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  • LANGUAGE, PHARMACY AND SOCIETY
    MILTON FERNANDO GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ
    This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and culture. Gonzalez Rodriguez charts the development of the language of pharmacy from the mid-19th century onward, drawing on data f...

    $1,240.00

  • THE BIRDMAN OF AUSCHWITZ
    NICHOLAS MILTON
    Dr. Günther Niethammer, an ornithologist, conducted bird surveys at Auschwitz, ignoring atrocities, earning the title "Birdman of Auschwitz." When Soviet troops were liberating Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945 among the piles of half burnt corpses and emaciated prisoners left behind, they were amazed to find nesting boxes for birds. The same boxes were found in the ...

    $255.99

  • THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE REFORM MOVEMENT
    MILTON E. CLARKE
    This book critically examines the rise of the higher education reform movement, often referred to as the “completion agenda,” which, since the early 2000s, has sought to restructure core aspects of the community college experience. Using community colleges from across nine U.S. states as practical examples, it explores the major higher education reforms, including dual enrollme...

    $1,240.00

  • ASPECTS OF THE MIND OF BYZANTIUM
    MILTON V. ANASTOS / SPEROS VRYONIS / NICHOLAS GOODHUE
    This volume of studies by the late Milton Anastos contains his major articles published after his previous collection appeared, along with the first publication of a portion of ’The Mind of Byzantium’, Anastos’s projected multi-volume survey of Byzantine intellectual history. These essays deal with the theoretical foundations of Byzantine imperial autocracy, with the formulatio...

    $1,480.00

  • KEYNES, CHICAGO AND FRIEDMAN, VOLUME 2
    ROBERT LEESON / MILTON FRIEDMAN
    These two volumes present essays on the subdiscipline of Chicago Monetarism in economics. Some of the issues under dispute can be regarded as resolved, while others are still being debated. The contibutors include Friedman, Patinkin, Harry Johnson and James Tobin. ...

    $1,480.00

  • THE RATIONAL POLITICIAN: EXPLOITING THE MEDIA IN NEW DEMOCRACIES
    ANDREW MILTON
    This title was first published in 2000: An examination of the way in which post-communist political actors have persisted in exploiting, controlling and manipulating the media, in spite of rhetorical commitments to freer and more independent media. ...

    $980.00

  • KEYNES, CHICAGO AND FRIEDMAN, VOLUME 1
    ROBERT LEESON / MILTON FRIEDMAN
    These two volumes present essays on the subdiscipline of Chicago Monetarism in economics. Some of the issues under dispute can be regarded as resolved, while others are still being debated. The contibutors include Friedman, Patinkin, Harry Johnson and James Tobin. ...

    $1,480.00

  • LOST AND FOUND
    MICHAEL A. MILTON
    No one doubts we have quickly moved to what Charles Taylor called "a secular age." How do Christian pastors, professors, seminary students, and others respond to the myriad issues now facing the Body of Christ? Following on a biblical and reformed understanding of public theology, Milton along with trusted theologians John Frame, George Grant, Peter Lillback (and a special cont...

    $568.00

  • TRANSLATION, ADAPTATION AND DIGITAL MEDIA
    JOHN MILTON / SILVIA COBELO
    Adaptation has always been central to Translation Studies, and, as print media becomes less and less dominant, and new media become central to communication, Adaptation is more than ever a vital area of Translation and Translation Studies. In addition, links to new digital media are examined. This is the only user-friendly textbook covering the full area of Translation, Adaptat...

    $1,060.00

  • IRVING BABBITT, LITERATURE AND THE DEMOCRATIC CULTURE
    MILTON HINDUS
    This is a sustained inquiry into the thought of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. Milton Hindus considers the subjects that most interested Babbitt: ethics, literature, education, and social and political conservatism in the United States. In their most general sense, his concerns were m...

    $800.00

  • TELEPHONE COMPANIES IN PARADISE
    MILTON L. MUELLER
    Computerization has generated dramatic advances In telecommunications, such as mobile telephones and video conferencing. Coupled with this are major changes in regulation, as telephone companies face new competitors. States are experimenting with new forms of utility regulation and deregulation in order to cope with the demands of rising competition. Here Mueller examines in de...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ROLE OF BIRDS IN WORLD WAR ONE
    NICHOLAS MILTON
    The British Expeditionary Force sent to France in the late summer of 1914 has been referred to as 'The Best British Army Ever Sent to War' as it was one of the most highly trained and disciplined forces in the world. It was also the 'Best Birdwatching Army Ever Sent to War' for among its ranks were hundreds of both amateur and professional ornithologists. When not fighting many...

    $251.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL AUTISM STUDIES
    DAMIAN MILTON AND SARA RYAN
    This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline. Critical Autism Studies is a developing area occupying an exciting space of development within learning and teaching i...

    $1,280.00

  • VOCABULARY IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM
    JAMES MILTON / OLIVER HOPWOOD
    Written by experts in the field, this book explains the principles of effective vocabulary instruction for the modern language classroom. While many language classrooms rely on practices which can be outdated, idiosyncratic or ill-advised, this book overviews the research and background necessary to successfully integrate vocabulary instruction into the curriculum in a systemat...

