Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert ward

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  • JAPAN’S EFFECTIVENESS AS A GEO-ECONOMIC ACTOR
    YUKA KOSHINO / ROBERT WARD
    Geo-economic strategy – deploying economic instruments to secure foreign-policy aims and to project power – has long been a key element of statecraft. In recent years, it has acquired even greater salience given China’s growing antagonism with the United States and the willingness of both Beijing and Washington to wield economic power in their confrontation. This trend has part...

    $580.00

  • THE DARK SIDE OF EMOTIONAL LABOUR
    JENNA WARD / ROBERT MCMURRAY
    The Dark Side of Emotional Labour explores the work that the rest of society would rather not think about, the often unseen work that is emotionally disturbing, exhausting, upsetting, and stigmatising. This is work that is simultaneously undesirable and rewarding, work whose tasks are eschewed and yet necessary for the effective function of individual organisations and society ...

    $1,360.00

  • METAL-BASED NEURODEGENERATION
    ROBERT CRICHTON / ROBERTA WARD
    Neurodegenerative diseases of the human brain appear in various forms, resulting in disorders of movement and coordination, cognitive deterioration and psychiatric disturbances. Many of the key factors leading to neurodegenerative diseases are similar, including the dysfunction of metal ion homeostasis, redox-active metal ions generating oxidative stress, and intracellular incl...

    $2,621.00

  • ACCELERATED EXPERTISE
    ROBERT R. HOFFMAN / PAUL WARD / PAUL J. FELTOVICH / LIA DIBELLO / STEPHEN M. FIORE / DEE H. ANDREWS
    Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still ordinarily takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs and professions, in government, business, industry, and throughout the private sector. There would be great advantages if regimens of training could be established that could accelerate the achievement of high levels of...

    $1,760.00

  • CROSS-CURRICULAR TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL... MATHEMATICS
    ROBERT WARD-PENNY
    Why is cross-curricular work so valuable in the mathematics classroom? Why can pupils sometimes draw graphs in mathematics but not in science? What might mathematics teachers learn from the performing arts? Cross-curricular approaches have much to offer the modern mathematics classroom. They can help teachers to present mathematics as a growing, relevant discipline that is cent...

    $960.00

  • THE BEST BAD DREAM
    ROBERT WARD
    A fed's debt to a sexy snitch leads to a darkly funny nightmare of double-crosses and sinister motives: "Ward is simply the best" (Michael Connelly).   All FBI Agent Jack Harper wants is a heavenly vacation in Baja: sand, surf, and fishing. Then he gets a phone call from hell: it's his for-lack-of-a-better-word girlfriend, Michelle Wu. The hot con-artist, and irresistible chop-...

    $169.00

  • EVALUATING JAPAN’S NEW GRAND STRATEGY
    ROBERT WARD
    Geopolitical stresses in the Indo-Pacific are increasing and intensifying. These stresses derive from China’s more assertive regional behaviour; growing alignments between China and Russia on the one hand and Russia and North Korea on the other; and most recently from the apparent recalibration of United States foreign policy under the second Trump administration. They have mag...

    $500.00

  • TOTAL IMMUNITY
    ROBERT WARD
    L.A. FBI agents are up against an unstoppable cop killer in this thriller by the PEN West Award–winning author Four Kinds of Rain. Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are two of the smartest, toughest FBI agents in Los Angeles. But they've met their match in diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach. Arrested during a sting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will kill them all. C...

    $119.00

  • BALTIMORE NOIR
    ROBERT WARD / JACK BLUDIS / ROB HIAASEN
    This original anthology of noir fiction set in Maryland's Charm City includes new stories by David Simon, Laura Lippman, Jim Fusilli, and more. As fans of the HBO series The Wire have known for years, Baltimore is home to a rich and diverse underworld that is matched by an equally rich and diverse literary tradition. This is the city where Dashiell Hammett worked as a Pinkerton...

    $229.00