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  • WHY WOMEN AREN'T WINNING AT HEALTH (BUT CAN)
    ANCA GRIFFITHS / ALYSON MCGREGOR / MARJORIE JENKINS
    For women, health is the ultimate glass ceiling. And for too many of us, the tools we have make it impossible to “win” at health. The fact is, almost nothing in our global health marketplace is designed to serve and heal women. From external factors like the global male-centric medical model, the predatory wellness industry, and the commoditization of traditional health practic...

    $127.99

  • ORDER AND DISORDER IN URBAN SPACE AND FORM
    PAUL JENKINS / HARRY SMITH
    The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know how to create a (future) ordered environment. But these notions of order and disorder need interrogation, especially as the world rapidly urbanises. Not only have such approaches failed to produce more social order, but it has become clear that the...

    $979.00

  • ASSIMILATION V. INTEGRATION IN MUSIC EDUCATION
    CHRISTOPHER JENKINS
    Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education engages with an existential question for American conservatories and orchestras: What does it mean to diversify Western classical music? Many institutions have focused solely on diversifying the demography of their participants, but without a deeper conversation about structural oppression in classical music, this approach continue...

    $539.00

  • TRANSPORT RECALLED: NORTH AND MID-WALES
    MARTIN JENKINS / CHARLES ROBERTS
    This book takes readers on a spectacular journey across North and Mid-Wales in the thirty-year period from the mid-1950s onwards. In full color, it features scenic railway main lines and branches; ports, canals and shipping including the Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Company; cable and electric tramways; all manner of connecting bus and coach services in urban and rural set...

    $472.99

  • GLASGOW TRAMS
    MARTIN JENKINS / GEOFF PRICE
    This book has been commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the closure of Glasgow’s remarkable tram system, when over 250,000 people lined the city streets on 4 September 1962 to watch a final procession of some 20 trams representing different periods in the history of the undertaking. Using a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, the book shows as many areas and a...

    $329.00

  • NATURE AND BUREAUCRACY
    DAVID JENKINS
    This book questions how bureaucracies conceive of, and consequently interact with, nature, and suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild, and offers several warnings about bureaucracies and bureaucratic mentality. One prominent challenge facing scientists, policymakers, environmental activists, and environmentally concerned citiz...

    $999.00

  • INEQUALITIES AND THE PARADIGM OF EXCELLENCE IN ACADEMIA
    FIONA JENKINS, BARBARA HOENIG, SUSANNE MARIA WEBER AND ANDREA WOLFFRAM
    This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and evaluation of academics. Policymakers have increasingly placed emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving research excellence, and efforts to reduce gender bias have become mainstream. This book suggests that this goal has remained elusive i...

    $1,099.00

  • BIRDS IN TOYLAND
    BECKY GOLDSMITH / LINDA JENKINS
    Quilt a Christmas heirloom in colorful wool and cotton appliqué Get ready for Christmas cuddles with adorable appliqué! The Birds in Toyland quilt from Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins holds all of the whimsy and wonder you've come to expect from Piece O' Cake Designs. Quilters can choose between two merry colorways, working with cozy cotton, felted wool, or a mixture of both....

    $379.00

  • SURVEY AND ASSESSMENT OF TRADITIONALLY CONSTRUCTED BRICKWORK
    MOSES JENKINS
    The principal aim of this book is to improve the practice of surveying traditionally constructed brickwork. It aims to ensure that those who have a cause to survey buildings constructed of traditional (pre-1919) brickwork have a well-developed, clear methodology for undertaking effective, comprehensive surveys. The book will help readers gain the proper level of knowledge, expe...

    $1,439.00

  • SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING FOR BUSINESS
    ANDREW JENKINS
    Social media has become an imperative for almost every business. Discover how to successfully implement an effective social media strategy that is supported and integrated throughout every part of your organization, with this essential handbook to enhancing your online presence. Social Media Marketing for Business provides a step-by-step roadmap to setting up effective workflow...

