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  • DECLINE AND REIMAGINATION IN CINEMATIC NEW YORK
    CORTLAND RANKIN
    Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive, and endlessly inspiring place. Drawing on mainstream, independent, documentary,...

    $1,160.00

  • FIRST AID FOR TEACHER BURNOUT
    JENNY GRANT RANKIN
    Offering clear strategies rooted in research and expert recommendations, the new edition of First Aid for Teacher Burnout empowers teachers to prevent and recover from burnout while finding success at work in a sustainable way. Each chapter explores a different common cause of teacher burnout and provides takeaway strategies and realistic tips. Chapter coverage includes fightin...

    $860.00

  • FILM AND REDEMPTION
    DAVID RANKIN
    This book explores the representation of the idea or theme of redemption in contemporary, popular film. The discussion focuses primarily on the work of three directors – Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese and Kore-eda Hirokazu – but also considers a few films from other directorial hands. David Rankin divides the notion of personal redemption into transactional and transformationa...

    $1,160.00

  • THE SPECTRUM OF SPORT COACHING STYLES
    SHANE PILL / BRENDAN SUESEE / JOSS RANKIN / MITCH HEWITT
    For the first time, this book applies The Spectrum to sports coaching to become a Spectrum of Coaching Styles. The non-versus approach to pedagogy taken by The Spectrum places athletes or players at the centre of their learning and clearly defines who (player or coach) is making pedagogical decisions in each style. This clarity allows players and coaches to have their teaching ...

    $1,160.00

  • ESSENTIAL NOTES FOR MEDICAL AND SURGICAL FINALS
    KAJI SRITHARAN / JONATHAN ROHRER / ALEX RANKIN / SACHI SIVANANTHAN
    Covering both medicine and surgery, this book is the essential revision companion for all medical students and a valuable source of knowledge for junior doctors at all stages of their training. It is useful both in the early preparatory phase of revision as well as for last minute cramming, and for use on the wards. This book divides the medical and surgical curricula into over...

    $960.00

  • RE-BUILDING TRUST WITH TRAUMATISED CHILDREN & THE HOUSE THAT WOULDN'T FALL DOWN
    HOLLIE RANKIN
    At time children are unable or unwilling to access or engage with emotional and mental health support services. Often members of a child’s support network are therefore required to provide this emotional guidance and support to children. This set, consisting of a guidebook and accompanying story book, is intended to be used as a guide by families and friends, school staff, and ...

    $800.00

  • SUPPORTING CHILDREN THROUGH BEREAVEMENT AND LOSS & WHEN THE SUN FELL OUT OF THE SKY
    HOLLIE RANKIN
    Currently, many children are unable to access emotional support services, and other members of a child’s support network are required to provide this emotional guidance and support. This set, consisting of a guidebook and an accompanying story book, has been written to support children when they have experienced a loss or bereavement. It is intended to be used by families and f...

    $800.00

  • LABORATORY MOUSE AND LABORATORY RAT PROCEDURAL TECHNIQUES
    JOHN J. BOGDANSKE / SCOTT HUBBARD-VAN STELLE / MARGARET RANKIN RILEY / BETH M. SCHIFFMAN
    Despite the fact that the majority of research animals are rodents, the trainers at the Research Animal Resources Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found training material on the proper handling of mice and rats in biomedical research to be limited. So, they developed videos, narratives, pictures, and text to teach common handling, inje ...

    $3,000.00

  • INCREASING THE IMPACT OF YOUR RESEARCH
    JENNY GRANT RANKIN
    This important resource helps researchers in all disciplines share their findings, knowledge, and ideas effectively and beyond their own field. By pursuing the practical recommendations in this book, researchers can increase the exposure of their ideas, connect with wider audiences in powerful ways, and ensure their work has a true impact. The book covers the most effective way...

    $960.00

  • JAINISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
    AIDAN RANKIN
    This book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice. Aidan Rankin begins with a description of the ideas and principles that distinguish Jainism from other Indian (and western) philos...

