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  • OWNING YOUR PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
    JACQUELINE PRESTON
    Owning Your Project-Based Learning is a user-friendly, vividly illustrated guide designed to help undergraduate students and their instructors fully realize the power of project-based learning (PBL). This book complements a wide range of discipline-specific materials, guiding college students to identify topics of interest, conduct thorough research, and tackle real-world probl...

    $1,120.00

  • THE BUSY IT MANAGER’S GUIDE TO DATA RECOVERY
    PRESTON DE GUISE
    No IT manager or worker enjoys being woken up the middle of the night over a system fault. But arguably the worst way to be awakened is over a situation where data loss has occurred – and the recovery is going wrong. The Busy IT Manager’s Guide to Data Recovery takes a razor focus on the details IT managers (and their teams) responsible for data recovery and resiliency within t...

    $680.00

  • CHINA AND EUROPE RELATIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    AIFEN XING / PETER PRESTON
    This book argues that although relations between China and Europe are strained in many areas, including trade, human rights and views about political systems, nevertheless established linkages, especially when considered in the context of long-term historical linkages, development trajectories and intellectual cultures, offer good prospects for future progressive collaborative ...

    $1,140.00

  • THE SHE BOSS A WESTERN STORY
    ARTHUR PRESTON HANKINS
    Hankins did himself proud. Jo and Hirams characters were developed perfectly. Their integrity, determination and faithfulness was inspiration was so shining that everyone, except Lucy admired them. Even Drummand, the villain. Tweet used them but was, basically, a good soul. Hawkins knowledge of the true wests freighters wagons mighty teams and drivers was perfect. A true master...

    $39.70

  • THE VALLEY OF ARCANA
    ARTHUR PRESTON HANKINS
    The Valley of Arcana is a novel written by Arthur Preston Hankins in 1923. The book was published by Dodd, Mead and Company in United States and it's a fiction story. The book tells the story of a young woman who lost her husband and has to face the reality of being a widow and the difficulties that come with it. ...

    $39.70

  • GENERAL STAFFS AND DIPLOMACY BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    ADRIAN PRESTON
    This book, first published in 1978, examines the influence of the General Staffs upon the diplomacy of appeasement and rearmament between 1931 and 1941. The great question of European security and order, and their breakdown and the outbreak of the second world war, are examined here through the eyes of Cabinets and Foreign Offices as well as through the eyes of Chiefs of Staff....

    $920.00

  • THE SINGLE-MINDED ANIMAL
    PRESTON STOVALL
    This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology. Using the grasp of a natural language as a model for the autonomous or self-governed rationality of discursive cognition, the author uses a semantics for individual intentions, shared intentions,...

    $1,160.00

  • GATSBY: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE
    PRESTON SO
    Get the definitive guide on Gatsby, the JavaScript framework for building blazing fast websites and applications. Used by Nike, Costa Coffee, and other companies worldwide, Gatsby is emerging as one of the key technologies in the Jamstack (JavaScript, APIs, and markup) ecosystem. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to architect, build, and deploy Gatsby sites indepe...

    $801.00

  • MODERN DATA PROTECTION
    W. CURTIS PRESTON
    Give your organization the data protection it deserves without the uncertainty and cost overruns experienced by your predecessors or other companies. System and network administrators have their work cut out for them to protect physical and virtual machines in the data center and the cloud; mobile devices including laptops and tablets; SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Google W...

    $681.00

  • SWORDS AND COVENANTS
    ADRIAN PRESTON AND PETER DENNIS
    Originally published in 1976, this book honours the centenary of The Royal Military College of Canada, 1876-1976. It comprises nine essays written by military historians who have been or still are in some way, as staff and students, connected with RMC since 1948. The essays range in time from the American invasion of Canada in 1775 to Hungary on the eve of the Second World War,...

    $960.00

  • OLD GREEK FOLK STORIES TOLD ANEW
    JOSEPHNE PRESTON PEABODY
    Excerpt: "Pan led a merrier life than all the other gods together. He was beloved alike by shepherds and countrymen, and by the fauns and satyrs, birds and beasts, of his own kingdom. The care of flocks and herds was his, and for home he had all the world of woods and waters; he was lord of everything out-of-doors! Yet he felt the burden of it no more than he felt the shadow of...

    $39.70

  • SINGAPORE AFTER LEE KUAN YEW
    S. C. Y. LUK / P. W. PRESTON
    This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping Singapore, and goes on to consider specific new challenges, including rapid population ...

    $1,200.00

  • SOLDIERS AS STATESMEN
    PETER DENNIS / ADRIAN PRESTON
    ‘The Duke is a soldier – a bad education for a statesmen in a free country’. Sir Walter Scott’s fear of the political soldier has long been part of Western political life. Yet although many countries would have preferred to keep the military out of politics few have been successful. Originally published in 1976, this book examines the careers of five distinguished twentieth cen...

    $960.00

  • PROACTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT
    PRESTON G. SMITH / GUY M. MERRITT
    Listed as one of the 30 Best Business Books of 2002 by Executive Book Summaries. Proactive Risk Management's unique approach provides a model of risk that is scalable to any size project or program and easily deployable into any product development or project management life cycle. It offers methods for identifying drivers (causes) of risks so you can manage root causes rather ...

    $1,060.00

  • THE APPLIED THEATRE READER
    SHEILA PRESTON / TIM PRENTKI
    The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal and Chantal Mouffe. This new edition brings the field fully up to date with the breadth of applied theatre practice in th...

