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  • AI AT THE EDGE
    DANIEL SITUNAYAKE / JENNY PLUNKETT
    Edge AI is transforming the way computers interact with the real world, allowing IoT devices to make decisions using the 99% of sensor data that was previously discarded due to cost, bandwidth, or power limitations. With techniques like embedded machine learning, developers can capture human intuition and deploy it to any target--from ultra-low power microcontrollers to embedde...

    $801.00

  • NUCLEOSIDE ANALOGS IN CANCER THERAPY
    BRUCE D. CHESON / MICHAEL J. KEATING / WILLIAM PLUNKETT
    Offering the most current and complete coverage of nucleoside analog activity in oncology and hematology, this single-source volume includes topics from pharmacology to previously unpublished clinical findings on the pivotal role of fludarabine, cladribine, and pentostatin in the management of diseases, such as chronic lymphocytic and hairy cell leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma...

    $5,100.00

  • TALES OF WONDER
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Tales of Wonder is a collection of many stories by Lord Dunsany. Lord Dunsany” was Edward Plunkett’s pen name and he was a very successful author of numerous books, plays, and short stories. He possessed a remarkable imagination and created fantastical landscapes peopled with unique characters. Tales of Wonder will transport you to another time and to another place and in the m...

    $39.70

  • THE BOOK OF WONDER
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Not only does any tale which crosshatches between this world and Faerie owe a Founder's Debt to Lord Dunsany, but the secondary world created by J.R.R. Tolkien--from which almost all fantasylands have devolved--also took shape and flower from Dunsany's example. --The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Most fantasy enthusiasts consider Lord Dunsany one of the most significant forces in mo...

    $39.70

  • TALES OF WAR
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Tales of War is a melancholy, atypical, and occasionally surprising book by the author of The Gods of Pegana and The King of Elfland's Daughter. It was written for a political rather than artistic purpose, but because it was painfully inspired from life (and death) and because it is written by a great writer, it is far more than just a curio. It also crosses more than once into...

    $39.70

  • TASTE
    DREW PLUNKETT
    Democratic in intention and approach, the book will argue that the home interior, as independently created by the ‘amateur’ householder, offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the design mainstream. Indeed, it will suggest that the popular increasingly exerts an influence on the professional. Underp...

    $1,139.00

  • IF: A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    This is a time travel story written as a play. A standard issue late 19th century British middle class family man receives a gem from a Persian beggar that allows him to go back in time. Despite protests from his wife he uses it to return to a time when he suffered a minor slight from a railroad attendant, thinking his life would proceed quite the same as it did the first time ...

    $39.70

  • THE GODS OF PEGANA
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    The Gods of Pegana, by Lord Dunsany, is an imaginative book of fantasy and one of the most important collections compiled of short stories from the early part of the 20th century. Dunsany fully exploits the fantasy and adventure of imaginary lands, which include gods, witches, magic and spirits, The God of Pegana is both an important science fiction work which is both for its a...

    $39.70

  • THE SWORD OF WELLERAN AND OTHER STORIES
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    An influential fantasy writer and a key figure in the Irish literary renaissance, Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the eighteenth Baron Dunsany (1878-1957) produced a trove of gems of the imagination. The 12 stories here are some of his best. They will take you on a remarkable journey to places that sometimes seem soft and pleasant, sometimes bleak and ominous — but always surprising....

    $39.70

  • A DREAMER'S TALES
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    There was a time, lost in the mists of antiquity, when the dreamer could wander his fantasy land at will and set down his/her experiences on paper at leisure, without worrying about deadlines and contracts: when he/she could pen his words without worrying whether his book will hit the bestseller charts or not: when writing was pure pleasure. Lord Dunsany was a product of those ...

    $39.70

  • TIME AND THE GODS
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Lord Dunsany is one of the most remarkable authors to have ever lived. If not in the way he wrote his prose, then in the way he lived his life as an adventure. And from this sense of adventure he developed a most remarkable perspective on the universe and fantasy. From this perspective he wrote a new mythology full of childish wonder, simplicity and also beauty. There is an aes...

    $39.70

  • SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF LORD DUNSANY
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    These plays and stories have for their continual theme the passing away of gods and men and cities before the mysterious power which is sometimes called by some great god's name but more often "Time." His travelers, who travel by so many rivers and deserts and listen to sounding names none heard before, come back with no tale that does not tell of vague rebellion against that p...

    $39.70

  • DON RODRIGUEZ, CHRONICLES OF SHADOW VALLEY
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    In this story we follow Don Rodriquez after he inherits no more than a rapier and a mandolin from his lordly father and sets out on a quest to win himself a castle (with his rapier) and a lover (with his mandolin). ...

    $39.70

  • TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    This peculiar collection is a very real treat: we envy you the reading of it. Among the treasures in this volume are "The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla," "How the Office of Postman Fell Vacant in Offord-Under-the-Wold," "The Prayer of Boob Aheera," "East and West," "A Pretty Quarrel," "How the Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning," "The Gift of the Gods," "The Sack of Emeralds," "The Old Br...

