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  • REINTRODUCING TALCOTT PARSONS
    JAMES J. CHRISS
    This book examines the contributions made by Talcott Parsons to sociology over the course of a career spanning half a century. Summarizing the development of Parsons’ thought, it shows how his work on the conceptualization of the social world via the unifying structure of four functions—adaptation, goal-attainment, integration, and latent pattern maintenance (or AGIL)—can furth...

    $1,160.00

  • UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN LEGISLATURES
    JAMES M. CURRY
    In this passionately argued book, James M. Curry introduces legislative scholars to the value and importance of interpretive research. His field guide for getting started on using an interpretive approach is designed so that the reader can understand a new methodological approach, not just new methods or “tools” within a singular approach. Weaving in his own story from student ...

    $1,040.00

  • PURSUING A DOCTORAL DEGREE
    JAMES R. MARTIN, JR. / SARA W. BHARWANI
    Pursuing a Doctoral Degree demystifies the journey of selecting a program, navigating the application process, and engaging in the work required to complete a doctorate. Drawing on extensive interviews from over 20 diverse, accomplished professionals who have successfully attained doctorates, this book provides a roadmap to inform prospective doctoral students’ decision-making ...

    $800.00

  • MEDICINAL PROPERTIES AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF THAI TRADITIONAL HERBS
    JAMES M. BRIMSON, TEWIN TENCOMNAO, AND CIRO ISIDORO
    With a focus on the unique cultural and ecological of aspects of Thailand, this latest title in the popular series, Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants, offers invaluable insights for researchers and healthcare professionals interested in exploring the potential of Thai herbal medicines in the broader context of global health and wellness. It also appeals to individuals...

    $5,100.00

  • THE NEW PHASE OF GLOBAL TERRORISM
    BINNEH S. MINTEH, JAMES BACIGALUPO, KEVIN BORGESON, AND ROBIN MARIA VALERI
    The New Phase of Global Terrorism explores the nuances of the shift in the organization, strategy, and operation of terrorist groups into smaller and more robust terror groups in both the United States and international levels. To develop efficient counterterrorism measures, both domestically and globally, an understanding of the changing nature of terrorist group structure and...

    $1,160.00

  • ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
    JAMES R. MUNKRES / STEVEN G. KRANTZ / HAROLD R. PARKS
    This classic text appears here in a new edition for the first time in four decades. The new edition, with the aid of two new authors, brings it up to date for a new generation of mathematicians and mathematics students. Elements of Algebraic Topology provides the most concrete approach to the subject. With coverage of homology and cohomology theory, universal coefficient theore...

    $2,800.00

  • CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT LAW 2025
    JAMES J. MCDONALD, JR.
    It is often said that it is impossible for an employer to fully comply with all of California's employment laws. They are just too numerous, too complicated and too often changing - and seldom for the better. There are so many traps for the unwary, and the stakes of getting it wrong are quite high for California employers. A simple mistake can lead to a seven-figure jury ver...

    $1,199.00

  • TAKING BACK DESIRE: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH TO QUEERNESS AND NEOLIBERALISM ON SCREEN
    JAMES LAWRENCE SLATTERY
    Taking Back Desire studies film, television and video art texts through a Lacanian prism to restore a sense of queer as troubling identity and resistance to neoliberal forms of inclusion. James Lawrence Slattery illuminates how the framing of desire, identity, enjoyment, resistance and knowledge contribute to the investment in neoliberal formations of being and success, despite...

    $1,000.00

  • ROME, SECOND EDITION
    JAMES L. PAPANDREA
    Rome: A Pilgrim's Guide to the Eternal City is not a travel book; it is a pilgrim's guide to the city of Rome and its most ancient churches. In addition to helpful descriptions of the primary monuments and churches of Rome, this book will give the reader just enough historical background to enhance the spiritual nature of a trip to the Eternal City. Along with the description o...

    $852.00

  • A LEADERSHIP TOOLKIT FOR NURSES AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
    ALISON H. JAMES
    This practical guide provides essential knowledge and tools for nursing and healthcare students and practitioners to develop their leadership skills, from the very beginning of their practice and throughout their careers. The first section provides an overview of leadership in nursing and healthcare in today’s context, discussing: relevant theory, and values-based approaches su...

