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  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION
    PETER METCALF
    This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions. It begins by examining the enormous popularity of the newly invented field of anthropology in the nineteenth century as a site of multiple intellectual developments....

    $1,040.00

  • COUNSELING TOWARD SOLUTIONS
    LINDA METCALF
    This book provides a solution-focused approach to working alongside students, parents, and teachers that decreases misbehaviors, encourages mental health and growth mindset in students, and provides social emotional learning opportunities. Grounded in the notion that focusing on problems often leads to frustration when tried and true remedies fail, the book provides an efficien...

    $980.00

  • MHEALTH INNOVATION
    RICK KROHN / DAVID METCALF
    The editors of the HIMSS Books' best-seller mHealth: From Smartphones to Smart Systems (603) have returned to deliver an expansive survey of the initiatives, innovators, and technologies driving the patient-centered mobile healthcare revolution. mHealth Innovation: Best Practices from the Mobile Frontier explores the promise of mHealth as a balance between emerging technologies...

    $2,520.00

  • PAVING OUR WAYS
    MAXWELL LAY / JOHN METCALF / KIERAN SHARP
    Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magn...

    $1,160.00

  • MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY, SECOND EDITION
    LINDA METCALF
    This text provides students of family therapy with a unique opportunity to understand and compare the inner workings of 14 traditional and non-traditional family therapy models. The book demonstrates, through innovative “guiding templates,” how the different therapeutic models are applied in an actual family therapy situation. The second edition features a new chapter on neuros...

    $2,128.00

  • SOLUTION FOCUSED NARRATIVE THERAPY
    LINDA METCALF
    Introduces a Powerful New Brief Therapy Approach This groundbreaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive model for effectively blending the two main postmodern brief therapy approaches: solution-focused and narrative therapies. It harnesses the power of both models—the strengths-based, problem-solving approach of SFT and the value-honoring and re-descriptive approach o...

    $1,241.00

  • CONNECTED HEALTH
    RICHARD KROHN / DAVID METCALF / PATRICIA SALBER
    Connected Health is the most dynamic phenomenon in healthcare technology today. From smartphones and tablets to apps, body sensors and telemedicine, Connected Health promises to stir foundational shifts in healthcare quality and delivery. This is a watershed moment in healthcare – the Connected Health ecosystem is dramatically impacting healthcare’s stakeholders, from patients ...

    $1,200.00

  • CYBERSECURITY AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
    LEIGH METCALF / WILLIAM CASEY
    Cybersecurity and Applied Mathematics explores the mathematical concepts necessary for effective cybersecurity research and practice, taking an applied approach for practitioners and students entering the field. This book covers methods of statistical exploratory data analysis and visualization as a type of model for driving decisions, also discussing key topics, such as graph ...

    $930.00

  • RAPPER, WRITER, POP-CULTURAL PLAYER
    JOSEPHINE METCALF / WILL TURNER
    This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience. Over the past three decades, African Americans have face...

    $1,340.00

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY AFTER RODNEY KING
    JOSEPHINE METCALF / CARINA SPAULDING
    1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising, this time period allows reflection on the shifting state of race in America, considering these sta...

    $1,200.00

  • GENOA
    PAUL METCALF
    A legendary work of literary wizardry in which the author reckons with Christopher Columbus, America, myth, and his great-grandfather Herman Melville. First published in 1965, Genoa is Paul Metcalf’s literary masterpiece in which he attempts to purge the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indi...

    $229.00

  • THE MINERS' STRIKE
    MARK METCALF / MARTIN JENKINSON / MARK HARVEY
    In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of communities, battled to prevent the decimation of the coal industry on which their livelihoods and communities depended. Ma...

    $119.00

  • RESOURCE STRUCTURE OF AGRICULTURE
    KEITH COWLING / DAVID METCALF / A. J. RAYNER
    Resource Structure of Agriculture: An Economic Analysis focuses on the quantitative economic analysis of the agricultural industry. The book first discusses the theory of resource demand. Topics include decision milieu in agriculture; aggregate demand for an input; and notes on the statistical estimation of the demand function for an input. The text also examines the role of l...

    $970.00

  • MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY
    LINDA METCALF
    There are many different models of marriage and family therapy; the challenge for students and beginning practitioners is deciding which one best suits their individual purposes. This highly practical volume elucidates the defining characteristics of 14 contemporary models, including their history, views of change, views of family and the role of the therapist; and methods of a...

    $2,128.00

  • THE ART OF SOLUTION FOCUSED THERAPY
    ELLIOTT CONNIE / LINDA METCALF
    What is Solution-Focused Therapy? Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) is a unique, goal-directed therapy aimed at helping clients regain autonomy by determining and achieving their own goals. Solution focused therapists encourage clients to focus on solutions, not problems, and help clients effectively plan how to reach their goals. Unlike other therapies, SFT holds an abiding belie...

    $1,153.00

  • ANTHROPOLOGY: THE BASICS
    PETER METCALF
    The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do anthropologists study culture? what are the key theories and approaches used today? How has th...

