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  • WHAT SHOULD INDIVIDUALS DO ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
    MARION HOURDEQUIN / DAN C. SHAHAR
    Climate change is a pressing problem. Does each of us have a moral responsibility to help tackle it? In this volume, Marion Hourdequin and Dan Shahar debate the timely issue of individual behavior and climate change, examining what it takes to live morally in a warming world. Hourdequin argues there are important reasons for people to translate their concerns about climate chan...

    $1,040.00

  • LIVING IN A MAN-MADE WORLD
    MARION ROBERTS
    There are powerful assumptions about gender divisions inscribed in the built environment. Housing is the site of some complex processes in society. In making and remaking their homes, women and men define their place in the world and are defined by it. Taking a historical perspective, Living in a Man-Made World (originally published in 1991) is the first to make a complete exam...

    $1,480.00

  • THE POLITICS OF COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE UNITED STATES
    NANCY E. MARION / KIMBERLY J. HUFGARD
    This book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the crime of human trafficking. The objective is not just to recognize the nature and impact of human trafficking but to understand the ...

    $1,160.00

  • TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
    MARION BROOME
    AJN Book of the Year Winner in Leadership and Management!Bolster your leadership skills to inspire and maximize your team's capability and capacityThis award-winning text helps students of nurse leadership to master the competencies they need to effectively lead in today's complex health organizations. The updated fourth edition offers greater opportunities for readers to acces...

    $2,039.00

  • UNDERSTANDING INSTRUCTIONALLY USEFUL ASSESSMENT
    CARLA EVANS / SCOTT MARION
    Understanding Instructionally Useful Assessment offers new insights into how various types of assessments, from the state to the classroom, will differ in their usefulness for supporting instructional decision-making and student learning. In order to most effectively serve students, it is essential that educators avoid conflating the assessment information that teachers use for...

    $860.00

  • CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION, RISK MANAGEMENT, AND RESILIENCE
    KELLEY A. PESCH-CRONIN / NANCY E. MARION
    This second edition of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience continues to be an essential resource for understanding and protecting critical infrastructure across the U.S. Revised and thoroughly updated throughout, the textbook reflects and addresses the many changes that have occurred in critical infrastructure protection and risk management since...

    $1,900.00

  • THE CHALLENGES OF WORKING WITH CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND HOW A PSYCHOANALYTIC UNDERSTANDING CAN HELP
    MARION BOWER, ROBIN SOLOMON
    Sexual exploitation is becoming endemic in our society. It involves victims being coerced to enter abusive sexual relationships with individuals or gangs. It can occur with children from care homes – or from more privileged backgrounds. Sexual exploitation is so addictive that it is really difficult to extract the victims. This is the first book that we are aware of that examin...

    $1,120.00

  • AN EXPERIMENT IN LEISURE
    MARION MILNER
    'Before I began this experiment I had always been haunted by the feeling that the surface of life, what everyone said about it, was quite different from the reality of life, that the important things that were happening all the time were on the whole quite different from what was said about them.' - Marion Milner What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How muc...

    $520.00

  • A LIFE OF ONE'S OWN
    MARION MILNER
    'This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence.' - Marion Milner, from A Life of One’s Own. How often do we really ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?' In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner, a renowned British psyc...

    $520.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO CYBERPSYCHOLOGY
    GRÁINNE KIRWAN, IRENE CONNOLLY, HANNAH BARTON, AND MARION PALMER
    This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements: essay questions, chapter summary, MCQs, popup definitions, useful website and audio or video links. An Introduction to Cyberpsychology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing discipline. Fully updated in its second edition, the book encourages students to critically evaluate the psychology of online ...

    $1,179.00

  • VISUAL RESEARCH
    JEROME W. CROWDER / JONATHAN S. MARION
    Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually, Second Edition, provides an accessible introduction to doing visual research in the social sciences. Beginning with ethical considerations, this book highlights the importance of thinking visually before engaging in visual research. Further themes involve creating, organizing, and using images and are presented so as...

    $1,120.00

  • FOODS & NUTRITION ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2ND EDITION, VOLUME 1
    MARION EUGENE ENSMINGER / AUDREY H. ENSMINGER
    Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition is the updated, expanded version of what has been described as a "monumental, classic work." This new edition contains more than 2,400 pages; 1,692 illustrations, 96 of which are full-color photographs; 2,800 entries (topics); and 462 tables, including a table of 2,500 food compositions. A comprehensive index enables you to find inf...

    $1,760.00

  • POSTDIGITAL DISCONNECTS
    MARION MATHIER
    This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insights from Switzerland to unpack the disconnects that arise in thinking postdigitally and ways forward for rethinking socio-cultural approaches. Grounded in Foucault-influenced, linguistically-oriented discourse studies, the book call...

    $1,240.00

  • TRANSFORMING INDIGENOUS HIGHER EDUCATION
    MARION KICKETT / PAT DUDGEON / TREVOR SATOUR / DARRYL KICKETT / ANITA LEE HONG / GLENIS GROGAN / DENNIS EG
    An engaging guide for future best-practice, this book provides an illuminating account of how the innovative programs of education and research at one Centre for Aboriginal Studies made a demonstrably positive difference in the lives of Indigenous students. Written by the experts involved, the book provides detailed descriptions of these ground-breaking education and research p...

    $1,040.00

  • NORTHERN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY-LED DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
    RANJAN DATTA / MARGOT HURLBERT / WILLIAM MARION
    This book examines how current energy and water management processes affect Indigenous communities in North America, with a specific focus on Canada. Currently, there is no known Indigenous community-led strategic environmental assessment (ICSEA) tool for developing community-led solutions for pipeline leak management and energy resiliency. To fill this lacuna, this book draws ...

