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  • THE NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH IN SCHOOLS
    JOHN R. BURNS
    Responding to the rise in challenges to the mental health of young people, this book provides schoolteachers with the essential skills required to recognise emotional distress in their students, and more importantly, empowers them to make a genuine difference. Teachers have unintentionally become the ‘first responders’ for distressed youth in their schools, but they cannot be e...

    $820.00

  • SUSTAINING ACTION RESEARCH
    ANNE BURNS / EMILY EDWARDS / NEVILLE JOHN ELLIS
    This book is a practical guide for English language teachers and teacher educators seeking to carry out and promote teacher action research within their institutional context. Based on contemporary theory and a reflexive and social approach to teacher professional development and learning, it offers readers structured methodologies and concepts, wide-ranging hands-on activity s...

    $1,120.00

  • THE QUARREL BETWEEN POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY
    JOHN BURNS / MATTHEW FLAMM / WILLIAM GAHAN / STEPHANIE QUINN
    The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of the quarrel in question. The authors share the view t...

    $640.00

  • THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY'S NOMENKLATURA SYSTEM
    JOHN P. BURNS
    The term “nomenklatura’’ means “nomenclature,’’ “a list of positions, arranged in order of seniority, including a description of the duties of each office. Perhaps the major instrument of Communist Party control of contemporary China’s political, economic, social, and cultural institutions is the nomenklatura system. The system consists of lists of leading positions, over which...

    $1,240.00

  • ECOLOGICAL INTERFACE DESIGN
    CATHERINE M. BURNS / JOHN HAJDUKIEWICZ
    Ecological Interface Design delivers the techniques and examples that provide you with a foundation to succeed in designing advanced display graphics. The opening chapters introduce the "art" of interface design by exposing the analytical methods behind designs, the most common graphical forms, and how these methods and forms are pulled together to create a complete design.The ...

    $1,900.00

  • POLICY CONFLICTS IN POST-MAO CHINA: A DOCUMENTARY SURVEY WITH ANALYSIS
    JOHN P. BURNS / STANLEY ROSEN
    This is a collection of essays exploring the deep-rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges dam project that the Chinese government are trying to disguise or supress, brought together by Dai Qing, an investigative journalist, at the risk of her own freedom. ...

    $1,320.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS AND CONTROL WITH MODERN APPLICATIONS
    JOHN A. BURNS
    Introduction to the Calculus of Variations and Control with Modern Applications provides the fundamental background required to develop rigorous necessary conditions that are the starting points for theoretical and numerical approaches to modern variational calculus and control problems. The book also presents some classical sufficient conditions a ...

    $1,800.00

  • ACTIVE SHOOTER EVENTS AND RESPONSE
    JOHN P. BLAIR / TERRY NICHOLS / DAVID BURNS / JOHN R. CURNUTT
    The Columbine tragedy on April 20, 1999 began a new era in law enforcement as it became apparent that the police response to such mass shootings must be drastically altered. By the time the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, outdated police response strategies had been replaced with new, aggressive tactics used by ...

    $3,800.00

  • BEHIND THE THISTLE
    DAVID BARNES / PETER BURNS / JOHN GRIFFITHS
    A rugby history based on exclusive interviews that "takes the reader as close to the action as it is possible to get, short of invading the pitch" ( The Scotsman). Based on exclusive interviews with players past and present, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of representing Scotland in that most rarefied of environments—Test match rugby. Drawi...

    $229.00

  • HOME FRONT
    PETER JOHN BROWNLEE / SARAH BURNS / DIANE DILLON / DANIEL GREENE / SCOTT MANNING STEVENS
    More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as a battle over the future of slavery, often focusing on Lincoln’s determination to save the Union, or highlighting the brutality o...

    $663.99