Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robertson

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  • CULTURE SPECIFIC ITEMS IN CHINESE TO ENGLISH VIDEO GAME TRANSLATION
    DARIUSH ROBERTSON
    Culture Specific Items in Chinese to English Video Game Translation aims to investigate the Chinese to English translation of culture-specific items (CSIs) in the localisation of a wuxia role-playing game (RPG). This monograph provides groundbreaking insight into authentic practice and analyses a case study with theories from both translation studies and sociology to address qu...

    $1,240.00

  • OS IRMÃOS DE BAKER STREET
    MICHAEL ROBERTSON
    Os Irmãos de Baker Street Um mistério intrigante liderado por um advogado relutante Quando Reggie, um advogado brilhante que jurou nunca mais se envolver em casos criminais, é puxado para o coração de uma trama sombria, ele percebe que o passado nunca permanece enterrado. O que começa como uma tentativa de proteger sua família e amigos rapidamente o coloca no centro de uma cons...

    $61.00

  • THE MANAGER'S GUIDE TO INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
    L.F. NEAL / ANDREW ROBERTSON
    The Manager’s Guide to Industrial Relations (1968) traces the origins and evolution of the attitudes of managers and men from the beginning of industrialization to the Fawley Agreement. It summarises the development of personnel management and the contributions of the social scientists. It deals squarely with the British system of industrial relations, the shop stewards and the...

    $840.00

  • FLYING THROUGH THE RANKS
    G.A. 'BLACK' ROBERTSON
    The inspiration for this brilliant anthology is the ‘I Learnt About Flying from That’ articles that first appeared in the RAF Flight Safety magazine Air Clues in the 1940s and continues to feature in the magazine to this day. Flying Through the Ranks gets a five-star start with an extraordinary tale from a Marshal of the Royal Air Force and continues in the same vein. Men and w...

    $305.99

  • THE TRAVEL WRITINGS OF JOHN MOORE VOL 4
    BEN P ROBERTSON
    John Moore was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these, which brought him international fame. Despite this, his travel writings have not been available since 1820. This collection will be the first in almost two centuries to present his Travel Writings to historians and literary scholars. ...

    $4,500.00

  • THE TRAVEL WRITINGS OF JOHN MOORE VOL 3
    BEN P ROBERTSON
    John Moore was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these, which brought him international fame. Despite this, his travel writings have not been available since 1820. This collection will be the first in almost two centuries to present his Travel Writings to historians and literary scholars. ...

    $4,500.00

  • RELIGION AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES
    DAVID G. ROBERTSON
    Religion and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction is the first accessible volume to systematically examine the relationship between religion and conspiracy theories in the contemporary world in critical and historical perspective. It lays out the historical development of these important categories, considers different theoretical approaches and looks at case studies of conspir...

    $1,100.00

  • THE TRAVEL WRITINGS OF JOHN MOORE VOL 1
    BEN P ROBERTSON
    John Moore was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these, which brought him international fame. Despite this, his travel writings have not been available since 1820. This collection will be the first in almost two centuries to present his Travel Writings to historians and literary scholars. ...

    $4,500.00

  • THE TRAVEL WRITINGS OF JOHN MOORE VOL 2
    BEN P ROBERTSON
    John Moore was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these, which brought him international fame. Despite this, his travel writings have not been available since 1820. This collection will be the first in almost two centuries to present his Travel Writings to historians and literary scholars. ...

    $4,200.00

  • TIN
    WILLIAM ROBERTSON
    Originally published in 1982, this book is a survey of the world tin industry up until the late 20th Century. The author used many scattered and hard to access journal sources in the course of the book’s research. The book gives a wide-ranging picture of the world tin market and discusses factors affecting the market; the behaviour of production and consumption; trends and fluc...

