Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: pearson

324 resultados

  • THE MANY LIVES OF THE BATMAN
    ROBERTA E. PEARSON
    First published in 1991, The Many Lives of the Batman is a serious academic exploration of the cultural phenomenon called Batman. Marketing savvy alone did not build the Batman’s extraordinary success; it encompasses a variety of audiences who have embraced the hero through a collage of different media manifestations during his long history. Batman’s overlapping lives are illum...

    $1,339.00

  • ARCHAEOLOGY IN ANTARCTICA
    ANDRÉS ZARANKIN / MICHAEL PEARSON / MELISA A. SALERNO
    Archaeology in Antarctica outlines the history of archaeology in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. The book details for the first time all past archaeological work in Antarctica, relating to both its use for conservation and research purposes, drawing on published, unpublished and oral information. This work has addressed historic and current scientific bases, explorers’ huts, w...

    $979.00

  • THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN CRISIS, 248–260
    PAUL N. PEARSON
    “A clear, brisk writer, Pearson is also quite thorough, taking a holistic attitude to the many facets of a confused, turbulent period.” —NYMAS Review This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome’s millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260. It was a period of almost unremitting...

    $299.00

  • TALKING TEACHING WITH THE DYNAMIC DEPUTIES
    RUSSELL PEARSON / STEVE EASTES
    Teaching remains an incredibly demanding and often ‘downtrodden’ profession but being a teacher can be a fabulous and rewarding job. This book offers uplifting professional learning for all teachers.  It shines a light on the brilliant aspects of the job and helps readers to learn from some of the inspiring educators in the UK today. Russell Pearson and Steve Eastes are Primary...

    $430.69

  • SOCIAL MEDIA RISK AND THE LAW
    SUSAN GRANTHAM / MARK PEARSON
    Social media has many advantages for professional communication – but it also carries considerable risks, including legal pitfalls. This book equips students and communication professionals with the knowledge and skills to help minimise the risks that can arise when they post or host on social media. It offers them strategies for taking advantage of the opportunities of social ...

    $979.00

  • EXPLORING THE MID-REPUBLICAN ORIGINS OF ROMAN MILITARY ADMINISTRATION
    ELIZABETH H. PEARSON
    This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during the Middle Republic, expanding on recent research to examine these administrative systems that made possible Rome’s expansion in this period. Bringing together literary works, epigraphy, archaeology, topography and demography, the study reveals a complex and well-structured bureaucratic system develop...

    $1,099.00

  • THE UNITED NATIONS AND DECOLONIZATION
    AURORA ALMADA E SANTOS / NICOLE EGGERS / JESSICA LYNNE PEARSON
    Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories. The authors in this book explore this dynamic in order to expand our understanding of both the achievements and the limits of internati...

    $1,099.00

  • THE JOURNALIST'S GUIDE TO MEDIA LAW
    MARK PEARSON / MARK POLDEN
    We are all journalists and publishers now: at the touch of a button we can send our words, sounds and images out to the world. No matter whether you're a traditional journalist, a blogger, a public relations practitioner or a social media editor, everything you publish or broadcast is subject to the law. But which law? This widely used practical guide to communication law is es...

    $999.00

  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRANSLATION STUDIES: 2000
    LYNNE BOWKER / DOROTHY KENNY / JENNIFER PEARSON
    A volume of selected, annotated references arranged under specific headings to provide a non-partisan guide to teachers involved in designing courses in translation and/or interpreting. ...

    $859.00

  • WOMEN AND CREDIT
    RUTH PEARSON / BEVERLY LEMIRE / GAIL GRACE CAMPBELL
    Credit can be instrumental in equalizing opportunity and alleviating poverty, yet historically men and women have not had the same access. Partly because of this, women have been excluded from many previous economic histories. This book fills a significant gap in exploring the vexed relationship between the women and credit across time and space.Providing examples of credit age...

    $939.00

  • THRIVING IN THE HEALTHCARE MARKET
    GLENN PEARSON, FACHE
    Interesting, engaging and informative with good examples. As Chief Medical Officer of a biotech startup that has to sell into the C-suite, I will be buying copies for our entire sales team. Bob Lubitz, MD, MPH, FACHE, MACP Chief Medical Officer, 3Oe Scientific, Inc. At 18% of GDP, healthcare represents a hugely attractive market for suppliers and vendors. Any sector this enormo...

    $859.00

  • HANDBOOK OF DRUG METABOLISM
    PAUL G. PEARSON AND LARRY C. WIENKERS
    This book continues to be the definitive reference on drug metabolism with an emphasis on new scientific and regulatory developments. It has been updated based on developments that have occurred in the last 5 years, with new chapters on large molecules disposition, stereo-selectivity in drug metabolism, drug transporters and metabolic activation of drugs. Some chapters have bee...

    $1,239.00

  • TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY
    THOMAS WEINACHT / BRETT J. PEARSON
    This concise and carefully developed text offers a reader friendly guide to the basics of time-resolved spectroscopy with an emphasis on experimental implementation. The authors carefully explain and relate for the reader how measurements are connected to the core physical principles. They use the time-dependent wave packet as a building block for understanding quantum dynamics...

    $1,239.00

  • NONLINEAR DIGITAL FILTERING WITH PYTHON
    RONALD K. PEARSON / MONCEF GABBOUJ
    Nonlinear Digital Filtering with Python: An Introduction discusses important structural filter classes including the median filter and a number of its extensions (e.g., weighted and recursive median filters), and Volterra filters based on polynomial nonlinearities. Adopting both structural and behavioral approaches in characterizing and designing nonlinear digital filters, this...

