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  • AMAZING TALES VOLUME 92
    FOX B. HOLDEN ET AL.
    Step into the extraordinary realms of "Amazing Tales Volume 92", where the vast universe unfolds in stories that challenge the boundaries of human thought and spirit. This science fiction anthology is a tapestry of visionary tales that will ignite your mind and stir your soul. Begin your journey with "The Builders" by Fox B. Holden, which plunges you into a post-apocalyptic lan...

    $39.70

  • ETHICS FOR MANAGERS
    PHILIP HOLDEN
    This title was first published in 2000: This text examines the relationship between ethics and business, looking in detail at key areas like personal standards, leadership, marketing, empowerment and the implications of "going green". Practical guidance is offered based largely on what successful organizations are already doing. Drawing on sources ranging from classic philosoph...

    $680.00

  • HUMAN SERVICES ONLINE
    JERRY FINN / GARY HOLDEN
    Will your agency or students have the training to use the Internet in practice? Human Services Online: A New Arena for Service Delivery focuses on ways that Human Services are using the Internet for service delivery, community education, collaboration, advocacy, social change, and resource development. This valuable book highlights the array of innovative services now being off...

    $1,040.00

  • PRIVATE FORTUNES AND COMPANY PROFITS IN THE INDIA TRADE IN THE 18TH CENTURY
    HOLDEN FURBER / ROSANE ROCHER
    This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furber’s discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the ’country trade’ between Asian ports, played a major role in the European expansion in India before the age of empire. Furber vividly describes how individual entrepreneurs used their positions with East I...

    $1,480.00

  • AGEING, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND THE 'NEW' DEMENTIAS
    UNA HOLDEN
    Up to the 1990s, the influence of brain function disturbances and causes of dementia in the elderly had mostly been overlooked as a possible explanation for antisocial or unusual behaviour. As a result, these had tended not to be included in assessment and training programmes. Originally published in 1995, Ageing, Neuropsychology and the ‘New’ Dementias introduces the concepts ...

    $840.00

  • SCALING PYTHON WITH DASK
    HOLDEN KARAU / MIKA KIMMINS
    Modern systems contain multi-core CPUs and GPUs that have the potential for parallel computing. But many scientific Python tools were not designed to leverage this parallelism. With this short but thorough resource, data scientists and Python programmers will learn how the Dask open source library for parallel computing provides APIs that make it easy to parallelize PyData libr...

    $801.00

  • THEORETICAL MODELS OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
    KEVIN A. FALL / JANICE MINER HOLDEN / ANDRE MARQUIS
    The fourth edition of Theoretical Models of Counseling and Psychotherapy provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of major counseling theories and focuses on the integration of different theoretical models. With new information on multiculturalism and diversity, the book offers a detailed description of the philosophical basis for each theory as well as historical context...

    $1,800.00

  • PYTHON IN A NUTSHELL
    ALEX MARTELLI / ANNA MARTELLI RAVENSCROFT / STEVE HOLDEN / PAUL MCGUIRE
    Python was recently ranked as today's most popular programming language on the TIOBE index, thanks to its broad applicability to design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance. With this updated fourth edition, you'll learn how to get the most out of Python, whether you're a professional programmer or someone who needs this language to solve problems in a partic...

    $908.00

  • SCALING PYTHON WITH RAY
    HOLDEN KARAU / BORIS LUBLINSKY
    Serverless computing enables developers to concentrate solely on their applications rather than worry about where they've been deployed. With the Ray general-purpose serverless implementation in Python, programmers and data scientists can hide servers, implement stateful applications, support direct communication between tasks, and access hardware accelerators. In this book, ex...

    $681.00

  • CRICKET AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY IN BRITAIN
    RUSSELL HOLDEN
    This book investigates the declining status of cricket within contemporary British society after the high-water mark of England’s Ashes victory in 2005. It considers the deep roots of the game within British national life as well as its ever-changing nature, and reflects upon the current significance and relevance of a sport that many still perceive as deeply traditional and co...

    $1,200.00

  • PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: THE BASICS
    JOSEPH HOLDEN
    This second edition, enhanced with more than 30 new figures, provides an up-to-date overview of physical geography suitable for all those with a personal or professional interest in environmental processes, climate change and understanding of the Earth’s landforms and dynamics. The text provides explanations of processes, enabling the reader to understand the interconnected nat...

    $640.00

  • HEALTH AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF OLDER WOMEN
    A.REGULA HERZOG / KAREN HOLDEN / MILDRED SELTZER
    Health & Economic Status of Older Women is a collection of research issues and data sources. This book is organized in three parts. Part 1 sets the stage for the more focused discussion of health and economic issues in the lives of old women that follows in Part 2. This first section contains papers by both Troll and Reinharz. Their papers - presented as keynote addresses in th...

    $3,400.00

  • THE PATIENT FACTOR
    RICHARD J. HOLDEN
    Patients are increasingly encouraged to take an active role in managing their health and health care. New technologies, cultural shifts, trends in healthcare delivery, and policies have brought to the forefront the "work" patients, families, and other non-professionals perform in pursuit of health. Volume I provides a theoretical and methodological foundation for the emerging d...

    $1,700.00

  • SPORT, GLOBALISATION AND IDENTITY
    JIM O'BRIEN / RUSSELL HOLDEN / XAVIER GINESTA
    Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. This book explores the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity. Exploring important themes such as the geopolitics of sports events, contested identities, and ownersh...

