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  • BATTLES IN THE PROMISED LAND
    JACOB HAYWOOD
    Many Christians have the underlying belief that if they are truly following Jesus, they will be exempt from suffering in this life. As a result, they are often surprised when they go through hard times and are likely to experience doubt, hopelessness, and anger toward God. But what if God's chosen means of blessing was through suffering? Would you choose that path?Through the a...

    $426.00

  • UNDERSTANDING LEISURE
    LES HAYWOOD / FRANK KEW / PETER BRAMHAM / JOHN SPINK / JOHN CAPENERHURST / IAN HENRY
    First published in 1989. Understanding Leisure is a readable introductory analysis of the key elements in the study of leisure. This includes leisure concepts and dimensions of leisure, its activity forms, participants, provision, and leisure futures, leisure and social theory. A collaborative work of six authors, Understanding Leisure is a textbook which introduces the reader ...

    $1,060.00

  • CHARTIST FICTION
    IAN HAYWOOD
    First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public’s attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman’s Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women’s oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story ...

    $700.00

  • THE LITERATURE OF STRUGGLE
    IAN HAYWOOD
    First published in 1995. Chartism inspired a prodigious literary output, based on its own newspapers and journals. However, while some Chartist political writings have been reprinted, the aesthetic texts of the movement have largely been neglected. This selection of short stories and extracts from longer fiction aims to remedy this situation and covers a diversity of authors, g...

    $500.00

  • THE CONUNDRUM OF MASCULINITY
    CHRIS HAYWOOD / THOMAS JOHANSSON / NILS HAMMARÉN / MARCUS HERZ / ANDREAS OTTEMO
    Popular culture is awash with discussions about the difficulties associated with being a man. Television talk shows, media articles and government press releases discuss not simply the problem of men, but have more recently focused on the problems of being a man. The Conundrum of Masculinity challenges highly advertised beliefs that men are in crisis and struggling to hold onto...

    $1,260.00

  • MARGINALIZED MASCULINITIES
    CHRIS HAYWOOD
    Across Europe we are witnessing a series of events that are drawing upon representations of men and masculinity that are rupturing the social fabric of everyday life. For example, media reports of social unrest, misogynous hate crime, religious extremism, drug trafficking and political Far Right mobilization often have been at the centre of the discussion the figure of the apat...

    $1,200.00

  • GOLD AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
    HAYWOOD CHEUNG
    This book describes the history of gold as a financial instrument and discusses gold exchanges in the major markets. It also describes the history of the Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society (CGSE), its current organizational structure and membership registration system. The book also includes the development and growth of the gold market in Hong Kong and the role played by C...

    $1,200.00

  • CHARTIST FICTION
    IAN HAYWOOD
    First published in 1999. For the first time since their appearance in Chartist newspapers these two major radical narratives are reprinted in a single volume. The Political Pilgrim’s Progress combines Utopian politics with Bunyanesque satire to tell the story of the journey of Radical and his family from the City of Plunder to the City of Reform. Sunshine and Shadow is the only...

    $1,420.00

  • RAILWAYS, URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND TOWN PLANNING IN BRITAIN: 1948–2008
    RUSSELL HAYWOOD
    This book provides a critical overview of the relationships between planning and railway management and development during the key period in the 20th Century when the railway was in public ownership: 1948-94. It assesses the strength of the relationships when working in collaboration with the private sector. The book then focuses on the interplay between planning and railway si...

    $1,560.00

  • MODELS FOR DEPENDENT TIME SERIES
    GRANVILLE TUNNICLIFFE WILSON / MARCO REALE / JOHN HAYWOOD
    Models for Dependent Time Series addresses the issues that arise and the methodology that can be applied when the dependence between time series is described and modeled. Whether you work in the economic, physical, or life sciences, the book shows you how to draw meaningful, applicable, and statistically valid conclusions from multivariate (or vect ...

