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  • THE HUMAN FACTOR
    MICHAEL ESAU / SIMON HUMPHREYS
    Are you leveraging the human factor to deliver measurable business results? The Human Factor by Simon Humphreys and Michael Esau is a strategic guide for senior HR leaders, organizational development executives and business decision-makers who want to unlock the full potential of their workforce to drive sustainable performance. Written by an expert team with over 50 years' com...

    $799.00

  • CULTIVATING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AWARENESS
    GARETH HUMPHREYS
    In an increasingly interconnected world, supporting students as they learn to communicate in linguistically diverse intercultural settings is a significant aim of English language and international education. To address this educational objective, this book breaks down the complexities associated with global English in intercultural communication and it challenges conventional ...

    $1,120.00

  • DIGGING DEEPER
    RUTH PARKER / CATHY HUMPHREYS
    Making the transition to student-centered learning begins with finding ways to get students to share their thinking, something that can be particularly challenging for older learners. Authors Ruth Parker and Cathy Humphreys return with Digging Deeper: Making Number Talks Matter Even More, Grades 3-10, taking the readers into classrooms where their Number Talks routines are taug...

    $800.00

  • MAKING NUMBER TALKS MATTER
    CATHY HUMPHREYS / RUTH PARKER
    Making the transition to student-centered learning begins with finding ways to get students to share their thinking, something that can be particularly challenging for math class. Authors Ruth Parker and Cathy Humphreys introduce. Making Number Talks Matter: Developing Mathematical Practices and Deepening Understanding, Grades 3-10, taking the readers into classrooms where thei...

    $700.00

  • THE FAMILY, WOMEN AND DEATH
    S.C. HUMPHREYS
    Originally published in 1983 and as a second edition in 1993, this book deals with 3 universal but culturally variable phenomena: the family, women and death. The book poses questions about our own ways of looking at the family and private life, at sex and gender and at death, by analysing ancient Greek ideas and by showing how researchers’ presuppositions have been influenced ...

    $840.00

  • CREATING A SERVICE CULTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION
    MARIO C. MARTINEZ / BRANDY SMITH / KATIE HUMPHREYS
    Service delivery is part and parcel of every higher education professional’s job, both to improve service to students and to each other as “internal customers”. Until now higher education professionals have had to rely, for their professional development, on books and training designed for the business sector. This book is the first to specifically address the needs of higher e...

    $800.00

  • THE REGULATION OF AIR TRANSPORT
    BARRY HUMPHREYS
    The regulation of modern civil aviation can be traced back to the later years of the Second World War. An intense debate about the future regulatory regime resulted in a compromise which to this day essentially dictates the structure of the global airline industry. Further progress towards ‘normalising’ the industry appears to be slowing down, and perhaps even going into revers...

    $960.00

  • DISCOURSE OF LAW
    S. C. HUMPHREYS
    First Published in 1985. This Volume I, Part 2 of the History and Anthropology series and focuses as Law as a discourse, including essays on disputes of locals in Eastern Brittiany on the ninth century, a British Indian dilemma when looking at property law, law-enforcement in eighteenth century England, Islamic Law in the Medieval Middle East and its social contest and silent l...

    $3,400.00

  • THE BUSINESS OF TOURISM
    J. CHRISTOPHER HOLLOWAY / CLAIRE HUMPHREYS
    Tourism as an industry is constantly evolving. Trends and attitudes are susceptible to changes in what people look for in a holiday, which can change within different economic contexts; generational shifts; the political landscape; and most recently, the Covid-19 global pandemic. This popular and comprehensive textbook helps students to not only understand these changes but stu...

    $1,940.05

  • STOPPING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    CLARISSA J. HUMPHREYS
    Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education provides a unique insight into how gender-based violence at universities is impacting students and staff and outlines the path toward tangible changes that can prevent it. Bringing together perspectives from academics, activists, practitioners, and university administrators, the book presents a diverse range of voices to constr...

    $1,100.00

  • BORB
    JANE M. RIDDOCH / GLYN W. HUMPHREYS
    BORB provides a set of standardised procedures for assessing neuropsychological disorders of visual object recognition, based on tests developed in the cognitive neuropsychological literature. The tests are introduced in terms of cognitive neuropsychological analyses of object recognition, and guidance is given concerning test use and interpretation. The tests assess low-level ...

    $1,240.00

  • VISUAL COGNITION
    GLYN W. HUMPHREYS / VICKI BRUCE
    Vision allows us to do many things. It enables us to perceive a world composed of meaningful objects and events. It enables us to track those events as they take place in front of our eyes. It enables us to read. It provides accurate spatial information for actions such as reaching for or avoiding objects. It provides colour and texture that can help us to separate objects from...

    $2,320.00

  • GLOBALISING HOUSEWORK
    LAURA HUMPHREYS
    This book shows how international influences profoundly shaped the ‘English’ home of Victorian and Edwardian London; homes which, in turn, influenced Britain’s (and Britons’) place on the world stage. The period between 1850 and 1914 was one of fundamental global change, when London homes were subject to new expanding influences that shaped how residents cleaned, ate, and cared...

    $1,160.00

  • RUSSIAN MODERNIZATION
    MARKKU KIVINEN / BRENDAN G. HUMPHREYS
    Building on an original interpretation of social theory and an interdisciplinary approach, this book creates a new paradigm in the Russian studies. Taking a fresh view of Russia’s multiple experiences of modernization, it seeks to explain the Putin era in a completely new way. This book explores the paradoxical and contradictory aspects of Russia, analyzing the energy-dependent...

    $1,200.00

  • CONNECTIONIST PSYCHOLOGY
    ROB ELLIS / G.W. HUMPHREYS
    This textbook provides an introduction and review of connectionist models applied to psychological topics. Chapters include basic reviews of connectionist models, their properties and their attributes. The application of these models to the domains of perception, memory, attention, word processing, higher language processing, and cognitive neuropsychology is then reviewed. ...

