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  • SEXUALITY AND THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD
    MARCO MARZANO
    Based on interviews with Roman Catholic seminarians, priests and former priests, as well as with managers of seminaries, teaching staff, psychologists and psychiatrists, this book considers the lives of the clergy, beginning with the period before entering the seminary. With attention to both heterosexual and homosexual relationships – and so addressing the tension that exists ...

    $860.00

  • A HISTORY OF THE GLOBAL WHEAT TRADE
    BERTILORENZI, MARCO
    During the second half of the 19th century, a new global market for wheat came to the fore. Ever since, scarce and perishable food has been transformed into a modern global commodity, millions of tons of which is sold, bought, and transported across the oceans, providing the “daily bread” for a fast-growing world population. This book explores the historical origin of the globa...

    $1,240.00

  • TEACHING DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
    LINA AHMAD AND MARCO SOSA
    Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity explores how creativity can be integrated into sustainability education within the built environment. Through diverse international case studies, the book emphasizes the importance of creative approaches, community engagement, and hands-on learning, in addressing complex environmental challenges, f...

    $640.00

  • LOYALTY MANAGEMENT
    CRISTINA ZILIANI / MARCO IEVA
    In this insightful text, Cristina Ziliani and Marco Ieva trace the evolution of thinking, contemporary themes and practice in loyalty management. Loyalty management is increasingly identified with the design and management of a quality customer experience in the journey across the many touchpoints that connect the customer with the brand. Evaluating the research on best practic...

    $1,260.00

  • THE BIBLE AND THITE IN MONEY
    MARCO TANZI
    What is tithe in the Christian church? Is it true that if we do not give 10% of our paycheck to the church we rob God? This book, based on the Bible, is rich in biblical references to help us truly understand what tithe is, starting with Abraham when he gave tithe to Melchisedek, continuing through the Old Testament, and finally dealing with tithe as dealt with by Jesus Christ ...

    $205.00

  • O DÍZIMO EM DINHEIRO NA BÍBLIA
    MARCO TANZI
    O que é o dízimo na igreja cristã? É verdade que se não dermos 10% do nosso salário à igreja roubamos a Deus? Este livro, baseado na Bíblia, é rico em referências bíblicas para que possamos compreender o que verdadeiramente é o dízimo, partindode quando Abraão deu o dízimo a Melquisedeque, passando per Antigo Testamento, até chegar no tratamendo do dízimo com Jesus Cristo e o N...

    $61.00

  • BRAND ACTIVISM
    MARCO SCALVINI
    This book critically examines how brands determine the visibility of social issues through their advertising practices, informing the ways we are persuaded to feel, think, and act as consumers and citizens. Through a critical analysis of brand responses to ongoing geopolitical events, such as the Ukrainian conflict and the war in Gaza, Scalvini demonstrates how commercial objec...

    $640.00

  • CONTESTED HERITAGE IN EUROPE AND AFRICA
    MARCO ZOPPI
    This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immaterial forms of representation, commemoration, and memorialization. Recent waves of protest around the world have called for restitution of looted African art, and toppled statues and vandalized monuments which are connected to white suprematism, colonialism, a...

    $1,140.00

  • MODELING AND SIMULATION OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
    WAEL A. ALTABEY / MOHAMMAD NOORI / AHMED SILIK / MARCO DOMANESCHI / WEIXING HONG
    As transport networks become more congested, there is a growing need to adopt policies that manage demand and make full use of existing assets. Advances in information technology are now such that intelligent transportation systems (ITS) offer real potential to meet this challenge by monitoring current conditions, predicting what might happen in the future, and providing the me...

    $3,000.00

  • SUSTAINABILITY BEYOND 2030
    MARCO TAVANTI / ALFREDO SFEIR-YOUNIS
    Sustainability Beyond 2030: Trajectories and Priorities for Our Sustainable Future is an indispensable guide to understanding our planet's sustainability past, present, and future. It is a tool for enlightenment, engagement, and empowerment towards shaping a sustainable world as we approach the milestone year of 2030. Written by renowned sustainability experts, Marco Tavanti an...

    $1,120.00

  • REGULATION OF OUTER SPACE
    MARCO FERRAZZANI
    This edited book focuses on how States should regulate activities in space and explores strategies to advance State responsible behaviour to ensure sustainable use and effective protection of outer space for peaceful purposes. The time seems ripe to bring international law into the space sustainability discourse. The concept of sustainable development was conceptualized by the ...

    $1,240.00

  • METAVERSE AND TOURISM
    MARCO VALERI
    This innovative and timely book presents an in-depth analysis of how the metaverse revolutionizes tourism management, transforms consumer behaviour and motivates tourists to visit destinations. Adorned with illustrative tables, figures and diagrams throughout, the volume is data-led and explores how metaverse experiences affect tourist satisfaction and loyalty toward metaverse ...

    $1,240.00

  • PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE EXPLORATIONS
    RAY TOAL / SAGE STRIEKER / MARCO BERARDINI
    Programming Language Explorations helps its readers gain proficiency in programming language practice and theory by presenting both example-focused, chapter-length explorations of fourteen important programming languages and detailed discussions of the major concepts transcending multiple languages. A language-by-language approach is sandwiched between an introductory chapter t...

    $1,100.00

  • LEADERSHIP AS PERFORMANCE
    MARCO APONTE-MORENO
    Leadership as Performance: Developing Leadership Skills through Acting is based on the premise that leadership is a performance, a role played by leaders to inspire followers to achieve a shared goal. The book explores how acting techniques can facilitate the development of leadership skills. For this purpose, it introduces the SPACE model of leadership development, which is ba...

