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  • A FIRST COURSE IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
    EBERHARD VOIT / MELISSA L. KEMP
    A First Course in Systems Biology, Third Edition is an introduction to the growing field of systems biology for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Its focus is the design and analysis of computational models and their applications to diverse biomedical phenomena, from simple networks and kinetics to complex pathway systems, signal transduction, personalized medicine...

    $2,000.00

  • NATURALISM AND ITS CHALLENGES
    GARY N. KEMP
    This volume features new essays on the application, justification, and role of naturalism in philosophical inquiry. It serves as an important update on current controversies about naturalism. The contributors include leading figures who have written on naturalism and its relevance to a wide range of issues across philosophical subdisciplines. The chapters discuss how naturalism...

    $1,240.00

  • CENSORSHIP AND THE PRESS, 1580-1720, VOLUME 1
    GEOFF KEMP / JASON MCELLIGOTT / CYNDIA SUSAN / JAMES RAVEN
    Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech. ...

    $1,480.00

  • PERSON-ENVIRONMENT PRACTICE
    SUSAN P. KEMP / JAMES K. WHITTAKER / ELIZABETH M. TRACY
    Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention. Despite the centrality of "person-environment" as a key construct in direct practice, the domain of environmental assessment/intervention has received relatively little systematic atten...

    $1,320.00

  • STRATEGIC PLANNING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
    ROGER KEMP
    This book shows how and why strategic planning is working in cities around the country. It illustrates how this technique enables a city to plan its future proactively and shows how local governments use it to solve current problems and make sure they continue to reach their goals. Using seventeen case studies from a diverse mix of cities, it outli ...

    $1,320.00

  • CENSORSHIP AND THE PRESS, 1580-1720, VOLUME 4
    GEOFF KEMP / JASON MCELLIGOTT / CYNDIA SUSAN / JAMES RAVEN
    Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech. ...

    $1,480.00

  • CENSORSHIP AND THE PRESS, 1580-1720, VOLUME 2
    GEOFF KEMP / JASON MCELLIGOTT / CYNDIA SUSAN / JAMES RAVEN
    Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech. ...

    $4,500.00

  • CENSORSHIP AND THE PRESS, 1580-1720, VOLUME 3
    GEOFF KEMP / JASON MCELLIGOTT / CYNDIA SUSAN / JAMES RAVEN
    Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech. ...

    $1,480.00

  • HOW FAR DOWN DOES THE ELEPHANT GO?
    HUGH P. KEMP
    Coming out of eight years teaching at a high school in Auckland, New Zealand, this book explores big questions that teenagers themselves generated in Christian Education classes and in a course called Theory of Knowledge in the International Baccalaureate Diploma. In thirty letters to his students, Hugh Kemp addresses their big questions, noting that many conversations are unfi...

    $249.00

  • WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE?
    GARY KEMP
    Philosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosophy. The ideas of some of the subject's great founding figures, such as Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, as well as of more recent figures such as Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, are central to a great many philosophical debates to this day and are widely st...

    $1,120.00

  • ACTIVISM AND THE DETENTION OF MIGRANTS
    TOM KEMP
    This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation. Focusing on the constitutive tensions and political generativity within the activist practices of the anti-detention movement, this book examines the distinction between representational and post-representational political sensibilities. Representational politic...

    $1,240.00

  • HOW TO BE A SCIENTIST
    ROSLYN A. KEMP / DEBORAH M. BROWN
    Many undergraduate students choose a science degree but are not aware of how science and research work in the real world. We explain the processes of collecting, sharing and, most importantly, critical analysis of scientific research, with a focus on the life sciences. This book explains how scientific research is conceived, carried out and analysed. It outlines how research fi...

    $1,100.00

  • SECURITY THROUGH COOPERATION
    WALTER A. KEMP
    This book makes the case for why cooperation is the key to security within and between states, and for dealing with complex threats and challenges to international peace and security. It argues that cooperation is not altruism or liberal internationalism, rather it is in the self-interest of states. Drawing on both theory and practice, it looks at how cooperation can be promote...

    $1,060.00

  • REASON, ACTION AND MORALITY
    JOHN KEMP
    Originally published in 1964, this book critically examines some philosophical theories of the relation between reason and morality, with particular reference to the writings of Cudworth, Locke, Clarke, Hume and Kant. It also discusses the ways in which conduct may be assessed or criticised, and of the extent to which these ways of assessment may amount to, or be connected with...

    $1,000.00

  • REASON AND CONVERSION IN KIERKEGAARD AND THE GERMAN IDEALISTS
    RYAN KEMP / CHRISTOPHER IACOVETTI
    In his late work Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Immanuel Kant struggles to answer a straightforward, yet surprisingly difficult, question: how is radical conversion—a complete reorientation of a person’s most deeply held values—possible? In this book, Ryan S. Kemp and Christopher Iacovetti examine how this question gets taken up by Kant’s philosophical heirs: Sc...

