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  • INTRODUCTION TO THE THERMODYNAMICS OF MATERIALS
    DAVID R. GASKELL / DAVID E. LAUGHLIN
    Maintaining the substance that has made Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials a perennial bestseller for decades, the Seventh Edition is updated to reflect the broadening field of materials science and engineering. Chapters are updated and revised throughout to be more useful and logical for students. Features more than 60 new homework problems for the students, a lis...

    $3,400.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN MATERIALS ENGINEERING
    DAVID R. GASKELL / MATTHEW JOHN M. KRANE
    This book elucidates the important role of conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, mass transport in solids and fluids, and internal and external fluid flow in the behavior of materials processes. These phenomena are critical in materials engineering because of the connection of transport to the evolution and distribution of microstructural properties during proces...

    $3,440.00

  • MARY BARTON
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    Elizabeth Gaskell uses her novel Mary Barton to compare and contrast the rich and the working class. She links the plight of the working class to that of the plight of Victorian women at the hands of the men in their lives. A classic novel about love and redemption. ...

    $19.00

  • RADICAL PRINCIPALS
    MICHAEL S. GASKELL
    Radical Principals is a guidebook for K-12 leaders looking for creative ways, beyond the status quo, to support and nurture school communities in the wake of unprecedented obstacles. In-service principals understandably rely on existing protocols and district policies to solve day-to-day problems, but do you ever wonder whether these quick fixes are preventing you from making a...

    $800.00

  • NORTH AND SOUTH
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton. She witnesses the brutal world wreaked by the Industrial Revolution, seeing employers and workers clashing in the first strikes. ...

    $39.70

  • THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË - VOLUME 2
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honour her friend. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË - VOLUME 1
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honour her friend. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • CRANFORD
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    A sensitive and moving portrait of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s, Cranford recounts the events and activities in the lives of a group of spinsters and widows who struggle in genteel poverty to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. ...

    $39.70

  • WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell is an unfinished novel that Cornhill Magazine originally published as a serial in 1864. It follows Molly Gibson, a young girl under the care of her widowed father, who falls in love with a son of the landed gentry and discovers the secrets of her friends and family. ...

    $39.70

  • RUTH
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Elizabeth Gaskell tells the story of a fallen woman in the Victorian period in her novel Ruth. When Ruth Hilton's parents die, her guardian helps her to secure the position of an apprentice at a seamstress' shop. Sixteen year old Ruth is befriended by Mr. Bellingham who convinces her that he is in love with her. ...

    $39.70

  • COUSIN PHILLIS
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his (second) cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence. Most critics agree that Cousin Phillis is Gaskell's crowning achievement in the short novel. ...

    $39.70

  • MARY BARTON
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Mary Barton is the story of a working-class family in which the father, John Barton, lapses into bitter class hatred during a cyclic depression and carries out a retaliatory murder at the behest of his trade union. ...

    $39.70

  • THE GREY WOMAN AND OTHER TALES
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Tales of murder and mystery intertwine with sentimental holiday stories in this eclectic collection. The Grey Woman and Other Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a collection of short fiction with varying genres. With thrilling, suspenseful, sentimental and moral narratives, Gaskell's Victorian gothic tales proves that she can master any genre. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • CURIOUS, IF TRUE
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Curious, If True: Strange Tales is a collection of five dark Victorian tales of suspense, horror, mood and mystery by Elizabeth Gaskell, published variously between 1852 and 1861. Includes "The Old Nurse's Story," "The Poor Clare," "Lois The Witch," "The Grey Woman," and "Curious, If True." (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • LEADING SCHOOLS THROUGH TRAUMA
    MICHAEL S. GASKELL
    Leading Schools Through Trauma is a data-driven resource for education leaders and administrators preparing to help students heal from acute traumas. Traumatizing experiences are inevitable and cyclical, and we see them at individual, local and large-scale levels. As a school leader you need concrete tools to help learners flourish in their wake, especially amid the challenges ...

    $860.00

  • THE LAW OF WRECK
    NICHOLAS GASKELL / CRAIG FORREST
    This book covers wreck law as an integrated whole, going beyond the question of "removal" to include issues such as the ownership of wreck and how the law deals with the many commercial law problems arising after ships have been wrecked during the maritime commercial adventure. The book offers authoritative guidance on the genesis and meaning of the Nairobi Wreck Removal Conven...

    $7,700.00

  • PAINTINGS AND THE PAST
    IVAN GASKELL
    This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for pictorial meaning in paintings yields limited results and should be replaced by attem...

