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  • GRIM PARADISE
    ROD SADLER
    When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery? On July 24, 1960, the quaint charm and serenity of Mackinac, nestled between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas, was shattered by Lacey’s brutal de...

    $179.00

  • TIME SERIES FOR DATA SCIENCE
    WAYNE A. WOODWARD / BIVIN PHILIP SADLER / STEPHEN ROBERTSON
    Data Science students and practitioners want to find a forecast that “works” and don’t want to be constrained to a single forecasting strategy, Time Series for Data Science: Analysis and Forecasting discusses techniques of ensemble modelling for combining information from several strategies. Covering time series regression models, exponential smoothing, Holt-Winters forecasting...

    $2,800.00

  • HOTSPUR
    JOHN SADLER
    On 21 July 1403 Sir Henry Percy – better known as Hotspur – led a rebel army out at Shrewsbury to face the forces of the king Henry IV. The battle was both bloody and decisive. Hotspur was shot down by an arrow and killed. Posthumously he was declared a traitor and his lands forfeited to the crown. This was an ignominious end to the brilliant career of one of the most famous me...

    $299.00

  • THE SILICON ROAD TO CHESS IMPROVEMENT
    MATTHEW SADLER
    ‘How can I learn from AlphaZero’s games, aren’t they too advanced for me?’ many club players asked Matthew Sadler after reading his and Natasha Regan’s groundbreaking Game Changer. Here is the answer: you may not be able to replicate their dazzling deep calculations, but every chess player, from club level up, can improve their game by using engines. You will probably be surpri...

    $339.00

  • HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
    EUGENE SADLER-SMITH
    Combining theoretical rigor, practical relevance and pedagogical innovation, Human Resource Development: From Theory into Practice is an essential resource for students working towards a career in human resource development (HRD), human resource management (HRM), occupational and organizational psychology, and related areas of business management and organization. Key features:...

    $1,156.95

  • FRAGMENTED NARRATIVE
    NEIL SADLER
    With the rise and rise of social media, today’s communication practices are significantly different from those of even the recent past. A key change has been a shift to very small units, exemplified by Twitter and its strict 280-character limit on individual posts. Consequently, highly fragmented communication has become the norm in many contexts. Fragmented Narrative sets out ...

    $979.00

  • GAME CHANGER
    MATTHEW SADLER / NATASHA REGAN
    It took AlphaZero only a few hours of self-learning to become the chess player that shocked the world. The artificial intelligence system, created by DeepMind, had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the world’s strongest chess engine in a prolonged match. The selection of ten games published in December 2017 created a worldwide sensation: how was it p...

    $329.00

  • HUBRISTIC LEADERSHIP
    EUGENE SADLER-SMITH
    Investigating the societal, economic, financial and reputational costs of hubristic leadership, with insights into the characteristics and causes of this phenomenon, and recommended safeguards to avoid hubris from happening in the first place. As research into hubristic leadership becomes increasingly popular following recent political developments, the book adopts an inter-dis...

    $850.70

  • FRENCH BAROQUE OPERA: A READER
    CAROLINE WOOD / GRAHAM SADLER
    From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period during the past two decades. This book presents a wide-ranging and informative picture of the or...

    $1,139.00

  • THE INTERNATIONAL STEEL INDUSTRY
    DAVID SADLER / RAY HUDSON
    Originally published in 1989. The international steel industry suffered a major decline after the onset of world recession in 1973, perhaps suffering more plant closures and job losses than any other sector. This book analyses the decline, surveying the various factors which have contributed to it, such as changing production strategies, changes in demand and world trade and ch...

    $859.00

  • CAESAR'S GREATEST VICTORY
    JOHN SADLER / ROSIE SERDIVILLE
    “A good account of one of the most decisive battles of the ancient world. Who knows how world history would have proceeded had Caesar been defeated?” (New York Journal of Books). Julius Caesar’s campaign of 52 BC frequently hung in the balance. Celtic chieftain Vercingetorix was a far more formidable opponent than any he’d encountered in Gaul. The Romans were caught totally off...

    $229.00

  • WELSH SYNTAX
    LOUISA SADLER
    This book, first published in 1988, proposes an analysis of Welsh syntax within the theory of Government and Binding (GB). The main focus of the study is the theory of empty elements and the role of agreement phenomena in relation to empty categories. The study of the Celtic family of languages has emerged as an increasingly fruitful area of research both inside and outside GB ...

    $2,600.00

  • GHOST PATROL
    JOHN SADLER
    From the author of D-Day: “an amazing tale of how the world’s very first special force was created specifically for North Africa during WWII” (Books Monthly). The origins of most of the West’s Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group, which operated across the limitless expanses of the Libyan Desert, an area the size of India, during the whole of the Des...

    $229.00

  • THE RED ROSE AND THE WHITE
    JOHN SADLER
    If Richard III had not charged to his death at Bosworth, how different might the history of Britain have been? Beginning in 1453 and ending in 1487, The Red Rose and the White provides a gripping overview of the bitter dynastic struggle for supremacy that raged between the houses of York and Lancaster for thirty years, culminating in the dramatic events on Bosworth Field in 148...

    $979.00

  • BORDER FURY
    JOHN SADLER
    Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603. It looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition from medieval to renaissance warfare, the development of tactics, arms, armour and mi...