    $1,299.00

  • ANALYST OF THE IMAGINATION
    JENNY PEARSON
    Charles Rycroft's lucid jargon-free approach to psychoanalysis inspired a whole generation. Taking inspiration from many fields outside psychoanalysis, including history, literature, linguistics and ethology, he established the important link between mental health and the imagination, creating a broader perspective and encouraging free thinking. This solitary and creative "rebe...

    $1,499.00

  • EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS USING R
    RONALD K. PEARSON
    Exploratory Data Analysis Using R provides a classroom-tested introduction to exploratory data analysis (EDA) and introduces the range of "interesting" – good, bad, and ugly – features that can be found in data, and why it is important to find them. It also introduces the mechanics of using R to explore and explain data. The book begins with a detailed overview of data, explora...

    $1,199.00

  • MAP PROJECTIONSTHEORY AND APPLICATIONS
    II PEARSON
    About the Author: Frederick Pearson has extensive experience in teaching map projection at the Air Force Cartography School and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He developed star charts, satellite trajectory programs, and a celestial navigation device for the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center. He is an expert in orbital analysis of satellites, and control and guidance sy...

    $1,499.00

  • VIDEO PEDAGOGY IN ACTION
    MARY B. MCVEE / LYNN E. SHANAHAN / H. EMILY HAYDEN / FENICE B. BOYD / P. DAVID PEARSON
    Combining video analysis with the well-known Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) model, this book offers teacher educators a fresh perspective and a new tool for supporting teachers’ learning and reflection. The clearly articulated and useful framework shifts the focus away from children and toward teachers’ thinking about their own teaching practice. Interwoven with practi...

    $1,199.00

  • GOLD AND PRICES
    GEORGE F. WARREN / FRANK A. PEARSON
    This influential study of the relationship between the prices of gold and other commodities was originally published in 1935. In it the authors attributed the initial cause of the great depression in the US to the reestablishment of the gold standard in many European countries and resulting deflation. The authors' recommendations were successfully implemented by Franklin D. Roo...

    $979.00

  • W.M.THACKERY AND THE MEDIATED TEXT
    RICHARD PEARSON
    This title was first published in 2000: Thackeray's "minor writings" remain caught in a debate about what constitutes "literature" and whether magazine writing and journalism might be construed as such. This debate was present during the inception of the mass periodical press in the 1830s when Thackeray began his career and forms part of the context of, reasoning within, and te...

    $1,999.00

  • REFLECTIONS ON AMERICAN PROGRESSIVISM
    SIDNEY A. PEARSON
    In American politics, at least since the Civil War, the great philosophical divide is between "progressives" and "founders" of the American regime. The quarrel has come to be defined in the media as a contest between liberals and conservatives. This book explores the ideological underpinnings of American progressivism. In doing so, it examines the foundations of modern liberali...

    $539.00

  • INSURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
    ROBIN PEARSON
    Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking. Yet whilst the danger of fire had always been taken seriously, it was not until the start of the eighteenth century that a sophisticated system of insurance became widely available. Whilst a number of high profi...

    $1,299.00

  • MUSEUMS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    CATHERINE PEARSON
    Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking in the 1930s was realised in a number of promising initiatives during the war only to fail during the fragmented post-war reco...

    $1,059.00

  • ENVISIONING GENDER IN BURGUNDIAN DEVOTIONAL ART, 1350–1530
    ANDREA PEARSON
    Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists such as the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Bernard van Orley, author Andrea Pearson identifies and explores pictorial constructions of masculinity and f...

    $1,099.00

  • WOMEN AND PORTRAITS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
    ANDREA PEARSON
    As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. Its nine original essays on Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, France, and England deepen the usefulness of...

    $1,379.00

  • HANDBOOK OF READING RESEARCH
    P. DAVID PEARSON, REBECCA BARR, MICHAEL L. KAMIL AND PETER MOSENTHAL
    The influential first volume of the Handbook of Reading Research was published in 1984. This classic work, an essential resource for researchers, students, and professionals across the field of reading and literacy education, is now available once again in on-line and print-on-demand versions.  ...

    $3,400.00

  • THE TEACHER
    ALLEN T. PEARSON
    It is widely agreed that teacher education must consist of two general components. There is a knowledge component which contains specialized subject matter knowledge, and a practical component in which intending teachers develop skills and abilities. In this original and compelling work, first published in 1989, Pearson attempts to examine the connection between the two. This t...

    $859.00

  • THE WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY LIBRARY
    ANTHONY TROLLOPE AND RICHARD PEARSON
    First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This third volume contains Anthony Trollope’s volume on Thackeray from John Morley’s series entitled The English Men of Letters. The work signifies Thackeray’s move to perceived respectability, placing him as part of the literary establishment, alongside ...

    $659.00

  • DESIGNING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
    KRISTI GAINES / ANGELA BOURNE / MICHELLE PEARSON / MESHA KLEIBRINK
    Winner of the 2017 IDEC Book Award, 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Book Category), 2017 American Society of Interior Designers Joel Polsky Prize and the 2016 International Interior Design Association TXOK Research Award Designing for Autism Spectrum Disorders explains the influence of the natural and man-made environment on individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and ot...

    $979.00

  • DETECTIVE FICTION IN A POSTCOLONIAL AND TRANSNATIONAL WORLD
    NELS PEARSON
    Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detective fiction has been linked to imperialism and constructions of race from its earliest origins, recent ...

    $1,379.00