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  • CONCEPT CAT: TEACHING CONCEPTS IN THE EARLY YEARS
    ANNA BRANAGAN / STEPHEN PARSONS
    Concept Cat is an Education Endowment Foundation Promising Programme. Conceptual vocabulary shapes children’s thinking in the Early Years and forms the foundation for later mathematical and scientific learning. However, these words are abstract and often tricky to learn – and to teach. Concept Cat is a tried-and-tested, evidence-based approach that supports all young children’s...

    $1,160.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL ERGONOMICS: PRINCIPLES, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS
    KEN PARSONS
    Environmental Ergonomics: Principles, Methods, and Applications provides the philosophy, principles and application of environmental ergonomics as a universal concept and considers total environments as an integration of environmental factors to which people are exposed. The book develops the definition of environmental ergonomics and presents the principles, methods and applic...

    $3,400.00

  • BLACK 1968
    TIMOTHY H. PARSONS
    Initially, the 1960s was a time of understandable optimism. The civil rights movement and the legislation it inspired suggested an end to institutionalized racism in the United States, while in the Global South, the emergence of independent states anticipated political liberation and increased prosperity. So, when racial discrimination, entrenched privilege, cold war politics, ...

    $1,160.00

  • LIPOSOME DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
    GURU V. BETAGERI / SCOTT ALLEN JENKINS / DANIEL PARSONS
    Guide to current liposome drug delivery technology. Applications, preparation, pharmacokinetics, stability, passive and active targeting, and industrial production. Special emphasis on "stealth" liposomes (liposomes with extended circulation times). ...

    $1,480.00

  • INNOVATIVE INTERNAL COMMUNICATION
    JOANNA PARSONS
    Embrace innovation and creativity to take your internal communications beyond conventional methods and create lasting impact in your organization. Internal communication is critical for business success, as is innovation. Technological advancements and changing employee expectations are reshaping the workplace, meaning traditional communication methods are no longer sufficient....

    $929.00

  • HOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS: A GUIDE TO THE NAMES, HAUNTS AND HABITS OF OUR COMMON WILDFLOWERS
    FRANCES THEODORA PARSONS
    Excerpt: "Some of the flowers described are found along every country highway. It is interesting to note that these wayside flowers may usually be classed among the foreign population. They have been brought to us from Europe in ballast and in loads of grain, and invariably follow in the wake of civilization. Many of our most beautiful native flowers have been crowded out of th...

    $39.70

  • PLANTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
    FRANCES THEODORA PARSONS
    Excerpt: "Through the neglect of nature study, the wits of the country child lose just the sharpening they most need, to say nothing of a stimulus and delight which can ill be spared by one whose mental life is apt to be monotonous. The wits of the city child may secure in other ways the sharpening so essential to success in life; yet the training afforded by a logical study of...

    $39.70

  • AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE
    ELSIE WORTHINGTON CLEWS PARSONS
    American Indian Life" is a work co-authored by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and C. Grant La Farge. The book focuses on the ethnography and cultural aspects of American Indian life, shedding light on the traditions, beliefs, and customs of Indigenous peoples in North America. Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and C. Grant La Farge's work likely offers a valuable ethnographic pe...

    $39.70

  • ETHICS AND THE GOOD SOLDIER
    JAMES ARTHUR / SCOTT PARSONS / ANDREW PETERSON
    Building on extensive, internationally leading empirical research conducted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, this book explores the soldier as a virtuous professional through a close examination of soldiers’ character and ethical reasoning. Starting from the view that virtues such as courage, honesty, loyalty and integrity are core to being a professional soldie...

    $540.00

  • A MECHANICAL AND CRITICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF HERMAPHRODITES
    JAMES PARSONS
    James Parsons' work "A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites" can be seen as a pioneering text in the study of hermaphroditism. The book provides a detailed exploration and analysis of hermaphroditic anatomy, physiology, and various cases studied by Parsons and other medical professionals of the time. The book delves into the physical and biological ...

    $39.70

  • CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MARKETING AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
    ELIZABETH PARSONS / PAULINE MACLARAN / ANDREAS CHATZIDAKIS / RACHEL ASHMAN
    This third edition of Contemporary Issues in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour has been revised and updated to reflect the fast-changing world we live in. The new state of the art chapter on digital marketing digs deeply into two new frontiers of marketing which have significant impact on contemporary social life: influencer marketing, and online gaming. Other new topics help us...

    $1,200.00

  • WHY IT'S OK TO TRUST SCIENCE
    KEITH M. PARSONS
    Why trust science? Why should science have more authority than "other ways of knowing?" Is science merely a social construct? Or even worse: a tool of oppression? This book boldly takes on these and other explosive questions—lodged by ideologues on the left and the right—and offers readers a well researched defense of science and a polemic addressed to its detractors. Why It’s ...

    $640.00

  • PATROLLING THE HOMELAND
    JOHN PARSONS
    Patrolling the Homeland explores the tension surrounding the militarization of national borders through the perspective of US militia volunteers. Amidst a humanitarian crisis in which more than 7,800 people have lost their lives attempting to cross the border, US militias patrol the deserts along the Mexican border in camouflage, armed with assault rifles and night-vision goggl...

    $1,100.00

  • BUILDING EVOLUTIONARY ARCHITECTURES
    NEAL FORD / REBECCA PARSONS / PATRICK KUA / PRAMOD SADALAGE
    The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural char...

    $801.00

  • A NORTHANGER ABBEY DOUBLE FEATURE
    ELIZA PARSONS
    A woman visits a haunted castle, and two friends share tales of the supernatural in these two gothic novels featured in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. In Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, the main character, Catherine, receives a reading list of gothic novels. Once thought to be fabricated by Austen, these novels were rediscovered in the 1920s and are now referred to as the "Nor...