    $640.00

  • CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS
    W.J. RANKIN
    This book develops the theory of chemical thermodynamics from first principles, demonstrates its relevance across scientific and engineering disciplines, and shows how thermodynamics can be used as a practical tool for understanding natural phenomena and developing and improving technologies and products. Concepts such as internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs energy are...

    $3,300.00

  • FILM AND THE AFTERLIFE
    DAVID RANKIN
    This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, personal identity, and the nature of existence beyond the grave. Film often returns to the theme of dying, death and the afterlife, both directly and indirectly, because there are very few subjects as compelling and universal. The book compares the representation of...

    $1,040.00

  • SUTURING PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES IN LABORATORY ANIMAL SURGERY
    JOHN J. BOGDANSKE / SCOTT HUBBARD-VAN STELLE / MARGARET RANKIN RILEY / BETH M. SCHIFFMAN
    Suturing Principles and Techniques in Laboratory Animal Surgery: Manual introduces the basic principles of, and the materials and instruments required for, suturing and wound closure on animals in a research or veterinary facility. The manual provides descriptions and pictures portraying proper tissue handling and aseptic technique during wound closure, the correct hand placeme...

    $1,700.00

  • SHARING YOUR EDUCATION EXPERTISE WITH THE WORLD
    JENNY GRANT RANKIN
    This highly practical guide helps education experts of all levels share their knowledge, work, and research beyond their own field and colleagues. By pursuing the recommendations in this book, educators and researchers can increase the exposure of their ideas and impact more students’ lives (this also enhances readers’ CVs and careers). Chapters cover the most effective and eff...

    $960.00

  • JAINISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
    AIDAN RANKIN
    Environmental policy agendas, activism and academic research into ecological questions are all predominantly derived from the philosophical perspectives of the West. At national and global levels, environmental policy-makers tend to work according to Western-based methodologies. At the same time, emergent or developing economies are profoundly affected by the issues they addres...

    $660.00

  • THE NEW MRCPSYCH PAPER III
    OLIVER WHITE / CLARE OAKLEY / ALEXANDRA C. RANKIN
    The structure of the MRCPsych examination has changed significantly. This book is specifically written for the new exam, providing 250 practice best-of-five multiple choice questions (MCQs) and 100 extended matching item (EMI) questions for Paper III. It contains clear, concise answers to questions, along with explanatory notes and further reading for each topic. It gives pract...

    $740.00

  • THE EARLY CHURCH AND THE AFTERLIFE
    DAVID RANKIN
    The resurrection of the dead was, as Tertullian says, ‘the chief article of the whole Christian faith’ (De resurrectione 39.3) and one of those beliefs which most distinguished Christian thought from much other contemporary thinking. This book looks at the way in which post-death existence is represented in the work of the early Church Fathers - notably Athenagoras, Tertullian,...

    $1,240.00

  • JAINISM AND ETHICAL FINANCE
    ATUL SHAH / AIDAN RANKIN
    The financial crisis of 2008 has led to a re-evaluation of the role of financial institutions and their relationship with the wider economy and society. This process has meant an increased questioning of both the conduct of business itself and the principles behind commercial and financial activities. Yet non-western voices have been notably absent from this debate, as have alt...

    $1,100.00

  • ENGAGING AND CHALLENGING GIFTED STUDENTS
    JENNY GRANT RANKIN
    Though nearly 5 million students can be characterized as gifted and talented in the United States, many exceptional learners “fly under the radar.” Because they are not appropriately challenged in the general classroom, they never meet their full potential—in school or in life.Author Jenny Grant Rankin equips general classroom teachers with the information and...

