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  • GAMES AND GAMESTERS OF THE RESTORATION
    CHARLES COTTON / THEOPHILUS LUCAS
    Games and Gamesters of the Restoration (1930) reprints two vastly different books The Compleat Gamester (1674) and Lives of the Gamesters (1714) that together give a comprehensive and representative view of gamesters and gambling in the latter half of the seventeenth century – a time that saw an explosion in such pursuits following the end of Cromwell’s rule. ...

    $1,480.00

  • SURPRISE DINOSAUR!
    LUCAS KLAUSS
    Everyone loves surprises, right? But what if the surprise is a dinosaur? In this hilarious story, a T. Rex learns how to make surprises fun for everyone. This is just a regular story about a nice town, and some kids who go to school, and some other people. It's not about a SURPRISE DINOSAUR who likes to show up when you least expect it! And it's not about a dinosaur who is SURP...

    $162.00

  • BETTER DAYS
    LISA J. LUCAS
    Better Days presents 180 inspirational readings and creative activities to help teachers and students stay present and optimistic while integrating healthy habits into their lives.Classroom teaching has many challenges, and these are compounded when you're also preparing students to navigate the world in a way that is healthy and forward-looking. But what if you could take a fe...

    $621.00

  • HYDROGEN PRODUCTION, STORAGE, AND UTILIZATION
    ABBAS TCHARKHTCHI / HAMID REZA VANAEI / ALBERT LUCAS / SEDIGHEH FARZANEH
    Hydrogen Production, Storage, and Utilization: Technologies and Applications presents a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the scientific and engineering principles of hydrogen technology. Written in a technical and scientific manner, using rigorous scientific language and mathematical models to explain principles and applications, the book covers various aspects of hydr...

    $1,480.00

  • A HISTORY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    BRYAN KEITH-LUCAS / PETER G. RICHARDS
    Originally published in 1978, this book covers all aspects of the development of local authorities; the changing types of people who worked in them – solicitors, trade unionists, politicians and reformers; the growing influence of political parties in local affairs; the widening concept of the purpose of local government and the attendant financial problems; the partnership and...

    $860.00

  • IMPROVING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
    ERIC ARMSTRONG / ROSEMARY LUCAS
    Improving Industrial Relations (1985) presents and discusses the findings of research into the advisory function of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS). ACAS is most widely known for its attempts to resolve industrial disputes through conciliation, but most of its endeavours lie in its advisory role to improving industrial relations. ...

    $840.00

  • CAIXA DE PANDORA
    LUCAS CHRISTODOULOU
    100.000 livros gregos de assassinato/mistério vendidos pelo 'Grego James Patterson' 'Christodoulou não faz rodeios' - Publishers Weekly A pequena e pitoresca cidade de Parga é um paraíso com águas azul-turquesa e habitantes locais simpáticos e acolhedores. A descoberta do corpo de uma jovem nua no marco da cidade irá revelar segredos ocultos que ameaçam transformar a vila coste...

    $59.00

  • KEY THINKERS IN RELIGION AND ENVIRONMENT
    LUCAS F. JOHNSTON
    Key Thinkers in Religion and Environment provides a theoretical foundation for scholarship related to the intersection of religions, natures and cultures across disciplines. The text introduces students to the major names, theoretical issues, and methodological orientations of the field while giving professors maximum freedom to insert case studies and examples as they wish. St...

    $1,120.00

  • SYNTHESIS OF PYRROL-BASED BIOCONJUGATES
    MARIETTE M. PEREIRA / SARA M.A. PINTO / LUCAS D. DIAS
    In recent years, the use of bioconjugation as strategy for development of more specific and directed drugs has been widely researched. Tetrapyrrolic macrocycles are one of the most common families of organic compounds applied in medicinal chemistry, specifically for diagnosis and therapy. For optimization of their efficiency as therapeutic molecules, it is relevant to promote t...

    $1,420.00

  • THE STRUCTURE OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE
    KYLE LUCAS / SARAH LUCAS
    This book builds on existing work in genre analysis and move analysis in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and applies this new framework to academic philosophical discourse, offering new insights into how ESP traditions can elucidate shifts in language conventions across disciplinary contexts. The volume begins by surveying the state of the art in English for Specific Purpos...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF HERITAGE AND THE LAW
    LUCAS LIXINSKI
    The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law sheds light on the relationship between the two fields and analyses how the law shapes heritage and heritage practice in both expected and unexpected ways. Including contributions from 41 authors working across a range of jurisdictions, the volume analyses the law as a transnational phenomenon and uses international and comparative...

    $880.00

  • A THEORY OF DE FACTO STATES
    LUCAS KNOTTER
    A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states — political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition — zooming in on two prominent examples, Somaliland and Kosovo. Employing a thorough understanding of classical realist theories of international relations, this book ...

    $1,240.00

  • UNDERSTANDING THE QUALITY USE OF RESEARCH EVIDENCE IN EDUCATION
    MARK RICKINSON / LUCAS WALSH / JOANNE GLEESON / BLAKE CUTLER / CONNIE CIRKONY / MANDY SALISBURY
    This book focuses on the question of how to understand quality use of research evidence in education, or what it means to use research evidence well. Internationally there are widespread efforts to increase the use of research evidence within educational policy and practice. Such efforts raise important questions about how we understand not just the quality of evidence, but als...

    $700.00

  • SPATIALITIES OF SPECULATIVE FICTION
    GWILYM LUCAS EADES
    This book examines science fiction, fantasy and horror novels utilizing a conceptual toolkit of the ten duties of speculative fiction. Building on previous work in the discipline of geography it will demonstrate the value of speculation in the visualisation of Anthropocene futures. The book presents insights into how novels produce specifically geographical knowledge about the ...