    $1,240.00

  • CRITICAL THINKING: A CONCISE GUIDE
    TRACY BOWELL / ROBERT COWAN / GARY KEMP
    We are frequently confronted with arguments. Arguments are attempts to persuade us – to influence our beliefs and actions – by giving us reasons to believe this or that. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide will equip students with the concepts and techniques used in the identification, analysis and assessment of arguments whatever the subject matter or context. Through precise a...

    $1,100.00

  • JOHN MARSTON'S THE WONDER OF WOMEN OR THE TRAGEDY OF SOPHONISBA
    WILLIAM KEMP
    Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full text of James Marston's The Wonder of Women, alongside critical and textual notes. Previously to this volume, Sophonisba had appeared in print five times, once independently and four times in collections of Marston's plays; the first edition is a quarto printed in 1606 by John Windet. ...

    $980.00

  • FILM ON VIDEO
    JONATHAN KEMP
    Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film is an accessible guide to making video captured on a camcorder, DSLR camera, smartphone, action camera or cinema camera look like it was shot on motion-picture celluloid film. Chapter by chapter, Jonathan Kemp introduces the reader to a key characteristic of celluloid film, explains the historical and practical rea...

    $1,160.00

  • DEATH, DYING, AND BEREAVEMENT IN A CHANGING WORLD
    ALAN R. KEMP
    In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with the denial of death in the human experience. Drawing from the work of Ernest Becker, Death, Dying, and Bereavement in a Changing World provides a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to the study of death, putting extra emph...

    $2,540.00

  • NEW TESTAMENT MICRO-ETHICS
    RAYMOND KEMP ANDERSON
    Anderson shows how Early Christians' faith took root in a multicultural world just as diverse and conflicted as our own. Their basic attitude turns out to have been one of astounding freedom--not a cultus of rules, but a matter of whole-hearted response; for they lived in conversation with the One whose love for all his wayward creatures is utterly tenacious. We find ourselves ...

    $355.00

  • ANCIENT EGYPT
    BARRY J. KEMP
    This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics, ranging across material culture, the mindset of its people, and social and economic factors. In this volume, Barry J. Kemp identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and exp...

    $1,240.00

  • TRANSCENDING ADDICTION
    RYAN KEMP
    Addiction is often thought about in terms of cause, be that brain chemistry, attachment patterns or cognitive schemas. But this does not allow an understanding of what addiction "is". It does not illuminate how addiction is lived. A phenomenology of addiction reveals that addiction is characterised by an intolerance of pain, a pursuit of pleasure, immediacy, technocratic soluti...

    $960.00

  • LIVE FIRE TRAINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
    DAVID CASEY / SUSAN SCHELL / MIKE KEMP / BRIAN KAZMIERZAK
    Live Fire Training: Principles and Practice to NFPA 1403, Second Edition provides a definitive guide on how to ensure safe and realistic live fire training for both students and instructors. ...

    $1,383.10

  • HANDBOOK OF METHODS IN AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
    PAUL F. KEMP, BARRY F. SHERR, EVELYN B. SHERR AND JONATHAN J. COLE
    Handbook of Methods in Aquatic Microbial Ecology is the first comprehensive compilation of 85 fundamental methods in modern aquatic microbial ecology. Each method is presented in a detailed, step-by-step format that allows readers to adopt new methods with little difficulty. The methods represent the state of the art, and many have become standard procedures in microbial resear...

    $1,800.00

  • VOICES AND VEILS
    ANNA KEMP
    "In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwoman-in-the-making or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic of France's relationship to those identified as its cultural others. But throughout these debates, and in spite of their scale and passion, one view has been glarin...

    $1,240.00

  • PENSIONS: CHALLENGES AND REFORMS
    EINAR OVERBYE / PETER A. KEMP
    Throughout the developed world, public and private pension schemes face major challenges that are creating irresistible pressures for reform. Major structural changes in Latin America and in Central and Eastern Europe have led to particularly fierce pressure. Two member states of the European Union - Italy and Sweden - have introduced radical reform of their public pensions sys...

    $640.00

  • WRITING THE MIND
    SIMON KEMP
    "My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking." – Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to Darrieussecq explores the works of seven ground-breaking thinkers and novelists of recent history to compare and contrast the varying representations of the conscious and the unconsc...

    $1,160.00

  • EXTRACTIVE RELATIONS
    JOHN R. OWEN / DEANNA KEMP
    Extractive Relations explores the nature of industrial power and its role in shaping what we understand to be the global mining sector. The authors examine issues at the forefront of contemporary debates: corporate obligations in safeguarding the rights of people displaced by mining, the recognition of community rights and interests in supporting or opposing mining developments...

    $1,480.00

  • DEFECTIVE INSPECTORS: CRIME-FICTION PASTICHE IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE
    SIMON KEMP
    Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth. In the first full-length study of the phenomenon, ...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO JACQUES LECOQ
    MARK EVANS AND RICK KEMP
    The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life, work and philosophy of theatre. Through an exemplary collection of specially commissioned chapters from leading writers, specialists and practitioners, it draws together writings and reflections on his pedagogy, his practice, and his influence on the wider theatrical envi...

    $1,420.00


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