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  • HEALTHY DECISIONS
    LINDA HENMAN / DEBORAH PERKINS
    In the wake of an international pandemic, Healthy Decisions: Critical Thinking Skills for Healthcare Executives emerges as a crucial guide for leaders navigating the complex world of healthcare management. This thought-provoking book challenges the status quo, arguing that the success of healthcare organizations hinges not on abstract concepts like "culture," but on the concret...

    $820.00

  • STRATEGIC LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
    GRAHAM PERKINS / SIAN ROBINSON
    The essential textbook for mastering strategic learning and development in modern organizations. How can L&D professionals design strategies that drive organizational performance and meet CIPD standards? Strategic Learning and Development Practice by Graham Perkins and Sian Robinson equips postgraduate students and advanced diploma candidates with the theoretical foundations an...

    $1,249.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC PHONETICS AND FORENSIC LINGUISTICS
    ADRIAN LEEMANN / RIA PERKINS / GRACE SULLIVAN BUKER / PAUL FOULKES
    This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics. Addressing how these fields are both distinct yet closely related, the book demonstrates how experts from both fields can work together to investigate and deliver justice in complex legal situations. With pedagogical features including real-life case studies, exercises,...

    $1,040.00

  • REWARD MANAGEMENT
    SARAH JONES / STEPHEN J PERKINS
    Covering theory and practice, Reward Management is an ideal textbook for postgraduate HR students, particularly those taking the CIPD Advanced level module in Strategic Reward Management Now in its fifth edition, Reward Management covers everything postgraduate HR students need to know about the topic to excel in their studies and start their careers as people professionals. It...

    $1,399.00

  • THE POST-EARTHQUAKE CITY
    PAUL CLOKE / DAVID CONRADSON / ERIC PAWSON / HARVEY C. PERKINS
    This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010–13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider ‘damage and displacement’, ‘recovery and renewal’ and ‘the city in transition’. It offers a framework for understanding the multiple experiences and realities of post-ea...

    $1,160.00

  • THE INNOVATION ENGINE FOR GROWTH
    SANJAY MAZUMDAR / CHERYL PERKINS
    Written by experts on innovation and growth, this book provides the necessary tools to systematically develop and sustain profitable innovation pipelines. In a hypercompetitive global market, businesses must innovate to survive; yet the failure rate for innovation is extremely high. Strategists and thought leaders, Cheryl Perkins and Dr. Sanjay Mazumdar, offer a sophisticated y...

    $980.00

  • CULTURALLY SUSTAINING PEDAGOGIES IN MUSIC EDUCATION
    EMILY GOOD-PERKINS
    This volume problematizes the historic dominance of Western classical music education and posits culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as a framework through which music curricula can better serve increasingly diverse student populations. By detailing a qualitative study conducted in an urban high school in the United States, the volume illustrates how traditional approaches to ...

    $1,160.00

  • PHYSICAL CHANGE AND AGING
    SUE V. SAXON, PHD / MARY JEAN ETTEN, EDD, GNP, CMP, FT / ELIZABETH A. PERKINS, PHD, RNLD, FAAIDD, FGSA
    Praise for the new edition:In this 7th edition of Physical Change and Aging: A Guide for the Helping Professions the authors, Drs. Saxon, Etten and Perkins, bring to all health care professionals and those interacting with older adults a multidisciplinary foundational reference with state of the art and science approaches to caring for aging persons in our society. This compreh...

    $2,128.00

  • LIFE AND DEATH RAYS
    ALAN PERKINS
    This unique book provides an accessible introduction to both the scientific background and the key people involved in the discovery and use of radiation and radioactivity. It begins by providing a short history of radiation exposures and radiation poisoning; from the early inappropriate use of X-rays and radium cures through the misadventures of the Manhattan Project and the Ch...

    $780.00

  • INDEPENDENT WOMEN
    CLAIRE PERKINS
    Independent Women: From Film to Television explores the significance for feminism of the increasing representation of women on and behind the screen in television contexts around the world. "Independent" has functioned throughout film and television history as an important euphemism for "feminist". This volume investigates how this connection plays out in a contemporary environ...

    $1,160.00

  • WORK AND EMPLOYMENT IN A CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
    STEPHEN TAYLOR / GRAHAM PERKINS
    Work and Employment in a Changing Business Environment is the definitive textbook for the new CIPD Advanced Level 7 module. It provides students with an understanding of the major contemporary trends in the HR business environment and discussion of significant areas of HR and Learning and Development (L&D) activity that derive from or are given additional prominence as a result...

    $1,299.00

  • STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
    FRANCES ALSTON / BRIAN K. PERKINS
    Protecting our environment has never been more important than it is today in the wake of climate change and the ever-increasing demand on natural resources due to the expanding world population. Environmental protection has been increasingly discussed by concerned citizen groups and politicians in the wake of unexpected environmental disasters that have occurred in recent years...

    $1,340.00

  • ASIA THROUGH ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY
    FUYUBI NAKAMURA / ‎MORGAN PERKINS / ‎OLIVIER KRISCHER
    * AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND *How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literally and visually across linguistic, geopolitical and cultural boundaries? This book explores the shifting roles of those who produce, critique and translate creative forms and practices, for which distinctions of geography, ethnicity, ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE MAN-MADE WORLD, OR, OUR ANDROCENTRIC CULTURE
    CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
    In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human race as a whole. Society's long history of male hegemony and female subservience has not enhanced the natural qualities of the human race but r...

    $39.70

  • THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
    CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
    The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. ...

