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  • SNAPSHOTS OF GREAT LEADERSHIP
    JON P. HOWELL / ISAAC WANASIKA / MARIA J. MENDEZ
    Snapshots of Great Leadership offers a thorough look into leaders who have either accomplished amazing feats or brought destruction. Now in its third edition, this key volume explores what it means to be a great leader, and clearly explains the lives, triumphs, and challenges of a range of diverse leaders across history and into the modern day. Packed into easily digestible cha...

    $1,320.00

  • ALL SAVED GREAT AND SMALL
    DAVID BROWN HOWELL
    Like Barbara Kingsolver's brilliant Demon Copperhead, a Pulitzer Prize winner, All Saved Great and Small transports the reader deep into the heart of rugged Appalachia, a part of the country not understood by most people. Lawlessness and poverty plague the region. A star athlete, Finn Boone struggles to rise above his bootlegging father and his father's murderous behavior. A pe...

    $426.00

  • ALL SAVED GREAT AND SMALL
    DAVID BROWN HOWELL
    Like Barbara Kingsolver's brilliant Demon Copperhead, a Pulitzer Prize winner, All Saved Great and Small transports the reader deep into the heart of rugged Appalachia, a part of the country not understood by most people. Lawlessness and poverty plague the region. A star athlete, Finn Boone struggles to rise above his bootlegging father and his father's murderous behavior. A pe...

    $426.00

  • PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
    TORIN ALTER / AMY KIND / ROBERT J. HOWELL
    Imaginative cases, or what might be called puzzles and other thought experiments, play a central role in philosophy of mind. The real world also furnishes philosophers with an ample supply of such puzzles. This volume collects 50 of the most important historical and contemporary cases in philosophy of mind and describes their significance. The authors divide them into five sect...

    $780.00

  • OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOR CHILDREN WITH DME OR TWICE EXCEPTIONALITY
    MARIZA FERREIRA / REBECCA HOWELL
    Children with high learning potential or giftedness have remarkable potential. Despite this, these children can struggle to participate in everyday life because of a range of needs that are sometimes misunderstood, overlooked or not adequately addressed, leading to underachievement and, in turn, low self-esteem. Needs that, in many cases, paediatric occupational therapists are ...

    $820.00

  • BURIED DREAMER
    DAVID BROWN HOWELL
    In 1847, Samantha waits tables and serves grog at Logan's Tavern in Campbeltown, Scotland. She joins the love of her life, the local Presbyterian minister, on an ill-fated voyage. The Reverend Charles Stuart is forced into exile (because of his zealous passion for the poor) and placed on an overloaded sailing ship to Wilmington, North Carolina. The ship barely survives the stor...

    $479.00

  • BURIED DREAMER
    DAVID BROWN HOWELL
    In 1847, Samantha waits tables and serves grog at Logan's Tavern in Campbeltown, Scotland. She joins the love of her life, the local Presbyterian minister, on an ill-fated voyage. The Reverend Charles Stuart is forced into exile (because of his zealous passion for the poor) and placed on an overloaded sailing ship to Wilmington, North Carolina. The ship barely survives the stor...

    $479.00

  • THERMAL RADIATION
    JOHN R. HOWELL / M. PINAR MENGÜC / KYLE J. DAUN
    This eBook+ version includes several linked supplementary videos, such as an overview of the book’s history and a presentation on radiation pioneers from the authors, as well as an in-text video on the 1969 lunar landing mission. Thermal Radiation: An Introduction is a complete textbook for a one-semester introductory graduate course on radiative energy transfer. It bridges the...

    $2,300.00

  • THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE SLAVE TRADE
    RAYMOND C. HOWELL
    The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade, first published in 1987, offers a detailed analysis of the Royal Navy’s slave trade suppression on the East Coast of Africa – an area often neglected in studies of the campaigns against the slavers. It traces the naval impact on the Arab slave trade from Zanzibar dominions and the political implications of that involvement. The naval contribu...

