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  • THE CORINTHIAN WAR, 395–387 BC
    JEFFREY SMITH
    At the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC, Sparta reigned supreme in Greece. Having vanquished their rival Athens and quickly dismantled the wealthy and powerful Athenian Empire, Sparta set its sights on dominating the Mediterranean world and had begun a successful invasion of the vast Persian Empire under their legendary king Agesilaus II. But with their victory over Athen...

    $242.99

  • LOVE, ROMANCE, AND THE BROKEN HEART
    N. JEFFREY BLANKENSHIP
    Throughout life, everyone has opportunities to experience some form and depth of love and romance, and most people have experienced, at one time or another, a broken heart. Love, Romance, and the Broken Heart is intended to be a deep expression of feelings that emanate from the heart of every human being and is also intended to illustrate the fragility of love in its human form...

    $373.00

  • ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORKS
    STEPHEN P BORGATTI / MARTIN G EVERETT / JEFFREY C JOHNSON / FILIP AGNEESSENS
    Kickstart your research with this practical, bestselling guide to doing social network analysis. Get to grips with the mathematical foundations and learn how to use software tools such as NeTDraw and UCINET to reach your research goals.  Supporting you step-by-step through the entire research process, from design and data collection to coding, visualisation, and analysis, the b...

    $778.56

  • ADAM SMITH’S THEORY OF VALUE AND DISTRIBUTION
    JEFFREY T. YOUNG
    Ever since the time of his early interpreters, beginning with David Hume, Adam Smith’s theory of value has been the subject of confusion and misunderstanding—including a controversy which still rages over whether Smith held a labour theory of value, and, if so, whether he held to it throughout Wealth of Nations, or if it was confined to the “Early and Rude State”? This book pro...

    $1,099.00

  • THREE FACES OF ANTISEMITISM
    JEFFREY HERF
    Three Faces of Antisemitism examines the three primary forms of antisemitism as they emerged in modern and contemporary Germany, and then in other countries. The chapters draw on the author’s historical scholarship over the years on the form antisemitism assumed on the far right in Weimar and Nazi Germany, in the Communist regime in East Germany, and in the West German radical ...

    $679.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMIZATION WITH APPLICATIONS IN MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA ANALYTICS
    JEFFREY PAUL WHEELER
    The primary goal of this text is a practical one. Equipping students with enough knowledge and creating an independent research platform, the author strives to prepare students for professional careers. Providing students with a marketable skill set requires topics from many areas of optimization. The initial goal of this text is to develop a marketable skill set for mathematic...

    $2,300.00

  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    JEFFREY J. NIEHAUS
    The third volume of this three-volume work exegetes and comments on every occurrence of the Greek terms for righteousness, righteous, righteously, and righteous judgment in the New Testament. It begins with a general discussion of the righteous word group in the New Testament and concludes with a discussion of the righteousness of God and the righteousness of faith. The same pr...

    $657.00

  • COMPUTATIONAL MODELING FOR INDUSTRIAL-ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS
    JEFFREY B. VANCOUVER
    This collection provides a primer to the process and promise of computational modeling for industrial-organizational psychologists. With contributions by global experts in the field, the book is designed to expand readers’ appreciation for computational modeling via chapters focused on key modeling achievements in domains relevant to industrial-organizational psychology, includ...

    $1,179.00

  • HUMAN INSUFFICIENCY
    JEFFREY B. GRISWOLD
    Human Insufficiency argues that early modern writers depict the human political subject as physically vulnerable in order to naturalize slavery. Representations of Man as a weak creature—“poor” and “bare” in King Lear’s words—strategically portrayed English bodies as needing care from people who were imagined to be less fragile. Drawing on Aristotle’s depictions of the natural ...

    $1,099.00

  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    JEFFREY J. NIEHAUS
    The second volume of this three-volume work exegetes and comments on every occurrence of the Hebrew terms for righteousness in the Old Testament. It begins with a discussion of apperception and deductive method and concludes with an afterword on righteousness and ontology. The ontological argument affirms that God's aseity is the foundation of righteousness in the Bible, and th...

    $816.00

  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    JEFFREY J. NIEHAUS
    The first volume of this three-volume work reviews the history of efforts to define biblical righteousness. Modern views are engaged and critiqued, from the seminal article (1860) by Ludwig Diestel (God's righteousness as the agreement of his will and purpose) to others in the theological stream known as the "New Perspective." Scholars discussed include Walther Eichrodt, Gerhar...

    $710.00

  • CASE STUDIES IN PARAMETRIC DESIGN
    JEFFREY COLLINS
    Case Studies in Parametric Design is a guide to scripting digital models for architects, designers, and builders. The use of parametric design in architecture has afforded the realization of incredible built work; modelling software can resolve complex geometry and aid in the development of stunning creations. Methods for creating the digital models to achieve these results, ho...

    $979.00

  • EMERGING STRONGER
    JEFFREY CHIN AND MICHELE LEE KOZIMOR
    Responding to the sudden and far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in college classrooms and on campus, Emerging Stronger assembles an original compilation of chapters that revisit, reframe, and refine the practice of teaching in a fundamentally altered landscape. Cultivated from a wide array of different fields, from sociology and political science to literature a...

    $899.00

  • REDEFINING SCHOOL SAFETY AND POLICING
    JEFFREY D. YARBROUGH
    Redefining School Safety and Policing identifies and works to eliminate systemic issues in school policing that negatively impact students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, and other marginalized populations. Focusing on the fundamental goal of creating safe learning environments, Yarbrough lays out the unintended consequences of involving police in the administrative disciplinary p...

