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  • SOCIOLOGY THROUGH EMOTIONS
    SCOTT R. HARRIS
    Offering an accessible and intriguing look at emotions in society, Sociology Through Emotions collects together contemporary qualitative research that illuminates many of sociology’s central concepts and topics, from culture, socialization, and inequality to family, crime, healthcare, religion, and social movements. This book appeals to instructors who want to highlight the soc...

    $1,240.00

  • HEROIC LEADERSHIP
    SCOTT T. ALLISON / GEORGE R. GOETHALS
    Heroic Leadership is a celebration of our greatest heroes, from well-known legends to the legions of unsung heroes who transform our world quietly behind the scenes. Now in its second edition, this book offers a compelling conceptual framework for understanding heroism and heroic leadership, drawing from theories of great leadership and heroic action. With over 50 revised heroi...

    $1,280.00

  • ARTIST ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR LIFE
    DIANE R. SCOTT
    Holistically addressing the documented needs of practicing artists, this book applies contemporary business management principles to the unique circumstances of people who make their living through creative expression. Artists looking to forge a career have had to turn to either entrepreneurship resources or professional practice tools specific to a discipline such as studio ar...

    $960.00

  • RUSSIAN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
    DEREK J. R. SCOTT
    First published in 1958, Russian Political Institutions is intended primarily to meet the need of university students for a good account of the political institutions of the Soviet Union in terms similar to those used in their study of other countries. Though the unique comprehensiveness of the Soviet state’s concerns, to which the book draws attention, precludes a formally com...

    $860.00

  • THE POLICE MANAGER
    EGAN K. GREEN / RONALD G. LYNCH / SCOTT R. LYNCH
    The Police Manager provides a roadmap for the challenges that police administrators face in their day-to-day duties, including considerations for dealing with subordinate officers and for interacting with the public. Covering a wide range of topics, from fiscal management to use-of-force policies, this text prepares readers for the tasks that police managers are confronted with...

    $1,420.00

  • MILITARY SOCIOLOGY
    WILBUR J. SCOTT / KARIN MODESTO DE ANGELIS / DAVID R. SEGAL
    This textbook introduces the reader to the field of military sociology through narrative reviews of selected key studies in the discipline. The book provides a guided introduction. In each chapter, the authors set the stage and then immerse the reader in Spotlights – that is, descriptions of essential studies that inform the discipline of military sociology. The goal is to affo...

    $980.00

  • ILLUSTRATED TEXTBOOK OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS IN FARM ANIMALS
    PHILIP R SCOTT
    "I really don't think this book will ever be surpassed as the 'go-to' clinical ruminant reference for undergraduates, recent grads and vets in mixed practice who do not spend the majority of their time with farm animals." -- Neil Frame, Cert.E.P, Cert.V.A, RCVS Advanced Practitioner (Equine Practice), MRCVS (vet) Providing veterinary students with a brand-new approach to large ...

    $1,760.00

  • PSIQUIATRÍA DE BOLSILLO
    JUDITH PUCKETT / JOHN B. TAYLOR / SCOTT R. BEACH
    Psiquiatría de bolsillo es una referencia desarrollada por residentes de psiquiatría y dirigida a médicos residentes de otras especialidades, a estudiantes de medicina y a profesionales de la salud que busquen profundizar sus conocimientos sobre el diagnóstico y el abordaje terapéutico de los trastornos y enfermedades mentales más comunes. Su contenido hace énfasis en la atenci...

    $788.00

  • SERIOUS GAMES IN PERSONALIZED LEARNING
    SCOTT M. MARTIN / JAMES R. CASEY / STEPHANIE KANE
    Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly integrating serious games, machine-learning artificial intelligence models, and adaptive technologies. Game-based education provides rare data for measuring, assessing, and evaluating not just a game’s effectiveness but the acquisiti...

    $1,160.00

  • SOCRATIC QUESTIONING FOR THERAPISTS AND COUNSELORS
    SCOTT H. WALTMAN / R. TRENT CODD, III / LYNN M. MCFARR
    This book presents a framework for the use of Socratic strategies in psychotherapy and counseling. The framework has been fine-tuned in multiple large-scale cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) training initiatives and is presented and demonstrated with applied case examples. The text is rich with case examples, tips, tricks, strategies, and methods for dealing with the most entren...

    $920.00

  • THE MAYA WORLD
    SCOTT R. HUTSON / ‎TRACI ARDREN
    The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred an...

    $1,340.00

  • MEASURING UP IN EDUCATION
    STEVEN A STOLZ / R SCOTT WEBSTER
    Cultures of measurement are often considered to dominate educational practices, to the degree that, as Biesta (2010) has identified in Good Education in an Age of Measurement we no longer measure what we value, but rather we have become conditioned to value what is measured. A clear example of this occurs when institutions and staff "teach to the test" by emphasising narrow con...

    $1,160.00

  • SPORT AND SPIRITUALITY
    R. SCOTT KRETCHMAR / ‎JOHN B. WHITE
    This comprehensive volume explores the interface between sport and religion, or more broadly, sport and spirituality. While most of the contributions come from Western and Christian traditions, the volume raises broader questions about the kinds of impact that spirituality can and should have on sport, and equally, that sport can and should have on spirituality. The authors put...

    $1,200.00

  • 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...

    $819.18

  • THE FOUR GIFTS OF THE KING
    R. SCOTT RODIN
    The leadership coach, theological visionary, and author of The Steward Leader delivers a thrilling novel of salvation and hope that speaks to the soul.   When Sam Roberts learns he is dying, he is faced with a decision that will determine his legacy and alter forever the destinies of his four adult children. With his lifelong friend Walter at his side, Sam writes his last words...