    $860.00

  • TETHERED TO AN APPALACHIAN CURSE
    DAVID BROWN HOWELL
    A unique book about a unique life chronicles a persistent journey from an isolated Appalachian area mired in deep poverty. Illegal bootleggers and nasty mountain villains haunt the young man's family. A fundamentalist preacher condemns the young man to hell. As a four-year-old first-grader, he perseveres to academic excellence. Numerous episodes in his misspent youth ring outra...

    $426.00

  • TETHERED TO AN APPALACHIAN CURSE
    DAVID BROWN HOWELL
    A unique book about a unique life chronicles a persistent journey from an isolated Appalachian area mired in deep poverty. Illegal bootleggers and nasty mountain villains haunt the young man's family. A fundamentalist preacher condemns the young man to hell. As a four-year-old first-grader, he perseveres to academic excellence. Numerous episodes in his misspent youth ring outra...

    $426.00

  • TEACHING FOR LEARNING
    CLAIRE HOWELL MAJOR / MICHAEL S. HARRIS / TODD D. ZAKRAJSEK
    Teaching for Learning is a comprehensive, practical resource for instructors that highlights and synthesizes proven teaching methods and active learning strategies. Each of the 101 entries describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements, demonstrates how the approach may be used in various educational contexts, reviews findings from the research literature, ...

    $860.00

  • AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION IN WASHINGTON, DC
    KATHRYN HOWELL
    Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC uses the case of Washington, DC to examine the past, present, and future of subsidized and unsubsidized affordable housing through the lenses of history, governance, and affordable housing policy and planning. Affordable housing policy in the US has often been focused at the federal level where the laws and funding to build new ...

    $1,160.00

  • ENERGY CENTERED MANAGEMENT
    MARVIN T. HOWELL
    This book provides organizations with a guide to planning, developing, and implementing an energy reduction and management program. It is specially designed to achieve energy reduction deployment including top management for all employees and onsite contractors. Energy reduction deployment (ERD) can be implemented by itself and render significant savings; however, for even grea...

    $1,300.00

  • THERMAL RADIATION HEAT TRANSFER
    JOHN R. HOWELL / M. PINAR MENGÜC / KYLE DAUN / ROBERT SIEGEL
    The seventh edition of this classic text outlines the fundamental physical principles of thermal radiation, as well as analytical and numerical techniques for quantifying radiative transfer between surfaces and within participating media. The textbook includes newly expanded sections on surface properties, electromagnetic theory, scattering and absorption of particles, and near...

    $4,000.00

  • SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT MODELS OF GANG INVOLVEMENT
    MARVIN KROHN / JAMES C. HOWELL
    This book—containing contributions from scholars who are well-known for their research on gangs, and selected as experts on the assigned topics—examines youth gangs from a developmental/life-course perspective, exploring a myriad of issues related to gang membership, its causes, its consequences, and various intervention efforts to both prevent gang membership and reduce the pr...

    $1,200.00

  • ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
    KENNETH B. HOWELL
    The Second Edition of Ordinary Differential Equations: An Introduction to the Fundamentals builds on the successful First Edition. It is unique in its approach to motivation, precision, explanation and method. Its layered approach offers the instructor opportunity for greater flexibility in coverage and depth. Students will appreciate the author’s approach and engaging style. R...

    $1,340.00

  • PSYCHOANALYSTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS DISCUSS PSYCHOPATHY AND HUMAN EVIL
    SHELDON ITZKOWITZ, ELIZABETH F. HOWELL
    Evil - along with its incarnation in human form, the psychopath - remains underexamined in the psychological and psychoanalytic literature. Given current societal issues ranging from increasingly violent cultural divides to climate change, it is imperative that the topics of psychopathy and human evil be thoughtfully explored. The book brings together social scientists, psychol...

    $840.00

  • THE KNIT VIBE
    VICKIE HOWELL
    A knitting adventure with projects, patterns, rituals, yoga, creative inspiration, numerology, knitting experts, astrology, community, and more.  Vickie Howell, the DIY channel's popular queen of fiber, pens a love letter to knitting with  The Knit Vibe—a book like no other—with interviews, patterns, and an in-depth look at the knitting community and the creative potential of k...

