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  • CHINA, RUSSIA, AND THE USA IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    BENJAMIN HOUGHTON
    The shift in international relations towards multipolarity has had profound implications across the world, but particularly in highly penetrated regions such as the Middle East. This book explores the rivalry between the USA, Russia, and China in the region, investigating its effects and assessing the influence of regional actors and issues. Each chapter offers a comprehensive ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE OCEAN SUNFISHES
    TIERNEY M. THYS / ‎GRAEME C. HAYS / ‎JONATHAN D. R. HOUGHTON
    The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the world-record holding, charismatic ocean behemoths in the family Molidae. From evolution and phylogeny to biotoxins, biomechanics, parasites, husbandry and popular culture, it outlines recent and future research from leading sunfish ...

    $1,699.00

  • EMERGENCY CHARACTERIZATION OF UNKNOWN MATERIALS
    RICK HOUGHTON / WILLIAM BENNETT
    Emergency Characterization of Unknown Materials, Second Edition is fully updated to serve as a portable reference that can be used in the field and laboratory by workers who are responsible for a safe response to and management of unknown hazardous materials. As with the first edition, the book emphasizes public safety and the management of life safety hazards, including strate...

    $899.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF THE ECG
    ANDREW HOUGHTON
    Interpreting an ECG correctly and working out what to do next can seem like a daunting task to the non-specialist, yet it is a skill that will be invaluable to any doctor, nurse or paramedic when evaluating the condition of a patient. Making Sense of the ECG has been written specifically with this in mind, and will help the student and more experienced healthcare practitioner t...

    $599.00

  • ALCOHOL FUELS
    DOANN HOUGHTON-ALICO
    Since the 1973 OPEC oil crisis, the rise of imported crude oil prices, and the questionable availability of petroleum supplies, the United States has been forced to investigate liquid-fuel alternatives. Alcohol fuels, including methanol and ethanol, offer the most realistic near-term potential as gasoline extenders or substitutes. This book is the ...

    $1,099.00

  • CULTURE AND CURRENCY
    JOHN W. HOUGHTON
    The aim of this book is to shed light on how people come to hold opposing views, how these views solidify into the sides of a debate and how one side becomes the dominant view. Why, as all have access to the same nature, physical and human, don't they come to the same conclusions? Or, if each individual is different, why don't they come to wholly different conclusions? A sociol...

    $1,099.00

  • BEYOND NATIVE-SPEAKERISM
    STEPHANIE ANN HOUGHTON / DAMIAN J. RIVERS / KAYOKO HASHIMOTO
    Despite unsubstantiated claims of best practice, the division of language-teaching professionals on the basis of their categorization as ‘native-speakers’ or ‘non-native speakers’ continues to cascade throughout the academic literature. It has become normative, under the rhetorical guise of acting to correct prejudice and/or discrimination, to see native-speakerism as having a ...

    $1,099.00

  • INSTANT POT MIRACLE
    THE EDITORS AT HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
    Tasting Table calls the Instant Pot “the hottest kitchen tool since George Foreman’s pint-size grill” and everyone from Ruth Reichl to top food bloggers rave about its efficiency, convenience, and affordability. Now, with this licensed cookbook—one of the most comprehensive published to date—you can discover exactly how much this miracle appliance can do. This full-color cookbo...

    $419.49

  • VALERIAN
    PETER HOUGHTON
    Valerian, is an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of this very important genus of plants, used in the traditional medicine of many parts of the world, particularly as a sedative. It includes material written by experts dealing with a variety of aspects including the ethnobotany, chemistry, pharmacology, cultivation, analysis and commercial aspects of Valeriana. This book will...

    $1,299.00

  • VALERIAN
    PETER HOUGHTON
    Valerian, is an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of this very important genus of plants, used in the traditional medicine of many parts of the world, particularly as a sedative. It includes material written by experts dealing with a variety of aspects including the ethnobotany, chemistry, pharmacology, cultivation, analysis and commercial aspects of Valeriana. This book will...

