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  • BIRTH ADVANTAGES AND RELATIVE AGE EFFECTS IN SPORT
    ADAM L. KELLY / JEAN CÔTÉ / MARK JEFFREYS / JENNIFER TURNNIDGE
    Relative age effects (RAEs) refer to the participation, selection, and attainment inequalities in the immediate, short-term, and long-term in sports. Indeed, dozens of studies have identified RAEs across male and female sporting contexts. Despite its widespread prevalence, there is a paucity in the empirical research and practical application of strategies specifically designed...

    $1,200.00

  • STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING FOR SPORTS PERFORMANCE
    IAN JEFFREYS, JEREMY MOODY
    An effective strength and conditioning program is an essential component of the preparation of any athlete or sportsperson. Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning, providing students, coaches and athletes with everything they need to design and implement effective...

    $2,060.00

  • EFFECTIVE COACHING IN STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING
    IAN JEFFREYS
    This book takes a radically different approach to the challenge of coaching in strength and conditioning. In doing so, it addresses many of the paradoxes of strength and conditioning, providing new perspectives that shed light on to the many questions that challenge coaches. Rather than focusing on methods, it delves into the questions of what makes a coach effective. It examin...

    $1,644.00

  • JOHN LOCKE
    M. V. C. JEFFREYS
    Originally published in 1967. Locke's views in the field of education had great influence in the UK and abroad; and the aim of this book is to present them in the context of his general philosophical thinking, since it was mainly as a philosopher that Locke won his place in history. Because Locke was at the same time very much a man of affairs, and an interesting character on h...

    $1,000.00

  • BEYOND PRIME TIME ACTIVISM
    CHARLOTTE RYAN / KAREN JEFFREYS
    In this accessible introduction to communication activism, organizer Karen Jeffreys and sociologist Charlotte Ryan draw on more than two decades of ongoing collaboration, using the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH) as a case study. The book examines a community with shared values, decision-making, and conflict resolution procedures, tracking its organizing strategy...

    $1,120.00

  • THE SEXUALITY PAPERS
    LAL COVENEY / MARGARET JACKSON / SHEILA JEFFREYS / LESLIE KAY / PAT MAHONY
    Originally published in 1984. The history of sex in the last 100 years has usually been written as a story of progress from repression to sexual liberation. This book argues that the reverse is true, demonstrating that the ‘sexual revolution’ came as a backlash to a women’s movement which challenged men’s sexual abuse and tried to reconstruct male sexuality in women’s interest....

    $1,260.00

  • THE LESBIAN REVOLUTION
    SHEILA JEFFREYS
    The Lesbian Revolution argues that lesbian feminists were a vital force in the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM). They did not just play a fundamental role in the important changes wrought by second wave feminism, but created a powerful revolution in lesbian theory, culture and practice. Yet this lesbian revolution is undocumented. The book shows that lesbian feminists were fou...

    $1,160.00

  • INDIAN ARMY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    ALAN JEFFREYS
    The book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both established and early career scholars of the Indian Army, as well as naval historians. It looks at the historiography of the army - taking into account the recent work on the army (particularly on the Western Front in 1914-1915). The edi...

    $536.99

  • GOVERNING HIV IN CHINA
    ELAINE JEFFREYS / GANG SU
    HIV and AIDS have long been problematized in the People’s Republic of China as objects of governance in political frameworks and institutions. The state’s attitudes towards health programs have, nevertheless, changed significantly during the 21st century. Pilot programs at the beginning of the century, which focused on underground sex workers, have now developed into the roll-o...

    $1,320.00

  • RHETORIC IN BYZANTIUM
    ELIZABETH JEFFREYS
    'Rhetoric in Byzantium' explores the ways in which rhetoric functioned in Byzantine society - as a tool for the effective communication of ideas and ideologies, but at times also a barrier that inhibited the expression of real feelings and everyday realities, and imposed a burden of decoding on outsiders. After an introduction on the practical and textual background to Byzant...

    $1,240.00

  • APPROACH TO BATTLE
    ALAN JEFFREYS
    The Indian Army was the largest volunteer army during the Second World War. Indian Army divisions fought in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy - and went to make up the overwhelming majority of the troops in South East Asia. Over two million personnel served in the Indian Army - and India provided the base for supplies for the Middle Eastern and South East Asian theatres. ...

    $536.99

  • THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: BYZANTIUM THROUGH BRITISH EYES
    ROBIN CORMACK / ELIZABETH JEFFREYS
    The papers in this volume derive from the 29th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. This was held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies in the University of London in March 1995, in order to complement the British Museum exhibition 'Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture'. The objective of the symposium was to explore the ways in which British sch...

    $1,240.00

  • VIEWS OF ANCIENT EGYPT SINCE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
    DAVID JEFFREYS
    This book addresses some of the main themes of the study of Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In a combination of case studies and discursive chapters, the status of Egypt as an important example of traditional Asian scholarship, and as an ancient model of imperialism itself, is examined. Contributions range from studies of nineteenth century antiquarianism, ...

