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  • A STARTUP FIELD GUIDE IN THE AGE OF ROBOTS AND AI
    OLIVER MITCHELL
    Launching a startup is like climbing a mountain, just maybe more treacherous. I say this as I have spent years as a backpacker and entrepreneur. While hiking through the Alaskan Tundra, I feared brown bears and crevasses. Yet, nothing prepared me for the responsibility of payroll for over 200 families relying on my business plan to feed their children. Unlike traditional softwa...

    $860.00

  • ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY
    RICHARD BENNETT / JOSEPH E. OLIVER
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the central theoretical tenets of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), guidance on key practical applications of the approach, and reflection on the strategic issues inherent to the delivery of this psychological intervention. This thoroughly revised edition explains and demonstrates the range of acceptance, mindfulness, and beha...

    $580.00

  • THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT, OR THE YOUNG ENGINEER OF THE LAKE SHORE RAILROAD
    OLIVER OPTIC
    "Through by Daylight, or the Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad" by Oliver Optic is a thrilling coming-of-age adventure that celebrates the ingenuity, courage, and work ethic of a young protagonist navigating the high-speed world of 19th-century railroads. The story follows Scott, an ambitious and capable young man with dreams of becoming an engineer, who earns his place...

    $39.70

  • ON TIME, OR, BOUND TO GET THERE
    OLIVER OPTIC
    "On Time, or, Bound to Get There" by Oliver Optic is a spirited tale of perseverance, integrity, and youthful determination, following the adventures of Charles Hardy, a dependable and resourceful young man who is thrust into a whirlwind of challenges when a simple errand becomes a test of character and grit. Tasked with a critical delivery that must arrive on time, Charles fac...

    $39.70

  • PAINTING LANDSCAPES IN WATERCOLOUR
    OLIVER PYLE
    A landscape watercolour painting guides readers from technique to professional artistry, with tips for success in the digital age. Aimed at those with some experience of painting in watercolour but helpful for beginners too, the book provides a comprehensive masterclass in the art of landscape painting. Readers will be taken on a journey, developing a rich understanding of the ...

    $255.99

  • COMBINED PILE-RAFT FOUNDATIONS
    OLIVER REUL / MARK RANDOLPH
    This book presents the fundamental features of the design and performance of combined pile-raft foundations (CPRFs). Whereas in a traditional foundation the loads are carried either by the raft or by the piles, the capacity of CPRFs is assessed for the foundation as a whole, reducing total and differential settlements economically. The five chapters provide an overview of the h...

    $1,480.00

  • ACHILLE MBEMBE
    OLIVER COATES
    Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces key concepts within Mbembe’s thought in relation to African history, literature, and philosophy. This accessible guide: Considers examples from African literature in Arabic, English, F...

    $580.00

  • RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS
    ALEX HOPE / OLIVER LAASCH
    As sustainable development becomes an increasingly important strategic issue for all organizations, there is a growing need for management and executive education to adapt to this new reality. This textbook provides a theoretically sound and highly relevant introduction to the topic of socially and environmentally responsible business. The authors take a “competence-based appro...

    $1,340.00

  • DOING WORKING-CLASS HISTORY
    BETTS, OLIVER
    Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class – especially discussion of the working class – to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume shows how the history of the working class has, is, and can be researched, written, and represented. The book is structured in three parts: perspective, context, and application. Ea...

    $1,060.00

  • ATLAS OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE OF THE WORLD
    MARCEL VELLINGA / PAUL OLIVER / ALEXANDER BRIDGE
    The first world atlas ever compiled on vernacular architecture, this comprehensive work illustrates the variety and ingenuity of the world’s vernacular building traditions from a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative approach, using over sixty world and regional maps. Mapping such diverse aspects as materials and resources, technologies, structural systems, symboli...

    $1,480.00

  • (IN)HOSPITABLE ENCOUNTERS IN CHICANX AND LATINX LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THOUGHT
    MARIA ANTÒNIA OLIVER-ROTGER AND PERE GIFRA-ADROHER
    This volume addresses the notion of (in)hospitality in the culture, literature, and thought of Chicanx and Latinx in the United States. It underscores those “stranger others” against whom nativist fear and state violence are directed: undocumented migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Critical analyses focus on the topics of immigration and state violence, hospitality in writ...

    $1,140.00

  • STATES OF MIND
    OLIVER MACDONAGH
    Originally published in 1983 and slightly revised in 1985, joint winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, States of Mind is an exploration of the ideas underlying Anglo-Irish conflict over the past two centuries. This is a book about nationalism and colonialism and above all about political ideology. The ideology is popular, to be inferred from behaviour rather tha...

    $860.00

  • THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
    OLIVER MACDONAGH
    Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick (c.1740-1810) was the first inspector general of prisons and lunacy inspector in Ireland and the first and only inspector of health to HM land forces in Great Britain. He also inspected convict vessels bound for New South Wales and the East India Company‘s troop ships, inquired into the Irish Charter Schools and attempted to alleviate the miseries of so...

    $860.00

  • A UNIFIED SYSTEM FITNESS DESIGN
    TRA GIANG NGUYEN / OLIVER NAPILA GOMEZ
    A Unified System Fitness Design proposes a new fitness framework that encompasses all fitness indicators in a holistic and comprehensive manner, striving to provide a comprehensive and inclusive definition of physical fitness, one that considers all attributes contributing to overall well-being, and crafting a flexible framework that can adapt to diverse contexts and purposes o...

