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  • BLACK HOPES/BLACK WOES
    RAPHAËL LAMBERT
    Black Hopes/Black Woes begins by delving into the contrasting mindsets of postbellum African Americans and their twenty-first-century counterparts, aiming to elucidate the shift from early Black optimism to present-day Black pessimism. It then focuses on the rationale behind Afro-pessimism, a contemporary school of thought with an inconspicuous yet potent influence on mainstrea...

    $1,100.00

  • MANORIAL CAPITALISM, ENSLAVEMENT, AND THE LOGIC OF DIVIDUATION
    RAPHAEL SASSOWER
    Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate w...

    $1,240.00

  • REPRESENTING BLACK GIRL MAGIC WITH CONTEMPORARY PICTURE BOOKS
    RAPHAEL E. ROGERS
    Representing Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books explores how contemporary, culturally relevant, and responsive picture books can provide educators with a chance to teach about race and racism in the classroom. A wave of recently published picture books by Black women authors have pushed back against negative beliefs, countered negative stereotypes, and celebrated ...

    $1,240.00

  • BIOSECURITY
    SUSAN M HESTER, LUCIE M BLAND, EDITH ARNDT, SANA BAU, JAMES S CAMAC, EVELYN MANNIX, RAPHAEL TROUVE,
    Biosecurity: A Systems Perspective provides an overview of biosecurity as a system of related components, actors, and risks. This book—directed to the biosecurity practitioner, generalist scientist, and student—introduces overall features of the biosecurity system while walking the reader through the most up-to-date research on each step of the continuum (i.e. pre-border, borde...

    $1,800.00

  • SET, MEASURE AND PROBABILITY THEORY
    MARCELO S. ALENCAR / RAPHAEL T. ALENCAR
    This book introduces the basic concepts of set theory, measure theory, the axiomatic theory of probability, random variables and multidimensional random variables, functions of random variables, convergence theorems, laws of large numbers, and fundamental inequalities. The idea is to present a seamless connection between the more abstract advanced set theory, the fundamental co...

    $2,800.00

  • POETRY’S MIGHT
    RAPHAEL CANALI
    This book translates the beauty of life, its rarity, and what it has to offer through verses of poetry, full of rhythm, rhymes, and hope. Exploring what life has to offer to society and to all of us as individuals, those who like to explore the meaning of their own existence and of life's experience will enjoy and connect with this book's message. Ready. Steady. Explore. ...

    $107.00

  • POETRY’S MIGHT
    RAPHAEL CANALI
    This book translates the beauty of life, its rarity, and what it has to offer through verses of poetry, full of rhythm, rhymes, and hope. Exploring what life has to offer to society and to all of us as individuals, those who like to explore the meaning of their own existence and of life's experience will enjoy and connect with this book's message. Ready. Steady. Explore. ...

    $107.00

  • THE THEORY OF STATISTICAL IMPLICATIVE ANALYSIS
    RÉGIS GRAS / ANTOINE BODIN / RAPHAËL COUTURIER / PABLO GREGORI
    This book summarizes the methods and concepts of Statistical Implicative Analysis (SIA), created by Régis Gras in the 1980s to study, in a new way, the behavioural responses of French pupils to mathematics tests. Using a multidimensional, non-symmetrical data analysis method, SIA crosses a set of subjects or objects with a set of variables. It effectively complements traditiona...

    $1,480.00

  • CULTURES OF COUNTERPROLIFERATION
    RAPHAEL BENLEVI
    This book argues that the nature of counterproliferation strengthens the effect of cultural factors in policy choices, and illustrates this by focusing on US and Israeli policy toward the Iranian nuclear program. The United States and Israel have been the two states most active in opposing Iran’s nuclear ambitions; however, the respective strategies of each of these states have...

    $1,160.00

  • A CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT MANUAL
    ALAN RAPHAEL / R. LAUREN MILLER / THERESA JONES / CHARLES GOLDEN
    This user-friendly manual provides a cross-cultural psychological assessment battery, including projective methods. Authors outline a new, empirically validated, reliable system, which seeks to update the scoreable and interpretable factors and entwine commonly respected “tried and true” graphomotor tests, thereby maximizing their efficacy in the assessment of significant psych...

