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  • EVERYDAY ARMAGEDDONS
    MATTHEW HOLMES / THOMAS R. GAULKE
    Drawing from two decades as a hospice chaplain, nurses' aide, and emergency medical technician, the Rev. Matthew J. Holmes invites us to peer into the often occulted dimensions of life's endings. From bedsores to isolation, impacted bowels to the nursing home economy, from neglect to deep, desperate love, modern death's characteristics are navigated here with insight, honesty, ...

    $426.00

  • EVERYDAY ARMAGEDDONS
    MATTHEW HOLMES / THOMAS R. GAULKE
    Drawing from two decades as a hospice chaplain, nurses' aide, and emergency medical technician, the Rev. Matthew J. Holmes invites us to peer into the often occulted dimensions of life's endings. From bedsores to isolation, impacted bowels to the nursing home economy, from neglect to deep, desperate love, modern death's characteristics are navigated here with insight, honesty, ...

    $426.00

  • CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY: THE CLASSICS
    STEPHEN R HOLMES / SHAWN BAWULSKI
    Christian Theology: The Classics is a vibrant introduction to the most important works of theology in the history of Christian thought. Exploring writings from the origins of Christianity to the present day, it examines some of the most influential theologians of all time, considering the context in which they were writing and the lasting significance of their work. Covering th...

    $920.00

  • LIVING TISSUES
    R. L. HOLMES
    Living Tissues: An Introduction to Functional Histology discusses the fundamental concepts that are essential in studying organic tissues. The text first deals with the microscopic study of tissues, and then proceeds to talking about the components of tissues. Next, the book details the organization of tissues, along with the differentiation of cells and tissues. The text wil...

    $425.00

  • THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
    R. HOLMES
    The Characteristics of Mechanical Engineering Systems focuses on the characteristics that must be considered when designing a mechanical engineering system. Mechanical systems are presented on the basis of component input-output relationships, paying particular attention to lumped-parameter problems and the interrelationships between lumped components or ""black-boxes"" in an ...

    $425.00

  • CHINESE NAVAL STRATEGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    JAMES R. HOLMES / TOSHI YOSHIHARA
    Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analysts now routinely invoke Mahan’s writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy. Economics is the prime motivation for maritime reorientation, and securing the sea lanes tha...

    $1,560.00

  • INDIAN NAVAL STRATEGY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    JAMES R. HOLMES / ANDREW C. WINNER / TOSHI YOSHIHARA
    This is the first academic study of India's emerging maritime strategy, and offers a systematic analysis of the interplay between Western military thought and Indian maritime traditions. By a quirk of historical fate, Europe embarked on its Age of Discovery just as the main Asian powers were renouncing the sea, ushering in centuries of Western dominance. In the 21st century, ho...

    $1,560.00

  • ECONOMY OF WORDS
    DOUGLAS R. HOLMES
    Markets are artifacts of language—so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have been engaging in communicative experiments that predate the financial crisis and continue to be refined amid its unfolding turmoil—exp...

    $559.12