    $1,460.00

  • THE CELTS
    JOHN HAYWOOD
    This dramatic history traces the mysterious Celts from their dark origins, including Druids and King Arthur, right across Britain and Europe and looking at their beliefs, cultures and arts as well as their warring and expansion. The resurgence of Celtic identity in Britain and Europe has revitalized interest in Celtic history. At the same time, developments in genetics and arch...

    $1,340.00

  • TEACHING THE NATIONAL ICT STRATEGY AT KEY STAGE 3
    CLARE FURLONGER / SUSAN HAYWOOD
    First Published in 2005. This book gives guidance on implementing the National Strategy for ICT at KS3. The strategy present a very different way of teaching ICT in the early years secondary education. The teaching of ICT in the key stage needs to be radically revised to implement the new proposals, and this book will support teachers, student teachers and schools as they do. ...

    $580.00

  • ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERING CYCLES
    R. W. HAYWOOD
    Analysis of Engineering Cycles, Third Edition, deals principally with an analysis of the overall performance, under design conditions, of work-producing power plants and work-absorbing refrigerating and gas-liquefaction plants, most of which are either cyclic or closely related thereto. The book is organized into two parts, dealing first with simple power and refrigerating pla...

    $970.00

  • EDUCATION AND MASCULINITIES
    CHRIS HAYWOOD / MAIRTIN MAC AN GHAILL
    Across media, academy and popular culture in western societies there is much talk of an implosion of the modern gender order. Education is often presented as a key site in which a crisis of masculinity is played out, and schools have become a focus for practical attempts to reconcile social and cultural transformations through the recalibration of teaching and learning, increas...

    $1,280.00

  • MARITIME PIRACY
    ROBERT HAYWOOD / ROBERTA SPIVAK
    Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry’s rapid growth was stimulated by low risks and increasingly high rewards. Currently, obsolete, incomplete and complicating structures and norms of governance, together with advan...

    $1,100.00

  • THINKING SPANISH TRANSLATION
    MICHAEL THOMPSON / LOUISE M. HAYWOOD
    The new edition of this comprehensive course in Spanish-English translation offers advanced students of Spanish a challenging yet practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved. A variety of translation issues are addressed, including: cultural differences register and dialect grammatical differences genre...

    $1,580.00

  • IT'S NOT A PRETTY SIGHT
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    When his ex-fianc é e is murdered, Gunner vows to take vengeance on Los Angeles For more than a decade, private detective Aaron Gunner has regretted letting Nina Hillman go. They met on a city bus while he was on his way to the Los Angeles Coliseum for a football game, and by the time they were through talking he had long since missed kickoff. He proposed to her quickly, only t...

    $119.00

  • NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    A lawyer hires Gunner to help her prove that her gangland client is not a killer Darrel Lovejoy doesn't owe South Central anything. By all accounts, he is lucky to escape this desperate corner of Los Angeles, to go to college and graduate into a well-paid advertising job. But something compels him to return. He dives into social work, attempting to mediate between the gangs whi...

    $149.00

  • WHEN LAST SEEN ALIVE
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    An encounter at the Million Man March sucks Gunner into an ice-cold missing persons case Elroy Covington should have run. He had traveled to the Million Man March in Washington, DC, looking forward to a new city and new faces. Then in a Dupont Circle restaurant, a twist of fate brought him face to face with a man from his long-forgotten past. Instead of running, Elroy said hell...

    $119.00

  • ALL THE LUCKY ONES ARE DEAD
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    Investigating the alleged suicide of a hip-hop star, Gunner uncovers a murder Carlton Elbridge, better known as C. E. Digga Jones, was too nice for gangsta rap. When he allegedly shot himself, he had millions in the bank, his face on the cover of Time magazine, and a nation of fanatics to mourn his death. He was found in a locked room, gun in his hand and bullet in his brain, a...

