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  • INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW
    PIERFRANCESCO ROSSI
    International Economic Law (IEL) refers to the rules governing economic relations at the international level and involving States, international organizations and private entities. This textbook explores IEL within the broader context of public international law from the ground up, providing all the foundational principles of international law essential for the study of IEL. Th...

    $1,200.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF BYZANTINE VISUAL CULTURE IN THE DANUBE REGIONS, 1300-1600
    MARIA ALESSIA ROSSI, ALICE ISABELLA SULLIVAN
    This volume aims to broaden and nuance knowledge about the history, art, culture, and heritage of Eastern Europe relative to Byzantium. From the thirteenth century to the decades after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the regions of the Danube River stood at the intersection of different traditions, and the river itself has served as a marker of connection and division, as w...

    $1,380.00

  • SAFE PASSAGE
    DANIEL ROSSI
    Embark on a profound journey of transformation and empowerment with Safe Passage: The Power of Mentorship and the Gift of Journeying with Others. In this captivating exploration, the true essence and impact of mentorship are illuminated, revealing the remarkable power of guiding and uplifting others. Through heartfelt stories and inspiring anecdotes, this book delves into the t...

    $284.00

  • THE SEX LIFE OF THE FOOT AND SHOE
    WILLIAM A. ROSSI
    First published in 1977, The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe examines the realities of foot and shoe eroticism practised by almost all of us, whether consciously or unconsciously. Provocative often witty and always original, the book takes us on a walking tour through history: from Chinese footbinding (completely sexual in intent) and the medieval poulaine (perhaps the most blata...

    $840.00

  • COMPRESSION TEXTILES FOR MEDICAL, SPORTS, AND ALLIED APPLICATIONS
    NIMESH KANKARIYA AND RENÉ ROSSI
    Textile-based compression therapy is used in a range of applications, such as for athlete and sport recovery, enhanced proprioception, compression spacesuits, and in the management of chronic diseases. This book provides an overview of compression devices and products, testing methods to measure the properties of materials used in compression devices, and design considerations ...

    $2,320.00

  • INCLUSIVE LEARNING DESIGN IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    VIRNA ROSSI
    How can you design more inclusive learning experiences and environments? How can you overcome some of the challenges of designing and implementing more inclusive learning? You will find the answers to these questions and much more in this dynamic new text. Asserting that good teaching is inclusive teaching, it demonstrates how university modules and courses can be designed so t...

    $860.00

  • EGYPT, GREECE, AND ROME
    CORINNA ROSSI
    Historical events literally took place in specific contexts; 'where things are' shapes 'how things are'. In this book, Corinna Rossi examines how three different ways of interacting with the surrounding world were shaped by their physical context in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Following a discussion on the relationship between history and geography, Rossi delves into the g...

    $580.00

  • TEACHERS AS HEALTH WORKERS
    LOUISE MCCUAIG / EIMEAR ENRIGHT / TONY ROSSI / DOUNE MACDONALD
    Schooling has long been held responsible for the health and well-being of children. However, against an international background of rising concern about students’ performance and well-being, schools and teachers have faced escalating expectations of their health-related work. While various stakeholders have ideas about what teachers’ health work entails, we know little about te...

    $1,060.00

  • DIVERSITY, DIFFERENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
    BONNIE PANG / TONY ROSSI
    This book presents a detailed analysis of the experiences of (minority ethnic) physical education (PE) teachers in both schools and higher education contexts. It examines and questions the lack of ethnic diversity in PE teacher education in high-income developed countries and suggests important new directions for transformative pedagogy to address the ‘whiteness’ of PE. The boo...

    $1,200.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO MICROCONTROLLER PROGRAMMING FOR POWER ELECTRONICS CONTROL APPLICATIONS
    MATTIA ROSSI / NICOLA TOSCANI / MARCO MAURI / FRANCESCO CASTELLI DEZZA
    This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements: Multiple-choice questions for each chapter to support student learning; Videos of the custom test setups running with some of the proposed control; Pictures of the custom boards and test setups realized for the proposed implementations as support of Appendix B. Microcontroller programming is not a trivial task. Indeed, it...

    $1,239.00

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
    SAMUEL P. BLACK / JOHN PAUL ROSSI
    Entrepreneurs play a central role in economic growth and development, but how they do so is the subject of considerable debate. This book explains that process through an historical case study of an automobile insurance entrepreneur, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build. It also recounts the largely untold history of American automobile insuranc...

    $1,260.00

  • OF HUMAN BONDING
    ALICE S. ROSSI / PETER HENRY ROSSI
    This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a larger context, by examining the help exchange between kin and nonkin and the intergenerational transmission of family characteristics. ...

    $1,460.00

  • GENDER AND THE LIFE COURSE
    ALICE ROSSI
    Gender and the Life Course is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the lives of women and men as they are affected by history, culture, demography, economic and political stratification, and the biopsychological processes that attend maturation and aging. The book covers three major topics. Part I, which examines gender and the life course in broad historical perspectiv...

    $660.00

  • UNDER THE GUN
    PETER H. ROSSI
    In 1978, the Social and Demographic Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on weapons, crime, and violence in the United States. The purpose of the project is best described as a "sifting and winnowing" of the claims and counterclaims from both ...

    $1,360.00

  • THE EDUCATION OF CATHOLIC AMERICANS
    ANDREW M. GREELEY / PETER H. ROSSI / STEPHEN M. KRASON
    First Published in 2017. The Education of Catholic Americans was a famous, comprehensive study of the effects of Catholic education in America by two very wellknown, heavily published sociologists, Fr. Andrew M. Greeley and Peter H. Rossi. The book was one of many seminal studies of different aspects of life and groups within American society sponsored by the National Opinion R...

