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  • MARITIME AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
    NATALIE KLEIN
    Maritime autonomous vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to radically alter all uses of maritime space, with technology progressing faster than the law. This book explores the current international legal framework and the options available to regulate maritime security in the face of emerging technologies. MAVs are starting to play a role not only in policing and military securit...

    $1,240.00

  • MAN-MADE WOMEN
    GENA COREA / RENATE DUELLI KLEIN / JALNA HANMER / HELEN B. HOLMES / BETTY HOSKINS / MADHU KISHWAR / JANICE
    In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children. However, there was growing concern that the determination of scientists to dominate nature, their disregard for women’s well-being, and the financial gains to be made from these technologies would together result in the increased modification of all women...

    $840.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY
    FLEMING ALLEN CLAY PERRIN / DAVID BALLIN KLEIN
    First published in 1927, the original blurb of Psychology: Its Methods and Principles reads: "In this book psychology is presented as the science of adaptive behavior. The writers are convinced that the study of such behaviour provides a more effective introduction to psychological science than the study of consciousness as such. They are not committed, however, to the tenets o...

    $1,060.00

  • REVITALIZING MANUFACTURING
    JANICE A. KLEIN
    This casebook focuses on the introduction of change at the plant level. The cases look at implementing new technology, systems, and structures and what it takes to turn around "rust-belt" factories. The cases are action oriented and force students to make realistic decisions. The book is interdisciplinary, in that it integrated the social and technical aspects of change. ...

    $1,480.00

  • SPACE WARFARE
    JOHN J. KLEIN
    This book examines military space strategy within the context of the land and naval strategies of the past. This second edition has been updated and revised, with several new chapters included. The book examines competition and conflict in the space domain, including the methods used and sound counterstrategies to thwart a competitor’s efforts. Contrary to many spacepower pundi...

    $1,160.00

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VACCINATION
    OLIVIER KLEIN / VINCENT YZERBYT
    Why do some people choose to be vaccinated and others do not? What is the difference between vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccinism? What can social psychology tell us about attitudes towards vaccination? The Psychology of Vaccination identifies the social psychological drivers of vaccine mindsets, to explore why some people choose to be vaccinated, some are hesitant, and others ...

    $380.00

  • HOUSE OF 49 DOORS
    LAURIE KLEIN
    Fowler House, with its odd nooks, dicey wiring, and vast, unfinished attic playroom, shelters preteen Larkin. And yet, the house speaks of secrets no one else will. Wild creatures weigh in: a muskrat, fireflies, snails, a vesper bat. The menacing garfish. Troubled parents take on repairs: clanking radiators, crumbling plaster, and beloved Uncle Dunkel, finally home from the war...

    $249.00

  • SAMBA PERDIDO
    RICHARD S KLEIN
    Samba Perdido começa com o casal Rafael e Renée. Ele, um judeu do interior da Polônia, ensimesmado, que fugiu do Holocausto. O que lhe falta em sofisticação, sobra em Renée, inglesa, vinte anos mais jovem. Eles chegam de Londres no Rio de Janeiro na década de 1950.  Os filhos nascem no glamouroso bairro de Copacabana. Um deles será o autor do livro. Sua narrativa vai além de um...

    $67.00

  • THE MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS EDGE
    LISA M. KLEIN
    Teachers juggle a lot, so the ability to stay focused, calm, and mentally sharp is critical. This generous and heartfelt book shows you how meditation and mindfulness practices can enable you to not only survive but flourish in the classroom. Dr. Lisa Klein presents powerful findings on the effects of meditation on teachers. She reveals the positive effects that meditation had ...

    $660.00

  • WITHIN AND BEYOND CAPITALISM
    DIETER KLEIN
    This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a drive towards entry-level projects aimed at a great transformation beyond capita...

    $1,240.00

  • POLITICAL POSTMODERNISMS
    LIDIA KLEIN
    Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and history. It focuses specifically on postmodern architecture, which is traditionally understood as embodying the flippant and apolitical aesthetics of capitalist affluence. By investigating postmodern architecture’s manifestations in ...

    $1,060.00

  • STREET COP
    GEORGE KLEIN
    This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for today’s law enforcement officers. Author George C. Klein, sociologist and former police officer, explores the characteristics of policing in a suburb outside of large Midwestern city in the United States. As a participant-observation fieldworker, he f...

    $1,100.00

  • THE RELIGION OF ISLAM
    F. A. KLEIN
    The book, first published in 1906, outlines the religious, ceremonial, civil and moral laws and regulations of Islam. The four sources from which the doctrines and precepts of Islam are founded are the Quran, the Sunna, the Ijma and the Qias. This title also interprets the principles of the four sources in respect to ‘ilm, or positive knowledge, and fiqh, or understanding. It i...

    $780.00

  • CITIZENSHIP AFTER TRUMP
    BRADLEY S. KLEIN / SCOTT G. NELSON
    In Citizenship After Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense political polarization, the surge of far-right nationalism and deepening divisions during the coronavirus pandemic. With both Trumpism and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic greatly testing American democracy, the authors examine the poli...

    $1,120.00

  • INSTITUTIONALIZING INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
    BIANCA VIENNI BAPTISTA AND JULIE THOMPSON KLEIN
    Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity fills a gap in the current literature by systematizing and comparing a wide international scope of case studies illustrating varied ways of institutionalizing theory and practice. This collection comprises three parts. After an introduction of overall themes, Part I presents case studies on institutionalizing. Part ...

    $1,100.00

  • POETICS AND POLITICS OF RELATIONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL FICTION
    DOROTHEE KLEIN
    This is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to relationality by Aboriginal thinkers, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and recent work in New Formalism and narrative theory, the book illustrates how they use a broad ra...

