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  • ALEXANDER POPE
    NETTA MURRAY GOLDSMITH
    This title was first published in 2002: Making use of the growing body of research in recent years on the nature of creativity, Netta Goldsmith here presents a new view of the famous poet whose personality has long frustrated scholars as elusive. Goldsmith tells the story of Pope's life so as to show the factors-personal and public, psychological and social-which shaped his cha...

    $920.00

  • THE LANGUAGE OF FRAGMENTS
    LYNNE GOLDSMITH
    Billy Young's older brother could die at any moment. Thirteen-year-old Billy must find him. They haven't talked since their parents kicked Paul out three years ago. Billy's parents disapproved of Paul and now disapprove of Billy. Billy is not getting the best grades in school for one thing. His parents suspect he's up to no good. Billy especially hates his English class except ...

    $231.00

  • FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS WITH R
    CIPRIAN M. CRAINICEANU / JEFF GOLDSMITH / ANDREW LEROUX / ERJIA CUI
    Emerging technologies generate data sets of increased size and complexity that require new or updated statistical inferential methods and scalable, reproducible software. These data sets often involve measurements of a continuous underlying process, and benefit from a functional data perspective. Functional Data Analysis with R presents many ideas for handling functional data i...

    $1,480.00

  • CCNY MADE
    RONNYJANE GOLDSMITH
    Everyone loves an underdog who succeeds against the odds. CCNY Made. Profiles in Grit is the story of City College of New York alumni who beat the odds to reach the pinnacle of their professions and in the process transformed our world. Here are just a few: Andrew Grove, hearing impaired and a survivor of Nazi occupation and Communist rule became the visionary CEO of Intel Corp...

    $229.00

  • HOW PARLIAMENT WORKS
    NICOLAS BESLY / TOM GOLDSMITH
    Written by expert insiders, How Parliament Works is a straightforward and readable analysis of one of the country’s most complex – and often misunderstood – institutions. Covering every aspect of the work, membership and structures of both Houses, this key text provides a unique insight into the work and daily life of Parliament. The ninth edition has been substantially revised...

    $1,120.00

  • LETTERS AND THE BODY, 1700–1830
    SARAH GOLDSMITH
    This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men’s letters written from and to Britain, North America, Europe, India and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw on different methodological ...

    $1,200.00

  • BY LIGHT AND HIDDEN MATTER
    LYNNE GOLDSMITH
    By Light and Hidden Matter is a celebration of the natural world--a poet's response of gratitude and reverence for all the workings of the universe, for all that's seen and unseen and all that's yet to be discovered. Lynne gives voice to some of the everyday miracles, mystery, and interplay of life here on Earth and beyond--the coexistence and transformation of a diversity of n...

    $284.00

  • FOUNDATIONS OF FAMILY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    ELIZABETH B. GOLDSMITH
    Foundations of Family Resource Management uses the lenses of consumer science, management, and economics, and beyond to help students make intelligent decisions about resources, time, and energies at the individual and family level. It has a strong interdisciplinary, global, and multicultural focus. This sixth edition brings in new material on millennials, delayed marriage, hou...

    $2,540.00

  • THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
    OLIVER GOLDSMITH
    Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an a...

    $39.70

  • SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, OR, THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT, A COMEDY
    OLIVER GOLDSMITH
    One of the great comedies in the history of theatre, produced first in 1773. It was initially titled Mistakes of a Night and has been adapted several times into films. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • SEVEN WOMEN AGAINST THE WORLD
    MARGARET GOLDSMITH
    This book, first published in 1935, examines the lives of seven revolutionary women: Charlotte Corday, Théroigne de Méricourt, Flora Tristan, Louise Michel, Vera Figner, Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg. The revolutionary impulses of these remarkable women emerge as the natural result of the historical associations of their age, but the author concludes that some sacrifices were...

    $920.00

  • TEMPLE MADE
    RONNYJANE GOLDSMITH
    Since 1884, Temple University alumni have overcome poverty, hardship and disappointment to achieve greatness. Daniel Aaron, a refugee from Nazi Germany, grew up in foster care and went on to co-found Comcast Cable, the largest cable television provider in the United States. Theo-Ben Guriab was born in apartheid Namibia and became president of the United Nations General Assembly...

    $229.00

  • CONSUMER ECONOMICS
    ELIZABETH B. GOLDSMITH
    From artificial intelligence to identity theft, from what we once thought of as unshakeable institutions to increasing concerns about privacy and sustainability, consumer issues are an integral part of daily life. This updated fourth edition of Consumer Economics offers students an accessible and thorough guide to the concerns surrounding the modern consumer and brings to light...

    $2,400.00

  • BUILDING AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
    ARTHUR A GOLDSMITH
    Shortly after World War II the United States began to export to developing countries the ''land-grant model"-its system of applied agricultural science. This system is made up of subnational agricultural universities, extension services, and experiment stations, and also of national-level organizations to support and coordinate agricultural develop ...

    $1,200.00

  • SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
    OLIVER GOLDSMITH
    Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around lower-class females. On his first acquaintance with Kate, the latter realises she will have to pretend to be common, or Marlow will not woo h...

    $9.00

  • A CITY YEAR
    SUZANNE GOLDSMITH
    In his inaugural address in 1993, President Clinton said: "I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities." In the fall of 1990, Suzanne Goldsmith had signed on for her own "season of service" with City Year, the widely praised, Bos...

