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  • THIS LITTLE WORLD
    MICHAEL J. HALVORSON / SHELLY CANO KURTZ
    Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2025 in the Change & Sustainability Category Our planet has never been smaller. Technological advancements have compressed time and space, making the world more immediate and interconnected. This Little World clearly sets out how social innovation practices can enable organizations and communities to create a more sustainable, just, and ...

    $860.00

  • SKEPTICISM AND HUMANISM
    PAUL KURTZ
    As we begin the third millennium there is cause for cautious optimism regarding the human prospect. Democratic revolutions and the doctrine of universal human rights have captured the imagination of large sectors of humanity, while major advances in science and technology continue to conquer disease and extend life, contributing to rising standards of living, affluence, and cul...

    $1,420.00

  • TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS
    JULIE NICHOLSON / LINDA PEREZ / JULIE KURTZ / SHAWN BRYANT / DREW GILES
    This second edition of Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators continues to guide childcare providers and early educators working with infants, toddlers, preschoolers and early elementary-aged children to understand trauma as well as its impact on young children’s brains, behavior, learning and development. The book covers a range of trauma-responsive teaching s...

    $660.00

  • SUPPORTING YOUNG CHILDREN TO COPE, BUILD RESILIENCE, AND HEAL FROM TRAUMA THROUGH PLAY
    JULIE NICHOLSON / JULIE KURTZ / LAFESHIA EDWARDS / JONATHAN IRIS-WILBANKS / SAMANTHA WATSON-ALVARADO / MA
    Now more than ever, there is a need for early childhood professionals to comprehensively integrate trauma-sensitive practices into their work with children and families. This essential resource offers instructional strategies teachers can use daily to support their students dealing with trauma in early learning environments. Readers will learn to create opportunities for childr...

    $820.00

  • TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
    JULIE NICHOLSON / JULIE KURTZ
    Designed for all professionals working with parents and families of young children, this practical guide offers comprehensive resources for building trauma-responsive family engagement in your school or program. Throughout this book, you'll find: Evidence-based practices that promote trauma-response family engagement. Exercises and tools for identifying the strengths and learni...

    $860.00

  • TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE PRACTICES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD LEADERS
    JULIE NICHOLSON / JEN LELAND / JULIE KURTZ / LAWANDA WESLEY / SARAH NADIV
    Specifically designed for administrators and leaders working in early childhood education, this practical guide offers comprehensive resources for creating trauma-responsive organizations and systems. Throughout this book, you'll find: Exercises and tools for identifying the strengths and areas in need of change within your program, school or agency. Reflection questions and sa...

    $860.00

  • TRAUMA AND TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURE
    J. ROGER KURTZ
    This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, and furthermore that the benefits of this exercise include not only what it can do for African literature, but also wha...

    $1,200.00

  • CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SELF-CARE PRACTICES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS
    JULIE NICHOLSON / PRIYA DRISCOLL / JULIE KURTZ / DOMÉNICA MÁRQUEZ / LAWANDA WESLEY
    The first self-care book designed specifically for the early childhood field, Culturally Responsive Self-Care Practices for Early Childhood Educators is filled with helpful strategies and tools that you can implement immediately. Recognizing that self-care is not one size fits all, the authors present culturally responsive strategies drawn from diverse early childhood staff wor...

    $860.00

  • HOW TO RUN REFLECTIVE PRACTICE GROUPS
    ARABELLA KURTZ
    In How to Run Reflective Practice Groups: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals, Arabella Kurtz explores the use of reflective practice in the modern healthcare context. Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for reflective practice groups in healthcare and drawing on her extensive experience as a facilitator and trainer, Kurtz presents a fully developed, eight-stage model:...

    $680.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF RADIO ASTRONOMY
    RONALD L. SNELL / STANLEY KURTZ / JONATHAN MARR
    As demonstrated by five Nobel Prizes in physics, radio astronomy has contributed greatly to our understanding of the Universe. Courses covering this subject are, therefore, very important in the education of the next generation of scientists who will continue to explore the Cosmos. This textbook, the second of two volumes, presents an extensive introduction to the astrophysical...

