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  • THE SAS IN 1943
    GAVIN MORTIMER
    Details the daring missions of the SAS in Sicily and Italy during World War II, blending firsthand accounts and personal documents. The SAS is the most famous regiment in the world and the subject of countless books, documentaries and TV dramas, including the BBC mini-series Rogue Heroes. Much of the action of the second season of Rogue Heroes is located in Italy, where both 1S...

    $383.99

  • THE SAS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE
    GAVIN MORTIMER
    In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular storming of the Iranian Embassy, and there have been hundreds of books, films, documentaries and even reality TV shows about them. But what there hasn't been is a guide to the scenes of some of their most famous Second World War opera...

    $251.00

  • TUDOR DYNASTIC PROBLEMS
    MORTIMER LEVINE
    Originally published in 1973, this book provides a detailed history and analysis of Tudor dynastic problems from their origin in 1460 when Richard of York asserted his claim to the crown, to 1571 when Elizabeth I’s second Treasons Act virtually established parliamentary statute as the constitutional way to settle questions of succession. The book deals with each important devel...

    $860.00

  • WORK EXPERIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE LIFE SPAN
    JEYLAN T MORTIMER
    Throughout the modern era, scholars have shown a continuing concern with the extent to which position in the occupational structure affects psychological development. This book examines whether work experiences and age (often considered as a proxy for stage in the work career) interact such that the effects of occupational conditions on the person ...

    $1,120.00

  • HOLLYWOOD'S FRONTIER CAPTIVES
    BARBARA A. MORTIMER
    The captivity narrative, the earliest genre of American popular literature, continues to be of cultural significance in late 20th-century Hollywood. Many popular films of the last four decades incorporate the most common elements of the captivity narrative tradition, including a politically contested frontier setting and a plot involving innocent, family-oriented white America...

    $1,420.00

  • WESTMINSTER ABBEY REFORMED
    C.S. KNIGHTON / RICHARD MORTIMER
    Title first published in 2003. Westminster Abbey occupies a unique position in the religious and royal landscape of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. As the scene of coronations and other great public occasions, it has been the continuing focus of the nation's religious life for half the Christian era. Yet the building itself would not have survived the upheavals of the Prot...

    $980.00

  • ULTIMATE INTIMACY
    MORTIMER OSTOW
    This book introduces the psychoanalytic study of the Kabbalah as a serious discipline. It illustrates the applicability of psychodynamic concepts to Jewish mysticism and the "apocalyptical complex" and essays on specific incidents in the Bible and the Kabbalah. ...

    $1,760.00

  • THE OPHELIA PARADOX
    MORTIMER R. KADISH
    In Shakespeare's Hamlet, when Ophelia tells King Claudius, "Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be," she implies more than that we can never know what will happen next, that we have no grounds on which to make significant decisions in the conduct of our lives. She herself had done little or nothing to bring about her present state. Now she is quite mad. Claudius...

    $1,340.00

  • MYTH AND MADNESS
    MORTIMER OSTOW
    The persistence of anti-Semitism and its current resurgence after a brief post-Holocaust suppression, challenge those who study human behavior to locate the causal bases of anti-Semitism and find approaches to combat it. This is an astonishing report of a nine-year study of the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism. Undertaken by Dr. Mortimer Ostow on behalf of the Psychoanalytic Res...

    $1,560.00

  • JUDAISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
    MORTIMER OSTOW
    Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth century Europe, Freud's Jewishness and the Jewishness of his early colleagues. They also exemplify what the psychoanalytic approach can contribute to the study of Judaism. Clinical ...

    $1,380.00

  • THE THERAPEUTIC PLAY GROUP
    MORTIMER SCHIFFER
    Originally published in 1971, this title is a comprehensive and detailed presentation of the principles and practices of an activity-type, experimental form of group therapy which had proved successful with emotionally disturbed, pre-pubertal children at the time. Mortimer Schiffer describes the clinical procedures and rehabilitative programs that were developed, over a period ...

    $900.00

  • CAUSATION, FREEDOM AND DETERMINISM
    MORTIMER TAUBE
    This book, first published in 1936, divides into roughly two parts: a re-examination of historical material; and a positive theory of causation suggested by the results of this re-examination. The historical study discloses an ambiguity in the meanings of causation and determinism; it discloses also that this ambiguity is transferred to the meaning of freedom. ...

    $980.00

  • REASON AND CONTROVERSY IN THE ARTS
    MORTIMER R. KADISH
    This study is a fresh and original attempt to liberate the theory of criticism from the limitations of connoisseurship, and the assumptions of aesthetics from the difficulties and paradoxes of aesthetic relativism. It presents a picture of what rationality in the assessment of the arts would be like if one were expected to justify one's decisions in and about the arts.Kadish fo...

    $1,340.00

  • REACTION HEATS AND BOND STRENGTHS
    C. T. MORTIMER
    Reaction Heats and Bond Strengths presents the variations in the heats of particular types of reaction. This book covers a variety of topics, including the hydrogenation and polymerization of olefinic compounds, the dissociation of organic and organo-metallic compounds, and the molecular-addition compounds. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the c...

    $970.00

  • UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR IN EARLY YEARS SETTINGS
    HANNAH MORTIMER
    Everything we learn, every way we influence others and every relationship we form hangs around a complex interplay of behaviours, feelings and thoughts. This practical book explores the factors that influence children’s behaviour in the early years, enabling practitioners, parents and carers to develop a better understanding and become more intuitive and confident in supporting...