    $1,200.00

  • THE LIFE OF MARY AS SEEN BY THE MYSTICS
    RAPHAEL BROWN
    Delve into the treasured revelations of the saints in this important collection mystical Catholic writings. Assembled by the skilled hand of Raphael Brown, this extraordinary work gathers the timeless words of Anne Catherine Emmerich, Mary of Agreda and others, and offers readers profound insights into the life of the Blessed Mother, from her immaculate birth to the Assumption....

    $229.00

  • LINEAR ELECTRONICS
    MARCELO SAMPAIO DE ALENCAR / RAPHAEL TAVARES DE ALENCAR / RAISSA BEZERRA ROCHA / ANA ISABELA CUNHA
    A considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the design, performance, analysis and evaluation of amplification schemes and filters to be used in control systems, audio/video equipment, instrumentation and communication systems. This book is intended to serve as a complementary textbook for courses dealing with Linear Amplification, bu...

    $1,125.00

  • CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING AUTOMATION
    BENNY RAPHAEL
    This book is intended to be used as a textbook in undergraduate civil engineering and construction courses to introduce cutting edge mechanical, electrical, and computer science topics that are needed for civil and construction engineers to collaborate in inter-disciplinary automation projects. Part I introduces the basics of hardware and software technologies that are needed f...

    $1,420.00

  • MUSIC SOCIOLOGY
    RAPHAËL NOWAK / ANDY BENNETT
    Music Sociology critically evaluates current approaches to the study of music in sociology and presents a broad overview of how music is positioned and represented in existing sociological scholarship. It then goes on to offer a new framework for approaching the sociology of music, taking music itself as a starting point, and considering what music sociology can learn from rela...

    $1,120.00

  • THE PARADOX OF TRAGEDY
    D.D. RAPHAEL
    First published in 1960, The Paradox of Tragedy raises the fundamental question, why do we enjoy tragic drama with its themes of death and disaster? Aristotle’s theory of catharsis is still widely accepted as a satisfactory explanation of this paradox. In the first of its two connected essays, D.D. Raphael argues that Aristotle’s account of tragic emotions is distorted by a fau...

    $860.00

  • IMPERIAL POWERS AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS
    RAPHAËL CHERIAU
    In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most obvious fashion. This crucial encounter was perfectly embodied by the iconic meet...

    $1,160.00

  • THE FRONTIERS OF SOCIOLOGY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    TOSCO RAPHAEL FYVEL
    The six essays in this volume are designed to introduce the general reader to some of the main issues in the fields of education, industry, politics, family changes and the like, which concern British sociologists. While each of the essays is independently conceived, their joint aim is to show how sociologists can use empirical methods to throw fresh light on current social pro...

    $1,320.00

  • MORAL JUDGEMENT
    DAVID DAICHES (D. D.) RAPHAEL
    Originally published in 1955, this book covers most of the problems of moral philosophy but concentrates on two of them: the criterion of right action and the nature of moral judgment. Rejecting Utilitarianism, it shows how principles of moral obligation may be unified under Kant’s formula of treating people as ends-in-themselves. This formula is interpreted in terms of a new, ...

    $1,000.00

  • SOCIAL FUNCTIONS IN PHILOSOPHY
    REBEKKA HUFENDIEK / ‎DANIEL JAMES / ‎RAPHAEL VAN RIEL
    Social functions and functional explanations play a prominent role not only in our everyday reasoning but also in classical as well as contemporary social theory and empirical social research. This volume explores metaphysical, normative, and methodological perspectives on social functions and functional explanations in the social sciences. It aims to push the philosophical deb...

    $1,240.00

  • GOETHE AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE
    ALICE RAPHAEL
    Originally published in 1965, this study examines the concealed meanings in the second part of Faust, often considered obscure. It is of value not only to students of literature but also comparative religions, as it deals with Goethe’s knowledge of ancient myths, mysteries and Hellenistic religions. It is of value too, to those interested in alchemy as it traces the many alchem...

