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  • SCIENCE AND THE SACRED
    C.S. PEARCE / PHILIP CLAYTON
    In this beautifully written book, an atheist and a theist explore the intersection points of science and the Sacred. Honestly acknowledging their differences, they discover unexpected common ground across every branch of science and many of the most urgent ethical and spiritual questions humanity now faces. While science may be incompatible with some ancient beliefs about God, ...

    $461.00

  • AIR TRANSPORT ECONOMICS
    BIJAN VASIGH / BRIAN PEARCE
    Air Transport Economics: From Theory to Applications uniquely merges the institutional and technical aspects of the aviation industry with their theoretical economic underpinnings. Its integrative approach offers a fresh point of view that will find favor with many students of aviation. This fourth edition has undergone extensive updates throughout. It features new material add...

    $1,900.00

  • THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY
    JOAN PEARCE
    Originally published in 1981, at a time when the EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy had remained largely unchanged, this book examines the criticisms of the CAP and analyses the pressures emanating from the budget and the various options which were available for tackling them. It then outlines the approaches that individual member states and others were likely to adopt, and asses...

    $840.00

  • TURNING POINT IN AFRICA
    R.D. PEARCE
    The Turning Point in Africa (1982) is a significant study of British colonial policy towards tropical Africa during a critical decade, from the complacent trusteeship of the inter-war years to the strategy of decolonization inaugurated after the Second World War. Charting a course through a wide variety of official sources and private papers, the work assesses the importance fo...

    $800.00

  • MILLENNIALS AND CONFLICT IN THE WORKPLACE
    CYNTHIA PEARCE LEMAY
    This book unravels the mysteries and confusion surrounding Millennials. They are now the largest group in the labor force and their presence redefines the workplace for many organizations. Many older workers, who struggle to understand Millennials, often define them by stereotypes rather than their actual attributes. The historical and social events that occurred when Millennia...

    $960.00

  • DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING PROMISING PRACTICES AND PROGRAMS FOR FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS
    CHARMAINE TROY, KAREN JACKSON, BEN PEARCE, AND DIANA ROWE
    As first-generation students gain greater access to higher education, faculty, and staff at colleges and universities must provide intentional engagement that supports their persistence and graduation. This book serves as a guidebook for higher education practitioners seeking to implement or enhance first-generation programming at their institutions. The chapters provide detail...

    $1,040.00

  • IS THERE A GOD?
    GRAHAM OPPY / KENNETH L. PEARCE
    Bertrand Russell famously quipped that he didn’t believe in God for the same reason that he didn’t believe in a teapot in orbit between the earth and Mars: it is a bizarre assertion for which no evidence can be provided. Is belief in God really like belief in Russell’s teapot? Kenneth L. Pearce argues that God is no teapot. God is a real answer to the deepest question of all: w...

    $860.00

  • AT THE END OF THE STORM
    JAMES PEARCE / OLIVER KAY / SIMON HUGHES
    A collection of articles from the writers of The Athletic detailing Liverpool F.C.'s 2019–2020 championship season. As Liverpool ended their thirty-year wait to be crowned champions of England, they were followed by their equivalent from the world of sports writing: a team of elite talents, assembled to leave all competition trailing in their wake. This is the story of Liverpoo...

    $229.00

  • MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL SKILLS IN THE BIOPHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
    ARKADIY PITMAN / OLEKSANDR SVERDLOV / L. BRUCE PEARCE
    Mathematical and Statistical Skills in the Biopharmaceutical Industry: A Pragmatic Approach describes a philosophy of efficient problem solving showcased using examples pertinent to the biostatistics function in clinical drug development. It was written to share a quintessence of the authors’ experiences acquired during many years of relevant work in the biopharmaceutical indus...

    $1,380.00

  • TOXIC CAPITALISM
    FRANK PEARCE / STEVE TOMBS
    Originally published in 1998. While there is a growing academic literature on corporate crime, much of this focuses upon variants of economic or financial crimes; there is a relative absence of studies of safety, health and/or environmental crimes. This is curious given that recent years have witnessed a resurgence in popular, academic and indeed state attention to questions re...

    $980.00

  • NON-STANDARD COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
    MICHAEL PEARCE
    First published in 1992, this volume recognises that it is not unusual, when practising librarianship, to come across small to medium collections within the library, which, because they are different from the main collection, are outside the librarian’s experience or are a new type of material not properly managed or exploited. Therefore this volume contains chapters on a range...

    $920.00

  • THE THIRD OIL SHOCK (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JOAN PEARCE
    First published in 1983, this book a number of collects the essays about the effects of a sustained period of low oil prices. The opening chapter describes how oil prices have impinged on other elements of the economy and assesses the costs and benefits, in the short and long term, of low prices. The following three chapters deal with different groups of countries and indicate ...

    $1,100.00

  • REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
    ANDY PEARCE
    Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings brings together a group of international experts to investigate the relationship between Holocaust remembrance and different types of educational activity through consideration of how education has become charged with preserving and perpetuating Holocaust memory and an examination of the challenges and opportunities this present...

