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  • THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY
    REGINALD E. ROPER
    First published in 1922, The Individual and the Community is a simple statement of the principles which underlie human activities, and condition the combined efforts of two or more individuals: with a comparison of human and animal communities, a distinction between community and State, and a forecast of communal evolution. It is a handbook of human co-existence. This book will...

    $860.00

  • FOLLOWING WISDOM, LEADING WISELY
    JEFF ROPER
    If it is true that "everything rises and falls on leadership," we have a problem. A recent international survey revealed that 86 percent of respondents believe we are facing a global leadership crisis. The study encompassed leadership in business, government, the non-profit sector, and religion. Non-profit and business leaders ranked highest in terms of public confidence. Gover...

    $621.00

  • THE RISE OF E-COMMERCE
    JAMES ROPER
    The amazing and authoritative story of e-commerce: its origins, evolution and astonishing ascendence. The amazing and authoritative story of e-retail: its origins, evolution and astonishing ascendance. Meet the pioneers and businesses that explored the possibilities of the emerging virtual world, review the technology innovations that paved the way, and journey the rocky road t...

    $338.00

  • REVIEWING BEFORE THE EDINBURGH 1788-1802
    DEREK ROPER
    First published in 1978, Reviewing before the Edinburgh is a study of English literary reviewing during the fifteen years before the founding in 1802 of the Edinburgh Review, and an assessment of the reviewers’ achievement. The long introductory chapter describes the aims, methods, staffing, readership, influence, and development of the five important Reviews of the 1790s: the ...

    $960.00

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN RELATION TO SCHOOL LIFE
    REGINALD E. ROPER
    First published in 1917, Physical Education in Relation to School Life views the problems of growth and health in relation to education. The main outlines of a satisfactory physical education and its importance are indicated. The author has compared his aims and objectives, and appreciated the practical value of some of the better-known methods of dealing with the problems, and...

    $840.00

  • MANFUL ASSERTIONS
    MICHAEL ROPER / JOHN TOSH
    Masculine assertions, whether of verbal command, political power or physical violence, have formed the traditional subject matter of history. This volume combines current discussions in sexual politics with historical analysis to demonstrate that, far from being natural and monolithic, masculinity is an historical and cultural construct, with varied, competing and above all cha...

    $640.00

  • INTRODUCING MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
    CATH ROPER
    Introducing Mental Health Nursing offers a systematic overview of both the science and the art of caring for people experiencing mental health problems. It addresses the attitudes, knowledge and skills required to provide care for service users across all health-care settings, from specialist mental health services to general hospitals and community care. The authors place the ...

    $1,100.00

  • MEDIEVAL ENGLISH BENEDICTINE LITURGY
    SALLY ELIZABETH (ROPER) HARPER
    Originally published in 1993, Medieval English Benedictine Liturgy is a detailed study of the liturgical use of medieval monasteries in England, spanning 500 years. The study examines the major votive observances that came to fruition in the twelfth century and later and argues that these important practices affected earlier monastic observances. The book’s emphasis on Anglo-Sa...

    $960.00

  • DESIGNING CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS
    STEVEN D. ROPER
    Tracing the development of international humanitarian law especially since World War II, this volume focuses on the role of the international community in crafting international and mixed war crimes tribunals. It examines the cases of the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and East Timor. These tribunals are legal institutions embedded within a political environm...

    $1,200.00

  • VERTICAL DISINTEGRATION IN THE CORPORATE HOTEL INDUSTRY
    ANGELA ROPER
    This book evaluates how and why vertical disintegration has occurred in the global corporate hotel industry, as it undergoes a structural transformation. It provides a unique insight into the new competitive landscape. Underpinned by academic literature, it includes first-hand accounts from the most eminent senior executives of firms in and around the industry. It provides an i...

    $1,260.00

  • PERSONAL INFLUENCE
    ELIHU KATZ / PAUL F. LAZARSFELD / ELMO ROPER
    First published in 1955, "Personal Influence" reports the results of a pioneering study conducted in Decatur, Illinois, validating Paul Lazarsfeld's serendipitous discovery that messages from the media may be further mediated by informal "opinion leaders" who intercept, interpret, and diffuse what they see and hear to the personal networks in which they are embedded. This class...

    $1,320.00

  • THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    GEOFFREY ROPER
    This selection of papers by scholarly specialists offers an introduction to the history of the book and book culture in West Asia and North Africa from antiquity to the 20th century. The flourishing and long-lived manuscript tradition is discussed in its various aspects - social and economic as well as technical and aesthetic. The very early but abortive introduction of print...

    $940.00

  • THE ENGLISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA, 1602-1658
    L H ROPER
    This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century. ...

    $1,420.00

  • DRYDEN'S POETIC KINGDOMS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    ALAN ROPER
    Dr. Roper describes the mode of many of Dryden’s original poems by redefining the royalism that provides the matter of some works and the metaphoric vocabulary of others. Dryden’s royalism is seen both as an identifiable political attitude and a way of apprehending public life that again and again relates superficially non-political matters to the standards and assumptions of p...

    $1,160.00

  • MECHANISMS OF TASTE TRANSDUCTION
    SIDNEY A. SIMON / STEPHEN D. ROPER
    Mechanisms of Taste Transduction introduces a number of topics essential to a complete understanding of taste. These topics range from the control of food intake to the biophysical mechanisms of transduction and the design of food flavors in the food industry. The responses and organization of special sensory pathways are described in regard to the ...

