Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gerald

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  • CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PRIMARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION
    GERALD GRIGGS / VICKY RANDALL
    This book examines some of the most important issues in primary Physical Education today. With teachers and schools facing a deluge of policy initiatives from government and professional associations, this book helps practitioners and students make sense of, and debate, the current landscape in primary Physical Education and to develop sound, evidence-based practice for each ch...

    $1,160.00

  • SALVAGE FROM THE SEA
    GERALD FORSBERG
    Salvage from the Sea (1977) offers a fascinating insight into the interesting but complex and highly specialised profession of marine salvage and its associated disciplines. All aspects of the wide and varies field of marine salvage are covered and discussed in detail. ...

    $1,480.00

  • RECONSTRUCTING EVANGELICALISM
    GERALD HIESTAND
    Over the past few years, Evangelicalism has been marked by a deconstructionist movement in which many, especially younger Evangelicals, have been leaving the Evangelical tradition. Some have left the Christian faith altogether due to what they perceive to be deep inconsistencies, inadequacies, and hypocrisies. But is deconstruction the right response to these problems, or is th...

    $426.00

  • THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF LONDON
    GERALD RHODES
    Assesses the impact on the Asia-Pacific region of the detente in great power relations attendant upon the end of the Cold War. The book explores prospects for tension reduction in the region, reconciliation opportunities for ASEAN and Indochina, and the great power search for new roles in the area. ...

    $1,480.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
    GAUS, GERALD F.
    The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Second Edition, is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up-to-date survey of the field, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research. Features unique to the Companion are as follows: Extensive coverage of the history of social...

    $1,260.00

  • THE ORIGINS OF LITERARY STUDIES IN AMERICA
    GERALD GRAFF
    Originally published in 1989, The Origins of Literary Studies in America brings together for the first time hard-to-find speeches, reports, and other writings by the founders of literary studies in the United States: Bliss Perry, Woodrow Wilson, Irving Babbitt, M. Carey Thomas, and many other scholars between 1874 and 1937. The selections—on teaching, the MLA, and the goals of ...

    $860.00

  • CHURCH AND FAITH IN THE PATRISTIC TRADITION
    GERALD BONNER
    The articles in this volume complement and continue work brought together on the author's previous collection, God's Decree and Man's Destiny. The first part, focusing on Augustine, is largely devoted to the Pelagian controversy, but also includes an examination of Augustine's concept of deification and other aspects of his theology. The following essays deal with early Christi...

    $1,000.00

  • ENACTING THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY
    GERALD STRAUSS
    Enacting the Reformation in Germany brings together sixteen essays and articles written over a thirty-year period by a historian who has made it his special scholarly concern to trace and analyze the social consequences of the German Reformation's salient ideas and positions. The picture Strauss draws of a country and a society struggling to understand and incorporate the deep ...

    $1,480.00

  • CHURCH IS WHO WE ARE
    GERALD SEALE
    Church Is Who We Are is an in-depth look at church as people rather than just as institution or organization. It starts with a broad definition of church moving to applications within modern society. In an age when church is being marginalized in the West, the book provides a clarion call for the people who are the church to function as church across society. It is almost a tex...

    $337.00

  • BRITISH AND AMERICAN ELECTORAL POLITICS IN THE AGE OF NEOLIBERALISM
    GERALD SUSSMAN
    This book employs a political economic approach in exploring the underlying neoliberal foundations of politics and electioneering in both the United States and the United Kingdom that have widened the divide among voters and, over time, led to a deep distrust of state institutions, including electoral politics and system of political representation. Covering the period of 1980 ...

    $1,240.00

  • EMBRACING THE EXCEPTIONS
    JPB GERALD
    Neurodivergent students of color are often overlooked, as research and teaching strategies predominantly focus on white males in the classroom. How can we help teachers reach all students to honor their full humanity, and to understand how ableism – neuronormativity in particular – and racism intersect on our bodies and brains? JPB Gerald’s fascinating book offers a blend of na...

    $600.00

  • SCREENING BIG DATA
    GERALD SIM
    This book examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big data and the algorithmic systems that structure our digitally mediated lives. From star-powered blockbusters to civic-minded documentaries positioned to facilitate weighty debates about artificial intelligence, these texts frame our discourse and mediate our relationship to technology. Above all, they ...

    $1,040.00

  • CHARCOAL MAKING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
    GERALD FOLEY
    Originally published in 1986, this book provides a detailed examination of programmes to introduce improved charcoal making techniques throughout the developing world. Charcoal making is widely regarded as an extremely wasteful use of scarce wood resources. The book includes a section on the physics and chemistry of charcoal and descriptions of the various traditional methods o...

    $840.00

  • FARM AND COMUNITY FORESTRY
    GERALD FOLEY / GEOFFREY BARNARD
    In 1984, when this book was originally published the need to take forestry outside the forests and involve local people in tree growing was widely recognised. Projects to encourage farm and community forestry were launched in over 50 developing countries. This book describes the main approaches which were taken, discussing their scope and limitation. It examines the reasons why...

    $840.00

  • STOVES AND TREES
    GERALD FOLEY / PATRICIA MOSS / LLOYD TIMBERLAKE
    Originally published in 1984, Stoves and Trees asks whether better stoves really help the two billion people in the developing world who rely on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating their homes. It also asks if improved stoves actually save fuel and if they can help slow down tropical deforestation. The book not only examines newer stoves but also ascertains how people buy...