    $1,360.00

  • JOHN FREDERIC OBERLIN
    JOHN W. KURTZ
    This book covers the life of John Frederic Oberlin from his adolescence to his death. It provides adequate details of the relationships between Oberlin's life and work and the social and intellectual currents of his time, with impartiality and rational perspective. ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE WARRIOR AND THE PACIFIST
    LESTER R. KURTZ
    This book looks at two contradictory ethical motifs—the warrior and the pacifist—across four major faith traditions—Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and their role in shaping our understanding of violence and the morality of its use. The Warrior and the Pacifist explores how these faith traditions, which now mutually inhabit our life spaces, bring with them across the...

    $1,900.00

  • TOWARD A NEW ENLIGHTENMENT
    PAUL KURTZ
    Paul Kurtz has been the dominant voice of secular humanism over the past thirty years. This compilation of his work reveals the scope of his thinking on the basic topics of our time and his many and varied contributions to the cause of free thought. It focuses on the central issues that have concerned Kurtz throughout his career: ethics, politics, education, religion, science, ...

    $1,540.00

  • POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
    DONALD V KURTZ
    The field of political anthropology is complicated by a breadth and depth of interests that include every kind of ethnographically and historically represented political community, and nearly every kind of recorded political practice, behavior, and organization. To make sense of this array of information, political anthropologists examine political topics and issues in the cont...

    $1,480.00

  • TEACHING AND LEARNING COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN MEDICINE
    SUZANNE KURTZ / JULIET DRAPER / JONATHAN SILVERMAN
    This book and its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition, provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. Fully updated and revised, and greatly expanded, this new edition examines how to construct a skills curricular at all levels of medical education and across specialties, documents the individuals skills that form the core...

    $1,320.00

  • THE CLINICAL CHEMISTRY OF LABORATORY ANIMALS
    DAVID M. KURTZ
    Key features: Serves as the detailed, authoritative source of the clinical chemistry of the most commonly used laboratory animals Includes detailed chapters dedicated to descriptions of clinical chemistry-related topics specific to each laboratory species as well as organ/class-specific chapters Presents information regarding evaluation and interpretation of a variety of indivi...

    $2,040.00

  • MULTI-SECULARISM
    PAUL KURTZ
    The contemporary world is witness to an intense controversy about secularism. This controversy has intensified due to the presence of fundamentalism, which challenges secular society and the secularization of philosophical ideas and ethical values. Secularists maintain that the state should not impose a religious creed upon citizens and should respect freedom of conscience, the...

    $1,380.00

  • HACKING WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS
    JENNIFER KURTZ
    Hacking Wireless Access Points: Cracking, Tracking, and Signal Jacking provides readers with a deeper understanding of the hacking threats that exist with mobile phones, laptops, routers, and navigation systems. In addition, applications for Bluetooth and near field communication (NFC) technology continue to multiply, with athletic shoes, heart rate monitors, fitness sensors, c...

    $664.00

  • SKILLS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH PATIENTS
    JONATHAN SILVERMAN / SUZANNE KURTZ / JULIET DRAPER
    Skills for Communicating with Patients, Third Edition is one of two companion books on improving communication in medicine, which together provide a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning communication skills throughout all levels of medical education in both specialist and family medicine. Since their publication, the first edition of thi ...

    $1,340.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF RADIO ASTRONOMY
    JONATHAN M. MARR / RONALD L. SNELL / STANLEY E. KURTZ
    As evidenced by five Nobel Prizes in physics, radio astronomy in its 80-year history has contributed greatly to our understanding of the universe. Yet for too long, there has been no suitable textbook on radio astronomy for undergraduate students.Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy: Observational Methods is the first undergraduate-level textbook exclus ...

    $1,360.00

  • REBUILDING COMMUNITIES
    HARVEY BERTCHER / ALICE E LAMONT / LINDA FARRIS KURTZ
    Rebuilding Communities: Challenges for Group Work is a collection of research and information presented at the 18th Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. Social workers, students, educators, and practitioners will examine how group work can improve multicultural relations within the community. Through your use of the valuable sugges...

