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  • THE U.S. NAVY AND THE RISE OF GREAT POWER COMPETITION
    JAMES J. WIRTZ / JEFFREY E. KLINE / JAMES A. RUSSELL
    This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs. A mix of original and previously published material, this volume describes how the 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general, and U.S. Navy operations in the Western Pacific in particular. The rise of an assertive China and i...

    $1,099.00

  • BRITISH METHODIST REVIVALISM AND THE ECLIPSE OF ECCLESIOLOGY
    JAMES E. PEDLAR
    Revivalism was one of the main causes of division in nineteenth-century British Methodism, but the role of revivalist theology in these splits has received scant scholarly attention. In this book, James E. Pedlar demonstrates how the revivalist variant of Methodist spirituality and theology empowered its adherents and helped foster new movements, even as it undermined the Spiri...

    $1,099.00

  • INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGIES AND FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES
    HYUN JI RIM AND JAMES E. PLATTE
    This book examines key issue areas of Indo-Pacific strategies such as cyber security, space security, maritime security, emerging technologies, and institutional frameworks in the context of deepening US–China rivalry. With greater interconnectedness across various fields, the Indo-Pacific region faces greater security challenges including future strategic power competition. St...

    $1,099.00

  • SMART WATER MANAGEMENT
    HENNING BJORNLUND, STEPHANIE KUISMA, JAMES E. NICKUM AND RAYA MARINA STEPHAN
    This book contributes to the debate about the suitability and challenges of the Smart Water Management (SWM) approach. Smart Water Management has increasingly been promoted to manage water and wastewater more efficiently and cost effectively by industries and utilities in urban contexts at regional or city scales, while reducing overall consumption. It is based on the use of In...

    $1,339.00

  • ENGAGING FACULTY IN GROUP-LEVEL CHANGE FOR INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION
    J. KASI JACKSON / AMENA O. ANDERSON / LISA M. DILKS / MAJA HUSAR HOLMES / CHRISTINE E. KUNKLE / JAMES J.
    Diversifying the academic faculty remains an elusive goal marked by slow and uneven progress. This book describes an effective model for institutional transformation which is uniquely grounded in group-level processes. Efforts at institutional transformation continue to center individual actors. This is evident in the proliferation of programs that train individuals on implicit...

    $1,099.00

  • LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR
    JAMES E. MAZUR / AMY L. ODUM
    Learning and Behavior reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are changed because of learning. It describes the most important principles, theories, controversies, and experiments that pertain to learning and behavior that are applicable to diverse species and different learning situations. Both classic studies and recent trends and developments are explore...

    $4,800.00

  • HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION
    JAMES E. SCHUL
    This book explores the rich history and depth of the educational field of social studies in the United States and examines its capacity to moderate modern-day anti-democratic forces through a commitment to civic education. Drawing out key significant historical moments within the development of social studies education, it provides a compelling historical narrative of the ideas...

    $539.00

  • WICKED PROBLEMS OF WATER QUALITY GOVERNANCE
    NICKUM, JAMES E.
    This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.3 on Water and Sanitation emphasizes the centrality of improving water quality to attain sustainable development. Yet the obstacles to ac...

    $1,339.00

  • CRYOGENIC HEAT MANAGEMENT
    JONATHAN DEMKO / JAMES E. FESMIRE / QUAN-SHENG SHU
    Cryogenic engineering (cryogenics) is the production, preservation, and use or application of cold. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to designing systems to deal with heat – effective management of cold, exploring the directing (or redirecting), promoting, or inhibiting this flow of heat in a practical way. It provides a description of the necessary theory, desig...

    $1,339.00

  • BREAKING POINT AND TWO MORE STORIES
    JAMES E. GUNN
    Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Breaking Point", "The Gravity Business", and "The Stilled Patter", all by James E. Gunn. ...

    $39.70

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    JAMES E. CÔTÉ
    Higher education has come under increasing public scrutiny in recent years, assailed with demands for greater efficiency, accountability, cost reduction, and, above all, job training. Drawing upon examples from across the world, with an emphasis on Anglo-American higher-education systems, this handbook employs sociological approaches to address these pressing concerns. The seco...

    $1,179.00

  • THE WORLD THE COLD WAR MADE
    JAMES E. CRONIN
    An examination of the Cold War from the creation and structure of the postwar settlement to the eventual coming apart of the post war order in the 1980s and early 1990s. James Cronin explores the creation and structure of the postwar settlement and the eventual coming apart of the postwar order in the 1980s and early 1990s. Cronin argues that the current state of the world must...

    $979.00

  • UTILITARIANISM IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC
    JAMES E. CRIMMINS
    In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E. Crimmins provides a fresh perspective on the history of antebellum American political thought. Based on a broad-ranging study of the dissemination and reception of utilitarian ideas in the areas of constitutional politics, law education, law reform, moral theory and political economy, Crimmins illustrates the complexitie...

    $1,099.00

  • STAGFLATION (2 VOLUMES) (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DAVID VINES / JAN MACIEJOWSKI / JAMES E. MEADE
    Comprising Wage-Fixing (first published 1982), and Demand Management (first published 1983) this two volume reissued set is a vital and stimulating analysis of the causes and consequences of stagflation – a paralysing combination of mass unemployment and rapid inflation which affected a variety of economies across the developed world in the 1970s and early 1980s. Wage-Fixing, w...

    $6,000.00

  • THE LIMITS OF PARTY
    JAMES M. CURRY / FRANCES E. LEE
    To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer grid...

