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  • GENDER, EMOTION, AND THE ORIGINS OF DEMOCRACY IN JULY MONARCHY FRANCE
    JEFFREY B. HOBBS
    This book provides a new perspective on the historical importance of a series of provincial rebellions in France after the Revolution of 1830. It demonstrates their crucial role in the development of popular ideas about liberty and democracy in modern France. Hobbs shows how the Duchesse de Berry’s rebellion in 1832 and the Lyon insurrections of 1831 and 1834 inspired competing...

    $1,240.00

  • AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL NAVY
    DAVID HOBBS
    This is a comprehensive study of every aircraft type ordered for the Royal Navy since 1908. It includes fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, rigid and non-rigid airships, unmanned aircraft and pilotless target aircraft together with many designs that were ordered but not built so that the importance placed on them by the Naval Staff or their potential technological impact on carrier...

    $549.99

  • VOICES OF FOSTER YOUTH
    SUE D. HOBBS / JENNIFER M. KREBSBACH / RAKEL P. LARSON / CHRISTINE R. WELLS / KAREN J. SAYWITZ
    This important book offers unique insight into the experience of foster youth from 27 countries around the world. It provides a systematic review of literature reporting the experiences of youth in care, addressing a wide range of key topics in this multidisciplinary field, and presenting the views and perceptions of these young people. Including a meta-analysis on contact with...

    $740.00

  • PLAYBUILDING AS ARTS-BASED RESEARCH
    JOE NORRIS / KEVIN HOBBS / MIRROR THEATRE
    The new edition of Playbuilding as Arts-Based Research details how playbuilding (creating an original performative work with a group) as a methodology has developed in qualitative research over the last 15 years. The second edition substantially updates the award-winning first edition by making connections to current research theories, providing complete scripts with URL links ...

    $1,320.00

  • CONFIDENCE FOR LEADERSHIP
    DESMOND BARRETT / DAVID M. CHURCH / PAUL T. HOBBS
    Many of us sense a lack of confidence when it comes to leading a group of people to a different level of thinking that involves change. How will we get there? How can we entice followers to come along as we lead? For without followers, we cannot be leaders. Intellectual fatigue, a lack of physical vitality, and drained emotions make it nearly impossible to foster healthy change...

    $302.00

  • CONFIDENCE FOR LEADERSHIP
    DESMOND BARRETT / DAVID M. CHURCH / PAUL T. HOBBS
    Many of us sense a lack of confidence when it comes to leading a group of people to a different level of thinking that involves change. How will we get there? How can we entice followers to come along as we lead? For without followers, we cannot be leaders. Intellectual fatigue, a lack of physical vitality, and drained emotions make it nearly impossible to foster healthy change...

    $302.00

  • PRIVATISING CRIMINAL JUSTICE
    CHRISTOPHER HAMERTON / SUE HOBBS
    Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector. In recent years, the criminal justice sector has made various strategic partnerships with the private sector, exemplified by initiatives within the police, the prison system and offender services. This has seen unprecedented growth in the past 30 yea...

    $1,160.00

  • NURSING IN GENERAL PRACTICE
    BARBARA STILWELL / RICHARD HOBBS
    Complexity theory is a collection of concepts ideas and perspectives developed largely in fields outside medicine. It allows us to study health care delivery using the metaphor of an ecosystem rather than a machine. This timely book explores the ways complexity theory may assist in the provision of clinical healthcare. It explains the foundations of the theory behind complexity...

    $1,040.00

  • TOWARDS A PHENOMENOLOGY OF VALUES
    D.J. HOBBS
    This book provides a framework for phenomenological axiology. It offers a novel account of the existence and nature of values as they appear in conscious experience. By building on previous approaches, including those of Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, and Nicolai Hartmann, the author develops a unique account of what values really are. After explicating and defending this account...

    $1,160.00

  • ROBERT MOTHERWELL, ABSTRACTION, AND PHILOSOPHY
    ROBERT HOBBS
    Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell’s abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead’s highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosophy graduate student at Harvard University, and he continued to espouse Whitehead’s processist theories ...

    $640.00

  • REFLECTIONS
    BRIAN HOBBS / FIA HOBBS
    Reflections takes readers on an honest journey through dealing with fears, coming to term with illness, facing death, and acceptance. Reflections is a gripping story written from two perspectives: Brian Hobbs, a songwriter with a terminal cancer diagnosis with months to live, and Fia Hobbs, his caregiving wife as well as his therapist. They share with readers their journey thro...

    $229.00

  • RURAL SOCIETY IN THE U.S.
    DON A DILLMAN / DARYL J HOBBS
    Must rural Americans pay the price of urban progress and modern lifestyles? How will the increased pressures of the 1980s affect those who live and work in rural communities? In addressing these overriding questions the authors of this book take a serious look at such issues as who will operate our farms and how those farms will meet rising demands for food, how higher energy c...

    $860.00

  • THE MYTH OF VICTORY
    RICHARD W HOBBS
    Richard Hobbs examines one of society’s greatest problems: the need for reconciliation between the democratic dislike of war and the appropriate use of the military instrument in world politics. He questions whether the results obtained in war are worth the expenditures made and contends that victory gained from total war—war pushed to its outer li ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MEDIA EDUCATION, COPYRIGHT, AND FAIR USE
    RENEE HOBBS
    Media literacy educators rely on the ability to make use of copyrighted materials from mass media, digital media and popular culture for both analysis and production activities. Whether they work in higher education, elementary and secondary schools, or in informal learning settings in libraries, community and non-profit organizations, educators know that the practice of media ...

