Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: macleod

138 resultados

macleod Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • PUBLIC SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
    ebook
    PUBLIC SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
    ROY M. MACLEOD
    This book comprises nine essays, selected from Roy MacLeod's work on the social history of Victorian science, and is concerned with the analysis of science as a responsibility and opportunity for 19th-century statecraft. It illuminates the origins of environmental regulation, the creation of scientific inspectorates, the reform of scientific institutions, and the association of...

    $1,100.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE 'CREED OF SCIENCE' IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
    ebook
    THE 'CREED OF SCIENCE' IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
    ROY M. MACLEOD
    The nineteenth century, which saw the triumph of the idea of progress and improvement, saw also the triumph of science as a political and cultural force. In England, as science and its methods claimed privilege and space, its language acquired the vocabulary of religion. The new ’creed’ of science embraced what John Tyndall called the ’scientific movement’; it was, in the langu...

    $1,480.00

    Ver detalle
  • LITERARY FICTION TOURISM
    ebook
    LITERARY FICTION TOURISM
    NICOLA E. MACLEOD
    This timely and insightful book critically reviews the synergistic relationship between books, literary culture, and the practices of tourism. The volume sets literary fiction tourism within its historical, theoretical, and managerial context and explores the current provision of literary tourism sites and experiences. It focuses on literary fiction and the interplay between im...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle
  • A TEXAS RANGER
    ebook
    A TEXAS RANGER
    WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
    Excerpt: "Within the memory of those of us still on the sunny side of forty the more remote West has passed from rollicking boyhood to its responsible majority. The frontier has gone to join the good Indian. In place of the ranger who patrolled the border for “bad men” has come the forest ranger, type of the forward lapping tide of civilization. The place where I write this—Tuc...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • IRONHEART
    ebook
    IRONHEART
    WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
    Excerpt: "A thin wisp of smoke drifted up from the camp at the edge of the wash. It rose languidly, as though affected by the fact that the day was going to be a scorcher. Already, though the morning was young, a fiery sun beat down on the sand so that heat waves shimmered in the air. Occasionally a spark from the crackling cottonwood limbs was caught by a dust whirl and carrie...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • THE WAY TO INCLUSION
    ebook
    THE WAY TO INCLUSION
    JULIE CAUSTON / KATE MACLEOD / KRISTIE PRETTI-FRONTCZAK / JENNA MANCINI RUFO / PAUL GORDON
    The research is clear: Including students with disabilities in general education classrooms is the most effective way for all students to learn.If you are working toward greater inclusivity in your school or system, this book from educators and inclusion experts Julie Causton, Kate MacLeod, Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, Jenna Mancini Rufo, and Paul Gordon is an invaluable guide for...

    $550.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE SARAH KELLING AND MAX BITTERSOHN MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
    ebook
    THE SARAH KELLING AND MAX BITTERSOHN MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    The first three novels featuring the sleuthing Boston couple: "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea." — Chicago Tribune Packed with wit, simmering romance, and complicated crimes, the whodunits in this delightfully cozy collection from the two-time Edgar Award finalist include: The Family Vault An aging burlesque star's fresh corpse turns up in an old family ...

    $447.00

    Ver detalle
  • DISEASE, MEDICINE AND EMPIRE
    ebook
    DISEASE, MEDICINE AND EMPIRE
    ROY MACLEOD AND MILTON LEWIS
    Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of ...

    $920.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE FIGHTING EDGE
    ebook
    THE FIGHTING EDGE
    WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
    After the main character is beaten and humiliated in front of his new wife and townsfolk, he sets out to cure himself of cowardice. Along the way he learns his worth and this makes a very good story. Set in the Wild West, this story does a good job of describing some of the tensions with the Indian tribe "Utes" as well as some of the other challenges facing small cattle towns i...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • THE SISTERS D' ARANYI
    ebook
    THE SISTERS D' ARANYI
    JOSEPH MACLEOD
    First published in 1969, The Sisters d' Aranyi traces the careers, personalities and musical development of Jelly d’ Aranyi and Adila Fachiri, outstanding violinists in Britain and Hungarian great nieces of Josef Joachim, with insight and a wealth of anecdote and description. The book contains fresh lights on figures such as Joachim himself, Elgar, Ravel and Vaughan Williams, C...

