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  • MERCENARIES AND SECURITY CONTRACTORS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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    MERCENARIES AND SECURITY CONTRACTORS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    EUGENIO CUSUMANO, CHRISTOPHER KINSEY, AND ROBERT PARR
    This book examines the debate over private security contractors, using historical and contemporary cases, including several non-Western examples. Since the end of the Cold War, security privatization has grown in its geographical outreach, breadth, and scope. This pervasive expansion of the private military and security market warrants a systematic investigation of commercial a...

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  • NATURE FARMING AND MICROBIAL APPLICATIONS
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    NATURE FARMING AND MICROBIAL APPLICATIONS
    HIU-LIAN XU / HIROSHI UMEMURA / JAMES F. PARR JR
    Produce more abundant, high-quality crops with the information you'll find in this book!Recent concerns over environmental pollution and food quality degradation caused by the excessive use of chemicals have prompted scientists and policymakers to re-evaluate modern agricultural processes and search for alternatives that will aid in the production of healthy foods and the prote...

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  • EAUX POURPRES
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    EAUX POURPRES
    JACOB PARR
    QUELQUE CHOSE D'ANCIEN SE CACHE SOUS LA SURFACE... Une mission importante ramène James Luna dans sa ville natale d'Alpine Ridge. Un endroit où il s'était juré de ne jamais retourner après cet été malheureux où il a perdu son jeune frère dans une tragédie. Dès son arrivée, il se retrouve plongé dans une situation qui dépasse ses rêves les plus fous. Le danger et la mort entouren...

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  • CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
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    CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
    BEN L. PARR
    This book brings together two important fields in the study of international politics and policy: climate change adaptation and mitigation (climate action) and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Both have attracted strong scholarly attention in each of their respective research silos, but there is yet to be a strong research push that explores the relationship between the two...

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  • RENDERING TIPS FOR THE COSTUME DESIGNER
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    RENDERING TIPS FOR THE COSTUME DESIGNER
    JESSICA PARR
    Rendering Tips for the Costume Designer: Simple Steps for Better Drawing and Painting is a guide for students and costume designers who want to improve their drawing, painting, and rendering skills. The book is divided into three sections – Drawing Tips, Painting Tips, and Linework Tips – and includes detailed step-by-step instructions for chapters such as "How to Draw Faces an...

    $800.00

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  • LABOURING CHILDREN
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    LABOURING CHILDREN
    JOY PARR
    Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and Canadian rural communities. Between 1868 and 1925 eighty thousand British boys and girls, mostly under fourteen, were apprenticed as agricultural labourers and domestic servants in rural Canada. A surprising feature is the involvemen...

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  • AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE POLICY AND DIPLOMACY
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    AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE POLICY AND DIPLOMACY
    BEN L. PARR
    Australian Climate Policy and Diplomacy provides a well overdue critique of existing, and high-profile, publications that convey the ‘greenhouse mafia’ hypothesis, which posits that Australia’s weak policy response to climate change is the result of a menacing domestic fossil fuel lobby. Ben L. Parr argues that the shared government–industry discourse about protecting Australia...

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  • IDENTITY AND EDUCATION
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    IDENTITY AND EDUCATION
    JANET PARR
    This title was first published in 2000:  Why do mature women return to education? On the face of it, the answer would seem obvious - to gain qualifications which they had not acquired in their earlier learning. However their return to learning seems to be much more than just about paper qualifications. This book describes the experiences of a number of mature women students who...

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  • THE LEVANT IN TRANSITION: NO. 4
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    THE LEVANT IN TRANSITION: NO. 4
    P.J. PARR
    The latter part of the 3rd millennium BC witnessed severe dislocations in the social, economic and political structures of the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea - the Levant. In the south, in what is now Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Jordan, hitherto thriving urban centres disappeared, to be replaced for several centuries ...

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  • BEYOND APHASIA
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    BEYOND APHASIA
    CAROLE POUND / SUSIE PARR / JAYNE LINDSAY / CELIA WOOLF
    This book focuses explicitly on therapeutic techniques developed from a social model approach to disability and learning to live with difference. It describes theories, activities and methods of implementation developed from the work of Connect with people with long term aphasia. "Theoretical discussion runs alongside practical ideas for therapy and evaluation, case studies and...