    $1,240.00

  • SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
    ANNIE R. PEARCE / YONG HAN AHN / LTD HANMIGLOBAL CO
    The second edition of Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure continues to provide students with an introduction to the principles and practices of sustainability as they apply to the construction sector, including both buildings and infrastructure systems. As a textbook, it is aimed at students taking courses in construction management and the built environment, but it is als...

    $1,800.00

  • THE INCREDIBLE EURODOLLAR
    W HOGAN / IVOR PEARCE
    Originally published in 1984, The Incredible Eurodollar examines the upheaval and crisis in the world’s money system. The book addresses the impact of the vast international debt on the position and volatility of the dollar. The book provides a unique insight into the economics surrounding the Eurodollar, as well as the technicalities of the market. Providing a detailed approac...

    $980.00

  • BLACK BRITISH DRAMA
    MICHAEL PEARCE
    Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA. Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Wi...

    $1,120.00

  • DEVOLVING IDENTITIES
    LYNNE PEARCE
    There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn. Alongside the major upheavals in continental Europe, the British Isles has undergone far-reaching constitutional reform. In Devolving Identities, feminist scholars explore their personal negotiations of gender, class, ethnicity and national or regional identity through...

    $1,240.00

  • THE COLLECTOR'S VOICE
    SUSAN PEARCE / ROSEMARY FLANDERS / FIONA MORTON
    The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Materi...

    $1,000.00

  • THE COLLECTOR'S VOICE
    SUSAN PEARCE / ROSEMARY FLANDERS / FIONA MORTON
    The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Materi...

    $1,240.00

  • THE COLLECTOR'S VOICE
    SUSAN PEARCE / ROSEMARY FLANDERS / FIONA MORTON
    The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Materi...

    $1,240.00

  • THE COLLECTOR'S VOICE
    SUSAN PEARCE / ROSEMARY FLANDERS / FIONA MORTON
    The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Materi...

    $1,000.00

  • PROMOTING EARLY CAREER TEACHER RESILIENCE
    BRUCE JOHNSON / BARRY DOWN / ROSIE LE CORNU / JUDY PETERS / ANNA SULLIVAN / JANE PEARCE / JANET HUNTER
    In Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience the stories of 60 graduate teachers are documented as they grapple with some of the most persistent and protracted personal and professional struggles facing teachers today. Narratives emerge detailing feelings of frustration, disillusionment and even outrage as they struggle with the complexity, intensity and immediacy of life in sc...

    $1,280.00

  • BLUEPRINT 4
    D.W. PEARCE
    Blueprint 4 continues the theme of Blueprint 2 in looking at the opportunities for using market forces for environmental ends. It assesses a range of possible imaginative 'global bargains', which give all parties a self-interested incentive to improve the global environment. The book begins by reviewing the principle global issues to be addressed, and then explains the mechanis...

    $1,160.00

  • ATTLEE
    ROBERT PEARCE
    Attlee is undoubtedly one of the key figures in modern British history. An important figure in Churchill's War Cabinet, and premier of the first majority Labour Government, he created the Welfare State, nationalised a substantial part of industry and secured the independence of India. Yet his political stature remains unresolved. Was he Churchill's "modest man with much to be m...

    $860.00

  • HOLOCAUST CONSCIOUSNESS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN
    ANDY PEARCE
    The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain has an annually commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. What has prompted this deve...

    $1,340.00

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES WITH OLDER PEOPLE
    JASON HEPPLE, JANE PEARCE, PHILIP WILKINSON
    Sigmund Freud believed that psychoanalysis (and other forms of therapy) was not suitable for people over 50 years of age. In Psychological Therapies with Older People, the authors demonstrate the value of a range of psychological interventions with older people, showing that it is 'not too late' to help. With an emphasis on practical application, and using a wide range of clini...

    $700.00

  • BLUEPRINT 3
    DAVID PEARCE
    Blueprint 3 is the direct sequel to the ground-breaking Blueprint for a Green Economy. Taking the argument much further, David Pearce and his colleagues show how progress towards sustainability in the UK can be measured. They set out the conditions for sustainable development and the measures of economic progress these imply, before looking in detail at all the main areas of ec...

    $700.00

  • THE VALUATION OF SOCIAL COST (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DAVID PEARCE
    First published in 1978, The Valuation of Social Cost is concerned both with the idea, and with the practical problems, of placing monetary values on ‘intangible’, non-marketed goods, such as pollution, noise nuisance, personal injury, or the loss of home, neighbours or recreational benefit. A diverse range of contributors critically assess both the theoretical issues and the p...

    $1,420.00

  • CONSERVATION TODAY
    DAVID PEARCE
    This is the official book accompanying the major exhibition at the Royal Academy in May and June 1989, organised by the oyal Fine Art Commission. The exhibition, which is sponsored by The Wolfson Foundation, will follow its London opening with a travelling exhibit to the major British cities and to 13 European countries under the auspices of the British Council. The issue of co...

    $640.00

  • ANIMAL LEARNING AND COGNITION
    JOHN M. PEARCE
    Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction provides an up-to-date review of the principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This new edition has been expanded to take account of the many exciting developments that have occurred over the last ten years. The book opens with a historical survey of the methods that have been used to study a...

    $1,840.00


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