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  • AMAZING STORIES VOLUME 175
    JAMES H. SCHMITZ
    Amazing Stories Volume 175 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by different authors: "Captives Of The Thieve-Star" by James H. Schmitz, "Left Hand, Right Hand" by James H. Schmitz, "Dear Nan Glanders" by Beta McGavin, and "Feet Of Clay" by Robert Hoskins. ...

    $39.70

  • RESEARCHING DIGITAL LIFE
    JAMES ASH / ROB KITCHIN / AGNIESZKA LESZCZYNSKI
    We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies. Making sense of digital life is accordingly an essential undertaking for social science and humanities scholars. This multidisciplinary book provides an essential guide to researching digital life: Orienting readers with respect to methodologies, research design, and resea...

    $728.86

  • GENERALS AND ADMIRALS OF THE THIRD REICH
    JAMES "JACK" WEBB
    Reference work providing brief, scholarly biographical summaries for senior officers of the Third Reich, covering surnames A–G. This three-volume set offers concise biographical information for over five thousand generals and admirals of the Third Reich. It covers all branches of service, ordered alphabetically and provides a brief, though scholarly, overview of each individual...

    $383.99

  • ATTICUS FROM SHAWNEETOWN
    JAMES VARGA
    Absurd humor questions the meaning of truth. Deep in Southern Illinois, called Little Egypt, the county sheriff and his young deputy scientifically bumble their way through the "Invasion of the Feral Swine." A prosecutor fresh out of law school brings the whole shebang into a court of law for the "Trial of the Man with No Name." Instead of science and law, the everyday people o...

    $284.00

  • HANDBOOK OF BAYESIAN, FIDUCIAL, AND FREQUENTIST INFERENCE
    JAMES BERGER
    The emergence of data science, in recent decades, has magnified the need for efficient methodology for analyzing data and highlighted the importance of statistical inference. Despite the tremendous progress that has been made, statistical science is still a young discipline and continues to have several different and competing paths in its approaches and its foundations. While ...

    $3,399.00

  • DECIPHERING DATA ARCHITECTURES
    JAMES SERRA
    Data fabric, data lakehouse, and data mesh have recently appeared as viable alternatives to the modern data warehouse. These new architectures have solid benefits, but they're also surrounded by a lot of hyperbole and confusion. This practical book provides a guided tour of these architectures to help data professionals understand the pros and cons of each. James Serra, big dat...

    $908.00

  • THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMATISTS
    JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
    Excerpt: "When the rule limiting speeches to an hour was adopted by Congress, which was before most of you were born, an eminent but somewhat discursive person spent more than that measure of time in convincing me that whoever really had anything to say could say it in less. I then and there acquired a conviction of this truth, which has only strengthened with years. Yet whoeve...

    $39.70

  • PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN MUSIC SINCE 1950
    JAMES R. HEINTZE
    As the century comes to a close, composition of music in the United States has reached little consensus in terms of style, techniques, or schools. In fourteen original articles, the contributors to this volume explore the broad range and diversity of post-World War II musical culture. Classical and jazz idioms are both covered, as is the broad history of electronic music in the...

    $1,059.00

  • ITALIAN POLITICS
    JAMES L. NEWELL
    This book presents a comprehensive and incisive exploration of the intricacies of the Italian political system. Written in a lucid and informative style, the work features: an examination of Italian political history from 1943 to the present day an analysis of the governmental system, the constitutional framework, the core institutions, the electoral system and the key parties ...

    $939.00

  • MARY RUSSELL MITFORD: THE TRAGEDY OF A BLUE STOCKING
    WILLIAM JAMES ROBERTS
    This is a fascinating biography of Mary Russell Mitford, a prolific writer and prominent figure in British literary circles during the 19th century. Roberts explores the complex social and cultural forces that shaped Mitford's life and work, including her gender, class, and status as a 'blue stocking.' The book provides a rich portrait of Mitford's world and is an engaging and ...

    $39.70

  • OLIVER ELLIS, OR, THE FUSILIERS
    JAMES GRANT
    Excerpt: ""In regard to prefaces," says the author of "Curiosities of Literature,"—"ladies consider them so much space for a love story lost, though the Italians call them la salsa del libra,—the spice of the book." Be this as it may, I must mention that many of the men whose names occur in these pages, bore the part ascribed to them during the operations of Sir Charles Grey's ...

    $39.70

  • URBAN ECOLOGY
    PHILIP JAMES / IAN DOUGLAS
    This fully revised second edition reflects the great expansion in urban ecology research, action, and teaching since 2015. Urban ecology provides an understanding of urban ecosystems and uses nature-based techniques to enhance habitats and alleviate poor environmental conditions. Already the home to the majority of the world’s people, urban areas continue to grow, causing ecolo...

    $979.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
    JAMES EVANS / CRAIG THOMAS
    Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmen...

    $979.00

  • HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER PREPARATION
    ERICA D. MCCRAY, ELIZABETH BETTINI, MARY T. BROWNELL, JAMES MCLESKEY, PAUL T. SINDELAR
    The new edition of this landmark text expands our current understanding of teacher education broadly by providing an in-depth look at the most up-to-date research on special education teacher preparation. Offering a comprehensive review of research on attracting, preparing, and sustaining personnel to effectively serve students with disabilities, it is fully updated to align wi...

    $2,900.00

  • THE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PLAYBOOK
    H. JAMES HARRINGTON / FRANK VOEHL
    The objective of the ISO 56002 standard is to provide a framework on how to build an innovation ecosystem that can be sustained over time. Similar to the quality management system that ISO established decades ago, this standard provides instructions related to best practices on how to establish an Innovative Management System within an organization. However, it does not provide...