    $899.00

  • A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
    JEFFREY ALEXANDER / JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER / KENNETH THOMPSON / LAURA DESFOR EDLES / MOSHOULA CAPOUS-DESYL
    The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the ...

    $3,200.00

  • COMPUTER
    MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY / WILLIAM F. ASPRAY / JEFFREY R. YOST / HONGHONG TINN / GERARDO CON DÍAZ
    Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of information technology, the rise of social media, fake news, and the gig economy, and the regulatory frameworks being put in place ...

    $919.00

  • FOOD IN WORLD HISTORY
    JEFFREY M. PILCHER
    Now in its third edition, Food in World History explores culinary cultures and food politics throughout the world, from ancient times to the present day, with expanded discussions of industrialization, indigeneity, colonialism, gender, environment, and food and power. It examines the long history of globalization of foods as well as the political, social, and environmental impl...

    $979.00

  • QUEER TRADES, SEX AND SOCIETY
    JEFFREY MEEK
    This book is the first scholarly work to explore male homosexual prostitution in interwar Scotland. The male prostitute occupies a contested position within interwar society – depending on the perspective he was representative of a descent into turpitude, of tenacious organised criminality or of exploitation. The book explores connections between male prostitution and criminal ...

    $1,099.00

  • GIVING WINGS TO HER TEAM
    TILO SCHWARZ / JEFFREY K. LIKER
    Denise dreamed of being the kind of leader who empowered and engaged her people, but was becoming frustrated and disillusioned. Denise -- a fast-rising, young consultant at a large advisory firm -- lands a job as a manager in industry. Crisis strikes as low-cost competitors take market share and general chaos generates late shipments. Denise goes into Lean consulting mode but q...

    $679.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND POLITICS
    JEFFREY HAYNES
    This third edition of the successful Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of religion and politics. From the United States to the Middle East, from Asia to Africa, and beyond, religion continues to be an important factor in political activity and organisation. Featuring contributions from an international team of exp...

    $1,179.00

  • THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET PRISON
    JEFFREY REIMAN / PAUL LEIGHTON
    For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren’t the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business practices and to punish well-off people who cause widespread harm? This new edition continues to engage readers in important exercises...

    $919.00

  • WORLD POLITICS
    JEFFREY HAYNES / PETER HOUGH / BRUCE PILBEAM
    How can we better resolve issues like climate change or global pandemics? When is resolution of armed conflict achievable? What impact does culture, religion or identity have on world events? Today’s world politics is complex, contested and changing fast. Sovereign states, big data, international institutions, world leaders, large companies, and citizens all have vest...

    $977.34

  • STATISTICAL ANALYTICS FOR HEALTH DATA SCIENCE WITH SAS AND R
    JEFFREY WILSON / DING-GENG CHEN / KARL E. PEACE
    This book aims to compile typical fundamental-to-advanced statistical methods to be used for health data sciences. Although the book promotes applications to health and health-related data, the models in the book can be used to analyze any kind of data. The data are analyzed with the commonly used statistical software of R/SAS (with online supplementary on SPSS/Stata). The data...

    $2,000.00

  • DYSFUNCTIONAL DIPLOMACY
    JEFFREY S. PEAKE
    US diplomacy is broken. As a result, the United States sits on the sidelines as the remainder of the world writes international law dealing with a host of vexing problems. The source of the dysfunction is domestic politics. Partisan polarization has rendered the domestic treaty process unworkable. Instead, presidents rely entirely on unilateral tools to complete their agreement...

    $919.00

  • FATAL GRIEVANCES
    GREGORY M. VECCHI / MARY ANN MARKEY / JEFFREY A. DANIELS
    Active killer attacks frequently dominate the headlines with stories of seemingly random mass killings in school, campus, and workplace settings. Nearly all of the attacks are over before the police can respond, leaving unanswered questions as to why these attacks happen and what can be done to prevent them. Fatal Grievances: Forecasting and Preventing Active Killer Threats in ...

    $1,039.00

  • REVOLUTION AND DEMOCRACY IN GHANA
    JEFFREY HAYNES
    This book analyses Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings’ plans for radical democratisation in Ghana, involving ordinary people directly in the country’s political and economic decision-making processes. Rawlings came to power in Ghana in late 1981 determined to restructure the characteristics of Ghana's political and economic systems. Despite Rawlings’ aim to bring ordinary Gh...

    $1,099.00

  • INTOLERANCE
    FRIEDMAN, JEFFREY
    Intolerance of ideas different from one’s own seems to be a common attitude among human beings and, at the same time, something that seems to be more pronounced in recent years. In this volume, political theorists and philosophers consider some of the historical preconditions of modern intolerance and debate the sources of its recent manifestations. From theories of religious i...

    $1,339.00

  • THE LONGING FOR TOTAL REVOLUTION RECONSIDERED
    JEFFREY FRIEDMAN
    In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy that continued through Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, which viewed the essential ...

    $1,339.00

  • NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POPULISM
    JEFFREY FRIEDMAN
    Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe and Britain, six authors analyse populism in the United States, treating it, various...

    $1,339.00

  • THE ARITHMETICA OF DIOPHANTUS
    JEAN CHRISTIANIDIS / JEFFREY OAKS
    This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus of Alexandria’s Arithmetica, along with a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary. Before his work became the inspiration for the emerging field of number theory in the seventeenth century, Diophantus (ca. 3rd c. CE) was known primarily as an algebraist. This volume explain...

    $1,099.00