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  • RECORDING ORCHESTRA AND OTHER CLASSICAL MUSIC ENSEMBLES
    RICHARD KING
    Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles explores techniques and methodologies specific to recording classical music. Whether the reader is a newcomer or a seasoned engineer looking to refine their skills, this book speaks to all levels of expertise and covers every aspect of recording symphonic and concerto repertoire, opera, chamber music and solo piano. With a...

    $1,100.00

  • SOLAR DECATHLON
    MELISSA DIGENNARO KING / RICHARD JAMES KING
    This book is an inspirational story about how an idea got started, hit the ground running, and took flight. Solar Decathlon (SD) was a response to the need for innovative solutions to address a global problem—climate change. Richard King believed a collegiate competition that encouraged creative ingenuity could help transform traditional ways of designing and building houses. H...

    $2,000.00

  • ANTHROPOLOGY BEYOND CULTURE
    RICHARD G. FOX / ‎BARBARA J. KING
    Culture is a vexed concept within anthropology. From their earliest studies, anthropologists have often noted the emotional attachment of people to their customs, even in cases where this loyalty can make for problems. Do anthropologists now suffer the same kind of disability with respect to their continuing emotional attachment to the concept of culture? This book considers th...

    $1,100.00

  • DESIGN OF BIOMEDICAL DEVICES AND SYSTEMS
    PAUL H. KING / RICHARD C. FRIES / ARTHUR T. JOHNSON
      This fourth edition is a substantial revision of a highly regarded text, intended for senior design capstone courses within departments of biomedical engineering, bioengineering, biological engineering and medical engineering, worldwide. Each chapter has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the latest developments. New material has been added on entrepreneurship, bi...

    $4,500.00

  • BEYOND HATE
    C. RICHARD KING / DAVID J. LEONARD
    Beyond Hate offers a critical ethnography of the virtual communities established and discursive networks activated through the online engagements of white separatists, white nationalists, and white supremacists with various popular cultural texts, including movies, music, television, sport, video games, and kitsch. Outlining the ways in which advocates of white power interpret ...

    $1,160.00

  • NATIVE AMERICANS IN SPORTS
    C. RICHARD KING
    Offers full coverage of Native American athletes and athletics from historical, cultual and indigenous perspectives, from before European intervention to the 21st century. There are entries devoted to broader cultural themes, and how these affect and are affected by the sport. ...

    $4,600.00

  • THE EFFECTIVE CHANGE MANAGER'S HANDBOOK
    RICHARD SMITH, DAVID KING, RANJIT SIDHU, DAN SKELSEY
    The Effective Change Manager's Handbook helps practitioners, employers and academics define and practise change management successfully and develop change management maturity within their organization. A single-volume learning resource covering the range of knowledge required, it includes chapters from established thought leaders on topics ranging from benefits management, stak...

    $1,249.00

  • ASIAN AMERICAN ATHLETES IN SPORT AND SOCIETY
    C. RICHARD KING
    For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress this pattern of neglect, presenting a comprehensive perspective on the history a...

    $1,460.00

  • FINANCING PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    KERN ALEXANDER / RICHARD G. SALMON / F. KING ALEXANDER
    Financing Public Schools moves beyond the basics of financing public elementary and secondary education to explore the historical, philosophical, and legal underpinnings of a viable public school system. Coverage includes the operational aspects of school finance, including issues regarding teacher salaries and pensions, budgeting for instructional programs, school transportati...

    $2,420.00

  • OBAMA AND RACE
    KING, RICHARD H
    In this collection, academics from both sides of the Atlantic analyze the confluence of a politician, a process, and a problem - Barack Obama, the 2008 US presidential election, and the 'problem' of race in contemporary America. The special focus falls upon Barack Obama himself, who appears in many guises: as an individual from biracial and transnational backgrounds; a skilled,...

    $1,160.00

  • ORIENTALISM AND RELIGION
    RICHARD KING
    Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-str...

    $1,160.00

  • SELLING SPIRITUALITY
    JEREMY CARRETTE / RICHARD KING
    From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism. Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how spirituality has in fact become a powerful commodity in the global marketplace - a cultur...

    $1,100.00

  • GUTTERIDGE AND MEGRAH'S LAW OF BANKERS' COMMERCIAL CREDITS
    RICHARD KING
    Presents a systematic study of the law of bankers' commercial credits. Bringing together materials which are to be found scattered throughout the various series of English law reports, this title presents a systematic study of the law relating to commercial credits as applied today. It also contains a detailed exposition of the ICC's Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary...

    $6,900.00

  • BLENDING GENDERS
    RICHARD EKINS / DAVID KING
    First published in 1995, the book describes personal experiences of those who cross-dress and sex change, how they organise themselves socially - in both `outsider' and `respectable' communities. The contributors consider the dominant medical framework through which gender blending is so often seen and look at the treatment afforded gender blending in literature, the press and ...

    $2,040.00

  • LA CAJA DE BOTONES DE GWENDY
    KING STEPHEN / CHIZMAR RICHARD
    Existen tres vías para llegar a Castle View desde la ciudad de Castle Rock: por la carretera 117, por Pleasant Road y por las Escaleras de los Suicidios. Cada día del verano de 1974, Gwendy Peterson, de doce años de edad, toma el camino de las escaleras, que ascienden en zigzag por la ladera rocosa. Pero un día, al llegar a lo alto, mientras recupera el aliento con la cara roja...
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    $329.00

  • OCEAN BESTIARY
    RICHARD J. KING
    A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea—whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking.   For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planet’s most inaccessible region, the place about which we know the least. From A to Z, abalone to zooplankton, and through both text and original illustrations, Ocean Bestiary is a celeb...

    $384.34

  • AHAB'S ROLLING SEA
    RICHARD J. KING
    Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff...

    $419.30

  • ARENDT AND AMERICA
    RICHARD H. KING
    German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On Revolution. Yet, despite the fact that a substantial portion of her oeuvre was written in America, not Europe, no ...

    $506.69

  • EARLY CINEMA AND THE "NATIONAL"
    RICHARD ABEL / GIORGIO BERTELLINI / ROB KING
    Essays on "how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed 'communities of nationality' . . . recommended." — Choice While many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the "National" is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only vis...

    $229.00

  • THE TRANSGENDER PHENOMENON
    RICHARD EKINS / DAVE KING
    "Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field. The book brings together a brilliant synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich but always grounded account of this field, providing a state of the art of critical concepts and ideas to take this field further du...

    $1,793.47