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  • POLITICS IN MODERN AFRICA
    KENNETH INGHAM
    First published in 1990, Politics in Modern Africa explores the impact of traditional loyalties (‘tribalism’) on political and economic problems in nine African states-Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Guinea, Zaire, Angola, and Zimbabwe. Professor Kenneth Ingham, a leading historian of modern African history provides a lively introduction to a complex subject, demonstrat...

    $1,480.00

  • THE KINGDOM OF TORO IN UGANDA
    KENNETH INGHAM
    First published in 1975, The Kingdom of Toro in Uganda describes the foundation of the Toro kingdom in the nineteenth century by the rebel prince Kaboyo, and investigates how Kasagama, Kaboyo’s grandson, was able to recreate, with little local support, a kingdom far more extensive than Kaboyo had ever envisaged. His personal authority was established by his insistence that its ...

    $840.00

  • IDA GREAVES
    BARBARA INGHAM
    Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the "missing female voices" of early development economics. This biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears. The biography covers her early years in Barbados, her time at boarding school in England, at McGill University in Canada where she focused on hu...

    $1,160.00

  • THE MAKING OF MODERN UGANDA
    KENNETH INGHAM
    First published in 1958, The Making of Modern Uganda is concerned with the formation of modern Uganda in the sixty years since the 1890s when the foundations of the British administration were laid. In the first decade of the 20th century Sir Hesketh Bell, Uganda’s Governor, decided that Uganda should be built up by Africans under the disinterested guidance of Europeans. The bo...

    $840.00

  • WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF PORNOGRAPHY AFTER FIFTY YEARS OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH?
    ALAN MCKEE / KATERINA LITSOU / PAUL BYRON / ROGER INGHAM
    This book presents an innovative cross-disciplinary report on research across the humanities and social sciences about the relationship between pornography and its consumers. For policy makers and the wider public it can be difficult to obtain a clear understanding of the current state of knowledge on pornography and its relationships with audiences, due to the often-contradict...

    $640.00

  • STAGE-PLAY AND SCREEN-PLAY
    MICHAEL INGHAM
    Dialogue between film and theatre studies is frequently hampered by the lack of a shared vocabulary. Stage-Play and Screen-Play sets out to remedy this, mapping out an intermedial space in which both film and theatre might be examined. Each chapter’s evaluation of the processes and products of stage-to-screen and screen-to-stage transfer is grounded in relevant, applied context...

    $1,320.00

  • YOUNKERS
    VICKI INGHAM
    When shoppers went to Younkers, they experienced something magical. Celebrities signed autographs, chefs gave cooking demonstrations and Miss Universe discussed the latest styles in swimwear. The flagship store, a showplace in the heart of downtown Des Moines, boasted dazzling selling spaces equipped with the first escalator and air conditioner in the state. The Tea Room establ...

    $229.00

  • BEDOUIN OF NORTHERN ARABIA
    BRUCE INGHAM
    This is an absorbing and authentic account, first published in 1986, of the history and traditional way of life of the Al-Dhafir bedouins of north-eastern Arabia, based on a study of their traditions, Arabic historical annals and the reports of western travellers over the past two hundred years. During the early part of the twentieth century the Al-Dhafir were a major power in ...

    $1,040.00

  • THE MILITARY COVENANT
    SARAH INGHAM
    The Military Covenant states that in exchange for their military service and their willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice, soldiers should receive the nation’s support. Exploring the concept’s invention by the Army in the late 1990s, its migration to the civilian sphere from 2006 and its subsequent entrenchment in public policy, Ingham seeks to understand the Covenant’s pro...

    $1,560.00

  • CAD SYSTEMS IN MECHANICAL AND PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
    PETER INGHAM
    CAD Systems in Mechanical and Production Engineering explains the many components that make up the CAD function and how these fit and interact with other elements of the computer integrated system, especially in relation to production. The book reviews the role that computers play in engineering and production design including integration of computer systems and the incorpora...

    $425.00

  • THE BRONTES
    PATRICIA INGHAM
    The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools of criticism have analysed and interpreted. This book shows how the Brontes wr...

    $1,600.00

  • LANGUAGES OF DRESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    BRUCE INGHAM / NANCY LINDISFARNE-TAPPER
    Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus. ...

