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  • THE ROYAL WOMEN WHO MADE ENGLAND
    M J PORTER
    Throughout the tenth century, England, as it would be recognized today, formed. No longer many Saxon kingdoms, but rather, just England. Yet, this development masks much in the century in which the Viking raiders were seemingly driven from England’s shores by Alfred, his children and grandchildren, only to return during the reign of his great, great-grandson, the much-maligned ...

    $216.99

  • PROFESSIONAL GOVERNANCE FOR NURSING: THE FRAMEWORK FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, ENGAGEMENT, AND EXCELLENCE
    RACHEL E. START / BEVERLY J. HANCOCK / TIM PORTER-O'GRADY
    Nurses are professionally accountable to improve the health of patients and populations alike. Sustaining behavioral change is impossible unless structural change enables it. A common professional framework is needed in all practice settings to formalize the voice of nurse’s ownership and accountability for practice decision-making related to clinical problems and solutions, fo...

    $386.43

  • LIKE A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL
    JOHN A. PORTER
    Have you struggled with making sense of suffering--whether in your own life, in the history of God's people, or just in the world around you? -What if the "secret" to the enigma of suffering, far from being shrouded in impenetrable darkness, is transparently set forth at the very beginning of the Bible, in God's immediate response to human sin, from where it is progressively un...

    $408.00

  • THE ARTS AND THE BIBLE
    STANLEY E. PORTER
    Throughout its history, the Christian church has had a troubled relationship with the arts, whether literature, poetry, music, visual arts, or other forms of artistic expression. This volume is not designed to resolve the issues, but it is designed to present a number of different statements about various dimensions of the arts in their relationship to the Bible. The Bible is t...

    $1,171.00

  • BRITISH OPERA IN AMERICA
    SUSAN L. PORTER
    The series aims to represent all the major genres and styles of musical theater of the century, from ballad opera through melodrama, plays with incidental music, parlor entertainments, pastiche, temperance shows, ethnic theater, minstrelsy, and operetta, to grand opera. This series of sixteen volumes provides for the first time ever a comprehensive set of works from a full cent...

    $1,059.00

  • BRYOZOAN STUDIES 2022
    MARCUS M. KEY, JOANNE S. PORTER AND PATRICK N. WYSE JACKSON
    Bryozoan Studies 2022 contains nineteen papers presented at the 19th International Conference of the International Bryozoology Association held at Trinity College Dublin in August 2022. Bryozoans are complex and fascinating colonial organisms that range from Cambrian to the present day and which are found in marine and freshwater environments from pole to pole and subtidal to a...

    $1,339.00

  • SPARROW
    GARY PORTER
    Pastor Judah Greeves and his wife, Esther, live a sad, quiet life in Bethel Hollow, PA. The church they have led together for decades is dying. The small farm they built with their own hands has become unmanageable in their old age. Sparrow, their only daughter, ran away from home six years ago, and they don't know if she is alive or dead. One night, they get a call from a stra...

    $160.00

  • THE FUTURE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL
    STANLEY E. PORTER
    This volume is the most extensive of its kind as a major set of collected essays from a wide range of scholars on the question of the promises of God to Israel. These essays put forward the position that unconditional promises were given to Israel, which have not been fulfilled in the church or any other entity. At the consummation, there will be a continuing role for the Jews,...

    $976.00

  • EARLY ENGLISH COMPOSERS AND THE CREDO
    WENDY J PORTER
    This book develops an innovative approach for understanding the relationship between music and words in the works of five major composers of the English Renaissance: John Taverner, Christopher Tye, John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd. Focusing on these composers’ settings of the Latin Credo, the author shows how musical and linguistic emphasis can be used to understa...

    $1,099.00

  • THE EVOLUTION OF CHINESE FILIALITY
    DEBORAH LYNN PORTER
    This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution. The centrality in Chinese culture of a deep reverence for the lives of preceding generations, filial piety, is convent...

    $1,179.00

  • RE-PURPOSING SUZUKI
    MARIA PORTER
    Re-Purposing Suzuki: A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training introduces a system of text analysis that synthesizes physical, psychological, and vocal components in order to truthfully embody heightened texts and contexts. By understanding how the author has re-purposed Suzuki and other physical training methods, as well as Stanislavski, readers will gain an awareness of how to anal...

    $859.00

  • PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS IN METALS AND ALLOYS
    DAVID A. PORTER / KENNETH E. EASTERLING / MOHAMED Y. SHERIF
    Revised to reflect recent developments in the field, Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys, Fourth Edition, continues to be the most authoritative and approachable resource on the subject. It supplies a comprehensive overview of specific types of phase transformations, supplemented by practical case studies of engineering alloys. The book’s unique presentation links a basic...

    $1,559.00

  • AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE
    STEVEN PORTER
    First Published in 1987.  Split into four parts, this book seeks to inform the reader, teachers, directors and students about American Musical Theatre. Part I is a brief history of the American Musical Theatre, for it is only in the context of history that the material on which you work can be fully judged and mastered. Part II is a brief discussion of the elements of productio...

    $979.00

  • LIVING, LEARNING, AND LANGUAGING ACROSS BORDERS
    TATYANA KLEYN / TIM PORTER
    Addressing the roles of education, language, and identity in cyclical migration, this book highlights the voices and experiences of transborder students in Mexico who were born or raised in the US. The stories develop a portrait of the lived realities, joys, and challenges that young people face across elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels. The book not only discusses migr...

    $1,059.00

  • ACTIVE HERMENEUTICS
    STANLEY E. PORTER / JASON C. ROBINSON
    Hermeneutics, as a discipline of the humanities, is often assumed to be in thrall to the same subjectivity of every interpretive method, in direct contrast to the objectivity prized by the natural sciences. This book argues that there is a false dichotomy here, and that ancient and modern ideas of knowledge can be utilized to create a new active form of hermeneutics. One capabl...

