Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael lewis

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  • POISONING THE IVY
    MICHAEL LEWIS
    "This is a dirty book about higher education." So begins Michael Lewis's provocative new book, one that calls into question the conventional wisdom and about the excellence of American higher education. Lewis argues that teaching and research on America's campuses are plagued by mis- and malfeasance. He further argues that these troubles are the paradoxical implications of prof...

    $4,500.00

  • OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
    MICHAEL A. LEWIS
    Operations Management (OM) is a multi-faceted blend of myriad academic andpractical disciplines – from engineering and economics via mathematics and marketing, to systems and psychology. To capture the state of the art, the bookreviews contemporary and classic scholarship in one of the oldest business and management disciplines. To offer the reader a thought-provoking point of ...

    $660.00

  • PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS
    MICHAEL ARRIBAS-AYLLON / ANDREW BARTLETT / JAMIE LEWIS
    Psychiatric genetics has become ‘Big Biology’. This may come as a surprising development to those familiar with its controversial history. From eugenic origins and contentious twin studies to a global network of laboratories employing high-throughput genetic and genomic technologies, biological research on psychiatric disorders has become an international, multidisciplinary ass...

    $1,120.00

  • A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO STATISTICAL LEARNING
    TAYLOR ARNOLD / MICHAEL KANE / BRYAN W. LEWIS
    A Computational Approach to Statistical Learning gives a novel introduction to predictive modeling by focusing on the algorithmic and numeric motivations behind popular statistical methods. The text contains annotated code to over 80 original reference functions. These functions provide minimal working implementations of common statistical learning algorithms. Every chapter con...

    $1,380.00

  • DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY WITH ADOLESCENTS
    K. MICHELLE HUNNICUTT HOLLENBAUGH / MICHAEL S. LEWIS
    Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Adolescents is an essential, user-friendly guide for clinicians who wish to implement DBT for adolescents into their practices. The authors draw on current literature on DBT adaptation to provide detailed descriptions and sample group-therapy formats for a variety of circumstances. Each chapter includes material to help clinicians adapt DBT for...

    $1,160.00

  • THE ETHICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE
    KARL WIDERQUIST / MICHAEL ANTHONY LEWIS
    Governments in the US, the UK and other nations around the world routinely consider and, in some cases, experiment with reforms of their income support systems. The basic income guarantee, a universal unconditional income grant, has received increasing attention from scholars as an alternative to the kinds of reforms that have been implemented. This book explores the political,...

    $1,240.00

  • BIOLOGICAL ECONOMIES
    RICHARD LE HERON, HUGH CAMPBELL, NICK LEWIS AND MICHAEL CAROLAN
    Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarized as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agricultur...

    $1,320.00

  • FAMILIES, RISK, AND COMPETENCE
    MICHAEL LEWIS
    The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in studying systems where there are multiple elements interacting with each other and with the child. How should this system be described? Still other problems relate to indirect effects; namely the influence of a particular dyad's interaction on the child when the child is not a member of the dyad. While all agree tha...

    $960.00

  • EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN ATYPICAL CHILDREN
    MICHAEL LEWIS
    Early emotional development, emotional regulation, and the links between emotion and social or cognitive functioning in atypically developing children have not received much attention. This lack is due in part to the priorities given to the educational and therapeutic needs of these children. Yet an understanding of the basic emotional processes in children with atypical develo...

    $1,420.00

  • PATTERNS OF CARE FOR THE SUBNORMAL
    MICHAEL CRAFT / LEWIS MILES
    Patterns of Care for the Subnormal examines the pattern of care for the mentally subnormal in relation to medical, educational, and social services in England and Wales. Topics covered range from variations on the theme of subnormality to the prevalence of mental subnormality, hospital functions, and trends in hospital and community services. A comprehensive service for the sub...

    $425.00

  • ORAL MEDICINE
    MICHAEL LEWIS / RICHARD JORDAN
    This is a revised edition of a bestselling handbook. The authors have fully updated the text to include the most up to date treatment options, have added a section on head and neck imaging (CT/MRI), a series of self-test clinical cases, and 100 new photographs. The book uses a symptom-based approach to assist the clinician in the diagnosis and mana ...

    $1,200.00

  • ORAL MEDICINE
    MICHAEL LEWIS / RICHARD JORDAN
    This is a revised edition of a bestselling handbook. The authors have fully updated the text to include the most up to date treatment options, have added a section on head and neck imaging (CT/MRI), a series of self-test clinical cases, and 100 new photographs. The book uses a symptom-based approach to assist the clinician in the diagnosis and mana ...

    $1,200.00

  • A LIFE ADRIFT
    SOEDA AZEMBO / MICHAEL LEWIS (TRANSLATOR)
    A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. Azembo created enka songs sung by tenant farmers in rural hinterlands and factory hands in Tokyo and Osaka. Al...

    $860.00

  • SOOTHING AND STRESS
    LEWIS, MICHAEL / RAMSAY, DOUGLAS S.
    This volume addresses topics related to the nature of the stress response, the role of environment in individual differences in stress, and the different strategies used for coping with stressful events. The chapters present theoretical and empirical work focused on a wide range of issues related to stress, soothing, and coping. Authored by recognized authorities with innovativ...

    $1,420.00

  • THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
    LEWIS MICHAEL J., OWEN-CROCKER GALE R. AND TERKLA DAN
    The Bayeux Tapestry, perhaps the most famous, yet enigmatic, of medieval artworks, was the subject of an international conference at the British Museum in July 2008. This volume publishes 19 of 26 papers delivered at that conference. The physical nature of the tapestry is examined, including an outline of the artefact's current display and the latest conservation and research w...

