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  • READING GEOFFREY CHAUCER
    ROBERT J. MEYER-LEE
    Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works’ deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day. Each chapter connects Chaucer’s world with particular problems of our own, such as autocratic patriarchal so...

    $1,040.00

  • CHALLENGING THE SINGULARITY OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
    ROBERT L. OSGOOD
    This thought-provoking textbook explores how special education became distinct from general education over time, through changes in teacher education, research funding, teacher licensure, school organization, and student stratification. Each chapter offers key ideas and discussion questions that invite readers to examine the construct of disability and how it came to merit an e...

    $1,240.00

  • POLITICAL EDUCATION
    ROBERT BROWNHILL / PATRICIA SMART
    A debate has been in existence as to whether political education—or indeed political argument of any kind—should be kept out of the classroom. There are those who argue that political education is synonymous with indoctrination and others who suggest that education is by its nature political. For those who agree that there should be a distinct political aspect of the curriculum...

    $1,480.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
    ROBERT D. GALLIERS
    The field of information systems has been evolving since the first application of computers in organizations in the early 1950s. Focusing on information systems analysis and design up to and including the 1980s, the field has expanded enormously, with our assumptions about information and knowledge being challenged, along with both intended and unintended consequences of inform...

    $1,380.00

  • CONCEPTUAL ART AFTER MODERNISM
    ROBERT BAILEY
    This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950. Robert Bailey shows how distinctions between art and art history gave way as conceptual thinking provided artists and art historians with a common means to reassess what art could be and do in t...

    $1,240.00

  • VOICE: ONSTAGE AND OFF
    ROBERT BARTON / ROCCO DAL VERA
    This new and updated edition of Voice: Onstage and Off is a comprehensive guide to the process of building, mastering, and fine-tuning the voice for performance. Revised with the contemporary actor in mind, this fourth edition empowers actors wishing to master their voice as performers. Every aspect of vocal work is covered, from the initial speech impulse and the creation of s...

    $1,240.00

  • PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS AS TEACHERS
    PARIS S. STROM / ROBERT D. STROM
    A guide for families in teaching infants through age 8, this insightful book showcases how both parents and grandparents can support greater family success, and how creative collaboration can produce benefits for each generation. Having developed the nation’s first curriculum for grandparents and field-tested the intervention program with support from the American Association o...

    $860.00

  • THE SERVANT LEADER
    ROBERT B. CAMP
    This book details the way servant leaders think and act. It emphasizes the role of humility in the work of great leaders. Servant leaders see it as their job to grow their people and to remove obstacles from their paths. The servant leader looks ahead and sets out a path for the rest of the organization to follow. We see that dynamic occur as Thomas (the book’s central characte...

    $840.00

  • MODERN LABOR ECONOMICS
    RONALD G. EHRENBERG / ROBERT S. SMITH / KEVIN F. HALLOCK
    Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its fifteenth edition, continues to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It offers a thorough overview of the modern theory of labor market behavior and reveals how this theory is used to analyze public policy. Designed for students who may not have exte...

    $4,500.00

  • FOR US AND FOR OUR SALVATION
    ROBERT E. SCHMITZ
    A renewal of pastoral theology is required to address the growing disconnect between the proclamation of the way of Jesus Christ and the lives of contemporary believers. Pastoral ministers need to explore a dimension of the truth called performatory truth. This dimension inspires life-construction. It must glean from the revelation what faith does to believers, for believers, a...

    $497.00

  • CLASS-D AUDIO POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGN
    ROBERT N. BUONO
    Class-D Audio Power Amplifier Design is a comprehensive and detailed guide to Class-D amplifiers. Including historical perspectives covering the evolution of Class-D to the present day, this book provides a detailed discussion of each Class-D functional block. With design guidance to optimize performance, the reader will learn from a series of real-life examples and design chal...

    $2,320.00

  • THE REAL PINK PANTHER
    ROBERT SELLERS
    Unveils the untold story of the iconic franchise, exploring its origins, secrets, and the complex legacy of Peter Sellers. The Pink Panther series is one of the most enduring and financially successful franchises in movie history, beginning with 1963’s The Pink Panther, which introduced audiences to the iconic Inspector Clouseau, unforgettably played by Peter Sellers. Drawing o...

    $319.99

  • BAREBOAT CHARTERS
    EDWARD JONES / JAMES LEABEATER KC / RANI NOAKES / SEAN O'SULLIVAN KC / ROBERT SCRIVENER / THOMAS STEWARD /  
    This book examines and explains the law relevant to bareboat or demise charterparties, a common form of maritime contract used by both operators of vessels and also as a form of lease finance. Its principal aim is to set out a structured analysis of all the rights and obligations of the parties to a bareboat charter. This will include consideration of the nature of the contract...

    $12,500.00

  • WHY AMERICA DIDN'T BECOME GREAT AGAIN
    ROBERT CHERNOMAS / IAN HUDSON
    Examining the conditions that not only blocked attempts to make America great again but also actively made the country worse, Why America Didn’t Become Great Again identifies those organizations, institutions, politicians, and prominent characters in the forefront of the economic and social policies – ultimately asking who is responsible. The period from the late 1970s to 2020s...

    $900.00

  • SURVIVING OUR CATASTROPHES
    ROBERT JAY LIFTON
    From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination that ”cuts through the existential fog to reveal something like hope” (The Washington Post) In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton shows us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pand...

    $319.00

  • SET THEORY
    ROBERT ANDRÉ
    Contemporary students of mathematics differ considerably from those of half a century ago. In spite of this, many textbooks written decades ago, and now considered to be “classics”, are still prescribed for students today. These texts are not suitable for today’s students. This text is meant for and written to today’s mathematics students. Set theory is a pure mathematics endea...

