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  • THINKING ABOUT VICTIMIZATION
    JILLIAN J. TURANOVIC / TRAVIS C. PRATT
    Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political science, Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization. This book integrates empirica...

    $979.00

  • LEGENDS OF NORSELAND
    MARA L. PRATT-CHADWICK
    Legends of Norseland is a book intended to everyone who wants to learn more about Viking mythology: Valkyrie The Beginning Ygdrasil Odin at the Well of Wisdom Odin and the All-wise Giant The Stolen Wine. Part Loke's Theft Thor's Hammer The Theft of the Hammer The Finding of the Hammer The Apples of Life Loke's Wolf The Fenris-wolf Defeat of Hrungner Thor and Skrymer Thor and th...

    $39.70

  • POPULISM, PUNISHMENT AND THE THREAT TO DEMOCRATIC ORDER
    JOHN PRATT
    This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men' politicians. It seeks to make sense of the nature, origins, and consequences of their ascendancy—as expressed, for example, in the startling rise of the social movement surrounding Trump in the US, Brexit in the UK and the remarkable spread of ideologies that...

    $1,099.00

  • AMAZING STORIES 133
    FLETCHER PRATT
    Amazing Stories Volume 133 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three short stories by two different authors: "Potemkin Village" by Fletcher Pratt, "White Spot" and "The Nameless Something" by Murray Leinster. ...

    $39.70

  • A HISTORY OF INLAND TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
    EDWIN A. PRATT
    Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles. The role that the development of transport played in the growth and expansion of trade and industry and on the general economic and social conditions of the country is one of the main issues that is ...

    $1,119.00

  • CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM DIALOGUE
    DOUGLAS PRATT
    This book introduces and examines the work of two significant 21st century Christian – Muslim dialogue initiatives – "Building Bridges" and the "Christian–Muslim Theological Forum" – and gives close attention to five theological themes that have been addressed in common by them. An overview and analysis, including inception, development, outputs and significance, together with ...

    $1,099.00

  • TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS COACHING
    KAREN PRATT
    This important book distils the essence of developmental Transactional Analysis (TA) frameworks that are most useful to bring alive professional coaching competencies. Karen Pratt offers clear outlines of TA frameworks as well as describing how they are applied in coaching, with snippets of coaching conversations as illustrations of the theory in practice. Pratt highlights key ...

    $459.00

  • THE RATIONALITY OF RURAL LIFE
    JEFF PRATT
    This monograph analyzes the developments in rural life in detail and at the same time places them in a wider context, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture. What is revealed is a profound transformation in the rationality of farming, one which touches every aspect of the lives of rural people. ...

    $1,139.00

  • THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGEL
    FLETCHER PRATT
    A jagged beam of flame, intenser than the hottest furnace leaped through the air, struck the green globe and reached the earth in a thousand tiny rivulets of light. A fantastic futuristic tale of science fiction awesomeness, brought to you by Fletcher Pratt! ...

    $39.70

  • THE BLUE STAR
    FLETCHER PRATT
    In the February 1953 Galaxy, Groff Conklin praised the novel as "an immensely effective piece of mannered pseudo-historical writing . . . full of color, sex, and wonderful robust characters." The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, the physical sciences have languished...

    $39.70

  • ROBERT SOUTHEY: POETICAL WORKS 1793–1810 VOL 3
    LYNDA PRATT / TIM FULFORD / DANIEL ROBERTS
    This edition of Robert Southey's early poetry seeks to restore Southey the poet to his place at the centre of late 18th and early 19th century British literary culture. This collection of his poetical works critically reassesses Southey's epics and romances. ...

    $1,299.00

  • ROBERT SOUTHEY: POETICAL WORKS 1793–1810 VOL 1
    LYNDA PRATT / TIM FULFORD / DANIEL ROBERTS
    This edition of Robert Southey's early poetry seeks to restore Southey the poet to his place at the centre of late 18th and early 19th century British literary culture. This collection of his poetical works critically reassesses Southey's epics and romances. ...

    $1,299.00

  • ROBERT SOUTHEY: POETICAL WORKS 1793–1810 VOL 4
    LYNDA PRATT / TIM FULFORD / DANIEL ROBERTS
    This edition of Robert Southey's early poetry seeks to restore Southey the poet to his place at the centre of late 18th and early 19th century British literary culture. This collection of his poetical works critically reassesses Southey's epics and romances. ...

    $1,299.00

  • THE LIVING MUMMY
    AMBROSE PRATT
    Excerpt: "I was hard at work in my tent. I had almost completed translating the inscription of a small stele of Amen-hotep III, dated B. C., 1382, which with my own efforts I had discovered, and I was feeling wonderfully self-satisfied in consequence, when of a sudden I heard a great commotion without. Almost immediately the tent flap was lifted, and Migdal Abu's black face app...

    $39.70

  • DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN INDIGENOUS EDUCATION
    YVONNE POITRAS PRATT
    Exploring the relationship between the role of education and Indigenous survival, Digital Storytelling in Indigenous Education is an ethnographic exploration of how digital storytelling can be part of a broader project of decolonization of individuals, their families, and communities. By recounting how a remote Indigenous (Métis) community were able to collectively imagine, pla...

