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  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION, MAGIC, AND WITCHCRAFT
    REBECCA L. STEIN, PHILIP L. STEIN, BENJAMIN R. KRACHT, MARJORIE M. SNIPES
    This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective and exposes students to the complexities of religion in small-scale and complex societies. The chapters incorporate key theoretical concepts and a wide range of ethnographic material. The fifth edition of The Anthr...

    $2,220.00

  • LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITIES THAT WORK
    KAREN KUROTSUCHI INKELAS / JODY E. JESSUP-ANGER / MIMI BENJAMIN / MATTHEW R. WAWRZYNSKI
    Co-published with In 2007, the American Association of Colleges and Universities named learning communities a high-impact practice because of the potential of these communities to provide coherence to and ultimately improve undergraduate education. Institutional leaders have demonstrated a commitment to providing LLCs, but they currently do so primarily with anecdotal informati...

    $1,040.00

  • THE INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER’S GUIDE TO IMPLEMENTING K-8 SCIENCE PRACTICES
    REBECCA LOWENHAUPT / KATHERINE L. MCNEILL / REBECCA KATSH-SINGER / BENJAMIN R. LOWELL / KEVIN CHERBOW
    An accessible, engaging primer on the eight science practices at the heart of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), providing K–8 instructional leaders with the grounding they need to ensure excellent science instruction in every classroom.The NGSS reconceptualize science instruction by redefining the teacher as someone who helps students construct their own knowl...

    $568.00

  • THE LIMITS OF EXPERTISE
    R. KEY DISMUKES / BENJAMIN A. BERMAN / LOUKIA LOUKOPOULOS
    Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights? The majority of all aviation accidents are attributed primarily to human error, but this is often misinterpreted as evidence of lack of skill, vigilance, or conscientiousness of the pilots. The Limits of Expertise is a fresh look...

    $1,480.00

  • HEALTH COMMUNICATION AND MASS MEDIA
    BATES, BENJAMIN R, DR
    Health Communication and Mass Media is a much-needed resource for those with a professional or academic interest in the field of health communication. The chapters engage and expand upon significant theories informing efforts at mediated health communication and demonstrate the practical utility of these theories in on-going or completed projects. They consider how to balance t...

    $1,060.00

  • THE AGE OF AGADE
    BENJAMIN R. FOSTER
    The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world’s first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than 40 years of research by one of the world’s leading experts in Assyriology to offer an exhaustive survey of the A...

    $1,340.00

  • MODULATION, RESOLUTION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING IN RADAR, SONAR AND RELATED SYSTEMS
    R. BENJAMIN
    Electronics and Instrumentation, Volume 35: Modulation, Resolution and Signal Processing in Radar, Sonar and Related Systems presents the practical limitations and potentialities of advanced modulation systems. This book discusses the concepts and techniques in the radar context, but they are equally essential to sonar and to a wide range of signaling and data-processing applic...

    $425.00

  • ENERGY SECURITY, EQUALITY AND JUSTICE
    BENJAMIN K. SOVACOOL / ROMAN V. SIDORTSOV / BENJAMIN R. JONES
    This book applies concepts from ethics, justice, and political philosophy to five sets of contemporary energy problems cutting across time, economics, politics, geography, and technology. In doing so, the authors derive two key energy justice principles from modern theories of distributive justice, procedural justice, and cosmopolitan justice. The prohibitive principle states t...

    $1,540.00

  • PREVENTING AIDS
    R DENNIS SHELBY / BENJAMIN BOWSER / SHIRAZ MISHRA / CATHY REBACK
    Learn how to create professional collaboration between HIV/AIDS researchers and community organizations for the benefit of all! This book is designed to help frontline prevention organizations answer two questions that are of utmost importance. First, how effective are their services; and second, can their work be improved? The absence of rigorous evaluation is a barrier to sta...

    $960.00

  • THE SMALL WARS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1899-2009
    BENJAMIN R. BEEDE
    The Small Wars of the United States, 1899–2009 is the complete bibliography of works on US military intervention and irregular warfare around the world, as well as efforts to quell insurgencies on behalf of American allies. The text covers conflicts from 1898 to present, with detailed annotations of selected sources. In this second edition, Benjamin R. Beede revises his seminal...

    $920.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO PEATLAND ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTS
    BENJAMIN R. GEAREY / HENRY P. CHAPMAN
    Peatlands are regarded as having exceptional archaeological value, due to the fact the waterlogged conditions of these wetlands can preserve organic remains that are almost entirely lost from the majority of dryland contexts. This is certainly true, although the remarkable preservation of sites and artifacts is just one aspect of their archaeological importance. This book provi...

    $351.83

  • THE WAY OF ST. JAMES PRAYER BOOK
    BENJAMIN R. DOOLITTLE
    The Way of St. James has an enduring draw for the modern seeker. Pilgrims have been seeking God, answers, and absolution ever since the relics of St. James were discovered in the early ninth century. Yet, the pilgrimage is decidedly modern. Amidst the busyness of modern life, we have a deep yearning to unplug from the noise of email, news feeds, and social media and to reconnec...

    $213.00

  • HOLDING BACK DISASTER
    SCOTT LANDES / BENJAMIN R. DIERKER
    Holding Back Disaster: Protecting Lives and Infrastructure Through Excavation Damage Prevention presents a rare system-level account of excavation damage prevention as a form of critical infrastructure, bringing together the people, systems, and practices that protect people and essential infrastructure every day. Excavation damage to buried infrastructure is one of the most pe...

    $1,180.00

  • RACE-ETHNICITY AND SOCIETY
    BENJAMIN B RINGER / ELINOR R. LAWLESS
    First published in 1989, Race-Ethnicity and Society comes as a usable and comprehensive text on race and ethnicity in the United States. Ringer and Lawless set out to fill the gap in the literature by incorporating the “positive lessons” of the racially turbulent 1960's and 70s. Proposing a challenge to three conventional premises of many texts, they argue that the treatment of...

    $1,480.00

  • PURE ADULTERATION
    BENJAMIN R. COHEN
    Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States. In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adultera...

    $525.39

  • CLASS WAR?
    BENJAMIN I. PAGE / LAWRENCE R. JACOBS
    Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America’s fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Pag...

    $402.76