    $1,000.00

  • PATTERNS OF CHANGE IN DEVELOPING RURAL REGIONS
    DAFNA SCHWARTZ / RAPHAEL BAR-EL / AVROM BENDAVID-VAL / GERALD KARASKA
    Development specialists often overlook the feet that the towns of a rural region play as essential a role in the region's economy as does agriculture, and they design and implement broad strategies without due recognition of the unique and dynamic character of each individual region. Proper analysis requires consideration of the changing nature of rural regions and the principa...

    $860.00

  • RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION IN ISRAEL
    RAPHAEL BAR-EL / ARIELA NESHER / MOSCHE SCHWARTZ / RACHEL FINKEL
    Rural development in Israel consists of a unique variety of industrialization experiences that may be instructive for many countries at various stages of development. The social, ideological, political, economic, and organizational precepts that Israel's rural settlements are based on lend themselves to many different approaches. This book deals with industrialization patterns ...

    $860.00

  • URGENCIAS EN OFTALMOLOGÍA
    ERIC TUIL / RAPHAËL DE NICOLA / FLORIAN MANN / DAN MILÉA / PIERRE-OLIVIER BARALE
    La 4ª edición de Urgencias en oftalmología recoge los últimos avances y actualizaciones sobre el tratamiento y el diagnóstico de patologías que habitualmente se consideran urgencias oftalmológicas. Con un enfoque eminentemente práctico, este manual insiste especialmente en el razonamiento clínico, el análisis para la toma de decisiones y las pautas de actuación mediante la...

    $614.29

  • POLYMERIC DRUGS AND DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
    RAPHAEL M. OTTENBRITE AND SUNG WAN KIM
    Polymeric materials are now playing an increasingly important role in pharmaceuticals, as well as in sensing devices, in situ prostheses and probes, and microparticle diagnostic agents. This new volume consists of twenty-two recent research-based reports on the developments in these areas of pharmaceutical and biomaterials technology. The reports w ...

    $1,200.00

  • DRUGS AND FOREIGN POLICY
    RAPHAEL F. PERL
    Controlling illegal trafficking in narcotics is a complex challenge. Dilemmas for policymakers abound. Despite new measures adopted by the international community that have led to tactical victories, the flow of illicit drugs into the United States continues largely unabated, and worldwide production of opium, marijuana, and coca continues to grow dramatically. In this timely w...

    $820.00

  • RELIGION, FEMINISM, AND IDOLOCLASM
    MELISSA RAPHAEL
    Religion, Feminism, and Idoloclasm identifies religious and secular feminism’s common critical moment as that of idol-breaking. It reads the women’s liberation movement as founded upon a philosophically and emotionally risky attempt to liberate women’s consciousness from a three-fold cognitive captivity to the self-idolizing god called ‘Man’; the ‘God’ who is a projection of hi...

    $1,240.00

  • THE SEVEN PRACTICES OF MENTALLY SUPERIOR ATHLETES
    RAPHAEL WALD
    Once athletes reach the highest levels of competition in college and professional sports, the mental aspect of the game becomes increasingly vital to performance. The Seven Practices of Mentally Superior Athletes is a short and snappy reference text intended for repeated use that explains the importance of the mental side of the game and offers concise advice for improvement. W...

    $640.00

  • PARENT-INFANT PSYCHODYNAMICS
    JOAN RAPHAEL-LEFF
    This text focuses on the interweaving psychic realities and unconscious dynamics between family members in the context of changing patterns of socio-cultural expectations, ethical considerations and biological realities. ...

    $1,060.00

  • REPRESENTATIONS OF SLAVERY IN CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS
    RAPHAEL ROGERS
    Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this book examines how slavery is represented in contemporary children’s picture books. Through analysis of recently published picture books about slavery, Rogers discusses how these books engage with and respond to the historiography of the institution of slavery. Expl...

    $1,160.00

  • RAILWAY READING AND LATE-VICTORIAN LITERARY SERIES
    PAUL RAPHAEL ROONEY
    The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed by exploring the leading determinants of consumers’ p...

    $1,240.00


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