    $1,099.00

  • NEGOCIOS SIN RECURSOS
    ALEX PRATT
    Todos nos enfrentamos a una nueva era de la austeridad. Esté comenzando, sobreviviendo, o buscando dominar su nicho, todos necesitamos readaptarnos. Alex Pratt, basándose en años de experiencia en el día a día de los negocios, le muestra como poco puede ser mucho en términos de: tener las cosas claras revitalizar a su equipo con el espíritu de Dunkirk contratar y despedir forta...

    $141.37

  • CIVIL SOCIETY SUSTAINABILITY
    BRIAN PRATT
    This publication focuses on the challenges faced by civil society to remain sustainable in response to major changes in the global political, economic and social environment. Academics and practitioners from all over the world have contributed original articles, practical notes and viewpoints which critically examine the ways in which civil society organisations are affected by...

    $739.00

  • TRANSFORMATIONS OF ELECTRICITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
    STELLA PRATT-SMITH
    Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combinat...

    $699.00

  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE CHALLENGE OF ISLAM (2005)
    DOUGLAS PRATT
    First published in 2005, this book addresses the challenges arising from Christian-Muslim encounter and attempts to enable outsiders to understand the religion of Islam. The author offers distinctive perspectives that compliment much other literature in the study of Islam and in particular Christian-Muslim relations and the relation of Islam and the west. The book is divided in...

    $659.00

  • THE RATIONALITY OF RURAL LIFE
    JEFF PRATT
    First published in 2004. The river Orcia flows westwards out of a majestic valley in central Italy, cuts a ravine through the northern flanks of Monte Amiata, and descends through rolling hills to the coastal plain, the Maremma. On its upper reaches, a thousand years ago, the first farms regulated by the mezzadria contract were created, a share-cropping system which established...

    $299.00

  • A NOTABLE WOMAN
    JEAN LUCEY PRATT
    A glorious gut-wrenching read . . . A Notable Woman makes my heart sing. Jean’s diaries are a life in its entirety, in all its glorious mess” (The Pool).   In April 1925, at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in forty-five exercise books. What emerges is a portrait o...

    $229.00

  • MARY LINCOLN
    STACY PRATT MCDERMOTT
    One of America’s most compelling First Ladies, Mary Lincoln possessed a unique vantage point on the events of her time, even as her experiences of the constraints of gender roles and the upheaval of the Civil War reflected those of many other women. The story of her life presents a microcosm through which we can understand the complex and dramatic events of the nineteenth centu...

    $979.00

  • CONTRASTS IN PUNISHMENT
    JOHN PRATT / ANNA ERIKSSON
    Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia and New Zealand on the one hand and Finland, Norway and Sweden on the other, this ...

    $1,399.00

  • MODEL ANSWERS IN PURE MATHEMATICS FOR A-LEVEL STUDENTS
    G.A. PRATT / C.W. SCHOFIELD
    Model Answers in Pure Mathematics for A-Level Students provides a set of solutions that indicate what is required and expected in an Advanced Level examination in Pure Mathematics. This book serves as a guide to the length of answer required, layout of the solution, and methods of selecting the best approach to any particular type of math problem. This compilation intends to s...

    $425.00

  • WHEN MOUNTAIN LIONS ARE NEIGHBORS
    BETH PRATT-BERGSTROM
    “This delightful book details our ever-evolving relationship with Earth’s wildest creatures, promising that peaceful coexistence is possible.” —Jennifer Holland, New York Times–bestselling author Wildness beats in the heart of California’s urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one...

    $249.00

  • KOREA
    KEITH PRATT / RICHARD RUTT
    Compiled by specialists from the University of Durham Department of East Asian Studies, this new reference work contains approximately 1500 entries covering Korean civilisation from early times to the present day. Subjects include history, politics, art, archaeology, literature, etc. The Dictionary is intended for students, teachers and researchers, and will also be of interest...

    $1,259.00

  • A SYNOPSIS OF PHYSIOLOGY
    A. RENDLE SHORT / C. L. G. PRATT / C. C. N. VASS
    A Synopsis of Physiology, Fourth Edition presents an overview of modern physiology, particularly human physiology. This book focuses on the systems and functions of the different organs of the human body. Organized into 26 chapters, this edition begins with an overview of the amino acids of physiological importance and amino acids entering into proteins. This text then examine...

    $970.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
    WILLIAM K. PRATT
    The subject of digital image processing has migrated from a graduate to a junior or senior level course as students become more proficient in mathematical background earlier in their college education. With that in mind, Introduction to Digital Image Processing is simpler in terms of mathematical derivations and eliminates derivations of advanced s ...

    $2,800.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
    WILLIAM K. PRATT
    The subject of digital image processing has migrated from a graduate to a junior or senior level course as students become more proficient in mathematical background earlier in their college education. With that in mind, Introduction to Digital Image Processing is simpler in terms of mathematical derivations and eliminates derivations of advanced s ...

    $2,800.00

  • THE NEW PUNITIVENESS
    JOHN PRATT
    Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new punitiveness' in penal and political affairs. This book seeks to understand these developments, bringing together leading authorities in the field to provide a wide-ranging analysis of new penal trends, compare the development of differing patterns o...

    $999.00


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