    $749.00

  • MANAGING AND LEADING IN THE ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS
    ROBERT JONES / FIONA JENKINS
    This stimulating series is unique in providing advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP). This concise companion guides readers through current key management challenges, the structure of the NHS, legal matters, professional regulation, research and cultural issues. With contributions from internationally renowned professi...

    $1,139.00

  • CRITICAL INCIDENTS IN JOURNALISM
    EDSON C. TANDOC JR. / JOY JENKINS / RYAN J. THOMAS
    This edited collection examines critical incidents journalists have faced across different media contexts, exploring how journalists and other key actors negotiate various aspects of their work. Ranging from the Rwandan genocide to the News of the World hacking scandal in the UK, this book defines a critical incident as an event that has led journalists to reconsider their rout...

    $999.00

  • THE TIMBER PIRATE
    CHARLES CHRISTOPHER JENKINS
    Excerpt: "Night’s sable curtain was soon to fall on the short-lived drama of a Winter day in the Laurentians. The departing sub-arctic sun, in its last pale glory, sent up from the omnipresent whiteness myriads of glistening beams that stabbed the eyes like leaping darts of fire. Of sounds there was oppressive absence. Not even a vagrant breeze sighed in the tree-tops; but at i...

    $39.70

  • DISABILITY AND ANIMALITY
    STEPHANIE JENKINS / KELLY STRUTHERS MONTFORD / CHLOË TAYLOR
    The fields of Critical Disability Studies and Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect? Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies explores some of the ways that the oppression of more-than-human animals and disabled humans are interconnected. Composed of thirteen chapters by an internatio...

    $1,099.00

  • ANALOG SYNTHESIZERS: UNDERSTANDING, PERFORMING, BUYING
    MARK JENKINS
    Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog, the analog synthesizer sound, riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis, has now become more popular than ever. Analog Synthesizers charts the technology, instruments, designers, and musicians associated with its three major historical phases: invention in the 1960s–1970s a...

    $1,199.00

  • ANALOG SYNTHESIZERS: UNDERSTANDING, PERFORMING, BUYING
    MARK JENKINS
    Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog, the analog synthesizer sound, riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis, has now become more popular than ever. Analog Synthesizers charts the technology, instruments, designers, and musicians associated with its three major historical phases: invention in the 1960s–1970s a...

    $1,239.00

  • LONDON'S TRANSPORT RECALLED
    MARTIN JENKINS / CHARLES ROBERTS
    A portrait of midcentury London and its trams, trains, trolleybuses, ferries, and more, filled with color photos from 1948-1969.   The rich variety of transport in the London area is reflected in this color album from Martin Jenkins and Charles Roberts. Using mainly previously unpublished color views from the period 1948-1969, they have assembled a remarkable array of views cov...

    $229.00

  • IN GOOD FAITH
    MARIE PARKER-JENKINS / DIMITRA HARTAS / BARRIE A. IRVING
    First published in 2005, this timely volume challenges those who see faith schools as contributing positively to the well-being of society and responding to parent choice to think through the implications of September 11 for our multi-ethnic and multi-faith society without taking a position on the ultimate necessity of faith schools. The authors conducted research in several fa...

    $859.00

  • TEACHING THE BEATLES
    PAUL O JENKINS
    Teaching the Beatles is designed to provide ideas for instructors who teach the music of the Beatles. Experienced contributors describe varied approaches to effectively convey the group’s characteristics and lasting importance. Some of these include: treating the Beatles’ lyrics as poetry; their influence on the world of art, film, fashion and spirituality; the group’s impact o...

    $1,099.00

  • GENDER, PLACE AND THE LABOUR MARKET
    SARAH JENKINS
    Although research on the labour market has remained central to the development of work on gender in geography, there has been an absence of texts on the importance of space in relation to employment. This volume explores the geography of women's participation in the UK labour market and centres on the importance of work-home interdependencies and factors which both influence wo...