    $1,100.00

  • THE SECRET LIFE OF THE ADDER
    NICHOLAS MILTON
    In 2019 the most comprehensive survey ever of adders was published. According to 'Make the Adder Count' the species will disappear from most of Britain in the next 15-20 years unless we take action now to save it. But despite being a priority conservation species under the Biodiversity Action Plan, not a single nature reserve in Britain has been specifically designated to prote...

    $329.00

  • THE SECRET LIFE OF THE ADDER
    NICHOLAS MILTON
    In 2019 the most comprehensive survey ever of adders was published. According to 'Make the Adder Count' the species will disappear from most of Britain in the next 15-20 years unless we take action now to save it. But despite being a priority conservation species under the Biodiversity Action Plan, not a single nature reserve in Britain has been specifically designated to prote...

    $383.69

  • DISEASE, MEDICINE AND EMPIRE
    ROY MACLEOD AND MILTON LEWIS
    Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of ...

    $920.00

  • BIRDS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    NICHOLAS MILTON
    A love of birds has always been an important part of the British way of life but in wartime birds came into their own, helping to define our national identity. One the most popular bird books ever, Watching Birds, was published in 1940 while songs like There’ll be Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover epitomized the blitz spirit. Birds even featured in wartime propaganda mov...

    $383.99

  • THE STRUCTURE OF THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY
    NICOLE BALL AND MILTON LEITENBERG
    Proponents of arms control and disarmament are often confronted with the argument that reductions in defense expenditure lead to cutbacks in military industries and thus to economic hardship. While a reduction in defense production would cause some economic dislocation, this would be mitigated by the ability of the economy to adapt to changing patterns of production. This book,...

    $1,000.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF AFRICAN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES
    WINSTON MANO / VIOLA C. MILTON
    This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the field within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. The book goes beyond critiques...

    $1,320.00

  • SURFACTANTS IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
    MILTON J. ROSEN
    This book is based on the proceedings of the conference "The role of surfactants in new and emerging technology". It examines the position of surfactants in the new growth areas, and describes the needs for surfactant research to facilitate advances in those areas. ...

    $4,900.00

  • CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM
    MILTON FRIEDMAN
    One of TIME magazine’s All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement’s 100 Most Influential Books Since the War One of National Review’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century ​One of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s 50 Best Books of the 20th Century How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual...

    $384.34

  • MIXED EMOTIONS
    KAY MILTON / MARUSHKA SVASEK
    Emotions are of increasing interest in all the human sciences. In the past two decades, a growing number of anthropologists have explored emotional dynamics in a variety of geographic and cultural settings, and have developed various, at times conflicting, theories of emotion. This book fills a major gap by providing a concise introduction to the anthropology of emotions that o...

    $1,100.00

  • CELINE THE CRIPPLED GIANT
    MILTON HINDUS
    Louis Ferdinand Céline (the pseudonym of Louis Destouches) was a famous novelist and ferocious anti-Semitic pamphleteer who rose to fame before Hitler, but perfectly represented the fascist mind-set that swept across Europe between 1932 and 1944. Never a Nazi himself, he was author of Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, Guignol's Band, Homage to Zola...

    $1,340.00

  • FROM FLANDERS FIELDS TO THE MOVIEGOER
    MICHAEL A. MILTON
    How do educators, clergy, attorneys, and the concerned public come to terms with meaningful, workable ethics in an age that eschews any attempt to define truth and error? Michael A. Milton has addressed that question in the new monograph, From Flanders Field to the Moviegoer: Philosophical Foundations for a Transcendent Ethical Framework. Milton draws on English literature, soc...

    $320.00

  • THE KNOWLEDGE MANAGER'S HANDBOOK
    NICK MILTON / PATRICK LAMBE
    WINNER: CILIP's Knowledge and Information Management Award 2019 - Information Resources Print Category The way an organization manages and disseminates its knowledge is key to informed business decision-making, effectiveness and competitive edge. The Knowledge Manager's Handbook takes you step by step through the processes needed to define and embed an effective knowledge manag...

    $1,299.00

  • MISSOURI
    MILTON RAFFERTY
    Missouri-from the gateway arch in St. Louis to the Pony Express stables in St. Joseph, from the Ozarks of the south to the rolling, corn-studded hills of the north-is the subject of this comprehensive geography. Dr. Rafferty brings together a wealth of information about Missouri's resources and people, tracing the theme of persistence versus change ...

    $1,200.00

  • AFRICAN STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE 1990S
    JOSEPH TAKOUGANG / MILTON KRIEGER
    African State and Society in the 1990s is the first comprehensive English language book to appear on Cameroon's political events since 1989. Designed for academic and policy studies readers, it covers developments from the 1960s to the present as background for an analysis of the continuing conflict since 1990 between the regime and political oppos ...

    $1,320.00

  • FOOD, AGRICULTURE, AND RURAL POLICY INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    MILTON C. HALLBERG
    This book contributes to 1995 policymaking by offering information concerning an array of issues fundamentally important to the U.S. agricultural and food sector. It reviews a set of policy approaches for dealing with these issues, and assesses trade-offs among these alternative approaches. ...

    $1,200.00

  • BOVINE SOMATOTROPIN AND EMERGING ISSUES
    MILTON C HALLBERG
    Bovine somatotropin, or bST, a growth hormone genetically engineered to increase milk production in dairy cows, highlights the controversial issues of biotechnology and its widespread use. Focusing on the problems inherent in new and radically different technologies, this book develops a methodology for examining bST and other biotechnological deve ...

    $1,200.00


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