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  • GRIEVING BEYOND GENDER
    KENNETH J. DOKA / TERRY L. MARTIN
    The third edition of Grieving Beyond Gender explores the different ways that individuals grieve, noting that gender is only one factor that affects an individual’s style or pattern of grief. Inherent in the concept of grieving styles is a notion that gender is fluid and that traditional binary views of gender are belied by the concept of grieving styles, and this is highlighted...

    $860.00

  • A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
    WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND / MARTIN BUNTON
    A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign policies. Built around a framework of political history, while also carefully integrating social, cultural, and economic developments...

    $1,040.00

  • NOT SO WEIRD AFTER ALL
    ROSEMARY L. HOPCROFT / MARTIN FIEDER / SUSANNE HUBER
    This is the first book to fully examine, from an evolutionary point of view, the association of social status and fertility in human societies before, during, and after the demographic transition. In most nonhuman social species, social status or relative rank in a social group is positively associated with the number of offspring, with high-status individuals typically having ...

    $1,060.00

  • TAIWAN'S SECURITY IN THE POST-DENG XIAOPING ERA
    MARTIN L. LASATER / PETER KIEN-HONG YU
    Originally published in 2000, Taiwan’s Security in the Post-Deng Xiaoping Era analyses the many domestic and international factors comprising Taiwan’s security situation in the late 1990s and early 21st Century. The security of Taiwan remains of international strategic concern, and the military situation in the Taiwan Strait is increasingly volatile, nearly 25 years after this ...

    $960.00

  • SOCIAL CLASS SUPPORTS
    GEORGIANNA L. MARTIN, SONJA ARDOIN, RUSSELL LOWERY-HART
    Historically, higher education was designed for a narrow pool of privileged students. Despite national, state and institutional policies developed over time to improve access, higher education has only lately begun to address how its unexamined assumptions, practices and climate create barriers for poor and working class populations and lead to significant disparities in degree...

    $980.00

  • A LEADERSHIP PLAYBOOK FOR ADDRESSING RAPID CHANGE IN EDUCATION
    TERESA L. SAN MARTIN
    A Leadership Playbook for Addressing Rapid Change in Education provides educational leaders with a simple, step-by-step approach for addressing rapid change. Drawing on the model of appreciative inquiry, this book provides detailed examples of educational problems and provides the who, what, where, when, why, and how to achieve change. Author Teresa L. San Martín emphasizes the...

    $800.00

  • GENDER VIOLENCE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST (AD 1100-1300)
    DEBRA L. MARTIN / CLAIRA RALSTON
    This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata River Valley (New Mexico) to illustrate the variety of roles that Ancestral Pueblo women played in the past (circa AD 1100–1300). The experiences of women as a result of their gender, age, and status over the life course are reconstructed, with consideration given to the gendere...

    $580.00

  • U.S. INTERESTS IN THE NEW TAIWAN
    MARTIN L LASATER
    Focusing on a persistent crux of Sino-American relations, the author shows how an essentially new Taiwan has emerged in terms of political, economic, diplomatic and security developments. He explores the future prospects of the new Taiwan and analyzes its implications for US interests and policy. ...

    $1,200.00

  • BEYONCÉ
    MARTIN IDDON AND MELANIE L. MARSHALL
    Who runs the world? The Beyhive knows. From the Destiny's Child 2001 hit single "Survivor" to her 2019 jam "7/11," Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has confronted dominant issues around the world. Because her image is linked with debates on race, sexuality, and female empowerment, she has become a central figure in pop music and pop culture. Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online explor...

    $229.00

  • MULTILINGUAL MEDIATED COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION
    RICARDO MUÑOZ MARTÍN / SANDRA L. HALVERSON
    This collection provides a snapshot of cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of cognitive approaches to multilingual mediated communication. The chapters cover important trends in current work, including: the increasing interaction between translation and interpreting research, the emergence of neuroscientific theories and methods, the role of emotion in translat...

