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  • LIVED SPACES IN LATE ANTIQUITY
    CARLOS MACHADO, ROWAN MUNNERY, REBECCA SWEETMAN
    This volume considers “lived space” as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present innovative views of the world of Late Antiquity, integrating social, economic and cultural developments and putting centre stage this fundamental dimension of social life. Bringing together an international group of scholars working on areas as diverse as Britain,...

    $1,240.00

  • THE RECONFIGURATION OF TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN REGIONALISM
    ROWAN LUBBOCK
    This cutting-edge volume brings together a diverse roster of scholars to shed light on the reconfiguration of twenty-first century Latin American regionalism. Reflecting on both the multiplicity of regional integration across Latin America (LA) and the theoretically pluralist turn in contemporary scholarship on LA politics and International Relations, this edited volume propose...

    $1,160.00

  • MULTIMODAL LEGITIMATION
    ROWAN R. MACKAY
    This volume meditates on the various meanings of legitimation and expands on the notion that language can be used to gain or preserve it by demonstrating the added impact of other modes in specific examples of political and institutional discourse. The book draws on a multilayered framework that builds on and integrates work from both critical discourse analysis and social semi...

    $1,160.00

  • GETTING OLD
    ROWAN BAYNE / CAROL PARKES
    Getting Old offers concise advice and practical suggestions for all readers interested in or worried about ageing, either in themselves or in someone they care about. With a focus on a positive view of ageing, it discusses central physical and mental aspects of getting old, as well as the social and psychological aspects such as choosing where to live and becoming more oneself....

    $640.00

  • DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
    ROWAN GARNIER / JOHN TAYLOR
    In a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow manner, Discrete Mathematics for New Technology follows the progression from the basic mathematical concepts covered by the GCSE in the UK and by high-school algebra in the USA to the more sophisticated mathematical concepts examined in the latter stages of the book. The book punctuates the rigorous treatment of theory with frequent uses of...

    $1,260.00

  • SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS
    HERMANN LION / JEROME D. DONOVAN / CHEREE TOPPLE / ROWAN BEDGGOOD / ERYADI K. MASLI
    This book looks at how multinational enterprises address sustainability within their business activities. Contextualized within a rapidly developing country in Asia, it explores how management practices, tools and techniques are implemented by foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in the Philippines. The book introduces a useful three-stage and six-step sustainabil...

    $1,200.00

  • HEALING THE MALE PSYCHE
    JOHN ROWAN
    John Rowan argues that if men are to escape from their old roles and the new pressures of social uncertainty they need to be initiated into a new kind of masculinity, but that this process must be personal to each man. He explores how therapy can help or hinder the process of transformation. Written for men who are looking for a new way of understanding their predicament as wel...

    $1,200.00

  • AUTOMATING VISION
    ANTHONY MCCOSKER / ROWAN WILKEN
    Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media and driverless cars. Proposing a conceptual lens of camera consciousness, which is drawn from the early visual anthropology of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, Automating Vision accounts for the growing power and value of camera technol...

    $1,120.00

  • CALL CENTER CONTINUITY PLANNING
    JIM ROWAN
    A disruption in your call center operation can conceivably cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. And multiple disruptions can cost in the millions. Call Center Continuity Planning shows you how to plan for - and avoid - service interruptions through disasters large and small. This book will show you how to deal with everything from power outag ...

    $1,600.00

  • CONFLICTS OF RIGHTS
    JOHN ROWAN
    This book examines two moral theories of rights justification and applies them to four social issues: redistributive taxation, affirmative action, pornography, and abortion. It assesses the ethical status of several candidate social policies that continue to be debated in the public arenas. ...

    $1,340.00

  • GO TELL THE CROCODILES
    ROWAN MOORE GERETY
    In the tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an unforgettable exploration of the trials of daily life in Mozambique, long heralded as Africa's "rising star" Over the past twenty-five years, Mozambique has charted a path of dizzying economic growth nearly as steep as China's, making it among the fastest-growing economies on the planet. But most Mozambicans ...

    $478.00

  • LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER AGING
    NANCY GIUNTA AND NOELL L. ROWAN
    This edited collection emphasizes the role of social work practice and research related to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) aging. It highlights LGBT aging from a gerontological social work perspective by incorporating key values of the profession such as cultural competence, dignity, strengths, and resilience of the population while it offers an important contrib...

    $1,420.00

  • THE REALITY GAME
    JOHN ROWAN
    In the years since it was first published, The Reality Game has become a classic text. For all those training and practising in humanistic and integrative psychotherapy it is an essential guide to good practice, and an excellent introduction to the skills used in individual and group therapy. This new edition has been updated to take into account changes in the field and John R...

    $1,100.00

  • UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICAL PROOF
    JOHN TAYLOR / ROWAN GARNIER
    The notion of proof is central to mathematics yet it is one of the most difficult aspects of the subject to teach and master. In particular, undergraduate mathematics students often experience difficulties in understanding and constructing proofs.Understanding Mathematical Proof describes the nature of mathematical proof, explores the various techn ...

    $1,800.00

  • UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICAL PROOF
    JOHN TAYLOR / ROWAN GARNIER
    The notion of proof is central to mathematics yet it is one of the most difficult aspects of the subject to teach and master. In particular, undergraduate mathematics students often experience difficulties in understanding and constructing proofs.Understanding Mathematical Proof describes the nature of mathematical proof, explores the various techn ...

