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  • MYTHS AND LIES ABOUT DADS
    LINDA NIELSEN
    Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers. Using the most recent research, this pioneering work exposes these baseless beliefs and the toll they take on children’s relationships with their fathers, parents’ relationships with one another, and the physical and mental health of f...

    $679.00

  • MASTERING THE PMI RISK MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMI-RMP) EXAM
    KLAUS NIELSEN
    Risk Management Professionals seek to identify, analyze, and document the risks associated with a company’s business operations, as well as monitor the effectiveness of risk management processes and implement needed changes. The PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® certification not only highlights the ability to identify and assess project risks, mitigate threats, and c...

    $1,239.00

  • GADAMER’S HERMENEUTICAL AESTHETICS
    CYNTHIA R. NIELSEN
    This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art’s performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity. The first two chapters focus on Gadamer’s critical appropriation and movement beyond Ka...

    $1,099.00

  • REVISITING TRUSTWORTHINESS IN SOCIAL INTERACTION
    MIE FEMØ NIELSEN / ANN MERRIT RIKKE NIELSEN
    Bringing together trust research, rhetoric, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book formulates an analytical program for conceptualizing and defining trustworthiness as an empirical research object in social interaction. Revisiting Trustworthiness in Social Interaction examines trustworthiness as a relational and dynamic concept. It reviews sociological and rhetor...

    $1,099.00

  • MOTHERLESS CREATIONS
    WENDY C. NIELSEN
    This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless creations: Pygmalion’s statue, Frankenstein’s creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men. These beings typify what is now called artificial life, living systems made through manufactured means. Fantasies about crea...

    $1,099.00

  • MARXISM AND THE MORAL POINT OF VIEW
    KAI NIELSEN
    Marxism and the Moral Point of View attempts to say what consistent Marxists working within the parameters of the canonical conceptions of Marxism should say about morality. This includes what they should say about the function of morality in society, about the extent of moral comment they can justifiably make, and about freedom, equality, and justice, including the justice of ...

    $1,039.00

  • THE BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION PROCESS
    YARIV TARAN / HARRY BOER / CHRISTIAN NIELSEN
    Business Model Innovation Process: Preparation, Organization and Management examines a range of critical questions that merit thoughtful interdisciplinary consideration, such as: Why do business models, and their innovation in particular, matter today? How can the process of business model innovation be understood, organized and managed adequately under increasingly volatile, u...

    $1,099.00

  • AGILE PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
    KLAUS NIELSEN
    Agile Portfolio Management deals with how an organization identifies, prioritizes, organizes, and manages different products. This is done in a streamlined way in order to optimize the development of value in a manner that’s sustainable in the long run. It ensures that a company provides their clients with the best value for their investment. A good portfolio manager understand...

    $1,099.00

  • LOW-SWITCHING FREQUENCY MODULATION SCHEMES FOR MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS
    A. RAKESH KUMAR / T. DEEPA / SANJEEVIKUMAR PADMANABAN / JENS BO HOLM-NIELSEN
    Multi-level Inverters (MLIs) are widely used for conversion of DC to AC power. This book provides various low-switching frequency (LSF) modulation schemes (conventional and improved), which can be implemented on MLIs. The LSF modulation schemes are implemented to three different MLI topologies to demonstrate their working and aimed at their application to reader invented MLI to...

    $1,199.00

  • MICROGRIDS
    SANJEEVIKUMAR PADMANABAN / K. NITHIYANANTHAN / S. PRABHAKAR KARTHIKEYAN / JENS BO HOLM-NIELSEN
    Microgrids offers a complete discussion and details about microgrids and their applications, including modeling of AC/DC and hybrid grids in a tied mode with simulation for the solar systems, wind turbines, biomass and fuel cells, and deployment issues. The data communications and control mechanism implementations are analyzed for proper coordination of the AC/DC microgrid. The...

