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  • UNDERSTANDING YOUR STUDENTS' RELIGIONS
    LIZ WILSON / MICHAEL NICHOLS / PETER W. WILLIAMS
    This concise guide helps educators understand the diverse religious practices that shape students’ school and home lives. Using an encyclopedia-like structure, the authors provide short histories and other essential information on a wide variety of religions as well as atheist practices. Each chapter covers origins, beliefs, practices, and common misunderstandings and stereotyp...

    $860.00

  • NEW DIRECTIONS
    PETER BURTON / DAVID LANE
    New Directions (1970) is a handbook for amateur dramatists packed with ideas and practical advice on production, choosing plays, improvisation, make-up, costumes, street drama, scenery and documentaries. The authors offer choices of solutions to problems, and suggest ways to experiment and improvise. ...

    $1,480.00

  • INTRODUCING EXISTENTIAL HEALTH
    PETER LA COUR
    Introducing Existential Health unfolds this evolving concept and places it in the context of common understandings of health. It presents existential health as a vital dimension in understanding human well-being, complementing the traditional biopsychosocial model. It critiques reductionist and mechanistic views of health and showcases a new four- dimensional model in healthcar...

    $1,160.00

  • PRODUCING AND DIRECTING THE SHORT FILM AND VIDEO
    PETER W. REA / DAVID K. IRVING
    Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Sixth Edition is the definitive book on producing and directing short films for the serious film student or beginner filmmaker. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both the producer and director and clearly explains how their separate roles must work together to create a successful short fil...

    $1,160.00

  • MEDIATING PRESENCE
    PETER ZAKRZEWSKI / DAVID TAMÉS
    Mediating Presence: Immersive Experience Design Workbook for UX Designers, Filmmakers, Artists, and Content Creators provides the foundation for a broader understanding of the impact of XR as the next medium. The methods presented draw from a wide range of disciplines and professional practice to provide a practical guide to design methods, production techniques, best practices...

    $1,040.00

  • THE MORSE CODE: DECODING THE CAREER OF ICONIC LIGHTING DESIGNER PETER MORSE
    VICKIE CLAIBORNE / PETER MORSE
    The Morse Code: Decoding the Career of Iconic Lighting Designer Peter Morse explores key developments and evolving techniques, processes, and technology within contemporary theatrical lighting design through the career and impact of US lighting designer Peter Morse. Peter Morse’s career as a lighting designer spans over 50 years. He has worked with most of entertainment’s bigge...

    $1,040.00

  • LAST NOVEMBER
    PETER BILES
    A long-lost brother comes home and converses with his forlorn sister. Time stops when two cousins climb their childhood treehouse. A space station explodes and a survivor searches for his lover amid the debris. A child prodigy gets lost on an Oregon beach in search of existential answers. Peter Biles's second short story collection, Last November, is a cacophony of voices, youn...

    $355.00

  • POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
    COLIN FLINT / PETER J. TAYLOR
    The new and updated eighth edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour, and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems approach and is complemented by the perspective of feminist geography. The book successfully integrates the complexity o...

    $1,160.00

  • THE CONCEPT OF CLASS
    PETER CALVERT
    Originally published in 1982, The Concept of Class provides a concise and stimulating guide to the historical development of the concept of ‘class’ and the different ways in which it has been applied in social and political theory. The author begins by determining where and how the word acquired its political sense, and after a short re-examination of its classical background, ...

    $1,480.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES
    PETER STEIDL / PAUL M.W. HACKETT / AVA GORDLEY-SMITH
    This book uses a declarative mapping methodology to examine a range of issues relating to environmental and social justice issues, including climate change, homelessness, refugees, food insecurity, and racial and gender inequality. The book explores how we can bring about change in order to have a meaningful impact on these problems, using a literature-based approach to identif...

