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  • DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
    R. TREVOR DAVIES
    The author and acclaimed historian of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history, maintaining that applying historical criticism to documents, and balancing one document against another was a process of ‘the highest educational value’. He compiled this volume with the aim of giving easy access ...

    $1,480.00

  • THE SOVIET UNION
    R. W. DAVIES
    The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. The Soviet Union claimed to offer a new social, economic and political order – a planned socialist system – and this book looks at the Soviet alternative and the extent of its success. It surveys the major components of Soviet society and examines the principal issues and debates that surrou...

    $840.00

  • SERVING THE STATE
    MORTON R. DAVIES / JOHN GREENWOOD / NICHOLAS WALKLEY
    This title was first published in 2000:  Serving the State is an invaluable two-volume exploration of global trends in public administration education and training. Volume 2 of this important reference work explores traditions and contexts. Included for examination are the French and Islamic traditions, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Latin America, Small Island States and former...

    $980.00

  • DESIGN OF MASONRY STRUCTURES
    A.W. HENDRY / ‎B.P. SINHA / ‎S.R. DAVIES
    This edition has been fully revised and extended to cover blockwork and Eurocode 6 on masonry structures. This valued textbook:Discusses all aspects of design of masonry structures in plain and reinforced masonry.summarizes materials properties and structural principles as well as describing structure and content of codes.Presents design procedures ...

    $3,000.00

  • ON THE ORIGINS OF JUDAISM
    PHILIP R. DAVIES
    On the Origins of Judaism examines the formation of one of the oldest monotheistic religions. The book covers a diverse range of themes: the identity of those who produced and canonized the Hebrew Bible and subsequently shaped its interpretation; the significance and impact of Second Isaiah and the books of Ezra and Nehemiah; the roots of Jewish apocalyptic literature, and the ...

    $1,100.00

  • OPENING THE BOOKS OF MOSES
    DIANA V. EDELMAN / PHILIP R. DAVIES / CHRISTOPHE NIHAN / THOMAS ROMER
    Opening the Books of Moses presents an introduction to the first five books of the Bible. It is written for any student engaged in the scholarly study of these most central of biblical texts. The aim throughout is to examine the books with a view to illuminating the ideas, beliefs and experiences of the time. This broad overview provides: a survey of the current state of Pentat...

    $1,280.00

  • THE GEOGRAPHIES OF GARBAGE GOVERNANCE
    ANNA R. DAVIES
    Previously perceived as a local, technical issue for governments, waste management is now also a global, socio-political process involving complex patterns of multi-level governance. Yet these geographical complexities have not previously been considered in any detail. This book examines the neglected geographies of waste management, in particular, the integral processes of tra...

    $1,460.00

  • THE POLITICS OF SURVEILLANCE AND RESPONSE TO DISEASE OUTBREAKS
    SARA E. DAVIES / JEREMY R. YOUDE
    The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both State and Non-State Actors to take an active role in stopping the spread of disease by generating new technical means to identify potential pandemics through the creation of shared reporting platforms. Despite all the rhetoric about the importance...

    $1,420.00

  • YOURS FAITHFULLY
    PHILIP R. DAVIES
    'Yours Faithfully' presents an anthology of virtual letters from the Bible, in which leading scholars imagine correspondence between biblical characters. Each letter conveys the insights that a given character might have and, together, the letters provide a rich sense of the concerns which propel and characters who inhabit the Bible. The letters are written in a range of styles...

    $1,100.00

  • RETHINKING BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP
    PHILIP R. DAVIES
    "Rethinking Biblical Scholarship" brings together seminal essays to provide readers with an assessment of the archaeological and exegetical research which has transformed the discipline of biblical studies over the last two decades. The essays focus on history and historiography, exploring how scholarly constructs and ideologies mould historical, literary and cultural data and ...

    $1,480.00

  • MACHINE VISION
    E. R. DAVIES
    Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities covers the limitations, constraints, and tradeoffs of vision algorithms. This book is organized into four parts encompassing 21 chapters that tackle general topics, such as noise suppression, edge detection, principles of illumination, feature recognition, Bayes’ theory, and Hough transforms. Part 1 provides research ideas on ...