    $39.70

  • UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Dunsany's work, that Nature at least will recover, and that human doings will prove inconsequential in the larger scheme of things. Otherwise, these are meditations from out of Hell, by a man who has been there. Included, too is the "Dirge of Victory," which was published in the Times at the moment of the War's ending, when Dunsany, of all authors then living, was chosen to spe...

    $39.70

  • FIVE PLAYS
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    A fine selection of Dunsany's plays, including: "The Gods of the Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and The Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, " and "The Lost Silk Hat." These plays are certainly old-fashioned, but are interesting trinkets nonetheless for the modern reader of Shakespeare, Tolkien, Lovecraft, etc. Their self-conscious old-worldliness more or less rules...

    $39.70

  • PLAYS OF GODS AND MEN
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Four short plays by the acknowledged master of fantasy in which the simple language is at variance with the profundity of the themes. A must read for fantasy fans, particularly turn of the 20th century fantasy with its unique blend of history, real world locations and Ruritanias, aristocrat heroes and ruffian anti-heroes. ...

    $39.70

  • FIFTY-ONE TALES
    EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT BARON DUNSANY
    Without doubt Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in twentieth century. His fiction is an acknowledged influence on entire generations of writers, ranging from H.P. Lovecraft to James Branch Cabell, from Clark Ashton Smith to Lin Carter. Although many of his most famous stories are longer in length, the miniature portraits of Fifty-One Tales ...

    $39.70

  • REVOLUTION
    DREW PLUNKETT
    The last half of the twentieth century saw the emergence, evolution and consolidation of a distinct interior design practice and profession. This book is invaluable for students and practitioners, providing a detailed specialist, contemporary historical analysis of their profession and is beautifully illustrated, with over 200 photos and images from the 1950s through to the pre...

    $1,099.00

  • SECULAR AND SPIRITUAL VALUES
    DUDLEY PLUNKETT
    Originally published in 1990, educational debate in the western world was dominated by pragmatic, utilitarian values. The prevailing assumption was that education should be geared towards fitting people into the world of work. Dudley Plunkett broke new ground in this debate by seeking to reconcile secular and spiritual values in educational policy and practice. Secular and Spir...

    $480.00

  • QUALITY COSTING
    BARRIE G. DALE / J.J. PLUNKETT
    Quality costs help to show the importance of quality-related activities to management; they demonstrate the cost of non-quality to an organization; they track the causes and effects of the problem, enabling the working out of solutions using quality improvement teams, and then monitoring progress. As a technique in the introduction and development of TQM, quality costing is a p...

    $1,460.00

  • EXPLORING COGNITION: DAMAGED BRAINS AND NEURAL NETWORKS
    GILLIAN COHEN, ROBERT A. JOHNSTON AND KIM PLUNKETT
    Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks analyses the contribution made by cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes. Bringing together evidence from both damaged brains and neural networks, this exciting and innovative approach leads to re-evaluation of traditional theories: connectionist models lesi...

    $980.00

  • FAITH AND POLITICS IN A WORLD GONE AWRY
    STEPHEN W. PLUNKETT
    Faith in Jesus Christ shapes the whole of the Christian life, not merely the parts that are safe and convenient, requiring little if anything of us. The realm of faith involves not only the interior life of the spirit, but everything that disciples of Jesus Christ think and do and are, including the way we participate in the politics of our communities, nation, and world. Do yo...

    $302.00

  • TEACHER EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE
    JAMES LYNCH / H. DUDLEY PLUNKETT
    First published in 1973, Teacher Education and Cultural Change analyses significant issues in the reform of teacher education on the evidence of up-to-date official and academic source materials and direct investigation. It contributes to the comparative sociology of education by highlighting the question as to whether teacher education policies are geared primarily to educatio...

    $1,400.00

  • GET PAY RIGHT
    KENT PLUNKETT / HEATHER BUSSING
    Pay Equity is no longer just a social justice issue. It's a business imperative. Between regulatory technology, data explosions (and employee access to it), and dramatic workforce shifts, Getting Pay Right is a survival strategy with powerful competitive upsides. • Pay Equity is the law and a key compliance issue. The technology required to get it right is now available to both...

    $499.00

  • DISEÑO DE INTERIORES TECNICAS DE ILUSTRACION
    PLUNKETT DREW
    Agotado

    $529.00

  • APERITIVO. BEBIDAS Y SNACKS PARA LA DOLCE VITA
    KAY PLUNKETT HOGGE
    Aperitivo presenta la historia que hay detrás de las bebidas y los snacks que conforman el preludio detoda buena comida. Kay Plunkett–Hogge nos invita a preparar los clásicos aperitivos y cócteles italianos (entre ellos el negroni perfecto) y presenta 80 deliciosas recetas para acompañarlos, desde tramezzini o crostini hasta fritto misto y polpette. Llegó la hora de esconder la...
    Agotado

    $1,070.00

  • ADMINISTRACION PROACTIVA TECNICAS Y MODELOS
    PLUNKETT
    Agotado

    $114.00