    $1,240.00

  • PRACTICING PRESENCE
    LISA LUCAS
    Most teachers enter the field of education to make a difference in children's lives. But many end up, as author Dr. Lisa Lucas puts it, tired, wired, and running in circles. This leads to many new teachers abandoning the profession or to burnout among veteran teachers. In Practicing Presence: Simple Self-Care Strategies for Teachers, Dr. Lucas invites the reader to learn how to...

    $820.00

  • TRAVEL WRITING AND RE-ENACTMENT
    LUCAS TROMLY
    Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such re-enactments as quests for aura in which travellers seek to capture a sense of distinction and historical profundity. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment frames the re-enactm...

    $1,160.00

  • SENSING THE SACRED
    HANNA J. LUCAS
    This book offers a theological vision of learning informed by the mystagogical homilies of Ambrose of Milan, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, and Theodore of Mopsuestia. In dialogue with these four mystagogues, Hanna Lucas walks through the rites and liturgy surrounding baptism and the eucharist in order to establish a theological epistemology that sees knowledge as part of...

    $621.00

  • SENSING THE SACRED
    HANNA J. LUCAS
    This book offers a theological vision of learning informed by the mystagogical homilies of Ambrose of Milan, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, and Theodore of Mopsuestia. In dialogue with these four mystagogues, Hanna Lucas walks through the rites and liturgy surrounding baptism and the eucharist in order to establish a theological epistemology that sees knowledge as part of...

    $621.00

  • THE JAINA WORLDVIEW
    LUCAS DEN BOER
    This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvārthādhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way. The book also includes the first English translation of its oldest commentary, the Tattvārthādhigamabhāṣya (TABh). Focusing on the philosophical sections of the TA a...

    $1,140.00

  • CREATING THE REFLECTIVE HABIT
    MICHELLE LUCAS
    Reflection is a critical skill which can enhance the quality of our professional and domestic lives. Yet in a world of "busy," reflective practice often falls to the bottom of the list. We are not alone in the struggle to use the pause button well. This book is here to help. The book offers a practical toolkit which shows you how to create a sustainable reflective habit. We beg...

    $700.00

  • LAW, ETHICS AND EMERGING MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES
    GEORGE LUCAS
    This book addresses issues of legal and moral governance arising in the development, deployment, and eventual uses of emerging technologies in military operations. Proverbial wisdom has it that law and morality always lag behind technological innovation. Hence, the book aims to identify, enumerate, and constructively address the problems of adequate governance for the developme...

    $1,100.00

  • ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITUATIONS
    GAVIN LUCAS
    This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology – but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start. Rather than see theory as something worked from the outside in, this book explores theory from the inside out, which means it focuses on s...

    $1,100.00

  • UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH
    E. LUCAS BRIDGES
    The Compelling True Story of Life at the Far Reaches of Civilization "E. Lucas Bridges provides in his brilliantly written book our most valuable resource on the lost heritage of the Yamana." The Daily Beagle Famous for being the southernmost city in the world, the wild and windswept port of Ushuaia sits at the inhospitable southern tip of Tierra del Fuego in South America. Tha...

    $229.00

  • HIGH SCHOOL AND UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS PRACTICALS
    ROBERT LUCAS
    This book describes more than thirty physics practicals at high school and undergraduate levels with background information on each one, a description of the equipment needed, and instructions on how the experiment is performed. Uniquely, for those without access to a real laboratory, the book provides access to highly detailed 3D simulations of all the experiments. The simulat...

    $1,460.00

  • RURAL TRANSITIONS TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
    SUE TIMMIS / THEA DE WET / KIBASHINI NAIDOO / SHEILA TRAHAR / LISA LUCAS / EMMANUEL MFANAFUTHI MGQWASHU /  
    This unique and timely book focuses on research conducted into the experiences of students from rural backgrounds in South Africa: foregrounding decolonial perspectives on their negotiation of access and transitions to higher education. This book highlights not only the challenges of coming from a rural background against the historical backdrop of apartheid and ongoing colonia...

    $1,060.00

  • CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TIME
    GAVIN LUCAS / LAURENT OLIVIER
    This book presents a conversation between two prominent archaeologists who have been exploring the concept of time in their discipline for several decades. It is a discussion on key issues of time in archaeology filtered through their unique perspectives, which sometimes meet and at other times, clash. Key features include discussions on the nature of change and time in the arc...

    $640.00

  • MAKING TIME
    GAVIN LUCAS
    Making Time grapples with a range of issues that have crystallized in the wake of 15 years of discussion on time in archaeology, since the author's seminal volume The Archaeology of Time, synthesizing them for a new generation of scholars. The general understanding of time held by both archaeologists and non-archaeologists is often very simple: a linear notion where time flows ...

    $1,160.00

  • HOMER: THE ILIAD; THE ODYSSEY
    W. LUCAS COLLINS
    The Iliad, (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Mycenean Greek states (Achaeans), it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and t...

    $39.70

  • LUHMANN AND SOCIO-LEGAL RESEARCH
    LUCAS FUCCI AMATO / MARCO ANTONIO LOSCHIAVO LEME DE BARROS / CELSO FERNANDES CAMPILONGO
    This book discusses the designs and applications of the social systems theory (built by Niklas Luhmann, 1927–1998) in relation to empirical socio-legal studies. This is a sociological and legal theory known for its highly complex and abstract conceptual apparatus. But how to change its scale in order to study more localised phenomena, and to deal with empirical data, such as ca...

    $1,200.00

  • MEN, MASCULINITIES AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
    LUCAS GOTTZÉN / ‎MARGUNN BJØRNHOLT / ‎FLORETTA BOONZAIER
    Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence, as well as on how to involve men and boys in anti-violence work. The chapters explore partner violence from th...

    $1,099.00


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