    $1,249.00

  • THE ACTIONS AND USES OF OPHTHALMIC DRUGS
    P. H. O'CONNOR DAVIES / G. A. HOPKINS / R. M. PEARSON
    The Actions and Uses of Ophthalmic Drugs, Third Edition discuses the application and discrimination in the use of ophthalmic drugs. The book reviews the general pharmacological principles including drug nomenclature, pharmacological classification, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and the use of these drugs. Ophthalmic drugs (cycloplegics, mydriatics, miotics) directly or in...

    $970.00

  • GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND SEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FILM
    JUDE DAVIES / CAROL R. SMITH
    Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of this title look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinema...

    $1,360.00

  • FOUR CENTURIES OF WITCH BELIEFS (RLE WITCHCRAFT)
    R. DAVIES
    Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments used to support or discredit ...

    $1,320.00

  • COOPERATION & COERCION
    ANTONY DAVIES / JAMES R HARRIGAN
    There are only two ways that humans work together: they cooperate with one another, or they coerce one another.   And once you realize this fundamental fact, it will change how you see the world.   In this myth-busting book, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan display the wisdom and talent for explaining complex topics that have attracted a devoted audience to their weekly podc...

    $159.00

  • MEMORY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
    DAVIES, G.M. / LOGIE, R.H.
    The last decade has seen a major growth in research on how memory is used in everyday life. This volume represents a reaction to traditional laboratory-bound studies of the first half of the century which sought to identify the fundamental principles of learning and memory through the use of materials and methods totally divorced from the real world. The new wave of memory rese...

    $928.00

  • BIOTRANSFRMTNS PREPARTV ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: THE USE OF ISOLATED ENZYMES AND WHOLE CELL SYSTEMS IN SYNTHESIS
    DAVIES, H. G. / GREEN, RALPH / KELLY, D. R. / ROBERTS, STANLEY M.
    This volume is designed for chemists working in an organic chemistry laboratory and for all scientists with an interest in biotransformations. It summarizes the important aspects of work in the burgeoning field of biotransformations, th...[missing text] ...

    $928.00

  • NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLOW
    CROCHET, M.J. / DAVIES, A.R. / WALTERS, K.
    Numerical Simulation of Non-Newtonian Flow ...

    $928.00

  • COMPUTER PROGRAMMING IN QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY
    DAVIES, R.G.
    Computer Programming in Quantitative Biology ...

    $928.00

  • EXPLORING SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
    ULRIKE FELT, SARAH R. DAVIES
    Exploring Science Communication demonstrates how science and technology studies approaches can be explicitly integrated into effective, powerful science communication research. Through a range of case studies, from climate change and public parks to Facebook, museums, and media coverage, it helps you to understand and analyse the complex and diverse ways science and society rel...

    $1,573.02

  • COMPUTER VISION
    E. R. DAVIES
    Computer Vision: Principles, Algorithms, Applications, Learning (previously entitled Computer and Machine Vision) clearly and systematically presents the basic methodology of computer vision, covering the essential elements of the theory while emphasizing algorithmic and practical design constraints. This fully revised fifth edition has brought in more of the concepts and appli...

    $1,463.00

  • MACHINE VISION: THEORY, ALGORITHMS, PRACTICALITIES
    DAVIES, E. R.
    In the last 40 years, machine vision has evolved into a mature field embracing a wide range of applications including surveillance, automated inspection, robot assembly, vehicle guidance, traffic monitoring and control, signature verification, biometric measurement, and analysis of remotely sensed images. While researchers and industry specialists continue to document their wor...

    $1,386.00

  • COMPUTER AND MACHINE VISION
    E. R. DAVIES
    Computer and Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities (previously entitled Machine Vision) clearly and systematically presents the basic methodology of computer and machine vision, covering the essential elements of the theory while emphasizing algorithmic and practical design constraints. This fully revised fourth edition has brought in more of the concepts and appli...

    $1,463.00