    $1,160.00

  • PSYBERSECURITY
    OLIVER GUIDETTI
    Psybersecurity: Human Factors of Cyber Defence is a clarion call to action in the face of a stark reality: over 90% of cyberattacks exploit human vulnerabilities, as highlighted by the 2022 Global Risks Report from the World Economic Forum. This gap between the rapid advancement of cyber security technologies and the slower pace of development in human-centric defences poses a ...

    $4,500.00

  • VICTORIAN SOCIAL ACTIVISTS' NOVELS
    OLIVER LOVESEY
    The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. ...

    $16,000.00

  • BOTH ONE AND MANY
    OLIVER GRIEBEL
    Meister Eckhart might have liked it. Indeed, many-one thinking is the idea that there is the one ultimate origin, coherence, spirit of it all . . . but not without a multitude and diversity emerging within, which is the evolving universe with planets like Earth, with its biosphere and humankind, with you and me living in it. The Many-One is thought of as the whole of the cosmos...

    $657.00

  • RETURN TO RIEMANN
    J. P. E. HARPER-SCOTT / OLIVER CHANDLER
    This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. First, in terms of music theory, it proposes a new theory of tonal function that returns to the theories of Hugo Riemann to rediscover a development of his thought that has been covered over by the recent project of neo-Riemannian th...

    $640.00

  • SOUTHERN THEORIES
    OLIVER MUTANGA
    This book critically explores Global South perspectives, examining marginalised voices and issues whilst challenging the supremacy of Global North perspectives in literature. The unique value of this book lies in its extensive coverage of various Southern challenges, including disaster management, climate change, communication, resilience, gender, education, and disability. It ...

    $1,240.00

  • BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE IN BASIC RESEARCH AND CLINICAL MEDICINE
    OLIVER SCHILDGEN, VERENA SCHILDGEN AND MICHAEL BROCKMANN
    This book providesa practical approach to bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and its analyses, which are used worldwide in both research and clinical settings. It includes useful guidelines with a theoretic background and provides details on microscopic and flow cytometric measurements for all known differential diagnostics made with BAL analyses, from chronic diseases like COPD and ...

    $1,480.00

  • UBUNTU PHILOSOPHY AND DISABILITIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
    OLIVER MUTANGA
    This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to illuminate the voices of people with disabilities from Sub-Saharan Africa. Disability literature is largely dominated by scholars and studies from the Global North, and these studies are largely informed by Global North theories and concepts. Although disability literature in the Global South is now fast growing, most studies continue to util...

    $1,120.00

  • COSMIC HUMANISM AND WORLD UNITY
    OLIVER L. REISER
    First published in 1975 Cosmic Humanism and World Unity presents a comprehensive overview of the world view, a theory of knowledge, a cosmology and a possible universal religion termed as cosmic humanism. It aims to discover and formulate some of the main principles that may help mankind integrate the world ethically, aesthetically, and spiritually, as science and technology ha...

    $840.00

  • STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
    JAN OLIVER SCHWARZ
    Organisations today are being challenged to make sense of changes in environments that, now more than ever, are described as VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous). They are also being driven to understand how the future will evolve and what impact it will have not only on the organisations themselves but also on industries and societies. In recent decades a field h...

    $1,040.00

  • LEARNING A LANGUAGE WITH PEERS
    REBECCA ADAMS / RHONDA OLIVER
    Drawing on experiences of ESOL teachers from around the world, this book provides insights into how peer learning is understood and used in real language classrooms. Based on survey responses, interviews, and observations in a wide range of classroom settings, this book integrates research on peer interaction in second language learning from cognitive and social frameworks with...

    $1,260.00

  • MISTAKES IN CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
    OLIVER TURNBULL / RUDI COETZER / CHRISTIAN SALAS
    This innovative book uses a case-based approach to discuss mistakes made in the practice of clinical neuropsychology to form a helpful tool in the training of early career clinicians. By allowing readers space for critical reflection during clinical practice, the book teaches competency in clinical neuropsychology, through the examination of errors as a central part of the lear...

    $780.00

  • COMMUNICASIAN
    OLIVER STELLING
    The rise of Asia has changed the world, now shaped by greater global connectivity, geopolitics and shifting spheres of influence. Tapping into research and decades of experience in the world’s fastest-moving markets, this book makes a compelling case for a new and future-ready approach to communications planning and implementation, which the Asian Century demands. Facing a new ...

    $860.00

  • THE UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT AND THE ENCYCLICAL LAUDATO SI
    OLIVER F. WILLIAMS
    In April 2016, the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Office convened a group of scholars and business leaders to discuss the Encyclical Laudato Si (LS) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The articles in this special issue are from that ...

    $860.00

  • PANZER III GERMAN ARMY LIGHT TANK
    DENNIS OLIVER
    The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armored force sent to North Africa. Although less heavily armored than many of its opponents it was sturdy and reliable and its main armament was the equal of any enemy weapon it was called upon to face. Operating in one of the most inhospitable environments on ear...

    $200.00

  • HARNESSING GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    RICCARDO CRESCENZI / OLIVER HARMAN
    This Regional Studies Policy Impact Book brings together the latest academic evidence and public policy insights with global value chains (GVCs) and foreign direct investment (FDI). It comprises a comprehensive description and explanation of why they matter for regional development and policy. It focuses on how sub-national regions can leverage them for innovation and upgrading...

    $400.00

  • SHERMAN MEDIUM TANK
    DENNIS OLIVER
    The Sherman tank served with most Allied armies during the Second World War and it is justly famous for the role it played in the Normandy landings and the subsequent drive into Germany. But the part played by the British commonwealth armored units in the Italian campaign is less well known and in his latest volume in the TankCraft series Dennis Oliver uses wartime photos, exte...

    $200.00