    $979.00

  • J A COMENIUS AND THE CONCEPT OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION
    JOHN EDWARD SADLER
    Originally published in 1966, this volume reappraises the educational philosophy of Comenius. Until recently the attention given to Comenius and his work concentrated on a narrow interpretation of his pedagogy which played down his pansophic theory. In the second half of the nineteenth century Germany led the way in pedagogical study and Comenius was widely accepted as having l...

    $1,379.00

  • STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
    BARRY SADLER / BARRY DALAL-CLAYTON
    This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment. It describes trends in application and experience in different contexts worldwide, providing in-de...

    $1,139.00

  • INSIDE INTUITION
    EUGENE SADLER-SMITH
    What isgut feeling and how can it be harnessed? To what extent should business decisions be informed byinstincts which may seem irrational or impossible to quantify? Inside Intuition examines how the latest developments in social psychology and cognitive psychology, as well as exciting new insights from evolutionary psychology and cognitive n ...

    $1,499.00

  • LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION
    IAN SADLER
    For students who want to advance their understanding of company logistics and supply chains, the author examines how a number of firms in a supply chain work together to create a flow of products and services that satisfies end customers, whilst enabling all the manufacturing and service companies involved to grow profitably. Including the most recent concepts and theoretical a...

    $1,310.07

  • HANDBOOK OF STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
    SADLER, BARRY / DUSIK, JIRI / FISCHER, THOMAS / PARTIDARIO, MARIA / VERHEEM, ROB / ASCHEMANN, RALF
    This authoritative handbook surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and institutional dimensions and practical issues of the field. It then subjects this conventional wisdom to a critical reappraisal, looks at the vast lessons of experience and offers new ideas and interpr...

    $1,139.00

  • SUSTAINABILITY APPRAISAL
    BARRY DALAL-CLAYTON / BARRY SADLER
    Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of international experiences and approaches to illustrate the status and scope of Sustainability Appraisal/Assessment (SA) This comprehensive guide highlights how SA can be used to analyse and integrate the key environmental, social and economic ...

    $1,999.00

  • FOODS, NUTRIENTS AND FOOD INGREDIENTS WITH AUTHORISED EU HEALTH CLAIMS: VOLUME 1
    SADLER, MICHELE JEANNE
    Foods, Nutrients and Food Ingredients with Authorised EU Health Claims provides an overview of how health claims are regulated in the European Union, as well as detailed scientific and regulatory information about permitted health claims for particular types of foods and ingredients. Part one provides a background to the regulation of health claims in Europe. Part two focuses ...

    $3,751.00

  • LEARNING IN ORGANIZATIONS
    PETER J SMITH / EUGENE SADLER-SMITH
    Taking a fresh and innovative approach to the complexities and challenges inherent in organizational learning diversity, the authors show that there are no generic solutions. They argue there is no 'best way' of planning, organizing and implementing learning in relation to the workplace and instead provide context-specific solutions to the dilemmas and issues that diversities p...

    $1,799.00

  • FOODS, NUTRIENTS AND FOOD INGREDIENTS WITH AUTHORISED EU HEALTH CLAIMS: VOLUME 2
    SADLER, MICHELE
    The second volume of Foods, nutrients and food ingredients with authorised EU health claims continues from Volume 1, which provided a comprehensive overview of many of the permitted health claims for foods and nutrients approved under European Regulation EC 1924/2006. This new volume discusses more of the health claims authorised to date for use in the EU. The chapters cover de...

    $3,523.00

  • OPERATION MERCURY
    JOHN SADLER
    Unlike the few other books written on the catastrophic fall of Crete in May 1941, this book concentrates on the military actions between the first German paratroop landing on 20 May and the final defeat and evacuation on 30 May. As well as studying the strengths, tactics, leadership and weapons of both sides, the book contains numerous graphic personal anecdotes by participants...

    $119.00

  • THE SECOND BARONS' WAR
    JOHN SADLER
    For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history. Yet this critical episode receives far less attention than the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars that followed. John Sadler, in th...

    $119.00

  • THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG
    S. H. SADLER
    Taking into account the rapid progress in all areas of life that was made at the turn of the 20th century this volume discusses how best to educate both sexes, from all social classes, referring to Greek, Roman and Egyptian education as a starting point. ...

    $1,299.00

  • THE MAKER OF MODERN JAPAN
    A L SADLER
    Tokugawa Ieyasu founded a dynasty of rulers, organized a system of government and set in train the re-orientation of the religion of Japan so that he would take the premier place in it. Calm, capable and entirely fearless, Ieyasu deliberately brought the opposition to a head and crushed in a decisive battle, after which he made himself Shogun, despite not being from the Minamot...

    $4,800.00

  • NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE D-NOTICE SYSTEM
    PAULINE SADLER
    This title was first published in 2001. The D-Notice system is a voluntary arrangement between the government and the media whereby the media agree not to publish certain information in the interests of national security. This original and thought-provoking book identifies a major deficiency in both the D-Notice system and the legal alternatives to the system. ...

    $859.00

  • SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN A POST-SCARCITY WORLD
    PHILIP SADLER
    Over 20 years ago Philip Sadler, then head of a leading British business school, wrote Managerial Leadership in the Post-Industrial Society. In it he predicted that business would experience the most radical transformation since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. This transformation has now taken place. In his latest book, Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World...

    $1,299.00


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