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  • CASES AND MATERIALS ON SALE OF GOODS
    JOHN ADAMS
    This book, first published in 1982, focuses on a specific area of commercial law: the Sale of Goods Act. The book contains key cases and statutes relating to the sale of goods, each prefaced by a contextualising introduction. Notes and questions are also included, as are the full texts of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and the relevant parts of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. ...

    $920.00

  • TRANSPORT PLANNING
    JOHN ADAMS
    Originally published in 1981, this volume provides a systematic and detailed critique of the practice of transport planning. It shows how past transport policies blighted cities, suburbs and countryside alike, led to increased death and injury on the roads and offered the whole of the motorized world as a hostage to the oil-producing countries. The book urges us all to consider...

    $920.00

  • EXPORTS, POLITICS, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    JOHN Q ADAMS
    During the 1970s, Pakistan's export policies went through two major transformations as a result of realignments among its internal interest groups, bringing about significant changes in export composition and performance. As leader of a coalition of labor, small business, and other mass interests, President Z. A. Bhutto supported a more equitable d ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2016
    KAREN JOY FOWLER / JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS
    From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and...

    $272.99

  • RED MEDICINE
    ARTHUR NEWSHOLME / JOHN ADAMS KINGSBURY
    Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia reviews the medical organization and administration in Soviet Russia. This book is organized into 24 chapters that particularly tackle the city of Moscow and Leningrad. It addresses the travels of the authors from Moscow to Georgia and the Crimea, providing an overview of the background of Russian life. Some of the topics covere...

    $970.00

  • GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETRY OF ROCKS
    JOHN A. S. ADAMS / PAOLO GASPARINI
    Gamma-Ray Spectrometry of Rocks: Methods in Geochemistry and Geophysics provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of the gamma-ray spectrometry of rocks. This book discusses the increasing interest in using gamma spectrometry in the search for uranium ore. Organized into seven chapters, this book begins with an overview of the approximate frequency and wave len...

    $970.00

  • THE PLACE WHERE YOU GO TO LISTEN
    JOHN LUTHER ADAMS
    Did Alaska create the music of John Luther Adams, or did the music create his Alaska? For the past thirty years, the vastness of Alaska has swept through the distant reaches of the composer's imagination and every corner of his compositions. In this new book Adams proposes an ideal of musical ecology, the philosophical foundation on which his largest, most complex musical work ...

    $274.00

  • YOU AND YOUR DEAF CHILD
    JOHN ADAMS
    You and Your Deaf Child is a guide for parents of deaf or hard of hearing children that explores how parents and their children interact. It examines the special impact of having a deaf child in the family.        Eleven chapters focus on such topics as feelings about hearing loss, the importance of communication in the family, and effective behavior management. Many chapters c...

    $573.03

  • RISK
    JOHN ADAMS
    Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road is straightened. Cultural theory explains ...

    $1,320.00

  • VITAMIN D: TWO-VOLUME SET
    FELDMAN, DAVID / PIKE, J. WESLEY / ADAMS, JOHN S.
    Vitamin D, a steroid hormone, has mainly been known for its effects on bone and osteoporosis. The current therapeutic practices expand into such markets as cancer research, pediatrics, nephrology, dermatology, immunology, and genetics. This 3e includes over 100 chapters covering everything from chemistry and metabolism to mechanisms of action, diagnosis and management, new anal...

    $5,085.00

  • BUILD YOUR OWN HOME THEATER
    WOLENIK, ROBERT / ADAMS, JOHN
    Written to provide information on all price ranges of equipment to everyone from the beginner to the experienced home theater owner, Build Your Own Home Theater has been completely updated for today's audience. This new edition contains valuable consumer information on the latest digital home theater components and technology, including digital surround sound receivers, DVD pla...