    $859.00

  • SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HOSPITALITY
    WILLY LEGRAND / MIGUEL ANGEL GARDETTI / ROBERT SCHØNROCK NIELSEN / COLIN JOHNSON / MEHMET ERGUL
    This innovative book is the first to explore social entrepreneurship in the field of hospitality, introducing students to the principles of social entrepreneurship motivation, finance, sustainability, issues and challenges, and how these can be successfully implemented in a range of hospitality settings. The hospitality industry offers a particularly fruitful framework for soci...

    $979.00

  • DIRECT INTEGRAL THEORY
    O. A. NIELSEN
    This book covers various topics related to direct integral theory, including Borel spaces, direct integral of Hilbert spaces and operators, direct integrals of representations, direct integrals and types of von Neumann algebras, and measures on the quasi-dual representations. ...

    $4,400.00

  • IMPROVING FATHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS
    LINDA NIELSEN
    Improving Father-Daughter Relationships: A Guide for Women and Their Dads is essential reading for daughters and their fathers, as well as for their families and for therapists. This friendly, no-nonsense book by father-daughter relationships expert, Dr. Linda Nielsen, offers women and their dads a step-by-step guide to improve their relationships and to understand the impact t...

    $479.00

  • FROM MUMMIES TO MICROCHIPS
    JOYCE TYLDESLEY / NICKY NIELSEN
    This volume offers a detailed case study of the internationally acclaimed online programmes in Egyptology at the University of Manchester, UK. It distils over a decade of online teaching experience and student feedback, providing guidance for instructors developing their own online offerings. Today, many universities are actively encouraging their teaching staff towards the dev...

    $499.00

  • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
    SØREN NORS NIELSEN
    Analyzing the self-sufficient Danish island of Samsø, this book explains sustainability through a bio-geophysical understanding of how to best use society’s limited resources to achieve true sustainability. The method used derives from the thermodynamic function of exergy. By analyzing exergy flows and establishing a system for evaluating the energy and the materials used in a ...

    $1,179.00

  • GENDER AND ISLAND COMMUNITIES
    FIROUZ GAINI / HELENE PRISTED NIELSEN
    This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings while deliberating on ‘islandness’ as part of the intersectional analysis. Though there is a wealth of recent literature on islands and island studies, most of this literature focuses on islands as objects of study rather than as contexts for exploring gender relations ...

    $1,059.00

  • UNDERSTANDING VIDEO GAMES
    SIMON EGENFELDT-NIELSEN / JONAS HEIDE SMITH / SUSANA PAJARES TOSCA
    From Pong to virtual reality, Understanding Video Games, 4th Edition, takes video game studies into the next decade of the twenty-first century, highlighting changes in the area, including mobile, social, and casual gaming. In this new edition of the pioneering text, students learn to assess the major theories used to analyze games, such as ludology and narratology, and gain fa...

    $1,299.00

  • EXPERIENCES AND EXPLANATIONS OF ADHD
    MIKKA NIELSEN
    Experiences and Explanations of ADHD: An Ethnography of Adults Living with a Diagnosis presents research on the lived experiences of those diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Drawing on in-depth interviews with adults diagnosed with ADHD, the book provides an examination of how the diagnosis is understood, used, and acted upon by the people receiving...

    $1,059.00

  • THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH
    LAURA BETH NIELSEN
    First published in 2006, this book brings together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality, this book draws on narratives of individuals from a variety of contexts to provide a rich and contextualized understanding of what happens when law interacts with other competing systems or forms of social organization. By privileging the real ...

    $239.00

  • THE ECOLOGY AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF POISONOUS PLANTS ON LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
    LYNN F JAMES / MICHAEL H RALPHS / DARWIN B NIELSEN
    First published in 1988. Livestock poisoning by plants has been a problem to the livestock producers of the United States since our pioneer forefathers first grazed their herds of cattle and sheep on the vast rangelands and pastures of this country. It has long been recognized that poisonous plants are not only disruptive to the harvesting of the ...

