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  • SAVING MACARTHUR
    RUDY TOMEDI
    Explores the contrasting fates of Admiral John Duncan Bulkeley and General Douglas MacArthur, revealing the often-overlooked sacrifices of Bulkeley's PT boat crew during a heroic yet controversial rescue from the Philippines in World War II. A photo in the New York Times on June 10, 1942 depicted a young naval officer, John Duncan Bulkeley, and his wife in the back of an open t...

    $267.99

  • SAND IN MY SHOES
    JONATHAN RUDY
    Sand in My Shoes is a memoir about coming to terms with the Mennonite values that shaped Jonathan Edward Rudy's voluntary service in Somalia. Through a tumultuous time in Somali political history, Rudy came face to face with natural and cultural beauty, widespread political violence, and the dismantling of his own idealism about international development. ...

    $302.00

  • TOWARDS A TRANSTHEORETICAL DEFINITION OF COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
    RUDY ROMAN
    This book explores the analyst’s countertransference experience in clinical settings from a number of theoretical perspectives in order to develop a transtheoretical definition of countertransference. Stemming from an examination of the definition of countertransference itself, the author utilizes a philosophical hermeneutic approach to ask how pathological countertransference ...

    $540.00

  • THE POLITICS OF LEISURE
    RUDY DUNLAP, JUSTIN HARMON AND JEFF ROSE
    This book explores entanglements between politics and leisure, ranging from the electorate’s concerns with public recreation resources, to the presence of politics in casual conversation, and to the use of leisure as a means of preserving racial hierarchies in society. In noting the contributions of past scholarship, it also points toward a trend of increasingly political leisu...

    $1,200.00

  • ALL SOLID STATE THIN-FILM LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES
    ALEXANDER SKUNDIN / TATIANA KULOVA / ALEXANDER RUDY / ALEXANDER MIROMEMKO
    A comprehensive, accessible introduction to modern all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries. All-solid-state thin-film lithium-ion batteries present a special and especially important version of lithium-ion ones. They are intended for battery-powered integrated circuit cards (smart-cards), radio-frequency identifier (RFID) tags, smart watches, implantable medical devices, remote m...

    $1,580.00

  • FAIRY-TALE TV
    JILL TERRY RUDY / PAULINE GREENHILL
    This concise and accessible critical introduction examines the world of popular fairy-tale television, tracing how fairy tales and their social and cultural implications manifest within series, television events, anthologies, and episodes, and as freestanding motifs. Providing a model of televisual analysis, Rudy and Greenhill emphasize that fairy-tale longevity in general, and...

    $980.00

  • UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL ETHICS
    JONATHAN BEEVER / RUDY MCDANIEL / NANCY A. STANLICK
    Rapid changes in technology and the growing use of electronic media signal a need for understanding both clear and subtle ethical and social implications of the digital, and of specific digital technologies. Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts is the first book to offer a philosophically grounded examination of digital ethics and its moral implications. Divided int...

    $1,160.00

  • DESIGNING EFFECTIVE DIGITAL BADGES
    JOEY R. FANFARELLI / RUDY MCDANIEL
    Designing Effective Digital Badges is a hands-on guide to the principles, implementation, and assessment of digital badging systems. Informed by the fundamental concepts and research-based characteristics of effective badge design, this book uses real-world examples to convey the advantages and challenges of badging and showcase its application across a variety of contexts. Pro...

    $1,040.00

  • AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS IN DEBATE
    WILLEM KEIZER / BERT TIEBEN / RUDY VAN ZIJP
    This book presents essays by an outstanding team of international specialists and covers a wide range of topics, including (inter alia) the relationships between the Austrian and Swedish theories of the business cycle, the on-going debates between Austrians and (Post) Keynesians, Schumpeter's 'Walrasian' stand in the socialist calculation debate, and the Austrian roots of Neo-I...