    $1,200.00

  • UNDERSTANDING MATERIALS
    COLIN HUMPHREYS
    This is a very special book for two reasons. First, it is a tribute to Professor Sir Peter Hirsch from his students, colleagues and friends. Second, it is a collection of specially written review articles by world-class scientists that take the readers from the origins of modem materials science through to the cutting edge of the subject in the twenty- first century. The book w...

    $4,500.00

  • THE AUGUSTAN WORLD
    A. R. HUMPHREYS
    The outlook of writers in the eighteenth century was profoundly influenced by the social and intellectual interests of Augustan life. Originally published in 1954, this book aims to describe that influence, and to set the literature of the period in its social environment with a critical attention. The treatment is compact but readable, and effective use is made of quotations f...

    $1,000.00

  • BREXIT AND THE CAR INDUSTRY
    MATTHEW HUMPHREYS / DOUG MUNRO
    One of the principal arguments put forth by Brexit supporters is that by freeing the UK from the stranglehold of EU law, the country will be able to expand its markets through increased bilateral trade and enhance economic growth. This book tests this proposition by reference to the car industry. Brexit and the Car Industry explores the international position of the car market ...

    $640.00

  • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
    MATTHEW HUMPHREYS
    This book undertakes a critical appraisal of the concept of sustainable development in the European Union. In addition to existing issues of sustainability, it examines the development of a European "general principle" of sustainable development. This original, critical approach examines legal, political, and economic implications of the emergence of the principle and places th...

    $1,200.00

  • RECRYSTALLIZATION AND RELATED ANNEALING PHENOMENA
    ANTHONY ROLLETT / GREGORY S. ROHRER / JOHN HUMPHREYS
    Recrystallization and Related Annealing Phenomena, Third Edition, fulfills the information needs of materials scientists in both industry and academia. The subjects treated in the book are all active research areas, forming a major part of at least four regular international conference series. This new third edition ensures the reader has access to the latest findings, and is e...

    $2,991.00

  • TEAROOM TRADE
    LAUD HUMPHREYS
    From the time of its first publication, 'Tearoom Trade' engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of "deviant" sexual activity. Descri...

    $1,460.00

  • THE INTEGRATED NERVOUS SYSTEM
    WALTER J. HENDELMAN / PETER HUMPHREYS / CHRISTOPHER R. SKINNER
    This innovative textbook is modelled on problem-based learning. It bridges the gap between academic neuroanatomy and clinical neurology and effectively takes the reader from the classroom to the clinic, so that learning can be applied in practice. This second edition has been updated and expanded to include many more clinical cases within both the book and the accompanying Wweb...

    $2,700.00

  • UNDISCOVERED
    SARA HUMPHREYS
    "Darkly sensual, rich with emotion, a wild unsettling ride."—Christine Feehan, New York Times bestselling author He's the man of her dreams A long time ago, Zander Lorens was cursed to walk the earth stripped of his Dragon Clan powers. Every night, trapped in a recurring nightmare, Zander relives his darkest moment. He can hardly believe it when the dream changes and a beautifu...

    $162.00

  • PHYSICALLY BASED RENDERING
    MATT PHARR / WENZEL JAKOB / GREG HUMPHREYS
    Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation, Third Edition, describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system and its practical implementation. Through a method known as 'literate programming', the authors combine human-readable documentation and source code into a single reference that is specifically designed to aid comprehen...

    $1,462.00

  • ATTENTION, PERCEPTION AND ACTION
    GLYN W. HUMPHREYS
    In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. Glyn Humphreys is an internationally renowned cognitive neuropsychologist with research interests covering ...

    $1,420.00

  • A READER IN VISUAL AGNOSIA
    GLYN HUMPHREYS / JANE RIDDOCH
    The case study of John has provided a unique insight into the nature of visual agnosia and more broadly into the underlying processes which support human vision. After suffering a stroke, John had problems in recognizing common objects, faces, seeing colours, reading and finding his way around his environment. A Reader in Visual Agnosia brings together the primary scientific pa...

    $1,480.00

  • THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE VAMPIRE
    SARA HUMPHREYS
    Book 4 of the Dead in the City series Beloved author Sara Humphreys' acclaimed paranormal romance series continues with sweltering attraction between two vampires who have all the time in the world to satisfy their desires… He wants eternity? Dakota Shelton is a vampire cowboy with a penchant for cinnamon lollipops and Johnny Cash. Though highly skilled and deadly dangerous to ...

    $162.00

  • STANDARDS FOR THERMAL COMFORT
    M. HUMPHREYS / F. NICOL / S. ROAF / O. SYKES
    Current Standards for Indoor Air Temperature are inappropriate in many regions of the world. This forces designers to use highly serviced buildings to achieve air temperatures that accord with the standards to the detriment of the local and global environment. Standards for Thermal Comfort brings together contributions from around the world, reflecting new approaches to the set...

    $1,800.00

  • BRAVE THE HEAT
    SARA HUMPHREYS
    Brave the Heat is for you if you like: A scorching-hot firefighter struggling with his dark past A tough-as-nails heroine determined to protect her family A small town ready to ignite And a second chance at love that may just save them all Jordan McKenna is back in town, and Fire Chief Gavin McGuire's feelings when he sees her after all these years are as raw as the day she lef...

    $162.00

  • ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT: FOUNDATIONS AND ANALYSIS
    MICHAEL HUMPHREYS / FERGUS NICOL / SUSAN ROAF
    There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require knowledge about clothing and activity, but can give little guidance on how to quantify them in any future situation. This has forced designers to make assumptions about people’s future behaviour based on very...

    $1,560.00


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