Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: harrison robert

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  • ASSESSING SOCIOLOGISTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    ERIC HARRISON / ROBERT MEARS
    This title was first published in 2001. A detailed investigation of the practice of teaching sociology in a climate of increasing scrutiny from external stakeholders. The book explores an academic community accustomed to deconstructing the practices of other professional groups, but now facing a challenge to some of its own beliefs and assumptions. ...

    $860.00

  • GOVERNING COMPLEXITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    NEIL E. HARRISON / ROBERT GEYER
    Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex. It shows how this complexity impacts every aspect of life for individuals, governments and societies in most social systems at individual, regional, national and global scales and explores how embracing ‘complexity thinking’ can greatly improve the art of governance in a...

    $1,120.00

  • HELPING STUDENTS ADAPT TO GRADUATE SCHOOL
    EARLE SILBER, MD, CHAIRPERSON ROBERT L. ARNSTEIN, MD VARDA BACKUS, MD HARRISON P. EDDY, MD MYRON B.
    Help graduate students cope with the pressures of school, finances, family, and professors! In order to succeed in school: The college undergraduate just has to be able to find and operate an elevator in the campus high-rise The master's degree student has to climb the side of the building The PhD student doing research with a professor has to jump over the building in a single...

    $1,060.00

  • HEPATOTOXICOLOGY
    ROBERT G. MEEKS / STEADMAN HARRISON
    This book is destined to serve as a classic reference source to which researchers can turn for a historical perspective and basic information on the physiology, biochemistry, and pathology of the liver. Major areas covered in the book include histological organization, classification of chemical-induced injury, stages of cellular injury, and xenobiotic metabolism. Chapters disc...

    $9,600.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
    JON AYRES / ROY HARRISON / GORDON NICHOLS / ROBERT MAYNARD CBE
    Environmental Medicine is an indispensable aid to the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of environmentally-acquired disorders. It brings into sharp focus the increasing importance of the practice of environmental medicine, drawing together the many different strands that make up this modern discipline, and putting topical and ...

    $6,100.00

  • JUVENESCENCE
    ROBERT POGUE HARRISON
    How old are you?  The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer.  For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at through that lens, many aspects of late modernity would suggest that...

    $366.87

  • THE DOMINION OF THE DEAD
    ROBERT POGUE HARRISON
    How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living—the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments...

    $366.87

  • FORESTS
    ROBERT POGUE HARRISON
    In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as...

    $489.21

  • GARDENS
    ROBERT POGUE HARRISON
    Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary ha...

    $314.43

  • DIAGNOSTICO Y TRATAMIENTO EN MEDICINA LABORAL Y AMBIENTAL 5ªEDICION
    LADOU JOSEPH / HARRISON ROBERT
    Agotado

    $1,795.00