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  • DIGITAL WELLBEING
    PETRA VELZEBOER
    FINALIST: Goody Business Book Award 2025 - Self-Help - Work Life Balance Constantly feeling wired, distracted and burnt out by your screen time can take its toll. Digital Wellbeing helps you take back control of your attention, energy and mental health without quitting the tech you rely on. Written by leading wellbeing expert Petra Velzeboer, this practical guide offers a fresh...

    $349.00

  • THE ADULT LEARNER
    MALCOLM KNOWLES / PETRA A. ROBINSON / CORINA CARACCIOLI
    How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred a...

    $1,940.00

  • ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF COMPLEXITY ECONOMICS
    AHRWEILER, PETRA
    The Routledge International Handbook of Complexity Economics covers the historical developments and early concerns of complexity theorists and brings them into engagement with the world today. In this volume, a distinguished group of international scholars explore the state of the art of complexity economics, and how it may deliver new and relevant insights to the challenges of...

    $1,380.00

  • THE WALLS HAVE EYES
    PETRA MOLNAR
    With a foreword by E. Tendayi Achiume A chilling exposé of the inhumane and lucrative sharpening of borders around the globe through experimental surveillance technology In 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training “robot dogs” to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border against migrants. Four-legged machines equipped with cameras and sensors would join...

    $514.00

  • SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT
    PETRA MOLTHAN-HILL
    Sustainable Management: A Complete Guide for Faculty and Students is both a textbook for students, as well as a teaching guide for educators. With a full introduction to sustainable management, the book covers a wide range of subject areas relevant to business and management students. It enables faculty to incorporate sustainability and climate solutions into their modules, and...

    $1,120.00

  • BRANDING AUTHORITARIAN NATIONS
    PETRA ALDERMAN
    Branding Authoritarian Nations offers a novel approach to the study of nation branding as a strategy for political legitimation in authoritarian regimes using the example of military-ruled Thailand. The book argues that nation branding is a political act that is integral to state legitimation processes, particularly in the context of authoritarian regimes. It applies its altern...

    $1,160.00

  • BEGIN WITH YOU
    PETRA VELZEBOER
    FINALIST: 2024 International Book Awards - Business: Motivational FINALIST: Goody Business Book Award 2024 - Self-Help - Personal Transformation Too many of us work through burnout and sacrifice our work-life balance to get ahead in our careers. But the real path to success and happiness begins with you. Rather than just accepting the fatigue and burnout, renowned mental health...

    $449.00

  • CURRICULUM HISTORIES IN PLACE, IN PERSON, IN PRACTICE
    PETRA HENDRY
    This book situates the Curriculum Theory Project at Louisiana State University within a larger historical framework of curriculum work, examining the practices which have sustained this type of curricular vitality over the lifetime of the field’s existence. Divided into seven parts, the authors illuminate seven practices which have sustained the scholarship, graduate programs, ...

    $1,120.00

  • THE HANDBOOK OF CARBON MANAGEMENT
    PETRA MOLTHAN-HILL / FIONA WINFIELD / RICHARD HOWARTH / MUHAMMAD MAZHAR
    Winner of the 2024 Business Book Awards (Change & Sustainability category) Winner of the Bronze Axiom Business Book Award 2024 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category. Every manager and every employee in every function can embed climate solutions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This book, written by experts in the field of sustainability in business, sho...

    $700.00

  • ANTI-ATHEIST NATION
    PETRA KLUG
    Atheists are a growing but marginalized group in the American religious patchwork and they have been the target of ridicule and discrimination throughout the nation’s history. This book is the first comprehensive study of anti-atheism in the United States. It traces anti-atheism through five centuries of American history from colonization to the era of Donald Trump and contempo...

    $1,160.00

  • LEADING FROM BEHIND
    AHRENS, PETRA
    This book takes stock of German gender equality in several policy fields after 16 years of governments led by Angela Merkel and her conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU). While maintaining its status as an economic engine in Europe, Germany has historically been a laggard in adopting gender equality measures. The European Gender Equality Index, however, now ranks German...

    $1,160.00

  • RETHINKING TRANSGENDER IDENTITIES
    PETRA L. DOAN / LYNDA JOHNSTON
    This volume explores the diversity and complexity of transgender people’s experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places. Rethinking Transgender Identities brings together original research in the form of interviews, participatory methods, surveys, cultural texts ...

    $1,200.00

  • ZOOPLANKTON
    PETRA H. LENZ / DANIEL K. HARTLINE / JENNIFER E. PURCELL / DAVID L. MACMILLAN
    Zooplankton is a major work of reference for researchers in plankton biology, physiology and behavior, which combines behavioral and psychological approaches to the study of plankton on present and interdisciplinary investigation of sensory processes in pelagic environments. The breadth of perspective thus achieved provides valuable insights into the larger scale ecological pro...

    $9,000.00

  • GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP FOR ADULT EDUCATION
    ROBINSON, PETRA A.
    This book promotes the development of nontraditional literacies in adult education, especially as these critical literacies relate to global citizenship, equity, and social justice. As this edited collection argues, a rapidly changing global environment and proliferation of new media technologies have greatly expanded the kinds of literacies that one requires in order to be an ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE RESISTANT OBJECT OF ARCHITECTURE
    PETRA ČEFERIN
    Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of Architecture addresses this problem, and does so in a way that represents a marked departure from predominant responses which, as the book shows, do not address the core issue. The ...

