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  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LISTENING
    ELVIS WAGNER, AARON OLAF BATTY, AND EVELINA GALACZI
    The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening offers a state-of-the-art, systematic discussion of the role of listening in second language acquisition (SLA) and use. This handbook positions listening not just as a receptive comprehension skill, but also as an integral part of interaction, a vital component in the process of language acquisition, and a skil...

    $1,380.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO TEXTURE ANALYSIS
    OLAF ENGLER / STEFAN ZAEFFERER / VALERIE RANDLE
    Reflecting emerging methods and the evolution of the field, Introduction to Texture Analysis: Macrotexture, Microtexture, and Orientation Mapping keeps mathematics to a minimum in covering both traditional macrotexture analysis and more advanced electron-microscopy-based microtexture analysis. The authors integrate the two techniques and address the subsequent need for a more d...

    $3,300.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF GREEN FINANCE
    OTHMAR M. LEHNER, THERESIA HARRER, HANNA SILVOLA AND OLAF WEBER
    Green finance is heralded in theory and practice as the new panacea – the ideal way to support the green transition of businesses into more sustainable, environmentally responsible forms, by means of incentivized financial investments. This handbook brings together a variety of expert scholars with industry specialists to offer the most authoritative overview of green finance t...

    $1,360.00

  • REFEUDALIZATION AND THE CRISIS OF CIVILIZATION
    OLAF KALTMEIER / EDGARDO LANDER
    Discussing the civilizatory crisis and processes of refeudalization this volume brings into dialogue two of the most creative approaches, in Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander, to rethink capitalism in the 21st century. In Part 1, Olaf Kaltmeier, takes issue with the state of social inequality in the region, highlighting the concentration of wealth within the upper 1% of society...

    $1,160.00

  • 3D PRINTING FOR PRODUCT DESIGNERS
    JENNIFER LOY / JAMES NOVAK / OLAF DIEGEL
    3D Printing for Product Designers closes the gap between the rhetoric of 3D printing in manufacturing and the reality for product designers. It provides practical strategies to support the adoption and integration of 3D printing into professional practice. 3D printing has evolved over the last decade into a practical proposition for manufacturing, opening up innovative opportun...

    $1,000.00

  • ETIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS
    OLAF DAMMANN
    Theory of illness causation is an important issue in all biomedical sciences, and solid etiological explanations are needed in order to develop therapeutic approaches in medicine and preventive interventions in public health. Until now, the literature about the theoretical underpinnings of illness causation research has been scarce and fragmented, and lacking a convenient summa...

    $1,100.00

  • SPECTRAL METHODS USING MULTIVARIATE POLYNOMIALS ON THE UNIT BALL
    KENDALL ATKINSON / DAVID CHIEN / OLAF HANSEN
    Spectral Methods Using Multivariate Polynomials on the Unit Ball is a research level text on a numerical method for the solution of partial differential equations. The authors introduce, illustrate with examples, and analyze 'spectral methods' that are based on multivariate polynomial approximations. The method presented is an alternative to finite element and difference method...

    $4,500.00

  • MICROSOCIOLOGY
    KAI-OLAF MAIWALD / INKEN SUERIG
    This book offers an unprecedented, integrative account of the shape of social order on the microsocial level. Dealing with the basic dimensions of interaction, the authors examine the major factors which influence "structure" in social interaction by applying various theoretical concepts. Although the concept of "microsociology" is usually associated with symbolic interactionis...

    $1,160.00

  • SOCIOLOGY IN GOVERNMENT
    OLAF F. LARSON / EDWARD O. MOE / JULIE N. ZIMMERMAN / YVONNE B. OLIVER
    "This bibliography is the first major output of the project ""Sociology in the U.S. Department of Agriculture: the Galpin-Taylor years, 1 9 1 9- 1 95 3."" This project is being conducted under a cooperative agreement between the Agriculture and Rural Economy Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Depa rtment of Agriculture and the Department of Rural Sociology, New York Stat...

