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  • STUDIES IN THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF THE YEMEN AND SOUTH ARABIA
    G. REX SMITH
    This volume brings together a set of widely scattered articles spanning some thirty years of research on early and medieval Yemen and South Arabia. They cover the political and military history of the area, from the beginning of Islam to the Ottoman conquest in 1517, with the establishment of the Zaydis and then the Ayyubids as key events. Particular attention is given to the 1...

    $1,480.00

  • SOCIETY AND TRADE IN SOUTH ARABIA
    R.B. SERJEANT / G. REX SMITH
    This book is the fourth and final collection of Professor R.B. Serjeant's articles on the trade, commerce and society of South Arabia and the Yemen. The early articles concern trade; customary law is the next subject represented with social history and one or two incidental articles completing the volume. ...

    $1,040.00

  • FINN'S THERMAL PHYSICS
    ANDREW REX / C.B.P. FINN
    This fully updated and expanded new edition continues to provide the most readable, concise, and easy-to-follow introduction to thermal physics. While maintaining the style of the original work, the book now covers statistical mechanics and incorporates worked examples systematically throughout the text. It also covers more problems, and incorporates some essential updates, suc...

    $1,600.00

  • HITLER'S SHATTERED DREAMS OF EMPIRE
    REX BASHFORD
    There have been many books on Adolf Hitler and specific military campaigns and battles during the time of the Third Reich. However, there has never been a comprehensive analysis of Hitler's role as the supreme military leader of the Third Reich across all the major campaigns. He combined every senior position in government and the armed forces until he was at the same time Supr...

    $274.00

  • HITLER'S IMPERFECT VICTORIES
    REX BASHFORD
    A comprehensive analysis of Hitler's role as the supreme military leader of the Third Reich across all the major campaigns. There have been many books on Adolf Hitler and specific military campaigns and battles during the time of the Third Reich. However, there has never been a comprehensive analysis of Hitler's role as the supreme military leader of the Third Reich across all ...

    $274.00

  • TRANS* POLICIES & EXPERIENCES IN HOUSING & RESIDENCE LIFE
    JASON C. GARVEY, STEPHANIE H. CHANG, Z NICOLAZZO, REX JACKSON, KATHLEEN G. KERR
    Co-published with What are the institutional politics associated with fostering trans* inclusive policies? When formalizing a policy, what unanticipated challenges may emerge? How are students, particularly trans* students, influenced by the implementation of gender-inclusive housing practices and policies? Also, what are campus administrators and practitioners learning from th...

    $980.00

  • COLONIAL IMMIGRANTS IN A BRITISH CITY
    JOHN REX / SALLY TOMLINSON / DAVID HEARNDEN / PETER RATCLIFFE
    Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a British city. Based on a four-year research project in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, the book is a study of race and community relations – political, social, economic and personal – in a major centre of immigrant settlement. It consid...

    $960.00

  • FRESH PRODUCE SHIPPING
    REX C. TESTER
    This book is an in-depth study of air and ocean goods-in-transit claims. It sets out to guide and assist businesses within the fresh produce industry to successfully implement the best processes and procedures to maximise their recovery efforts against contracted carriers. Fresh Produce Shipping focuses heavily on protecting the rights and recovery aspects of companies involved...

    $800.00

  • PUBLIC MEMORY, RACE, AND HERITAGE TOURISM OF EARLY AMERICA
    CATHY REX AND SHEVAUN E. WATSON
    This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race, and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America’s earliest engagements with race. It includes contributions from a diverse group of humanities scholars, including early Americanists, and scholars from communication, English, museum studies, hist...

    $1,120.00

  • AIR CARGO CLAIMS
    REX TESTER
    The structure of air cargo claims is highly complex. Claimants may often have difficulty in establishing against whom they should make their claim. With the emphasis on practicality, this text is aimed at the entire air cargo industry from airlines and their insurers to freight forwarders, and importers and exporters. It illustrates the demarcation of responsibilites and liabil...

    $5,500.00

  • GEOGRAPHY IN BRITISH SCHOOLS, 1885-2000
    REX WALFORD
    This history charts how geography rose to popularity on a tide of imperial enthusiasms in Victorian time and made its way into many elementary schools in the latter half of the 19th century. Many geography lessons were not dominated by the rote-learning of "capes and bays" and some of the pioneers of the subject led the way in the use of models, visual aids and "object lessons"...

    $1,380.00

  • SANCTUARY AND SURVIVAL
    REX BRYNEN
    This book analyses the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) "Lebanese era" and its aftermath, of the changing position of the Palestinian nationalist movement in Lebanon. It presents the PLO's efforts to maintain for itself a secure political and military base of operations in Lebanon. ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MAKING UP YOUR MIND
    REX V. BROWN
    The Art and Science of Making Up Your Mind presents basic decision-making principles and tools to help the reader respond efficiently and wisely to everyday dilemmas. Although most decisions are made informally (whether intuitively without deliberate thought, or based on careful reflection), over the centuries people have tried to develop systematic, scientific and structured w...

    $1,340.00

  • MINDFULNESS-BASED INTERVENTION RESEARCH
    CHRISTIAN U. KRÄGELOH / MARCUS A. HENNING / OLEG MEDVEDEV / XUAN JOANNA FENG / FIONA MOIR / REX BILLINGTO
    This book provides an outline and critical discussion of the characteristics of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) research. Since the first reports on the use of mindfulness practices in health interventions, a large body of research literature has emerged to document the effectiveness of MBIs for reducing psychological distress and to increase well-being. The integration ...

