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  • PRACTICAL WAYS TO IMPROVE PATIENT ADHERENCE
    DANIEL J LEWIS / STEVEN R FELDMAN
    The New York Times has called adherence the world’s "other drug problem." Physicians prescribe medications, but patients do not always use them. While it would be easy for physicians to blame patients for treatment failures, physicians can do more to motivate patients to use their medications as recommended. Practical Ways to Improve Patient Adherence, Second Edition, is an exc...

    $1,380.00

  • SUBNATIONAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH ASIA
    SUBRATA MITRA / R. ALISON LEWIS / ROBERT C OBERST / R ALISON LEWIS
    The idea of the book initially emerged from a panel discussion at the Specialist Group on South Asia of the Political Studies Association, UK, in March 1993. On its tortuous path to publication, it has been enriched by critical comments from Sumit Ganguly, Vernon Hewitt, Iftikhar Malik, Gurharpal Singh and David Taylor. The volume has benefited fromSubrata Mitra's long associat...

    $1,060.00

  • THE AMERICAN CULTURE OF WAR
    ADRIAN R. LEWIS
    Now in its third edition, The American Culture of War presents a sweeping critical examination of every major American war since 1941: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the First and Second Persian Gulf Wars, U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the war against ISIS. As he carefully considers the cultural forces that surrounded each military engagement, Adrian Lewis offers ...

    $1,800.00

  • ARCHEOLOGY IN CULTURAL SYSTEMS
    LEWIS R. BINFORD
    Archeology shares with other anthropological sciences the goal of explaining differences and similarities among cultural systems. Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford, therefore are concerned with theory and arguments which treat problems of the interrelationship of cultural variables with explanatory value. Archeology in Cultural Systems is devoted to four different aspects o...

    $1,480.00

  • DEBATING ARCHAEOLOGY
    LEWIS R BINFORD
    In this volume, the founder of processual archaeology, Lewis R. Binford collects and comments on the twenty-eight substantive papers published in the 1980's, the third in his set of collected papers (also Working at Archaeology and An Archaeological Perspective). This ongoing collection of self-edited papers, together with the extensive and very candid interstitial commentarie...

    $1,480.00

  • QUANTIFYING THE USER EXPERIENCE
    JEFF SAURO / JAMES R LEWIS
    Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research, Second Edition, provides practitioners and researchers with the information they need to confidently quantify, qualify, and justify their data. The book presents a practical guide on how to use statistics to solve common quantitative problems that arise in user research. It addresses questions users face ...

    $731.00

  • PRACTICAL SPEECH USER INTERFACE DESIGN
    JAMES R. LEWIS
    Although speech is the most natural form of communication between humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines anything but natural. Drawing from psychology, human-computer interaction, linguistics, and communication theory, Practical Speech User Interface Design provides a comprehensive yet concise survey of practical speech user interface (SUI) design. I...

    $3,300.00

  • THE ORDER OF THE SOLAR TEMPLE
    JAMES R. LEWIS
    In October 1994, fifty-three members of the Order of the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Québec were murdered or committed suicide. This incident and two later group suicides in subsequent years played a pivotal role in inflaming the cult controversy in Europe, influencing the public to support harsher actions against non-traditional religions. Despite the importance of the Or...

    $1,600.00

  • DISCIPLINARY DECADENCE
    LEWIS R. GORDON
    In this book, philosopher and social critic Lewis Gordon explores the ossification of disciplines, which he calls disciplinary decadence. In response, he offers a theory of what he calls a teleological suspension of disciplinarity, in which he encourages scholars and lay intellectuals to pay attention to the openness of ideas and purposes on which their disciplines were born. G...

    $1,600.00

  • OF DIVINE WARNING
    JANE ANNA GORDON / LEWIS R. GORDON
    This book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary society and its impact on the construction of social and political life. The theory is premised upon what the authors call "the sign continuum," where disaster spreads across society through efforts to evade social responsibility for its causes and consequences. Phenomena generated by such efforts include the soci...

    $1,420.00

  • NOT ONLY THE MASTER'S TOOLS
    LEWIS R. GORDON / JANE ANNA GORDON
    Not Only the Master's Tools brings together new essays on African American studies. It is ideal for students and scholars of African studies, philosophy, literary theory, educational theory, social and political thought, and postcolonial studies. ...

    $1,460.00

  • CULTS
    JAMES R. LEWIS
    Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal controversial religions and movements that have attracted major media attention, the book also includes profiles of hundreds of minority religions, from Jesus People and Rastafarians to voodoo practitioners and the human-cloning Raelians. All the is...

    $1,120.00

  • THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY (PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS)
    LEWIS R. WOLBERG
    Freud once humorously remarked that "Anyone who wants to make a living from the treatment of nervous patients must clearly be able to do something to help them". It is amazing how frequently this simple precept is ignored and, when a patient does not get well, how often the failure is attributed to lack of proper motivation, diminutive ego strength, latent schizophrenia, and a ...

    $1,280.00

  • BONES
    LEWIS R. BINFORD
    Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths focuses on bone structures and characteristics, including bone modifications, breakage, processing, and destruction by animals. The publication first elaborates on the transitions to relics to artifacts and monuments to assemblages and middle-range research and the role of actualistic studies, including artifact and assemblage phase and rel...

    $970.00

  • HUMAN DIFFERENCES
    LEWIS R. AIKEN
    This text reviews the mass of information concerning the ways in which individuals and groups differ from each other. Reviews of research findings and interpretations are provided on: physical appearance, performance and health; cognitive abilities; personality; and development across the life span. Extensive treatment of foundations (historical, measurement, research methods, ...