    $960.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE NEW SOVIET THEATRE
    ebook
    THE NEW SOVIET THEATRE
    JOSEPH MACLEOD
    First Published in 1943, The New Soviet Theatre presents Joseph Macleod’s take on the development and rapid changes in the Soviet Theatre since late 1930s. Through scattered articles and reports, books and bulletins, and his own visits to the USSR, Macleod showcases what we know as ‘Socialist Realism’. He brings themes like the shortcomings of the old theatre; the audience beyo...

    $860.00

    Ver detalle
  • A SOVIET THEATRE SKETCH BOOK
    ebook
    A SOVIET THEATRE SKETCH BOOK
    JOSEPH MACLEOD
    First Published in 1951, A Soviet Theatre Sketch Book presents Joseph Macleod’s take on Russian Theatre in a semi-fictional way to show the effect of the productions upon different audiences. By using his pen as an artist uses his pencil, he gives, for the first time, an account of theatre audiences as composed of individual human beings and is able to paint the scenes vividly ...

    $860.00

    Ver detalle
  • PEOPLE OF FLORENCE
    ebook
    PEOPLE OF FLORENCE
    JOSEPH MACLEOD
    First Published in 1968, People of Florence raises the question what makes a city? This is neither a guidebook nor a typical sociological treatise, but the portrait of a people. Trinkets of history are lightly painted in to give background to what the author calls ‘locality’: Florence of today as formed by her past and by the physical conditions of Tuscany. Two principal chapte...

    $920.00

    Ver detalle
  • CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TRAINING
    ebook
    CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TRAINING
    NORMAN MACLEOD
    The book provides a data-driven approach to real-world crew resource management (CRM) applicable to commercial pilot performance. It addresses the shift to a systems-based resilience thinking that aims to understand how worker performance provides a buffer against failure. This book will be the first to bring these ideas together. Taking a competence-based approach offers a mor...

    $1,060.00

    Ver detalle
  • TOURISTS AND TOURISM
    ebook
    TOURISTS AND TOURISM
    SIMONE ABRAM / JACQUELINE WALDREN / DONALD V.L. MACLEOD
    The fact that tourism is a major global industry forecast to continue its dramatic growth well into the twenty-first century is often cited as a rationale for its analysis. However, while the connection between individual locations and the world's global markets is an obvious product of tourism, the heart of the tourist experience is the construction of identity: the relation o...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • MUSEUMS AND DESIGN FOR CREATIVE LIVES
    ebook
    MUSEUMS AND DESIGN FOR CREATIVE LIVES
    SUZANNE MACLEOD
    Museums and Design for Creative Lives questions what we sacrifice when we allow economic imperatives to shape public museums, whilst also considering the implications of these new museum realities. It also asks: how might we instead design for creative lives? Drawing together 28 case studies of museum design spanning 70 years, the book explores the spatial and social forms that...

    $1,000.00

    Ver detalle
  • FROM BEHAVING TO BELONGING
    ebook
    FROM BEHAVING TO BELONGING
    JULIE CAUSTON / KATE MACLEOD
    Challenging behavior is one of the most significant issues educators face. Though it may seem radical to use words like love, compassion, and heart when we talk about behavior and discipline, the compassionate and heartfelt words, actions, and strategies teachers employ in the classroom directly shape who students are—and who they will become. But how can teaching from th...

    $550.00

    Ver detalle
  • CLIFFORD K. MADSEN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO MUSIC EDUCATION AND MUSIC THERAPY
    ebook
    CLIFFORD K. MADSEN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO MUSIC EDUCATION AND MUSIC THERAPY
    JESSICA NÁPOLES / REBECCA B. MACLEOD
    Clifford K. Madsen’s Contributions to Music Education and Music Therapy: Love of Learning summarizes the life and work of Dr. Clifford Madsen, a luminary in music education and author of a dozen books, the first recipient of the Senior Researcher Award from the Music Educators National Conference, and mentor and teacher to generations of music educators and music therapists. Th...

    $660.00

    Ver detalle
  • A GENEALOGY OF PUBERTY SCIENCE
    ebook
    A GENEALOGY OF PUBERTY SCIENCE
    PEDRO PINTO / CATRIONA MACLEOD
    A Genealogy of Puberty Science explores the modern invention of puberty as a scientific object. Drawing on Foucault’s genealogical analytic, Pinto and Macleod trace the birth of puberty science in the early 1800s and follow its expansion and shifting discursive frameworks over the course of two centuries. Offering a critical inquiry into the epistemological and political roots ...

    $1,260.00

    Ver detalle
  • A WAR OF IDEAS
    ebook
    A WAR OF IDEAS
    EMMA VINCENT MACLEOD
    The responses of British people to the French Revolution has recently received considerable attention from historians. British commentators often expressed a sense of the novelty and scale of European wars which followed, yet their views on this conflict have not yet attracted such thorough examination. This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the attitudes of various gro...

