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  • GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN ROMANI AND TRAVELLER LIVES
    BLASCO, PALOMA GAY
    This is the first interdisciplinary collection to analyse the place of Romanies and Travellers within contemporary Europe through the lens of gender and violence. In hospitals, schools, and social assistance centres; in encounters with humanitarian agencies and the police; and in media and state representations, violence against Romanies and Travellers is always gendered. The c...

    $1,240.00

  • FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
    PAUL DU GAY / THOMAS LOPDRUP-HJORTH
    This book develops a particular stance on the subject of public service. It does so in large part by indicating how early modern political concepts and theories of state, sovereignty, government, office and reason of state can shed light on current problems, failings and ethical dilemmas in politics, government and political administration. Simply put, public service is an acti...

    $1,120.00

  • COMPOSITE MATERIALS
    DANIEL GAY
    For decades, Composite Materials: Design and Applications has guided readers on the efficient design of structural composite parts and has illustrated challenges encountered in modern engineering practice. The Fourth Edition of this perennial best-seller, now including a foreword by Professor Stephen Tsai, retains its pedagogical structure, featuring a technical level that rise...

    $1,420.00

  • THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE MUSICK TO EACH SONG
    JOHN GAY
    The book, The Beggar's Opera; to Which is Prefixed the Musick to Each Song, has been considered important throughout the human history. Beggar's Opera is a tongue-in-cheek drama from the 18th century about a bunch of low-lifes who constantly try to make money at each other's expense. The funniest plot line is that of the dastardly Captain MacHeath and his two paramours, Polly P...

    $39.70

  • OCCUPATIONAL AND PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR CHILDREN WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASES
    GAY KUCHTA / IRIS DAVIDSON
    'This volume comes at an important time in the development of the discipline, and reflects the knowledge gained by the authors through decades of hands-on experience of treating children and adolescents with the entire spectrum of rheumatic diseases. It emphasizes the integration of the expertise of all health care providers in an interactive team' - Ross Petty in the Foreword....

    $1,760.00

  • IMAGINING MOTHERHOOD IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    VALERIE HEFFERNAN / GAY WILGUS
    Images, representations and constructions of mothers have historically shaped and continue to shape the way we imagine the institution of motherhood and the experience of mothering. The various contributions included in this volume consider the diversity of maternal images and narratives that circulate in literature, the arts and popular culture and analyse how they reflect on ...

    $1,160.00

  • FEMINIST STAGES
    LIZBETH GOODMAN / JANE DE GAY
    This volume is a collection of interviews that spans feminist views from 1968 to the 1990s. Including over eight years of research. Part of the Comtemporary Theatre Studies series, it will be of special interest to everyone involved in theatre and useful to students and those who oare interested in women's theatre. ...

    $980.00

  • PROUST, COLE PORTER, MICHELANGELO, MARC ALMOND AND ME
    NATIONAL LESBIAN & GAY SURVEY
    Drawn from years of archive material, this collection, first published in 1993, portrays the voices and experience of over sixty gay men from all walks of life. Here are presented the difficulties of coming out, but also the diverse nature of gay relationships and the impact of HIV and AIDS. Sometimes raw, often humorous, frequently angry, the book gives an honest impression of...

    $700.00

  • GYPSIES IN MADRID
    PALOMA GAY Y BLASCO
    Throughout the twentieth century, Spanish people have deployed conflicting sexual moralities in their struggle for political supremacy within the state. The Spanish Gypsies or Gitanos, who live at the very bottom of the Spanish socio-economic scale, have appropriated this concern with gender morality and, in the process, have reinvented themselves as the only honourable Spaniar...

    $1,160.00

  • POWERFUL B2B CONTENT
    GAY FLASHMAN
    Guarantee your content marketing engages customers, builds trust and converts more, with this unique guide to using brand journalism to enhance B2B content, written by the former television news journalist for the BBC, Sky and ITN, Gay Flashman. Global audiences are sceptical about advertising content, banner ads and promotional messaging at the best of times. In the B2B space,...

    $799.00

  • THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CIUDAD JUAREZ
    GAY YOUNG / ROBERT H SCHMIDT / OSCAR J MARTINEZ / KATHLEEN A STAUDT
    As the issue of immigration between Mexico and the United States becomes more critical, it is increasingly important that we understand the process of development in Mexico's northern border region. This collection of essays offers an empirical analysis of development in Ciudad Juárez, with an emphasis on the social and spatial contexts in which economic relations occur. The a...

    $860.00

  • HOW TO READ ETHNOGRAPHY
    PALOMA GAY BLASCO / HUON WARDLE
    How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching anthropological texts. It helps students to cultivate the skills they need to critically examine and understand how ethnographies are built up, as well as to think anthropologically and develop an anthropological imagination of their own. The authors reveal how ethnographically-informed anthropology plays a distinctiv...

    $1,120.00

  • AYITI
    ROXANE GAY
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, a powerful short story collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, ...

    $249.00

  • THE HEALTH OF WOMEN
    JILL GAY
    This book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive review of the many factors that affect women’s health, ranging from low socioeconomic status and the impact of the debt crisis to more direct medical determinants, such as poor nutrition, hemorrhage, eclampsia, and infection. At stake are the unnecessary and preventable deaths of women and girls around the globe. The contribu...

