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  • FROM THE NORTH SEA TO THE BALTIC
    MICHAEL NORTH
    The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'. In the studies collected here, Professor North is concerned to examine the ways in which this Baltic region became integrated into the international division of labour and the emerging world economy. The volume opens with a new introductory essay, and the first section then focuses on commodities ex...

    $1,100.00

  • LEADING SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
    JO NORTH
    Leading Sustainable Innovation shows how to deliver eco-innovation within technical environments. It is tailored to support innovation leaders and managers in fields such as transport, engineering, infrastructure, energy, utilities and sciences. This book offers practical methodologies, tools, frameworks and actionable steps that readers can implement to create lasting sustaina...

    $1,299.00

  • BISHOPS, SAINTS, AND HISTORIANS
    ROBERT BRENTANO / EDITED BY WILLIAM L. NORTH
    Throughout his career, Robert Brentano attempted to understand the nature and 'style' of ecclesiastical institutions in Italy and the British Isles, the specific qualities of saints and the communities that formed around them, and the ways in which seemingly cryptic archival remains of medieval administrative activity, as well as chronicles and lives, could reveal vital details...

    $1,360.00

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDIA
    ALEXANDER NEWMAN / ANDREA NORTH-SAMARDZIC / MADHURA BEDARKAR / YOGESH BRAHMANKAR
    The economic liberalization in India over the last three decades has provided a wealth of opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to start and expand their businesses. Since the economy opened up in the 1990s, entrepreneurial activity in the private sector has been largely responsible for the strong economic growth experienced in the country. India is presently the world’s third ...

    $1,200.00

  • ALTERNATIVE CURRENCY MOVEMENTS AS A CHALLENGE TO GLOBALISATION?
    PETER NORTH
    Over the past 15 years, local money networks, which are essentially trading networks using a community-created currency, have emerged in countries as far apart as Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the US, continental Europe and Japan. They range from Local Exchange Trading Schemes (UK), to Time Dollars (US), Green Dollars (New Zealand, Australia and Canada), Trad...

    $1,200.00

  • PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF STEREOCHEMISTRY
    MICHAEL NORTH
    A thorough understanding of stereochemistry is essential for the comprehension of almost all aspects of modern organic chemistry. It is also of great significance in many biochemical and medicinal disciplines, since the stereoisomers of a compound can have dramatically different biological properties. This text explains how the different properties of stereoisomers of a compoun...

    $2,320.00

  • EDUCATION, POVERTY AND GLOBAL GOALS FOR GENDER EQUALITY
    ELAINE UNTERHALTER / AMY NORTH
    Drawing on case-study research that examined initiatives which engaged with global aspirations to advance gender equality in schooling in Kenya and South Africa, this book looks at how global frameworks on gender, education and poverty are interpreted in local settings and the politics of implementation. It discusses the forms of global agreements in particular contexts, and al...

    $1,200.00

  • SPORT COACHING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
    JULIAN NORTH
    Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport coaching research, examining the often implicit links between research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions. Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplin...

    $1,320.00

  • 'MATERIAL DELIGHT AND THE JOY OF LIVING'
    MICHAEL NORTH
    Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed a commercialization of culture as it became less courtly and more urban. The marketing of culture became separate from the production of culture. New cultural entrepreneurs entered the stage: the impresario, the publisher, the book seller, the art dealer, the auction house, and the reading society served as middlemen between producers and con...

    $1,240.00

  • ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA, 1400-1900
    MICHAEL NORTH
    The European expansion to Asia was driven by the desire for spices and Asian luxury products. Its results, however, exceeded the mere exchange of commodities and precious metals. The meeting of Asia and Europe signaled not only the beginnings of a global market but also a change in taste and lifestyle that influences our lives even today. Manifold kinds of cultural transfers ev...

