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  • PRACTICAL FORENSIC PATHOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
    DOROTHY E. DEAN / ROBERT H. POWERS
    Practical Forensic Pathology and Toxicology is a companion to the authors’ original book on the subject, Forensic Toxicology: Mechanisms and Pathology. This new volume addresses issues that forensic pathologists face when confronted by the suspected or demonstrated presence of drugs or toxins in their cases. Since such considerations include the need for a basic understanding o...

    $2,700.00

  • NEVER A DULL MOMENT
    ARTHUR 'BEN' POWERS
    "Just when you thought everything about the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II had been published, author Ben Powers delivers Never a Dull Moment, The 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion in World War II. Excellently researched and written, this powerful book fills a critical void about a lesser known, but so very important unit in the 82nd." — Colonel Mark C. “P...

    $267.99

  • HUMAN OCCUPATION
    TED BROWN, STEPHEN ISBEL, LOUISE GUSTAFSSON, SHARON GUTMAN, DIANE POWERS DIRETTE, BETHAN COLLINS, TI
    This comprehensive textbook provides occupational therapy and science students and practitioners with a complete overview of the key human occupation concepts, as well as a range of perspectives through which occupational therapy and occupational science can be viewed and understood. Comprising 40 chapters, the book is divided into five sections: Section 1: Overview of Human Oc...

    $1,700.00

  • BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS FOR THE REHABILITATION PROFESSIONAL
    TAMMY RICHMOND / DAVE POWERS
    The world of business is ever changing, with much of the available information becoming quickly out-of-date. Business Fundamentals for the Rehabilitation Professional, Second Edition keeps pace with this changing world and provides the health care professional with the latest information to answer the “what, where, how, and when” questions that come up when transforming a healt...

    $2,060.00

  • VISUAL EFFECTS FOR INDIE FILMMAKERS
    SHAINA HOLMES / LAURIE POWERS GOING
    This book provides independent filmmakers and VFX artists with tools to work collaboratively and effectively on their low-budget films. Experts Shaina Holmes and Laurie Powers Going define common VFX needs and demystify the process of incorporating VFX into all stages of production. The book covers every step of the process, including when to consider using VFX, basics of 2D an...

    $1,180.00

  • SECOND-IN-COMMAND (2IC), FIRST IN EXCELLENCE
    KRISTINA 'KP' POWERS, PHD
    Why do some departments, divisions, and organizations soar while others struggle? Watching another team achieve the success you feel yours more rightfully deserves can be incredibly frustrating. However, they might have something you don’t: Seconds-in-Command. Given how many Seconds-in-Command exist in the workforce, it is stunning that there are so few books about them. Organi...

    $780.00

  • PHILOSOPHY AND THE NEW PHYSICS
    JONATHAN H POWERS
    First Published in 1982 Philosophy and the New Physics is a compact and yet remarkably rich excursion through the history of physics from Newtonian mechanics to quantum physics. The theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and ideas about the ‘fundamental constituents’ of matter have attracted a great deal of philosophical comment. Indeed, the originators of some of these theori...

    $840.00

  • NEW LIFE IN THE RISEN CHRIST
    JONATHAN A. POWERS
    Baptism is a foundational rite and sacrament of the church. Over the centuries, the significance of baptism for Christian life and faith has been confirmed by the church, but baptism remains a highly controversial topic. Numerous disagreements exist between denominations and faith traditions--including the various descendants of the original Methodist movement--over the doctrin...

    $692.00

  • NATIONAL COUNSELOR EXAM (NCE) AND COUNSELOR PREPARATION COMPREHENSIVE EXAM (CPCE)
    KARAE’ NMK POWERS-CAREY AND LORIANN SYKES STRETCH
    Designed to bolster CPCE and NCE exam success on the first try, this unique study guide takes the mystery out of exam preparation by providing concrete strategies for mastering essential information, end-of-chapter quizzes providing prompt reinforcement of content, two full-length exams mirroring the NCE and CPCE in format and breadth, and proven tactics for mitigating test anx...