    $200.00

  • WOMEN WRITING MEN
    JOANNE ELLA PARSONS
    This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. As men have written women so have women written men. Debate about how men have represented women in literature has a long and distinguished history; however, there has been much less examination of the ways in which women writers depict male characters. This is clearly a notable absence given the rece...

    $1,160.00

  • WORD AWARE 3
    ANNA BRANAGAN / STEPHEN PARSONS
    Word Aware 3 is a comprehensive, practical and engaging resource that focuses on teaching vocabulary and word learning skills to children aged 6 to 11 years who have vocabulary learning needs. For many children, particularly those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) or those whose home language isn’t English (ELL or EAL learners), the vocabulary of the classr...

    $1,040.00

  • WORD AWARE 1
    STEPHEN PARSONS / ANNA BRANAGAN
    Now in a fully updated second edition, this comprehensive and practical book outlines the theoretical underpinnings for vocabulary and acts as a ‘how to’ guide to developing word learning across the school and curriculum. It is packed with easy-to-implement activities, worksheets and resources that can be put into practice immediately with individual students or groups, whole c...

    $1,340.00

  • HUMAN COLD STRESS
    KEN PARSONS
    This book provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive coverage of human cold stress from principles and theory to practical application. It defines cold stress and how people respond to it. It describes how to assess a cold environment to predict when discomfort, wind-chill, hypothermia, shivering, frostbite, and other consequences will occur. It also advises on what ...

    $560.00

  • CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE GLOBAL WORKPLACE
    NITHYA NATARAJAN / LAURIE PARSONS
    This book offers a timely exploration of how climate change manifests in the global workplace. It draws together accounts of workers, their work, and the politics of resistance in order to enable us to better understand how the impacts of climate change are structured by the economic and social processes of labour. Focusing on nine empirically grounded cases of labour under cli...

    $1,160.00

  • SHIPWRECKS AND SAILORS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
    ROBERT C. PARSONS
    A maritime historian explores more than a century of adventure and tragedy on the waters off Prince Edward Island, from 1775 to 1899.   Across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the wooden sailing ship was a vital transportation link along Canada's Atlantic coast. Self-sacrifice, daring, skill, wreck and rescue are all part of the history of these ships and the heritage o...

    $179.00

  • LANGUAGE FOR BEHAVIOUR AND EMOTIONS
    ANNA BRANAGAN / MELANIE CROSS / STEPHEN PARSONS
    This practical, interactive resource is designed to be used by professionals who work with children and young people who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs and Speech, Language and Communication needs. Gaps in language and emotional skills can have a negative impact on behaviour as well as mental health and self-esteem. The Language for Behaviour and Emotions approa...

    $1,140.00

  • HUMAN THERMAL COMFORT
    KEN PARSONS
    Thermal comfort is a desirable state familiar to all people. Providing inspirational indoor and outdoor environments that provide thermal comfort, in the context of energy use and climate change, is a challenge for the 21st century. This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of thermal comfort from principles and theory to practical application. The book begins wi...

    $640.00

  • CHALLENGING WOMEN'S ORTHODOXIES IN THE CONTEXT OF FAITH
    SUSAN FRANK PARSONS
    This title was first published in 2000. Most of the papers in this volume were given at a day conference held at Heythrop College, aimed at discussing challenging women's orthodoxies in the context of faith. The book acts as an indication that gender matters in the understanding and living of faith. ...

    $1,000.00

  • CREATING AN EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
    PATRICK GRAUPP / SKIP STEWARD / BRAD PARSONS
    "The decades of experience-based wisdom that Graupp, Steward and Parsons share will set you on a new path to a more joyful organization and the tangible results it will produce." Rich Sheridan, CEO, Menlo Innovations; author of Joy, Inc. and Chief Joy Officer "A fine book by skilled practitioners that integrates Kata and TWI, with Strategy Deployment in pursuit of an integrated...

    $800.00

  • EG PROPERTY HANDBOOK
    GEOFF PARSONS
    This book has been written to meet the needs of those who work with property or property-related matters, but without any formal training, and describes how those in the property industry go about their work. The principal theme in the book is realty or landed property, including buildings. Other types of property are touched upon but only in the context of real estate. The boo...

    $1,480.00

  • HUMAN HEAT STRESS
    KEN PARSONS
    Thousands of people continue to die from heat. Heat illnesses and advice for preventing heat casualties at work, during heatwaves, sport and the effects of global warming are described. A new perspective on thermoregulation integrates physiological and psychophysical regulated variables. Heat stress indices, the WBGT and the SWreq are presented. It is time to understand and rou...

    $640.00

  • TIME DEVOURED
    EDMUND PARSONS
    Originally published in 1964. This lively, challenging book, written with enthusiasm, conviction and clarity, sets out to elucidate the shadowy concept of Time. This involves central philosophical issues, which are vigorously discussed. Also relativity theory, in a clear-cut exposition, is made intelligible in a new light. All who are interested in science and its philosophical...

    $980.00

  • BEING SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS
    WILLIAM B. PARSONS
    In its most general sense, the term "Spiritual but Not Religious" denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional institutional religion and, on the other hand, feel that those same traditions contain deep wisdom about the human condition. This edited collection speaks to what national surveys agree is a growing social phenomenon referred to as the "Spiri...

    $1,280.00

  • SCHOOLS IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY
    CHERYL PARSONS
    Originally published in 1978, Schools in an Urban Community is an ethnography of the Carbrook and Hill Top area of the Attercliffe district of Sheffield before it was cleared for redevelopment. The book provides an in depth look at the community and schools of the area and provides a valued contribution to the field of social history. Using interviews with former pupils, log bo...

    $960.00


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