    $1,340.00

  • TEACHING CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN NURSING AND HEALTH CARE, THIRD EDITION
    MARIANNE R. JEFFREYS
    Based on proven research, this book is a unique book for those working in academic settings, health care institutions, employee education, and nursing and health care organizations and associations. Updated with new evidence-based strategies, interactive book features, and expanded ready-toapply strategies and exemplars, this new edition offers a systematic, comprehensive appro...

    $1,862.00

  • BEAUTY AND MISOGYNY
    SHEILA JEFFREYS
    The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice or creative expression, but represent instead an important aspect of women's oppression. As these practices have become incre...

    $1,220.00

  • GENDER HURTS
    SHEILA JEFFREYS
    It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is increasing acceptance by governments and many other organisations and actors of t...

    $1,480.00

  • AMERICAN-BRITISH-CANADIAN INTELLIGENCE RELATIONS, 1939-2000
    JEFFREYS-JONES, RHODRI / STAFFORD, DAVID
    This work considers, for the first time, the intelligence relationship between three important North Atlantic powers in the Twenty-first century, from WWII to post-Cold War. As demonstrated in the case studies in this volume, World War II cemented loose and often informal inter-allied agreements on security intelligence that had preceded it, and created new and important areas ...

    $1,420.00

  • THE SEXUALITY DEBATES
    SHEILA JEFFREYS
    First published in 1987. From the 1870's to the 1920's, feminists actively campaigned against men's sexual abuse of women. This collection brings together the major articles which fuelled the feminist campaigns and helped to bring about significant reforms. ...

    $1,320.00

  • MAN'S DOMINION
    SHEILA JEFFREYS
    In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy. Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this book examines common anti-women attitudes such as ‘male...

    $1,380.00

  • PROSTITUTION SCANDALS IN CHINA
    ELAINE JEFFREYS
    Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal and political issues affecting citizens of the PRC. Further, this book shows how t...

    $1,320.00

  • EDUCATION (RLE EDU K)
    M JEFFREYS
    This book discusses the very nature and purpose of education and provides a foundation upon which more specialized studies in the psychology, history and sociology of education can be based. The book therefore surveys the main problems of human life – the relation of the individual and society, freedom and authority, continuity and change (i.e.growth), and underlying them all, ...

    $660.00

  • NURSING STUDENT RETENTION
    MARIANNE R. JEFFREYS
    This is the only book to offer an evidence-based model for retaining students and ensuring success across the nursing education spectrum. It is designed to assist faculty in creating, implementing, and evaluating student retention and academic success strategies. This model, Nursing Undergraduate Retention and Success (NURS), can be used effectively with all kinds of nursing pr...

    $1,596.00

  • HELPING GRIEVING PEOPLE - WHEN TEARS ARE NOT ENOUGH
    J. SHEP JEFFREYS
    Helping Grieving People – When Tears Are Not Enough is a handbook for care providers who provide service, support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. This book is also an excellent text for academic courses as well as for staff development training. The author addresses grief as it affects a variety of relationships and discusses different interve...

    $1,340.00

  • TEACHING CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN NURSING AND HEALTH CARE, SECOND EDITION
    MARIANNE R. JEFFREYS
    "This book will help educators understand the multidemensional process of cultural competence, and the vignettes it provides will be useful to anyone who teaches cultural competence."--Nursing Education Perspectives In our multicultural society, nurses and health care providers, educators and administrators, professional association leaders, and researchers must work toward ach...

    $1,862.00

  • THE INDUSTRIAL VAGINA
    SHEILA JEFFREYS
    The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies. The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to becom...

    $1,220.00

  • SEX AND SEXUALITY IN CHINA
    JEFFREYS, ELAINE
    Elaine Jeffreys explores the issues of sex and sexuality in a non-Western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behaviours, and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in the People's Republic of China. Commissioned from Western and mainland Chinese scholars of sex and sexuality in China, the chapters in this volume are marked by a diversity o...

    $1,320.00

  • NURSING STUDENT RETENTION
    MARIANNE R. JEFFREYS
    In the current nursing shortage, student retention is a priority concern for nurse educators, health care institutions, and the patients they serve. This book presents an organizing framework for understanding student retention, identifying at-risk students, and developing both diagnostic-prescriptive strategies to facilitate success and innovations in teaching and educational ...

    $1,206.00

  • CHINA, SEX AND PROSTITUTION
    ELAINE JEFFREYS
    China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police report, and policy and legal pronouncements, and secondary literature in both Engl...

    $1,260.00

  • DISORDERS OF THE CERVICAL SPINE
    JEFFREYS, EURIG
    Disorders of the Cervical Spine ...

    $407.00

  • ASPIRINA: LA EXTRAORDINARIA HISTORIA DE UNA DROGA MARAVILLOSA
    JEFFREYS DIARMUID
    Los orígenes de la aspirina se remontan aproximadamente al año 3000 aC, cuando los antiguos egipcios descubrieron las propiedades médicas del sauce en tratamiento del reumatismo. Escribiendo para un lector no especializado, Diarmuid Jeffreys examina la historia de esta "droga maravillosa" desde sus comienzos hasta el actual resurgimiento de interés que ha provocado el descubrim...
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    $785.00


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