    $1,200.00

  • KUBEFLOW FOR MACHINE LEARNING
    TREVOR GRANT / HOLDEN KARAU / BORIS LUBLINSKY / RICHARD LIU / ILAN FILONENKO
    If you're training a machine learning model but aren't sure how to put it into production, this book will get you there. Kubeflow provides a collection of cloud native tools for different stages of a model's lifecycle, from data exploration, feature preparation, and model training to model serving. This guide helps data scientists build production-grade machine learning impleme...

    $454.00

  • SUFFRAGE AND WOMEN'S WRITING
    JUNE HANNAM / KATHERINE HOLDEN
    This volume examines different types of women’s creative writing in support of the demand for the parliamentary vote, including autobiographies, memoirs, letters, diaries, novels, and drama. The women’s suffrage movement became far more visible in the Edwardian period. Large demonstrations and militant actions such as destruction of property were widely reported in the press an...

    $1,200.00

  • DEAREST ENEMY AND FOUR MORE STORIES
    FOX B. HOLDEN
    Five Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Fox B. Holden. Featured here: "Dearest Enemy", "A Gift For Terra", and "The Women-Stealers of Thrayx", "Task Mission" and "A Matter of Order". ...

    $39.70

  • WATER RESOURCES
    JOSEPH HOLDEN
    Now in its second edition, Water Resources: An Integrated Approach provides students with a comprehensive overview of natural processes associated with water and the modifications of these processes by humans through climate change and land management, water-related health issues, engineering approaches to water and socio-economic processes of huge importance to water resources...

    $1,600.00

  • PARENTS AND THE DYNAMICS OF CHILD REARING
    GEORGE W HOLDEN
    Research into parent-child relationships is a diverse field of inquiry, attracting investigators from a variety of disciplines and subdisciplines. This book integrates and synthesizes the literature by focusing on issues concerning the parent. The text is organized around four key questions: What determines parental behavior? What are the effects of parenting on children? What ...

    $1,200.00

  • CEYLON
    LORD HOLDEN
    Published in 1939, this book provides a comprehensive observation of Ceylon and the Ceylonese people. Covering topics including the rest-house; the Lord Buddha; the Lost cities; Sigiriya, Buddhist temples and the Jungle, the book considers the human geography of the island calibrating it with the diverse archaeology of the island, religious practice, and the British occupation ...

    $980.00

  • SEATTLE PROHIBITION
    BRAD HOLDEN
    Prohibition consumed Seattle, igniting a war that lasted nearly twenty years and played out in the streets, waterways, and even town hall. Roy Olmstead, formerly a Seattle police officer, became the King of the Seattle Bootleggers, and Johnny Schnarr, running liquor down from Canada, revolutionized the speedboat industry. Frank Gatt, a south Seattle restaurateur, started the st...

    $229.00

  • THE VISTAS OF AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY 1800-1898
    BRIAN HOLDEN REID & JOSEPH G. DAWSON III
    A team of leading American military historians here investigate the factors that shaped the United States Army in the nineteenth century. Throwing new light on its history, this deeply researched book explores a mulitplicity of themes. These include the social structure, command system and relationship with civil power which are all important in assessing its efficiency and beh...

    $980.00

  • MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
    PETER HOLDEN
    Specialists drawn from industry, agency and academia explain the role of the various elements in the marketing communications process, and show how a reassessment of the marketing mix can result in a positive response to challenges imposed by a changing commercial environment. The pharmaceutical industry is often used as the model to illustrate proven techniques and creative in...

    $5,300.00

  • THE CHANGING RACIAL REGIME
    MATTHEW HOLDEN
    The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. The Review's purpose, as described by Matthew Holden in his introduction, is to "lead to new information, insights, and findings" into the social and political status of African Americans. The volume is not exclusionist or narrow. It integrates essays that...

    $1,320.00

  • THE IMPERATIVES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    ERLING HOLDEN / KRISTIN LINNERUD / DAVID BANISTER / VALERIA SCHWANITZ / AUGUST WIERLING
    Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This...

    $1,260.00

  • HIGH PERFORMANCE SPARK
    HOLDEN KARAU / RACHEL WARREN
    Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven’t seen the performance improvements you expected, or still don’t feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau and Rachel Warren demonstrate performance optimizations to help your Spark queries run faster and handle larger data sizes, while using fewer resou...

    $534.00

  • PRAGMATIC JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE CITY
    MEG HOLDEN
    What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking, in today’s cities? Can justice be the basis on which the practices of city building rely? Can this recognition constitute sustainability in city building, from a pragmatic perspective? Today, we are faced with a mountain of reasons to lose hope in any prospect of moving closer to justice and sustainability from o...

    $1,320.00

  • THE MOTOR CAR AND POPULAR CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    DAVID THOMS / LEN HOLDEN
    This is a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the motor car and popular culture in the 20th century, which brings together original essays by academics in the UK, North America and Australia. The contributors write from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including semiotics, social history, literary and film criticism, and musicology. Three main theme...

    $1,240.00

  • ACQUISITIONS
    JESSE HOLDEN
    To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; no more; and, by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to ...

    $976.04

  • IN SEARCH OF STRUCTURAL POWER
    PATRICK HOLDEN
    Offering a clear and logical analysis of the panoply of European Union aid policies and a theoretically informed evaluation of their operation, Patrick Holden contends that the major thrust of EU aid policy is an effort to augment the EU's structural power through targeted political and economic liberalization. Although historically grounded, this book concentrates on EU aid to...

    $1,480.00


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