    $1,240.00

  • THE GEOLOGY OF THE BELINGWE GREENSTONE BELT, ZIMBABWE
    M.J. BICKLE / A. MARTIN / E.G. NISBET / J.L. ORPEN
    A study on the Bellingwe Greenstone Belt, presenting the stratigraphy of the belt, its structure and tectonic setting, the sedimentology of what may be a rift basin, the geochemistry of the freshest Archaean komatiites yet found, and models of the evolution of the region. ...

    $4,900.00

  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND WORLD AGRICULTURE
    MARTIN L. PARRY
    Originally published in 1990, this book analysed the sensitivity of the world food system and looked at the variety of ways in which it would be affected by climate change. It describes the effects of climate change on agriculture, estimates the impacts on plant and animal growth and looks at the geographical limits to different types of farming. It also considers the range of ...

    $1,000.00

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EXERCISE
    CURT L. LOX / KATHLEEN A. MARTIN GINIS / HEATHER L. GAINFORTH / STEVEN J. PETRUZZELLO
    Now in its fifth edition, The Psychology of Exercise: Integrating Theory and Practice is the ideal resource for undergraduate courses devoted to the study of exercise behavior. Following the success of previous editions, this book successfully integrates theoretical principles and the latest research with intervention strategies that students can apply in real-world settings. S...

    $2,120.00

  • THE MAKING OF A SINO-MARXIST WORLD VIEW
    DOROTHEA A.L. MARTIN
    Outlines the political pressures that have shaped the writing and interpretation of modern world history in post-1949 China, and assesses the impact of these pressures and political themes through three case studies: the 17th-century English revolution, the Paris Commune, and the treatment of the Th ...

    $1,240.00

  • ON ON BEING A DICTATOR
    KEVIN J. ANDERSON / MARTIN L. SHOEMAKER
    Two successful authors explain their simple method for vastly increasing your writing productivity! New York Times–bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson has written 160 books—nearly fifteen million words!—most of them by dictating into a hand-held recorder while hiking. Award-winning novelist and Nebula Award–nominated short story writer Martin L. Shoemaker dictates chapters and...

    $251.00

  • THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD
    MARTIN L LASATER
    The increased military power of China since the close of the Cold War has forced the United States to reconsider its security policy toward Taiwan. In this volume, Martin Lasater explores the many new factors that are now influencing U.S. calculations of one of its more enduring and important security interests in Asia. He considers such security concerns as the reduction of U....

    $1,200.00

  • THE TAIWAN ISSUE IN SINOAMERICAN STRATEGIC RELATIONS
    MARTIN L LASATER
    The first two years of the Reagan administration saw a close correlation between improved unofficial relations between Washington and Taipei and a deterioration of strategic cooperation between Washington and Beijing. These developments led many U.S. officials and scholars to conclude that U.S. security interests may require periodic concessions over Taiwan to ensure China ‘s c...

    $1,200.00

  • THE NEW PACIFIC COMMUNITY
    MARTIN L LASATER
    As the political and economic landscape in the Asian Pacific continues to shift, the United States must re-evaluate its strategy toward the region. In his book, Martin Lasater explores U.S. interests in Asia, considering strategies for attaining U.S. goals in the post-containment era. Citing numerous strategic options for the United States, Lasater recommends a strategy of inte...

    $1,200.00

  • TAIWAN CONUNDRUM
    MARTIN L LASATER
    The Taiwan issue in Sino-American relations remains one of the most complex, controversial, and even dangerous policy dilemmas facing the United States in the post-Cold War period. In an era of growing nationalism on mainland China and Taiwan, tremendous strain is being placed on relations across the Taiwan Strait. As demonstrated by the 1996 Taiwa ...

    $1,040.00

  • THE ENDLESS QUEST
    PHILIP L MARTIN / DAVID A MARTIN
    A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the problems they were designed to solve. ...