    $1,460.00

  • 59 CHECKLISTS FOR PROJECT AND PROGRAMME MANAGERS
    RUDY KOR
    This book is aimed at people who are involved in, or are about to become involved in, a project or programme. If you feel your project and programme management competences can be improved, 59 Checklists for Project and Programme Managers will undoubtedly offer you useful suggestions. The practical approach taken by Rudy Kor and Gert Wijnen makes this an easy book to dip into ...

    $2,220.00

  • META-ANALYSIS AND COMBINING INFORMATION IN GENETICS AND GENOMICS
    RUDY GUERRA / DARLENE R. GOLDSTEIN
    Novel Techniques for Analyzing and Combining Data from Modern Biological StudiesBroadens the Traditional Definition of Meta-AnalysisWith the diversity of data and meta-data now available, there is increased interest in analyzing multiple studies beyond statistical approaches of formal meta-analysis. Covering an extensive range of quantitative infor ...

    $2,100.00

  • STRATEGIES AND PATTERNS FOR EAR TRAINING
    RUDY MARCOZZI
    A complete, progressive course that teaches musicians how to notate music from audio examples, held on downloadable resources. Basic melodic dictation is followed by progressively more complex scores, in classical, jazz, and popular styles. Designed for the two year undergraduate sequence, Strategies and Patterns for Ear Training offers valuable strategies to students and teach...

    $3,300.00

  • SEX-OFFENDER THERAPY
    RUDY FLORA / JOSEPH T. DUEHL / WANDA FISHER / SANDRA HALSEY / MICHAEL KEOHANE / BARBARA L. MABERRY / JEFFR
    Groundbreaking information for treating sex offenders Sexual abuse, sexual addiction, and sexual offending have become a significant clinical problem. Successfully treating these disorders is the first step toward preventing future victims. Sex-Offender Therapy is a practical workbook for clinicians who deal with sexually aggressive adults, adolescents, and children. This inval...

    $1,660.00

  • THE MYSTICAL LANGUAGE OF SENSATION IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
    GORDON RUDY
    First Published in 2002. This book is about the way medieval authors wrote about union with God and how they used language that refers to the senses to articulate their ideas about how a person can be one with God. Rudy argues that such explicit concepts of the spiritual senses are not sharply distinct from the ideas implicit in broader usage of sensory language in theological ...

    $1,420.00

  • THE COMMUNICATIVE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH WORKBOOK
    EDWARD DR. WOODS / RUDY COPPIETERS
    The companion text to A Communicative Grammar of English (CGE), this workbook presents an opportunity for practising the points raised in the main grammar. The units follow the order of sections in Part One and Part Two of CGE; at the beginning of each sub-unit there is a brief explanation of a particular structure followed by a series of tasks, ranging from gap filling exercis...

    $1,340.00

  • HOW TO WORK WITH SEX OFFENDERS
    RUDY FLORA / MICHAEL L. KEOHANE
    How to Work with Sex Offenders is a cutting edge, state-of-the-art book that provides mental health professionals best practice techniques on how to clinically evaluate, interview, and treat this challenging patient population. Successful models of individual, family, and group models of psychotherapy are provided for the reader. In addition, this handbook walks the reader thro...

    $1,760.00

  • NESTED SCROLLS
    RUDY RUCKER
    Nested Scrolls reveals the true life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter "Rudy" Rucker—mathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker. It begins with a young boy growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a businessman father who becomes a clergyman, and a mother descended from the philosopher Hegel. His career goals? To explore infinity, popularize the fo...

    $249.00

  • PUZZLES OF GOVERNMENT FORMATION
    RUDY W. ANDEWEG
    Understanding the formation of governments has always been central to political science. Traditionally this topic has been considered from a rational choice theory perspective and the empirical testing of these theories; however neither approach alone is able to explain a large proportion of actual coalition formations. This comparative volume brings together a rational choice ...

    $1,160.00

  • POLYMER MELT FRACTURE
    RUDY KOOPMANS / JAAP DEN DOELDER / JAAP MOLENAAR
    The continually growing plastics market consists of more than 250 million tons of product annually, making the recurring problem of polymer melt fracture an acute issue in the extrusion of these materials. Presenting a pictorial library of the different forms of melt fracture and real industrial extrusion melt fracture phenomena, Polymer Melt Fract ...

