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  • LIVING A GOOD LIFE WITH DEMENTIA
    LIZ LEACH MURPHY / JAYNA PATEL
    A practical guide to helping those living with dementia live their best life in a way that makes sense to them. Essential reading for anyone working with people living with dementia, this book explains the concept of Self-Directed Support and Care for people living with dementia and links the various Person Centred approaches within dementia care with Person Centred Planning an...

    $960.00

  • A FAMILY GUIDE TO LIVING WELL WITH DEMENTIA
    LIZ LEACH MURPHY / JAYNA PATEL
    Gain the knowledge and insight you need to support your loved one with dementia to live life as they wish. When a family member is diagnosed with dementia it’s difficult to know what to do. Do you worry you don’t have the skills and knowledge to support them? And what about looking after your own mental health? A Family Guide to Living Well with Dementia is here to help. Writte...

    $580.00

  • LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THATCHERISM
    HUGH BUTCHER / IAN G. LAW / ROBERT LEACH / MAURICE MULLARD
    The 1980s witnessed an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at transforming the role and manner of local government operations in Britain. First published in 1990, Local Government and Thatcherism provides a clear and up-to-date framework for understanding the impact of ‘Thatcherism’ on local government during this period and explores future prospects. The authors examine ...

    $1,480.00

  • BROADCASTING IN MEXICO
    LUIS ANTONIO DE NORIEGA / FRANCES LEACH
    Broadcasting in Mexico (1979) traces the birth and growth of Mexico’s broadcasting services against the background of its geographical, cultural, demographic, economic and political structure. The development of Mexican radio and television has been characterised by innovation and experiment by both government and private enterprise, and sometimes the country has been the benef...

    $800.00

  • THE OVERWEIGHT MIND AND BODY
    KATHY LEACH
    The Overweight Mind and Body is a self-help guide to understanding the psychological issues that lead to overeating and weight gain. The book enables the reader to discover the psychological drives that lead to unwanted weight and to find ways of meeting those drives other than with food. It introduces a simple, user-friendly theory of Transactional Analysis to promote weight-r...

    $660.00

  • RETHINKING ANTHROPOLOGY
    E. R. LEACH
    A collection of brilliant and provocative essays from Edmund Leach, one of the most original voices in the social anthropological tradition. ...

    $1,160.00

  • POLITICAL SYSTEMS OF HIGHLAND BURMA
    E. R. LEACH
    The main body of the book is concerned with the theme that empirical political behaviour among the Kachin is a compromise response to the polarised political doctrines of gumsa and gumlao.. Nearly one-third of this book consists of Chapter V entitiled 'The Structural Categories of Kachin Gumsa Society'. It is concerned with the interpretation of a series of verbal concepts and ...

    $920.00

  • SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE ROWANDUZ KURDS
    EDMUND LEACH
    Initially published in 1940, the following account is based upon a five weeks field survey carried out during the summer of 1938 in Iraq. The author intended to follow this up with an intensive study of one locality over a period of twelve months. Political developments in Europe made this project impracticable at the time and the scheme was abandoned. ...

    $1,120.00

  • PARTNERS OF THE IMAGINATION
    ROBERT LEACH
    Partners of the Imagination is the first in-depth study of the work of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy, partners in writing and cultural and political campaigns. Beginning in the 1950s, Arden and D’Arcy created a series of hugely admired plays performed at Britain’s major theatres. Political activists, they worked tirelessly in the peace movement and the Northern Ireland ‘Trou...

    $1,200.00

  • PRECISION METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    RICHARD LEACH / SIMONE CARMIGNATO
    Additive manufacturing (AM) is a fast-growing sector with the ability to evoke a revolution in manufacturing due to its almost unlimited design freedom and its capability to produce personalised parts locally and with efficient material use. AM companies, however, still face technological challenges such as limited precision due to shrinkage, built-in stresses and limited proce...

    $1,580.00

  • AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITISH THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
    ROBERT LEACH
    An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacts with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women,...

    $1,320.00

  • AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITISH THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
    ROBERT LEACH
    An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women...

    $1,320.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
    RONALD J. LEACH
    Practical Guidance on the Efficient Development of High-Quality Software Introduction to Software Engineering, Second Edition equips students with the fundamentals to prepare them for satisfying careers as software engineers regardless of future changes in the field, even if the changes are unpredictable or disruptive in nature. Retaining the same organization as its predecesso...

    $1,360.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
    RONALD J. LEACH
    Practical Guidance on the Efficient Development of High-Quality Software Introduction to Software Engineering, Second Edition equips students with the fundamentals to prepare them for satisfying careers as software engineers regardless of future changes in the field, even if the changes are unpredictable or disruptive in nature. Retaining the same organization as its predecesso...

    $1,360.00

  • THE MEANING OF LIFE AND THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    STEPHEN LEACH
    The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life. This edited collection includes thirty-five chapters which each focus on a major philosophical figure, from Confucius to Rorty, and that imaginatively engage with the topic from their perspective. This volume also contains a Postscript ...

