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  • MUSIC SCHOOLS IN CHANGING SOCIETIES
    MICHAELA HAHN, CECILIA BJÖRK, AND HEIDI WESTERLUND
    Music Schools in Changing Societies addresses the need to understand instrumental and vocal pedagogy beyond the individual sphere of teacher–student interactions and psychological phenomena, focusing instead on the wider sociocultural, spatial, and institutional contexts of music education. Viewing music education through the perspective of collaboration, the book focuses on th...

    $1,240.00

  • RESEARCH ON STUDENT CIVIC OUTCOMES IN SERVICE LEARNING
    JULIE A. HATCHER, ROBERT G. BRINGLE, THOMAS W. HAHN
    At this time of a renewed call for colleges and universities to create campus cultures that support and develop students’ understanding and commitment to civic participation, what is known about the design of service learning courses and their effectiveness to achieve this goal? This volume presents research on--and deepens understanding of--teaching strategies that foster the ...

    $1,060.00

  • ACHIEVING PRODUCT RELIABILITY
    NECIP DOGANAKSOY / WILLIAM Q. MEEKER / GERALD J. HAHN
    Are you buying a car or smartphone or dishwasher? We bet long-term, trouble-free operation (i.e., high reliability) is among the top three things you look for. Reliability problems can lead to everything from minor inconveniences to human disasters. Ensuring high reliability in designing and building manufactured products is principally an engineering challenge–but statistics p...

    $920.00

  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY
    MARTIN HAHN / SCOTT C. STONESS
    This book presents the complete collection of peer-reviewed presentations at the 1999 Cognitive Science Society meeting, including papers, poster abstracts, and descriptions of conference symposia. For students and researchers in all areas of cognitive science. ...

    $2,800.00

  • THE EFFECTS OF GLOBALISATION ON FIRM AND LABOUR PERFORMANCE
    CHIN HEE HAHN / DIONISIUS NARJOKO / HA THI THANH DOAN / SHUJIRO URATA
    This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation on economic development through firm and product-level data. The book is organised into four themes, i.e., productivity, innovation, wage and income gap, and within-firm reallocation of resources. The comprehensiveness and richness of firm and product-level data shed light upon the channels through which trade ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE FARMER THREAT
    DAVID A J MACEY / BILL LIEFERT / WERNER HAHN
    This volume examines the agrarian crisis, primarily in Russia but also in other states of former USSR, from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, surveying the context of agrarian reforms in recent years and examining the specifics of individual farming development in post-Soviet Russia. ...

    $1,160.00

  • RUSSIA'S REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE, 1985-2000
    GORDON HAHN
    The fall of the Soviet communist regime in 1991 offers a challenging contrast to other instances of democratic transition and change in the last decades of the twentieth century. The 1991 revolution was neither a peaceful revolution from below as occurred in Czechoslovakia nor a negotiated transition to democracy like those in Poland, Hungary, or Latin America. It was not prima...

    $1,540.00

  • LOCAL POWER AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS
    THEODORE H. FRIEDGUT / JEFFREY W. HAHN
    An analysis of local legislative and budgetary politics during the late Soviet and post-Soviet period with case studies of electoral behaviour, distribution processes, political contestation, and institutional development. ...

    $780.00

  • DEMOCRATIZATION IN RUSSIA: THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGISLATIVE INSTITUTIONS
    JEFFREY W. HAHN
    The development of Russian democracy has been a gradual process of maturation punctuated by dramatic events. This text examines events such as the first free elections, the Russian parliament's resistance to the 1991 coup, and the bloody confrontation with the military in 1993. ...

    $1,160.00

  • ESSENTIAL MATLAB FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS
    DANIEL T. VALENTINE / BRIAN H. HAHN
    Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, Sixth Edition, provides a concise, balanced overview of MATLAB's functionality that facilitates independent learning, with coverage of both the fundamentals and applications. The essentials of MATLAB are illustrated throughout, featuring complete coverage of the software's windows and menus. Program design and algorithm development...

    $691.00

  • PERIOPERATIVE FLUID THERAPY
    ROBERT G. HAHN
    Perioperative fluid therapy requires the correct selection, amount, and composition of fluids based on the patient's underlying pathology, state of hydration, and type and duration of surgical stress. Filling a gap in the literature, this source provides a solid foundation to practical perioperative fluid management, fluid solutions, and the utiliz ...

    $7,400.00

  • THE SOUNDS OF LOUISIANA
    ROGER HAHN
    Chronicling the creation of new categories of music like zydeco and jazz and the addition of distinct flavors to established genres like rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, funk, and hip-hop, journalist Roger Hahn provides an overview of Louisiana's impressive role in the musical heritage of the last two centuries. He documents twenty musicians and musical groups who have—and stil...

    $299.00

  • BAYESIAN METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS
    EUGENE D. HAHN
    HIGHLIGHTS THE USE OF BAYESIAN STATISTICS TO GAIN INSIGHTS FROM EMPIRICAL DATA Featuring an accessible approach, Bayesian Methods for Management and Business: Pragmatic Solutions for Real Problems demonstrates how Bayesian statistics can help to provide insights into important issues facing business and management. The book draws on multidisciplinary applications and examples a...

    $1,586.00

  • THE 1848 REVOLUTIONS IN GERMAN-SPEAKING EUROPE
    H.J. HAHN
    In 1848 the continent of Europe was rocked by revolutions: only Great Britain and Russia remained relatively immune to the upheaval. Most spectacularly, the Revolutions swept across the German-speaking lands of central Europe, with the newly-released forces of nationalism and mass popular protest smashing the reactionary Metternich regimes which had held sway since the defeat o...