    $266.00

  • FROM CLEMENT TO ORIGEN
    DAVID IVAN RANKIN
    From Clement to Origen addresses the engagement of a number of pre-Nicene Church Fathers with the surrounding culture. David Rankin considers the historical and social context of the Fathers, grouped in cities and regions, their writings and theological reflections, and discusses how the particular engagement of each with major aspects of the surrounding culture influences, inf...

    $1,600.00

  • ATHENAGORAS
    DAVID RANKIN
    Athenagoras of Athens was a Christian thinker of the second century who engaged with contemporary philosophical thought in the matters of the divine, and the relationship of that divine to the material world. While clearly a Christian apologist, Athenagoras presents doctrines of God, of the Holy Trinity, and of other theological matters which clearly evidence an engagement with...

    $1,600.00

  • SECRETS AND KNOWLEDGE IN MEDICINE AND SCIENCE, 1500–1800
    ALISHA RANKIN
    Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and alchemical procedures, new kn...

    $1,140.00

  • STANDARDS FOR REPORTING DATA TO EDUCATORS
    JENNY GRANT RANKIN
    Standards for Reporting Data to Educators provides a synthesis of research and best practices of how data should be presented to educators in order to optimize the effectiveness of data use. Synthesizing over 300 sources of peer-reviewed research, expert commentary, and best practices, Rankin develops a set of data reporting standards that education data system vendors, provide...

    $640.00

  • DESIGNING DATA REPORTS THAT WORK
    JENNY GRANT RANKIN
    Designing Data Reports that Work provides research-based best practices for constructing effective data systems in schools and for designing reports that are relevant, necessary, and easily understood. Clear and coherent data systems and data reports significantly improve educators’ data use and save educators time and frustration. The strategies in this book will help those re...

    $740.00

  • HOW TO MAKE DATA WORK
    JENNY GRANT RANKIN
    Educators are increasingly responsible for using data to improve teaching and learning in their schools. This helpful guide provides leaders with simple steps for facilitating accurate analysis and interpretation of data, while avoiding common errors and pitfalls. How to Make Data Work provides clear strategies for getting data into workable shape and creating an environment th...

    $740.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
    ROBERT A. RANKIN
    International Series of Monographs on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 43: An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis discusses the various topics involved in the analysis of functions of a single real variable. The title first covers the fundamental idea and assumptions in analysis, and then proceeds to tackling the various areas in analysis, such as limits, continuity, dif...

    $1,249.00

  • SOPHISTS, SOCRATICS AND CYNICS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DAVID RANKIN
    The Sophists, the Socratics and the Cynics had one important characteristic in common: they mainly used spoken natural language as their instrument of investigation, and they were more concerned to discover human nature in its various practical manifestations than the facts of the physical world. The Sophists are too often remembered merely as the opponents of Socrates and Plat...

    $1,380.00

  • SCALING METHODS
    PETER DUNN-RANKIN / GERALD A. KNEZEK / SUSAN R. WALLACE / SHUQIANG ZHANG
    Scaling Methods is written for professionals in the behavioral sciences who analyze data that results from subjective responses. Other books on scaling attitudes or measuring perceptions focus on the psychometrician's view of measurement. This book focuses on the users' view by concentrating on effective ways to analyze data rather than the mathematical details of how each prog...

    $1,420.00

  • FORM, MEANING, AND FOCUS IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
    MIAKO N. P. RANKIN
    The meaning of any linguistic expression resides not only in the words, but also in the ways that those words are conveyed. In her new study, Miako N. P. Rankin highlights the crucial interrelatedness of form and meaning at all levels in order to consider specific types of American Sign Language (ASL) expression. In particular, Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language...

    $716.29

  • PLATO AND THE INDIVIDUAL (RLE: PLATO)
    DAVID RANKIN
    This book explores the life-history of the individual within the context of Plato’s social thought. The author examines Plato’s treatment of the principal crises in an individual life - birth, educational selection, sex, the individual’s contract with society, old age, death, and life after death – and provides an unprecedented analysis of Plato’s theory of genetics as it appea...

    $1,320.00


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