    $1,320.00

  • INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON TELE-EDUCATION AND VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
    GRAHAM ORANGE / DAVE HOBBS
    This title was first published in 2000:  Teaching, learning and assessment methods are constantly evolving, providing the educator with a range of issues and new challenges. This book addresses these challenges through the use of information and communications technologies and presents a vision of how these may be deployed in the educational environments of the future. ...

    $1,400.00

  • EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS
    CHRIS HOBBS
    "I highly recommend Mr. Hobbs' book." - Stephen Thomas, PE, Founder and Editor of FunctionalSafetyEngineer.com Safety-critical devices, whether medical, automotive, or industrial, are increasingly dependent on the correct operation of sophisticated software. Many standards have appeared in the last decade on how such systems should be designed and built. Developers, who previou...

    $1,200.00

  • MANAGING MAINTENANCE ERROR
    JAMES REASON / ALAN HOBBS
    Situations and systems are easier to change than the human condition - particularly when people are well-trained and well-motivated, as they usually are in maintenance organisations. This is a down-to-earth practitioner’s guide to managing maintenance error, written in Dr. Reason’s highly readable style. It deals with human risks generally and the special human performance p...

    $1,420.00

  • MISCHIEF, MORALITY AND MOBS
    DICK HOBBS
    Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, social theory, social history, criminology and sociology. In particular, his work has had a huge impact upon studies of youth, youth culture and drugs. This collection is made up of contributions from scholars producing empirical work ...

    $800.00

  • POLICING THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS
    GARY ARMSTRONG / RICHARD GIULIANOTTI / DICK HOBBS
    The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world’s biggest single-city cultural event. While the Olympics and other sport mega-events have received growing levels of academic investigation from a variety of disciplinary approaches, relatively little is known about how such occasions are experienced directly by local host communities and publics. This ethnography ex...

    $1,260.00

  • APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY
    JOHN E. HOBBS
    Applied Climatology: A Study of Atmospheric Resources focuses on the management of the atmosphere as a resource. The book first discusses the atmospheric system, including atmospheric circulation and energy in the system. The text then examines the variable atmosphere. Scale variability, climatic change, air pollution, and hazards and extremes are considered. The book also foc...

    $970.00

  • SECURING AND SUSTAINING THE OLYMPIC CITY
    PETE FUSSEY / JON COAFFEE / DICK HOBBS
    Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination. Since 1976, the defence of the spectacle has become the central feature of its planning, one that has assumed even greater prominence following the bombin...

    $1,120.00

  • TRAFFIC PLANNING AND ENGINEERING
    F. D. HOBBS
    Traffic Planning and Engineering, Second Edition takes into account underlying trends in traffic planning and engineering. In this edition, Chapter 3 has been remodeled, focusing on the techniques on conducting surveys and their subsequent analysis. Further emphasis has also been provided on environmental management and the central role of computers in all aspects of traffic p...

    $1,249.00

  • THE MAKING OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY
    SUE HOBBS / CHRISTOPHER HAMERTON
    This new textbook will provide students of criminology with a better understanding of criminal justice policy and, in doing so, offers a framework for analysing the social, economic and political processes that shape its creation. The book adopts a policy-oriented approach to criminal justice, connecting the study of criminology to the wider study of British government, public ...

    $1,320.00

  • WARSHIPS OF THE GREAT WAR ERA
    DAVID HOBBS
    The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Trea...

    $329.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
    H. E. HOBBS
    Principles of Ophthalmology focuses on the anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the eyes. The book first offers information on the optical mechanism of the eyes, binocular vision, and examination of the eyes, including refractive errors, human binocular reflexes, and management of strabismus and heterophoria. The publication then examines the eyelids and lacrimal apparatus, ex...

    $970.00

  • A CENTURY OF CARRIER AVIATION
    DAVID HOBBS
    A naval history of the development and use of aircraft carriers in military operations and in times of war. It has been more than a hundred years since a heavier-than-air craft first took off and landed on a warship, and from the very beginning flying at sea made unique demands on men and machines. As warplanes grew larger, faster and heavier, air operations from ships were onl...

    $329.00

  • HOBBS' FOOD POISONING AND FOOD HYGIENE
    JIM MCLAUCHLIN / CHRISTINE LITTLE / BETTY C. HOBBS
    This unique textbook takes a holistic approach to food poisoning and food hygiene, explaining in clear and non-technical language the causes of food poisoning with practical examples from 'real-life' outbreaks. Now in its seventh edition, the book retains its longstanding clarity, while being completely revised and updated by a new team of editors ...

    $1,320.00

  • A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO WBEM/CIM MANAGEMENT
    CHRIS HOBBS
    System architects and engineers in fields such as storage networking, desktop computing, electrical power distribution, and telecommunications need a common and flexible way of managing heterogeneous devices and services. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and its Component Information Model (CIM) provide the architecture, language, interfaces, ...

    $1,760.00

  • COOKING WITH CBD
    JEN HOBBS
    Harness the power of CBD, derived from cannabis and hemp in your breakfasts, lunches, and dinners to help soothe anxiety, depression, and inflammation, and transform your overall health. Whether to settle your nerves or treat specific health issues, cannabis- and hemp-infused foods and drinks are the trendiest items in the market. Now, with Cooking with CBD, you can learn how t...

    $229.00

  • MOUNT SINAI
    JOSEPH J. HOBBS
    This study of the Egyptian mountain widely believed to be Mount Sinai examines its geographical features, sacred sites, and the effects of rising tourism.   Amid the high mountains of Egypt's southern Sinai Peninsula stands Jebel Musa, "Mount Moses," which many Christians and Muslims revere as Mount Sinai. In this fascinating study, Joseph Hobbs draws on geography and archaeolo...

    $229.00


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