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  • THE SYMMETRICAL FAMILY
    MICHAEL YOUNG / PETER WILLMOTT
    First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the basis for a speculative discussion about the future. The argument is that a new style of family life has emerged. Its basis is not equality between husbands and wives but at least something approachi...

    $960.00

  • FAMILY AND CLASS IN A LONDON SUBURB
    PETER WILLMOTT / MICHAEL YOUNG
    Originally published in 1960, the authors of Family and Kinship in East London then made an intensive study of a middle-class dormitory suburb. Here families were more often on their own than in the East End, but, despite the differences between the districts, there were some similarities. The bond between mother and married daughter was almost as strong in the suburb as in the...

    $840.00

  • STRATEGIC RISK LEADERSHIP
    TORBEN JUUL ANDERSEN / PETER C. YOUNG
    This casebook extends Strategic Risk Leadership: Engaging a World of Risk, Uncertainty and the Unknown, bringing theory and practice grounded in the first book to life with an array of applicable, real-world examples. The book enables critical thinking about the current state of risk management and ERM, demonstrating contemporary shortcomings and challenges from real-life cases...

    $1,100.00

  • STRATEGIC RISK LEADERSHIP
    TORBEN JUUL ANDERSEN / PETER C. YOUNG
    Modern risk management as practiced today faces significant obstacles—we argue—primarily due to the fundamental premise of the concept itself. It asserts that we are mainly dealing with measurable, quantifiable risks and that we can manage the uncontrollable by relying on formal control-based systems, which has produced a general view that (enterprise) risk management is a tech...

    $800.00

  • PEACE AND SECURITY IN NORTHEAST ASIA
    PETER HAYES / YOUNG WHAN KIHL
    This work provides an analysis of North Korea's nuclear controversy from a variety of perspectives, including: nuclear reactor technology and technology transfer; economic sanctions and incentives; confidence-building measures; environmental challenges; and the views of Korea and the major powers. ...

    $920.00

  • THE CAVALIER ARMY
    PETER YOUNG / WILFRID EMBERTON
    The English Civil War of 1642-6 was one of the most formative periods of British history. This book, originally published in 1974, was one of the first to explore in depth the situation of the common soldier – how he was trained, clothed, equipped , fed and paid; how he amused himself, was disciplined and cared for medically. As well as discussing aspects such as uniforms, pens...

    $540.00

  • WELLINGTON'S MASTERPIECE
    PETER YOUNG / J. P. LAWFORD
    The Peninsular war was not only one of the great periods in British military history, it was also a war in which guerillas exerted a major influence, and as such, has continued relevance today. Salamanca established Wellington as one of the great military commanders of any age and it is one of the battles which produced significant results. As well as the battle the campaign co...

    $500.00

  • SHIP CONSTRUCTION SKETCHES AND NOTES
    JOHN F KEMP / PETER YOUNG
    This classic book in the Kemp and Young series has been fully revised and updated by David J Eyres, author of the well-known Butterworth-Heinemann title "Ship Construction," and will prove indispensable to the student reader. The contents cover, in numerous fully illustrated items, shipyard practices, principles of construction methods, the design and construction of the variou...

    $1,940.00

  • NEOPLASTIC MIMICS IN GENITOURINARY PATHOLOGY
    PETER HUMPHREY / J. CARLOS MANIVEL / ROBERT YOUNG
    Neoplastic mimics or "pseudotumors" can simulate neoplasms on all levels of analysis- clinical, radiologic, and pathologic--and thus represent particular diagnostic pitfalls for the pathologist that can ultimately lead to therapeutic misdirection. This book provides the pathologist with detailed morphologic descriptions and diagnostic guidance in recognizing these neoplastic mi...

    $2,926.00

  • NOTES ON METEOROLOGY
    J.F. KEMP / PETER YOUNG
    Notes on Meteorology is intended to provide practical knowledge of meteorology. It describes some of the more common theory of weather phenomena as simply as possible. Drawings of instruments in this volume were from the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship while the map of the weather forecast areas supplied by the Meteorological Office. This second edition of the book contains sev...

    $425.00

  • DEFENCE AND THE MEDIA IN TIME OF LIMITED WAR
    PETER R YOUNG
    First Published in 2004. Events in the Gulf Crisis of 1990–91 have highlighted the importance of the increasingly complex and difficult relations between Defence and the Media in time of War – especially in time of limited conflict when the well-being – let alone the security – of the home nation may not be affected. This problem has become especially acute given the growth of ...

    $660.00

  • FAMILY AND KINSHIP IN EAST LONDON
    MICHAEL YOUNG / PETER WILMOTT
    First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott’s book on family and kinship in Bethnal Green in the 1950s is a classic in urban studies. A standard text in planning, housing, family studies and sociology, it predicted the failure in social terms of the great rehousing campaign which was getting under way in the 1950s. Th...

    $4,500.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO POLYMERS
    ROBERT J. YOUNG / PETER A. LOVELL
    Thoroughly updated, this long-awaited new edition of a bestselling text provides extensive, detailed, and balanced coverage of polymer chemistry and polymer physics, spanning synthesis, characterization, bulk properties and morphology, and mechanical and electrical properties of polymers. The material has been completely reorganized and expanded to offer a coherent format for t...

    $1,760.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO POLYMERS
    ROBERT J. YOUNG / PETER A. LOVELL
    Thoroughly updated, this long-awaited new edition of a bestselling text provides extensive, detailed, and balanced coverage of polymer chemistry and polymer physics, spanning synthesis, characterization, bulk properties and morphology, and mechanical and electrical properties of polymers. The material has been completely reorganized and expanded to offer a coherent format for t...

    $1,760.00

  • TEN MINUTES FOR THE FAMILY
    EIA ASEN / DAVE TOMSON / VENETIA YOUNG / PETER TOMSON
    The provision of suitable mental health care is one of the major tasks facing general practitioners and their teams. Family-oriented primary care has moved from doctor-controlled to patient-centred consultations, with a greater emphasis on collaboration. The systemic framework uniquely lends itself to this shift in emphasis, as it views the delivery of care in social rather tha...

    $1,160.00