    $1,160.00

  • BASICS OF PRECISION ENGINEERING
    RICHARD LEACH
    Advances in engineering precision have tracked with technological progress for hundreds of years. Over the last few decades, precision engineering has been the specific focus of research on an international scale. The outcome of this effort has been the establishment of a broad range of engineering principles and techniques that form the foundation of precision design. Today’s ...

    $1,380.00

  • TRANSFORMING INFANT WELLBEING
    PENELOPE LEACH
    Transforming Infant Wellbeing brings together science and policy to highlight the critical importance of the first 1001 days of infancy: the period from conception to the second birthday. Introduced and edited by Penelope Leach, who uniquely combines academic knowledge of infant development with the ability to write about it for wide audiences, the book has at its heart 25 orig...

    $1,200.00

  • CENTRALISATION, DEVOLUTION AND THE FUTURE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND
    STEVE LEACH / JOHN STEWART / GEORGE JONES
    English local government is in a state of decline after 40 years of incremental but cumulative centralisation by central government. This book is the first to directly address this trend's impact upon the institution of local government, a crucial element in the democratic viability of a unitary state. The process of centralisation, and its corrosive effect on the status and re...

    $1,280.00

  • COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
    MARK M. LEACH
    Since its beginnings after WWII, Counseling Psychology has grown to become an applied specialty within psychology with unique areas of emphasis. This book introduces readers to the field by presenting its history, emphases, trends and relationships to other areas within psychology, followed by seminal articles that have significantly influenced counselors and researchers. The v...

    $8,400.00

  • NATION-BUILDING AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN TIMOR-LESTE
    MICHAEL LEACH
    Timor-Leste’s long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, a short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book examines the history of nation-building and national identity in Timor-Leste, and the evolution of a collective identity through two consecutive colonial occupations, and into the post-independence era. It ch...

    $1,320.00

  • CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    STEPHEN LEACH
    Consciousness and the Great Philosophers addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to the contemporary problem of consciousness. Each of the thirty-two chapters within this edited collection focuses on a major philosophical figure from the history of philosophy, from Anscombe to Xuanzang, and imaginatively engages with the problem from ...

    $1,420.00

  • A RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THEORETICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
    STEPHEN LEACH
    Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn, Russia’s foremost archaeological theorist, remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. Until now. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines Klejn’s wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology. The book details-Klejn’s diverse work on ethnogenesis, migration, Homeric stud...

    $1,060.00

  • GOOD AND EVIL
    JACKIE LEACH SCULLY
    In this multi-disciplinary collection we ask the question, 'What did, and do, Quakers think about good and evil?' There are no simple or straightforwardly uniform answers to this, but in this collection, we draw together contributions that for the first time look at historical and contemporary Quakerdom's approach to the ethical and theological problem of evil and good. With...

    $1,240.00

  • RESHAPING GENDER AND CLASS IN RURAL SPACES
    BELINDA LEACH
    Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore them in the context of contemporary social and economic transformations in which global processes that reconstitute gender and class interconnect with and take shape in a particular...

    $1,120.00

  • THE BAROQUE IN ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE, 1880-1980
    ANDREW LEACH / JOHN MACARTHUR
    In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International and Borromini’s dome for Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it, writing of Sant’Ivo, Borromini accomplished 'the moveme...

    $1,420.00

  • GREEN GRABBING: A NEW APPROPRIATION OF NATURE
    JAMES FAIRHEAD / MELISSA LEACH / IAN SCOONES
    Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel. Yet in other cases, environmental gr...

    $1,560.00

  • OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING WITH C++
    RONALD LEACH
    Object-Oriented Design and Programming with C++: Your Hands-On Guide to C++ Programming, with Special Emphasis on Design, Testing, and Reuse provides a list of software engineering principles to guide the software development process. This book presents the fundamentals of the C++ language. Organized into two parts encompassing 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of...

    $970.00

  • POMPEY THE GREAT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JOHN LEACH
    To Romans of later generations the three decades between the dictatorships of Sulla and of Caesar were the age of Pompey the Great. In spite of the central role he played in Roman history, he remains a shadowy figure compared with the likes of Caesar and Cicero. Pompey the Great, first published in 1978, traces the career of this enigmatic character from his first appearance in...

    $1,540.00

  • CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND SUICIDE
    MARK M LEACH
    This book adds a vital and overlooked dimensiondiversityto suicide assessments and interventions The literature on the relationship between culture and suicide has historically been widely scattered and often difficult to find. Cultural Diversity and Suicide summarizes that widespread literature so that counselors can begin to include diversity issues as important variables tha...

    $1,340.00

  • TEACHING ART & DESIGN IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL
    GLORIA CALLAWAY / ABIGAIL LEACH / MARY KEAR
    First Published in 1999. It is difficult to imagine a world without arts, with no drawing, music or painting for example. Few, if any, cultures are without these elements. This accessible book roots the practical in the theoretical, to explain carefully the principles which underpin practice, as well as offering a day-to-day reference book for classroom use. It includes ideas a...

    $1,320.00


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