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  • RECONSIDERING HABERMAS’S COLONIZATION THESIS
    RODERICK CONDON
    This book reconsiders Habermas’s critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism. Taking criticisms into account, the author refines and redevelops Habermas’s system-lifeworld paradigm in three parts, focusing on system, lifeworld, and communication. The exposition unfolds through a new synthesis and convergence, from within Habermas’s frame, of Ax...

    $1,240.00

  • SEMINAL IDEAS AND CONTROVERSIES IN STATISTICS
    RODERICK J. A. LITTLE
    Statistics has developed as a field through seminal ideas and fascinating controversies. Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics concerns a wide-ranging set of 15 important statistical topics, grouped into three general areas: philosophical approaches to statistical inference, important statistical methodology for applications, and topics on statistical design, focusing o...

    $1,600.00

  • FROM BYZANTIUM TO MODERN GREECE
    RODERICK BEATON
    The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or 'romance') took new forms during that century; at the same time, in language, the vernacular made its first tentative literary appearances. These developments continued uninterruptedly through the la...

    $1,480.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF ONLINE DEVIANCE
    RODERICK S. GRAHAM
    Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on online deviance. Understanding deviance broadly, the handbook acknowledges both an objective normative approach and a subjective, reactivist approach to the topi...

    $880.00

  • CYBERCRIME AND DIGITAL DEVIANCE
    RODERICK S. GRAHAM / 'SHAWN K. SMITH
    Cybercrime and Digital Deviance, Second Edition, combines insights from sociology, criminology, psychology, and cybersecurity to explore cybercrimes such as hacking, identity theft, and romance scams, along with forms of digital deviance such as pornography addiction, trolling, and “canceling” people for perceived violations of norms. Other issues are explored including cybercr...

    $1,100.00

  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF POWER
    RODERICK MARTIN
    First published in 1977, The Sociology of Power presents a broad comparative study in the sociology of domination by placing empirical research in political and industrial sociology in a comprehensive theoretical framework, derived from Marxism and social exchange theory. Roderick Martin argues that conventional definitions of ‘political sociology’ are no longer relevant, havin...

    $840.00

  • DESIGNING SPATIAL CULTURE
    RODERICK ADAMS
    Designing Spatial Culture investigates a powerful experiential dialogue formed between the habitation of space and a diversified cultural realm. This creative proposition binds and positions human activity and experience framing its histories, currency and future. Whilst the book distinguishes between the conditions of the existing urban/ architecture/ interior canon, it embrac...

    $1,120.00

  • THE BRITISH MALAISE
    GORDON RODERICK
    This series of edited papers, originally published in 1982, examines Britain’s industrial and commercial performance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries against the background of the development of state education. The performance of certain key nineteenth-century manufacturing industries is analysed and the reasons for their relative decline in the face of foreign compet...

    $860.00

  • THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NEUTRALITY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    RODERICK OGLEY
    Originally published in 1970 The Theory and Practice of Neutrality in the Twentieth Century documents the various shapes and forms that neutrality has taken. The most important are neutralization, traditional neutrality, ad hoc neutrality and non-alignment. Each of these terms is carefully defined and illustrated by documents running from the beginning of this century to the la...

    $860.00

  • POST-SCHOOL EDUCATION
    MICHAEL D. STEPHENS / GORDON W RODERICK
    First published in 1984, Post-School Education attempts to compare development of post-school education in America and England in nineteenth century. Divided into eight chapters, it discusses themes like traditions and attitudes; systems of school education; middle class initiatives prior to 1850; educational provision for adults in the 19th century; the growth of technical edu...

    $860.00

  • THE MYTHS AND REALITIES OF THE VIKING BERSERKR
    RODERICK DALE
    The viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr or berserker frenzy. This book challenges the orthodox view that these men went ‘berserk’ in the modern English sense of the word. It examines all the evidence for medieval perceptions of berserkir and builds a model of how the medieval audience would have vi...

    $1,160.00

  • FIXING AMERICAN POLITICS
    RODERICK P. HART
    Fixing American Politics: Solutions for the Media Age brings together original chapters from 34 noted scholars from two disciplines – political science and communication – asked to identify the most pressing problems facing the American people and how they can be solved. Authors address the questions succinctly and directly, with their favored solutions featured in chapter titl...

    $1,120.00

  • VICHY FRANCE AND THE RESISTANCE
    RODERICK KEDWARD AND ROGER AUSTIN
    This book, first published in 1985, examines various aspects of the intellectual achievements of writers and artists in the Vichy period; a strong emphasis on the ambiguity of much of their work emerges from the research. It goes a long way in answering the question of what it was like living under the fascist Vichy regime, and what the collaborators and resistance thought abou...

    $1,000.00

  • JUNG, DELEUZE, AND THE PROBLEMATIC WHOLE
    RODERICK MAIN / CHRISTIAN MCMILLAN / DAVID HENDERSON
    This book of expert essays explores the concept of the whole as it operates within the psychology of Jung, the philosophy of Deleuze, and selected areas of wider twentieth-century Western culture, which provided the context within which these two seminal thinkers worked. Addressing this topic from a variety of perspectives and disciplines and with an eye to contemporary social,...

    $800.00

  • CREATING BUILT ENVIRONMENTS
    RODERICK LAWRENCE
    Built environments are complex, emergent, systemic, and require contextual analysis. They should be understood before reconsidering how professionals and researchers of the built environment are educated and trained to reduce the gap between knowledge, practice and real-world circumstances. There is an urgent need to rethink the role of policy makers, researchers, practitioners...