    $640.00

  • DYNAMIC ADMINISTRATION
    HENRY C. METCALF / L. URWICK
    Mary Parker Follett was a prominent business philosopher of the period, who agreed with Sheldon about the need to emphasize human factors in management, but placing greater stress on the need to develop a science of cooperation. According to Follett, what she called her 'Law of the Situation' could be a means for bridging the gap between an ideal of scientific management and th...

    $9,500.00

  • THEY LIE, WE LIE
    PETER METCALF
    They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both from within anthropology and from such disciplines as cultural studies and post-colonial theory. This is necessary because there has been a polarization within anthropology between those who react dismissively to what Marshall Sahlins...

    $1,280.00

  • JIM METCALF
    JIM METCALF
    This anthology collects four complete volumes of poetry from the beloved New Orleans poet, journalist, and anchorman. Like Robert Frost before him, Jim Metcalf's poetic commentaries on everyday objects and events offer a keen insight into our world and our own humanity. This volume includes four rare and out-of-print collections of Metcalf's poetry: Follow Another Star, Please ...

    $229.00

  • THE REMARKABLE STORY OF FRED SPIKSLEY
    MARK METCALF
    Gainsborough's Fred Spiksley was one of the first working class youngsters in 1887 to live 'the dream' of becoming a professional footballer, before later finding a role as a globe-trotting coach. He thus dodged the inevitability of industrial, poorly paid, dangerous labour. Lightning fast, Spiksley created and scored hundreds of goals including, to the great joy of the future ...

    $229.00

  • MHEALTH
    RICK KROHN / DAVID METCALF
    mHealth: From Smartphone to Smart Systems provides a high level and comprehensive survey of the emergence of mobile technology healthcare. This book looks beyond the already-popular devices and apps associated with mHealth, exploring the major role this technology could play as healthcare steers inexorably toward an architecture ...

    $1,739.00

  • SHEFFIELD IN THE 1980S
    MARK METCALF / JUSTINE JENKINSON
    A visual portrait of a British city and its people fighting to survive an era of industrial decline, captured by a steelworker-turned-photographer. The social, industrial, and economic changes imposed on the Sheffield area during the 1980s are captured with remarkable clarity in this volume featuring the work of steelworker-turned-photographer Martin Jenkinson. Like many northe...

    $229.00

  • LIFTING THE CUP
    MARK METCALF / DAVID WOOD
    The South Yorkshire football club's legendary journey to victory at the 1912 FA Cup Final is recounted in this illustrated history. In Lifting the Cup, Mark Metcalf and David Wood tell the story of Barnsley Football Club's most illustrious period. Between 1910 and 1912 'Battling Barnsley' won their way to the FA Cup Final on two separate occasions. They capped things off by bea...

    $119.00

  • TARGET VALIDATION IN DRUG DISCOVERY
    METCALF, BRIAN W. / DILLON, SUSAN
    This work presents a comprehensive contemporary framework for approaching target validation in drug discovery. It begins with a detailed description of new enabling technologies, including aptamers, RNA interference, functional genomics, and proteomics. The next section looks at biologic drug development with in-depth discussion of lessons learned from such well-known cases a...

    $1,399.00

  • MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY
    LINDA METCALF
    Learn how to take different models of therapy from theory to real world practice Delivering proven therapeutic strategies that can be used immediately by students of marital and family therapy, this text brings 15 modern and postmodern therapy models to life through guiding templates and interviews with master therapists. The text progresses step-by-step through marriage and fa...

    $2,128.00

  • BEING BUDDHA AT WORK
    FRANZ METCALF / BJ GALLAGHER
    Buddhism has for thousands of years provided a spiritual foundation for the daily lives of millions of people around the world. But does Buddhism have anything to offer us—Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike—in today’s world of work? Metcalf and Gallagher think it does. Spiritual wisdom, Western or Eastern, inspires and instructs us in living a good life. And that’s just as true ...

    $229.00

  • LIFTING THE CUP
    MARK METCALF / DAVID WOOD
    The South Yorkshire football club's legendary journey to victory at the 1912 FA Cup Final is recounted in this illustrated history. In Lifting the Cup, Mark Metcalf and David Wood tell the story of Barnsley Football Club's most illustrious period. Between 1910 and 1912 'Battling Barnsley' won their way to the FA Cup Final on two separate occasions. They capped things off by bea...

    $119.00

  • JUST ADD BUDDHA!
    FRANZ METCALF
    "A diverse and edifying collection of practices to use in annoying and difficult circumstances" from the author of What Would Buddha Do? ( Spirituality & Practice). Written for spiritual seekers who deal with unenlightened coworkers and inconsiderate bank tellers more often than Zen masters and Tibetan monks, this book demonstrates the practical side of Buddhism. Author Franz M...

    $164.00

  • BUDDHA IN YOUR BACKPACK
    FRANZ METCALF
    "Here's a handbook to teendom that wins its hipness the hard way: by using good humor and the wisdom of a 2,500-year-old man." — Booklist A guide for navigating the teen years,  Buddha in Your Backpack is for young people who want to learn more about Buddhism or for those who simply want to understand what's going on inside themselves and in the world around them.  Buddha in Yo...

    $200.00

  • ENGLISH IN MOTION 3 CLASS CDS
    ROBERT CAMPBELL / GILL HOLLEY / ROB METCALF
    Agotado

    $505.00


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