    $164.00

  • FEAR OF THE DARK
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    Winner of the Shamus Award: A failed private eye searches Los Angeles for a murderous white supremacist.   Aaron Gunner made a lousy private detective. After a year's carnage in Vietnam and a quick exit from the police academy, private work was the only avenue he saw to be a hero. But the seediness, tedium, and lack of real power crushed his hopes, and he quit the job after ina...

    $119.00

  • THE EMERGENCE OF LATIN AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION
    RACHEL HAYWOOD FERREIRA
    A fantastic voyage through the early science fiction of Latin America Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why ...

    $314.00

  • SEPARATE BUT EQUAL?
    TONY EDWARDS / CAROL FITZ-GIBBON / FRANK HARDMAN / ROY HAYWOOD / NICK MEAGHER
    This book looks in detail at the strong contrasts in the provision traditionally made for 'academically' and 'vocationally' minded students, and looks at differences and similarities in practice. The chapters report evidence of how students on both sides think they have been taught. They also report on how those students prefer to learn, how their teachers define the kinds of l...

    $640.00

  • ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERING CYCLES
    R. W. HAYWOOD
    Extensively revised, updated and expanded, the fourth edition of this popular text provides a rigorous analytical treatment of modern energy conversion plant. Notable for both its theoretical and practical treatment of conventional and nuclear power plant, and its studies of refrigerating and gas-liquefaction plant. This fourth edition now includes material on topics of increas...

    $970.00

  • YOU CAN DIE TRYING
    GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD
    Gunner attempts to set the record straight for a dead police officer with a racist past No one in South Central is surprised when Jack McGovern, a brutally racist cop, is accused of gunning down a black teenager in cold blood. But they are shocked when the LAPD actually responds to the charges, firing McGovern and leaving him without badge, pension, or pride. Eight months later...

    $149.00

  • CRISIS IN THE HEALTH SERVICE
    STUART HAYWOOD / ANDY ALASZEWSKI
    First published in 1980, Crisis in the Health Service explores the problems of the National Health Service and discusses approaches to promote change. It examines strategies adopted since the service’s creation in 1948, finding them inadequate, particularly management structures organized as if the institution operates like a private firm. By analyzing management processes with...

    $800.00

  • REASONING FOR BUSINESS
    HAYWOOD SPANGLER
    Critical thinking skills are important in decision making, but they’re not enough. This book offers a kit of conceptual tools that empower you – an already savvy thinker – to advance your ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, and learn quickly. Weaving together insights from both philosophy and psychology and more than a decade of ...

    $1,040.00

  • RACING WITH ALOHA
    FRED HAYWOOD
    "Haywood has a blend of the intellectual, philosopher, athlete, adventurer, quiet warrior, and curious student. This book entertains, informs, and inspires." —Laird Hamilton No one knows who first put a sail on a surfboard, but everyone would agree that Fred Haywood pioneered the sport of windsurfing. Few know he is also an Olympic contender who swam a record-breaking backstrok...

    $229.00

  • LOS HOMBRES DEL NORTE
    HAYWOOD JOHN
    Una historia de los vikingos alejada de mitos y leyendas. La narración más completa sobre su expansión geográfica; de Terranova a Bagdad, de Rusia a Francia o España.La sociedad violenta y depredadora de la Escandinavia de la Era Oscura tuvo un impacto único en la historia de la Europa medieval. Desde la seguridad del frío norte, los guerreros, exploradores y comerciantes nórdi...
    Agotado

    $96.00

  • FRESH PINEAPPLE POSSIBILITIES
    JANE HALL / DIXIE HAYWOOD
    Two award-winning quilters serve up creative new twists on the classic block!   Award-winning quilters Jane Hall and Dixie Haywood have been making quilts with the Pineapple Log Cabin block for decades. Now you can use their secrets to create your own perfect pineapple quilts.   Learn to use foundation piecing to sew perfectly accurate blocks Play with colors and block layouts ...

    $229.00


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