues the ICTMA tradition of influencing teaching and learning in the application of mathematical modelling. Each chapter shows how real life problems can be discussed during university lectures, in school classrooms and industrial research. International experts contribute their knowledge and experience by providing analysis, insight and comment whilst tackling l...

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  • ENTROPY ECONOMICS
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    ENTROPY ECONOMICS
    JAMES K. GALBRAITH / JING CHEN
    Economists dream of equilibrium. It’s time to wake up. In mainstream economics, markets are ideal if competition is perfect. When supply balances demand, economic maturity is orderly and disturbed only by shocks. These ideas are rooted in doctrines going back thousands of years, yet, as James K. Galbraith and Jing Chen show, they contradict the foundations of our scientific und...

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  • THE END OF THE LINE
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    THE END OF THE LINE
    GILLIAN GALBRAITH
    From the author of the Alice Rice mysteries, an Edinburgh bibliophile uncovers an unsettling mystery surrounding the death of a late professor. After the death of leading hematologist Professor Anstruther, antiquarian book dealer Anthony Sparrow is tasked with clearing out his mansion of its books and papers. He soon begins to question the real circumstances of the old man's de...

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  • THE GOOD PRIEST
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    THE GOOD PRIEST
    GILLIAN GALBRAITH
    A secret heard in confession forces a Scottish, small-town, Catholic priest to investigate a murder in this series opener by the author of Troubled Waters. In the house of a Roman Catholic bishop, a man lies in a pool of blood. Out in the bishop's diocese, the quiet life of parish priest Father Vincent Ross is about to be thrown into turmoil by a terrifying revelation. There ar...

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  • BLOOD IN THE WATER
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    BLOOD IN THE WATER
    GILLIAN GALBRAITH
    In this gritty, mystery series debut, a lone wolf detective must use her wits to nab a serial killer terrorizing Edinburgh professionals. If it was me, if I was the murderer, Alice thought, where would I go? What would I do? The job he had set himself was unfinished, he must be aware that his luck could not go on forever. It was a simple calculation; at best, a lifetime in pris...

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  • WHERE THE SHADOW FALLS
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    WHERE THE SHADOW FALLS
    GILLIAN GALBRAITH
    A Scottish detective investigates a suspicious death with ties to a wind farm in this mystery by the author of Blood in the Water. When the body of a retired sheriff is discovered in his grand house in the New Town of Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Alice Rice finds herself hunting his killer. The search leads her to an unfamiliar world where wind-farm developers with millions of...

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  • NO SORROW TO DIE
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    NO SORROW TO DIE
    GILLIAN GALBRAITH
    Scottish detective Alice Rice stalks a serial killer in this thriller steeped in "chilling realism" from the author of Blood in the Water ( Edinburgh Evening News).   As Heather Brodie kisses her lover goodnight, her disabled husband lies dead, his throat cut from ear to ear. Who wanted Gavin Brodie dead? Many people, including Gavin Brodie. Crushed by an incurable illness, he ...

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  • DYING OF THE LIGHT
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    DYING OF THE LIGHT
    GILLIAN GALBRAITH
    A body found near Edinburgh's red-light district sends a cop into a seamy underworld in this "fast-paced" crime thriller. ( Scots Magazine). On a freezing midwinter night in Leith, a policewoman's flashlight stabs the darkness in a snow-covered cemetery. The circle of light stops on a colorless, dead face. So begins the hunt for a serial murderer of prostitutes requiring Alice ...

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  • THE GREAT CRASH 1929
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    THE GREAT CRASH 1929
    JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
    John Kenneth Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse. Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work. It was Galbraith's belief that a good knowledge of what hap...

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  • THE ECONOMICS OF INNOCENT FRAUD
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    THE ECONOMICS OF INNOCENT FRAUD
    JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
    John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today. Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap b...

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  • THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH
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    THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH
    JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
    "Graceful and often witty" insights from the legendary economist, drawn from his most influential works ( Library Journal).   The Essential Galbraith includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time—from The Affluent Society, the groundbreaking book in which he coined the term "conventional wisdom...

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  • NAME-DROPPING
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    NAME-DROPPING
    JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
    "[A] charming memoir [that] serves to remind us that idealism and trust once existed in the White House and Washington, a fact that may seem unbelievable" ( Newsday).   A New York Times Notable Book   "Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith," says the San Diego Union-Tribune. Name-Dropping covers the long and remarkable career of this econom...

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  • THE GOOD SOCIETY
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    THE GOOD SOCIETY
    JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
    The legendary economist explains how a nation can remain both compassionate and fiscally sound, with "common sense raised to the level of genius" ( The New Yorker).   This compact, eloquent book offers a blueprint for a workable national agenda that allows for human weakness without compromising a humane culture. Arguing that it is in the best interest of the United States to a...

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  • MEDITAR PARA REJUVENECER
    MEDITAR PARA REJUVENECER
    GALBRAITH
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    $65.00

  • THE INK BLACK HEART
    THE INK BLACK HEART
    GALBRAITH ROBERT
    When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.Robin decid...
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  • BLANCO LETAL (CORMORAN STRIKE 4)
    BLANCO LETAL (CORMORAN STRIKE 4)
    GALBRAITH ROBERT
    Cuando Billy, un joven con problemas, acude al consultorio privado de Cormoran Strike para pedirle ayuda y que investigue un crimen que cree haber presenciado cuando era niño, Strike se queda perplejo. Si bien Billy tiene obvios problemas mentales y no logra recordar muchos detalles concretos, hay algo sincero en él y en su historia. Pero, antes de que Strike pueda hacerle más ...
    Agotado

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  • EL OFICIO DEL MAL
    EL OFICIO DEL MAL
    GALBRAITH ROBERT
    En un paquete misterioso que ha llegado a la oficina, Robin Ellacott encuentra, horrorizada, una pierna de mujer. Su jefe, el detective privado Cormoran Strike, se muestra tanto o más sobresaltado ante el hallazgo, aunque mucho menos sorprendido. Hay cuatro personas de su pasado que podrían estar involucradas en el envío, y Strike sabe que todas ellas son capaces de actuar de u...
    Agotado

    $149.00


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