    $623.00

  • SOBOLEV SPACES
    ADAMS, ROBERT A. / FOURNIER, JOHN J. F.
    Sobolev Spaces presents an introduction to the theory of Sobolev Spaces and other related spaces of function, also to the imbedding characteristics of these spaces. This theory is widely used in pure and Applied Mathematics and in the Physical Sciences.This second edition of Adam's 'classic' reference text contains many additions and much modernizing and refining of material. T...

    $1,907.00

  • COMMINGLED HUMAN REMAINS: METHODS IN RECOVERY, ANALYSIS, AND IDENTIFICATION
    ADAMS, BRADLEY / BYRD, JOHN
    Commingled Human Remains: Methods in Recovery, Analysis, and Identification brings together tools from diverse sources within the forensic science community to offer a set of comprehensive approaches to resolving issues associated with commingled remains. This edition focuses on forensic situations, although some examples from prehistoric contexts are also addressed. Comminglin...

    $890.00

  • THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2019
    JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS
    This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year. By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beast...

    $291.99

  • THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2018
    JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS
    Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and f...

    $291.99

  • ETHICS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
    MARILYN MCCORD ADAMS / JOHN HARE / LINDA ZAGZEBSKI / LAURA GARCIA / BRUCE RUSSELL / STEPHEN J. WYKSTRA / S
    Provocative essays that seek "to turn the attention of analytic philosophy of religion on the problem of evil . . . towards advances in ethical theory" ( Reading Religion).   The contributors to this book—Marilyn McCord Adams, John Hare, Linda Zagzebski, Laura Garcia, Bruce Russell, Stephen Wykstra, and Stephen Maitzen—attended two University of Notre Dame conferences in which ...

    $251.00

  • GENERAL JACOB DEVERS
    JOHN A. ADAMS
    A "solid and informative" biography of one of the overlooked heroes of the Second World War ( Wall Street Journal).   Of the leaders of the American Army in World War II, Jacob Devers is undoubtedly the "forgotten four-star." Plucked from relative obscurity in the Canal Zone, Devers was one of four generals selected by General of the Army George Marshall in 1941 to assist him i...

    $229.00

  • THIS IS NPR
    COKIE ROBERTS / SUSAN STAMBERG / NOAH ADAMS / JOHN YDSTIE / RENÉE MONTAGNE / ARI SHAPIRO / DAVID FOLKENFLI
    A celebration of National Public Radio "full of short histories from familiar names . . . [a] retrospective illustrating just how much they have given us" ( Publishers Weekly). "Always put the listener first" has been NPR's mantra since its inception in 1970, and the result is that its programming attracts tens of millions of listeners every week. This beautifully designed volu...

    $251.00

  • ZOMBIES 2
    JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS
    En 2009, los lectores devoraron Zombies. Publishers Weekly la incluyó en su lista de los mejores libros del año y Barnes & Noble. com dijo de ella que era «la mejor antología de relatos de zombies de todos los tiempos». Ahora, John Joseph Adams vuelve para ofrecernos una segunda ración de terror con 43 escalofriantes e impactantes relatos sobre zombies, que incluyen historias d...
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    $336.00

  • A FORCE FOR NATURE
    JOHN H. ADAMS / PATRICIA ADAMS / GEORGE BLACK
    The pioneering environmental activist recounts his decades-long fight for our planet through the NDRC—with a foreword by Robert Redford. In 1970, John H. Adams was fed up with the levels of pollution in New York City. How could he raise children in a place where layers of soot covered the windows? Working as a lawyer for the U.S. Attorney's office, he and fellow lawyers teamed ...

    $251.00

  • QUILT COLOUR WORKSHOP
    TACHA BRUECHER / BRIONI GREENBERG / LYNNE GOLDSWORTHY / JOHN ADAMS
    Fat Quarterly e-zine members share the secrets of using color in your quilting successfully. Discover more about color theory and how to use it in the context of quilting, then apply this theory to practical projects, from quilts and cushions, to wall hangings, table runners and bags. Features 6-color-themed sections with block ideas for every color theory combination offers pl...

    $229.00