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  • DESIGN EDUCATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
    PAUL A. RODGERS
    This volume examines emerging practice and research in design education rooted in the context of significant global issues. A diverse set of international contributors present novel design education research that seeks to make significant social, economic, cultural and environmental change. Topics covered include fashion, sustainability, creativity, social justice, museum educa...

    $1,240.00

  • DESIGN FOR THE UNTHINKABLE WORLD
    CRAIG BREMNER, PAUL A. RODGERS, GIOVANNI INNELLA
    This edited book contests that if design’s raison d'être is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it – the world-for-us. Each chapter was written by carefully selected researchers and practitioners who span geographical, disciplinary, and methodological boundaries in their work. Contribu...

    $1,240.00

  • CLOAK OF CHARITY
    BETSY RODGERS
    First published in 1949, Cloak of Charity provides a short history of philanthropy in the eighteenth-century. The author asserts that the history of charity is the history of the changes which have occurred in the attitude of the rich towards the poor. The character of philanthropy changed considerably during the course of the eighteenth-century and it is this change that the b...

    $840.00

  • THE BET
    JAY D. RODGERS
    An entrepreneur shares anecdotes from his prosperous career while offering readers their own roadmap to success in business. The backbone of businesses, the opener and closer of deals, the risktaker who bets on themself-that's an entrepreneur. Jay D. Rodgers has seen and done it all: from the gritty start-ups to full-scale, world-wide businesses that generate millions in revenu...

    $299.00

  • UNEQUAL DEVELOPMENT AND LABOUR IN BRAZIL
    GERRY RODGERS / ROBERTO VÉRAS DE OLIVEIRA / JANINE RODGERS
    This book is about unequal development and labour in Brazil, with particular reference to the economic and social development of the Northeast region, which has suffered persistent disadvantage. It combines a historical approach, which shows how economic, social and political institutions have been restructured over time, with an analysis of changes in the pattern of production...

    $1,060.00

  • DESIGN FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA
    PAUL A. RODGERS
    This book presents the latest research that shows how design thinking, making, and acting contribute to the co-designing and development of products, spaces, and services with people living with dementia. We know that there is currently no cure for the 130+ kinds of dementia that millions of people live with all over the world, but the designed interventions such as the product...

    $1,160.00

  • THE WIGGLY WORLD OF ORGANIZATION
    CHRIS RODGERS
    The well-ordered, fully aligned view of organization and management practice, with its unfailingly positive results, bears little relationship to the world that managers and others experience every day. This straight-line, ‘do this and you’ll get that’ idealization is far removed from the wiggly reality. Despite this, the former continues to dominate the ways in which managemen...

    $980.00

  • A GUIDE TO IMPACTFUL TEACHER EVALUATIONS
    JOSEPH O. RODGERS
    What if everything we thought we knew about effective teacher evaluations was wrong? A Guide to Impactful Teacher Evaluations walks educators through an important shift in thinking about how to evaluate teachers: from systems focused on individuals and results to solutions focused on collectives and processes. Disregarding older, ineffective models that rely on faulty assumptio...

    $740.00

  • KAFFEEHAUS
    RICK RODGERS
    "Celebrates the sweet excesses of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . Sachertorte, Apfelstrudel and Croissants are among the creations Rodgers demystifies." — Publishers Weekly Take a tour of the legendary cafés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague where a rich tradition of masterful desserts and coffee lives on. For centuries, artists and philosophers have gathered around coffeehouse...

    $274.00

  • TIRE ENGINEERING
    BRENDAN RODGERS
    The modern tire is the most complex, composite product in mass production. Yet given its complexity and required performance, there is little information in the public domain regarding its development. This book provides an introduction to tire design, construction, and manufacturing in the context of materials technologies used today, along with future trends and disrupting te...

    $1,240.00

  • CHILDREN IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
    DIANE RODGERS
    Children’s participation in social movements is presented through a theoretical typology consisting of strategic participants, participants by default and active participants. This range of participation accounts for the social location of children historically and internationally, calling for their inclusion into social movement research. Children are unresearched and untheori...

    $1,200.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN A THROUGHPUT MODEL
    WAYMOND RODGERS
    Physical and behavioral biometric technologies such as fingerprinting, facial recognition, voice identification, etc. have enhanced the level of security substantially in recent years. Governments and corporates have employed these technologies to achieve better customer satisfaction. However, biometrics faces major challenges in reducing criminal, terrorist activities and elec...

    $2,040.00

  • HELPING HANDS
    CAROLINE RODGERS / RICHARD HARRINGTON
    This brand-new textbook introduces medical students, junior doctors, medical educators and allied health professionals to the vital skills of diagnostic strategy and clinical reasoning, both essential components of becoming an effective clinician. Taking the examination of the hands as a springboard – often the initial step in physical examination and from which a wealth of inf...

    $1,060.00

  • HUMAN FACTORS IMPACTS IN AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
    MARK RODGERS
    In research and application of Human Factors in Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems design, development and operation, there remains a lack of clarity regarding the range and integration of activities associated with the need for greater attention to issues such as human error, interface design and teamwork, especially in systems with increased levels of automation. This book...

    $1,600.00

  • GRANT ALLEN
    TERENCE RODGERS
    A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen was a prolific novelist, essayist, and man of letters, who is best remember...

    $1,420.00

  • POOR WOMEN, POOR CHILDREN
    RODGERS
    This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes. It analyses the causes for the continuing rise in female-headed households, the high rates of poverty among such families, and evaluates past, present and future reform policies. ...