    $1,419.00

  • PAINTING PEOPLE IN WATERCOLOR
    ALEX POWERS
    A fresh approach to portrait and figure painting in watercolor! In Painting People in Watercolor, Alex Powers provides a comprehensive guide on working with watercolor, mastering the principals of design, and understanding the fundamentals of portrait painting. Powers takes the inquiring artist beyond photorealistic painting and acquaints painters with the human form from a des...

    $149.00

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC LAW AND SOCIETY IN THE MAGHRIB
    DAVID S. POWERS
    The first eleven essays in this collection treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between 1100 and 1500 CE. Based on preserved legal documents and the expert opinions of Muslim jurists (Muftis), the essays examine family law cases involving legal minority, guardianship, divorce, inheritance, bequests, and endowments. Cumulatively, the c...

    $4,500.00

  • MEASURES OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
    MARY G POWERS
    This text consists of a collection of seven papers which look at constructing measures of occupational socioeconomic status by combining census data on occupation-specific levels of education and income; including different approaches. ...

    $1,200.00

  • RĪTIGAULA
    POWERS, HAROLD
    This book, authored by the late Princeton music scholar Harold Powers, discusses a single Indian rāga called Rītigaula. Rītigaula’s pitch structure, conventions surrounding its performance, and its treatment in historical Indian music treatises are comprehensively described. Powers’s unique approach to theorizing rāga examines rāga structure and meaning in this monograph too, f...

    $1,100.00

  • JAVASCRIPT COOKBOOK
    ADAM D. SCOTT / MATTHEW MACDONALD / SHELLEY POWERS
    Why reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with JavaScript? This cookbook is chock-full of code recipes for common programming tasks, along with techniques for building apps that work in any browser. You'll get adaptable code samples that you can add to almost any project--and you'll learn more about JavaScript in the process. The recipes in this book take advanta...

    $681.00

  • STRATEGY WITHOUT SLIDE-RULE
    BARRY D. POWERS
    The early history of British aerial defence development is one of misdirection and delusion. The misdirection, judging by the criteria of successful aerial defence in World War II, was primarily in the downgrading of home defence measures including the fighter plane. The delusion, again judging by Britain’s efforts in that second world war, was primarily in the assumption of th...

    $960.00

  • RECLAIMING GREEK DRAMA FOR DIVERSE AUDIENCES
    MELINDA POWERS
    Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences features the work of Native-American, African-American, Asian-American, Latinx, and LGBTQ theatre artists who engage with social justice issues in seven adaptations of Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Trojan Women, Hippolytus, Bacchae, Alcestis, and Aristophanes’ Frogs, as well as a work inspired by the myth of the Fates. Performed be...

    $1,160.00

  • RELIGION AND VIOLENCE
    PAUL POWERS
    Does religion cause much of the world’s violence? Is religion inherently violent? Would violence disappear if religion did? Is true religion a force for peace? Is religion a mask for power and self-interest? What aspects of religion make violence more—or less—likely? Religion and Violence: A Religious Studies Approach explores the potential of classic social theories to shed li...

    $1,180.00

  • THE CONQUEST OF WAR
    HARRY B HOLLINS / AVERILL L. POWERS / MARK SOMMER / ROGER D FISHER
    This book explores alternative systems and strategies for global security by which the conflicts between nations can be carried on, and ultimately resolved, without recourse to war, examining system changes some of which may take many years to enact. ...

    $1,040.00

  • CHINA AND ENGLAND
    MARTIN POWERS
    This book examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that arose in preindustrial China and England, and in the process, uncovers China’s forgotten role in the history of social justice debate and legislation during the eighteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of visual and documentary evidence, the author shows that many prominent individuals in both England and Chi...