    $251.00

  • A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ETHICS
    RITA MANNING / SCOTT R. STROUD
    This essential new text is designed for courses in contemporary moral issues, applied ethics, and leadership. Emphasizing personal choice in the study of ethics, the authors take the reader on a journey of self-discovery rather than a mere academic survey of the field of ethics. A Practical Guide to Ethics: Living and Leading with Integrity helps students develop their skills i...

    $1,299.00

  • COMPOSITE PLATES IMPACT DAMAGE
    SCOTT R. FINN
    This is a unique X-ray atlas illustrating damage in composite plates caused by non-penetrating impacts. A valuable aid in designing composites for different types of impact resistance. Damage to composite materials caused by non-penetrating impact is often internal, invisible and difficult to detect. This atlas contains more than 400 revealing pictures of impact damage from a v...

    $1,480.00

  • VIRTUE ETHICS AND MORAL KNOWLEDGE
    R. SCOTT SMITH
    We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light...

    $1,340.00

  • THE SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS WORKBOOK
    JONATHAN T. SCOTT / WALTER R. STAHEL
    Whether you are undertaking the exercises for your own purposes or with the intent of completing a certification course in sustainable development, this workbook will be of help. The companion text for this publication is The Sustainable Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability and Competitiveness (2nd edition). Read the companion text thoroughly be...

    $980.00

  • NATURALISM AND OUR KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY
    R. SCOTT SMITH
    Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover,...

    $1,240.00

  • EXODUS CHURCH AND CIVIL SOCIETY
    SCOTT R. PAETH
    This book investigates the intersection of theology and social theory in the work of Jürgen Moltmann. In particular, it examines the way in which his concept of the "Exodus Church" can illuminate the importance of the idea of civil society for a Christian public theology. The concept of civil society can aid in moving from the narrower category of "political theology," a term ...

    $1,240.00

  • CATTLE AND SHEEP MEDICINE
    PHILIP R. SCOTT
    The new edition of Cattle and Sheep Medicine incorporates over 250 new clinical cases divided equally between cattle and sheep. The cases appear randomly to reflect real life practice and are presented as a set of integrated questions, photographs and detailed explanatory answers-to educate and not just to test. New images have been added for all c ...

    $1,020.00

  • FREDERICK THE GREAT
    THEODOR SCHIEDER / H.R. SCOTT / SABINA KRAUSE
    Since its publication in 1983, Theodor Schieder's study has been recognised as the most distinguished modern study of Prussia's most famous King and a leading figure of the eighteenth century. This abbreviated translation provides the first comprehensive scholarly treatment in English published since 1975. ...

    $2,060.00

  • NEOPLASTIC GASTROINTESTINAL PATHOLOGY
    LAURA LAMPS / ANDREW M. BELLIZZI / WENDY L. FRANKEL / SCOTT R. OWENS / RHONDA YANTISS
    This concisely written, abundantly illustrated guide to a wide range of topics in gastrointestinal neoplasia facilitates the evaluation and accurate diagnosis of gastrointestinal neoplasms, both straightforward and challenging. This approachable guide covers the entire tubular GI tract and features more than 600 high quality images. Written and arranged with the busy practicing...

    $3,280.00

  • SHEEP MEDICINE
    PHILIP R. SCOTT
    Sheep Medicine, Second Edition describes key sheep diseases encountered in general practice along with their diagnoses, treatment, prognoses, control, and, where appropriate, post-mortem features. The book is divided into chapters covering each body system. Each chapter of this completely revised and updated book opens with a recommended approach t ...

    $1,380.00

  • LEADERSHIP
    RONALD R. SIMS / SCOTT A. QUATRO
    The contributors to this wide-ranging volume seek to define exactly what leadership is or should be, and how to effectively develop it. Guided by an unusual framework that looks at leadership across different sectors and functions, they examine what they view as the major leadership challenges in highly visible for-profit, not-for-profit, and government organizations throughout...

    $1,760.00

  • EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
    CHARNA R. EPSTEIN / AMEYA PAWAR / SCOTT. C. SIMON
    For effective preparedness, emergency managers must comprehend how a disaster impacts not only the physical infrastructure of the affected community but also the population. They must understand how the people interact with one another, how they interact with government, and how they react to the disaster event. In other words, they must have socia ...

    $3,200.00

  • THE CREATIVE PROCESS
    SCOTT R. TURNER
    Someday computers will be artists. They'll be able to write amusing and original stories, invent and play games of unsurpassed complexity and inventiveness, tell jokes and suffer writer's block. But these things will require computers that can both achieve artistic goals and be creative. Both capabilities are far from accomplished. This book presents a theory of creativity that...

    $1,340.00

  • GLOBAL AGING
    SUZANNE R. KUNKEL / J. SCOTT BROWN / FRANK J. WHITTINGTON
    "This book is exemplary in amassing demographic, policy, and sociopsychological data from around the world to refute both premises: that countriesí aging is not occurring in developing nations and that aging of the population presents intractable predicaments. The content of the book is rich with current information seldom accumulated into one source. For a scholar of aging stu...

    $2,128.00

  • SPEECH RECOGNITION IN ADVERSE CONDITIONS
    MATTYS, SVEN / BRADLOW, ANN R. / DAVIS, MATTHEW H. / SCOTT, SOPHIE
    Speech recognition in ‘adverse conditions’ has been a familiar area of research in computer science, engineering, and hearing sciences for several decades. In contrast, most psycholinguistic theories of speech recognition are built upon evidence gathered from tasks performed by healthy listeners on carefully recorded speech, in a quiet environment, and under conditions of undiv...

    $1,160.00


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