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  • LEARNING LEGAL SKILLS AND REASONING
    SHARON HANSON / TOBIAS KLIEM / BEN WATERS
    Language skills, study skills, argument skills and the skills associated with dispute resolution are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic. The 5th edition of Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning draws on a range of areas of law to show how these key skills can be learnt and mastered, bridging the gap between substantive legal subjects and the skills requi...

    $1,179.00

  • CREATIVITY AND IMPROVISED EDUCATIONS
    MICHAEL HANCHETT HANSON
    Examining the improvised relationships among lifelong learning, formal education, and creativity, this volume provides detailed case studies of the creative work of people from a wide variety of fields. Each profile allows readers to explore how real people’s distinctive points of view, senses of purpose, and ultimate contributions developed through participation in complex wor...

    $1,059.00

  • MEMORY AND UTOPIAN AGENCY IN UTOPIAN/DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
    CARTER F. HANSON
    For a genre that imagines possible futures as a means of critiquing the present, utopian/dystopian fiction has been surprisingly obsessed with how the past is remembered. Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future examines modern and contemporary utopian/dystopian literature’s preoccupation with memory, asserting that from the nineteenth cen...

    $1,099.00

  • PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
    A. A. HANSON
    First published in 1990, this new handy guide book is a "quick reference" to a variety of topics pertaining to soils, and to the production and use of plants and animals. Emphasis has been devoted to basic considerations in plant adaptation, soils, seeds, major field crops, and selected aspects of animal science. A reasonable amount of background information on most topics sele...

    $1,939.00

  • CRC HANDBOOK OF PLANT SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE
    A. A. HANSON
    First published in 1987, this two-volume set is an exhaustive compilation of the most recent data on economically important crops. Volume I presents information on genetics, botany and growth of crop plants, while Volume II covers the production of Crops and their utilization. ...

    $1,439.00

  • PUBLIC ENTERPRISE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    A. H. HANSON
    Originally published in 1959, the subject of this book is an aspect of economic development which, despite its importance, had rarely attracted more than incidental attention at the time. The author’s interest in public enterprise in underdeveloped countries was stimulated by a year’s residence in Turkey. He felt the time had come for a general comparative study. Defining compa...

    $1,239.00

  • TRANSFORMING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT TO DRIVE PERFORMANCE
    ROSE A. MUELLER-HANSON / ELAINE D. PULAKOS
    Recently a revolution has taken place in organizations around the world to transform their performance management systems from burdensome chores into a valuable business practices. Many high-profile companies have announced they are getting rid of the dreaded performance reviews and replacing them with ongoing coaching and feedback. Although these cases are inspiring other orga...

    $1,339.00

  • THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND THE GOOD SOCIETY
    CHAD HANSON
    The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College and the Good Society is tocritically analyze the internal changes and extern...

    $1,139.00

  • ADVERTISING AND SOCIALISM: THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF CONSUMER ADVERTISING IN THE SOVIET UNION, POLAND
    PHILIP HANSON
    This study looks at the tiny but growing volume of consumer advertising even in countries such as the Soviet Union, which had detailed central planning, and substantially more in the recently decentralised Hungarian economy and pre-invasion Czechoslovakia. And of course, outside the Soviet orbit there was the relatively market-oriented and Westernised Yugoslav economy. This sug...

    $1,099.00

  • DEVELOPING ORGANIZATIONAL SIMULATIONS
    GEORGE C. THORNTON III / ROSE A. MUELLER-HANSON / DEBORAH E. RUPP
    This second edition of Developing Organizational Simulations provides a concise source of information on effective and practical methods for constructing simulation exercises for the assessment of psychological characteristics relevant to effectiveness in work organizations. Incorporating new additions such as the multiple ways technology can be used in the design, delivery, sc...

    $1,099.00

  • REFORM AS REORGANIZATION
    ROYCE HANSON / JULIUS MARGOLIS / MELVIN R. LEVIN / WILLIAM LETWIN
    As the fourth report in a series on the Governance of Metropolitan Areas, Reform as Reorganization explores the welfare and development of metropolitan America in terms of political reorganization. Originally published in 1974, this study reflects on metropolitan problems and governmental structure to provide some new options for policy makers and an overview of what political ...

    $399.00

  • KIERKEGAARD AND THE LIFE OF FAITH
    JEFFREY HANSON
    “A thorough, considered, and provocative treatment of what justifiably remains Kierkegaard’s most famous book.” —Marginalia Review of Books Soren Kierkegaard’s masterful work Fear and Trembling interrogates the story of Abraham and Isaac, finding there one of the most profound and critical dilemmas in all of religious philosophy. While several commentaries and critical editions...

    $229.00

  • QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDIES
    CHRISTOPHER MELLINGER / THOMAS HANSON
    Quantitative Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies encompasses all stages of the research process that include quantitative research methods, from conceptualization to reporting. In five parts, the authors cover: • sampling techniques, measurement, and survey design; • how to describe data; • how to analyze differences; • how to analyze relationships; • how t...

    $1,179.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO STEROID CHEMISTRY
    J. R. HANSON
    Introduction to Steroid Chemistry is a six-chapter introductory text of the analysis, conformation, and production of steroids. After providing a brief overview of steroid chemistry, this book goes on discussing the application of physical methods to the analysis of structural and stereochemical correlations in steroids, such as UV, infrared, NMR, and mass spectroscopy, optical...