    $1,099.00

  • 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

  • VLADIMIR PUTIN
    JAMES GREENSMITH
    Following the celebrations of the Millennium and our entry into the 21st century, it was to be hoped that the days when a brutal dictator could bring mindless death and destruction to another country, and even to his own people, were over, and that the lessons of the past had been well and truly learned. A forlorn hope, as it transpires, for yet another monster has raised its u...

    $216.99

  • HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY THROUGH SYMBOLS
    JAMES BRODERICK
    Volume One of The History of Psychology through Symbols provides a groundbreaking approach by expanding the roots of psychology beyond the Greeks to concurrent events during the same period (800 BCE–200 BCE), defined as the Axial Age by German-Swiss psychiatrist Karl Jaspers. The Axial Age emphasized seeking the universal connection that unites all humanity, a focus not on what...

    $1,239.00

  • HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY THROUGH SYMBOLS
    JAMES BRODERICK
    Volume Two of The History of Psychology through Symbols continues a groundbreaking approach of using symbols to deepen the understanding of psychological history as well as the importance of how one lives, an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises, called emancipatory opportunities, to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life. From the b...

    $1,239.00

  • CHANGE OF HEART
    JAMES A. HOPWOOD
    As the United Methodist Church splinters, Methodists of all stripes need to be reminded of their rich theological and cultural heritage. In accessible, non-academic style, this book introduces readers to John and Charles Wesley and the Methodist movement they founded. It weaves historical and theological narrative with the personal testimony of a second-career pastor who "marri...

    $408.00

  • SPATIO–TEMPORAL METHODS IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY WITH R
    GAVIN SHADDICK / JAMES V. ZIDEK / ALEXANDRA M. SCHMIDT
    Spatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology with R, like its First Edition, explores the interface between environmental epidemiology and spatio-temporal modeling. It links recent developments in spatio-temporal theory with epidemiological applications. Drawing on real-life problems, it shows how recent advances in methodology can assess the health risks associated wi...

    $2,400.00

  • CRITICALLY ILL CHILDREN AND THE LAW
    JAMES CAMERON
    A series of recent high-profile court cases has demonstrated the inadequacy of current laws in addressing issues relating to medical treatment decisions involving seriously ill children. The challenges of determining that life-sustaining medical treatment is not in a young child’s best interests have resulted in criticism of the best interests principle. This book explores the ...

    $1,099.00

  • ESSENTIALS OF HEALTH CARE FINANCE
    WILLIAM O. CLEVERLEY / JAMES O. CLEVERLEY / ASHLEY V. PARKS
    Blending the topics of both accounting and finance, Essentials of Health Care Finance is a relevant, readable, and easily applied resource for health care management students and executives that explores finance theory and its practical application in health care across a full range of facilities, from hospitals, home health agencies, and skilled nursing facilities to surgical ...

    $414.05

  • OPTOELECTRONICS AND SPINTRONICS IN SMART THIN FILMS
    JAMES AYODELE OKE / TIEN-CHIEN JEN
    Smart thin films, composed of functional materials deposited in thin layers, have opened new avenues for the development of flexible, lightweight, and high-performance devices. Optoelectronics and Spintronics in Smart Thin Films presents a comprehensive overview of this emerging area and details the current and near future integration of smart thin films in solar cells, and mem...

    $1,299.00

  • CONSENT
    LAURIE JAMES-HAWKINS
    This book considers the concept of consent in different contexts with the aim of exploring the nuances of what consent means to different people and in different situations. While it is generally agreed that consent is a fluid concept, legal and social attempts to explain its meaning often centre on overly simplistic, narrow and binary definitions, viewing consent as something ...

    $999.00

  • BUSINESS ANALYTICS
    JAMES ABDEY
    Analytical skills are in high demand but short supply. Through a unique combination of data visualisation and analytics (both theoretical and applied), this ground-breaking textbook provides you with the expertise to analyse, interpret and communicate data with confidence, to inform real-world decision-making. Key features include: Clear signalling of introductory, intermediat...

    $1,126.42

  • IMAGE LAKE
    JAMES M. SCOTT
    Set in the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the North Cascades, Image Lake is a stirring hymn to Nature's grandeur and its unfailing power to awe, sustain, and heal us. The lure of a high-mountain lake surrounded by rugged heights serendipitously brings together four misfits: a beleaguered Indigenous woman for whom Image Lake is sacred; a former backcountry ranger who has tried writi...

    $302.00

  • THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF JAMES LEO GARRETT JR., 1950–2015: VOLUME EIGHT
    JAMES LEO GARRETT JR.
    James Leo Garrett Jr. has been called "the last of the gentlemen theologians" and "the dean of Southern Baptist theologians." In The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr., 1950-2015, the reader will find a truly dazzling collection of works that clearly evince the meticulous scholarship, the even-handed treatment, the biblical fidelity, the wide historical breadth, and th...

    $568.00

  • CHINA'S USE OF ARMED COERCION
    JAMES A. SIEBENS
    This book analyzes when, how, why, and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system. Over the past 20 years, China’s international status as a “great power” has become undeniable. China’s “peaceful rise” has included substantial investments in military modernization and an increasingly assertive regional pos...

    $1,099.00

  • MAELSTROM
    JAMES AHO
    Maelstrom: Christian Dominionism and Far-Right Insurgence illuminates the latest outbreak of right-wing extremism in America. This book reviews the cyclical nature of right-wing resurgences in American history, dismisses the appropriateness of the word “fascism” to explain them, and then describes in depth the goal of “reconstructing” American institutions on the basis of bibli...

    $979.00