    $229.00

  • THE MICROELECTRONICS RACE
    THOMAS R HOWELL / WILLIAM A NOELLERT / JANET H MACLAUGHLIN / ALAN WM WOLFF
    This book is dedicated to those individuals in the U.S. Government who have begun to recognize the full implications of the challenge which this country confronts in microelectronics race, and who are beginning to take steps to deal with that challenge. ...

    $1,200.00

  • STEEL AND THE STATE
    THOMAS R HOWELL / WILLIAM A NOELLERT / JESSE G KREIER / ALAN WM WOLFF
    The problems of the U.S. steel industry have been a source of public controversy for over twenty years. The industry has grown substantially smaller since the 1960s and hundreds of thousands of steelworkers have lost their jobs. Some steel firms and many steel mills have shut down entirely,profoundly affecting regional economies based on steel and its related industries. An ind...

    $1,060.00

  • CONFLICT AMONG NATIONS
    THOMAS R. HOWELL
    This book presents a study of the trade objectives and strategies of Japan, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil and the European Community, and of the implications of the policies for both the US and the international trading system of the 1990s. ...

    $1,200.00

  • REVIVAL: TRADE UNIONISM (1900)
    GEORGE HOWELL
    Public approval of a book is indicated by its sale. A second edition of this having been exhausted, my publishers deem it advisable to issue a third edition revised to date. In assenting, I have had to examine it thoroughly in order to see whether the work required correction, and, if so, to what extent. After careful perusal I find no reason to modify any sentence, withdraw an...

    $1,420.00

  • KEEPING THE BLUES AWAY
    CATE HOWELL
    Keeping the Blues Away is a clinically tested programme to help prevent depression from returning: it has also shown efficacy in reducing depression severity. It includes information and exercises to teach coping, cognitive-behavioural and interpersonal skills and strategies to prevent relapses, drawing on a wide array of evidence-based techniques. The ten-step programme aims t...

    $1,100.00

  • DEMOGRAPHY OF THE DOBE !KUNG
    NANCY HOWELL
    First published in 1979, this is a classic study of the population of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Deselt of Botswana. Using methods that are simple and fully illustrated, the author presents empirical descriptions of the fertility, mortality, and marriage patterns of the now famous !Kung hunter-gatherers. The !King "Bushman" people of the Kalahari desert in Africa occupy an ano...

    $1,320.00

  • NEUROLIBERALISM
    MARK WHITEHEAD / RHYS JONES / RACHEL LILLEY / JESSICA PYKETT / RACHEL HOWELL
    Many governments in the developed world can now best be described as ‘neuroliberal’: having a combination of neoliberal principles with policy initiatives derived from insights in the behavioural sciences. Neuroliberalism presents the results of the first critical global study of the impacts of the behavioural sciences on public policy and government actions, including behaviou...

    $1,360.00

  • THE RESULTS FACILITATOR
    MARVIN T. HOWELL
    A facilitator has been traditionally defined as someone who helps a group of people understand their objectives, and assists them in planning to achieve them, without taking a position in the discussion. Recently, the International Standards Organization‘s (ISO‘s) implementation and other long-term, multi-year team involvement has challenged neutra ...

    $980.00

  • AFTER SIBELIUS: STUDIES IN FINNISH MUSIC
    TIM HOWELL
    During the last twenty years, the rest of the world has come to focus on the music of Finland. The seemingly disproportionate creative energy from this small country defies prevalent trends in the production of classical music. Tim Howell provides an engaging investigation into Finnish music and combines elements of composer biography and detailed analysis within the broader co...

    $1,620.00

  • RESPECTABLE RADICALS
    DAVID HOWELL
    Railway workers were a uniformed and respectable section of the Victorian and Edwardian working class. They built their trade unions in the face of employer hostility and their organisations played a crucial role in the construction of effective labour politics. Local political organisations owed much to the patience and creativity of railway workers, not least in small towns a...

    $1,240.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF FOURIER ANALYSIS
    KENNETH B. HOWELL
    Fourier analysis is one of the most useful and widely employed sets of tools for the engineer, the scientist, and the applied mathematician. As such, students and practitioners in these disciplines need a practical and mathematically solid introduction to its principles. They need straightforward verifications of its results and formulas, and they need clear indications of the ...

    $1,340.00


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