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  • ESSAYS ON THINGS
    WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
    Excerpt: "At an uncertain hour before dawn in February 1912, as I lay asleep in my room on the top floor of a hotel in the town of Mentone, in Southern France, I was suddenly awakened by the morning star. It was shining with inquisitive splendour directly into my left eye. At that quiet moment, in the last stages of the dying night, this star seemed enormous. It hung out of the...

    $39.70

  • GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION HANDBOOK FOR WATER RESOURCES AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT, VOLUME II
    G. LYON JOHN
    Volume II of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses Geospatial Technology (GT) approaches using integrated modeling as applied to advanced water resource assessments. Features include multiple date land cover analyses as change in land cover influences water quality, model sensitivity analyses of DEM resolution and influences on m...

    $1,280.00

  • GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION HANDBOOK FOR WATER RESOURCES AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT, VOLUME I
    LYON JOHN G.
    Volume I of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses fundamental characteristics, measurements, and analyses of water features and watersheds including lakes and reservoirs, rivers and streams, and coasts and estuaries. It presents contemporary knowledge on Geospatial Technology (GT)–supported functional analyses of water runoff, st...

    $1,600.00

  • GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION HANDBOOK FOR WATER RESOURCES AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT, VOLUME III
    G. LYON JOHN
    Volume III of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses water and watershed issues such as water quality, evapotranspiration, water resource management, and ecological services. Featured is a two-stage ditch and river geomorphology case study section with related water geospatial applications, including historical image analyses of f...

    $1,600.00

  • LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATION
    JOHN MANNERS-BELL / KEN LYON
    Global disruption, new technologies and changing consumer habits are causing turmoil in the supply chain industry. This book shows businesses how to remain resilient in this dynamic new environment. The supply chain crisis of 2021 exposed the necessity of a sustainable supply chain. The Fourth Industrial Revolution has transformed our society and economy. The logistics and supp...

    $1,049.00

  • THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    KAREN A. MINGST / MARGARET P. KARNS / ALYNNA J. LYON
    The United Nations in the 21st Century, Sixth Edition, provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the UN. It explores the historical, institutional, and theoretical foundations of the UN as well as major global trends and challenges facing the organization today, including changing major power dynamics, new threats to peace and security, the migration and refugee c...

    $1,120.00

  • THE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE OF THE COMMERCIAL COURT
    ANTHONY COLMAN / VICTOR LYON / PHILIPPA HOPKINS
    Practice and Procedures of the Commercial Court is primarily intended as a reference for those who practice in the Court, it also sets those practices and procedures in context, including the Commercial Court’s history. It includes the principles and procedure for obtaining and discharging freezing injunctions and the procedures for The Court’s supervisory jurisdiction over arb...

    $11,700.00

  • THE ART OF COOKING OMELETTES
    ROMAINE DE LYON
    The chef behind NYC's legendary Mme. Romaine de Lyon shares her secrets, stories, and more than 500 recipes for exquisite omelettes. For sixty-five years, Madame Romaine de Lyon made a name for herself at her eponymous Midtown restaurant where she served only eggs. Romaine dedicated herself to the perfect execution of the omelette, winning world-wide acclaim and a loyal followi...

    $251.00

  • POLITICIANS IN THE PULPIT
    EILEEN GROTH LYON
    First published in 1999, the world of Christian radicalism in the first half of the nineteenth century is reconstructed here with thorough research by Eileen Groth Lyon. Christian radicals, during this period, sought to incite political action through the use of Scripture, using such themes as the rights of man as founded in God’s gift of creation, the deliverance of oppressed ...

    $980.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS, SENSOR SYSTEMS, SPECTRAL LIBRARIES, AND DATA MINING FOR VEGETATION
    PRASAD S. THENKABAIL, JOHN G. LYON AND ALFREDO HUETE
    Written by leading global experts, including pioneers in the field, the four-volume set on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation, Second Edition, reviews existing state-of-the-art knowledge, highlights advances made in different areas, and provides guidance for the appropriate use of hyperspectral data in the study and management of agricultural crops and natural vegetatio...