    $2,540.00

  • RESEARCH METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES IN EDUCATION
    ROBERT COE
    Your #1 resource for carrying out educational research as part of postgraduate study.High-quality educational research requires careful consideration of every aspect of the process. This all-encompassing textbook written by leading international experts gives you a considered overview of the principles that underpin research, and key qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods ...

    $1,922.57

  • MCKENZIE'S AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY & PUBLIC HEALTH
    DENISE SEABERT / JAMES F. MCKENZIE / ROBERT R. PINGER
    Now in its eleventh edition, McKenzie's An Introduction to Community & Public Health includes the latest topics, trends, and statistics in this evolving field. With an emphasis on developing the knowledge and skills necessary for a career in health education and health promotion, this best-selling introductory text covers such topics as epidemiology, community organizations, pr...

    $619.32

  • EVIDENCE-BASED NUTRITIONAL GUIDANCE FOR HEALTH MANAGEMENT
    ROBERT FRIED
    This book presents an anthology of nutrition articles containing advice, information, and tips for achieving optimal health. Examples of topics covered include the role of type 2 diabetes in heart disease; omega-3s and fish oil supplements; nutrition for the skin; how antioxidants in common foods protect against free radicals; testing for low thyroid; how atherosclerosis damage...

    $1,300.00

  • MAXWELL ANDERSON AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
    ROBERT J. RABEL
    This book sheds new light on the dramatic works of the American playwright, poet, and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, assessing the pervasive influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on his plays that dominated Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Anderson is an important, though often forgotten, figure in the history of American drama and the Classical Tradition. The ...

    $1,240.00

  • ENERGY USE IN BITCOIN MINING
    BENJAMIN A. JONES / ANDREW L. GOODKIND / ROBERT P. BERRENS
    This book provides a unique introduction to Bitcoin mining’s energy use and environmental impacts. Bitcoin, the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency, has ignited the world of decentralized finance and digital currencies. However, Bitcoin has a major problem: it uses massive amounts of energy to produce or ‘mine’ the coins, and this energy use has tremendous environmental ...

    $1,240.00

  • VALOR AND VULNERABILITY
    ROBERT C. DYKSTRA
    Intimacy, vulnerability, precarity, resiliency, and loss are ingredients of any life, though they take on particular shape and tone when we listen to the experiences of boys and men. The voices and stories of men and boys are invitations for pastoral ministers and theologians to understand and respond to their joys, struggles, and sorrows, as well as to recognize and affirm the...

    $763.00

  • BIBLICAL FAMILIES IN MUSIC
    ROBERT L. KENDRICK
    Examines how stories of biblical families were reconfigured and projected in the genre of the oratorio, a form of sacred opera, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Based to a great extent on the Old Testament, the largely Catholic musical-dramatic genre was popular in Italy, Austria, and southern Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Biblical Families in...

    $873.73

  • LIVING BEYOND LOSS
    ROBERT A. NEIMEYER
    Listening to the bereaved—really listening—brings into sharp focus two things: their pain and their questions. In Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement, noted psychologist Robert Neimeyer compassionately engages the heartfelt inquiries of real bereaved people who have lost parents and partners, siblings and children, to illness, tragic accident, ...

    $540.00

  • PATTERNS OF EDUCATION IN THE BRITISH ISLES
    ROBERT BELL / NIGEL GRANT
    First published in 1977, Patterns of Education in the British Isles is the first modern discussion of the educational systems of the British Isles and the ways in which they influence each other. It is no arid account of administrative structures but the first major attempt to set the systems in their cultural, political, and historical context, and to relate them to each other...

    $1,480.00

  • THE LANGUAGE OF SMELL
    ROBERT BURTON
    The sense of smell is at least equally important to may animals as sight and hearing. This important fact had previously been largely overlooked and is the subject of this fascinating study of the animal kingdom, The Language of Smell, originally published in 1976. Robert Burton, a zoologist and writer on wildlife, surveys the use of the sense of smell, from ants and butterflie...

    $1,480.00

  • SWEET OBSESSION
    KATEE ROBERT
    He was mine to protect. Mine to adore. Mine to lose forever. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Poseidon and Icarus.* Icarus may not have flown particularly close to the sun, but he has fallen…right into the rough hands of Olympus's own Poseidon. Being held captive by the gentle giant wouldn't be so bad if Olympus wasn't on the eve of destruction…or if Poseidon stopped look...

    $202.00

  • MERCENARIES AND SECURITY CONTRACTORS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    EUGENIO CUSUMANO, CHRISTOPHER KINSEY, AND ROBERT PARR
    This book examines the debate over private security contractors, using historical and contemporary cases, including several non-Western examples. Since the end of the Cold War, security privatization has grown in its geographical outreach, breadth, and scope. This pervasive expansion of the private military and security market warrants a systematic investigation of commercial a...

    $1,240.00

  • BLACK AMERICAN’S STRENGTHS-BASED CULTURAL PRACTICES
    ROBERT T. CARTER / ALEX PIETERSE / JESSICA FORSYTH
    Black Americans' Strengths-Based Cultural Practices: Tools for Clinicians to Promote Psychological Well-Being uses historical, social, scientific, and psychological research to detail how mental health professionals can use the cultural practices of Black Americans and communities to promote positive psychosocial health. Building on experiences of racial oppression and cultural...

    $980.00

  • EATING WITH JESUS
    ROBERT D. CORNWALL
    You go to church on a Sunday morning. It's Communion Sunday and when it comes time for Communion, the presider issues an invitation on behalf of Jesus because it's Jesus' table, not the church's table. However, this invitation includes qualifiers. Are you baptized? Are you a member of the denomination? Do you affirm the church's doctrinal statement? Have you repented of your si...

    $391.00