    $1,200.00

  • THE FUTURE OF THE ECONOMY
    JOHN POWERS / VIKRAM KHANNA
    As the pace of economic change seems to only quicken, including rapid technological advance, today’s advanced economies face uncertainty from a number of directions, most of which have the potential to change established modes of thinking and the institutional arrangements that underpin basic economic organization. Labor-saving technological advances are accompanied by risks to...

    $660.00

  • MAINTENANCE, SAFETY, RISK, MANAGEMENT AND LIFE-CYCLE PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGES
    NIGEL POWERS
    Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges contains lectures and papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2018), held in Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July 2018. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts and a USB card containing the full papers of 393 contributions prese...

    $7,500.00

  • CULTIVATING A DATA CULTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    KRISTINA POWERS
    Higher education institutions have experienced a sharp increase in demand for accountability. To meet the growing demand by legislators, accreditors, consumers, taxpayers, and parents for evidence of successful outcomes, this important book provides higher education leaders and practitioners with actionable strategies for developing a comprehensive data culture throughout the e...

    $1,100.00

  • HOLLYWOOD'S AMERICA
    STEPHEN P POWERS
    American motion pictures still dominate the world market with an impact that is difficult to measure. Their role in American culture has been a powerful one since the 1930s and is a hallmark of our culture today. Though much has been written about the film industry, there has been very little systematic attention paid to the ideology of its creative elite. How does the outlook ...

    $1,320.00

  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF DEMOCRACY
    CHARLES POWERS
    Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian social theo-rist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly read-able English translation of Pareto's last monograph, "Generalizations," origi-nally published in 1920, this work illus-trates precisely how and why demo-cratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually re-invigo-rated. Mo...

    $1,360.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF NONLINEAR OPTICS
    PETER E. POWERS / JOSEPH W. HAUS
    Praise for the 1st Edition: "well written and up to date…. The problem sets at the end of each chapter reinforce and enhance the material presented, and may give students confidence in handling real-world problems." ―Optics & Photonics News "rigorous but simple description of a difficult field keeps the reader’s attention throughout…. serves perfectly for an introductory-level ...

    $1,660.00

  • ELIZABETH MAJOR
    JEFFREY POWERS-BECK
    Elizabeth Major was inspired to write Honey on the Rod (1656) as a result of lameness brought on by a bout of fever in her mid-twenties. The experience left her fiercely devoted to her Christian religion, but also filled with indignation against the sins of nominal Christians. Honey on the Rod was written to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. The work is in two...

    $1,480.00

  • SELF-REGULATED DESIGN LEARNING
    MATTHEW POWERS
    Self-Regulated Design Learning: A Foundation and Framework for Teaching and Learning Design reframes how educators in architecture, landscape architecture, and other design disciplines think about teaching and learning design. The book weaves together concepts of constructivism, social cognitive theory, and self-regulated learning into a solid theoretical foundation for innovat...

    $1,290.00

  • LEARNING NODE
    SHELLEY POWERS
    Take your web development skills from browser to server with Node—and learn how to write fast, highly scalable network applications on this JavaScript-based platform. Updated for the latest Node Long Term Support (LTS) and Node Current (6.0) releases, this hands-on edition helps you master Node’s core fundamentals and gain experience with several built-in and contributed module...

    $401.00

  • FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY
    ROBERT H. POWERS / DOROTHY E. DEAN
    Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, this book goes beyond the simple analysis of naming a drug or toxin, taking a mechanistic approach to their effects on the body. It provides an understanding of the mechanisms of action of drugs and toxins as well as their physiologic and pathologic consequences on the affected organ system. Case histories, photographs o...

    $3,300.00

  • FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY
    ROBERT H. POWERS / DOROTHY E. DEAN
    Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, this book goes beyond the simple analysis of naming a drug or toxin, taking a mechanistic approach to their effects on the body. It provides an understanding of the mechanisms of action of drugs and toxins as well as their physiologic and pathologic consequences on the affected organ system. Case histories, photographs o...

    $3,300.00


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