    $1,200.00

  • POLICY IN EVOLUTION
    MARTIN L LASATER
    The reunification of Taiwan with China is one of the most important policy issues of our time. The issue has broad strategic, political, economic, and moral ramifications for the U.S., as well as for Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The People's Republic of China (PRC) has assigned top political priority to reunification and has made the ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE LEMONADE READER
    KINITRA D BROOKS, KAMEELAH L MARTIN
    The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, Lemonade. The essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture, religion, and black feminism. Envisioned as an educational tool to support and guide discussions of the visual album at postgraduate...

    $1,160.00

  • UNFULFILLED PROMISE
    PHILIP L MARTIN
    The "plight of the California farmworker" has been the main theme of over 100 years of government reports, scholarly writings, and popular literature. Farmworkers were excluded from most of the 1930s legislation which regulated wages and working conditions and recognized that workplace disputes could best be settled by collective bargaining. Scho ...

    $1,280.00

  • THE ROLE OF FEMALE COMBATANTS IN THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION AND COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY WAR
    MARTÍN MERÁZ GARCÍA / MARTHA L. COTTAM / BRUNO M. BALTODANO
    The revolution in Nicaragua was unique in that a large percentage of the combatants were women. The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War is a study of these women and those who fought in the Contra counter revolution on the Atlantic Coast. This book is a qualitative study based on 85 interviews with female ex-combatants in the rev...

    $660.00

  • SOLAR ENERGY POCKET REFERENCE
    CHRISTOPHER L. MARTIN / D. YOGI GOSWAMI
    Drawing on the experience of some of the foremost experts in the field, this easy-to-use and affordable pocket reference includes a wealth of information relating to solar energy and solar energy technologies. Topics covered range from solar angles, sun path diagrams, solar radiation and radiative properties of materials through to thermal collectors, thermal energy storage, ph...

    $660.00

  • OPHTHALMIC DISEASE IN VETERINARY MEDICINE
    CHARLES L. MARTIN, J. PHILLIP PICKETT AND BERNHARD M. SPIESS
    5* Doody's Review: 98/100! Featuring a new author team, this seminal book has been completely updated and significantly expanded. Following an outline of the basic elements of ophthalmic science relevant to study and practice, the authors provide a detailed description and discussion of each condition including etiology, clinical signs, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy, as wel...

    $2,420.00

  • NETCENTRIC SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING WITH DEVS UNIFIED PROCESS
    SAURABH MITTAL / JOSÉ L. RISCO MARTÍN
    In areas such as military, security, aerospace, and disaster management, the need for performance optimization and interoperability among heterogeneous systems is increasingly important. Model-driven engineering, a paradigm in which the model becomes the actual software, offers a promising approach toward systems of systems (SoS) engineering. However, model-driven engineering h...

    $2,800.00

  • HYDRODYNAMICS AND TRANSPORT FOR WATER QUALITY MODELING
    JAMES L. MARTIN / STEVEN C. MCCUTCHEON
    Hydrodynamics and Transport for Water Quality Modeling presents a complete overview of current methods used to describe or predict transport in aquatic systems, with special emphasis on water quality modeling. The book features detailed descriptions of each method, supported by sample applications and case studies drawn from the authors' years of experience in the field. Each c...

    $4,000.00

  • MEMORY AND MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE
    MARK L. HOWE / LAUREN M. KNOTT / MARTIN A. CONWAY
    Memory is often the primary evidence in the courtroom, yet unfortunately this evidence may not be fit for purpose. This is because memory is both fallible and malleable; it is possible to forget and also to falsely remember things which never happened. The legal system has been slow to adapt to scientific findings about memory even though such findings have implications for the...

    $1,460.00

  • CHURCHILL TO MAJOR: THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTERSHIP SINCE 1945
    R.L. BORTHWICK / MARTIN BURCH / PHILIP GIDDINGS
    This text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government. ...

    $640.00


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