    $460.45

  • A THEOLOGY OF SUFFERING AND DIFFICULTY
    MICHAEL E. LEWIS
    By carefully considering the full theological context of trials, this book seeks to show that Christians can realistically count it all joy when various trials come upon them. This is not a natural response, but it is the only response that the Bible permits. However, it is not simply commanded without good reason; there is tremendous biblical evidence that would convince us to...

    $532.00

  • NEUROBIOLOGY OF BRAIN DISORDERS: BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
    ZIGMOND, MICHAEL J. / COYLE, JOSEPH T. / ROWLAND, LEWIS P.
    Neurobiology of Brain Disorders is the first book directed primarily at basic scientists to offer a comprehensive overview of neurological and neuropsychiatric disease. This book links basic, translational, and clinical research, covering the genetic, developmental, molecular, and cellular mechanisms underlying all major categories of brain disorders. It offers students, postdo...

    $1,907.00

  • THE THREE CONVERSIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
    KEVIN E. MARTIN / ROBERT MICHAEL LEWIS
    Christianity is a religion of conversion, but what is conversion? This book explores the fullness of the Christian life and the threefold turnings that it demands of Jesus' followers. Starting with St. Paul while looking in detail at his Damascus Road experience and examining the remarkable lives of exemplary Christians, the authors unfold dynamics of conversion and call all fo...

    $178.00

  • THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH NAVY
    MICHAEL LEWIS
    Originally published in 1959, this volume covers the history of the Service which has been through the centuries the first, and often the last line of British defence, and the spearhead of Britian’s imperial expansion. In the book Professor Lewis puts the Royal Navy into its true perspective in history in general and maritime history in particular. He shows its origin in the Cr...

    $1,900.00

  • NAPOLEON AND HIS BRITISH CAPTIVES
    MICHAEL LEWIS
    Napoleon – arguably more than any other single man – was the creator of modern total war; and in this book, originally published in 1962, he is seen creating one important side of it – that which concerns prisoners of war. In sheer numbers, the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy and the Army were the principal victims. In one respect the book is a study in naval, maritime and milita...

    $1,900.00

  • ARMADA GUNS
    MICHAEL LEWIS
    Originally published in 1961, this masterly study of the guns used by the rivals in the Armada campaign remains an essential contribution to the understanding of the event, for it gave a new perspective to the whole battle. The long-drawn-out struggle in the summer of 1588 was the first major sea-action which was a straight artillery-duel and nothing else. With that the ship-bo...

    $1,900.00

  • SPITHEAD
    MICHAEL LEWIS
    As a strategically vital access route to southern England and as the anchorage for Portsmouth, Britain’s premier naval base, the waters of Spithead reflect much of the UK’s naval history. They have seen piracy and battles, countless departing and returning fleets, royal visits and naval reviews, courts martial and the ‘Spithead Breeze’ mutiny of 1797. Originally published in 19...

    $1,900.00

  • FUTURE FLIGHT GOVERNANCE
    MARIELA DE AMSTALDEN, ADAM MICHAEL PACKER AND MICHAEL LEWIS
    This book seeks to bridge disciplinary and scholarly gaps by bringing together a range of social science studies to capture state-of-the-art advancements in the field of advanced air technology governance, as the vision for the future of aviation systems evolves. With novel and innovative developments taking place in many different technological fields, the future of aviation i...

    $1,240.00

  • SWING YOUR SWORD
    MIKE LEACH / MICHAEL LEWIS
    The legendary college football head coach tells his captivating story—from rural Wyoming to law school to the upper echelons of the SEC. A New York Times Bestseller Swing Your Sword is the first ever book by one of the most fascinating and successful coaches in sports. A maverick who took an unlikely path to coaching through law school, Mike Leach talks about his unorthodox app...

    $229.00

  • GRASSES IN YOUR POCKET
    ANNA B. GARDNER / MICHAEL HURST / DEBORAH LEWIS / LYNN G, CLARK
    At the time of European settlement, tallgrass prairie was the iconic landscape in much of the Upper Midwest. Although its extent has been drastically reduced, intact prairie remnants exist, prairie species persist along roadsides, and interest in prairie reconstruction has increased. The basic prairie matrix is formed by grasses, yet their diversity and beauty are often underap...

    $191.39

  • THE RESILIENCE IMPERATIVE
    MICHAEL LEWIS / PAT CONATY
    "[The authors] argue that with more integration and cooperation between businesses, governments and communities, a more sustainable economy is possible." — The Environmental Magazine We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resili...

    $251.00

  • QUIMICA RAZONADA
    LEWIS MICHAEL / WALLER
    Agotado

    $305.00

  • HACIA EL INFINITO
    LEWIS, MICHAEL
    Sam Bankman-Fried es un genio fascinante e incomprendido. Con esa pinta de bohemio, siempre desaliñado, despeinado y desgarbado, nadie hubiera imaginado que se convertiría en el multimillonario más joven del mundo. De igual manera, nadie hubiera sospechado que, más tarde, lo enjuiciarían y tratarían como un "supervillano depravado" con "motivaciones oscuras y megalómanas". Mich...
    Agotado

    $249.00

  • NEW KEEP GOING STUDENT BOOK LEVEL 1
    ROST MICHAEL, LE MAISTRE SIMON, LEWIS CARINA
    Keep Going for DGB's approach to language learning follows a simple and proven methodology: Motivate learning through stimulating content and achievable goals. Anchor production with strong language presentations. Personalize learning through engaging and communication speaking activities. Keep Going for DGB, a four-level course for upper-secondary school learners, covers a wid...
    Agotado

    $289.00

  • FLASH BOYS
    MICHAEL LEWIS
    Agotado

    $35.00


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