    $1,340.00

  • HYPERSPECTRAL INDICES AND IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE AND VEGETATION
    PRASAD S. THENKABAIL, JOHN G. LYON AND ALFREDO HUETE
    Written by leading global experts, including pioneers in the field, the four-volume set on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation, Second Edition, reviews existing state-of- the-art knowledge, highlights advances made in different areas, and provides guidance for the appropriate use of hyperspectral data in the study and management of agricultural crops and natural vegetati...

    $1,340.00

  • MODERN EMPLOYMENT LAW
    CHARLES BARROW / ANN LYON
    Modern Employment Law covers all aspects relating to the employment relationship between employer and employee at both individual and collective levels. All chapters are absorbing and exact, with nuanced topics such as unfair dismissal, discrimination and trade union law being explored from several different angles. Pedagogical features such as Thinking points and Further readi...

    $1,120.00

  • SAN FRANCISCO NOIR
    FRED LYON
    This collection by the acclaimed photographer reveals the shadowy side of the City by the Bay. Following in the footsteps of classic films like The Maltese Falcon and The Lady from Shanghai, veteran photographer Fred Lyon creates images of San Francisco in high contrast with a sense of mystery. In this latest offering from the photographer of San Francisco: Portrait of a City 1...

    $399.00

  • THE ELDERLY
    MARTIN LYON LEVINE
    Aging is a public health priority that is becoming increasingly important in both developed and less developed nations, with individual health care providers and law-makers each facing difficult ethical and policy dilemmas. The complex issues physicians deal with include informed consent and patient decision-making capacity, use of advance care planning and decision-making by f...

    $1,240.00

  • CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE UK
    ANN LYON
    An appreciation of the development and evolution of the United Kingdom constitution is vital in order to understand the existing nature of the constitution, proposals for reform and the many complex challenges it faces. Ann Lyon presents a vivid overview of fourteen hundred years of English legal history taking us on a rich journey from a feudal society to the fractured Union o...

    $1,480.00

  • DESIGN EDUCATION
    PHILIPPA LYON
    Embracing the richness, complexity and possibilities of learning and teaching in design, Design Education takes the vantage point of the 'outsider' and explores what makes design so compulsively fascinating for those who teach and study it. Through more than 40 projects, from design students' use of archives and museum collections to the potential of specific technologies to en...

    $1,120.00

  • DECENTRALISATION AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ETHNIC CONFLICT
    AISLING LYON
    Ethnic inequalities in divided societies can exacerbate social divisions and lead to conflict. Reducing these inequalities could have a de-escalating effect, yet there is little consensus on how this can be achieved most effectively and sustainably. Decentralisation is held to improve inter-ethnic relations in multi-ethnic states by allowing territorially concentrated groups gr...

    $780.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL HYDROLOGY
    ANDY D. WARD / STANLEY W. TRIMBLE / SUZETTE R. BURCKHARD / JOHN G. LYON
    The late Professor Reds Wolman in his Foreword to the award-winning second edition said, "This is not your ordinary textbook. Environmental Hydrology is indeed a textbook, but five elements often found separately combine here in one text to make it different. It is eclectic, practical, in places a handbook, a guide to fieldwork, engagingly personal ...

    $4,000.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL HYDROLOGY
    ANDY D. WARD / STANLEY W. TRIMBLE / SUZETTE R. BURCKHARD / JOHN G. LYON
    The late Professor Reds Wolman in his Foreword to the award-winning second edition said, "This is not your ordinary textbook. Environmental Hydrology is indeed a textbook, but five elements often found separately combine here in one text to make it different. It is eclectic, practical, in places a handbook, a guide to fieldwork, engagingly personal ...