    $840.00

  • THEORIZING THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF BELIEF
    LUKE J. MATTHEWS / PAUL ROBERTSON
    This book explores both scientific and humanistic theoretical traditions in anthropology through the lens of ontology. The first part of the book examines different methods for generating valid anthropological knowledge and proposes a shift in current consensus. Drawing on Western scholars of antiquity and the medieval period and moving away from 20th-century theorists, it argu...

    $1,160.00

  • CONTROLLED DRINKING
    NICK HEATHER / IAN ROBERTSON
    Originally published in 1981 and revised in 1983, Controlled Drinking was the first scholarly review of the literature on a controversial but increasingly practiced approach to the treatment of alcoholism. Nick Heather and Ian Robertson analyse all the pertinent questions that controlled drinking raises, starting with the need to examine the ‘disease conception’ of alcoholism a...

    $960.00

  • TRIANGLE OF DEATH
    FRANK ROBERTSON
    Triangle of Death (1977) examines the growth of the international heroin trade, and its control by the Chinese secret societies known as Triads. It looks at the Triads active in Hong Kong, the Golden Triangle and Amsterdam, and shows how these groups have spread across the Western world. ...

    $800.00

  • STORYTELLING IN MEDICINE
    COLIN ROBERTSON, GARETH CLEGG, JAMES HUNTLEY
    Throughout our lives, story is the medium each of us uses to make sense of our environment and relationships. Stories provide meaning and context, enriching our experiences and equipping us with a framework to navigate our existence. This unique, practical book for healthcare trainees, practitioners and educators explores the ideas and practice of narrative and storytelling tha...

    $560.00

  • 50 THINGS TO THINK ABOUT WHEN WRITING A THESIS
    DONNA STARKS / MARGARET J. ROBERTSON
    Moving away from a traditional ‘one size fits all’ approach, this thesis guide encourages readers to find their own path to submission, demonstrating that the process of writing is as unique as the individual candidate. This book shows thesis writers how to embrace the individual nature of writing, bringing their own unique identities and skillsets to their thesis. Each idea is...

    $780.00

  • RE-ENVISIONING FAMILY ENGAGEMENT AND LITERACY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSROOMS
    JULIA LÓPEZ-ROBERTSON / MELISSA WELLS
    Families are resources that are extremely powerful and important for young learners from minoritized backgrounds, yet such families are often overlooked, silenced, or ostracized. This book presents a much-needed framework for family and community engagement in the early childhood and elementary literacy classroom that embraces and foregrounds students’ unique cultural backgroun...

    $1,120.00

  • THE CREATOR OF THE WOMBLES
    KATE ROBERTSON
    This is the extraordinary story of Elisabeth Beresford, creator of The Wombles, the furry, fun-loving recyclers of rubbish which became a children's publishing and television sensation in the 1970s. What drove this imaginative and prolific writer of children's books to invent The Wombles? From her birth in Paris in 1926 to her death in the Channel Islands in 2010, Beresford's w...

    $251.00

  • BUILDING YOUR DIGITAL SANCTUARY
    BRANDAN J. ROBERTSON
    The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digital revolution faster than anyone expected. In a few weeks, faith communities around the world were thrust into developing fully digital ministries--some doing it well, and others struggling along the way. However, this moment of crisis opened the opportunity for all faith communities to reach unprecedented numbers of people and truly b...

    $391.00

  • OVER THE BORDER
    MORGAN ROBERTSON
    'Over the Border' is a fascinating tale about hypnosis and mesmerism. The narrator lost much of his memory for many years after leaving his former life as a sailor. One night he visits a theatre where a hypnotist is performing. On his way home on the tram, he hears two doctors discussing a case at the hospital - a man with amnesia. One doctor recommends hypnosis as therapy to t...

    $39.70

  • THE WRECK OF THE TITAN
    MORGAN ROBERTSON
    The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility is a novella written by Morgan Robertson and published as Futility in 1898, and revised as The Wreck of the Titan in 1912. It features a fictional British ocean liner Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. The Titan and its sinking are famous for similarities to the passenger ship RMS Titanic and its sinking 14 yea...