    $1,760.00

  • COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW
    NATALIE CORTHÉSY / CARLA-ANNE HARRIS-ROPER
    This new edition to the series will provide an up-to-date textbook covering a wide-range of employment and labour law issues which affect the Commonwealth Caribbean. Initially the book will embark on a comparative analysis of employment and labour law in Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados, as a reference point for distinguishing the laws of other Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdiction...

    $3,000.00

  • DEMOCRACY AND ITS CRITICS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JON ROPER
    Originally published in 1989, a guide for students coming for the first time to the study of democracy, who often find it difficult to trace the developement of the idea and to place it in historical context. In this accesible and informative text, Jon Roper introduces the reader to arguments for and against criticisms of the concept of democracy. He does so through examination...

    $860.00

  • TRADE SECRET THEFT, INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE, AND THE CHINA THREAT
    CARL ROPER
    This book provides an overview of economic espionage as practiced by a range of nations from around the world focusing on the mass scale in which information is being taken for China's growth and development. It supplies an understanding of how the economy of a nation can prosper or suffer, depending on whether that nation is protecting its intellectual property, or whether it ...

    $4,000.00

  • INTERNATIONAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT
    KATHY ROPER
    This up-to-date compilation of topics on the maturity and changes occurring within facility management worldwide offers insights into the growth and development of FM and its impact on today's business organisations. International Facility Management presents a comprehensive and diverse collection of topics that provides current, cutting edge research in the evolving field of F...

    $1,522.00

  • INTERNATIONAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT
    ROPER, KATHY / BORELLO, LISA
    This up-to-date compilation of topics on the maturity and changes occurring within facility management worldwide offers insights into the growth and development of FM and its impact on today's business organisations. International Facility Management presents a comprehensive and diverse collection of topics that provides current, cutting edge research in the evolving field of F...

    $1,522.00

  • FRANCO-BRITISH DEFENCE CO-OPERATION
    BOYER, YVES / ROPER, JOHN
    This book focuses on the prospects now opening up for Franco-British co-operation in the fields of defence and security. Looking at the situation from the viewpoints of both Britain and France, it builds on the indications of a developing awareness within the two governments of the benefits to be derived from a closer partnership. The book argues forcefully that it is now time ...

    $1,240.00

  • OEDIPUS AND THE DEVIL
    LYNDAL ROPER
    This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature of masculinity and feminity. ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE POLITICS OF WAR MEMORY AND COMMEMORATION
    ASHPLANT, T.G. / DAWSON, GRAHAM / ROPER, MICHAEL
    War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes which have led to this development, among them the passing of the two World Wars from survivor into cultural memory. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, the book illuminates the struggle to install...

    $1,340.00

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    STEPHEN ROPER
    Entrepreneurs exist in every country but the nature and level of entrepreneurial activity differs remarkably. Why is this? What shapes the level of entrepreneurial activity in each country? What defines entrepreneurial activity? As more and more teaching and research into entrepreneurship reflects its often international nature, the need for literature reflecting this grows. Th...

    $1,320.00

  • THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE
    BAYLIS, JOHN / ROPER, JON
    A penetrating new examination of the triangular political and cultural relationship between America, Britain, and continental Europe. This relationship is both fraught and dynamic. Post-war reconstruction of Europe brought integration. Creating a ‘United States of Europe’ was a goal shared by many Americans. Yet the contemporary 'War on Terror', has redefined relationships betw...

    $1,280.00

  • CORPORATE REPUTATION AND COMPETITIVENESS
    ROSA CHUN / RUI DA SILVA / GARY DAVIES / STUART ROPER
    This unique book written by four world leaders in reputation research, presents the latest cutting-edge thinking on organizational improvement. It covers media management, crisis management, the use of logos and other aspects of corporate identity, and argues the case for reputation management as a way of overseeing long-term organizational strategy. It presents a new approach ...

    $1,620.00

  • ROMANIA
    STEPHEN ROPER
    The Romanian revolution was motivated by a desire for greater political and intellectual freedom and economic prosperity. It was the bloodiest of the eastern European transitions due to Ceausescu's cult of personality. However, many of the goals of the revolution are still unfulfilled. The lack of civil society, charges of political corruption, the failure to transform the econ...

    $1,640.00

  • ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR
    SLATER, PETER J.B. / ROSENBLATT, JAY S. / SNOWDON, CHARLES T. / ROPER, TIMOTHY J.
    The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior remains as it has been since the series began: to serve the increasing number of scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behavior by presenting their theoretical ideas and research to their colleagues and to those in neighboring fields. We hope that the series will continue its "contribution to the development of the field"...

    $1,971.00

  • ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR
    SLATER, PETER J.B. / ROSENBLATT, JAY S. / SNOWDON, CHARLES T. / ROPER, TIMOTHY J. / NAGUIB, MARC
    The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior remains as it has been since the series began: to serve the increasing number of scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behavior by presenting their theoretical ideas and research to their colleagues and to those in neighboring fields. We hope that the series will continue its "contribution to the development of the field"...

    $1,971.00

  • ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR
    SLATER, PETER J.B. / ROSENBLATT, JAY S. / SNOWDON, CHARLES T. / ROPER, TIMOTHY J. / BROCKMANN, H. JANE /  
    The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior is to serve scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior, including psychologists, neuroscientists, biologists, ethologists, pharmacologists, endocrinologists, ecologists, and geneticists. Articles in the series present critical reviews of significant research programs with theoretical syntheses, reformulation of persistent pr...

    $1,971.00


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