    $1,800.00

  • NEW APPROACHES TO OLD STONES
    YORKE M. ROWAN / JENNIE R. EBELING
    Ground stone artefacts were widely used in food production in prehistory. However, the archaeological community has widely neglected the dataset of ground stone artefacts until now. 'New Approaches to Old Stones' offers a theoretical and methodological analysis of the archaeological data pertaining to ground stone tools. The essays draw on a range of case studies - from the Lev...

    $1,420.00

  • ORDINARY ECSTASY
    JOHN ROWAN
    Humanistic Psychology ranges far and wide into education, management, gender issues and many other fields. Ordinary Ecstasy, first published in 1976, is widely regarded as one of the most important books on the subject. Although this new edition still contains much of the original material, it has been completely rethought in the light of postmodern ideas, with more emphasis on...

    $1,000.00

  • THE POETIC ENLIGHTENMENT
    ROWAN BOYSON
    The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science. ...

    $1,600.00

  • ON SCHMITT AND SPACE
    CLAUDIO MINCA / RORY ROWAN
    This book represents the first comprehensive study of the influential German legal and political thinker Carl Schmitt’s spatial thought, offering the first systematic examination from a Geographic perspective of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century. It charts the development of Schmitt’s spatial thinking from his early work on secularization and...

    $1,100.00

  • PIECES OF THE MUSICAL WORLD: SOUNDS AND CULTURES
    RACHEL HARRIS / ROWAN PEASE
    Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures is a fieldwork-based ethnomusicology textbook that introduces a series of musical worlds each through a single "piece." It focuses on a musical sound or object that provides a springboard from which to tell a story about a particular geographic region, introducing key aspects of the cultures in which it is embedded, contexts of p...

    $1,900.00

  • LOCATIVE MEDIA
    ROWAN WILKEN
    Not only is locative media one of the fastest growing areas in digital technology, but questions of location and location-awareness are increasingly central to our contemporary engagements with online and mobile media, and indeed media and culture generally. This volume is a comprehensive account of the various location-based technologies, services, applications, and cultures, ...

    $1,420.00

  • THE FUTURE OF TRAINING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING
    JOHN ROWAN
    The Future of Training in Psychotherapy and Counselling presents a revealing and stimulating account of the current state of training that demonstrates how training will have to adapt if it is to sucessfully meet the needs and challenges of the future. In an attempt to look afresh at the whole question of training, John Rowan proposes that there are three ways of doing therapy ...

    $1,000.00

  • TELETECHNOLOGIES, PLACE, AND COMMUNITY
    ROWAN WILKEN
    Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the present electronic age is said to have wrought profound changes to how we think about and experience who we are, where we are, and how we relate with one another. Place and community have traditionally formed key concepts for thinking about these issues, but what relevance do these concepts now hold f...

    $1,100.00

  • THE TRANSPERSONAL
    JOHN ROWAN
    In this new edition of The Transpersonal, John Rowan takes account of the growing interest in spirituality, assessing the many new developments in the field and providing an essential overview of the multitude of guides now available on the subject. By providing a clear and highly readable introduction to the realm of the transpersonal, this book eliminates many of the misunder...

    $1,280.00

  • WHY WE BUILD
    ROWAN MOORE
    In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today. We are living in the most dramatic period in architectural history in more than half a century: a time when cityscapes are ...

    $229.00

  • SUBPERSONALITIES
    JOHN ROWAN
    We all have had the experience of being divided, of being in two minds' about something - one part of us wants to do this, another wants to do that. Subpersonalities is the first book to do justice to the phenomenon as a normal feature of our psychological life. John Rowan argues that we all have a number of personalities that express themselves in different situations and that...

    $1,060.00

  • DISCOVER YOUR SUBPERSONALITIES
    JOHN ROWAN
    Have you ever felt there is more than one you? That sometimes you are one type of person, sometimes another? Do you ever find yourself saying `yes' when you meant to say `no'? Or deciding to do one thing, then actually doing another? Most of us have had this experience of another personality taking us over, causing us to behave in an unintended way. Why do we do it? What's goin...

    $1,060.00

  • THE HORNED GOD (RLE FEMINIST THEORY)
    JOHN ROWAN
    This original and pioneering study of how men relate to feminism will appeal to all men who are concerned about their response to the women’s movement and to the women in their lives. It will also be helpful for women seeking a constructive response from men. John Rowan, drawing on his personal journey through feminism and on his considerable experience as a therapist, tackles ...

    $1,560.00

  • PROGRAMMING ENTITY FRAMEWORK: DBCONTEXT
    JULIA LERMAN / ROWAN MILLER
    The DbContext API captures Entity Framework’s (EF) most commonly used features and tasks, simplifying development with EF. This concise book shows you how to use the API to perform set operations with the DbSet class, handle change tracking and resolve concurrency conflicts with the Change Tracker API, and validate changes to your data with the Validation API. With DbContext, y...

    $200.00

  • PROGRAMMING ENTITY FRAMEWORK: CODE FIRST
    JULIA LERMAN / ROWAN MILLER
    Take advantage of the Code First data modeling approach in ADO.NET Entity Framework, and learn how to build and configure a model based on existing classes in your business domain. With this concise book, you’ll work hands-on with examples to learn how Code First can create an in-memory model and database by default, and how you can exert more control over the model through fur...

    $200.00


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