    $1,160.00

  • ART MARKETS IN EUROPE, 1400–1800
    MICHAEL NORTH / DAVID ORMROD
    The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline, in ways which can only help economic and social historians in the current drive to study past societies in terms of what they consumed, produced, perceived and imagined. This group of essays focuses on three main issues: the...

    $1,420.00

  • TEACHING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE?
    CONNIE E. NORTH
    Teaching for Social Justice? Voices from the Front Lines examines the process of four K-12 educators and a university-based researcher discussing, studying, and acting on the potential power of social justice. Through frequent, lively, and complex meetings, these educators examine their varying educational philosophies, practices, and teaching sites. Using experimental writing ...

    $1,380.00

  • SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
    ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
    From a discussion of Einstein's theories to an analysis of meaning, the philosopher offers a fascinating collection of essays on a wide range of topics. This is a collection of many of Whitehead's papers that are scattered elsewhere. It was the penultimate book he published, and represents his mature thoughts on many topics. Philosophical Library has done a great service by pub...

    $229.00

  • ATTACK OF THE HMS NIMROD
    J. NORTH CONWAY / JESSE DUBUC
    On the morning of June 13, 1814, the British warship HMS" Nimrod" attacked the town of Wareham, Massachusetts. As a center for shipbuilding and iron, Wareham was a perfect target for the British fleet. When the lead barge deceptively appeared with a white flag at its bow, Wareham never suspected anything but a truce and was ill prepared for the attack. A raiding party with six ...

    $229.00

  • TO SEE BUT NOT TO SEE: A CASE STUDY OF VISUAL AGNOSIA
    UNIVERSITY OF LONDON / M. JANE RIDDOCH NORTH EAST LONDON POLYTECHNIC. GLYN W. HUMPHREYS BIRKBECK COLL
    Brain damage may sometimes cause specific impairments in human behaviour. One rare impairment is the failure to recognize everyday objects by sight, a problem which is termed "visual agnosia". In this book, the authors discuss the case of a patient, ...

    $1,100.00

  • CHALLENGE OF JAPAN BEFORE WORLD WAR II
    NAZLI CHOUCRI / ROBERT C. NORTH / SUSUMU YAMAKAGE
    First published in 1993.This book examines the relationships between the economic, political and strategic expansion of a country, and its tendency towards conflict and war. The authors use the example of Japan to demonstrate that it is uneven economic development and the search for basic resources and markets that often set the stage for war and international conflict. Thus th...

    $1,320.00

  • EXPLORING ENGLISH GRAMMAR
    CAROLINE COFFIN / JIM DONOHUE / SARAH NORTH
    This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG (Systemic Functional Grammar) can be used to enrich the traditional formal approach. Using a problem-solving approach, readers explore how grammatical structures function i...

    $1,340.00

  • THE QUALITY BUSINESS
    ROBERT BLACKBURN / JAMES CURRAN / JULIAN NORTH
    This book is the first to seriously consider quality issues in smaller firms, based upon well-conducted research and careful theorizing. Subjects covered include:* the relevance of formal quality standards such as BS 5750 to small firms* definitions and implementations of 'quality' in a business context, from formal standards to Total Quality Management* interviews with a selec...

    $1,240.00

  • POLISH EYEWITNESSES TO NAPOLEON'S 1812 CAMPAIGN
    MAREK TADEUSZ LALOWSKI / JONATHAN NORTH
    The drama of Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Russia is captured through the letters and diaries of Polish soldiers who fought with the French. Napoleon's invasion of Russia cost hundreds of thousands lives and changed the course of history. Europe had never seen an army like the one gathering in Poland in 1812—half a million men in brilliant uniforms and shimmering helmets. Si...

    $229.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY CLASSICS
    ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD / FAY B. KARPF / RALPH B. WINN
    Three classic texts in one: essays by Alfred North Whitehead, an authoritative study of Otto Rank, and an essential reference book on hypnosis. In Science and Philosophy, Alfred North Whitehead presents his mature thought on topics ranging from education to science and mathematics; from the theories of John Dewey to Albert Einstein. These collected essays cover his positions in...

