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  • THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE SECOND-PERSON PLURAL
    SARAH PAWLETT JACKSON
    This book presents the case that there are forms of human interaction which should be understood as properly second-person plural. It engages with the work of Sartre, Levinas and contemporary phenomenology to show that this claim is not just about grammatical forms of address, but about the phenomenology and structure of our intersubjective experience. While there has been plen...

    $1,240.00

  • SOCIAL JUSTICE DIALOGUES IN THE CLASSROOM
    JACKSON M. MATOS
    Social Justice Dialogues in the Classroom demonstrates how pre-service and in-service teachers can initiate and hold conversations about social justice and liberation with youth of all ages in their classrooms. Educators and practitioners are facing unprecedented national challenges in the work of supporting youth around issues of social justice, making it even more important t...

    $1,160.00

  • THE MAKING OF IRISH GEOLOGY 1740–1940
    PATRICK N. WYSE JACKSON
    Ireland has long been the focus of research into its geological foundations and history. This book provides insights into the evolution of geological ideas in Ireland, gives assessments of underrepresented scientists, and offers an appreciation of the value of geological collections for historical research. Through a series of twenty-two papers, this volume provides syntheses a...

    $1,240.00

  • DILEMMAS AND DECISION MAKING IN SOCIAL WORK
    ABBI JACKSON
    Dilemmas and Decision Making in Social Work is a collection of stories to help social workers work with dilemmas, weigh up options and make good decisions. Told in the first person from the point of view of a social worker, each case study begins with the service user’s story and then applies relevant theory. It demonstrates where workers have to think outside their own frames ...

    $580.00

  • DILEMMAS AND DECISION MAKING IN RESIDENTIAL CHILDCARE
    ABBI JACKSON
    The perfect guide for new workers entering residential childcare. Adopting a case study approach, this book contains a collection of stories of good practice told from the point of view of the residential care worker that help to demonstrate how they deal with dilemmas and make effective decisions in the moment. Workers in residential childcare have to quickly understand the co...

    $580.00

  • THE IRISH IN BRITAIN
    JOHN ARCHER JACKSON
    First published in 1963, The Irish in Britain tells the story of the many facets of the Irish migration and discusses some of its economic, demographic and social implications. The Irish in Britain have been the most substantial minority group in the British population since the 18th century. After the Great Famine, when more than a million left Ireland for England and America ...

    $1,480.00

  • LEARNING AI TOOLS IN TABLEAU
    ANN JACKSON
    As businesses increasingly rely on data to drive decisions, the role of advanced analytics and AI in enhancing data interpretation is becoming crucial. For professionals tasked with optimizing data analytics platforms like Tableau, staying ahead of the curve with the latest tools isn't just beneficial—it's essential. This insightful guide takes you through the integration of Ta...

    $681.00

  • SHAKESPEARE, DRAMATIC POETRY AND VALUE
    MACDONALD P. JACKSON
    This book redirects attention to a truth largely ignored by recent criticism—that Shakespeare’s excellence as a playwright is inextricable from his excellence as a poet. It explores the diverse means by which Shakespeare’s poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular words in a particular order render his dialogue distinctive and create supreme literary and dramatic v...

    $1,240.00

  • NOËL COWARD
    RUSSELL JACKSON
    Noël Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century’s most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work. For almost the entirety of the twentieth century, Noël Coward was one of the UK’s most popular and celebrated playwrights. Refracting, rather than directly reflecting the social and personal i...

    $1,060.00

  • UP YOUR TEACHING GAME
    JANNA JACKSON KELLINGER
    Up Your Teaching Game offers K-12 teachers an intuitive and refreshingly fun pathway for creating immersive, story-based games that encourage students to experience the curriculum through play. Regardless of their technical abilities, design acumen, grade level, or domain, today’s teachers have fresh opportunities to create and implement their own content-based games based on t...