    $980.00

    Ver detalle
  • TEACHING STRINGS IN TODAY'S CLASSROOM
    ebook
    TEACHING STRINGS IN TODAY'S CLASSROOM
    REBECCA MACLEOD
    Teaching Strings in Today’s Classroom: A Guide for Group Instruction assists music education students, in-service teachers, and performers to realize their goals of becoming effective string educators. It introduces readers to the school orchestra environment, presents the foundational concepts needed to teach strings, and provides opportunities for the reader to apply this inf...

    $1,340.00

    Ver detalle
  • ACTORS CROSS THE VOLGA
    ebook
    ACTORS CROSS THE VOLGA
    JOSEPH MACLEOD
    First published in 1946. In this study of Russian theatre, the author explores the developments of drama and the theatre throughout the nineteenth-century. Macleod examines imperial and serf theatres, the impact of Russian drama on the east and west, and the regeneration of theatre at the start of the twentieth-century. This title will be of great interest to students of Theatr...

    $1,060.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE PSYCHIATRY OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
    ebook
    THE PSYCHIATRY OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
    SANDY MACLEOD
    This Second Edition of The Psychiatry of Palliative Medicine remains a practical and pragmatic distillation of the psychiatry relevant to the terminally ill. Revised throughout and greatly expanded by the addition of two entirely new chapters, it reviews the major psychiatric syndromes encountered in palliative care - depression, anxiety, delirium - and examines psychopharmacol...

    $1,640.00

    Ver detalle
  • BAD NEWS FROM VENEZUELA
    ebook
    BAD NEWS FROM VENEZUELA
    ALAN MACLEOD
    Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an important news item. Western coverage is shaped by the cultural milieu of its journalists, with news written from New York or London by non-specialists or by those staying inside wealthy guarded enclaves in an intensely segregated Caracas. Journalists mainly work with English-speaking elites and have l...

    $640.00

    Ver detalle
  • AIN'T NO MAKIN' IT
    ebook
    AIN'T NO MAKIN' IT
    JAY MACLEOD
    This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 1987 publication of Ain't No Makin' It, Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the 'Brothers' and the 'Hallway Hangers'. Their story of poverty, race, and def...

    $1,460.00

    Ver detalle
  • THIN-FILM OPTICAL FILTERS
    ebook
    THIN-FILM OPTICAL FILTERS
    H. ANGUS MACLEOD
    Praise for prior editions "an excellent treatise of thin film coatings, explaining how to produce all sorts of different filters selected according to the function they are required to play… an indispensable text for every filter manufacturer and user and an excellent guide for students." ―Contemporary Physics "essential reading for all those involved in the design, manufacture...

    $1,360.00

    Ver detalle
  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: PAUL TILLICH (1973)
    ebook
    ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: PAUL TILLICH (1973)
    ALISTAIR MACLEOD
    First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosophical parts of his theological system. It is argued that despite the apparent simplicity in his interest in the ‘question of being’, Tillich in fact conceives of the ontological ente...

    $980.00

    Ver detalle
  • BUILDING SAFE SYSTEMS IN AVIATION
    ebook
    BUILDING SAFE SYSTEMS IN AVIATION
    NORMAN MACLEOD
    Building Safe Systems in Aviation provides a single source for those who need to progress beyond current models of Crew Resource Management (CRM) to developing safe systems in critical industries. Although the primary focus is on airline pilots, the principles apply to all sectors of aviation, particularly maintenance and cabin crew, as well as other high-risk industries. It sy...

    $1,420.00

    Ver detalle
  • TRAINING DESIGN IN AVIATION
    ebook
    TRAINING DESIGN IN AVIATION
    NORMAN MACLEOD
    Well structured training, based on sound theoretical principles, can transform the system in which high performance is essential and in turn, the organisation. Yet the strategic role of cost-effective training provision is often less well understood than it might be in all branches of aviation - whether civil or regional, general, business or military. This book analyzes the ...

    $1,380.00

    Ver detalle
  • LANGUAGE AS A SCIENTIFIC TOOL
    ebook
    LANGUAGE AS A SCIENTIFIC TOOL
    MILES MACLEOD, ROCÍO G. SUMILLERA, JAN SURMAN AND EKATERINA SMIRNOVA
    Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various e...

    $1,280.00

    Ver detalle

01 02 03 04 05 »