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  • GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
    STEVEN L. KRAMER / JONATHAN P. STEWART
    This fully updated second edition provides an introduction to geotechnical earthquake engineering for first-year graduate students in geotechnical or earthquake engineering graduate programs with a level of detail that will also be useful for more advanced students as well as researchers and practitioners. It begins with an introduction to seismology and earthquake ground motio...

    $3,000.00

  • WHAT IN THE WORLD IS MUSIC?
    ALISON E. ARNOLD / JONATHAN C. KRAMER
    What in the World is Music? Second Edition is an undergraduate, interactive e-textbook that explores the shared ways people engage with music and how humans organize and experience sound. It adopts a global approach, featuring more than 300 streaming videos and 50 streaming audio tracks of music from around the world. Drawing from both musicological and ethnomusicological modes...

    $2,300.00

  • AMERICAN GRAFFITI
    PETER KRÄMER
    Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches, this book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose only previous feature had been a box office flop, became one of the highest grossing and most highly acclaimed films of all time in the United States, and one of the key expressions ...

    $540.00

  • BRITAIN AND IRELAND
    JÜRGEN KRAMER
    Britain and Ireland recounts the history of the two states – the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (Éire) – and four nations – the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish and the English – from prehistory to the present. Chapters are organised chronologically starting in 4000 BCE, coming through the Roman occupation, the Reformation, the In...

    $1,040.00

  • IMPROVISED THEATRE AND THE AUTISM SPECTRUM
    GARY KRAMER / RICHIE PLOESCH
    This guide provides educators, professionals, and parents with an easy-to-follow and comprehensive approach to utilizing improvised theatre as a tool to teach social and communication skills to individuals on the autism spectrum. Opening with the philosophy of the curriculum and the considerations of mental health, play, and environmental factors on individuals with autism, the...

    $960.00

  • CANCER SCREENING
    BARNETT S. KRAMER / JOHN K. GOHAGAN / PHILIP C. PROROK
    This useful reference provides solid knowledge of the risks and benefits associated with the cancer screening process, assesses abnormal results and therapeutic outcomes, and facilitates the communication of these issues to patients.Describes screening tests from individual, health care, ethical, legal, and regulatory perpectives!Gatherin ...

    $8,400.00

  • CONTACT, CONQUEST AND COLONIZATION
    ELEONORA ROHLAND / ANGELIKA EPPLE / ANTJE FLÜCHTER / KIRSTEN KRAMER
    Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relations at different points in time and around the globe. Whenever there was cultural contact in the context of European colonization and empire-building, historical records teem with ...

    $1,160.00

  • STATISTICAL METHODS FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
    FILMORE E BENDER / LARRY W DOUGLAS / DIANA S KRAMER
    This classic book will meet the needs of food and agricultural industries in both their research and business needs. Learn the fundamentals of applying statistics to the business and research needs in the food and agricultural industries. Statistical Methods for Food and Agriculture is a practical, hands-on resource that explores how statistics, a relatively recent development ...

    $1,600.00

  • ADULT EDUCATION TEACHERS
    REBECCA ROGERS / MARY ANN KRAMER
    This book examines the literacy practices of exemplary adult education teachers working within critical literacy frameworks. It provides an in-depth look at the complexity of adult literacy education through the lenses of these teachers. An understanding of this complexity helps teachers design literacy practices in classrooms on a daily basis. This is an important book for the...

    $1,540.00

  • UNITED ARTISTS
    PETER KRÄMER
    Established in 1919 by Hollywood's top talent United Artists has had an illustrious history, from Hollywood minor to industry leader to a second-tier media company in the shadow of MGM. This edited collection brings together leading film historians to examine key aspects of United Artists' centennial history from its origins to the sometimes chaotic developments of the last fou...

    $1,120.00

  • THE JEWS OF EGYPT
    MAURICE MIZRAHI / GUDRUN KRAMER / SHIMON SHAMIR / THOMAS MAYER
    The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who traced their origins to the periods of Maimonides, Philo, and even the prophet Jeremiah, thus making it the oldest community in the Jewish Diaspora. It also contained Jews who were part of the waves of immigration into Egypt that began in the second half of the ...

    $1,040.00

  • PRIVATIZATION IN FOUR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
    RALPH M. KRAMER
    This book has a dual focus: on how four countries use voluntary non-profit organizations to provide services to the physically, mentally, and sensorially handicapped; and on the changing role of the voluntary, or "third," sector in welfare states. At the same time, it is also a comparative study of privatization in the special sense of using nongovernmental organizations to imp...

    $5,100.00

  • SOCIALISM IN WESTERN EUROPE
    STEVEN PHILIP KRAMER
    This is a book about what it meant to be a socialist in Western Europe for the generation which came to maturity after World War I. It attempts to capture the subjective aspect of the socialist experience through interviews conducted with socialist leaders who held a significant place in the movement from the 1930s on. ...

    $1,060.00

  • SHI'ISM, RESISTANCE, AND REVOLUTION
    MARTIN KRAMER / SHAUL BAKHASH / CLINTON BAILEY / MICHAEL M J FISCHER
    The recent revival of interest in the Muslim world has generated numerous studies of modern Islam, most of them focusing on the Sunni majority. Shi'ism, an often stigmatized minority branch of Islam, has been discussed mainly in connection with Iran. Yet Shi'i movements have been extraordinarily effective in creating political strategies that have ...