    $39.70

  • LIVES OF THE GREAT ROMANTICS, PART II
    FIONA ROBERTSON
    In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as well as into the art of 19th-century biography. ...

    $12,000.00

  • CAPTURED AT SINGAPORE
    JAN SLIMMING / JILL ROBERTSON
    What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again? Then depart on a ship in the dead of night heading for an unknown destination and find yourself in the heat of a battle which concludes in enemy conditions so terrible that your survival in captivity is still under threat? Cultivated from a small, faded, address book secretly written by ...

    $217.37

  • CAPTURED AT SINGAPORE
    JAN SLIMMING / JILL ROBERTSON
    What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again? Then depart on a ship in the dead of night heading for an unknown destination and find yourself in the heat of a battle which concludes in enemy conditions so terrible that your survival in captivity is still under threat? Cultivated from a small, faded, address book secretly written by ...

    $179.00

  • TIME SERIES FOR DATA SCIENCE
    WAYNE A. WOODWARD / BIVIN PHILIP SADLER / STEPHEN ROBERTSON
    Data Science students and practitioners want to find a forecast that “works” and don’t want to be constrained to a single forecasting strategy, Time Series for Data Science: Analysis and Forecasting discusses techniques of ensemble modelling for combining information from several strategies. Covering time series regression models, exponential smoothing, Holt-Winters forecasting...

    $1,360.00

  • THE DIARIES OF ELIZABETH INCHBALD
    BEN P ROBERTSON
    An energetic woman, Inchbald achieved fame as an actress, novelist, playwright and critic. This work includes her eleven surviving diaries, which record Inchbald's social contacts and professional activities, itemize her day-to-day expenditure, and chart the development of affairs such as the Napoleonic Wars and the trial of Queen Caroline. ...

    $8,500.00

  • HOW TO BUILD A PUPPY
    JULIA ROBERTSON
    Dogs do not demonstrate discomfort or pain in a way that can be easily translated by us humans, so we often miss that they are physically struggling. Understanding that making some very simple changes to our homes, activities, exercise regimes and how we train our puppies will have a massive positive impact on our dogs' lives. Using her world-renowned Galen Myotherapy knowledge...

    $560.00

  • A SPITFIRE NAMED CONNIE
    BLACK ROBERTSON
    A Spitfire Named Connie is an exciting rollercoaster of a story. 'Robbie' Robertson begins his RAF training during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. As he learns his trade, he is soon rubbing shoulders with Fighter Command heroes, amongst them Brian Kingcome, 'Ginger' Lacey and Bob Stanford Tuck. Moving from 111 to 72 Squadron, he opens his account against the Luftwaffe in t...

    $314.00

  • SUPPLY CHAIN LEADERSHIP
    PETER W. ROBERTSON
    Supply chain leaders are key to achieving sustainable supply chain excellence and long-term competitive advantage. This book addresses ‘big-picture’ supply chain leadership and provides a roadmap and practical advice to help supply chain leaders to successfully navigate this challenging social and technical environment. The book describes crucial leadership characteristics and ...

    $1,380.00

  • THE UNEVEN OFFSHORE WORLD
    JUSTIN ROBERTSON / MICHAEL TYRALA
    Informed by world-systems analysis, this book examines the shifting patterns of accommodation and resistance to the offshore world, with a particular focus on Mauritius as a critical but underappreciated offshore node mediating foreign investment into India and Africa. Drawing on a large pool of financial data and elite interviews, the authors present the first detailed compara...

    $1,200.00

  • RETHINKING PRIVILEGE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MIDDLE-CLASS MIGRATION
    SHANTHI ROBERTSON
    This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including ‘ethnic entrepreneurs’ building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended families; well-off young Indians in Mumbai strategising their future education pa...

    $1,200.00


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