    $1,480.00

  • BEYOND HAPPINESS
    GAY WATSON
    Contemporary mind sciences are revealing facts about the brain and its development that have much to teach us about health and happiness. For a greater part of the twentieth century, psychology and psychotherapy had little to say to one another. Despite Freud's early wish to consider psychoanalysis a science, academic psychology had scant time for what it considered at best an ...

    $1,060.00

  • KINDNESS IN LEADERSHIP
    GAY HASKINS
    In a global climate of increasing complexity and uncertainty, there have been calls for a more responsible form of leadership in business and society. The relationship between kindness and leadership is therefore a topic of fundamental importance for our well-being as individuals, for the success of our organisations, and for the future of our global community. Kindness in Lead...

    $1,160.00

  • THE VOYEUR'S MOTEL
    GAY TALESE
    The controversial chronicle of a motel owner who secretly studied the sex lives of his guests by the renowned journalist and author of Thy Neighbor's Wife. On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller  Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long-awaited study of coast-to-coa...

    $229.00

  • FINANCIAL MARKETS AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN GREATER CHINA
    HUNG-GAY FUNG / YAHONG ZHANG
    Based on rigorous state-of-the-art research techniques, this book deals with critical issues regarding China's financial markets and foreign direct investment -- key components of China's economic transformation. ...

    $1,240.00

  • JESUIT CIVIL WARS
    JEAN-PASCAL GAY
    Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic, influential but divisive orders within early-modern Catholicism. Yet whilst the order's role in combating Protestantism, reforming the Catholic Church and advising rulers during its first century has been well documented, much less is understood about its later years. Covering the gener...

    $1,480.00

  • GENDERING GLOBALIZATION ON THE GROUND
    GAY YOUNG
    How has globalization worked for women working on the frontlines of neoliberalism on the Mexico-US border? This border divides "US" from "Others," and produces social inequalities that form a site where marginalized border women encounter the othering power of neoliberalism and confront inequalities of gender and class. Within this context, a critical comparison of socially sim...

    $1,340.00

  • BUYING, SUPPORTING, MAINTAINING SOFTWARE AND EQUIPMENT
    GAY GORDON-BYRNE
    Describing how to avoid common vendor traps, Buying, Supporting, Maintaining Software and Equipment: An IT Manager's Guide to Controlling the Product Lifecycle will help readers better control the negotiation of their IT products and services and, ultimately, better manage the lifecycle of those purchases. The book supplies an inside look at the methods and goals of vendors and...

    $1,660.00

  • THE RESONANCE OF EMPTINESS
    GAY WATSON
    This work presents an exploration of Buddhist philosophy and practice as a potential resource for an approach to psychotherapy which is responsive to the needs of its time and context, and attempts to open up a three-way dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy and contemporary discourse to reveal a meaningful theory and practice for a contemporary psychotherapy. ...

    $640.00

  • PROPORTION AND STYLE IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
    GAY ROBINS
    This study of ancient Egyptian art reveals the evolution of aesthetic approaches to proportion and style through the ages.   The painted and relief-cut walls of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record an amazing continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3,000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems unchanging, but this appearance is deceptive. In this work, Gay...

    $251.00

  • HONOR THY FATHER
    GAY TALESE
    A classic masterwork newly updated The electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York's notorious Bonanno crime family On New York's Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped by two mobsters and reported by the police as dead on the following morning. More than a year later, Bonanno mysteriously reapp...

    $279.00

  • ORGANIZING IDENTITY
    PAUL DU GAY
    "This book overturns the conventional thinking about organization and identity and puts in its place a wholly new theoretical synthesis. It is not just an extraordinarily incisive commentary on modern life but it is also a key to thinking about identity in new ways which will prove an indispensable guide as we move beyond social constructionism. Remarkable." - Nigel Thrift, Vic...

    $1,398.24

  • CREATING LITERACY-RICH SCHOOLS FOR ADOLESCENTS
    GAY IVEY / DOUGLAS FISHER
    We know that literacy is the key to learning in school, yet millions of middle and high school students lack the literacy skills they need to succeed. What can educators do? In Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents, authors Gay Ivey and Douglas Fisher make a compelling case that all teachers--across the content areas--have a role to play in students' development of lit...

    $568.00

  • CREATING LITERACY-RICH SCHOOLS FOR ADOLESCENTS
    GAY IVEY / DOUGLAS FISHER
    We know that literacy is the key to learning in school, yet millions of middle and high school students lack the literacy skills they need to succeed. What can educators do? In Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents, authors Gay Ivey and Douglas Fisher make a compelling case that all teachers--across the content areas--have a role to play in students' development of lit...

    $568.00

  • WHAT A LESBIAN LOOKS LIKE
    NATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY SURVEY
    The National Lesbian and Gay Survey is a mass observation project set up in 1985 to record the experience of lesbians and gay men. Since that time, lesbian and gay volunteers have provided accounts on a wide range of issues pertinent to lesbian and gay life. What a Lesbian Looks Like draws on this material to provide an anthology of personal writings from lesbians nationwide. T...

    $660.00

  • SYMBOLIC BLACKNESS AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCE IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
    GAY L BYRON
    How were early Christians influenced by contemporary assumptions about ethnic and colour differences?Why were early Christian writers so attracted to the subject of Blacks, Egyptians, and Ethiopians?Looking at the neglected issue of race brings valuable new perspectives to the study of the ancient world; now Gay Byron's exciting work is the first to survey and theorise Blacks, ...

    $1,160.00

  • AS SHE LIKES IT
    PENNY GAY
    As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production to the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on the stage. Penny Gay takes a fasc...

    $1,360.00


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