    $329.00

  • GREAT PHILOSOPHERS VOLUME TWO
    ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD / MOSES MAIMONIDES / BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Three essential philosophers on the nature of reality, the health of the human body, and the meaning of history. Science and Philosophy: An essential introduction to Alfred North Whitehead's life and philosophy. From personal reflections to his groundbreaking essay "Process and Reality" to an enlightening discussion of Einstein's theories, Science and Philosophy is a must-read ...

    $329.00

  • THE NAPOLEON OPTIONS
    JONATHAN NORTH
    Compelling fictional scenarios exploring how the Napoleonic Wars could have gone very differently.   This compelling alternate history, brilliantly written by fourteen leading international authors, presents the great maybes of the Napoleonic Wars. It focuses on some of the pivotal episodes of these catastrophic wars, giving them a resounding twist, and explores in detail an al...

    $279.00

  • THE NAPOLEON OPTIONS
    JONATHAN NORTH
    Compelling fictional scenarios exploring how the Napoleonic Wars could have gone very differently.   This compelling alternate history, brilliantly written by fourteen leading international authors, presents the great maybes of the Napoleonic Wars. It focuses on some of the pivotal episodes of these catastrophic wars, giving them a resounding twist, and explores in detail an al...

    $279.00

  • SUSURRAN TU NOMBRE
    NORTH ALEX
    SI DEJAS UNA PUERTA ENTREABIERTA PRONTO ESCUCHARÁS LOS SUSURROS... Hace quince años un psicópata conocido como el Hombre de los Susurros sembró el caos en el apacible pueblo de Featherbank. Ahora, con el asesino entre rejas, el pueblo es un lugar seguro para que Tom y su hijo Jake, de siete años, empiecen de nuevo. Hasta que otro chico desaparece. La historia parece repetirse. ...
    En stock

    $239.00

  • THE ADHESIVE INTERACTION OF CELLS
    GARROD, DAVID / NORTH, A.J. / CHIDGEY, M.A.J.
    The aim of "The Adhesive Interaction of Cells" has been to assemble a series of reviews by leading international experts embracing many of the most important recent developments in this rapidly expanding field. The purpose of all biological research is to understand the form and function of living organisms and, by comprehending the normal, to find explanations and remedies for...

    $1,844.00

  • UNION IN TRUTH
    JAMES B. NORTH
    This history of the Restoration Movement looks at why it exists, where it has succeeded, and why it has sometimes failed to accomplish the goal of Christian union and the goal of biblical authority. ...

    $798.00

  • THE EARTH MY BOOK OF 100 STICKERS
    NORTH PARADE PUBLISHING
    En stock

    $120.00

  • THE DEATH OF JOACHIM MURAT
    JONATHAN NORTH
    The only English-language book on the fall and death of Joachim Murat and the final act in the drama of the Napoleonic Wars. Joachim Murat, son of an innkeeper, had won his spurs as Napoleon's finest cavalry general and then won his throne when, in 1808, Napoleon appointed him king of Naples. He loyally ran this strategic Italian kingdom with his wife, Napoleon's sister Carolin...

    $319.99

  • SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD
    ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
    The famed mathematician and philosopher takes readers on a journey into a new scientific age, exploring topics from relativity to religion.   Alfred North Whitehead, one of the great figures in the philosophy of science, wrote this prescient work nearly a century ago. Yet, in an era that has us reckoning with science and technology's place and meaning in our lives, it remains a...

    $85.00

  • PERFECT MATCH
    HAILEY NORTH
    While Not Looking For Mr. Right... Although she vows that she's locked her heart and thrown away the key, ravishing red-headed Lauren Stevens suddenly has several men vying to prove her wrong—and to win the right to set free her passionate self. Button-down banker Oliver Gotho seems like a good candidate, but it's Oliver's sexy brother Alistair who has invited the beautiful, pe...

    $109.00


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