    $1,100.00

  • ECHOES OF THE INTIFADA
    REX BRYNEN
    Important historical turning points often seem to be unpredicted until they are upon us. For most observers (the author included) the Palestinian uprising that erupted in December 1987 was unexpected-not because the depth of Palestinian national aspirations or the growing strength of Palestinian socio-political organization under occupation were un ...

    $820.00

  • A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DATABASE DESIGN
    REX HOGAN
    Fully updated and expanded from the previous edition, A Practical Guide to Database Design, Second Edition is intended for those involved in the design or development of a database system or application. It begins by illustrating how to develop a Third Normal Form data model where data is placed “where it belongs”. The reader is taken step-by-step through the Normalization proc...

    $1,360.00

  • LANDSCAPE AND POWER IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA
    REX KOONTZ
    From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the center of their urban spaces. The sixteenth century description of Tenochtitlan by Bernal Diaz del Castillo and the archaeological remnants of Teotihuacan attest to the power and cent...

    $1,800.00

  • WORLDS COLLIDING
    REX J. AHDAR
    This title was first published in 2001. Worlds Colliding argues that the prevailing worldview held by those in positions of power in Western government sets the bounds for religious tolerance.  It explores the degree to which a modern liberal state will allow a counter-cultural community the freedom to live according to its concept of the good life. ...

    $1,480.00

  • INTERNATIONAL ENERGY LAW
    REX J. ZEDALIS
    The international legal rules affecting renewable alternative energy resources are amongst the most important legal and environmental concerns of the near future. As traditional energy sources are depleted, new technologies are being developed to harness the potentials of wave, current and tidal energy, coastal wind power, offshore geothermal, polar energy resources and space-...

    $1,540.00

  • PHILOSOPHY, NEUROSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
    REX WELSHON
    Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque and strange. This introduction to the problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of mind of the past thirty years and presen...

    $1,120.00

  • ANGLO-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF INDIANNESS, 1629-1824
    CATHY REX
    Examining the appropriations and revisions of Indian identity first carried out by Anglo-American engravers and later by early Anglo-American women writers, Cathy Rex shows the ways in which iconic images of Native figures inform not only an emerging colonial/early republican American identity but also the authorial identity of white women writers. Women such as Mary Rowlandson...

    $660.00

  • THE ŽIŽEK DICTIONARY
    REX BUTLER
    Slavoj Žižek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings – across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion – always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal funda...

    $1,160.00

  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF NIETZSCHE
    REX WELSON
    This important new introduction to Nietzsche's philosophical work provides readers with an excellent framework for understanding the central concerns of his philosophical and cultural writings. It shows how Nietzsche's ideas have had a profound influence on European philosophy and why, in recent years, Nietzsche scholarship has become the battleground for debates between the an...

    $1,160.00

  • CRUDE CARRIER
    REX BURNS
    Two detectives take to the high seas after a sailor's death in a mystery that "succeeds in making life aboard a huge oil tanker both fascinating and scary" ( Publishers Weekly). The Rossi family received only a handful of letters after their son shipped out on the supertanker  Aurora Victorious. The first dispatches were from Harold himself, describing the blend of tedium and e...

    $249.00

  • SOCIOLOGY AND THE DEMYSTIFICATION OF THE MODERN WORLD (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    REX, JOHN
    Professor Rex’s controversial book concerns not only those who are professional sociologists but all thinking people who live in the modern world. One of the objects of sociology is to give ‘power to the people’, to make a contribution to the understanding of political problems. Rex writes from a deep conviction that sociology is a subject whose insights should be made availabl...

    $1,320.00

  • DISCOVERING SOCIOLOGY (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    JOHN REX
    Professor John Rex was one of Britain’s most eminent sociologists, and a teacher of a whole generation of sociology students. In this book he presents a stimulating introduction to the major issues of sociological theory and gives an account of the perspective which has informed his thinking and writing. He deals with the objectives of sociological investigation, the methods it...

    $1,320.00

  • THE BRITISH ECONOMY SINCE 1914
    REX POPE
    An up to date short study which examines the key debates on British economic performance since 1914. Rex Pope considers the indicators and measures involved in assessing economic performance and then looks at issues affecting the economy such as the role of government, British entrepreneurship, the state of world markets, the effect of the two world wars and the importance of c...

    $1,120.00

  • COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS IN PHYSICS
    ANDREW REX
    In the 300 years since Newton's seminal work, physics has explained many things that used to be mysterious. Particularly in the last century, physics has addressed a range of questions, from the smallest fundamental particles to the large-scale structure and history of the entire universe. But there are always more questions.Suitable for a wide aud ...

    $860.00

  • WAR AND SOCIETY IN BRITAIN 1899-1948
    REX POPE
    Rex Pope reassesses the impact of war on the political and social structures of British society during the first half of the twentieth century, and introduces the reader to current debates about the relationship between war and change. ...

    $1,120.00

  • EDUCATING STUDENTS IN POVERTY
    MARK LINEBURG / REX GEARHEART
    Tackling a growing challenge in today’s schools, experienced educators Lineburg and Gearheart present an honest picture of how poverty affects students, families, and the school community at large. They offer a host of practical applications that can be used in every school district in America to meet those challenges head-on! Written for preK–12 teachers, leaders, and staff, E...

    $860.00


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