    $1,320.00

  • ENGLISH-LAKOTA DICTIONARY
    BRUCE INGHAM
    This dictionary of 12,000 entries aims to preserve Indian culture and at all points illustrate the use of words in examples, especially syntactic words, whose usage cannot be captured purely by giving an English equivalent. It provides depth as regards the usage of frequently occurring items and especially in the use of syntactic elements and usage in context. ...

    $1,380.00

  • NORTH EAST ARABIAN DIALECTS
    BRUCE INGHAM
    First published in 1982. The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. Arabic linguists may be defined as: the scientific investigation and study of the Arabic language in all its aspects. This embraces the descriptive, comparative and historical aspects of the language. It also concerns itself with the classical form as well as the Mod...

    $1,360.00

  • OBOTE
    KENNETH INGHAM
    Uganda developed as a British protectorate in a manner which made it virtually impossible for any indigenous politician to emerge as the unchallenged leader of his country. Obote: A Political Biography describes the efforts of one man to find a pragmatic solution to that problem, and in doing so to create a united, democratic Uganda. Kenneth Ingham makes the first attempt to tr...

    $1,460.00

  • TRACING YOUR SERVICE WOMEN ANCESTORS
    MARY INGHAM
    Whether you are interested in the career of an individual service woman or just want to know more about the part played by service women in a particular war or campaign, this is the book for you. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of service women, Mary Ingham explains which records survive, where they can be found and how they can help in your research. She also v...

    $249.00

  • GEOMATERIALS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
    JEREMY INGHAM
    The first comprehensive guide to the petrography of geomaterials, making the petrographers specialist knowledge available to practitioners, educators and students worldwide interested in modern and historic construction materials. ...

    $1,380.00

  • STRATEGIC HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
    JON INGHAM
    Strategic human capital management (HCM) is not just a measurement focused approach to human resource management (HRM). It is certainly not a decision science in which people can be managed as a result of quantitative analysis and financial valuation. In fact, it is probably more of an art than a science and is a way of leading people to unlock great business performance. Strat...

    $1,560.00

  • DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AND COLONIAL POLICY
    BARBARA INGHAM / COLIN SIMMONS
    First Published in 1987. This volume is the product of a number of meetings held by the Third World History and Development Study Group, which is one of several study groups sponsored by the Development Studies Association. The Group was formed in 1978 at the Development Studies Association Conference held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. It comprises people who for o...

    $1,900.00

  • LANGUAGE OF GENDER AND CLASS
    PATRICIA INGHAM
    The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Lucid, multilayered and cogently argued, this volume will provoke debate and encourage students and scholars to rethink their views on ninteenth-century literature. Examining six novels, Patricia Ingham demonstrates that none of the writers, male or female, easily accept ...

    $1,340.00

  • TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN POROUS MEDIA
    DEREK B INGHAM / I. POP
    Research into thermal convection in porous media has substantially increased during recent years due to its numerous practical applications. These problems have attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers and scientists from many very diversified disciplines, such as applied mathematics, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical and nuclear engineering, geothermal phy...

    $2,925.00

  • TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN POROUS MEDIA II
    POP, I. / INGHAM, DEREK B
    Transport phenomena in porous media continues to be a field which attracts intensive research activity. This is primarily due to the fact that it plays an important and practical role in a large variety of diverse scientific applications. Transport Phenomena in Porous Media II covers a wide range of the engineering and technological applications, including both stable and unsta...

    $3,242.00

  • FROM PAGE TO STAGE
    ROSEMARY INGHAM / JAMIE BULLINS
    The second edition of the classic industry text From Page to Stage: How Theatre Designers Make Connections Between Scripts and Images explores the relationship between text analysis, imagination, and creation of theatrical design. How can a designer harness something as elusive as the human imagination to create a world that will complement and enhance a dramatic production? Wh...

    $960.00

  • TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN POROUS MEDIA III
    INGHAM, DEREK B / POP, IOAN
    Fluid and flow problems in porous media have attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers and scientists from varying disciplines, such as chemical, environmental, and mechanical engineering, geothermal physics and food science. There has been a increasing interest in heat and fluid flows through porous media, making this book a timely and appropriate resource.Each chap...

    $3,052.00

  • LOS ATAQUES DE PANICO COMO PREVENIRLOS Y VIVIR MEJOR
    INGHAM
    Agotado

    $35.00