    $780.00

  • KOREAN CONVERSATION GAMBITS: DEVELOPING SPOKEN LANGUAGE
    HEEKYUNG AHN / ANDREW DAVID JACKSON / HYUN MI KIM / SOYEON KIM / EVA RICHARDS / ADAM ZULAWNIK
    Korean Conversation Gambits: Developing Spoken Language provides specific linguistic and communicative strategies that help Korean language learners engage in daily conversations as well as discussions and negotiations in work and academic contexts. The book presents, and provides practice in, spoken Korean gambits that will help speakers organise their conversations and frame ...

    $1,040.00

  • FINANCIAL AID THROUGH SOCIAL WORK
    MICHAEL P. JACKSON / B. MICHAEL VALENCIA
    Financial Aid through Social Work (1979) examines the way in which financial aid through social work has been used and the consequences of such use. Beginning with an examination of the historical and comparative background, the book looks at the decisions made by social workers on financial aid and the way in which they are arrived at. Among the questions examined are the exte...

    $860.00

  • CLEAN PRODUCTION STRATEGIES DEVELOPING PREVENTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY
    TIM JACKSON
    Clean Production Strategies is a cross-disciplinary book that presents a comprehensive examination of a new ethic emphasizing the appropriate design of products, processes, and economic activities to reduce the generation of waste into the environment. The book explores concepts and principles, technological issues, economic implications, the development of policy, and broad so...

    $6,900.00

  • ZOMBIES, CONSUMPTION, AND SATIRE IN CAPCOM’S DEAD RISING
    CONNOR JACKSON
    This book explores the relationship between video games and satire through an in-depth examination of Capcom’s Dead Rising series, which alludes to, recontextualises, and builds upon George A. Romero’s filmic satire on American consumer culture, Dawn of the Dead. Proposing a taxonomy of videoludic satire, this book details how video games can communicate satire through their vi...

    $640.00

  • TO AN UNKNOWN GODDESS
    TIMOTHY P. JACKSON
    Ever since Plato sought to ban it from the just polis, philosophers and poets alike have debated the proper form and inspiration of poetry. This volume seeks to give poetic voice to three distinct but related kinds of love. Part I is driven by the erotic desire for beauty and pleasure and for the related value of merited justice. The verses in Part II rely on philia for insight...

    $355.00

  • MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
    ANDREW P. JACKSON
    This book brings Maximus the Confessor’s logoi doctrine into dialogue with modern-day evolutionary biology. It explores the extent to which the logoi, as described by Maximus, exhibit features that are concordant with evolution before going on to consider more discordant aspects that cannot be ignored. The author addresses the curious resonance between the logoi and evolution i...

    $1,240.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
    MICHAEL P. JACKSON
    An Introduction to Industrial Relations (1991) analyses various theoretical approaches to industrial relations, and summarises the origins and development of the subject. It looks at the impact of legislative changes, technological developments and the growing currency of ‘human resource management’ theories. The book offers a comparative approach, making extensive use of mater...

    $960.00

  • MILITARY DESIGN THINKING
    AARON P. JACKSON
    This book examines the newly emergent field of military design thinking, how it has been developed inside and outside of military doctrine, and the paradigms that underlie its key thinkers and methodologies. From the emergence of its initial methodologies in the late 1990s, military design thinking’s development rapidly accelerated in the mid-2000s in response to perceived fail...

    $1,160.00

  • FACTS AND EXPLANATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES...AND BEYOND
    PATRICK THADDEUS JACKSON
    The politicizing of facts and factual claims has led some to abandon all talk of a meaningful distinction between a fact and a strongly held political commitment. This book argues that what we need, instead, are better accounts of facts and their relationship to explanation—ones that take seriously the dependence of facts on communities of practice and on consensus procedures o...

    $1,100.00

  • AGGRESSION AND ITS INTERPRETATION
    LYDIA JACKSON
    Originally published in 1954, this was a new study of aggressive behaviour and phantasies in children of school age, combining the scientific-experimental with the clinical approach. It was, therefore, at the time, likely to be of interest both to experimental psychologists and to clinicians, as well as to all who worked in the fields of child guidance and mental health and wer...