    $425.00

  • CONTEMPORARY REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
    KOBENA T. HANSON
    Contemporary Regional Development in Africa interrogates well-known concerns in the areas of regionalism and economic integration in contemporary Africa, while offering an added uniqueness by highlighting the capacity imperatives of the issues, and proposing critical policy guideposts. The volume juxtaposes a set of ’dynamic’ entanglements - new and micro-regionalism, informal ...

    $1,059.00

  • THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THE SOVIET ECONOMY
    PHILIP HANSON
    Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic dimension is at the very ...

    $1,339.00

  • WHAT HOLISM CAN DO FOR SOCIAL THEORY
    BARBARA HANSON
    This book reconsiders the nature of positivist philosophy in social science theory based on classical and medieval thought in what later became "Europe." It argues that social theory is being held back by antagonistic debates over science, positivism, objectivity, and universal law - debates which appear unnecessary, narrow, and acontextual when their origins are examined. Posi...

    $1,339.00

  • BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES
    BRUCE S. THORNTON / VICTOR DAVIS HANSON / JOHN HEATH
    With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized schola...

    $159.00

  • IMMUNOLOGY
    LARS Å. HANSON / HANS WIGZELL
    Immunology focuses on the study of immunology. The first half of this book provides a treatise of basic immunology, while the rest is more clinically orientated and illustrates the importance of immune mechanisms for health and disease. This text emphasizes the three good reasons why immunology should be studied. First is that man cannot survive without immunological defense a...

    $970.00

  • SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES
    MARVIN B SUSSMAN / SHIRLEY HANSON
    Here is a comprehensive source of vital information on single parent families in contemporary society. This book analyzes literature and empirical research concerning single parent families and explores issues and challenges they face. Contributing authors from many fields and perspectives examine a broad range of subjects relating to families in which one person is primarily r...

    $1,259.00

  • MANAGERIAL CULTURES
    DAVID HANSON
    How did the conduct of business come to be so different in different countries? Why are some less developed countries in the process of rapid industrialization while so many others remain poor? Analysts often point to national differences in the cultures of business to explain these patterns. What then, accounts for these differences in culture? We can gain some insights into t...

    $1,399.00

  • THE TETRACYCLIC DITERPENES
    J. R. HANSON
    International Series of Monographs in Organic Chemistry, Volume 9: The Tetracyclic Diterpenes covers the physico-chemical properties, stereochemistry, reactions, and synthesis of various tetracyclic diterpene compounds. Each chapter of this eight-chapter book describes specific tetracyclic diterpene. The opening chapters focus on the members of the kaurene-phyllocladene class,...

    $425.00

  • MEANING IN CULTURE
    F. ALLAN HANSON
    Meaning in Culture discusses the question of whether 'culture' refers to some superorganic entity that exists in its own right, or is only convenient short-hand for the shared beliefs and behaviour of human individuals. It also investigates the problem of relativism and explores the question of whether anthropology and the other social sciences are really scientific. First publ...

    $1,139.00

  • NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
    JARICE HANSON / UMA NARULA
    This volume explores how a number of developing countries -- including India, Malaysia, Columbia, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia -- are responding to the pressures of the information society. Infrastructural development, policies, and social systems are investigated, and models of information technologies and society are proposed in order to better reference the differences and simil...

    $1,239.00

  • UNDERSTANDING MEDICINAL PLANTS
    BRYAN HANSON
    Learn how medicinal plants work from the chemical level upward Understanding Medicinal Plants: Their Chemistry and Therapeutic Action is designed to teach the chemical concepts necessary to understand the actions of medicinal plants to people who are intimidated by chemistry. This beautifully illustrated, accessibly written guide explores the molecules of medicinal plants and t...

    $1,799.00

  • EUGENICS, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE IN POST-WAR BRITAIN
    CLARE HANSON
    This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts, Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between eugenic ideas across diverse cultural fields, demonstrating the strength of the e...

    $1,179.00

  • PLACE TO SHINE, A
    ARDEN HILLS / DANIEL S HANSON
    First published in 1996. This volume offers a new vision for fulfilment in the workplace. Both corporations and individuals will learn how to re-examine their traditional corporate ideologies and replace them with the human side of the business, a necessity for building healthy work environments. This text defines change as more than applying the latest quick-fix program. Chang...

    $1,259.00

  • KEY CONCEPTS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
    YUKO AOYAMA / JAMES T MURPHY / SUSAN HANSON
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field." - Allen J. Scott, University of California "Guides readers skilfully through the rapidl...

    $964.48

  • BAYESIAN IDEAS AND DATA ANALYSIS
    RONALD CHRISTENSEN / WESLEY JOHNSON / ADAM BRANSCUM / TIMOTHY E HANSON
    Emphasizing the use of WinBUGS and R to analyze real data, Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis: An Introduction for Scientists and Statisticians presents statistical tools to address scientific questions. It highlights foundational issues in statistics, the importance of making accurate predictions, and the need for scientists and statisticians to col ...

    $1,999.00

  • BAYESIAN IDEAS AND DATA ANALYSIS
    RONALD CHRISTENSEN / WESLEY JOHNSON / ADAM BRANSCUM / TIMOTHY E HANSON
    Emphasizing the use of WinBUGS and R to analyze real data, Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis: An Introduction for Scientists and Statisticians presents statistical tools to address scientific questions. It highlights foundational issues in statistics, the importance of making accurate predictions, and the need for scientists and statisticians to col ...

    $1,999.00


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