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  • FORTIES AND FIFTIES FASHION FOR THE STAGE
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    FORTIES AND FIFTIES FASHION FOR THE STAGE
    JESSICA PARR
    Forties and Fifties Fashion for the Stage: with Patterns from Vintage Clothing provides instruction on how to recreate fashion from the 1940s and 1950s that withstands the vigorous demands of theatrical stage use. This book provides historical context for the clothing and features authentic patterns taken from real vintage pieces. Forties and Fifties Fashion for the Stage demon...

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  • CRITICAL AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISES
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    CRITICAL AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISES
    SAKIKO FUKUDA-PARR
    Economic and financial crises have become perennial features of today’s global economy. Macroeconomic theories of crisis, including the global crisis that unfolded in 2008, emphasize the role of financial deregulation; capital flow imbalances; and growing debt, fueled by income and wealth inequality. These approaches tend to be divorced from feminist thinking which analyzes bro...

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  • MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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    MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
    SAKIKO FUKUDA-PARR
    Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically evaluates the MDG experience from the capabilities and human rights perspectives, and questions the use of quantitative targets as an instrument of global governance. It provides an a...

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  • HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH
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    HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH
    ELSON, DIANE / FUKUDA-PARR, SAKIKO / VIZARD, POLLY
    Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that...

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  • PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS
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    PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS
    E.A. PARR
    Programmable Controllers: An Engineer's Guide focuses on the application and use of programmable controllers, including programming techniques, good software practices, and software engineering. The monograph first takes a look at computers and industrial control and programming techniques. Discussions focus on programming methods, bit storage, counters, timers, identification...

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  • HYDRAULICS AND PNEUMATICS
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    HYDRAULICS AND PNEUMATICS
    ANDREW PARR
    Hydraulics and Pneumatics: A Technician's and Engineer's Guide provides an introduction to the components and operation of a hydraulic or pneumatic system. This book discusses the main advantages and disadvantages of pneumatic or hydraulic systems. Organized into eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of industrial prime movers. This text then examines the three dif...

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  • IN THE SECRET SERVICE
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    IN THE SECRET SERVICE
    JERRY PARR / CAROLYN PARR
    Meet Jerry Parr. In 1981, he was the agent standing next to Ronald Reagan when John Hinckley, Jr., stepped out of the crowd, intent on killing the president. In the Secret Service is an adrenaline-filled ride through the life of the agent who saved Ronald Reagan’s life. Jerry spent much of his life as a silent eyewitness to history, with a gun at his fingertips. What motivates ...

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  • CAPACITY FOR DEVELOPMENT
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    CAPACITY FOR DEVELOPMENT
    CARLOS LOPES / KHALID MALIK / SAKIKO FUKUDA-PARR
    'The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation, and capacity development is its central mandate. UNDP has long played an important leadership role in both, as a source of technical cooperation funds and advisory services and as the home of innovative intellectual research and analysis on how to make them more efficient and effective. This book [p...

    $640.00

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  • THE DEFINITIVE ANTLR 4 REFERENCE
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    THE DEFINITIVE ANTLR 4 REFERENCE
    TERENCE PARR
    Programmers run into parsing problems all the time. Whether it's a data format like JSON, a network protocol like SMTP, a server configuration file for Apache, a PostScript/PDF file, or a simple spreadsheet macro language--ANTLR v4 and this book will demystify the process. ANTLR v4 has been rewritten from scratch to make it easier than ever to build parsers and the language ap...

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  • THE GENE REVOLUTION
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    THE GENE REVOLUTION
    SAKIKO FUKUDA-PARR
    Whether or not to embrace GM technologies is a fundamental and politically charged question facing humanity in the 21st century, particularly in light of rapidly growing populations and the unknown future impacts of climate change. The Gene Revolution is the first book to bridge the gap between thenaysayers andcheerleaders and look at the issues and complexities facing developi...