    $1,099.00

  • CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN CANADA
    STANLEY E. PORTER
    The Toronto 2018 Symposium on Christian Higher Education provided an opportunity for leaders in the Canadian Christian higher education movement to reflect deeply on its development, current reality, and future possibilities. The Canadian Christian higher education scene comprises a wide range of institutions, including Christian universities, Bible colleges, and seminaries and...

    $781.00

  • THE UNDER-REPRESENTATION OF BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC EDUCATORS IN EDUCATION
    CHRIS GUY VIELER-PORTER
    The Under-Representation of Black and Minority Ethnic Educators in Education evidences that discrimination at an individual, institutional and structural level is still experienced in the leadership of children’s learning. The analysis evaluates the extent to which under-representation is a result of chance, coincidence or design. Based on original research using a mixed-method...

    $1,059.00

  • AETHER ONES
    WENDI COFFMAN-PORTER
    “A science fiction mystery with political upheaval and dangerous secrets. It’s got a kick-butt female lead and lots of really neat alien races.” —The Bookwyrm’s Den Long ago, the Great Sundering ripped the universe apart, creating two separate realities. The kuldain realm developed advanced technology, and its inhabitants travel the universe on massive ships to colonize and exp...

    $119.00

  • THE LION'S SHARE
    BERNARD PORTER
    Updated to incorporate a substantial new epilogue considering Brexit and its ‘imperial’ implications, the sixth edition of The Lion’s Share remains an essential introduction to British imperialism from its Victorian heyday to the present. Well-known for its vigorous and readable style, this book presents a broad narrative of events and explores a number of general themes, chall...

    $999.00

  • FRECKLES
    GENE STRATTON-PORTER
    Freckles is a one-handed, plucky waif of an orphan, who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage and yet speaks with a powerful Irish accent. He applies for a job guarding timber in the swamp, and is accepted despite his youth and the disability of his having only one hand. He insists that the name given him in the orphanage "is no more my name than it is yours." ...

    $19.00

  • QUANTUM LEADERSHIP
    NANCY M. ALBERT / SHARON PAPPAS / TIM PORTER-O'GRADY / KATHY MALLOCH
    Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Sixth Edition focuses on the issue of leadership within the shifting landscape of health care. ...

    $561.37

  • GIFTED YOUNG CHILDREN
    LOUISE PORTER
    Gifted Young Children is a practical guide to identifying and supporting young children who may be gifted or talented. Louise Porter outlines how to identify and provide educationally for children aged up to 8 years with advanced development. She explains how teachers and parents can promote children's emotional and social adjustment, including ways to enhance self-esteem, enco...

    $739.00

  • CAMBRIDGESHIRE CUSTOMS AND FOLKLORE PBDIRECT
    ENID PORTER
    Enid Porter spent many years collecting and recording from Cambridgeshire people the folk beliefs and customs held and observed in the country, both past and present. The subjects covered in the book, first published in 1969, range from the folklore of courtship, marriage, birth and death, of trees and plants and the whole world of nature to traditional Cambridgeshire food and ...

    $1,499.00

  • YOUNG CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOUR
    LOUISE PORTER
    'The book provides a comprehensive, yet practical discussion of guidance strategies that can be implemented in a variety of situations. These strategies promote a respect for children and their rights, enhance children's self-esteem, and help to foster pro-social skills. This book is a must-read for both students and practitioners who work with children and families.' - Dr Laur...

    $979.00

  • CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS KNOWLEDGE PRODUCERS
    GINA PORTER / ‎JANET TOWNSEND / ‎KATE HAMPSHIRE
    Despite the widespread promotion of children’s voices by activists and policy makers over the last decade, the potential for young people’s knowledge to impact on adult agendas and policy arenas is by no means a certainty. This book presents critiques of participation in settings where young people are the centre of attention. The complexities and power-dynamics of youth- adult...

    $859.00

  • SPORT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    DILWYN PORTER / ‎WRAY VAMPLEW
    Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport. This important volume offers clearer definitions of both sports products and sports entrepreneurship, gives due regard to social entrepreneurs, and assesses the continuing relevance of ...

    $1,299.00

  • PAINTERS, PAINTINGS AND BOOKS
    YVES PORTER
    The work aims at bringing the Persian texts into the study of the arts and technology of the Indo-lranian world – an approach much neglected so far. Drawing upon Persian sources (both from Iran and India), viz., technical treatises, historical chronicles and poetical texts, the work deals with painting and the art of book making during twelfth to nineteenth century. The introdu...

    $1,099.00

  • THE BAD MAN A NOVEL
    PORTER EMERSON BROWNE
    Excerpt: “Looking back now, after so many months of struggle and foreboding, he wondered how he had ever had the high courage to come to this strange country. Had he been a few years older he would not have started forth—he was sure of that now. But the flame of youth was in him, the sure sense that he could conquer where others had miserably failed; and, like all virile young ...

    $39.70

  • A FOOL THERE WAS
    PORTER EMERSON BROWNE
    Excerpt: “To begin a story of this kind at the beginning is hard; for when the beginning may have been, no man knows. Perhaps it was a hundred years ago—perhaps a thousand—perhaps ten thousand; and it may well be, yet longer ago, even, then that. Yet it can be told that John Schuyler came from a long line of clean-bodied, clean-souled, clear-eyed, clear-headed ancestors; and fr...

    $39.70

  • THE EARTH SCIENCES
    ROY PORTER
    Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth sciences. The bibliography is not exhaustive but provides a detailed and critical index to the most important literature in the field. The book’s core focus is geology and examines ...

    $899.00


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