    $1,059.00

  • COLLABORATION IN PUBLIC SERVICES
    BILL JENKINS
    The International Group for Policy and Program Evaluation (INTEVAL) serves as a forum for scholars and practitioners of public policy to discuss ideas and developments as a community dedicated to enhancing the contribution of evaluation to government. From the group's studies has emerged a concern with the impact of public management reforms. Collaboration in Public Services ex...

    $1,139.00

  • NICE FISH
    MARK RYLANCE / LOUIS JENKINS
    “A quirky charmer of a play [that] contains, beneath its homely surfaces, larger meanings that glide softly into your mind and heart.”—The New York Times (Critics’ Pick) On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It’s the end of the fishing season and on the frostbitten, unforgiving landscape, two friends are out on the ice, angling for something big, ...

    $229.00

  • COMMAND AND CONTROL: THE SOCIOTECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE
    GUY H WALKER / NEVILLE A. STANTON / DANIEL P. JENKINS
    Military command and control is not merely evolving, it is co-evolving. Technology is creating new opportunities for different types of command and control, and new types of command and control are creating new aspirations for technology. The question is how to manage this process, how to achieve a jointly optimised blend of socio and technical and create the kind of agility an...

    $1,399.00

  • HUMAN FACTORS METHODS AND ACCIDENT ANALYSIS
    PAUL M. SALMON / NEVILLE A. STANTON / MICHAEL LENNÉ / DANIEL P. JENKINS / LAURA RAFFERTY / GUY H. WALKER
    This book provides an overview of, and practical guidance on, the range of human factors (HF) methods that can be used for the purposes of accident analysis and investigation in complex sociotechnical systems. Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis begins with an overview of different accident causation models and an introduction to the concepts of accident analysis and in...

    $1,339.00

  • COGNITIVE WORK ANALYSIS: COPING WITH COMPLEXITY
    DANIEL P. JENKINS / NEVILLE A. STANTON / GUY H. WALKER
    'Complex sociotechnical systems' are systems made up of numerous interacting parts, both human and non-human, operating in dynamic, ambiguous and safety critical domains. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of these complex socio-technical systems. Unlike many human factors approaches, CWA d...

    $1,399.00

  • HUMAN FACTORS METHODS
    NEVILLE A. STANTON / PAUL M. SALMON / LAURA A. RAFFERTY / GUY H. WALKER / CHRIS BABER / DANIEL P. JENKINS
    This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods as well as numerous refinements to those that featured in the original. The book has been carefully designed to act as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both students and practitioners. The eleven sections represent the different categorie...

    $2,500.00

  • DISTRIBUTED SITUATION AWARENESS
    PAUL M. SALMON / NEVILLE A. STANTON / DANIEL P. JENKINS
    Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key commodity for teams working within military systems. 'Situation awareness' (SA) is the term that is used within human factors circles to describe the level of awareness that operators have of the situation that they are engaged in; it focuses on how operators develop and maintain a sufficient understanding of 'what i...

    $1,399.00

  • USING MURDER
    PHILIP JENKINS
    First published in 1994, this book investigates the social construction of serial homicide and assesses the concern that popular fears and stereotypes have exaggerated: the actual scale of multiple homcide. Jenkins has produced an innovative synthesis of approaches to social problem construction that includes an historical and social-scientific estimate of the objective scale o...

    $1,239.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF STANLEY MILGRAM'S OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY
    MARK GRIDLEY / WILLIAM J. JENKINS
    Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic sense of creative imagination – casting new light on social phenomena in the process. His 1974 study Obedience to Authority e...

    $179.00

  • WHILE SPRING AND SUMMER SANG: THOMAS BEECHAM AND THE MUSIC OF FREDERICK DELIUS
    LYNDON JENKINS
    Sir Thomas Beecham is often described as having 'championed' the music of Frederick Delius, and this is no exaggeration. From the moment he heard Delius's music as a young man, Beecham was captivated by its strange, romantic beauty, and its hold on him remained firm. During the next 50 years, he promoted Delius's music through a series of unrivalled performances, unearthing ear...

    $1,199.00


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