    $1,000.00

  • ANOMIE
    MARCO ORRU
    First published in 1987, Anomie examines essential moments of Western thought, tracing the complex concept of anomie. The Greek origin of the term (a-nomia, absence of joy) relates it to the notions of disorder, inequity and anarchy. 20th century sociology has long called into question an over simple dichotomy between law and the absence of law. The book shows that this questio...

    $860.00

  • FUZZY LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS
    MARCO RUSSO
    With low computational complexity and relatively short development time, Fuzzy Logic is an indispensable tool for engineering applications. The field is growing at an unprecedented rate, and there is a need for a book that describes essential tools, applications, examples, and perspectives in the field of fuzzy learning. The editors of Fuzzy Learni ...

    $2,220.00

  • THE UNCONSCIOUS IN NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
    MARCO MÁXIMO BALZARINI
    The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis presents a unique and provocative approach to the assimilation of these two disciplines while offering a thorough assessment of the unconscious from a neuropsychoanalytic and Lacanian perspective. Marco Máximo Balzarini offers a comprehensive overview of Freud’s theory of the unconscious and its importance within psychoanalysis...

    $920.00

  • THE ECONOMICS OF LIBRARIES
    MARCO FERDINANDO MARTORANA / ILDE RIZZO
    Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain. The Economics of Libraries highlights the economic importance of the library sector. Providing an accessible and concise expert overview of the most...

    $640.00

  • ORGANIZATIONAL COMPASSION
    ACE VOLKMANN SIMPSON / MIGUEL PINA E CUNHA / STEWART CLEGG / ARMÉNIO REGO / MARCO BERTI
    Organizational compassion provides a multitude of benefits at individual, team and organizational levels. These encompass heightened positive affect, trust, engagement, loyalty, performance, resilience, and recovery. This important book provides an accessible yet scholarly overview of key academic findings and theories on organizational compassion. It equips readers with tools ...

    $1,240.00

  • ON SOULSRING WORLDS
    MARCO CARACCIOLO
    The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal. Arguing that the games are strategically positioned in relation to contemporary audiences and designed to tap into the new forms of interpretation afforded by d...

    $640.00

  • THE PEOPLE OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
    JOHN MARCO ALLEGRO
    First published in 1959, The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls gives a complete pictorial record of the dramatic story of the Dead Sea Scrolls – actually shows the places where the Scrolls were found, as well as the desert and caves in which the people of the Scrolls lived just before the dawn of Christianity. The striking photographs tell the exciting story of the discovery of th...

    $860.00

  • INNOVATION STRATEGIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN TOURISM
    MARCO VALERI
    This book analyzes the importance of innovation as the key driver of sustained success in the tourism industry and the knowledge sharing process. It explores its impact on innovation capability and innovation performance of organizations. With 12 chapters written by 22 contributors, the book offers international reflections. The first part of the book focuses on innovation mana...

    $1,160.00

  • DASHBOARD DESIGN
    MICHAEL BURCH / MARCO SCHMID
    Interactive visualization and visual analytics tools have been designed and developed in the past and will be developed in the future as well. In each application domain in which data is measured, generated, and recorded we see a potential candidate for an interactive visualization tool with the goal to find insights and knowledge in the data. This knowledge can be found either...

    $2,800.00

  • A PEN AND PAPER INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS
    ANTONIO MARCO
    Statistics is central in the biosciences, social sciences and other disciplines, yet many students often struggle to learn how to perform statistical tests, and to understand how and why statistical tests work. Although there are many approaches to teaching statistics, a common framework exists between them: starting with probability and distributions, then sampling from distri...

    $980.00

  • LIQUID ARCHITECTURE
    PIERANGELO MARCO SCRAVAGLIERI
    Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial protocols and explores what the built environment might look like when viewed through the lenses of a ‘wet ontology’ that is attentive to fluid...

    $1,240.00

  • THE TREASURE OF THE COPPER SCROLL
    JOHN MARCO ALLEGRO
    First published in 1960, The Treasure of the Copper Scroll is the companion volume to John Marco Allegro’s People of the Dead Sea Scrolls and tells the story of this unusual, buried treasure. Allegro here reveals much hitherto unknown information – the location of many of the cities of the Old Testament, events of the second Jewish Revolt, and the relation between the Essene co...

    $840.00

  • ARCHITECTING DATA AND MACHINE LEARNING PLATFORMS
    MARCO TRANQUILLIN / VALLIAPPA LAKSHMANAN / FIRAT TEKINER
    All cloud architects need to know how to build data platforms that enable businesses to make data-driven decisions and deliver enterprise-wide intelligence in a fast and efficient way. This handbook shows you how to design, build, and modernize cloud native data and machine learning platforms using AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and multicloud tools like Snowflake and Databricks. Au...

    $761.00

  • SMALL STEPS, BIG CHANGES
    CHRIS CONFER / MARCO RAMIREZ
    During the past two decades, Chris Confer and Marco Ramirez have worked to deepen and improve mathematics instruction at schools around the country. Wherever they go, they find the raw ingredients for success already present: The potential for positive change lies within each school. Abundance is present in the form of capable children, teachers, coaches, and principals. Potent...

    $740.00

  • NARRATIVES ON PRISON GOVERNMENTALITY
    MARCO NOCENTE
    Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners. The collection of testimonies represents the opportunities and difficulties of resisting in a place of power, which, in recent years, has become more sophisticated and effective. In recent years there has been a progressive individualisation of the prison populatio...

    $1,160.00

  • SOURDOUGH INNOVATIONS
    MARCO GARCIA-VAQUERO AND JOÃO MIGUEL F. ROCHA
    Sourdough fermentation was probably one of the first microbial processes employed by mankind for the production and preservation of food. This practice is still widely used worldwide due to the distinct sensorial and health properties attributed to these products. Traditional sourdough bread is achieved by spontaneous fermentations, leading to natural selections of microorganis...

    $1,840.00