    $1,100.00

  • NEW UNDERSTANDINGS OF TWIN RELATIONSHIPS
    BARBARA KLEIN / STEPHEN A. HART / JACQUELINE M. MARTINEZ
    New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined personal relationships. Based on the research expertise of each of the authors (all identical twins in their own right), and vignettes from twins across the globe, this book describes th...

    $1,100.00

  • SOIL RECLAMATION PROCESSES MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSES AND APPLICATIONS
    ROBERT L. TATE / DONALD A. KLEIN
    This book provides an assessment of the understanding of soil microbiology and biochemistry as part of reclamation processes. It attempts to assemble more specialized literature on reclamation, where application of microbiological concepts has provided the understanding of the process. ...

    $8,400.00

  • MEDICINA DE URGENCIAS. PRÁCTICA CLÍNICA BASADA EN EVIDENCIA
    PHILLIP M STEPHENS / GINA STEPHENS / JEFF KLEIN
    La medicina basada en la evidencia es la integración de la mejor referencia científica conocida con la experiencia clínica. Siempre es un reto crear un puente que reduzca la brecha entre la más reciente investigación y la aplicación clínica. Este es el objetivo de la 1.ª edición de Medicina de urgencias.En un formato portable y con una estructura de fácil uso, esta obra proporc...

    $622.00

  • THE KHAT CONTROVERSY
    DAVID ANDERSON / SUSAN BECKERLEG / DEGOL HAILU / AXEL KLEIN
    Khat. A harmless natural stimulant or a lethal epidemic sweeping through the international drugs trade? Khat is a natural substance that, in the Middle East, is as ubiquitous as coffee is in the West. It is hugely popular in some African and Arab populations. But critics contend that it is a seriously addictive stimulant that damages the cardiovascular system. In a groundbreaki...

    $920.00

  • FISHING FOR HERITAGE
    JANE NADEL-KLEIN
    Castles, lochs, seascapes. Coastal Scotland is one of the world's most romanticized tourist destinations, yet it is in the midst of severe economic decline. The North Atlantic fisheries crisis has hit Scottish communities hard and local fisherfolk are faced with chronic insecurity, anxiety over the decline of fishing and doubts about their cultural survival. The decline of this...

    $1,100.00

  • TALES FROM THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
    GIL KLEIN
    A behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the White House Correspondents' Dinner—and the news-breakers and newsmakers who've been part of it.   Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the National Press Club has been the hub of Washington journalism. Started by reporters as a watering hole for late-night card games, the Club soon attracted not only icons from...

    $251.00

  • A WOMAN'S ODYSSEY INTO AFRICA
    HANNY LIGHTFOOT KLEIN / ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM
    Here is the intriguing story of one woman’s mid-life flight from her stultified, middle-class, psychologically crippling, and unfulfilled existence into a world of high adventure, danger, hardship, and endurance, which ultimately leads her to autonomy and recognition. In her new book, A Woman’s Odyssey Into Africa, Hanny Lightfoot-Klein chronicles three year-long solo backpacki...

    $780.00

  • PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY, STRESS, AND INFECTION
    HERMAN FRIEDMAN / THOMAS W. KLEIN / ANDREA L. FRIEDMAN
    Psychoneuroimmunology is the emerging science devoted to studying the two-way relationship between the nervous and immune systems. Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection highlights the latest information concerning microbial infections in both man and animals as related to stress and especially stress hormones.The volume focuses on psychoneuroimmunology as it impacts the ...

    $11,100.00

  • SCIENCE EDUCATION IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
    MARGRETE SIEBERT KLEIN / F. JAMES RUTHERFORD / F JAMES RUTHERFORD / MARGRETE S. KLEIN
    The decline in the quality of American public school instruction, particularly in science and mathematics, is a well-documented subject of concern for our nation. This book examines the educational systems in Japan, the People's Republic of China, East and West Germany, and the Soviet Union, countries that have developed particularly innovative app ...

    $1,360.00

  • ANALYSING MODERN BUSINESS CYCLES
    PHILIP A. KLEIN
    This "Festschrift" honours Geoffrey H. Moore's life-long contribution to the study of business cycles. After some analysts had concluded that business cycles were dead, renewed economic turbulence in the 1970s and 1980s brought new life to the subject. The study of business cycles now encompasses the global economic system, and this work aims to push back the frontiers of knowl...

    $4,900.00

  • UNDERSTANDING SPACE STRATEGY
    JOHN J. KLEIN
    This book examines the rise of great power competition in space, including the relevant and practical space strategies for China, Russia, the United States, and other countries. The work discusses the concepts and writings of past strategists, such as Thucydides, Sun Tzu, and Clausewitz, in relation to warfare initiated in or extending into space. This analysis underscores why ...

    $1,260.00

  • CONTEMPORARY LEARNING THEORIES
    STEPHEN B. KLEIN AND ROBERT R. MOWRER
    This unique two-volume set provides detailed coverage of contemporary learning theory. Uniting leading experts in modern behavioral theory, these texts give students a complete view of the field. Volume I details the complexities of Pavlovian conditioning and describes the current status of traditional learning theories. Volume II discusses several important facets of instrumen...

    $1,400.00

  • NEVER TOO LATE
    REBECCA KLEIN-COLLINS
    A smart, snappy, and comprehensive guide for the millions of adults who are thinking about going—or going back—to college and want to know how to do it right As anyone who has done it knows, going back to school is a major undertaking. For younger and older adults alike, starting or returning to school presents different challenges than those encountered by teens fresh out of h...

    $355.00

  • UX FOR LEAN STARTUPS
    LAURA KLEIN
    p>Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes...

    $347.00


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