    $1,300.00

  • BILLS OF LADING
    NICHOLAS GASKELL / REGINA ASARIOTIS / YVONNE BAATZ
    Bills of Lading: Law and Contracts provides a detailed legal analysis of common standard form clauses in bills of lading (and waybills) which are in use in the maritime world, as well as a comprehensive examination of the legal principles which are applicable to them. Bills of Lading: Law and Contracts provides a detailed legal analysis of standard form clauses in bills of ladi...

    $14,000.00

  • A DICTIONARY OF THE SACRED LANGUAGE OF ALL SCRIPTURES AND MYTHS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    G GASKELL
    G. A. Gaskell’s Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths, first published in 1923, examines several different aspects of religion, including examples from Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology to modern-day Christianity, providing explanations of gods, events, and symbols in alphabetical order. This is a perfect reference book for students of theology or ...

    $1,540.00

  • NORTH AND SOUTH
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    A novel of love and social strife in northern England during the industrial revolution—a masterpiece of Victorian literature. After a decade spent living with her aunt in London, nineteen-year-old Margaret Hale returns home to her beloved village of Helstone only to discover that her pastor father has had a crisis of faith and is moving the family to the North of England. In th...

    $85.00

  • GEOPHYSICS IN THE AFFAIRS OF MAN
    CHARLES C. BATES / THOMAS F. GASKELL / ROBERT B. RICE
    Geophysics in the Affairs of Man: A Personalized History of Exploration Geophysics and its Allied Sciences of Seismology and Oceanography describes many of the key and intriguing developments which took place within several major fields of geophysics. This book is composed of nine chapters that focus on the geophysical enterprise as an interplay of technical, social, and econom...

    $1,249.00

  • FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF EXPLOSIONS
    DAVID R. GASKELL
    Now in its second edition, Forensic Investigation of Explosions draws on the editor‘s 30 years of explosives casework experience, including his work on task forces set up to investigate major explosives incidents. Dr. Alexander Beveridge provides a broad, multidisciplinary approach, assembling the contributions of internationally recognized experts ...

    $2,420.00

  • DRAMA AND REALITY
    RONALD GASKELL
    First published in 1972, Drama and Reality is a lucid account of the forces that have shaped modern European theatre, and especially of the different conceptions of reality implied in different plays. Three major views are distinguished (the naturalistic, the subjective, the religious) and related to the choice between poetic and representational form in drama. In the second pa...

    $1,480.00

  • MINDPRINTS
    IVAN GASKELL
    A rediscovery of Thoreau’s interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought.   Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, he accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. In some of these objects, particularly Indigenous artifacts, Thoreau perceived the pres...

    $611.40

  • THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË VOLUME 1
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    The Life of Charlotte Brontë Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a meticulously crafted biography that delves into the life and times of one of literature's most enigmatic figures, Charlotte Brontë. Gaskell's work provides an intimate portrait of Brontë, exploring her personal struggles, literary genius, and the societal pressures she faced as a female writer in the 19th ...

    $39.70

  • THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË VOLUME 2
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2 is a meticulously detailed biography that delves into the life and legacy of one of the 19th century's most renowned authors, Charlotte Brontë. This volume continues to explore Brontë's personal and professional life, offering a nuanced portrayal of her struggles, triumphs, and the societal pressures she faced. ...

    $39.70

  • THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    The author of Jayne Eyre is brought to life by her friend and fellow novelist in "one of the most remarkable literary biographies in English prose" ( The Guardian).   One of the Guardian 's 100 best nonfiction books of all time   First published in 1857, The Life of Charlotte Brontë presents an intimate portrait of the celebrated author through the eyes of Elizabeth Gaskell, a ...

    $85.00

  • GHOSTLY TALES
    M. R. JAMES / ELIZABETH GASKELL / CHARLES DICKENS / ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON / AMELIA B. EDWARDS / ARTHUR C
    A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard—but sometimes at night, it screams . . . This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creak...

    $251.00

  • MARY BARTON
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    A tale of love, class, and murder during the era of the trade-union movement in nineteenth-century England, from the author of North and South. In Manchester, long-suffering John Barton and his daughter, Mary, both want a better future for each other.  John toils away with the trades' union for better wages for his fellow workers in the textile mill, while Mary must consider wh...

    $85.00

  • WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
    ELIZABETH GASKELL
    Secrets and scandals steer a young woman's life as she comes of age and finds love in Victorian England.   Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson has grown up under the watchful eye of her widowed father, the doctor Mr. Gibson. After one of his apprentices develops an interest in Molly, Mr. Gibson feels the only way to protect her is to send her to live with the Hamley family.   With ...

    $85.00


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