    $1,160.00

  • WRITE LIKE YOU TEACH
    JAMES M. LANG
    This engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers. After years spent cultivating their expertise and passion for a subject, scholars are uniquely positioned to write great books. Yet, accustomed to writing for an audience of their peers, many scholars find it challenging to adapt the...

    $357.97

  • MEDIEVAL SONG
    WILHELM, JAMES J.
    Originally published in 1972, Medieval Song assembles the whole tradition of early European poetry, from the writings of the late Roman Empire to the time of the Hundred Years War. It covers a vast range of languages and cultures, beginning with the Latin of pagan song and Christian hymn and ending with the Middle English ballads of the time of Chaucer. The selection stresses t...

    $1,900.00

  • FEARLESS FIRSTS: ARTISTS WHO CHANGED ENTERTAINMENT
    JAMES BUCKLEY JR. / ELLEN LABRECQUE
    Celebrate 50+ artists who broke barriers, took risks, and changed the world of entertainment forever! While these creatives came from different backgrounds and overcame unique struggles, they had one thing in common: they would not take "You can't" for an answer. With a don't-give-up attitude, these fearless firsts fought for what they believed in and created a better artistic ...

    $162.00

  • GENESIS 1–11, SECOND EDITION
    JAMES CHUKWUMA OKOYE
    Genesis 1-11: A Narrative Theological Commentary combines critical acumen with concern for the theological message of Scripture. It is a commentary in two stages. First, the text is allowed to speak for itself, using a narrative approach. Then, specific Jewish and Christian traditions flowing from the text are identified and the underlying hermeneutical moves analyzed. ...

    $497.00

  • RELATIONSHIPS, COMMUNITY, AND THE RESTORATIVE SCHOOL
    SEOW-LING KEK / JAMES LIM / TYLER SIM / ENCI LI / JUSTIN MUI
    This book shares our journey with restorative practice and provides insight into how we developed a programme that impacts school culture – the Builders Project. It is a documentation of our experience of bringing restorative practice to primary school settings in Singapore, through a whole-school community building approach, to enable students to have a positive learning exper...

    $1,040.00

  • THE GEORGIAN 'ESTABLISHMENT'
    JAMES HOBSON / JAMES HOBSON
    This biography of Edward Law, Lord Ellenborough, explores his pivotal role in Georgian politics, law, and society. This book is a biography of Edward Law, Lord Ellenborough (1750–1818) and a review of the Georgian ruling class from 1770 to 1820. We visit the established church, the public schools, the inns of court, the only universities in England, the law courts, the Houses o...

    $255.99

  • BAREBOAT CHARTERS
    EDWARD JONES / JAMES LEABEATER KC / RANI NOAKES / SEAN O'SULLIVAN KC / ROBERT SCRIVENER / THOMAS STEWARD /  
    This book examines and explains the law relevant to bareboat or demise charterparties, a common form of maritime contract used by both operators of vessels and also as a form of lease finance. Its principal aim is to set out a structured analysis of all the rights and obligations of the parties to a bareboat charter. This will include consideration of the nature of the contract...

    $12,500.00

  • HOW TO TEACH COLLEGE
    JAMES W. LOEWEN
    From the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me comes a profound and practical road map for cultivating a rewarding, empowering classroom experience for both teachers and students—brimming with lessons for lifelong learners “Not a few professors teach solely because they have to, to hold a position that lets them do what they really want to do, which is ‘their work’—thei...

    $497.00

  • PRACTISING WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE
    JAMES BENEDICT BROWN / FRANCESCO CAMILLI
    In the stark light of the climate emergency, using wood instead of concrete, steel, or masonry is increasingly seen as a way of reducing the environmental impact of architecture and construction. More and more new buildings are showcasing innovative ways to work with wood. Wood can help architects achieve ambitious sustainability targets, including the United Nations’ Sustainab...