    $4,000.00

  • THE LONG-TERM ADEQUACY OF WORLD TIMBER SUPPLY
    ROGER A. SEDJO / KENNETH S. LYON
    Projecting modest future growth for both prices and harvest levels, this study, first published in 1990, provides theoretical and empirical justification for challenging the conventional wisdom that real timber prices will rise for the indefinite future. The study presents fifty-year projections of regional and world harvest levels, world market price, and investments in forest...

    $1,160.00

  • THE FICTION OF HISTORY
    ALEXANDER LYON MACFIE
    The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history and fiction, emphasising the tensions and dilemmas created in this relationship and examining how various writers have dealt with these. In the first part, two chapters discuss the philosophy behind the connection between fiction and history, whether history is fiction, and the distinction be...

    $1,380.00

  • EASTERN QUESTION 1774-1923, THE
    ALEXANDER LYON MACFIE
    A clear and concise guide to the Eastern Question - the problem facing the European states of how to react to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. A L MacFie's study shows how the question was a major factor in shaping the policies of all the major powers from the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-74 down to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. ...

    $1,120.00

  • ORIENTALISM
    ALEXANDER LYON MACFIE
    At a crucial moment in the history of relations of East and West, Orient and Occident, Christianity and Islam, Orientalism provides a timely account of the subject and the debate. In the 1960s and 1970s a powerful assault was launched on 'orientalism', led by Edward Said. The debate ranged far beyond the traditional limits of 'dry-as-dust' orientalism, involving questions conce...

    $1,240.00

  • THE END OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1908-1923
    ALEXANDER LYON MACFIE
    The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of our own times. From its ruins rose a whole map of new countries including Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the perennially troubled area of Palestine as well as the Balkan lands - states which were to remain flashpoints of international tension. This thoughtful and lucid volume considers t...

    $1,380.00

  • WITH A HAMMER FOR MY HEART
    GEORGE ELLA LYON
    "A story rich in precise, gorgeous language . . . Tragedies old and new weave a tiny Kentucky town into the center of the universe."— Booklist (starred review)   With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attending college. When Lawanda's friendship with an alcoholic World War II ...

    $251.00

  • FOUNDATIONS OF CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST PRACTICE
    FULTON, JANET S. / LYON, BRENDA L.
    2014 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Advanced Practice Nursing, First PlaceDesignated a Doody's Core Title!"This widely acclaimed resource has been improved with this update. It is an excellent addition to the library of clinical nurse specialist students, faculty, and current practitioners. The release of the second edition ensures that the information is current for the ...

    $2,217.00

  • ATATURK
    ALEXANDER LYON MACFIE
    This concise account of the life and career of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881--1938), the formidable "founder of modern Turkey", offers a substantial revaluation of a key figure in modern history, and also an introduction to the Turkish republic itself. It is a timely study with Turkey again at the centre of international attention, as Islamic fundamentalists challenge many of Ata...

    $1,900.00

  • MINISTRY OF HOSPITAL CHAPLAINS
    MARJORIE A LYON
    Evaluating the success of hospital chaplaincy has been a difficult task, but finally an effective approach has been developed. Ministry of Hospital Chaplains: Patient Satisfaction presents the Patient Satisfaction Instrument for Pastoral Care (PSI) which measures the quality and character of spiritual care and can contribute to the establishment of professional norms. To find o...

    $1,420.00

  • BRITAIN AND CANADA
    PETER LYON
    First Published in 1976. This volume, the fourth in the series Studies in Commonwealth Politics and History, looks at one of the oldest bilateral relationships between two Commonwealth countries. It is a group of essays in the general field of international relations and a fitting contribution to Studies in Commonwealth History and Politics. By bringing together studies of indi...

    $1,240.00

  • DEALING WITH DATA
    ARTHUR J. LYON
    Dealing with Data is an introductory course to problems and techniques dealing with data analysis, with emphasis on the physical and engineering sciences. The book starts with the basics of data analysis through non-statistical and non-mathematical assessments of error and uncertainty conditions. Experimental and maximum errors and the use of simple graphical methods are brie...

    $970.00


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