    $780.00

  • BEYOND WELFARE
    HARRELL R. RODGERS
    A selection of 50 Slovak folk tales assembled from the collections of folklorist Pavol Dobsinsky. The translator seeks to preserve the poetic qualities of the originals, and the book includes an introduction to the genres of the folktale and the specifics of Slovak tales. ...

    $780.00

  • WHY NOISE MATTERS
    JOHN STEWART / FRANCIS MCMANUS / NIGEL RODGERS / VAL WEEDON / ARLINE BRONZAFT
    Is noise the most neglected green issue of our age? This book argues compellingly that it is, and tells you all you need to know about noise as a social, cultural, environmental and health issue. Across the world, more people are disturbed by noise in their day-today lives than by any other pollutant on Earth. From the shanty towns of Mumbai to the smart boulevards of Paris, no...

    $1,100.00

  • AMERICAN POVERTY IN A NEW ERA OF REFORM
    HARRELL R. RODGERS
    This new edition of American Poverty in a New Era of Reform provides a comprehensive examination of the extent, causes, effects, and costs of American poverty nearly ten years after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996. The author includes the most current available demographic, budget, evaluation, and program data ...

    $1,320.00

  • SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH WITH MINORITY AND OPPRESSED POPULATIONS
    MIRIAM POTOCKY / ANTOINETTE Y RODGERS FARMER
    Learn the latest and most effective strategies and ideas so you can accurately research oppressed and minority populations!Social Work with Minority and Oppressed Populations: Methodological Issues and Innovations provides social workers, social work researchers, and graduate students with new methodologies for researching topics related to minority and oppressed populations. Y...

    $1,420.00

  • THE BATTLE AGAINST POVERTY
    BRIAN RODGERS
    First Published in 2005. The study of social administration is fundamentally the study of social policy, how it came to be in the developed communities of Western society, how it grew and how it succeeded in achieving the ends which it set out to achieve. This is Volume I from a collection on the battle against poverty and looks at Pauperism of the Elizabethan era to social pol...

    $1,440.00

  • THE ROLE OF INFORMAL ECONOMIES IN THE POST-SOVIET WORLD
    COLIN C. WILLIAMS / JOHN ROUND / PETER RODGERS
    Based on extensive ethnographic and quantitative research, conducted in Ukraine and Russia between 2004 and 2012, this book’s central argument is that for many people the informal economy, such as cash in hand work, subsistence production and the use of social networks, is of great importance to everyday life. Formal work is both a facilitator of such processes and is often sup...

    $1,460.00

  • UNDERSTANDING FAMILY LAW
    LIZ RODGERS
    Understanding Family Law is a clear and concise book for students of family law. The text is easy to digest, and even the most complex issues are presented in a user-friendly way. ...

    $1,100.00

  • CONTESTED COMMON LAND
    CHRISTOPHER P. RODGERS
    This innovative and interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainable governance of common resources, grounded in contemporary and archival research on the common lands of England and Wales - an important common resource with multiple, and often conflicting, uses. It encompasses ecologically sensiti...

    $1,320.00

  • THE IBM WAY
    BUCK RODGERS / ROBERT L. SHOOK
    An "inside look at a major player in the saga of American enterprise" and its legendarily successful corporate culture ( Publishers Weekly). IBM is one of the greatest sales and marketing organizations ever assembled. Established over a century ago, it now employs more than a quarter million people and generates $60 billion a year in revenue. Yet it operates more like a cottage...

    $251.00

  • SUMMER GATHERINGS
    RICK RODGERS
    Firm, ripe tomatoes. Golden corn. Fragrant basil. Juicy peaches. Nothing compares with the bounty of summer when colors, flavors, and aromas are at their peak and cooking is easier than ever. Fresh, ripe produce is so tasty and perfect on its own that creating a terrific summer meal can be stress-free, delicious, and fun. In Summer Gatherings, award-winning cooking instructor R...

    $251.00

  • CROSSING DESIGN BOUNDARIES
    PAUL RODGERS, LIBBY BRODHURST, DUNCAN HEPBURN
    This book presents over 100 papers from the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference dedicated to the subject of exploring novel approaches in product design education. The theme of the book is "Crossing Design Boundaries" which reflects the editors' wish to incorporate many of the disciplines associated with, and int ...

    $7,500.00

  • SPATIALIZING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
    JAYNE RODGERS
    How does the concept of 'space' impact upon International Relations? This book examines this interesting subject with reference to the ideas of French sociologist Henri Levebre and applies his theories to the use by NGOs of advances in information communications technologies, particularly the internet. ...

    $860.00

  • EXPLORING THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE NEW
    PETER R. RODGERS
    There are many books on the use of the Old Testament in the New. This one takes a practical approach to the subject, inviting the reader to explore the relationship between the two testaments in the Bible through a series of different lenses.-The text form of the Old and New Testaments-The presence or absence of introductory formulae-The selection of texts by New Testament writ...

    $284.00

  • TEXT AND STORY
    PETER R. RODGERS
    Did the Jesus of St. Luke's Gospel come to heal the brokenhearted (4:18)? Did Mark's Jesus call his disciples to prayer and fasting (9:29), and did he cry from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you persecuted me?" (15:34). Did St. Paul write to the Romans that God works all things together for good for those who love him (8:28)? Did the author of Hebrews declare that Jesus d...

    $337.00


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