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  • GRADUATES
    R.K. KELSALL / ANNE POOLE / ANNETTE KUHN
    Graduates (1972) examines the careers of UK graduates for six years following their successful completion of their degrees. It takes a detailed look at the issues of social mobility, formal education, family influences, achievement motivation, differences between the sexes, social origins, and the role of educated women in society. ...

    $860.00

  • WORKING THROUGH CONFLICT
    JOSEPH P. FOLGER / MARSHALL SCOTT POOLE / RANDALL K. STUTMAN
    Encompassing theory, research, and practice, this tenth edition provides an introduction to conflict communication and conflict management. This text features real-life case studies across a range of theoretical perspectives and conflict settings, including interpersonal, group, and organizational. Approachably written for students and with an eye to application, the book teach...

    $3,300.00

  • RANDOM NOISE
    GEORGINA POOLE / SIDNEY DEKKER
    In the realm of safety management, this book embarks on a profound exploration of how the political economy was reshaped in the last two decades. Much like privatization, deregulation, and financialization altered the economic landscape, this narrative unveils how safety management has been affected by the intertwined dynamics of asset underinvestment, privatization, self-regul...

    $960.00

  • HEAD HUNTERS IN THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY
    DAN POOLE
    Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency investigates the infamous political scandal sparked after horrific photographs of war crimes during the Malayan Emergency were leaked to the British press. These photographs depicted British forces and their allies in Malaya scalping corpses and posing with decapitated human heads. The subsequent scandal, involving British generals, police,...

    $251.00

  • TEACHERS’ JOURNEYS INTO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL TEACHING IN CHINA
    ADAM POOLE
    Poole’s book illuminates the experiences and perspectives of host country national teachers at internationalised schools in China. The international school sector in China has undergone significant changes in recent years. This is due to the growing demand for international education from local middle-class families. In response, a new type of school has emerged. Going by vario...

    $540.00

  • ROBOT SOULS
    EVE POOLE
    Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans. Looking closely at the human blueprint, it contains a suite of capacitie...

    $660.00

  • NEOLIBERALISM AND PUBLIC EDUCATION FINANCE POLICY IN CANADA
    WENDY POOLE / VICHETH SEN / GERALD FALLON
    This book uses a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to demonstrate how neoliberal forces have been manifested through changes to K–12 public education finance policy in British Columbia, Canada between 2001 and 2015. The text offers in-depth critical policy analysis to illustrate how the public education system has been impacted by the emergence of a hybrid model of public-...

    $1,160.00

  • INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE FUTURE
    MICHAEL POOLE / WILLIAM BROWN / JILL RUBERY / KEITH SISSON / ROGER TARLING / FRANK WILKINSON
    First published in 1984, Industrial Relations in the Future highlights probable developments in Britain’s system of industrial relations into the 1990s. It also provides a basis for further and detailed analysis and debate of issues central to the nation’s future. Written by distinguished scholars in their respective fields, the three main sections give reviews from three contr...

    $920.00

  • FIREARMS
    HELEN POOLE
    Firearms: Global Perspectives on Consequences, Crime and Control explores the many dimensions of the illicit use of firearms across the globe, including legal, social science, technical and research perspectives on the issue. Employing a global set of case studies, the book introduces students to the core issues related to the trafficking, manufacture, availability and criminal...

    $1,240.00

  • LAW AND THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION IN MODERN RUSSIA
    PAUL VALLIERE AND RANDALL A. POOLE
    This book, authored by an international group of scholars, focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and theistic belief generally, has inspired the aspiration to the rule of law in Russia, informed Russian philosophies of law, and shaped legal practices. Following a substantial introduction to the phenomenon of Russian ...

    $1,200.00

  • THEORIES OF TRADE UNIONISM
    MICHAEL POOLE
    First published in 1981, Theories of Trade Unionism traces the development of trade union theory from its nineteenth-century foundations to the more advanced conceptual models present at the time of original publication. The book surveys the main tributaries of modern approaches – the moral and ethical, the revolutionary, the defensive or conservative, and the economic and poli...

    $920.00

  • ANALYZING SPATIAL MODELS OF CHOICE AND JUDGMENT
    DAVID A. ARMSTRONG / RYAN BAKKER / ROYCE CARROLL / CHRISTOPHER HARE / KEITH T. POOLE / HOWARD ROSENTHAL
    With recent advances in computing power and the widespread availability of preference, perception and choice data, such as public opinion surveys and legislative voting, the empirical estimation of spatial models using scaling and ideal point estimation methods has never been more accessible.The second edition of Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment demonstrates how ...

    $1,420.00

  • A CERTAIN AGE
    MARILYN POOLE / SUSAN FELDMAN
    Older women run their own businesses. Older women go to aerobics classes. Older women fall in love. In fact, older women have active lives and make a major contribution to the community despite the the public assumption that they are past their use-by date. A Certain Age explores the public and private worlds of older women. Challenging the emphasis on declining health in other...

    $1,200.00

  • VERIFICATION 1996
    J. B. POOLE
    This sixth issue of Verification on the aspects of international arms control and disarmament agreements documents the developments in the field during 1995. It discusses the anniversaries of the Second World War, the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the United Nations. ...

    $1,200.00

  • YOUR INSIDERS' GUIDE TO RETIREMENT
    TROY B. DAUM / R.J. GORDON TUDOR / JEFF POOLE
    "Explains in easy, digestible anecdotes on how consumers can plan for the golden years without going broke trying to enjoy [them]" ( Orlando Sentinel).   Are you ready to retire, but are afraid of running out of money? Do you know who to trust? People imagine retirement as learning new things, challenging themselves, giving back as a mentor, spending their days with family and ...

