Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: r b smith

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  • SOCIETY AND TRADE IN SOUTH ARABIA
    R.B. SERJEANT / G. REX SMITH
    This book is the fourth and final collection of Professor R.B. Serjeant's articles on the trade, commerce and society of South Arabia and the Yemen. The early articles concern trade; customary law is the next subject represented with social history and one or two incidental articles completing the volume. ...

    $1,040.00

  • PREDISPOSED
    JOHN R. HIBBING / KEVIN B. SMITH / JOHN R. ALFORD
    This thoughtfully updated revision of a classic text sheds new light on the potential sociological and biological differences that result in deep, seemingly unbridgeable political divisions. Renowned social scientists and experts in biopolitics, John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Alford present overwhelming evidence that political opinion is shaped not just by cultura...

    $860.00

  • STATISTICS OF QUALITY
    SUBIR GHOSH / ‎WILLIAM R. SCHUCANY / ‎WILLIAM B. SMITH
    Explains the role of statistics in improving the quality of collecting and analyzing information for a wide variety of applications. The book examines the function of statisticians in quality improvement. It discusses statistical process control, quality statistical tables, and quality and warranty; quality standards in medicine and public health; Taguchi robust designs and sur...

    $1,900.00

  • PRE-COMMUNIST INDOCHINA
    R.B. SMITH
    This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. It examines the early state of Vietnam, comparing and contrasting its political and social systems, with both those of neighbouring states such as Thailand and those prevalent at the time in Europe. It identifies the forces that shaped Indochina before the arrival of European co...

    $400.00

  • COMMUNIST INDOCHINA
    R. B. SMITH
    This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French colonial regime. It considers why, following the Japanese surrender, the cause o...

    $1,260.00

  • CHANGING VISIONS OF EAST ASIA, 1943-93
    R.B. SMITH
    Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in the East Asia region since 1943. This fascinating work, completed and edited by Chad Mitcham, one of Ralph Smith’s former students, himself a specialist and established author in this field, draws together the product of Professor...

    $1,200.00

  • ADDICTION, MODERNITY, AND THE CITY
    CHRISTOPHER B.R. SMITH
    Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social body of the city are both inscribed by "controlled" substance. Positing addiction ...

    $1,059.00