    $1,100.00

  • INTERIOR DESIGN
    RODERICK ADAMS
    As the globe shrinks and the concept of distance diminishes, this text challenges the current status quo by identifying the cohesions and specialisations of design communities across the continents. It sets out an international spatial design landscape, identifying and contouring global design practice and design hotspots from a range of case studies, interviews and design prac...

    $1,060.00

  • FISH LARVAL PHYSIOLOGY
    RODERICK NIGEL FINN
    This book is intended as a resource for students and researchers interested in developmental biology and physiology and specifically addresses the larval stages of fish. Fish larvae (and fish embryos) are not small juveniles or adults. Rather they are transitionary organisms that bridge the critical gap between the singlecelled egg and sexually immature juvenile. Fish larvae re...

    $5,300.00

  • SPORT IN FILMS
    EMMA POULTON AND MARTIN RODERICK
    Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport. Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in motion pictures, constructions and representations of sport and athletes have been mar...

    $1,560.00

  • MANHOOD DEVELOPMENT IN URBAN AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
    ROBERT J JAGERS / RODERICK J WATTS
    One of the first books to unite practice, research, and theory in addressing manhood development, Manhood Development in Urban African-American Communities aids in the construction of more holistic and progressive notions of African-American manhood. Proceeding from a psychological perspective, this text explores issues of culture and race as they impact on the cognitive, emoti...

    $640.00

  • NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION
    DON E. BRAY / RODERICK K. STANLEY
    Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) inspection schemes are important in design, manufacturing, and maintenance. By correctly applying techniques of NDE, we can reduce machine and system failures and increase reliability of operating systems over an extended lifetime. Nondestructive Evaluation: A Tool in Design, Manufacturing, and Service introduces and discusses primary techniques ...

    $4,000.00

  • CAWSON.FUNDAMENTOS DE MEDICINA Y PATOLOGÍA ORAL
    RODERICK A. CAWSON
    Nueva edición del texto considerado un "must have" para todo aquel estudiante de grado de Odontología a la hora de adquirir los conocimientos en el área de la patología y medicina oral. A lo largo de sus sucesivas ediciones (la primera ed se publicó en 1962), el texto se ha consolidado y conserva el valor añadido de ser el primer libro que integra la medicina oral, la patolog...

    $893.88

  • THE GOD OF THE LEFT HEMISPHERE
    RODERICK TWEEDY
    The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is fi...

    $1,040.00

  • MODERN RHETORICAL CRITICISM
    RODERICK P HART / SUZANNE M. DAUGHTON / REBECCA LAVALLY
    A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the analysis of public rhetoric, Modern Rhetorical Criticism teaches readers how to examine and interpret rhetorical situations, ideas, arguments, structure, and style. The text covers a wide range of critical techniques, from cultural and dramatistic analysis to feminist and Marxist approaches. A wealth of original criticism demon...

    $2,540.00

  • THE LIFE OF WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF CUMBERLAND
    RODERICK MACPHERSON
    This is the first reset edition of Henderson's The Life of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1766). Henderson wrote two open letters to Samuel Johnson, criticizing his account of Scotland and the Scottish character as well as taking a side-swipe at Smollet. These too are included together with a new introduction to Henderson and his works. ...

    $640.00

  • TEAM DEVELOPMENT GAMES FOR TRAINERS
    RODERICK R. STUART
    If you’re involved in designing or delivering interpersonal skills training you will know that there are two perennial problems. The first is finding material that matches your objectives. The second is finding material that will be unfamiliar to the participants. The 59 games in Roderick Stuart’s collection have not appeared in print before. Based on the author’s experience w...

    $1,320.00

  • ASHGATE CRITICAL ESSAYS ON EARLY ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHERS
    RODERICK MCCONCHIE
    Laying the foundations for the first monolingual dictionaries of English, the sixteenth century in English lexicography is here shown to form a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly evolved during the Middle Ages, and the more recognisably modern dictionary incorporating synonymy, illustrative citations and other standard features. The articles collected ...

    $1,160.00

  • DIGENES AKRITES
    RODERICK BEATON / DAVID RICKS
    Called variously the ’Byzantine epic’, the ’epic of Modern Greece’, an ’epic-romance’ and ’romance’, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and from many countries of the world, as well as of writers and public figures in Greece. T...

    $1,480.00

  • WHERE DID WE GO WRONG?
    GORDON RODERICK
    This series of edited papers, first published in 1981, examines Britain’s industrial and commercial performance in the 19th and 20th centuries against the background of the development of state education. The performance of certain key 19th century manufacturing industries are analysed and the reasons for their relative decline in the face of foreign competition is assessed. Th...

    $960.00

  • PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN CHINA
    KENNETH LIEBERTHAL / JOYCE KALLGREN / RODERICK MACFARQUHAR / FREDERIC WAKEMAN
    The conveners (the editors of this book) of the September 1989 Four Anniversaries China Conference in Annapolis, asked the contributors to look back from that point in time to consider four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese society, economy, polity, and sense of place in the world in the 1980s, a time wh...

    $860.00

  • BYRON: THE POETRY OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF POETRY
    RODERICK BEATON AND CHRISTINE KENYON JONES
    'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only days before the outbreak of revolution in Greece, where three years later he would ...

    $1,240.00


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