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  • NEW DIRECTIONS IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
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    NEW DIRECTIONS IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
    ADRIAN PARR
    Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approach. More often than not these books fail to introduce readers to the larger challenge of what thinking sustainably might entail. Combining a series of well know authors in contemporary philosophy with established practitioners of sus...

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  • LANGUAGE IMPLEMENTATION PATTERNS
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    LANGUAGE IMPLEMENTATION PATTERNS
    TERENCE PARR
    Learn to build configuration file readers, data readers, model-driven code generators, source-to-source translators, source analyzers, and interpreters. You don't need a background in computer science--ANTLR creator Terence Parr demystifies language implementation by breaking it down into the most common design patterns. Pattern by pattern, you'll learn the key skills you need ...

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  • GORDON PARKS
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    GORDON PARKS
    ANN PARR
    Gordon Parks: No Excuses is the award-winning biography of the acclaimed photographer by Ann Parr.   A Carter G. Woodson Honor Book A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Recipient of the Storytelling World Award Honor Title   Gordon Parks overcame the obstacles of poverty and racism and never gave up on his dreams. He attributes his drive for excellence to his mo...

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  • BRITAIN'S POLICY TOWARDS THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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    BRITAIN'S POLICY TOWARDS THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    HELEN PARR
    Harold Wilson’s apparent volte-face on European Community membership in the autumn of 1966 has long puzzled commentators and Wilson’s colleagues alike. Based on interviews, private papers and recently released evidence from the National Archives, this book provides a fresh interpretation of Wilson’s policy towards the European Community. Studying the development of Britain’s po...

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  • NOITES DE LUA
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    NOITES DE LUA
    JACOB PARR
    Uma onda de crimes de proporções aterrorizantes acaba de começar na área metropolitana de Washington ao surgirem cadáveres, horrivelmente mutilados e retalhados. Aidan Preston se envolve no caso, se encontrando imerso em um mundo escuro e perigoso, tal qual nunca visto antes em todos seus anos de trabalho com crimes violentos. Para encontrar a verdade, Aidan precisará trabalhar...

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  • AGUAS MORTALES
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    AGUAS MORTALES
    JACOB PARR
    ALGO ANTIGUO SE OCULTA BAJO LA SUPERFICIE… Una importante tarea lleva a James Luna de regreso a su ciudad natal de Alpine Ridge. Un lugar al que juró no volver nunca más, después de ese desafortunado verano en el que perdió a su hermano menor en una tragedia. Al llegar, se encuentra en una situación más allá de sus sueños más salvajes. El peligro y la muerte rodean al pintoresc...

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  • ÁGUAS MORTAIS
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    ÁGUAS MORTAIS
    JACOB PARR
    ALGO ANTIGO SE ESCONDE ABAIXO DA SUPERFÍCIE... Uma missão importante leva James Luna de volta à sua cidade natal de Alpine Ridge. Um lugar ao qual ele jurou nunca mais voltar depois daquele verão malfadado quando perdeu seu irmão mais novo para a tragédia. Ao chegar, ele se vê jogado em uma situação além de seus sonhos mais loucos. Perigo e morte cercam o pitoresco Lago Trinity...

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  • LOVE'S WAY
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    LOVE'S WAY
    CAROLYN MILLER PARR / SIG COHEN
    This important book helps families address the necessary legal hurdles and emotional difficulties that arise with aging parents. Addressing the areas of relationships, emotions, and dignity with practical and scriptural insights, this book will help to ensure that the aging parent is protected along with the other relationships in the family. Love’s Way is a book that adult fam...

    $394.00

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  • CAPTIVOLOGY
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    CAPTIVOLOGY
    BEN PARR
    The former editor of Mashable and cofounder of DominateFund examines the psychological phenomena that captivate our attention—and how we can leverage them to draw and retain attention for our ideas, work, companies, and more. Whether you're an artist or a salesperson, a teacher or an engineer, a marketer or a parent—putting the spotlight on your ideas, insights, projects and pr...

    $382.00

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  • KATHERINE PARR
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    KATHERINE PARR
    KATHERINE PARR
    To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512–48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr also began, out of necessity, to learn Spanish when she ascended to the throne in 1543. As Henry’s wife and queen of England, she...

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