    $840.00

  • CONSPIRACY THEORIZING
    GERALD ARBUCKLE
    Conspiracy Theorizing explore how should individuals with the Christian faith should react to conspiracy theories, their untruths, and their dangers. This book outlines the way that conspiracy theories are the fundamental basis for this stigmatization and scapegoating. It goes further to explain that scapegoating is fostering extreme divisions within in societies and between na...

    $640.00

  • MULTIMODAL METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
    SAMUEL GERALD COLLINS / MATTHEW S. DURINGTON
    Multimodal Methods in Anthropology develops several goals simultaneously. First, it is an introduction to the ways that multimodality might work for students and practitioners of anthropology, using multiple examples from the authors’ research and from the field. Second, the book carefully examines the ethics of a multimodal project, including the ways in which multimodality ch...

    $1,100.00

  • METHODS FOR COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
    MARÍA PAULA GHISO / GERALD CAMPANO
    Methods for Community-Based Research describes how Community-Based Research (CBR) is particularly suited to understand and take action on issues of educational justice. The book shifts assumptions about who is considered a researcher, drawing attention to issues of power and the ethics of collaborations, and foregrounding how those who have often been positioned as the objects ...

    $1,160.00

  • TWELVE AFRICAN WRITERS
    GERALD MOORE
    Originally published in 1980, this book introduces the student to twelve of the most exciting and significant African authors of the 20th Century, whose work represents Anglophone and Francophone writing (with translation) drawn from West, East and Southern Africa. Twelve African Writers was a revised, updated and extended edition of the pioneering Seven African Writers which d...

    $840.00

  • MODERN ANTI-REALISM AND MANUFACTURED TRUTH
    GERALD A. VISION
    First published in 1988, Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth examines the forms of anti-realism which have sprouted in analytic philosophy and addresses more directly the grander culture of anti-realism. No attempt is made in these pages to demonstrate the existence of a mind independent world. Part one of the book is devoted to a clarification and defense of Corresponde...

    $960.00

  • TELEVISION
    GERALD BEADLE
    Television: A Critical Review (1963) is written by Sir Gerald Beadle, once Director of the BBC, and possessing of a long and wide experience of broadcasting as it expanded and grew. He was there at the birth of television, and details this and the subsequent developments over many years into a global phenomenon. ...

    $800.00

  • RUSSIAN POGROMS AND JEWISH REVOLUTION, 1905
    GERALD D. SURH
    This book, based on extensive original research, examines the widespread and violent pogroms against Jews which took place in the Russian Empire in 1905. It briefly surveys the earlier history of Jews in the Russian Empire and the discriminatory policies against them. The work outlines the extent of the killings and lootings in 1905, explores the role of the authorities who wer...

    $1,240.00

  • CLIMATE DENIAL IN AMERICAN POLITICS
    GERALD KUTNEY
    Climate Denial in American Politics is a detailed examination of the rise within American politics of climate denialism, the counter movement which challenges the accepted science of climate change. Organized around the administrations of American presidents from Roosevelt to Biden, this book provides an unprecedented account of climate denial within both the White House and Co...

    $1,160.00

  • MARRIAGE UNDER STRESS
    GERALD SANCTUARY
    In the 1960s divorce was increasing around the world and marriage conciliation services were a necessary development to deal with those who wanted to seek help for their problems. Originally published in 1968, the purpose of this title was to give some account of the widely differing types of marital conciliation services operating in Britain and also some other parts of the wo...

    $840.00

  • PRINCIPLED PRODUCTIVITY
    GERALD J. WATSON JR.
    This book demonstrates that ethical treatment of everyone in an organization: 1. Will increase productivity in all the functional activities of the organization as well as its members. 2. Will ensure the growth of the organization as a result of continuous improvements that may have been initiated by management but will be continuously improved by motivated employees. It achiev...

    $1,240.00

  • BORNOLOGIES AND LIPSCHITZ ANALYSIS
    GERALD BEER
    This monograph, for the first time in book form, considers the large structure of metric spaces as captured by bornologies: families of subsets that contain the singletons, that are stable under finite unions, and that are stable under taking subsets of its members. The largest bornology is the power set of the space and the smallest is the bornology of its finite subsets. Betw...

    $1,320.00

  • AIRLINE OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
    GERALD N. COOK / BRUCE G. BILLIG
    Airline Operations and Management: A Management Textbook presents a survey of the airline industry, with a strong managerial perspective. It integrates and applies the fundamentals of several management disciplines, particularly operations, marketing, economics and finance, to develop a comprehensive overview. It also provides readers with a solid historical background, and off...

    $1,500.00

  • AT HOME WITH IVAN VLADISLAVIĆ
    GERALD GAYLARD
    At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s de...

    $1,099.00

  • REFORM, REPRESENTATION AND THEOLOGY IN NICHOLAS OF CUSA AND HIS AGE
    H. LAWRENCE BOND / GERALD CHRISTIANSON
    While most works on Nicholas of Cusa concentrate either on his early career as author of the monumental 'Catholic Concordance' or on his later career as writer of remarkable philosophical/theological works such as 'On Learned Ignorance' and 'The Vision of God', the essays included here attempt to address the whole Cusanus, sharing common contexts, issues and themes. Following c...

    $920.00

  • CHINA AND THE ARMS TRADE
    ANNE GILKS / GERALD SEGAL
    First Published in 1985, China and the Arms Trade offers a detailed analysis of Chinese arms aid policy to examine Beijing’s changing nature of foreign and domestic policy. Military aid, like war, is a continuation of foreign policy by other means. The previous perception of China offering special and selfless military assistance seems no longer accurate. The nature of these Ch...

    $840.00