    $1,240.00

  • APPLIED NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICAL METHODS
    NIGEL SMEETON / NEIL H. SPENCER / PETER SPRENT
    Nonparametric statistical methods minimize the number of assumptions that need to be made about the distribution of data being analysed, unlike classical parametric methods. As such, they are an essential part of a statistician’s armoury, and this book is an essential resource in their application. Starting from the basics of statistics, it takes the reader through the main non...

    $2,420.00

  • TIME AND ALCOHOL
    HOWLAND, PETER J.
    The purposeful production, exchange, and consumption of alcohol, like all human endeavour, is always a matter of time and temporality – and ranges from the universality of Einsteinian space-time relativity through to species-specific nature times and the myriad of anthropocentric constructs of nature time and of social times/temporalities. Thus time and temporality is an integr...

    $1,240.00

  • TOP SECRET ULTRA
    PETER CALVOCORESSI
    Peter Calvocoressi's journey from Ministry of Economic Warfare to head of RAF intelligence at Bletchley Park is detailed in his memoir. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, a young Peter Calvocoressi was serving in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, his role largely consisting of reviewing shipping manifests day in day out. In 1940, he decided to volunteer for the...

    $191.99

  • RNA: COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR STRUCTURE, KINETICS, AND RATIONAL DESIGN: VOLUME ONE
    PETER G. CLOTE
    Comprising two volumes, RNA: Computational Methods for Structure, Kinetics, and Rational Design is a comprehensive treatment of computational methods concerning the secondary structure, folding kinetics and rational design of RNA. Volume One concerns energy and structure and is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 describes the molecular structure of ribonucleotides, basic cla...

    $2,540.00

  • INDIVIDUALS
    PETER STRAWSON
    Sir Peter Strawson (1919–2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970. Individuals, his most important book, is a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it presents Strawson’s now famous argument for descriptive metaphysics and his repudiation of revi...

    $540.00

  • FEEDING HORSES
    GULSAH KAYA KARASU / PETER HUNTINGTON
    This concise handbook provides evidence-based, practical horse nutrition accessible to all readers. Standing out from very dense theoretical horse nutrition books, it arms equine students, veterinary students and horse owners with practically applicable information, bringing theory and practice together. At the end of each chapter, veterinarian and equine nutrition experts Dr G...

    $1,420.00

  • POLICY AND POWER IN EDUCATION
    HAROLD HELLER / PETER EDWARDS
    The fortunes of the education service in Britain have been intimately bound up with the vitality of the local education authorities, particularly in the decades following the 1944 Education Act. The passing of the 1988 Education Reform Act saw the LEAs in serious—perhaps terminal—decline. First published in 1992, Policy and Power in Education sets out to map the contours of thi...

    $1,480.00

  • MODERN BUDDHIST AND CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM
    CHARLES M. MUELLER / PETER RICHARDSON
    Investigations of mysticism often focus on the past while largely ignoring current developments. This book contributes to a reversal of that trend with a rigorous examination of a wide selection of contemporary Buddhist and Christian authors. The focus is on the intriguing intersections and subtle divergences now emerging in areas such as ineffability, nonconceptuality, paradox...

    $1,240.00

  • UNDERSTANDING POLICING AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
    BARRIE SHELDON / PETER WILLIAMS
    This book outlines the foundations for understanding modern policing. It is an essential introduction for all policing students and trainee police officers to the underpinning aspects of the profession, providing a clear understanding of how the police service is currently organised and how it fits into the wider criminal justice system. Students are encouraged to think critica...

    $680.00

  • CONSUMERISM IN WORLD HISTORY
    PETER N. STEARNS
    The third edition of Consumerism in World History explores the nature of consumerism and its evolution, with particular emphasis on the modern “consumer revolution” and its global scope. The book deals with crucial interpretive issues, such as whether consumerism is a natural human expression or involves other causes, the relationship between consumer apparatus (such as shops a...

