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  • THE HUMACHINE
    NADA R. SANDERS / JOHN D. WOOD
    Updated for a post-Covid world, the second edition of this groundbreaking book explains why becoming a Humachine enterprise is the only way forward for a company to maintain a competitive advantage in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). The first edition of The Humachine offered a foundation for a new form of enterprise, integrating AI technology and human resources to opt...

    $920.00

  • THE UNCIVILIZED RACES OF MEN IN ALL COUTRIES OF THE WORLD, VOL. 2
    JOHN G. WOOD
    Excerpt: "In this volume will be found a selection of the most interesting uncivilized tribes that inhabit, or once inhabited, America and the vast number of islands which lie between that country and the eastern coast of Asia, including among them the great groups of Australia and New Zealand. A short notice is given of the long-perished Lake-dwellers of Switzerland, and the p...

    $39.70

  • THE UNCIVILIZED RACES OF MEN IN ALL COUTRIES OF THE WORLD, VOL. 1
    JOHN G. WOOD
    Excerpt: "This work is simply, as the title-page states, an account of the manners and customs of uncivilized races of men in all parts of the world. Many travellers have given accounts, scattered rather at random through their books, of the habits and modes of life exhibited by the various people among whom they have travelled. These notices, however, are distributed through a...

    $39.70

  • METADESIGNING DESIGNING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
    JOHN WOOD
    Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles and methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and reinvent their practices. The book reminds readers that designers are, albeit unwittingly, helping to shape the Anthropocene. Despite their willingness to deliver greener products and service...

    $1,160.00

  • STATE POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA
    JOHN R WOOD
    This volume grew out of a panel on Indian state politics presented at the thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 1984. Brass, Kohli, Manor and Wood gave papers and Church served as discussant; subsequently, Blair, who chaired the panel, and Lele and Varkey generously offered to participate as well. All of the papers we...

    $1,060.00

  • THE SEX INDUSTRY: A SURVEY OF SEX WORKERS IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
    FRANCES BOYLE / SHIRLEY GLENNON / JAKE M. NAJMAN / GAVIN TURRELL / JOHN S. WESTERN / CAROLE WOOD
    First published in 1997, this study reports on a study of 221 sex workers in Queensland, Australia. The workers were interviewed by an interviewer with experience in the industry. They were asked a variety of questions relating to how they came to enter the industry, their knowledge of and attitudes towards safe sex, and a variety of other questions to do with lifestyle, servic...

    $980.00

  • DESIGN FOR MICRO-UTOPIAS
    JOHN WOOD
    Everyone is already painfully aware of our predicament - ecological extinctions, dwindling fossil fuel reserves and economic chaos. The solutions are less obvious, despite the many opportunities that surround us. We have never had more access to resources, knowledge and technology but this is not the problem. What we lack most is creative thinking, fuelled by collective optimis...

    $1,460.00

  • BRITISH ECONOMISTS AND THE EMPIRE
    JOHN CUNNINGHAM WOOD
    This study, first published in 1983, is primarily concerned with what the British economists over the period 1860 to 1914 wrote on a range of economic and non-economic aspects of the British Empire, and the reasons for their conclusions. The attempt is also made to correct the view that mainstream British economists after 1860 were antithetical to the concept of empire. This ti...

    $500.00

  • CENTRAL BANKING IN A DEMOCRACY
    JOHN WOOD
    The Federal Reserve System, which has been Congress’s agent for the control of money since 1913, has a mixed reputation. Its errors have been huge. It was the principal cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the inflation of the 1970s, and participated in the massive bailouts of financial institutions at taxpayers' expense during the recent Great Recession. This book is...

    $1,200.00

  • SUPPORTING STUDENT TRANSITIONS 14-19
    JOHN BOSTOCK / JANE WOOD
    Supporting Student Transitions 14-19 offers transition focused approaches to planning, teaching, learning and assessment designed to meet the needs of these unique learners. Drawing upon the latest research and theory, as well as the authors’ extensive experience in the field, it examines in detail transitions in teaching and learning in this complex sector. Drawing out and cri...

    $1,100.00

  • SUCCESSFUL TEACHING PRACTICE IN THE LIFELONG LEARNING SECTOR
    VICKY DUCKWORTH / JANE WOOD / JOHN BOSTOCK / JOHN DICKINSON
    This book provides clear guidance on how to approach initial teaching experience, how to plan effective sessions, how to work well with your mentor and how to make the most out of your new career. Through focusing on the real-life experiences of both in-service and pre-service trainee teachers, it offers the opportunity to reflect on and learn from an array of diverse teaching ...

    $1,207.14

  • A HISTORY OF MACROECONOMIC POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES
    JOHN H. WOOD
    This book examines the controlling influences that drive macroeconomic policies in the United States. It addresses the history of the interests, ideas, and practices of monetary and fiscal policies in the United States. ...

    $1,560.00

  • THE VIRTUAL EMBODIED
    JOHN WOOD
    The Virtual Embodied is intended to inform, provoke and delight. It explores the ideas of embodiment, knowledge, space, virtue and virtuality to address fundamental questions about technology and human presence. It juxtaposes cutting-edge theories, polemics, and creative practices to uncover ethical, aesthetic and ecological implications of why, how and in particular where, hum...

    $1,200.00

  • PRACTICING PEACE
    MICHAEL JOHN WOOD
    This book is about the practice of peace in daily life. Although most of us want peace, we often struggle to live it. Someone annoys us and we find ourselves in a vortex of conflict. When we care deeply about something it can be easy to burn relationships if we encounter people whose values differ from ours. We may ask ourselves, “How can we make a positive difference in the wo...

    $621.00

  • DESIGN TO VALUE
    MARK BRYDEN / JOHN DYSON / JAIMIE JOHNSTON / MARTIN WOOD
    What opportunities does Design to Value afford the built environment? Design to Value is a commitment to process above all else. Well understood and applied in the manufacturing industries, its potential is only now starting to be realised in architecture, engineering and construction. It challenges designers to lead the way in creating more innovative and stakeholder-centric a...

    $1,259.00

  • QUALITY ASSURANCE AND EVALUATION IN THE LIFELONG LEARNING SECTOR
    JOHN DICKINSON / JANE WOOD
    All trainee teachers working towards ATLS or QTLS are accountable for the quality of their work, the delivery of their lessons and the success of their students. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the sector′s challenging quality agenda and focuses on the reality of teaching and managing under pressure. It begins by asking what is meant by ′quality′, and goes on to gi...

    $1,207.14

  • HANDBOOK OF LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
    MOKHATAB, SAEID / MAK, JOHN Y. / VALAPPIL, JALEEL V. / WOOD, DAVID A.
    Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a commercially attractive phase of the commodity that facilitates the efficient handling and transportation of natural gas around the world. The LNG industry, using technologies proven over decades of development, continues to expand its markets, diversify its supply chains and increase its share of the global natural gas trade. The Handbook of Li...

    $1,144.00