    $39.70

  • YALE NEEDS WOMEN
    ANNE GARDINER PERKINS
    WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE "Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting feminist pioneers come alive against the backdrop of the contemporaneous civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1970s, and offers observations that remain eerily relevant on U.S. campuses today."—...

    $344.00

  • EARTH MATERIALS
    DEXTER PERKINS / KEVIN HENKE / ADAM SIMON / LANCE YARBROUGH
    There is a large and growing need for a textbook that can form the basis for integrated classes that look at minerals, rocks, and other Earth materials. Despite the need, no high-quality book is available for such a course. Earth Materials is a wide-ranging undergraduate textbook that covers all the most important kinds of (inorganic) Earth materials. Besides traditional chapte...

    $2,120.00

  • PEST CONTROL: CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
    DAVID PIMENTEL / JOHN H. PERKINS
    The field of pest control research, of increasing importance in a world short of food, has been plagued for many years by a variety of problems, among them (1) the instability (including pesticide resistance) of many control techniques, (2) the continuing need for improved pest management methods to increase world food supplies, and (3) the environmental and social hazards of c...

    $1,160.00

  • LEADERSHIP AND PURPOSE
    KATHLEEN MILLER PERKINS
    Companies that have integrated a contribution to society into their business models are more likely than others to succeed for the long term. This book provides you with information, tips, and tools to assess and strengthen your company for ongoing success. Through the use of case studies, the book describes the leaders’ journeys – the mistakes they made, the successes they ach...

    $960.00

  • PORT SUDAN
    KENNETH J PERKINS
    In 1904, only the unimposing tomb of a local holy man occupied the site chosen by British officials for the construction of a modern seaport to facilitate the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan's expanded commerce. Built where no urban center had previously existed, Port Sudan was the quintessential colonial city, created and designed by Europeans, who organized its municipal services and de...

    $1,200.00

  • PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN MEDICAL PHYSICS
    KWAN HOONG NG / CHAI HONG YEONG / ALAN PERKINS
    The second in a three-volume set exploring Problems and Solutions in Medical Physics, this volume explores common questions and their solutions in Nuclear Medicine. This invaluable study guide should be used in conjunction with other key textbooks in the field to provide additional learning opportunities. Topics include radioactivity and nuclear transformation, radionuclide pro...

    $1,760.00

  • MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICY
    J. O. N. PERKINS, M. D. ENGLISH, J. P. NIEUWENHUYSEN AND J. W. ROWE
    When it was first published in 1972, this was the first book to analyze the experience of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa in the field of macro-economic policy. The characteristics of this group of countries gives them much in common with both industrialized and emerging economies. Their experience of economic policy-making has, therefore an unusually wide relev...

    $920.00

  • VILLAGE, MARKET AND WELL-BEING
    TAMARA PERKINS
    The existing literature on rural China characterizes socioeconomic diversity as a uniquely regional phenomenon: north versus south, coastal versus inland, urban versus rural. Unlike most work done at the village level, this book shows the large variations between the twenty-three villages within one suburban township, including wide differences in size, lineage structure, econ...

    $1,200.00

  • THINKING
    D. N. PERKINS
    First published in 1987. Toward the end of August 1984, when most people were enjoying the last beaches and breezes of summer holidays, over 700 people gathered from all parts of the world at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, to hear about, talk about, and think about thinking. The present volume offers a selection of papers from the many more presented a...

    $1,480.00

  • BRITISH WARSHIP RECOGNITION: THE PERKINS IDENTIFICATION ALBUMS
    RICHARD PERKINS
    The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. However, it is a unique hand-drawn manuscript artefact in the care of the National Maritime Museum, so despite its value it is rarely seen by anyone besides the museum’s curators, for whom it is a precious resource, used o...

    $562.99

  • WHEELS AND DEALS
    ROBERT CONLON / JOHN PERKINS
    This title was first published in 2001. The emergence and development of automobile production in Australia was a long, drawn out and costly business for car buyers and taxpayers. Wheels and Deals, is the story of some of the causes and effects of Australian Government policies on the local development of one of the most significant industries of the 20th century. ...

    $980.00

  • SEVEN DATABASES IN SEVEN WEEKS
    LUC PERKINS / ERIC REDMOND / JIM WILSON
    Data is getting bigger and more complex by the day, and so are your choices in handling it. Explore some of the most cutting-edge databases available - from a traditional relational database to newer NoSQL approaches - and make informed decisions about challenging data storage problems. This is the only comprehensive guide to the world of NoSQL databases, with in-depth practica...

    $548.00

  • TRANSNATIONAL TELEVISION REMAKES
    CLAIRE PERKINS
    Providing a cross-cultural investigation of the current phenomenon of transnational television remakes, and assembling an international team of scholars, this book draws upon ideas from transnational media and cultural studies to offer an understanding of global cultural borrowings and format translation. While recognising the commercial logic of global television formats that ...

    $1,280.00

  • ONSITE WASTEWATER DISPOSAL
    RICHARD J. PERKINS
    This practical book, co-published with the National Environmental Health Association, describes the step-by-step procedures needed to avoid common pitfalls in septic system technology. Valuable in matching the septic system to the site-specific conditions, this useful book will help you install a reliable system in both suitable and difficult environments. Septic tank installe...

    $5,300.00

  • EDUCATION FOR CHILDBIRTH AND PARENTHOOD
    ELIZABETH R. PERKINS
    Originally published in 1980, the setting of this book is in the practicalities of teaching on labour wards, in antenatal clinics and in child health clinics. In such settings, health education about childbirth and parenthood is often an explicit, and always implicit, task for the health professional. The book results from several years’ research on health service teaching meth...

    $960.00


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