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  • AMAZING TALES VOLUME 157
    RICHARD REIN SMITH ET AL.
    Dive into the captivating worlds of "Amazing Tales Volume 157", where themes of adventure, transformation, and cosmic intrigue await. This anthology offers a collection of stories that span the far reaches of space, unraveling the mysteries and challenges faced by a diverse cast of characters. In "The Beast of Boredom", Richard Rein Smith invites readers into a thrilling landsc...

    $39.70

  • TECHNIQUES OF ILLUSION
    KATHARINA REIN
    This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “golden age” and analyses them within their cultural and media-historical context: “Pepper’s Ghost,” the archetypical mirror illus...

    $1,100.00

  • THE ANGRY HOUSE AND FIVE MORE STORIES
    RICHARD REIN SMITH
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five stories by Richard Rein Smith: "The Angry House", "Compatible", "The Snare", "Pick a Crime", and "Alien Equivalent". ...

    $39.70

  • JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE IN SOUTH AMERICA
    RAANAN REIN
    Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense groups in the wake of an anti-Semitic wave that swept the Southern Cone in the 1960s. The kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960 and his trial and execution in Israel in 1962, as well as the assassination of the Latvian war c...

    $1,160.00

  • CRISIS TALK
    REIN OVE SIKVELAND / HEIDI KEVOE-FELDMAN / ELIZABETH STOKOE
    Based on extensive analysis of real-time, authentic crisis encounters collected in the UK and US, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis sheds light on the relatively hidden world of communication between people in crisis and the professionals whose job it is to help them. The crisis situations explored in this book involve police hostage and crisis negotiators and...

    $780.00

  • ILLUSION IN CULTURAL PRACTICE
    KATHARINA REIN
    This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world in which we live. Considering different cultural practices characterized by illusionism, this book suggests a new approach to illusion via media theory. Each of the chapters analyses a specific kind...

    $1,100.00

  • ITERATIVE DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
    REIN LUUS
    Dynamic programming is a powerful method for solving optimization problems, but has a number of drawbacks that limit its use to solving problems of very low dimension. To overcome these limitations, author Rein Luus suggested using it in an iterative fashion. Although this method required vast computer resources, modifications to his original schem ...

    $5,100.00

  • PUBLIC/PRIVATE INTERPLAY IN SOCIAL PROTECTION
    MARTIN REIN / LEE RAINWATER
    This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic - a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic concepts, including justifications of liberty, harm to others, private property rights, distributive justice, environmental harms, help to others and offensive behaviour. Gaus acquaints t...

    $1,100.00

  • ESTONIA
    REIN TAAGEPERA
    After breaking free from the Bolsheviks in 1918, Estonia enjoyed independence until 1940 when the country was subsumed by the Soviet Union. Not until 1991 was Estonia able to make its next successful bid for sovereignty. In this book, Rein Taagepera traces the evolution of Estonia from prehistory to the present, when a radical turn of events in the former Soviet Union once agai...

    $1,320.00

  • DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY
    MARTIN REIN / HANS EYSENCK
    This is the original work on which Hans Eysenck's fifty years of research have been built. It introduced many new ideas about the nature and measurement of personality into the field, related personality to abnormal psychology, and demonstrated the possibility of testing personality theory experimentally. The book is the result of a concentrated and cooperative effort to discov...

    $1,360.00

  • REVIVAL: FROM POLICY TO PRACTICE (1983)
    MARTIN REIN
    This title was first published 1983. A common method, concern, and argument underlie all of these essays. The method is 'value critical'. The concern is with a more institutionally grounded understanding of why governments do what they do. The argument is substantive, dealing with concrete issues such as the claim for economic resources, social protection and the organization o...

    $1,280.00

  • DECOLLECTIVISATION, DESTRUCTION AND DISILLUSIONMENT
    ILKKA ALANEN / JOUKO NIKULA / REIN RUUTSOO
    This title was first published in 2001. A depiction of the decollectivization process of agriculture and the rebirth of capitalistic relations in Southern Estonia - with all their consequences at various levels of social structure and social relations. ...