    $1,099.00

  • FATHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS
    LINDA NIELSEN
    In this fully revised new edition, Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues summarises and analyses the most relevant research regarding father-daughter relationships, aiming to break down the persistent misconceptions regarding fatherhood and father-daughter relationships and encourage the reader to take a more objective and analytical approach. The rese...

    $999.00

  • FEMINIST RESEARCH METHODS
    JOYCE MCCARL NIELSEN
    Feminist inquiry has affected the nature of research in ail the social and natural sciences over the past decade, but much contemporary writing on feminist methods simply offers a critique of traditional methods. This book, one of the first to offer a practical guide to conducting research informed by feminist methods, is based on the premise that abstract discussion of methodo...

    $1,099.00

  • NATIVE AMERICANS, CRIME, AND JUSTICE
    MARIANNE O. NIELSEN
    The historical involvement of Native peoples within the criminal justice system is a narrative of tragedy and injustice, yet Native American experience in this system has not been well studied. Despite disproportionate representation of Native Americans in the criminal justice system, far more time has been spent studying other minority groups. Nat ...

    $1,099.00

  • LEAN IN AGRICULTURE
    VIBEKE FLADKJAER NIELSEN / SUSANNE PEJSTRUP
    Responding to a recent surge in interest and application, this book is the first to comprehensively address how Lean thinking and tools can be implemented in agriculture and agribusiness. This tactical guide breaks down barriers, clearly depicting how improvement techniques originally developed for factories can derive the same powerful results on farms. Expert Lean farming con...

    $899.00

  • STATISTICS FOR FINANCE
    ERIK LINDSTRÖM / HENRIK MADSEN / JAN NYGAARD NIELSEN
    Statistics for Finance develops students’ professional skills in statistics with applications in finance. Developed from the authors’ courses at the Technical University of Denmark and Lund University, the text bridges the gap between classical, rigorous treatments of financial mathematics that rarely connect concepts to data and books on econometrics and time series analysis t...

    $1,239.00

  • STATISTICS FOR FINANCE
    ERIK LINDSTRÖM / HENRIK MADSEN / JAN NYGAARD NIELSEN
    Statistics for Finance develops students’ professional skills in statistics with applications in finance. Developed from the authors’ courses at the Technical University of Denmark and Lund University, the text bridges the gap between classical, rigorous treatments of financial mathematics that rarely connect concepts to data and books on econometrics and time series analysis t...

    $1,239.00

  • ORGANIZATIONAL INTERVENTIONS FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
    KARINA NIELSEN / ANDREW NOBLET
    This important new collection provides not only a comprehensive overview of how organizational interventions can improve health and well-being in the workplace - addressing its causes rather than the symptoms - but also the practical issues faced in their design, implementation and evaluation. Drawing on a range of case studies and empirical investigations, it is the first book...

    $1,099.00

  • ATTENTION AND CREATION
    FIN EGENFELDT-NIELSEN
    The implicit background of this book consists of an optimistic approach to creating mind forms that improve the condition of humanity, deriving from the legends of Christ and the Buddha and the experiences of mystics in both Eastern and Western cultures, as well as from psychoanalytic thought. This book is divided into four parts. The first is a brief introduction to Bion himse...

    $859.00

  • THE REIGN OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR I IN HISTORY AND HISTORICAL MEMORY
    JOHN P. NIELSEN
    Nebuchadnezzar I (r. 1125-1104) was one of the more significant and successful kings to rule Babylonia in the intervening period between the demise of the Kassite Dynasty in the 12th century at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and the emergence of a new, independent Babylonian monarchy in the last quarter of the 7th century. His dynamic reign saw Nebuchadnezzar active on both do...

    $1,059.00

  • AESTHETICS AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN MODERN SOCIETY
    HENRIK KAARE NIELSEN
    Do aesthetic appeals to senses and emotions in political debate necessarily marginalise political reason and reduce citizens to consumers – thus dangerously undermining democracy? Or is sensuous-emotional engagement, on the contrary, a basic fact of the political process and a crucial precondition for revitalising democracy? Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society in...

    $1,059.00


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