    $1,299.00

  • POCKET ECGS FOR NURSES
    ANDREW R. HOUGHTON / ALUN ROEBUCK
    Written in plain language with clear explanations, bullet lists and summaries throughout, this book will benefit nurses as well as paramedics and other allied health professionals in recording and reading ECGs. The book begins by covering the basics of cardiac anatomy and physiology and how these relate to the ECG. It then guides nurses on how to perform a high-quality ECG reco...

    $859.00

  • AERODYNAMICS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS
    STEVEN H. COLLICOTT / DANIEL T. VALENTINE / E. L. HOUGHTON / P. W. CARPENTER
    Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is one of the world’s leading course texts on aerodynamics. It provides concise explanations of basic concepts, combined with an excellent introduction to aerodynamic theory. This updated edition has been revised with improved pedagogy and reorganized content to facilitate student learning, and includes new or expanded cov...

    $1,728.00

  • JOHN CLARE'S RELIGION
    SARAH HOUGHTON-WALKER
    Addressing a neglected aspect of John Clare's history, Sarah Houghton-Walker explores Clare's poetry within the framework of his faith and the religious context in which he lived. While Clare expressed affection for the Established Church and other denominations on various occasions, Houghton-Walker brings together a vast array of evidence to show that any exploration of Clare'...

    $1,099.00

  • FINANCE AT THE THRESHOLD
    CHRISTOPHER HOUGHTON BUDD
    Every banking crisis, whatever its particular circumstances, has two features in common with every previous one. Each has been preceded by a period of excessive monetary ease, and by ill thought out regulatory changes. For many the recent hiatus in inter-bank lending has been seen as a blip - enormous in size and global in scope, but, nonetheless, a blip. Finance at the Thresho...

    $1,179.00

  • POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
    DAVID PATRICK HOUGHTON
    What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup---beliefs, values, and so on---of those individuals? This is perhaps the leading division within the psychological study of politics today. Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases, 2nd edition, provides a concise, readable, and conceptu...

    $1,839.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF THE ECG: CASES FOR SELF ASSESSMENT
    ANDREW HOUGHTON / DAVID GRAY / ANDREW R. HOUGHTON
    Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment presents everything you need to assess your ability to interpret ECGs accurately, perform differential diagnosis, and decide upon the most appropriate clinical management in each situation. The patients' history, examination and initial investigations are presented along with questions on the ECG i ...

    $699.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF THE ECG: CASES FOR SELF ASSESSMENT
    ANDREW HOUGHTON / DAVID GRAY / ANDREW R. HOUGHTON
    Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment presents everything you need to assess your ability to interpret ECGs accurately, perform differential diagnosis, and decide upon the most appropriate clinical management in each situation. The patients' history, examination and initial investigations are presented along with questions on the ECG i ...

    $699.00

  • A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
    DAVID PATRICK HOUGHTON
    American foreign policy often looks like a trail of man-made debris and disaster. Of course, the explanations for many poorly-made decisions are rather complex. In this brief and cogent analysis, Houghton shows us that understanding American foreign policy often comes down to recognizing the cognitive limitations of the decision-makers, which affects the foreign policy process....

    $979.00

  • MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS RELATING TO INDIAN SUBJECTS
    BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON
    This is Volume VII of fourteen on a series on India: Language and Literature. Originally published in 1180 this is second part of a collection of miscellaneous essays on the subject of India, including topics of comparisons of vocabulary, the Aborigines of North-East, Eastern India, Tibetans, the Mongolian words, the aborigines of Central India, amongst other. ...

    $1,139.00

  • LEARNING ABOUT DRINKING
    ELENI HOUGHTON / ANNE M. ROCHE
    This book is based on the premise that drinking behaviors are primarily learned. The contributors to the book explore the complex array of individual and social factors that impact the development of drinking patterns. They traverse family and culture influences, and the role played by schools, government, and the beverage alcohol industry. Learning About Drinking offers a rigo...