    $840.00

  • THE 14 DAY RULE AND HUMAN EMBRYO RESEARCH
    SARAH FRANKLIN / EMILY JACKSON
    This assessment of Britain’s influential 14 day rule governing embryo research explores how and why it became the de facto global standard for research into human fertilisation and embryology, arguing that its influence and stability offers valuable lessons for successful biological translation. One of the most important features of the 14 day rule, the authors claim, is its re...

    $979.00

  • DIGITAL OFFICE COMPLEX
    BRAD M. JACKSON / GARY L. RICHARDSON
    With ever-increasing competitive pressures, the need to reduce the time-to-value (or time-to-bail) of a “big idea” – a new product, an organizational transformation, a healthcare initiative, or a humanitarian development project – has never been greater. Unfortunately, the current digital infrastructure for vision delivery teams is woefully inadequate. Improvement opportunities...

    $640.00

  • HOLY GROUND
    L. CHARLES JACKSON
    Jesus did not say "take and think." He said "take and eat." This is embodied worship. It includes gestures, rites, kneeling, raising hands, and of course eating and drinking a holy meal with God. These activities are liturgies. Liturgy is the physical, embodied activity of worship--it's what we do in worship--everyone has a liturgy! As such, worship is the church's primary mean...

    $515.00

  • VALUE OF INFORMATION FOR HEALTHCARE DECISION-MAKING
    ANNA HEATH, NATALIA KUNST, CHRISTOPHER JACKSON
    Value of Information for Healthcare Decision-Making introduces the concept of Value of Information (VOI) use in health policy decision-making to determine the sensitivity of decisions to assumptions, and to prioritise and design future research. These methods, and their use in cost-effectiveness analysis, are increasingly acknowledged by health technology assessment authorities...

    $1,480.00

  • ADVANCES IN THE PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF SLEEP AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS
    MELINDA L. JACKSON
    Advances in the Psychobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms features international experts from the fields of psychobiology, sleep research and chronobiology to address and review cutting-edge scientific literature concerning recent advances in the psychobiology of sleep, sleep disorders, such as sleep apnoea and insomnia, and circadian rhythms, across the lifespan. In this il...

    $1,160.00

  • BRYOZOAN STUDIES 2022
    MARCUS M. KEY, JOANNE S. PORTER AND PATRICK N. WYSE JACKSON
    Bryozoan Studies 2022 contains nineteen papers presented at the 19th International Conference of the International Bryozoology Association held at Trinity College Dublin in August 2022. Bryozoans are complex and fascinating colonial organisms that range from Cambrian to the present day and which are found in marine and freshwater environments from pole to pole and subtidal to a...

    $1,480.00

  • A COURSE IN THE LARGE SAMPLE THEORY OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE
    W. JACKSON HALL / DAVID OAKES
    This book provides an accessible but rigorous introduction to asymptotic theory in parametric statistical models. Asymptotic results for estimation and testing are derived using the “moving alternative” formulation due to R. A. Fisher and L. Le Cam. Later chapters include discussions of linear rank statistics and of chi-squared tests for contingency table analysis, including si...

    $2,420.00

  • THE SCIENCE OF CHILDREN'S WELLBEING
    DUNCAN GILLARD / CORINNA GRINDLE / NIC HOOPER / FREDDY JACKSON BROWN / RUSSELL HANCOCK
    This essential book is packed full of comprehensive guidelines and practical resources for running wellbeing intervention sessions for children aged 7 to 11, drawing from the scientifically grounded Six Ways to Wellbeing and the DNA-V model. Each chapter focuses on one of the Six Ways to Wellbeing, six patterns of action known to correlate highly with aspects of positive mental...

    $740.00

  • INTRODUCING LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
    JANE JACKSON
    This fully updated third edition of Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication provides an accessible, lively introduction for students who are new to the study of intercultural communication, with special attention devoted to the language dimension. Incorporating real-life examples from around the world and drawing on current research, this text argues against cultur...

    $1,260.00

  • GOLD DUST
    DONALD DALE JACKSON
    Gold Dust (1980) looks at the adventures and ordeals, delusions and successes and catastrophes of the men and women – the forty-niners – caught up in the gold rush. The author tells the story of the gold rush through the experiences, feelings and thoughts of the people who participated in it. ...

    $860.00