    $1,160.00

  • AVANTGARDE ART AND RADICAL MATERIAL THEOLOGY
    PETRA CARLSSON REDELL
    Theological thought has long been focused on the meaning to be found in our existence, but it has tended to neglect what it might offer to those seeking how to prolong and improve our physical existence in this world. In conversation with twentieth-century materialist art and thought, this book presents a radical theology that engages directly with the political and ecological ...

    $640.00

  • BEING WELL IN ACADEMIA
    PETRA BOYNTON
    Are you studying or working in academia and in need of support? Perhaps you’re finding your work, study or personal life challenging or overwhelming; are experiencing bullying, harassment or abuse; or find your progress is being blocked by unfair, exploitative or precarious systems? Or perhaps you want to support a friend or colleague who’s struggling? Whether your problems are...

    $640.00

  • THE COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE READER
    PETRA KUPPERS / ‎GWEN ROBERTSON
    Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum. It brings together core writings and critical approaches to community performance work, presenting practices in the UK, USA, Australia and beyond. Offering a comprehensive anthology of key writings in the vibrant field of com...

    $1,260.00

  • STORYTELLING FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    PETRA MOLTHANHILL / ‎HEATHER LUNA / ‎TONY WALL
    To be a storyteller is an incredible position from which to influence hearts and minds, and each one of us has the capacity to utilise storytelling for a sustainable future. This book offers unique and powerful insights into how stories and storytelling can be utilised within higher education to support sustainability literacy. Stories can shape our perspective of the world aro...

    $1,240.00

  • COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE
    PETRA KUPPERS
    Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance, and theatre, offering reflection on the ethical issues inherent to the field. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner, perfectly answering the needs of a field where teaching is orientated ar...

    $1,100.00

  • ADAPTATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN COMMUNIST AND POST-COMMUNIST SYSTEMS
    SABRINA PETRA RAMET
    This book tackles different aspects of the adaptive and transformative process in communist and post-communist systems in Eastern Europe, offering competing models, which locate the explanatory variable in different places and account for the unfolding of change in different ways. ...

    $1,200.00

  • COPING WITH PREGNANCY LOSS
    PETRA BOYNTON
    Pregnancy loss can leave us with many unanswered questions, and knowing where to find answers is not always clear. This book is for you if, like me, you’ve been affected by any kind of pregnancy loss – currently or in the past. It provides practical advice and self-care strategies to help you cope during or after loss, alongside ideas that will enable you to make sense of what’...

    $640.00

  • FOUCAULT, ART, AND RADICAL THEOLOGY
    PETRA CARLSSON REDELL
    Michel Foucault wrote prolifically on many topics including, art, religion, and politics. He also eloquently articulated how power structures are formed and how they also might assist resistance and emancipation. This book uses the hermeneutical lens of Foucault’s writings on art to examine the performative, material, and political aspects of contemporary theology. The borderla...

    $1,240.00

  • MODERN MOTHERHOOD AND WOMEN’S DUAL IDENTITIES
    PETRA BUESKENS
    Why do women in contemporary western societies experience contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves? What are the origins of this contradiction and the associated ‘double shift’ that result in widespread calls to either ‘lean in’ or ‘opt out’? How are some mothers subverting these contradictions and finding meaningful ways of reconciling their autonomous and ma...

    $1,260.00

  • WILDE’S OTHER WORLDS
    MICHAEL F. DAVIS / PETRA DIERKES-THRUN
    Taking its cue from Baudelaire’s important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, and narrow national interests in favor of the wider world and other worlds—both real and imaginary, ge...

    $1,200.00

  • BALKAN BABEL
    SABRINA PETRA RAMET
    The fourth edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new chapter, a new epilogue, and revisions throughout the book. Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, while the federal system and multiethnic fabric laid down fault lines, the final...

    $1,600.00

  • NEW TRENDS IN PROCESS CONTROL AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
    LENKA ŠTOFOVÁ & PETRA SZARYSZOVÁ
    Dynamic economics, technological changes, increasing pressure from competition and customers to improve manufacturing and services are some of the major challenges to enterprises these days. New ways of improving organizational activities and management processes have to be created, in order to allow enterprises to manage the seemingly intensifying competitive markets successfu...

    $1,360.00

  • RELATIONSHIP BUILDING IN PUBLIC RELATIONS
    PETRA THEUNISSEN / HELEN SISSONS
    This book aims to provide an interdisciplinary approach to highlight the importance of relationships in public relations, delving not only into the organization-public relationships but also into interpersonal relationships within the industry in order to offer new, empirical insights into the impact and formation of such relationships. Theunissen and Sissons theorize that publ...

    $1,240.00

  • THE RESEARCH COMPANION
    PETRA M. BOYNTON
    Have you ever wanted to know an effective and ethical way to: Design a study? Recruit participants? Report findings? And improve the quality and output of your research? The Research Companion focuses on the practical skills needed to complete research in the social or health sciences and development. It covers the behind-the-scenes essentials you need to run an effective and e...

    $1,540.00

  • QUEERYING PLANNING
    DOAN, PETRA L, DR
    Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe urban spaces in which to live, work, and play. This volume fills the gap in the literature on the planning and development of queer spaces, and highlights some of the resistance within the planning profession to incorporate gay and lesbian concern...

    $1,160.00


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