    $1,160.00

  • MATHEMATICS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
    MARION H. BIRD
    For many years, increasing stress has been placed on the importance of giving the under-sevens a good start in mathematics. Originally published in 1991, Mathematics for Young Children shows how children as young as four and five and of all abilities can be encouraged to carry out their own mathematical explorations whilst covering the content of a prescribed curriculum. A subs...

    $900.00

  • VIRTUAL EDUCATIONAL THERAPY
    MARION E. MARSHALL
    Virtual Educational Therapy presents a board-certified educational therapist’s year-long case study of clinical supports and advocacy for a student with learning disabilities who is attending school remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. With online and blended learning, now the norm in K–12 education, educational therapists need new models of intervention, treatment, and relat...

    $540.00

  • FAIRY TALES VOLUME 1
    MARION FLORENCE LANSING
    Excerpt: "The tales are usually romantic, with a definite plot, but without emphasis on the point of their being fact or fiction. They do not locate the hero in history or require a definite time or place, but begin with “Once upon a time, in a certain town or village,” or with some equally indefinite introduction. They deal with the supernatural, and always end well for the he...

    $39.70

  • FAIRY TALES VOLUME 2
    MARION FLORENCE LANSING
    Excerpt: "The tales are usually romantic, with a definite plot, but without emphasis on the point of their being fact or fiction. They do not locate the hero in history or require a definite time or place, but begin with “Once upon a time, in a certain town or village,” or with some equally indefinite introduction. They deal with the supernatural, and always end well for the he...

    $39.70

  • EMPLACED RESISTANCE IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL
    MARION LECOQUIERRE
    The Israeli-Palestinian conflict gravitates constantly around the question of territorial control due to the settler-colonial principle present at the core of the Zionist project. Acknowledging space as a central tool of domination used by the Israeli authorities, this volume sheds light on the way space can become both a resource for and an outcome of protest, with an emphasis...

    $1,200.00

  • RESEARCH IN FOREST ECONOMICS AND FOREST POLICY
    MARION CLAWSON
    In order to fill a growing need for research into forestry issues, Resources for the future held a symposium in 1977.Orignally published in the same year, all papers in this collection were written specifically for this symposium to highlight the most important forestry issues including pricing policy, supply and demand and the role of the public and private forestry sector. Th...

    $1,560.00

  • HOLLYHOCK HOUSE
    MARION AMES TAGGART
    Excerpt: "Mary, Jane, and Florimel—these were the three Garden girls. Mary, Jane said, “looked it.” She was seventeen, broad and low of brow, with brown hair softly shading it, brown eyes, as warm and trusty as a dog’s, looking straight out upon a friendly world from under straight brows and long brown lashes; a mouth that might have been too large if it had not been so sweet t...

    $39.70

  • THE ANNES
    MARION AMES TAGGART
    Excerpt: "The thin child on the floor was completely engrossed in her occupation, but she never gave fractional attention to anything. She rested on one elbow, her weight on her hip, one long, slender leg crooked under her, the other extended at length over the green carpet, the foot that ended it dropping in and out of its flat-soled pump as it see-sawed from heel to toe. Sudd...

    $39.70

  • SEXUALITY AND PROCREATION IN THE AGE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
    PAOLA MARION
    Through the lens of psychoanalytic thought about sexuality, the book examines changes in the area of procreation and generation, the disjunction between sexuality and procreation introduced by biotechnology and some new methods of reproduction, and their impact on the essential moments of existence (birth, illness, death) and the most intimate aspects of personal identity (sexu...

    $780.00

  • THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND MORALITY OF HUMAN KINDS
    MARION GODMAN
    Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy – the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature. Natural kinds are often opposed to the idea of kinds in the human and social sciences, which are typically seen as social constructions, characterised by changing norms and resisting scientific redu...

    $580.00

  • PASSIONATE ENQUIRY AND SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT
    MARION DADDS
    This book presents a detailed study of the potential of action research in professional education. It depicts a primary school teacher's use of action research, through a series of school-based assignments, to improve her teaching and to develop herself as a person and a professional. ...

    $960.00

  • PREVENTING NUCLEAR WAR
    JOHN LORETZ / ‎MARION BIRCH / ‎LEO VAN BERGEN
    Preventing Nuclear War: The Medical and Humanitarian Case for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons provides a window into the work of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) health professionals, advocates and activists as they persuaded diplomats, parliamentarians, the media, and the public to ban nuclear weapons. Why are doctors speaking out about...

    $1,200.00

  • THE COLORS OF SPACE
    MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
    Excerpt: "-SUDDEN PANIC- It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for cold-sleep. The Mentorian paused, needle in hand. "Do you wish to be wakened for the time we shall spend in each of the th...

    $39.70

  • FACILITATING GROUPS IN PRIMARY CARE
    MARION DUFFY / GRIFFIN ELAINE
    Medicine is one of the oldest professions; in common with law, it tends to complicate or mystify its writings by persistent use of obscure jargon. However, an increasing number of lay workers, including administrators, practice managers, medical secretaries, lawyers, social workers and care assistants, are required to be able to interpret medical records, reports and prescripti...

    $1,420.00

  • TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
    MARION E. BROOME / ELAINE SORENSEN MARSHALL
    Provides invaluable guidance for nursing graduate students to develop the skills necessary to transform healthcare through leadership within complex healthcare settings. The award-winning Transformational Leadership in Nursing: From Expert Clinician to Influential Leader guides nursing graduate students and professionals in the development of skills required to fulfill emerging...

    $2,039.00


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