    $2,100.00

  • KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TOOLS
    RUDY RUGGLES
    The third in the readers series Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge Management Tools analyzes the use of knowledge management tools in the past, present and future. It helps managers and companies utilize what they know.The selections in this volume were carefully chosen to represent the strengths and weaknesses, and pros and cons of using technology to support...

    $1,360.00

  • THE RHETORICAL NATURE OF XML
    J.D. APPLEN / RUDY MCDANIEL
    The Rhetorical Nature of XML is the first volume to combine rhetoric, XML, and knowledge management in a substantive manner. It serves as a primer on XML and XML-related technologies, illustrating how the naming of XML elements can be understood as a rhetorical act, and detailing the essentials of knowledge management practices that illustrate the need for intelligently conceiv...

    $680.00

  • SPACELAND
    RUDY RUCKER
    Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention. When Joe sees a set of lips tal...

    $251.00

  • REFRAMING HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE WITH BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
    BICKEL, WARREN K. / VUCHINICH, RUDY E.
    Behavioral economics is a rapidly developing area of psychological science that has synergistically merged microeconomic concepts with behavioral research methods. A driving force behind the growth of behavioral economics has been its recent application to behaviors that significantly affect health. The book examines the latest behavioral economic research on smoking, drug and ...

    $1,560.00

  • THE RAILROAD AND THE CANYON
    RUDY J. GERBER
    A history of the construction of the railroad around the Grand Canyon, including the famous figures and major events. Exploration of the Grand Canyon has attracted the attention of adventurers from Coronado to Roosevelt and captured the imaginations of millions worldwide. In the early part of the twentieth century, development of the canyon as a tourist destination, a source of...

    $229.00

  • THE RISK OF RETURNING, SECOND EDITION
    SHIRLEY NELSON / RUDY NELSON
    Ted Peterson, son of former missionaries to Guatemala, returns to that country to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. Caught up in a culture of violence and deadly secrets, what he learns is as much about himself as his father. ...

    $320.00

  • CHOICE, BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS AND ADDICTION
    HEATHER, NICK / VUCHINICH, RUDY E.
    Choice, Behavioural Economics and Addiction is about the theory, data, and applied implications of choice-based models of substance use and addiction. The distinction between substance use and addiction is important, because many individuals use substances but are not also addicted to them. The behavioural economic perspective has made contributions to the analysis of both of t...

    $2,098.00

  • ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: ENGINEERING ASPECTS OF SELF-ORGANISING MATERIALS
    KOOPMANS, RUDY
    The cross-fertilization of physico-chemical and mathematical ideas has a long historical tradition. This volume of Advances in Chemical Engineering is almost completely dedicated to a conference on “Mathematics in Chemical Kinetics and Engineering” (MaCKiE-2007), which was held in Houston in February 2007, bringing together about 40 mathematicians, chemists, and chemical engine...

    $3,026.00

  • COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR MATERIALS: FIVE VOLUME SET
    KONINGS, RUDY
    Comprehensive Nuclear Materials discusses the major classes of materials suitable for usage in nuclear fission, fusion reactors and high power accelerators, and for diverse functions in fuels, cladding, moderator and control materials, structural, functional, and waste materials. The work addresses the full panorama of contemporary international research in nuclear materials, ...

    $27,779.00

  • OFFSHORE GAS HYDRATES: ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, AND PRODUCTION
    ROGERS, RUDY
    Gas hydrates collect and store both thermogenic and biogenic methane generated in deep ocean sediments that, over geologic time, forms vast methane repositories. Offshore Gas Hydrates: Origins, Development, and Production presents gas hydrates as an emerging, clean energy source possibly more abundant than all other fossil fuels and especially important for countries geographic...

    $1,994.00

  • POSTSINGULAR
    RUDY RUCKER
    A disturbed billionaire and a deranged president jeopardize the future of the world with nanotechnology in this science fiction adventure. "Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Godel and Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian warp-space, but without the sweet, human, splendidly g...

    $251.00


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