    $1,160.00

  • PANDEMIC (IM)MOBILTIES
    PETER ADEY, KEVIN HANNAM, MIMI SHELLER, DAVID TYFIELD
    In this book leading social science and humanities contributors in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths. Contributors examine how the pandemic intensified the existing and uneven ways that we move at multiple scales, from the mobilities of viruses to global planetary movements. As the SARS-CoV-2 coron...

    $1,480.00

  • SURFACE SEGREGATIONPHENOMENA
    PETER A. DOWBEN / ALLEN MILLER
    The purpose of this book is to discuss the phenomena associated with the segregation of one element in a multicomponent material. It describes the kinetics of segregation and contains a tabular summary of the pros and cons of the various models. The easy-to-read chapters outline in detail the macroscopic approach and provide an in-depth review of broken-bond models. This compre...

    $16,800.00

  • CYBER SECURITY MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE
    PETER TRIM / YANG-IM LEE
    Within the organization, the cyber security manager fulfils an important and policy-oriented role. Working alongside the risk manager, the Information Technology (IT) manager, the security manager and others, the cyber security manager’s role is to ensure that intelligence and security manifest in a robust cyber security awareness programme and set of security initiatives that ...

    $1,260.00

  • THE LABORATORY PIG
    KIRSTEN ROSENMAY JACOBSEN / AAGE K OLSEN ALSTRUP / AXEL K. HANSEN / PETER BOLLEN
    Since the popular second edition of The Laboratory Swine was published more than a decade ago, the number of pigs used in toxicity studies has increased as an alternative to commonly used non-rodent species, while, at the same time, large developments have been made in welfare concepts of laboratory animals. Pigs have gained prominence in both basic and applied research, leadin...

    $1,600.00

  • BRITISH REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, 1915-23
    PETER MORGAN
    This book examines how British politicians, national and local newspapers, writers and commentators discussed the mass killing and deportation of Armenians during the period 1915-1923. Seeking to fill a historiographical gap in the field of modern genocide studies, this volume shows the extent to which the British public sphere understood the concept of genocide before the Holo...

    $1,240.00

  • DESTROYERS, GREYHOUNDS OF THE FLEET
    PETER SAXTON
    A remarkable read, detailed, hour-to-hour and 'immediate' account of action, a personal but modest story, and the author and shipmates of all ranks come to life. There are excellent accounts of training, action-stations, gunnery, tactics ad strategy, officer- and ratings- relationships, and leadership, and all told in objective and authentic, and readable language. This is no '...

    $383.99

  • ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER
    PETER KEESE
    There seems to be a growing appreciation among scientists for the unity of everything--human beings, mosquitos, dogs and cats, spiders, atoms, fungi, trees--as well as among mystics, theologians, and philosophers. Or maybe it is just that Peter Keese is coming to see what most have long known. Anyhow, it is a theme throughout these poems. That and appreciation for play, playful...

    $284.00

  • APPROACHES TO ROAD SAFETY
    PETER SWEATMAN
    Road transport is on a constant course to maintain and improve driving safety in what is a complex process involving multiple forms of risk. It is time for embracing system technologies that give more meaning to the philosophical phrase "safe system" and Approaches to Road Safety: Evolution, Challenges, and Emerging Technologies makes the case for the adoption of safer systems ...

    $2,320.00

  • GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE
    PETER FARRALL / STEPHEN BROOKHOUSE
    Architects are finding the procurement landscape increasingly complex and competitive. This book shows practitioners the ways that fees are calculated, negotiated and managed. It will increase your understanding of the different fee-earning roles for architects, professional services contracts, how to calculate sustainable fee levels and improve negotiation skills. It also incl...

    $940.00

  • RAILS SOUTH WEST FROM BIRMINGHAM IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY, 1972-2000
    PETER J GREEN
    A photographic journey captures the railway lines south and southwest of Birmingham, showcasing locomotives, heritage railways, and historic infrastructure. Towards the end of the twentieth century, take a photographic journey along the railway lines to the southwest and south of Birmingham. Starting at Birmingham's main stations, New Street and Snow Hill in the centre of the c...

    $472.99