    $1,320.00

  • PUBLISHING WOMEN'S LIFE STORIES IN FRANCE, 1647-1720
    ELIZABETH C. GOLDSMITH
    In this new study, Elizabeth Goldsmith continues her pursuit of issues treated in her earlier books on conversation, epistolary writing, and the female voice in literature. She examines how French women in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries first came to publish their private life stories; in doing so, she explores what the writers have to say about why they decide...

    $1,240.00

  • ACCIDENTAL AGENT
    JOHN GOLDSMITH
    A covert agent's memoir of three perilous missions in Nazi-occupied Paris, told with "unconditional honesty" ( Kirkus Reviews). At first, John Goldsmith's services were consistently refused. But in 1942, he was recruited into Buckmasters F Section of the Special Operations Executive—and his wartime exploits would be remarkable. His faultless French and upbringing in Paris were ...

    $279.00

  • LIBRARIES AND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
    FRANCISCA GOLDSMITH
    Ever since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, public library staff throughout the country have been working hard to provide access to information about the law while educating their communities about how implementation affects them. But defining the expectations and limitations of libraries’ roles regarding support of the new law remains a challenge. This important gu...

    $384.22

  • PROACTIVE MARKETING FOR THE NEW AND EXPERIENCED LIBRARY DIRECTOR
    MELISSA U.D. GOLDSMITH / ANTHONY J. FONSECA
    Academic libraries have continually looked for technological solutions to low circulation statistics, under-usage by students and faculty, and what is perceived as a crisis in relevance, seeing themselves in competition with Google and Wikipedia. Academic libraries, however, are as relevant as they have been historically, as their primary functions within their university missi...

    $1,050.00

  • IDEOLOGY AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
    JOHN A. GOLDSMITH / GEOFFREY J. HUCK
    In The Ideological Structure of Linguistic Theory Geoffrey J. Huck and John A. Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of language, focusing particularly on Chomsky's very public rift with the Generative Semanticists about the concept of Deep Structure. ...

    $1,420.00

  • POLITICS, PLANNING AND THE CITY
    MICHAEL GOLDSMITH
    Politics, Planning and the City is designed to introduce the complex political processes and problems of the modern city. The author begins by setting the theoretical context and discusses models of democracy, power and the nature of policy. Next he examines change and the city, by focusing on actual decision-making. Three major policy areas affecting the city - housing, planni...

    $860.00

  • CHANGING GOVERNMENT RELATIONS IN EUROPE
    MICHAEL J. GOLDSMITH
    The past quarter of a century has seen extensive change throughout Europe. There have been significant changes in local government, and the European Union has come to play an increasing role in relation to municipal government. This book offers a comparative analysis of recent developments in intergovernmental relations in twelve countries across Europe. Using the framework for...

    $1,320.00

  • COMMUNICATION AS COMFORT
    SANDRA L. RAGAN / ELAINE M. WITTENBERG-LYLES / JOY GOLDSMITH / SANDRA SANCHEZ REILLY
    This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical stages of the life experience--during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life. Challenging the predominantly biomedical model that informs much communication between seriously ill and/or dying patients and their physicians, caregivers, and families, Sandra L. Ragan, Elaine M. W...

    $1,340.00

  • UNIVERSAL DESIGN
    SELWYN GOLDSMITH
    Universal Design is Selwyn Goldsmith's new authoritative design manual, the successor to his internationally acclaimed Designing for the Disabled. A clear and concise design guide for practising and student architects, it describes and illustrates the differences there are between universal design and 'for the disabled' designUniversal Design presents detailed design guidance f...

    $2,100.00

  • LEADERSHIP IN A TIME OF CRISIS
    MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
    The founder of Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches presents insight on business and leadership in the age of COVID-19 from some of today's top consultants.   This informative volume offers expert advice on navigating a business through today's global pandemic. Some of the world's most effective consultants give their perspectives on all areas of employee and customer growth and enga...

    $229.00

  • LOOK—I AM WITH YOU
    DALE GOLDSMITH
    You are writing a new chapter in the story of your life. It's called the "college experience." There is so much that will go into your chapter--new friends, new experiences, new ideas, leaving the past, planning for the future, encountering wonderful surprises, and dealing with possible failures. You may find an unexpected variety of challenges to your Christian faith. The dail...

    $603.00

  • GROWING IN WISDOM
    DALE GOLDSMITH
    The time in college is such a precious time of freedom and searching for students walking the maze of new ideas and new relationships. This book offers some guidance for those living that college adventure as Christian disciples. ...

    $550.00

  • THE LONG BABY BOOM
    JEFF GOLDSMITH
    In 2006, the first baby boomers turned 60, unleashing a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. In The Long Baby Boom, Jeff Goldsmith counters the predictions of such "catastropharians" with a far more optimistic scenario.Drawing on evidence that most baby boomers plan on working long past age ...

    $229.00

  • WITH MY EYES ON JESUS
    DALE GOLDSMITH
    Jesus invited his disciples to be with him in Gethsemane as he struggled with his own hour of death. These Lenten devotions are intended to help us do just that: to be with Jesus in his hour(s) facing dying--not just as observers, but as fellow mortals, with all of our own fears and anxieties. The daily exposure and interaction with texts of Scripture related to Jesus' own dy...

    $142.00


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