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  • DISEÑO DE INVESTIGACIONES CLÍNICAS
    WARREN S. BROWNER / THOMAS B. NEWMAN / STEVEN R. CUMMINGS / DEBORAH G. GRADY
    Durante más de 30 años, Diseño de investigaciones clínicas ha establecido la pauta como la guía más práctica y de mayor autoridad para médicos, profesionales de enfermería, farmacéuticos y para otros profesionales involucrados en todas las formas de investigación clínica y de salud pública. Con un estilo de escritura fácil de leer, los autores proporcionan enfoques actualizados...

    $1,800.00

  • THEORIES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
    BARBARA M. NEWMAN / PHILIP R. NEWMAN
    This bestselling textbook provides an engaging introduction to 11 major theories about human development that continue to guide research, intervention, and practice. The theories are grouped into three families: those that emphasize biological systems, those that focus on environmental factors, and those that reflect the interaction between the two. This organization encourages...

    $3,300.00

  • THE PUNISHMENT RESPONSE
    GRAEME R. NEWMAN
    Punishment occupies a central place in our lives and attitudes. We suffer a profound ambivalence about its moral consequences. Persons who have been punished or are liable to be punished have long objected to the legitimacy of punishment. We are all objects of punishment, yet we are also its users. Our ambivalence is so profound that not only do we punish others, but we punish ...

    $1,320.00

  • COMPARATIVE DEVIANCE
    GRAEME R. NEWMAN / MARVIN E. WOLFGANG
    "Comparative Deviance" represents a systematic attempt to survey public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. There is extensive diversity in both law and perception concerning such deviances as taking drugs, homosexuality, and abortion, yet there is evidence for a basically invariant structure in p...

    $1,320.00

  • SUPERHIGHWAY ROBBERY
    GRAEME R. NEWMAN / RONALD V. CLARKE
    This book, written by two leading authorities in the field, provides a systematic application of concepts of situational crime prevention to internet and e-commerce crime, exploring ways in which concepts of crime prevention developed in other contexts can be fruitfully applied in this new environment. Their argument is that situational crime prevention works, and is ideally su...

    $1,320.00

  • GODEL'S PROOF
    ERNEST NAGEL / JAMES R. NEWMAN
    'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' – The Guardian In 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics was p...

    $520.00

  • PRISONS OF CAÑON CITY
    VICTORIA R. NEWMAN
    Ca�on City sits in a geological bowl surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. Historically, it has been known as the prison capital of the world, with eight� soon to be nine�state prisons in the area and four federal facilities located 11 miles away in Florence. The first prison in Ca�on City was built in 1868, before Colorado became a state, a...

    $279.00

  • OSTEOPOROSIS
    GUELDNER, SARAH H. / GRABO, THERESA N. / NEWMAN, ERIC D. / COOPER, DAVID R.
    Osteoporosis is a preventable disease. But each year some 500,000 people are hospitalized from osteoporosis fractures, and another 180,000 people are placed into nursing homes from injuries due to osteoporosis. What can nurses, clinicians, medical researchers, physiologists, health care policy experts, and other providers do to diminish, if not eradicate, the disease from local...

    $1,773.00

  • GÖDEL'S PROOF
    ERNEST NAGEL / JAMES R NEWMAN / DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER
    An accessible explanation of Kurt Gödel's groundbreaking work in mathematical logic: " An excellent nontechnical account." — Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society   In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlyi...

    $251.00

  • CARDINAL NEWMAN AND WILLIAM FROUDE, F.R.S.
    GORDON HUNTINGTON HARPER / JOHN HENRY NEWMAN / WILLIAM FROUDE F.R.S.
    This is a study of the relationship between Cardinal Newman and William Froude. The one a Catholic convert and the other a scientist and naval engineer. ...

    $461.00

  • FINE LINE LITHOGRAPHY
    NEWMAN, R
    Fine Line Lithography ...

    $928.00

  • DISABILITY LIFE STORIES
    ANNEMARIE VACCARO / ADAM M. MOORE / BARBARA M. NEWMAN / PHILIP R. NEWMAN / EZEKIEL W. KIMBALL / ALEXIS CA
    Based on a 10-year longitudinal study in the United States, this much-needed text offers insight into the developmental trajectories of people with disabilities from childhood through adulthood using their language and amplifying their voices. Through in-depth interviews with 14 disabled people, the authors learned important lessons about how each individual developed and enact...

    $700.00

  • THE GRAVE DIGGER'S BOY
    R.R. NEWMAN
    In this debut crime thriller, an overturned twenty-year-old murder case forces the victim's sister to seek help from one of last people to see her alive. As a boy, Ben was one of the last to see beautiful young Esther Garrett alive—which led to an intense obsession. Twenty years later, the conviction of her murderer is overturned due to a police corruption scandal. Ben's obsess...

    $109.00

  • ALCHEMY TRIED IN THE FIRE
    WILLIAM R. NEWMAN / LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE
    Winner of the 2005 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society.   What actually took place in the private laboratory of a mid-seventeenth century alchemist? How did he direct his quest after the secrets of Nature? What instruments and theoretical principles did he employ? Using, as their guide, the previously misunderstood interactions between Robert Boyle, widely known as...

    $698.95

  • ATOMS AND ALCHEMY
    WILLIAM R. NEWMAN
    Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman—a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy—exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origin...

    $856.25

  • PROMETHEAN AMBITIONS
    WILLIAM R. NEWMAN
    In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generall...

    $698.95