    $1,420.00

  • REBUILDING COMMUNITIES
    HARVEY BERTCHER / ALICE E LAMONT / LINDA FARRIS KURTZ
    Rebuilding Communities: Challenges for Group Work is a collection of research and information presented at the 18th Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. Social workers, students, educators, and practitioners will examine how group work can improve multicultural relations within the community. Through your use of the valuable sugges...

    $1,240.00

  • WITH NEEDLE AND BRUSH
    CAROL HUBER / STEPHEN HUBER / SUSAN P SCHOELWER / AMY KURTZ LANSING
    The Connecticut River Valley was an important center for the teaching and production of embroidered pictures by young women in private academies from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. This book identifies the distinctive styles developed by teachers and students at schools throughout the valley, from Connecticut and Massachusetts to Vermont and New Hampshire. ...

    $338.00

  • COMPUTING WITH HP-ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENTS
    LESZEK DEMKOWICZ / JASON KURTZ / DAVID PARDO / MACIEK PASZENSKI / WALDEMAR RACHOWICZ / ADAM ZDUNEK
    With a focus on 1D and 2D problems, the first volume of Computing with hp-ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENTS prepared readers for the concepts and logic governing 3D code and implementation. Taking the next step in hp technology, Volume II Frontiers: Three-Dimensional Elliptic and Maxwell Problems with Applications presents the theoretical foundations of the ...

    $5,300.00

  • PHARMACOGENOMICS IN ADMIXED POPULATIONS
    DR. G. SUAREZ-KURTZ
    Ethnic specificity has become an integral part of research in the overlapping sciences of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics. Pharmacogenomics in Admixed Populations was conceived to compile pharmacogenetic/-genomic (PGx) data from peoples of four continents: Africa, America, Asia and Oceania, where admixture and population stratification occurs ...

    $1,480.00

  • THE BLISTERING MORNING MIST
    KATHLEEN WEAVER KURTZ
    "Out we go into the blistering morning mist," the words of Kathie's son on his first day of school, reminded her of how cautiously she faced going into the unknown. The death of her father when she was three shattered her sense of security. Even though her extended family provided the stability she needed for a happy childhood, this major loss continued to impact her in hidden ...

    $426.00

  • THE LEGACY OF LEHR
    KATHERINE KURTZ
    Best known for her beloved Deryni series, Katherine Kurtz rockets into new territory in this breathtaking science fiction murder mystery.   The interstellar cruiser Valkyrie has been ordered to take an unexpected detour from its normal route to pick up a strange and valuable cargo. Capt. George Lutobo cannot disobey the commands of his emperor, but the idea of bringing four hug...

    $119.00

  • THE TEMPLE AND THE STONE
    KATHERINE KURTZ / DEBORAH TURNER HARRIS
    During the fight for Scotland's independence, the mystical Order of the Knights Templar battles ancient evil and a treacherous king in this gripping alternate history.   A powerful order of warrior monks forged in the fires of the Crusades during the twelfth century, the legendary Knights Templar did not vanish entirely following their failed campaigns in the Holy Land. Having ...

    $119.00

  • ST. PATRICK'S GARGOYLE
    KATHERINE KURTZ
    In this "charming" fantasy by the author of the Deryni novels, a gargoyle guardian and a Knight of Malta defend a Dublin cathedral and battle a demon ( Booklist, starred review). The gargoyles of Dublin, Ireland, have a sacred duty to perform. Formerly God's avenging angels, for centuries they have been entrusted with guarding the churches and cathedrals of the Irish capital wh...

    $119.00

  • THE TEMPLE AND THE CROWN
    KATHERINE KURTZ / DEBORAH TURNER HARRIS
    The Knights Templar battle an occult order in this "soundly researched [and] briskly paced" alternate history set during the Scottish War of Independence ( Booklist). In this stunning sequel to their acclaimed historical fantasy The Temple and the Stone, coauthors Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris return to the legends of the fabled Order of the Knights Templar, the mys...

    $149.00


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