    $1,200.00

  • THE STATE AND THE PARADOX OF CUSTOMARY LAW IN AFRICA
    OLAF ZENKER AND MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE
    Customary law and traditional authorities continue to play highly complex and contested roles in contemporary African states. Reversing the common preoccupation with studying the impact of the post/colonial state on customary regimes, this volume analyses how the interactions between state and non-state normative orders have shaped the everyday practices of the state. It argues...

    $1,200.00

  • THE EVIDENCE BOOK
    OLAF RIEPER / FRANS L. LEEUW / TOM LING
    Knowledge grows as ideas are tested against each other. Agreement is not resolved simply by naming concepts but in the dialectical process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. There are many echoes of these debates in The Evidence Book. The contributors make claims for both practitioner wisdom and the voice of experience. Against this is posed the authority of experimental sci...

    $660.00

  • SONDHEIM AND LAPINE'S INTO THE WOODS
    OLAF JUBIN
    ‘The Woods are just Trees. The Trees are just Wood.’ – All together In 1987, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine combined several classic fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Jack and the Beanstalk to create Into the Woods. Funny and heartfelt, this musical explores what it might mean to act responsibly in society, both as a parent and as a child. Situati...

    $340.00

  • THE NEW DYNAMICS OF IDENTITY POLITICS IN THE AMERICAS
    OLAF KALTMEIER, SEBASTIAN THIES AND JOSEF RAAB
    Multiculturalism has shaped identity politics in the Americas over the past decades, as illustrated by politics of recognition, affirmative action, and increasing numbers of internationally recognized cultural productions by members of ethnic minorities. Hinting at postcolonial legacies in political rhetoric and practice multiculturalism has also served as a driving force behin...

    $1,260.00

  • THE STUDY OF EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY IN AUSTRIA
    JAMES R. DOW / OLAF BOCKHORN
    The study of ethnology or ’Volkskunde’ in Austria has had a troubled past. Through most of the 20th century it was under the influence of the so-called Viennese ’Mythological School’ and the controversy between the two opposing branches, the ’Ritualist’ and the ’Mythologists', set much of the agenda from the 1920s until long after the World War ended in 1945. The volume exami...

    $1,320.00

  • ENTANGLED HERITAGES
    OLAF KALTMEIER / MARIO RUFER
    Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of ne...

    $1,200.00

  • THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
    OLAF ASBACH / PETER SCHRÖDER
    The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) remains a puzzling and complex subject for students and scholars alike. This is hardly surprising since it is often contested among historians whether it is actually appropriate to speak of a single war or a series of conflicts. Similarly emphasis is also put on the different motives for going to war, as conflicting religious and political inte...

    $960.00

  • THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF RELIGION IN THE ENLARGED EUROPE
    OLAF MÜLLER
    Engaging with some of the central issues in the sociology of religion, this volume investigates the role and significance of churches and religion in contemporary Western and Eastern Europe. Based on an extensive international research project, it offers case studies of various countries (including Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Hungary and Croati...

    $1,560.00

  • WAR, THE STATE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
    OLAF ASBACH / PETER SCHRÖDER
    One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless string of conflicts and social upheavals. Why was it that the foundation and institutionalisation of secured peace and the rule of law seemed to go hand-in-hand with the proliferation of war and the violation of...

    $1,140.00

  • KARCH'S PATHOLOGY OF DRUG ABUSE
    MD KARCH / OLAF DRUMMER
    Written in the same accessible manner as previous editions, the fifth edition of Karch‘s Pathology of Drug Abuse is an essential guide to the pathology, toxicology, and pharmacology of commonly abused drugs. The book focuses on the investigation of drug-related deaths, practical approaches to the detection of drug abuse, and discussions of medical ...