    $960.00

  • BRITISH TRADE UNIONS TODAY
    CLIVE JENKINS / J. E. MORTIMER
    British Trade Unions Today is concerned with the trade union movement in Britain, how it operates, and how it strives constantly to achieve its objectives. This text examines why the British people hold trade union membership cards, why they do it, how they do it, what they expect from their unions, and how the trade union movement affects the citizens of Britain. This book co...

    $425.00

  • DIALECTIC
    MORTIMER J. ADLER
    First published in 2000. This is Volume I of eight in the International Library of Philosophy looking at the area pf philosophy of Mind an Language. Written in 1927, Dialectic is a convenient technical name for the kind of thinking which takes place when human beings enter into dispute, or when they carry on in reflection the polemical consideration of some theory or idea. T...

    $1,560.00

  • BRITISH TRADE UNIONS TODAY
    CLIVE JENKINS / J. E. MORTIMER
    British Trade Unions Today examines why a large percentage of the British population belongs to a trade union, how they do it, what they expect from their unions, and how the trade union movement affects their fellow citizens. The authors are full time trade union officials and this account derives from their personal experience and close observation. Both have been involved in...

    $425.00

  • INFORMATION STRUCTURE DESIGN FOR DATABASES
    ANDREW J. MORTIMER
    Computer Weekly Professional Series: Information Structure Design for Databases: A Practical Guide to Data modeling focuses on practical data modeling covering business and information systems. The publication first offers information on data and information, business analysis, and entity relationship model basics. Discussions cover degree of relationship symbols, relationshi...

    $970.00

  • CHINA
    MORTIMER MENPES / HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE
    First published in 2007. China in the closing days of its Imperial era is captured in the drawings and paintings of the artist Mortimer Menpes, noted for his portrayals of the Far East, with text by Sir Henry Arthur Blake, who served as Governor of Hong Kong. Blake writes with elegant authority on Chinese life, customs and landscape, including the Temples of the Seven Star Hill...

    $1,120.00

  • CHRISTIAN ETHICS
    ROBERT CECIL MORTIMER
    A discussion of the general presuppositions and ideas which underlie the Christian ethical teaching, treating of such subjects as conscience, the concepts of sin and virtue, and the relation between morality and religion. The book also attempts to explain the traditional Christian attitudes towards certain particular matters of conduct; for example, marriage and divorce, gambli...

    $1,240.00

  • DOING FILM STUDIES
    SARAH CASEY BENYAHIA / CLAIRE MORTIMER
    Doing Film Studies examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. This book provides an overview of the construction of film studies - including its history and evolution - and examines the application of theories to film texts. Important questions discussed include: Wh...

    $740.00

  • HAWK
    TONY HAWK / SEAN MORTIMER
    For Tony Hawk, it wasn't enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as any other skater.It wasn't enough to knock himself unconscious more than ten times, fracture several ribs, break his elbow, knock out his teeth twice, compress the vertebrae in his back, pop his bursa sack, get more than fifty ...

    $229.00

  • ROMANTIC COMEDY
    CLAIRE MORTIMER
    Romantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy to the recent emergence of the bromance. Romantic Comedy examines the history of the genre, considering the social and cultural context for key developments in new genre cycles. It studies the key themes and issues at work within romantic comedy films...

    $740.00

  • ARENAS OF COMFORT IN ADOLESCENCE
    JEYLAN T. MORTIMER / KATHLEEN T. CALL
    Adolescence is a time when the social world expands, a time of increasing engagement beyond the family sphere to the school, the peer group, and the workplace. These contexts may present experiences that differ greatly in their tone and content, either contributing to or hindering satisfaction and a positive sense of self. This book examines how the constellation of stressors a...

    $1,540.00

  • THE SAS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE
    GAVIN MORTIMER
    The author of Stirling's Men recounts the WWII exploits of Britain's legendary special forces unit in thefirst volume of this authoritative history. The British Army's Special Air Service was formed during World War II as a commando unit for operations behind enemy lines. Their exploits in France inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans and left a trail of destruction and diso...

    $229.00

  • ROGER SANDALL'S FILMS AND CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY
    LORRAINE MORTIMER
    A look at a prize-winning documentarian whose work with aboriginal Australians and others united the fields of film and anthropology in the 1960s and '70s. In Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of Australia, their trajector...

    $229.00

  • WHAT ISN'T HISTORY?
    IAN MORTIMER
    An award-winning historian's guide to writing about history, in both fiction and nonfiction.   Is history absolute? Is writing about the past an exact science, or is it more of a nebulous discipline open to different interpretations and points of view? These are important questions that noted historian Ian Mortimer says all serious writers of history must reflect on.   This new...

    $249.00

  • PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
    MORTIMER, ROBERT G.
    This new edition of Robert G. Mortimer's Physical Chemistry has been thoroughly revised for use in a full year course in modern physical chemistry. In this edition, Mortimer has included recent developments in the theories of chemical reaction kinetics and molecular quantum mechanics, as well as in the experimental study of extremely rapid chemical reactions. While Mortimer has...

    $1,539.00

  • HYDRODYNAMICS OF LAKES
    GRAF, W.H. / MORTIMER, C.H.
    Hydrodynamics of Lakes ...

    $928.00


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