    $1,040.00

  • MCKENZIE'S AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY & PUBLIC HEALTH
    DENISE SEABERT / JAMES F. MCKENZIE / ROBERT R. PINGER
    Now in its eleventh edition, McKenzie's An Introduction to Community & Public Health includes the latest topics, trends, and statistics in this evolving field. With an emphasis on developing the knowledge and skills necessary for a career in health education and health promotion, this best-selling introductory text covers such topics as epidemiology, community organizations, pr...

    $619.32

  • SUPPORTING POLICING STUDENTS
    JAMES DICKETY
    This is an invaluable guide for those involved in supporting policing students, including lecturers, tutors, trainers, mentors and coaches. It integrates quality research and practice to help anyone in these roles provide optimal support and guidance to their policing students. Shaping the next generation of policing officers and staff comes with a unique set of challenges, so ...

    $580.00

  • THE RISE OF THE ROGUELITE
    JAMES CARTLIDGE
    This book analyses the wave of roguelite games that has appeared over the past decade, putting them in historical context and informing readers about their development out of and relation to the roguelike genre that inspired them. The book includes discussions of the historical development and significance of roguelites, critical perspectives on topics such as gender, politics,...

    $1,480.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY AND EVERYDAY LIFE
    JAMES BREESE
    Originally published in 1971, Psychology and Everyday Life was intended to bridge the gap between the expert and lay use of the word ‘psychology’ at the time. The organisation and presentation of subject matter in this introductory book was prompted by a series of discussion lessons with sixth formers and lectures to students in colleges of further education – thus the topics p...

    $1,480.00

  • LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY
    JAMES STANLAW / NOBUKO ADACHI
    Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Over seven editions, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like these because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This eighth edition carries on the leg...

    $1,960.00

  • THE FIRST DAY AT GETTYSBURG, JULY 1, 1863
    JAMES A. HESSLER
    The Battle of Gettysburg's first day featured pivotal decisions amidst fierce fighting and high stakes. The summer of 1863 started off disastrously for the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater. In early May, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia defeated and humiliated Major General Joseph Hooker’s army at the Battle of Chancellorsville. While both...

    $190.99

  • PEER INTERVENTIONS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING
    KEITH JAMES TOPPING
    This book introduces peer interventions (primarily peer education, peer counselling and peer support) for the positive promotion of health and wellbeing as alternative or parallel methods to traditional clinical processes for reaching hard-to-access populations. It is strongly evidence-based, with chapters discussing reviews of the evidence, followed by important papers with ke...

    $1,360.00

  • THE POTENTIAL AND PERIL OF REVIEWING DOMESTIC ABUSE-RELATED DEATHS
    JAMES ROWLANDS
    Considering the potential and peril of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuserelated deaths, this book examines what DARDRs – first known as Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) – are understood as being for, what is used by and in DARDRs, and how DARDRs are themselves used. Drawing on rich empirical data, this te...

    $1,140.00

  • SHOULD WE MAXIMIZE UTILITY?
    BEN BRAMBLE / JAMES LENMAN
    Utilitarianism directs us to act in ways that impartially maximize welfare or utility or at least aim to do that. Some find this view highly compelling. Others object that it has intuitively repugnant results, that it condones evildoing and injustice, that it is excessively imposing and controlling, that it is alienating, and that it fails to offer meaningful, practical guidanc...

    $1,160.00

  • WALKING IN LINE
    JAMES D. CROONE SR.
    As a Black American, James Croone can speak to many of the dismays of racism. Through years of teaching in Bible colleges and pastoring, he remains perplexed how one can hold on to biases against those of other ethnicities and proudly proclaim to be a follower of Jesus Christ. However, this has been a standard fixture throughout history from those who have interpreted God's wor...

    $320.00

  • STEPS TOWARD A TIBETAN UNDERSTANDING OF PURITY
    JAMES E. MORRISON
    Though of little concern to most westerners, notions of what is considered clean and unclean, pure and impure are of great importance to many cultures. Both ritual and moral purity and impurity are significant concerns for Tibetan Buddhists and Buddhists at large, being foundational to how they live their everyday lives. Steps Towards a Tibetan Understanding of Purity provides ...

    $710.00