    $274.00

  • IMPLANTE QUIRÚRGICO DE DISPOSITIVOS PARA LA MONITORIZACIÓN DEL RITMO CARDÍACO
    JEANNE POOLE / LYLE W. LARSON
    Único en su campo, Implante quirúrgico de dispositivos para la monitorización del ritmo cardíaco ofrece una guía completa y muy comprensible para la implantación quirúrgica segura y eficaz de marcapasos, desfibriladores automáticos implantables (DAI) y otros dispositivos cardíacos. Empezando con la anatomía y los principios quirúrgicos, autores expertos proporcionan una co...

    $1,203.31

  • THINKING WITH SHAKESPEARE
    WILLIAM POOLE
    "Shakespeares works do not embody any doctrine or set of beliefs, as his critics have long been tempted to suggest, but they do stage encounters with certain kinds of thinking ethical, political, epistemological, even metaphysical that still concern us nowadays. They can be shown to draw on ancient philosophies Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism either directly or through ...

    $1,240.00

  • TOWARDS A NEW INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY
    MICHAEL POOLE
    This title, originally published in 1986, explores the political and economic conditions of the 1980s, and reflects the world-wide interest in industrial democracy. Each chapter analyses the main adaptations in policy, theory and experimentation that have occurred in industrial democracy in the 1980s. In particular, the role of managers is examined in depth and detail, since th...

    $980.00

  • WORKERS' PARTICIPATION IN INDUSTRY
    MICHAEL POOLE
    First published in 1975, Workers’ Participation in Industry provides a fresh perspective on a highly significant issue. Its principal argument is that developments in workers’ participation and control cannot be satisfactorily understood except by reference to broader questions concerning the exercise of power in industry and in society at large. The book’s approach is sociolog...

    $980.00

  • THE ORIGINS OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
    MICHAEL POOLE
    This work, originally published in 1989, examines a highly important phenomenon: the growth of profit-sharing and share-ownership schemes for employees within the company. The Origins of Economic Democracy traces the origins and developments of such schemes internationally, and presents an explanatory framework for understanding their emergence. Both legislation and economic co...

    $980.00

  • CONCRETE PETROGRAPHY
    ALAN B. POOLE
    This classic reference has established the value of petrography as a powerful method for the investigation of concrete as a material. It provides an authoritative and well-illustrated review of concrete composition and textures, including the causes of defects, deterioration, and failure that can be identified using a petrological microscope. This new edition is entirely revise...

    $1,800.00

  • SALADIN AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
    DAVID NICOLLE / STANLEY LANE-POOLE
    Saladin is a legendary figure in the history of the Middle East. His rise to prominence in the tumultuous arena of twelfth-century Middle Eastern politics was rapid and he quickly established himself as an intrepid statesman as well as a formidable military commander of great skill, but equally a man of honour. This detailed biography of Saladin, and history of his life and tim...

    $127.99

  • ADVANCES IN MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY
    ROBERT K. POOLE
    Advances in Microbial Physiology continues the long tradition of topical and important, cutting-edge reviews in microbiology. Contains contributions from leading authorities Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field of microbial physiology ...

    $2,380.00

  • CHASE AWAY CANCER
    ELLIE POOLE EWOLDT
    You may think you know how this cancer story goes. The characters: a little boy, a loving family, the team of doctors. The diagnosis: terminal, little hope for a cure. There are two possible outcomes. Will his family be plunged into extreme sorrow or miraculous joy? What if the answer was both? Ellie Poole Ewoldt debuts with a memoir of desperate hope and fierce love; of a fami...

    $431.00

  • MEDIA PORTRAYALS OF RELIGION AND THE SECULAR SACRED
    KIM KNOTT / ELIZABETH POOLE
    Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on the rise in media coverage? Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that television and newspapers remain key sources of popular information about religion. They are particularly signif...

    $1,420.00

  • JOHN THELWALL: RADICAL ROMANTIC AND ACQUITTED FELON
    STEVE POOLE
    John Thelwall was a Romantic and Enlightenment polymath. In 1794 he was tried and acquitted of high treason, earning himself the disdainful soubriquet 'acquitted felon' from Secretary of State for War, William Windham. Later, Thelwall's interests turned to poetry and plays, and was a collaborator and confidant of Wordsworth and Coleridge. ...

    $1,600.00

  • THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
    MICHAEL POOLE / GLENVILLE JENKINS
    First published in 1990, this work examines the link between the economic performance of companies and profit sharing. The relationship is a complex one: industrial relations may be improved by schemes, but good employers are likely to introduce profit sharing in any case; and though attitudes to work do change, schemes have more immediate impact on satisfaction an communicatio...

    $920.00

  • EXCHEQUER IN THE 12TH CENTURY
    R. L. POOLE
    First Published in 1973. This volume contains the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford University in the Michelmas term of 1911. It references texts and commentaries such as The Dialogus de Scaccario, the black book and the red book of the Exchequer; the ancient treasury; use of tools like the Abacus, and the role of Exchequer at the King's Court. ...

    $660.00

  • SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
    CHARLES P. POOLE / HORACIO A. FARACH / RICHARD J. CRESWICK
    Superconductivity covers the nature of the phenomenon of superconductivity. The book discusses the fundamental principles of superconductivity; the essential features of the superconducting state-the phenomena of zero resistance and perfect diamagnetism; and the properties of the various classes of superconductors, including the organics, the buckministerfullerenes, and the p...

    $1,249.00

  • A HISTORY OF EGYPT
    STANLEY LANE-POOLE
    When originally published in 1901, this volume related for the first time the History of Egypt in the Middle Ages, from its conquest by the Saracens in 640 to its annexation by the Ottoman Turks in 1517 in a continuous narrative apart from the general history of the Muslim caliphate. ...

    $5,300.00


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