    $1,480.00

  • FRACTURED EMERALD: IRELAND
    EMILY HAHN
    The New Yorker contributor's fascinating account of Irish history from legendary kings to occupation, independence, and modern political strife. The author of  The Soong Sisters and  China to Me turns her observant and discerning eye to the oft‑troubled land of Ireland. In a magisterial combination of historical research and keen personal observation on the scene, Emily Hahn gi...

    $274.00

  • ENGLAND TO ME
    EMILY HAHN
    Author of such celebrated and acclaimed works as  The Soong Sisters,  China to Me, and  Fractured Emerald: Ireland, Emily Hahn has been called by the  New Yorker "a forgotten American literary treasure." Now Hahn is reintroduced to a new generation of readers, bringing to light her richly textured voice and unique perspective on a world that continues to exist through both hist...

    $251.00

  • HONG KONG HOLIDAY
    EMILY HAHN
    Author of such celebrated and acclaimed works as  The Soong Sisters,  China to Me, and  Fractured Emerald: Ireland, Emily Hahn has been called by the  New Yorker "a forgotten American literary treasure." Now Hahn is reintroduced to a new generation of readers, bringing to light her richly textured voice and unique perspective on a world that continues to exist through both hist...

    $251.00

  • MR. PAN
    EMILY HAHN
    Mr. Pan is no highly-placed official. Mr. Pan is the Mr. Smith of China—an ordinary man with extraordinary reach—and China, like America, depends as much on its Mr. Pans as on its powerful and world famous officials. Here, in a series of linked vignettes, you'll get a glimpse into a new way of life—Mr. Pan at work, Mr. Pan with his father, Mr. Pan with his docile wife, Pei-yu. ...

    $251.00

  • CHINA TO ME
    EMILY HAHN
    A candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II. Deemed scandalous at the time of its publication in 1944, Emily Hahn's now classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud...

    $251.00

  • MISS JILL
    EMILY HAHN
    A novel about an enterprising Shanghai streetwalker from the "American literary treasure" and author of the memoir China to Me ( The New Yorker).   Meet Miss Jill, a young woman pursuing the oldest profession in prewar Shanghai. Fifteen, blonde, and full of personality, Jill begins her career as a Japanese banker's mistress. Soon after, she becomes a European prostitute in the ...

    $251.00

  • NO HURRY TO GET HOME
    EMILY HAHN
    A fascinating memoir by a free-spirited New Yorker writer, whose wanderlust led her from the Belgian Congo to Shanghai and beyond. Originally published in 1970, under the title  Times and Places, this book is a collection of twenty-three of her articles from the  New Yorker, published between 1937 and 1970. Well reviewed upon first publication, the book was re-published under t...

    $251.00

  • ONCE UPON A PEDESTAL
    EMILY HAHN
    A revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the nineteen-twenties including traveling the country dressed as a boy, working for the Red Cross in Belgium, being the concubine to a Shanghai poet, using opium, and having an illegitimate child. Hahn kept on fighting against the stereotype of female docility that charact...

    $251.00

  • THE SOONG SISTERS
    EMILY HAHN
    "If the story of the Soong family were told as fiction, people would say it was fascinating but too improbable. . . . A dramatic human chronicle . . . engrossing." — The New York Times Book Review   In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong siste...

    $229.00

  • TSUNI-GOAM: THE SUPREME BEING OF THE KHOI-KHOI
    THEOPHILUS HAHN
    First Published in 2000. This Volume III of three of a series on Africa. Written in 1881, using the evidence of history and language, this text looks at the South African people of the Khoi-khoi or Hottentots and their Supreme Being, Tsuni-Goam. ...

    $640.00

  • UTILIZATION OF NUTRIENTS DURING POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT
    P. HAHN / O. KOLDOVSKÝ
    Utilization of Nutrients during Postnatal Development investigates the nutritional aspects of postnatal development, with emphasis on functions that in some way are closely connected to food, including food intake, digestion, transport, and metabolism. Topics covered range from energy sources and energy balance in starvation to the quantitative and qualitative aspects of food i...

    $425.00

  • A PRIMER ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY DESIGN
    R. HAHN
    Discusses how the needs of the individual must be balanced with socially desirable ecological goals if the environment is to be protected. ...

    $1,200.00

  • JAVASCRIPT TESTING WITH JASMINE
    EVAN HAHN
    Get a concise introduction to Jasmine, the popular behavior-driven testing framework for JavaScript. This practical guide shows you how to write unit tests with Jasmine that automatically check for bugs in your application. If you have JavaScript experience—with knowledge of some advanced features—you’ll learn how to write specifications for individual components, and then use ...

    $160.00

  • THE NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH WEST AFRICA
    L. FOURIE / C.H. HAHN / V. VEDDER
    This text includes short sketches of each of the principal tribes of South-West Africa, showing their state of development, their mode of living and how they differ from each other. ...

    $1,320.00

  • HEAT CONDUCTION
    DAVID W. HAHN / M. NECATI ÖZISIK
    The long-awaited revision of the bestseller on heat conduction Heat Conduction, Third Edition is an update of the classic text on heat conduction, replacing some of the coverage of numerical methods with content on micro- and nanoscale heat transfer. With an emphasis on the mathematics and underlying physics, this new edition has considerable depth and analytical rigor...

    $2,094.00

  • IN SEARCH OF GRACE
    KRISTIN HAHN
    A Generation X woman with no religious upbringing chronicles her three-year journey, studying America's religious landscape. After years as a Hollywood writer and filmmaker, Kristin Hahn felt a crisis of faith: she had no spiritual group she could call her own. Setting out on a three-year journey, she began an investigation of America's religious traditions, practices, and beli...

    $279.00


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