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  • INTERNATIONAL EXAMPLES OF LEAN IN HEALTHCARE
    ELAINE MEAD, CAMERON STARK, AND MAIMIE THOMPSON
    Typically entrenched and systemic, healthcare problems require the sort of comprehensive solutions that can only be addressed by a change in culture and a shift in thinking. Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. This book dem...

    $1,360.00

  • LITERARY KNOWING AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISH TEACHERS
    LARISSA MCLEAN DAVIES / BRENTON DOECKE / PHILIP MEAD / WAYNE SAWYER / LYN YATES
    At a time when knowledge is being 're-valued' as central to curriculum concerns, subject English is being called to account. Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers puts long-standing debates about knowledge and knowing in English in dialogue with an investigation of how English teachers are made in the 21st century. This book explores, for the first time, the role ...

    $1,060.00

  • MORAL AND POLITICAL VALUES IN TEACHER EDUCATION OVER TIME
    NICK MEAD
    This collection brings together international teacher educators to employ a ‘long view’ of an historic and values-based dialectic in teacher education. The authors reflect how employing historical consciousness to look back can offer greater continuity to teachers’ moral and political values within their training. The book draws on research from experienced teacher educators re...

    $1,120.00

  • HUMAN MEDICAL THERMOGRAPHY
    JAMES STEWART CAMPBELL / M. NATHANIEL MEAD
    Want to incorporate medical infrared imaging into your practice but can’t find a book that explains how to do it? Well, this book is for you! Complete, practical instructions are provided on imager choice and care as well as the physical needs of a thermography service from the imaging room layout to the computer requirements. How to acquire, interpret, and report a thermal exa...

    $3,200.00

  • THE ENGLISH MEDIEVAL FEAST
    WILLIAM EDWARD MEAD
    Originally published in 1931, The English Medieval Feast examines the act of feasting and food during the medieval period. The book provides a scholarly look at the human detail involved in the variety of medieval manners and customs which make up the medieval feast. The book introduces the scene of the feast and its service, providing explanations of the food, drink and prepar...

    $1,000.00

  • VALUES AND PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN TEACHER EDUCATION
    NICK MEAD
    Values and Professional Knowledge in Teacher Education provides distinctive insights into potential strengths to develop trainee teachers’ values within school-based training. Looking at the personal moral and political values of trainees as fundamental to strategic and critical professional knowledge, the book considers a key question about training contexts: to what extent is...

    $1,200.00

  • MOUNTAIN ARAPESH
    MARGARET MEAD
    For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity, and cooperation. In contrast to the aggressive Arapesh who lived on the plains, both the men and the women of the mountain settlem...

    $1,400.00

  • COOPERATION AND COMPETITION AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES
    MARGARET MEAD
    In many respects, this volume is a pioneer effort in anthropological literature. It remains firmly part of the genre of cooperative research, or "interdisciplinary research," though at the time of its original publication that phrase had yet to be coined. Additionally, this work is more theoretical in nature than a faithful anthropological record, as all the essays were written...

    $1,460.00

  • STATISTICAL METHODS IN AGRICULTURE AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
    ROGER MEAD
    The third edition of this popular introductory text maintains the character that won worldwide respect for its predecessors but features a number of enhancements that broaden its scope, increase its utility, and bring the treatment thoroughly up to date. It provides complete coverage of the statistical ideas and methods essential to students in agriculture or experimental biolo...

    $2,800.00

  • ESSAYS ON SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
    GEORGE MEAD
    George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is a central, founding figure of modern sociology, comparable to Karl Marx and Max Weber. Mead's early work, prior to his posthumous publications that appeared after 1932, is believed to be a series of articles contemporary scholarship defines as disconnected. A previously unknown, never published set of galleys for a book of essays by Mead, writ...

    $1,360.00

  • CONTINUITIES IN CULTURAL EVOLUTION
    MARGARET MEAD
    Margaret Mead once said, "I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples--faraway peoples--so that Americans might better understand themselves." Continuities in Cultural Evolution is evidence of this devotion. All of Mead's efforts were intended to help others learn about themselves and work toward a more humane and socially responsible society. Scientist, wr...

    $1,340.00

  • COMMANDO GENERAL
    RICHARD MEAD
    Always marked out for high rank, Robert Laycock came into his own when selected to raise 8 Commando, a new ‘crack’ unit early in the Second World War. After training, 7, 8 and 11 Commandos were sent to the Middle East in early 1941 and all became Layforce under Laycock’s command. Layforce was disbanded after Crete fell. Laycock took part in the abortive raid on Rommel’s HQ. As ...

    $344.99

  • DIETARY SUPPLEMENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICES
    WILLIAM J. MEAD
    Dietary Supplement GMP is a one-stop how-to road map to the final dietary supplement GMP regulations recently issued by the FDA covering the manufacture, packaging, and holding of dietary supplement products.The recent regulations, outlining broad goals, intentionally avoid specifics to allow for future technological advances- leaving implementation to the discretion of each fi...

    $1,060.00

  • DELIVERING SUCCESSFUL PMOS
    PETER TAYLOR / RAY MEAD
    Delivering Successful PMOs is intended to be the companion book to Leading Successful PMOs (Peter Taylor) which was a guide to all project based organisations providing a common language to describe the variety of possible PMOs, explaining how to do the right things, in the right way, in the right order, with the right team, and identifying what made a good PMO leader. Deliver...

    $740.00

  • PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
    GEORGE HERBERT MEAD / GERT BIESTA / DANIEL TROHLER
    Never before published, this book features George Herbert Mead's illuminating lectures on the Philosophy of Education at the University of Chicago during the early 20th century. These lectures provide unique insight into Mead's educational thought and reveal how his early psychological writings on the social character of meaning and the social origin of reflective consciousness...