    $1,800.00

  • LAW FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
    J.R. LEWIS / STEPHANIE OWEN
    Law for the Construction Industry provides a comprehensive introduction to the English legal system and basic contract law for those involved in the construction industry. It covers the level 2 module on legal studies of The CIOB's Education Framework and is officially sanctioned by The CIOB as the recognised book for that module. The book assumes no previous knowledge of Engli...

    $2,540.00

  • PERSONALITY TOPICS IN HONOR OF JERRY S. WIGGINS
    GOLDBERG, LEWIS R.
    First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...

    $820.00

  • HYPNOANALYSIS
    LEWIS R. WOLBERG
    Hypnoanalysis presents a critical review of a report on hypnoanalysis. The book discusses the advantages of this method; the the definite change in the functional organization of the patient; and the specific schizophrenic personality. Some of the topics covered in the text are the description of a hypnoanalysis case; the demonstration of the use of hypnosis in the treatment o...

    $970.00

  • PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
    LEWIS R. WOLBERG
    Psychotherapy and the Behavioral Sciences discusses the techniques used in neurophysiological analysis. It defines the neuronal building blocks. The book provides a detailed examination of the brain. This is followed by a discussion of the function of cerebral cortex. A chapter of the text focuses on biochemical interactions including neuropharmacology and psychopharmacology. ...

    $970.00

  • EXISTENTIA AFRICANA
    LEWIS R. GORDON
    The intellectual history of the last quarter of this century has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought--an area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle over ideas in African cultures and their hybrid forms in Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Existentia Africana is an engaging and highly readable introduction to the field of African...

    $1,380.00

  • GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA
    ROBERT A. LEWIS ROBERT R. CHURCHILL AND AMANDA TATE
    In a unique survey, based on new census data, Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia highlights the region's geographic, economic and ecological problems since 1945. Painting a grim picture, this book investigates how the combination of rapid population growth and declining per capita investment is causing economic conditions to slide in rural areas and encouraging an e...

    $6,900.00

  • THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
    LEWIS MICHAEL J., OWEN-CROCKER GALE R. AND TERKLA DAN
    The Bayeux Tapestry, perhaps the most famous, yet enigmatic, of medieval artworks, was the subject of an international conference at the British Museum in July 2008. This volume publishes 19 of 26 papers delivered at that conference. The physical nature of the tapestry is examined, including an outline of the artefact's current display and the latest conservation and research w...

    $460.45

  • TURBOMACHINERY PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
    LEWIS, R. I.
    This modern overview to performance analysis places aero- and fluid-dynamic treatments, such as cascade and meridional flow analyses, within the broader context of turbomachine performance analysis. For the first time ducted propellers are treated formally within the general family of turbomachines. It also presents a new approach to the use of dimensional analysis which links ...

    $1,412.00

  • DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
    KNOWLES, I.W. / LEWIS, R.T.
    This volume forms a record of the lectures given at this International Conference. Under the general heading of the equations of mathematical physics, contributions are included on a broad range of topics in the theory and applications of ordinary and partial differential equations, including both linear and non-linear equations. The topics cover a wide variety of methods (spec...

    $3,052.00

  • QUANTIFYING THE USER EXPERIENCE: PRACTICAL STATISTICS FOR USER RESEARCH
    SAURO, JEFF / LEWIS, JAMES R
    You're being asked to quantify usability improvements with statistics. But even with a background in statistics, you are hesitant to statistically analyze the data, as you may be unsure about which statistical tests to use and have trouble defending the use of the small test sample sizes associated with usability studies. The book is about providing a practical guide on how to ...

    $636.00

  • DECIDE FOR YOURSELF
    GORDON R. LEWIS
    The great Christian doctrines are worth thinking through for ourselves. That's why Gordon Lewis has provided this concise and complete survey of the major truths of the Christian faith. But rather than just telling us what he has discovered in Scripture, he offers a theological workbook that helps us explore the evidence itself and to draw our own conclusions. He has organized...

    $408.00

  • WHEEL-RAIL INTERFACE HANDBOOK
    LEWIS, R. / OLOFSSON, U
    Many of the engineering problems of particular importance to railways arise at interfaces and the safety-critical role of the wheel/rail interface is widely acknowledged. Better understanding of wheel/rail interfaces is therefore critical to improving the capacity, reliability and safety of the railway system.Wheel-rail interface handbook is a one-stop reference for railway eng...

    $4,514.00

  • ECONOMIC POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN PAKISTAN
    STEPHEN R. LEWIS JR.
    Economic Policy and Industrial Growth in Pakistan (1969 ) is a both quantitative and analytical survey on the economic development of Pakistan. The basis of the analysis is a simple empirically verifiable model of the growth of an ‘infant industry’, since all of Pakistan’s industries were young when the country itself was formed. The author carefully explores the intentions of ...

    $1,480.00

  • NATURAL THEOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
    STEVEN R. LEWIS
    The problem of evil is among the most significant philosophical arguments posed against the existence of God. Crucial to this argument is the premise that God, on account of his divine moral perfection, is necessarily constrained to prevent or mitigate evil whenever it is possible for him to do so. Natural Theology and the Problem of Evil offers a unique resolution to this chal...

    $657.00

  • LIVING LEGISLATION
    FORREST MALTZMAN / CHARLES R. SHIPAN / AMIHAI GLAZER / DAVID E. LEWIS / STUART CHINN / VESLA M. WEAVER / D
    Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. It is thus no stretch to refer to legislation as a living, breathing force in American politics. And while debates over legislative measures begin before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when the political legacy of a law becomes clear.   Living Legislation provides fresh i...

    $663.99


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