    $3,400.00

  • LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN PHARMACY PRACTICE
    MD KARCH / DRUMMER STEVEN B. / OLAF
    Over the past years, the changing nature of pharmacy practice has caused many to realize that the practice must not only be managed, but also led. Leadership and Management in Pharmacy Practice discusses a variety of leadership and managerial issues facing pharmacists now and in the future. This second edition has been reorganized by placing leadership chapters up front, follow...

    $3,600.00

  • PARADOX AND IMPERATIVES IN HEALTH CARE
    JEFFREY C. BAUER / DRUMMER STEVEN B. / OLAF
    The Paradox: Americans are not as healthy as people in dozens of comparable countries that spend 30 percent less on health care, and our medical marketplace overall is plagued by persistent problems of cost, quality, and access. Yet, the world’s best individual health systems are located in the U.S.—each a unique result of visionary leadership and private initiative, not govern...

    $960.00

  • FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL ALGORITHMS
    CLAUS WEIHS / OLAF MERSMANN / UWE LIGGES
    A new and refreshingly different approach to presenting the foundations of statistical algorithms, Foundations of Statistical Algorithms: With References to R Packages reviews the historical development of basic algorithms to illuminate the evolution of today's more powerful statistical algorithms. It emphasizes recurring themes in all statistical ...

    $1,800.00

  • PRACTICAL HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION CHECKLIST AND FIELD GUIDE
    VERNON J. GEBERTH / DRUMMER STEVEN B. / KARCH OLAF / FFFLM MD / STEVEN B.
    This book provides protocols for suicide and equivocal death investigation, police action shooting investigations and a homicide supervisor's checklist. It contains state-of-the-art anatomical graphics in full color to assist the investigator in describing any injuries or wounds to the body. ...

    $1,420.00

  • DATA ANALYSIS IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
    OLAF BEHNKE
    This practical guide covers the essential tasks in statistical data analysis encountered in high energy physics and provides comprehensive advice for typical questions and problems. The basic methods for inferring results from data are presented as well as tools for advanced tasks such as improving the signal-to-background ratio, correcting detector effects, determining systema...

    $1,268.00

  • SOCIAL JUSTICE IN A GLOBAL AGE
    OLAF CRAMME
    What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justice ‘at home' with greater social justice in the world? Are the social justice pressures our societies currently face the result of globalisation or are they domestically generated? How can we advance social justice in the light of the...

    $570.00

  • SOCIAL BANKS AND THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
    OLAF WEBER
    Social Banking describes a way of value-driven banking that has a positive social and ecological impact at its heart, as well as its own economic sustainability. Although it has a long and successful history, it has arguably never been more topical than it is now in the aftermath of the latest financial crisis. Most Social Banks came out of this crisis not only unscathed but mu...

    $1,760.00

  • ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA
    DOSCH, JÖRN / JACOB, OLAF
    Until the late 1980s, Japan was the only country in Asia with notable political and economic relations. Since then, however, several Asian nations have perceived growing links with the Latin American region as a means of diversifying their political and particularly economic relations while many Latin American decision-makers have increasingly recognised the strategic importanc...

    $640.00

  • CONTESTING THE ANTHROPOCENE
    OLAF KALTMEIER
    This book provides refreshing and critical conceptualizations of the Anthropocene from Latin American perspectives, addressing questions of coloniality and capitalism. Researchers from different disciplines introduce a variety of new concepts and approaches to explore the social, political, and epistemological causes of the multiple socio-ecological crises and showcase alternat...

    $1,240.00

  • RESTORATION
    OLAF OLAFSSON
    "A tremendous talent." — Boston Globe " Restoration is an elegantly constructed work of fiction, seamlessly moving between the past and the present." —Ron Rash, bestselling author of Serena Acclaimed novelist Olaf Olafsson brings us Restoration, a sweeping story of love tested by human frailty and the terrors and tragedies of war.  Departing from the landscapes of his native Ic...

    $229.00

  • VAN GOGH
    MEXTORF, OLAF
    Agotado

    $250.00