    $1,380.00

  • DANCE WITH JESUS
    SUSAN B. MEAD
    A woman grieving the loss of her family finds God's grace in this inspiring memoir of grief, faith, and renewal.   Susan B. Mead knows a lot about grief and loss. She lost her brilliant sister to suicide, her youngest son to drugs and alcohol, and—on the four-year anniversary of her son's death—she lost her sister-in-law to cancer. After so many trials, Susan was left broken an...

    $200.00

  • STATISTICAL METHODS IN BIOLOGY
    S.J. WELHAM / S.A. GEZAN / S.J. CLARK / A. MEAD
    Written in simple language with relevant examples, this illustrative introductory book presents best practices in experimental design and simple data analysis. Taking a practical and intuitive approach, it only uses mathematical formulae to formalize the methods where necessary and appropriate. The text features extended discussions of examples that include real data sets arisi...

    $1,260.00

  • STATISTICAL METHODS IN BIOLOGY
    S.J. WELHAM / S.A. GEZAN / S.J. CLARK / A. MEAD
    Written in simple language with relevant examples, this illustrative introductory book presents best practices in experimental design and simple data analysis. Taking a practical and intuitive approach, it only uses mathematical formulae to formalize the methods where necessary and appropriate. The text features extended discussions of examples that include real data sets arisi...

    $1,260.00

  • TELLING THE STORY
    GEOFF MEAD
    How to master the art of narrative leadership Telling the Story shows how leaders affect our understanding of what is possible and desirable through the stories they tell. It opens a door into the world of narrative leadership: what stories are and how they work; when to tell a story and how to tell one well; and how the language and metaphors we use influence our actions and c...

    $508.00

  • SMALL ENTERPRISES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    CARL E. LIEDHOLM / DONALD C. MEAD
    Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) have been recognized as a major contemporary source of employment and income in a growing number of developing countries. Yet, relatively little is known about the characteristics and patterns of change in these enterprises. This volume examines the dynamics of MSEs in the development process. Drawing on a unique set of surveys conducted in tw...

    $1,240.00

  • PHYSICAL THERAPY AND MASSAGE FOR THE DOG
    JULIA ROBERTSON / ANDY MEAD
    Interest in canine massage and physical therapy has grown as greater emphasis is placed on the general fitness and agility of dogs, as pets and as sporting animals.In this book the authors are concerned with the prevention, management and treatment of movement and allied disorders. It encompasses detailed assessments, treatment programmes that invo ...

    $880.00

  • THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE MODERN COMPANY
    LEONARD JASON-LLOYD / LARRY MEAD
    There has been a substantial growth in the application of company law, partly due to the prevailing economic and general business environment. This book examines issues such as company securities, capital and insider dealing. ...

    $660.00

  • G.H. MEAD
    G. H. MEAD
    This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology. Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now, there has been no comprehensive reader of his work. As the first one-volume, comprehensive edited collection of Mead’s publishe...

    $1,320.00

  • THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THAI ABSOLUTISM
    KULLADA KESBOONCHOO MEAD
    This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, up to the emergence of Thailand as a modern nation state in the twentieth century. It concentrates in particular on the reign of King Chulalongkorn (1868-1910), during which period the state was modernized, the power of the grea...

    $1,280.00

  • OSCAR FABER'S REINFORCED CONCRETE
    JOHN G FABER / F.H. MEAD
    This E. & F. N. Spon title is now distributed by Routledge in the US and Canada. It contains detailed coverage of the basic theory of reinforced and prestressed concrete, and demonstrates a wide range of practical applications. Examples and diagrams are used extensively throughout for ease of understanding. ...

    $3,300.00

  • TAKING CARE OF MAMA
    JOY A. MEAD
    Many women enter motherhood with little preparation for the incredibly important, yet demanding job role before them. Taking Care of Mama is a conversational encouragement for anyone who is a mother or about to become one. At the heart of this book is the theme of mothers learning to look after themselves, while they are simultaneously looking after their little ones. It can be...

    $302.00

  • DAMBUSTER-IN-CHIEF
    RICHARD MEAD
    "A fascinating biography of one of the most important figures in Bomber Command during the Second World War." —History of War Ralph Cochrane was born in 1895 into a distinguished naval family. After joining the Royal Navy, he volunteered in 1915 to serve with the RNAS in airships and was an early winner of the Air Force Cross. In 1918 he transferred to the fledgling RAF and lea...

    $229.00

  • 'SAM' MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE THE LORD ELWORTHY
    RICHARD MEAD
    Sam Elworthys career was remarkable by any standards. Born in New Zealand in 1911 and educated in England, he was called to the Bar. After learning to learning to fly he joined the RAAF. During the Second World War he won the DFC, DSO and AFC and, after commanding 82 Squadron, worked closely with Bomber Harris and General Eisenhower. He became an air commodore aged 33.His meteo...

    $279.00

  • THE LAST GREAT CAVALRYMAN
    RICHARD MEAD
    Dick McCreery was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1915 and served on The Western Front, winning the MC and surviving wounds.In 1938 he joined the staff of 1st Division under Alexander before being given command of 2 Armored Brigade. He won the DSO for his leadership during the retreat to Dunkirk Man/June 1940.In North Africa McCreery was sacked by Auchinleck, with w...

    $119.00

  • GENERAL 'BOY'
    RICHARD MEAD
    This is the first biography of Boy Browning, whose name is inextricably linked with the creation and employment of Britains airborne forces in the Second World War. Commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, Browning served on the Western Front, earning a DSO during the Battle of Cambrai. As Adjutant at Sandhurst, he began the tradition of riding a horse up the steps at the end of...

    $119.00


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