    $1,179.00

  • FIELD CONFIRMATION TESTING FOR SUSPICIOUS SUBSTANCES
    RICK HOUGHTON
    Frequently a substance found at a port of entry, waste site, laboratory triage facility, or even in a hazardous materials emergency will be labeled and purportedly identified. But law enforcement and other first responders cannot take this claim at face value, as the accuracy is not confirmed and must be verified. A comprehensive handbook for on-th ...

    $1,939.00

  • EMERGENCY CHARACTERIZATION OF UNKNOWN MATERIALS
    RICK HOUGHTON
    Deliberately, accidentally, or consequentially, first responders and waste site workers handle unknown substances of varying degrees of danger every day. Unidentified chemicals involved with clandestine production of WMD agents or drugs, explosive materials, unlabeled waste, and forensic samples all pose a threat to the worker and those they prote ...

    $3,400.00

  • CONNECTIONIST MODELS IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
    GEORGE HOUGHTON
    Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology is a state-of-the-art review of neural network modelling in core areas of cognitive psychology including: memory and learning, language (written and spoken), cognitive development, cognitive control, attention and action. The chapters discuss neural network models in a clear and accessible style, with an emphasis on the relationship ...

    $1,339.00

  • CHAMBERLAIN'S SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS IN CLINICAL MEDICINE, AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
    ANDREW R HOUGHTON / DAVID GRAY
    A classic text, Chamberlain's Symptoms and Signs in Clinical Medicine has been providing students and professionals with a detailed and well-illustrated account of the symptoms and signs of diseases affecting all the body systems since the first edition published in 1936. Now completely rewritten by a new team of authors selected for their experien ...

    $1,159.00

  • AERODYNAMICS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS
    HOUGHTON, E. L. / CARPENTER, P. W. / COLLICOTT, STEVEN / VALENTINE, DANIEL
    Already one of the leading course texts on aerodynamics in the UK, the sixth edition welcomes a new US-based author team to keep the text current. The sixth edition has been revised to include the latest developments in compressible flow, computational fluid dynamics, and contemporary applications. Computational methods have been expanded and updated to reflect the modern appro...

    $1,271.00

  • CHAMBERLAIN'S SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS IN CLINICAL MEDICINE, AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
    ANDREW R HOUGHTON / DAVID GRAY
    A classic text, Chamberlain's Symptoms and Signs in Clinical Medicine has been providing students and professionals with a detailed and well-illustrated account of the symptoms and signs of diseases affecting all the body systems since the first edition published in 1936. Now completely rewritten by a new team of authors selected for their experien ...

    $1,299.00

  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VOLCANOES
    SIGURDSSON, HARALDUR / HOUGHTON, BRUCE / RYMER, HAZEL / STIX, JOHN / MCNUTT, STEVE
    Volcanoes are unquestionably one of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring features of the physical world. Our paradoxical fascination with them stems from their majestic beauty and powerful, if sometimes deadly, destructiveness. Notwithstanding the tremendous advances in volcanology since ancient times, some of the mystery surrounding volcanic eruptions remains today. The Ency...

    $1,831.00

  • AERODYNAMICS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS
    HOUGHTON, E. L. / CARPENTER, P. W.
    Already established as the leading course text on aerodynamics, Aerodynamics for Engineering Students has been revised to include the latest developments in flow control and boundary layers, and their influence on modern wing design, as well as introducing recent advances in the understanding of fundamental fluid dynamics. Computational methods have been expanded and updated to...

    $979.00

  • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING E-MEGA REFERENCE
    TOOLEY, MIKE / FILIPPONE, ANTONIO / MEGSON, T.H.G. / COOK, MICHAEL V. / CARPENTER, P. W. / HOUGHTON, E. L
    A one-stop Desk Reference, for engineers involved in all aspects of aerospace; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. Material covers a broad topic range from Structural Components of Aircraft, Design and Airworthiness to Aerodynamics and Mode...

    $1,360.00

  • WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?
    HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
    Carmen Sandiego is on a mission to stop VILE, and she needs your help! Get the scoop on twelve different countries, then share the sleuthing in this exciting search-and-find book with full-color illustrations and photography. Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? She’s traveling by air and by sea, over land and on foot. Just when you think you’ve found her, she slips away agai...

    $236.99


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