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  • CRAFT THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
    GRANT ALFORD
    This book offers a comprehensive exploration of craft theory in relation to contemporary architecture. Craft is an old and familiar idea, but the line between craft and art or craft and mere manufacturing, for example, is notoriously hard to describe. In architecture, a similarly blurred line between the design process, on the one hand, and the physical making of buildings, on ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE OUBLIETTE
    GRANT WHITE
    Daniel Blythe is a broken, twenty-nine-year-old man, obsessed and terrified with the reductionist philosophy of life, yet equally afraid of infinity pervading the reality that he knows. One night as he is walking alone through a small town in Arkansas, pining for the woman he loves, he is caught up in a cosmic journey with a mysterious, malevolent companion that threatens to un...

    $249.00

  • PATTERNS OF EDUCATION IN THE BRITISH ISLES
    ROBERT BELL / NIGEL GRANT
    First published in 1977, Patterns of Education in the British Isles is the first modern discussion of the educational systems of the British Isles and the ways in which they influence each other. It is no arid account of administrative structures but the first major attempt to set the systems in their cultural, political, and historical context, and to relate them to each other...

    $1,480.00

  • A HISTORY OF EUROPE
    A. J. GRANT
    Originally published in 1931 and as a fifth edition in 1952, this book became a classic survey of European history which focusses on the pan-European features and tendencies of the Middle Ages. The book also looks beyond Europe at the history of Islam and the conquest and discoveries of the European powers in the New World in relation to European affairs. ...

    $1,480.00

  • RESISTING CULTURAL NARRATIVE ENTRAPMENT IN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
    ALEC GRANT
    Resisting Cultural Narrative Entrapment in Autoethnography delves into the nexus of cultural narratives and takes the reader on a journey through the intricate landscape of identity and cultural critique. Each chapter, enriched with dialogues with 'Ash,' our imaginary interlocutor, presents a profound exploration rooted in the philosophical fabric. This book amplifies the disco...

    $1,160.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
    GRANT MATHEWS / GUOBAO TANG
    This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the basic concepts of relativistic cosmology and the standard big bang model of cosmology, along with an introduction to quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics. Readers are guided through the key concepts associated with the standard model of cosmology and the standard model of particle physics, provi...

    $1,840.00

  • APPLYING LOCAL CLIMATE EFFECTS TO HOMICIDE INVESTIGATIONS
    RICHARD H. GRANT
    Applying Local Climate Effects to Homicide Investigation presents the concepts behind using local climate and weather records to enhance understanding of criminal cases. While sources of such local climate and weather information varies by country and regions, weather conditions are typically measured at airports or grassy areas as part of a national, regional, or state-wide ne...

    $1,620.00

  • ELEMENTARY SOCIAL STUDIES
    S.G. GRANT / BRUCE A. VANSLEDRIGHT / ANNE-LISE HALVORSEN
    The fully updated fifth edition of Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. Organized around four commonplaces of education—learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment—and deeply rooted in inquiry-based teaching and learning, this ...

    $1,900.00

  • AUSTRALIA’S DOOMED-RACE PROTECTIVE MYTH
    GRANT RODWELL
    Periodically, in Australian society racial chasms emerge portraying the great divide between Indigenous and non‑Indigenous Australians, exposing the sustained influence of the doomed‑race protective myth and its residue. This book exposes that a long and powerful influence on Australian society, economy, culture, and history has been the doomed‑race protective myth. While most ...

    $1,240.00

  • AUTPLAY® THERAPY PLAY AND SOCIAL GROUPS
    ROBERT JASON GRANT / TRACY TURNER-BUMBERRY
    The second edition of AutPlay® Therapy Play and Social Groups provides a neurodiversity‑affirming perspective to help children and parents build healthy relationships, gain positive identity, build relationships with peers in ways that are meaningful for them, and help them navigate social situations to get what they want and need. Practitioners are provided with a step‑by‑step...

    $860.00

  • READING MODERNITY, MODERNISM AND RELIGION TODAY
    PATRICK GRANT
    Feelings of rootlessness, fragmentation and loneliness are endemic in today’s secular societies. In the late nineteenth century, Émile Durkheim described this kind of social malaise as anomie, a concept this book locates within a historical narrative of the emergence of Modernism from Modernity. The book focuses on two representative figures, Benedictus de Spinoza and Vincent v...

    $640.00

  • ENACTING A PEDAGOGY OF KINDNESS
    AIRDRE GRANT / SHARON PITTAWAY
    Drawing from the lived experience of educators, this book explores the concept of a pedagogy of kindness through practical applications and strategies for teaching in higher education. Conversational in tone, narrative-based and rich with practical stories, ideas, and strategies, this book provides guidance to help educators shape their teaching. It covers all aspects of teachi...

    $780.00

  • INTERROGATING THE VISUAL CULTURE OF TRUMPISM
    GRANT HAMMING
    Bringing together scholars from art history, visual studies, and related disciplines, this edited volume asks why Trumpism looks the way it does and what that look means for American—and global—society. Grouped into six categories, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most perplexing—and urgent—aspects of the Trumpist visual project. Two of the most striking aspects of ...

    $1,240.00

  • PUZZLE AND PROOF
    SAMUEL DITTMER / HIRAM GOLZE / GRANT MOLNAR / CALEB STANFORD
    Puzzle and Proof: A Decade of Problems from the Utah Math Olympiad is a compilation of the problems and solutions for the first 10 years of the Utah Math Olympiad. The problems are challenging but should be understandable at a high school level. Besides putting all problems in one place (70 in total), which have not previously appeared in print, the book provides additional ins...