    $1,060.00

  • CAD/CAM DICTIONARY
    EDWARD J. PRESTON
    This book presents general computer definitions and abbreviations as well as application-specification terminology related to the world of CAD/CAM in alphabetical order. ...

    $4,500.00

  • DATA PROTECTION
    PRESTON DE GUISE
    The second edition of Data Protection goes beyond the traditional topics including deduplication, continuous availability, snapshots, replication, backup, and recovery, and explores such additional considerations as legal, privacy, and ethical issues. A new model is presented for understanding and planning the various aspects of data protection, which is essential to developing...

    $1,760.00

  • CITY FOR EMPIRE
    PRESTON JONES
    The story of the early years of Alaska's largest city, its surprisingly diverse people, and its role in twentieth-century American history.   First settled in 1915, Anchorage, in what was then known as the Territory of Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During World War I, it served as a conduit through which coal could be shipped to the Pacific, where the US...

    $229.00

  • FOUR
    MJ PRESTON
    "A chilling, heart-pounding and thrilling conclusion to the story of the Highwayman killer . . . Preston has brought a fantastic story to life" (Anthony Avina, author of Identity).   Having abstained from killing for almost a year, the Highwayman is coming unglued.   Unsure if the FBI is watching, Lance Belanger spends his days and nights in a paranoid malaise, longing to kill ...

    $109.00

  • JUVENILE JUSTICE: A SOCIAL, HISTORICAL, AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
    PRESTON ELROD / R. SCOTT RYDER
    Juvenile Justice: A Social, Historical, and Legal Perspective, Fifth Edition guides students in developing a sound and balanced understanding of juvenile justice and the social, legal, and historical context that shapes juvenile justice practice. Throughout the text, there are FYIs, Myths v. Reality, Comparative Focus, and Interviews that highlight important facts, dispel commo...

    $815.91

  • ACADIA EVENT
    MJ PRESTON
    "An epic page-turner, with Canada's frozen north as the setting and the Earth as the ultimate prize for whichever side wins the war."—Gregory L. Norris, screenwriter for Star Trek Voyager Marty Croft has it all. A beautiful wife, and a successful career as a commercial artist. That is until his past comes back to haunt him. Enter the psychotic son of Marty's former gangster bos...

    $109.00

  • HIGHWAYMAN
    MJ PRESTON
    First in the serial killer series from the author of Four. "A stunning achievement! . . . Prose of this quality is rare in horror stories." — San Francisco Review of Books Meet Lance Belanger, he has only one ambition, to be the most infamous killer of all time. After murdering a single mom and her toddler child, Lance indoctrinates himself into the world of serial murder. Befo...

    $109.00

  • THE EQUINOX
    MJ PRESTON
    "For those looking for a throwback to the writings of Stephen King . . . The Equinox by MJ Preston . . . [brings] horror back to its core" (Philip C. Perron, Dark Discussions Podcast).   It has existed for centuries.   A dark curse held captive by an ancient ritual, a creature of insatiable hunger possessing the ability to change shape at will. During the spring and fall equino...

    $109.00

  • PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LARGE DATABASE MIGRATION
    PRESTON ZHANG
    It is a major challenge to migrate very large databases from one system, say for example, to transfer critical data from Oracle to SQL Server. One has to consider several issues such as loss of data being transferred, the security of the data, the cost and effort, technical aspects of the software involved, etc. There a very few books that provide practical tools and the method...

    $1,360.00

  • THE LOST
    NATASHA PRESTON
    New from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cellar It's a fight for survival in a building designed to ensure that no one makes it out alive. In Piper's hometown, teenagers keep disappearing, and everyone assumes they're just a bunch of runaways. But when yet another person vanishes, Piper and her best friend Hazel suspect something more sinister is going on. So th...

    $223.00

  • DYNAMICS OF CHANGE IN EAST ASIA
    P.W. PRESTON
    Over the past forty years, East Asia has been radically transformed from a war-damaged sub-continent to a region of global pre-eminence. With new, highly developed scientific resources, great economic strengths, significant global trading links and equally powerful financial resources, East Asia is now one of the most dynamic regions in the global system. This book illuminates ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE STRUCTURE AND DETERMINANTS OF WAGE RELATIVITIES
    ALISON PRESTON
    This title was first published in 2001. Drawing on the fields of labour economics and industrial relations, this book simultaneously applies human capital theory and institutional analysis to an explanation of occupational and other wage differentials. This outstanding study contains a wealth of reference material on both the economic and normative determinants of wages. Destin...

    $680.00

  • INTEGRATED TRANSPORT POLICY
    JOHN PRESTON
    This title was first published in 2000. With an emphasis on land-based passenger transport - particularly rail and road - this collection assesses the implications for regulation and competition of integrated transport policies. Contributions to the volume trace the evolution of transport policy, focus on the pricing of infrastructure, examine the effectiveness of competition a...

    $980.00

  • PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR ORACLE SQL, T-SQL AND MYSQL
    PRESTON ZHANG
    SQL is a widely used to access most databases, therefore database developers and system administrators should be familiar with it. This hands-on SQL book will help beginner and intermediate users to write queries that apply complex conditions on a table. The book's unique side by side approach makes it easy for the reader to learn three major query languages in the IT industry....

    $1,460.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION
    PRESTON L SCHILLER / JEFFREY R KENWORTHY
    Cities around the globe struggle to create better and more equitable access to important destinations and services, all the while reducing the energy consumption and environmental impacts of mobility. An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation illustrates a new planning paradigm for sustainable transportation through case studies from around the world with hundreds of valuab...

    $1,560.00


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