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  • MUSICAL VULNERABILITY
    ELIZABETH H. MACGREGOR
    Since the early twenty- first century, music education across the world has been shaped by neoliberal discourse extolling the benefits of music upon academic achievement, health and wellbeing, and social development. However, such benefits are far from universal; on the contrary, music- making often reveals our shortcomings and dependencies. This highlights an urgent need for m...

    $1,240.00

  • TRAJECTORIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
    GRAEME HAYES, SIKINA JINNAH, PRAKASH KASHWAN, DAVID M. KONISKY, SHERILYN MACGREGOR, JOHN M. MEYER AN
    This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics. The book has two purposes. The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics o...

    $1,200.00

  • JANE DOE #9
    LIZZETTE MARTINEZ / KEELIN MACGREGOR
    "Survivors need to see strength and perseverance . . . and Lizzette models just that." —Melissa Schuman, actress and singer In January of 1995, seventeen-year-old Lizzette Martinez met Grammy–winning musician and record producer R. Kelly at Aventura Mall in Florida where he was performing. At first, it seemed that her hopes of becoming a professional singer were about to come t...

    $229.00

  • THE STORY OF GREECE, TOLD TO BOYS AND GIRLS
    MARY MACGREGOR
    Excerpt: "The story of Greece began long, long ago in a strange wonderland of beauty. Woods and winds, fields and rivers, each had a pathway which led upward and onward into the beautiful land. Sometimes indeed no path was needed, for the rivers, woods, and lone hill-sides were themselves the wonderland of which I am going to tell. In the woods and winds, in the trees and river...

    $39.70

  • THE STORY OF ROME, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF AUGUSTUS, TOLD TO BOYS AND GIRLS
    MARY MACGREGOR
    Excerpt: "Long, long years ago, Troy, one of the great cities in Asia Minor, was taken by the Greeks. Many mighty Trojans had defended their city well, and among them all none had fought more bravely than the prince Æneas. But when Æneas saw that the Greeks had set fire to the city, he fled, carrying, it is said, his father on his shoulders, and grasping by the hand his son Asc...

    $39.70

  • RISK AND SUBSTANCE USE
    SUSANNE MACGREGOR
    This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as ‘dangerous’ and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat. Taking a historical and cross-national perspective, it explores how such groups and spaces are defined and bounded as well as the processes by which th...

    $1,240.00

  • CANOE CRUISE IN PALESTINE EGYPT
    MACGREGOR
    Of all the travels of an adventurous age, none have been more quirky and colourful than this Victorian traverse of the Middle East by canoe. Transported to the Suez Canal by steamer, the Rob Roy - an oak and cedar one-man kayak canoe – slipped into the water at Port Said and began a six months voyage. Stalked by jackals, shadowed by bandits and attacked by crocodiles, MacGregor...

    $780.00

  • THE DEMOCRATS MUST LEAD
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS / WILLIAM J CROTTY / LOIS LOVELACE DUKE / LAWRENCE D LONGLEY
    All over the world, political parties are being born and political pluralism is being fostered. Ironically, here in the United States, the parties are blurring together ideologically, and the political process is suffering. One of the messages of this book is that a vital two-party system is essential to America’s political health. The last thing this country needs, the authors...

    $1,200.00

  • NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA
    MACGREGOR LAIRD / R.A.K. OLDFIELD
    First Published in 1971.  This book detail an attempt to open a direct commercial intercourse with the inhabitants of Central Africa.Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...

    $1,320.00

  • HEGEL, MARX, AND THE ENGLISH STATE
    DAVID MACGREGOR
    In this radically revised intellectual portrait of Hegel and Marx that challenges standard interpretations of their political theory, David MacGregor considers the nature of the state in capitalist society. This is the first book to place Marx’s and Hegel’s political thought directly into social and historical context. Revealing the revolutionary c ...

    $1,200.00

  • REGULATION AND MARKETS BEYOND 2000
    LAURA MACGREGOR / TONY PROSSER
    This title was first published in 2000: The book will be a set of essays addressing various aspects of regulation. It will concentrate on regulation as a precondition of successfully operating markets - by opening up markets and establishing conditions of trust. It will cover a broad range of varied forms of regulation. The book will respond to recent developments, for example,...

    $980.00

  • THE KABBALAH UNVEILED
    S.L. MACGREGOR MATHERS
    The Kabbalah is an esoteric Jewish doctrine adapted by author S.L. MacGregor Mathers to form the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn, an occult organisation. This volume includes three of the critical books from the Zohar, the fundamental work in Kabbalah, as well as Mathers' introduction explaining the key elements of Jewish mysticism. Mathers' translation from Hebrew originally...

    $1,100.00

  • CONTEMPLATIVE APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    MARIE EATON / HOLLY J. HUGHES / JEAN MACGREGOR
    How do we foster in college students the cognitive complexity, ethical development, and personal resolve that are required for living in this "sustainability century"? Tackling these complex and highly interdependent problems requires nuanced interdisciplinary understandings, collective endeavors, systemic solutions, and profound cultural shifts. Contributors in this book prese...

    $1,420.00

  • NEW VISUALITIES, NEW TECHNOLOGIES
    J. MACGREGOR WISE
    Back in the 1980s Jean Baudrillard wrote that public space was collapsing due to a double obscenity: 'The most intimate operation of your life becomes the potential grazing ground of the media....The entire universe also unfolds unnecessarily on your home screen.' He termed this the ecstasy of communication. But today, your everyday life is not just the potential grazing ground...