    $1,200.00

  • STATE CAPITAL AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
    DANIEL C. KRAMER
    To what extent can governments supplement private venture capitalists and stimulate the economy by providing money to new entrepreneurs as well as existing enterprises? The UK’s National Enterprise Board (NEB) attempted to do just this, and whilst it gained most publicity through its efforts to bail out ailing giants such as British Leyland and Rolls Royce Aerospace, much of it...

    $1,000.00

  • WALT WHITMAN AND MODERN MUSIC
    LAWRENCE KRAMER
    Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and political. The contributors pay careful attention ...

    $860.00

  • THE CORPORATE TRIBE
    DANIELLE BRAUN / JITSKE KRAMER
    No challenge is entirely new. In 60,000 years of human existence, nearly every problem we face in modern business has already been seen…and solved. We just have to figure out how to apply that age-old tribal wisdom to our current circumstances. The Corporate Tribe will take you on a journey to discover the essence of culture and the secret to successful change programs. Along t...

    $1,060.00

  • THE WAR ON ERROR
    MARTIN KRAMER
    In 'The War on Error', historian and political analyst Martin Kramer presents a series of case studies, some based on pathfinding research and others on provocative analysis, that correct misinformation clouding the public's understanding of the Middle East. He also offers a forensic exploration of how misinformation arises and becomes "fact." The book is divided into five them...

    $1,380.00

  • EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
    LUDWIG KRÄMER
    European Environmental Law pulls together the most significant material on the subject from legal and other periodicals to form an essential compendium for those wishing to study the role of law in protecting and conserving the environment. The studies are arranged in three sections which examine the Europeanisation of law and policy, analyse the application and enforcement of ...

    $1,240.00

  • THE AGE OF THE AVANT-GARDE
    HILTON KRAMER
    Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of The New Criterion. This comprehensive book collects a sizable selection of his early essays and reviews published in Artforum, Commentary, Arts Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and The Times, and thus const...

    $1,340.00

  • THE ARID ZONES
    HILTON KRAMER / KENNETH WALTON
    The hot and temperate deserts and their marginal steppe lands comprise one-third of the land surface of the world and are an increasingly critical area for the economic wellbeing of world populations. The remarkable mechanisms of floral, faunal, and human adaptation to the distinct and difficult environment of these arid zones, as well as the potential of modern technology for ...

    $660.00

  • ARAB AWAKENING AND ISLAMIC REVIVAL
    MARTIN KRAMER
    Over the past decade, the political ground beneath the Middle East has shifted. Arab nationalism the political orthodoxy for most of this century has lost its grip on the imagination and allegiance of a new generation. At the same time, Islam as an ideology has spread across the region, and "Islamists" bid to capture the center of politics. Most Western scholars and experts onc...

    $1,320.00

  • FEMALE-PERPETRATED SEX ABUSE
    SHERIANNE KRAMER
    Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the first direct exploration of FSA victimhood, this book analyses: why victims of FSA...

    $1,160.00

  • THE TURN AROUND RELIGION IN AMERICA
    MICHAEL P. KRAMER
    Playing on the frequently used metaphors of the 'turn toward' or 'turn back' in scholarship on religion, The Turn Around Religion in America offers a model of religion that moves in a reciprocal relationship between these two poles. In particular, this volume dedicates itself to a reading of religion and of religious meaning that cannot be reduced to history or ideology on the ...

    $1,480.00

  • EGYPTIAN MYTH: A TREASURY OF LEGENDS, ART, AND HISTORY
    ANN KRAMER
    Egyptian Myth: A Treasury of Legends, Art, and History ...

    $1,160.00

  • TIME IN CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL THOUGHT
    JONATHAN D. KRAMER
    The articles in this collection create an interdisciplinary perspective. While attempting no unified vision, it approaches the subject from a variety of perspectives: aesthetics, psychology, sociology, ethnomusicology, compositional practice, and semiotics. While all composers are necessarily concerned with time, and while all theorists deal at least indirectly with music as a ...

    $1,800.00

  • SHAREOLOGY
    BRYAN KRAMER
    USA Today Bestseller: A top social media strategist explores how human connection drives success.   Technology continues to evolve and make our lives busier and more complicated, but it can never replace true human connection—our fundamental need to share information, stories, and emotions. Shareology explores the history, art, and science of sharing, and why sharing gives us a...

    $251.00

  • DREAM RESEARCH
    MILTON KRAMER
    This edited volume shows the relationship between dream research and its usefulness in treating patients. Milton Kramer and Myron Glucksman show that there is support for searching for the meaning of dream as experiences extended in time. Dreaming reflects psychological changes and is actually an orderly process, not a random experience. Several chapters in this book explore in...

    $1,760.00

  • COUNTRY GIRL MODERN
    JO KRAMER / KELLI HANKEN
    Modern quilting meets country style in these 11 patterns from the mother-daughter design team behind Jo's Country Junction.   Jo Kramer and her daughter Kelli Hanken have been quilting together for years, sharing their unique designs through their brand Jo's Country Junction. Now they're bringing modern quilting to the country with 11 updated quilts inspired by open air, tradit...

    $229.00

  • VILLAGE ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY
    CAROL KRAMER
    Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in Archaeological Perspective discusses selected tangible features of the subject area, noting the differences in households and associated material culture. The book comments among settlement variability, the complexities in relationships among population density, settlement age, area, and function. The text also deals with material correla...

    $970.00


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