    $920.00

  • PURPOSE-DRIVEN INNOVATION LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    GAIA GRANT
    Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development presents invaluable insights into how leaders can balance competing innovation demands. The book reports on research from an in-depth case study, which reveals the importance of developing highly adaptative and innovative responses through periods of rapid growth – while simultaneously ensuring organisational stab...

    $640.00

  • THE LATVIAN REPUBLIC
    HERBERT A. GRANT WATSON
    First published in 1965, The Latvian Republic is based on the official British documents, partly on German and other writings of the period and of the author’s own experiences on a mission to Baltic Provinces in 1919. Throughout the centuries of foreign domination and the determination of their rulers to stamp out all vestiges of nationalism, the national spirit of the Latvian ...

    $860.00

  • GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL TRUST
    GRANT DUNCAN
    If the government is a problem, what should be done about it? A new era of intervention has begun following a global pandemic, climate change and strategic rivalry – but will a better government emerge from this? Political turmoil and polarisation are causing people to question how well their societies are governed and how leaders conduct themselves, while urgent practical chal...

    $1,100.00

  • OLIVER ELLIS, OR, THE FUSILIERS
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: ""In regard to prefaces," says the author of "Curiosities of Literature,"—"ladies consider them so much space for a love story lost, though the Italians call them la salsa del libra,—the spice of the book." Be this as it may, I must mention that many of the men whose names occur in these pages, bore the part ascribed to them during the operations of Sir Charles Grey's ...

    $39.70

  • MAPPING THE POSTHUMAN
    GRANT HAMILTON AND CAROLYN LAU
    This book works to delineate some of the major routes by which science and art intersect. Structured according to the origin myths of the posthuman that continue to shape the idea of the human in our technological modernity, this volume gives space to narratives of alter-modernity that resonate with Ursula K. Le Guin’s call for a new kind of story which exposes the violence and...

    $1,240.00

  • FILM GENRE
    BARRY KEITH GRANT
    Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its beginnings to the present day. This book explains the various elements of genre, the importance of genre in popular culture, problems of definition, Hollywood and the studio system, ideology and genre, national cinema and genre, authorship and ...

    $580.00

  • ALCOHOL: THE PREVENTION DEBATE
    MARCUS GRANT / BRUCE RITSON
    In the early 1980s, emphasis had shifted from the treatment of alcohol problems to their prevention. Yet no clear integrated policy yet existed about how alcohol problems could best be prevented. Many different strategies were put forward as solutions but some were in competition with each other, while some were actually incompatible. Originally published in 1983, what this boo...

    $840.00

  • PLAY INTERVENTIONS FOR NEURODIVERGENT CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
    ROBERT JASON GRANT
    This revamped second edition provides several play interventions designed to address a variety of common mental health needs that neurodivergent children face, such as social navigation, regulation, relationship development, anxiety issues, identity struggles, and self-advocacy. Completely reorganized and with the addition of several new chapters, the book begins with a thoroug...

    $920.00

  • THE POWER OF NEO-SLAVE FICTION AND PUBLIC HISTORY
    GRANT RODWELL
    Professional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslaved—from the institution to the personal, families and feminist accounts. I...

    $1,140.00

  • EXAMINING LORRAINE HANSBERRY’S A RAISIN IN THE SUN AS COUNTERNARRATIVE
    CARL A. GRANT
    Examining Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun as Counternarrative: Understanding the Black Family and Black Students shows how and why Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, should be used as a teaching tool to help educators develop a more accurate and authentic understanding of the Black Family. The purpose of this book is to help educators develop a greater awa...

    $1,040.00

  • WRITING PHILOSOPHICAL AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
    ALEC GRANT
    Writing Philosophical Autoethnography is the result of Alec Grant’s vision of bringing the disciplines of philosophy and autoethnography together. This is the first volume of narrative autoethnographic work in which invited contributing authors were charged with exploring their issues, concerns, and topics about human society, culture, and the material world through an explicit...

    $1,160.00

  • HEALTH COMMUNICATION
    NANCY GRANT HARRINGTON / RACHAEL A. RECORD
    This thoroughly revised second edition covers the major areas of research, theory, and practical application in health communication. This textbook takes an in-depth approach to health communication by analyzing and critically evaluating research conducted across multiple paradigmatic perspectives and focusing on translational application of research findings. Using the story o...

    $2,120.00

  • DIVINE ANGER IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
    DEENA E. GRANT
    In this book, we explore the aim, expressions and outcomes of God's anger in the Hebrew Bible. We consider divine anger against the backdrop of human anger in order to discern those aspects of it that are recognizably human from those facets of it that are distinctly divine. Furthermore, we examine passages from a range of literary contexts across major biblical collections in ...

    $532.00

  • THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
    GRANT AMYOT
    First published in 1981 The Italian Communist Party looks at the debate within the party and how its strategy was forged. It considers the development of Eurocommunism, the rise and fall of the Ingrao Left and many other topics related to the formulation of the PCI. Based on original research by the author, it explores how key issues were debated and resolved in various represe...

    $840.00

  • A PROTOTYPE APPROACH TO HATE AND ANGER IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
    DEENA GRANT
    This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible. The book draws on the prototype approach to conceptual categories to help interpret emotion language in biblical passages. Contemporary scholarship has come to recognize that biblical emotion terms do not necessarily possess exact equivalents within our mo...

    $580.00

  • TRANSFORMING SALES MANAGEMENT
    GRANT VAN ULBRICH
    How can sales managers coach their teams through multiple, sometimes stressful, rollouts? You can teach your team to embrace and manage change from the bottom up. Global sales management and transformation leader Grant Van Ulbrich makes a compelling case for tackling this issue using an innovative change management model designed with sales teams in mind. Transforming Sales Man...

    $799.00