    $1,460.00

  • ENVIRONMENT AND POLITICS
    TIMOTHY DOYLE / DOUG MCEACHERN / SHERILYN MACGREGOR
    Environment and Politics 4th Edition is a concise introduction to this ever-expanding interdisciplinary field, explaining and illustrating how concepts, conflicts, movements, political systems and the practices of policy-making can be analysed in a systematic way. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes that shape the field, and examines a diverse range of...

    $1,360.00

  • THE COMMUNIST IDEAL IN HEGEL AND MARX (RLE MARXISM)
    DAVID MACGREGOR
    One reader has called this study, first published in 1984, ‘easily the best book on the relation of Hegel to Marx’. With spirited argument, MacGregor demonstrates that Hegelian logic suited Marx’s purpose so well because it already contained the unique elements that later appeared in Marx’s social theory, including the notions of surplus value and the transition to communism. T...

    $1,100.00

  • BRAZILIAN FOLK NARRATIVE SCHOLARSHIP PBDIRECT
    MARY MACGREGOR-VILLARREAL
    Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoticed by folklorists working in other parts of the world. With the exception of anthropologists who occasionally study the folk literature of indigenous peoples in Brazil, few foreigners are familiar with, or even aware of, the kinds o...

    $1,260.00

  • BONE, ANTLER, IVORY AND HORN
    ARTHUR MACGREGOR
    Artefacts made from skeletal materials since the Roman period were, before this book, neglected as a serious area of study. This is a comprehensive account which reviews over fifty categories of artefact. The book starts with a consideration of the formation, morphology and mechanical properties of the materials and illuminates characteristics concerning working with them. Foll...

    $1,360.00

  • PROPERTY INVESTMENT
    MARTIN HOESLI / BRYAN D. MACGREGOR
    Property investment markets and applied property research are now recognised as an increasingly important international phenomenon. Written by two of the most respected academics in the field, this authoritative guide provides a fresh and much needed perspective on this important subject. The book examines the unique characteristics of property investment within the context of ...

    $2,220.00

  • THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.   In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize–­ and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vi...

    $329.00

  • DEVELOPMENT OF DOMINION STATUS 1900-1936
    ROBERT MACGREGOR DAWSON
    First published in 1965.  The peculiar political condition which is now called Dominion status has had a long and varied history; but no part of its development has been so full of constitutional interest as the last twenty years. Yet those who have lived through this period are frequently very much at loss to recall the exact sequence of events and the manner in which Dominion...

    $1,320.00

  • THE ECONOMICS OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MARKETS
    MICHAEL BALL / COLIN LIZIERI / BRYAN MACGREGOR
    This new text provides a rigorous analysis of real estate markets. Three main sections cover: microeconomics of property markets the macroeconomics of commercial property the financial economics of property Global empirical examples illustrate the theories and issues. This often complex area is made accessible: each chapter contains a boxed summary and questions for self-testin...

    $1,800.00

  • ROOSEVELT: THE SOLDIER OF FREEDOM (1940–1945)
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The "engrossing" Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR's final years (Barbara Tuchman).   The second entry in James Macgregor Burns's definitive two-volume biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins with the president's precedent-breaking third term election in 1940, just as Americans were beginning to face the likelihood of war. Here, Burns examines ...

    $274.00

  • ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX (1882–1940)
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    "A brilliant full-length portrait of Franklin Roosevelt the politician"—the first in an award-winning two-volume biography ( The Christian Science Monitor). Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in United States history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. But before his ascension to the presidency, FDR laid th...

    $251.00

  • SOLAR ARCHITECTURE IN COOL CLIMATES
    COLIN PORTEOUS / KERR MACGREGOR
    'A must-read for practitioners, teachers and others interested in or working with energy use in the built environment, including a delightful set of examples' Ann Grete Hestnes, former President of the International Solar Energy Society Solar Architecture in Cool Climates is an invaluable primer on low energy building design, combining accessible information with convincing arg...

    $3,300.00

  • THE CROSSWINDS OF FREEDOM, 1932–1988
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize winner's "immensely readable" history of the United States from FDR's election to the final days of the Cold War ( Publishers Weekly).   The Crosswinds of Freedom is an articulate and incisive examination of the United States during its rise to become the world's sole superpower. Here is a young democracy transformed by the Great Depression, the Second World Wa...

    $251.00

  • THE VINEYARD OF LIBERTY, 1787–1863
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.   The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the ...

    $251.00

  • THE WORKSHOP OF DEMOCRACY, 1863–1932
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The second volume of Burns's acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression   Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government for people of different races, religions, and aspirations. The scars of the Civil War would not so...

    $251.00

  • LEADERSHIP
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. in this "impressive book" ( The Washington Post).   Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse of power by leaders throughout history. In this groundbreaking study, Burns examines the qu...

    $229.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDREN
    JANET MACGREGOR
    Fully updated, this new edition provides an introduction to normal, healthy physical development for all professionals who specialise in working with children. The author, an experienced nurse teacher, guides the reader through the key changes in body systems and functions from embryo to birth through childhood and adolescence. Chapter 1 sets the scene for physical needs in chi...

    $1,100.00


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