    $1,160.00

  • THERMAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING FOR FIREFIGHTERS
    GUOWEN SONG / SUMIT MANDAL / RENÉ ROSSI
    Thermal Protective Clothing for Firefighters explores the materials, design, and usage of thermal protective clothing. The characteristics of fire hazards are discussed in detail, and the thermal environments faced by firefighters in these fire hazards are also examined. The different types of potential burn injuries and the heat stress that occurs to firefighters’ bodies when ...

    $2,858.00

  • SPORTS AGENTS AND LABOUR MARKETS
    GIAMBATTISTA ROSSI / ANNA SEMENS / JEAN FRANCOIS BROCARD
    The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, and why this is...

    $1,360.00

  • SOCIAL MOVEMENT DYNAMICS
    FEDERICO M. ROSSI / MARISA VON BÜLOW
    This book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative analyses of the recent changes in collective action across the region. Over the past decade, new repertoires of contention have emerged in parallel to changes in the configuration of actors, in previously established patterns of relat...

    $1,560.00

  • WORKPLACE LEARNING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
    TONY ROSSI / LISAHUNTER / ERIN CHRISTENSEN / DOUNE MACDONALD
    Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from the experiences of pre-service and beginning teachers, the book takes a closer loo...

    $1,320.00

  • JUSTICE, LEGITIMACY, AND DIVERSITY
    CEVA, EMANUELA / ROSSI, ENZO
    Most contemporary political philosophers take justice—rather than legitimacy—to be the fundamental virtue of political institutions vis-à-vis the challenges of ethical diversity. Justice-driven theorists are primarily concerned with finding mutually acceptable terms to arbitrate the claims of conflicting individuals and groups. Legitimacy-driven theorists, instead, focus on the...

    $1,320.00

  • MONEY, WORK, AND CRIME
    PETER H. ROSSI / RICHARD A. BERK / KENNETH J. LENIHAN
    Money, Work, and Crime: Experimental Evidence presents the complete details of the Department of Labor’s $3.4 million Transitional Aid Research Project (TARP), a large-scale field experiment which attempted to reduce recidivism on the part of ex-felons. Beginning in January 1976, some prisoners released from state institutions in Texas and Georgia were offered financial aid f...

    $970.00

  • NATURAL HAZARDS AND PUBLIC CHOICE
    PETER H. ROSSI / JAMES D WRIGHT / ELEANOR WEBER-BURDIN
    Natural Hazards and Public Choice: The State and Local Politics of Hazard Mitigation presents a research project that emerged from a concern for estimating the balance of support versus opposition to prospective social policies that aim to reduce the risks of damage or injuries from major natural hazard events via the regulation of land use and establishment of building and occ...

    $970.00

  • FRANCIS BACON: FROM MAGIC TO SCIENCE
    PAOLO ROSSI
    Originally published in 1968. This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon’s philosophy and was in turn influenced by it. It examines the influence of magical and alchemical traditions on Bacon and his opposition to these traditions, as well as illustrating the naturalist, materialist and ethico...

    $5,300.00

  • AN ARABIAN ADVENTURE
    GIFFORD S. ROSSI
    First published in 1996. This book is published posthumously by Gifford S. Rossi’ wife Marcella. Gifford S. Rossi died on 7 August 1994 and she undertook the task to fulfil his wish to publish this work, reliving what he once described as 'the most exciting adventure of our life'. ...

    $1,320.00

  • THE FEBRUARY MAN
    MILTON H. ERICKSON / ERNEST LAWRENCE ROSSI
    This book is a fascinating case study that illustrates the use of multiple levels of consciousness and meaning to access and therapeutically reframe traumatic memories that were the source of very severe phobias and depression. A rare record of Erickson's pioneering genius in facilitating the evolution of new patterns of consciousness and identity in a patient. ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE RISE OF ITALIAN FASCISM (RLE RESPONDING TO FASCISM)
    A ROSSI
    The rise of Italian fascism is often seen as a pre-condition, as well as a precursor of, later developments in Europe most notably in Germany. As such they were also much discussed in the English speaking world throughout the 1930’s. First published in English in 1938 this book gives an account of Italian history in the years immediately following the first world war, culminati...

    $1,420.00

  • MONEY AND PAYMENTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
    SERGIO ROSSI
    International in scope and written by a leading young Post-Keynesian economist, this book focuses on the working of money and payments in a multi-bank settlement system within which banks and non-bank financial institutions have been expanding their operations outside their countries of incorporation.Departing from conventionally held beliefs, Serg ...

    $1,360.00

  • JESUS GOES TO MCDONALD'S
    LUIZ ALEXANDRE SOLANO ROSSI
    This book demonstrates that Latin American liberation theology continues to produce substantial biblical exegesis, absorbing theological reflection, and a sharp social critique that enhances the worldwide church. In Jesus Goes to McDonald's, Rossi asserts that the book of Job protests against the devastating effects of imperial Persian rule in postexilic Judah--effects seen as ...

    $337.00

  • MICRORNA METHODS
    ROSSI, JOHN J.
    MicroRNAs (miRNA) are tiny bits of genetic material that were unknown nearly 10 years ago but now represent an exciting field of study in biology. Upon their discovery, researchers revealed for the first time a new mechanism by which microRNA can stop the function of messenger RNA (mRNA) by literally cutting it in half, interfering with the normal function of specific messenger...

    $2,543.00

  • SILICON EPITAXY
    ROSSI, J. A.
    Since its inception in 1966, the series of numbered volumes known as Semiconductors and Semimetals has distinguished itself through the careful selection of well-known authors, editors, and contributors. The Willardson and Beer series, as it is widely known, has succeeded in producing numerous landmark volumes and chapters. Not only did many of these volumes make an impact at t...

    $3,179.00


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