    $329.00

  • THE BEGINNINGS OF RELIGION
    E.O. JAMES
    In this book, first published in 1948, an attempt has been made to provide an intelligible introduction to a somewhat complex aspect of scientific inquiry. And secondly, to construct a background of ‘primitive’ ritual and belief against which the more developed religions can be placed. This book is a valuable, early attempt at explaining the beginnings of religion from a modern...

    $979.00

  • THE CONCEPT OF DEITY
    E.O. JAMES
    For good or ill, most, if not all, of the great institutions which have formed the framework of society have had their roots in the idea of Deity as a beneficent providential order of transcendental reality. In being handed down through countless generations the beliefs, concepts and customs have assumed a great variety of new outward forms in the process of transmission and de...

    $979.00

  • HISTORICAL DIALOGUE AND THE PREVENTION OF MASS ATROCITIES
    ELAZAR BARKAN / ‎CONSTANTIN GOSCHLER / ‎JAMES E. WALLER
    This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society to address the failure to connect historical dialogue with atrocity prevention discourse and provide insight into how conflict histories and historical memory act as dynamic forces, actively facilitating or deterring current and future conflict. Established on a varie...

    $1,099.00

  • PETROLEUM REFINING
    MARK J. KAISER / ARNO DE KLERK / JAMES H. GARY / GLENN E. HANDWERK
    For four decades, Petroleum Refining has guided thousands of readers toward a reliable understanding of the field, and through the years has become the standard text in many schools and universities around the world offering petroleum refining classes, for self-study, training, and as a reference for industry professionals. The sixth edition of this perennial bestseller continu...

    $2,300.00

  • POLITICS, SCIENCE AND CANCER
    GERALD E. MARKLE / JAMES C. PETERSEN
    At no time in U.S. history has there been a more effective challenge to medical expertise and authority than that mounted by the contemporary Laetrile movement. The efficacy of Laetrile has been debated for over twenty-five years, but despite vigorous opposition from the medical community, support for the purported cancer treatment continues to gro ...

    $1,099.00

  • PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
    JAMES E. MADDUX
    Psychopathology, Fifth Edition is the most up-to-date text about the etiology and treatment of the most important psychological disorders. The chapters are written by leading experts in the field of psychopathology who provide up-to-date information on theory, research, and clinical practice. The book is unique in its strong emphasis on critical thinking about psychopathology a...

    $1,399.00

  • STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MATERIALS
    L. HAROLD BULLIS / JAMES E MIELKE / L HAROLD BULLIS
    Much attention has been focused on U.S. dependency on imports for supplies of strategic minerals and materials. There is alarm about the extent of that dependency and about the possibility that U.S. economic, political, and strategic decisions might be unduly influenced by arbitrary actions of foreign suppliers. In addition, there is concern that t ...

    $1,299.00

  • RHIZOSPHERE DYNAMICS
    LUTHER HAMMOND / JAMES E BOX JR
    The AAAS Selected Symposia Series was begun in 1977 to provide a means of more permanently recording and more widely disseminating some of the valuable material which is discussed at the AAAS Annual National Meetings. The volumes in the Series are based on symposia held at theMeetings which address topics of current and continuing significance, both within and among the science...

    $1,099.00

  • TRANSFORMING LEADER PARADIGMS
    JAMES E. LUCKMAN / OLGA FLORY
    An easy read with clear examples and engaging stories, this book is a treat for leaders who are interested in totally transforming the way they work. Luckman and Flory help leaders and organizations shift from a solutions mindset to a problem-solving culture that results in flow and growth where everyone in the organization can become a winner. Anand V. Tanikella, Vice Presiden...

    $899.00

  • THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER
    JANE E. JAMES
    In a Welsh seaside town known as Suicide Bay, a young woman just released from an asylum is unsure if she can trust anyone—including herself . . . When Natalie Powers returns home for the first time in thirteen years, she must convince everyone she has fully recovered from the mental illness that’s seen her institutionalized for most of her young life. But instead of being welc...

    $109.00

  • MARYLAND
    JAMES E. DILISIO
    Although one of the smallest of the fifty states, in many ways Maryland is the United States in miniature, bringing together and exemplifying the diverse elements of the country. In it the North and the South meet, and Maryland is one of the original gateways to the West. Maryland is a study in contrasts, combining the poverty of the Appalachian hill people, the sharecroppers o...

    $1,099.00

  • DEFENSE SPENDING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
    JAMES E. PAYNE
    This book examines the impact defense spending has on economic growth. While defense spending was not deliberately invented as a fiscal policy instrument, its importance in the composition of overall government spending and thus in determining employment is now easily recognized. In light of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent reduction in the threat to the secu...

    $1,099.00

  • METROPOLITAN WATER USE CONFLICTS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
    JAMES E. NICKUM
    Although Asia is the least urbanized continent, it contains half of the world’s megacities and many of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Urban growth is already stressing local water supplies and causing intense conflict among water users—between haves and have-nots in urban areas as well as between farmers and fishers outside the cities. In addition, concern is growing ov...

    $299.00

  • COAL SURFACE MINING
    JAMES E. ROWE
    Since coal is seen by many as the logical solution to the nation's energy crisis, strip mining operations will continue. But they will continue amid intense public debate, much of it centering on the standards that will govern reclamation. In this book leading authorities address the economic, environmental, and legal ramifications of land reclamation following coal surface min...

    $1,099.00

  • YOUTH DEVELOPMENT IN IDENTITY SOCIETIES
    JAMES E. COTE
    This book explores the causes and consequences of the contradictions in young people’s lives stemming from the affluence–purpose paradox: a lack of purpose-in-life among many of those living in the most affluent societies in human history. This paradox is endemic to identity societies where people experience a choice-contingent life course, and is examined using an interdiscipl...

    $1,279.00


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