    $540.00

  • THE CHANCERY OF GOD
    NATHAN REIN
    The disastrous protestant defeat in the Schmalkaldic War (1546-47) and the promulgation of the Ausburg Interim (1548) left the fate of German Protestantism in doubt. In the wake of these events, a single protestant town, Magdeburg, offered organized, sustained resistance to Emperor Charles V's drive to consolidate Habsburg hegemony and reinstitute uniform Roman Catholic worship...

    $1,480.00

  • POLITICS AND EDUCATION IN ARGENTINA, 1946-1962
    MONICA REIN
    This study focuses on the formal education system in Argentina during the 1940s, the 1950s, and the early 1960s. It analyzes the link between politics and education against the backdrop of changing social conditions in Argentina under the regimes of Peron, Lonardi and Aramburu (the Liberating Revolution), and Frondizi, by evaluating textbooks, official bulletins, childrens' per...

    $1,160.00

  • THE INDUSTRIES OF JAPAN
    J. J. REIN
    First published in 1889, this facsimile edition makes available an important historical work on Japanese industry. It is a comprehensive survey of the state of Japanese industry at the end of the nineteenth century, covering agriculture and forestry, mining, the arts, textiles, paper, trade and commerce, including the foreign trade of Japan since the opening of the country by C...

    $1,240.00

  • JAPAN
    J. J. REIN
    First published in 1884, this remains a compelling and authoritative overview of Japan at the turn of the century. Encompassing physical geography, flora and fauna, history, social conditions, ethnography, and topography, many of the observations in this classic study hold true in modern Japan. ...

    $860.00

  • HUMAN RIGHTS DIPLOMACY
    REIN MULLERSON
    In this insightful analysis of human rights diplomacy Rein Mullerson examines the way foreign policy instruments are used to promote human rights abroad as well as how human rights issues are used for the sake of other foreign policy aims.The book explores the relationship between human rights and international stability, the role of non-governmental organisations, the business...

    $1,420.00

  • CENTRAL ASIA
    REIN MULLERSON
    This is an important analysis of a key but little-known region, in the wider context of world politics. Central Asia has huge oil and gas resources, divided between five independent states - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - each with their own problems and interests. The region is energy-rich and, being situated between Russia and China and clos...

    $1,560.00

  • THE FINNO-UGRIC REPUBLICS AND THE RUSSIAN STATE
    REIN TAAGEPERA
    First Published in 2000. This text provides a survey of the peoples who speak Finno-Ugric languages and have titular republics or autonomous regions within the post-Soviet Russian federation. Their languages have set them apart from their Turkic and Russian neighbours and helped to preserve their distinct identity, including their animist religious practices. Previous works on ...

    $4,500.00

  • IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST AND THE INQUISITION
    RAANAN REIN
    This is an analysis of the reasons for the failure of all efforts to establish diplomatic relations between Israel and Francoist Spain from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s. It uncovers the political discussions and the diplomatic moves of each country. ...

    $1,320.00

  • INTERNATIONAL LAW, RIGHTS AND POLITICS
    REIN MULLERSON
    Rein Mullerson was Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia during the country's independence struggles and is a distinguished professor of international relations. His book is concerned with the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system.He analyses events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR to throw light on broad and controversial issues inc...

    $1,640.00

  • FALLING IN OLD AGE
    REIN TIDEIKSAAR, PHD
    Falling is one of the most common causes of disability in later life and is also one of the most preventable. This book provides an enormous body of fall-related research that has been organized by the author into easy, digestible information for geriatric health professionals. Extensively updated and revised for its second edition, the book has direct clinical applications and...

    $1,685.00

  • COAL AND PEAT FIRES: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: VOLUME 4: PEAT – GEOLOGY, COMBUSTION, AND CASE STUDIES
    STRACHER, GLENN B. / PRAKASH, ANUPMA / REIN, GUILLERMO
    Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volumes 1–4, presents a fascinating collection of research about prehistoric and historic coal and peat fires. Magnificent illustrations of fires and research findings from countries around the world are featured—a totally new contribution to science. This last of four volumes in the collection, Peat--Geology, Combustion, and Case Stud...

    $2,326.00

  • COMO DESARROLLAR L/DONES Y TALENTOS DE SUS HIJOS
    REIN
    Agotado

    $46.00

  • DECISION SYSTEMS FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION PLANING
    REIN SILVER
    Agotado

    $3,219.71