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  • FLIPPED LEARNING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
    OVE ØSTERLIE / CHAD KILLIAN / JULIA SARGENT
    This is the first book to introduce flipped learning in the context of physical education. It is a timely exploration of pedagogical approaches that draw on digital technologies that can allow learning online and at a distance to support important learning time for physical activity. The book discusses the role of online and digital technology in education, and physical educati...

    $580.00

  • SUCCESSFUL PUBS AND INNS
    MICHAEL SARGENT / TONY LYLE
    Successful Pubs and Inns plots a clear course towards successful innkeeping. It is ideal for those planning a career in the licensed trade, professionals already within the business and for students. It is of particular value to those who are considering acquiring their own pub, be it freehold, leasehold or tenancy. It gives clear direction on the vitally important process of i...

    $660.00

  • LASER PHYSICS
    MURRAY, III SARGENT
    This book treats the interaction of radiation with matter, particular attention being paid to the laser. Knowledge is assumed of the usual half-year introduction of quantum mechanics found in undergraduate physics curricula. The material can be covered in two semesters, or, alternatively, the first part (Chaps 1-13) can be used as a one-semester course in which quantum mechanic...

    $2,800.00

  • LIVING IN UTOPIA
    LUCY SARGISSON / LYMAN TOWER SARGENT
    Utopia is, literally, the good place that is no place. Utopias reveal people's dreams and desires and they may gesture towards different and better ways of being. But they are rarely considered as physical, observable phenomena. In this book Sargisson and Sargent, both established writers on utopian theory, turn their attention to real-life utopian communities. The book is bas...

    $1,460.00

  • SENSING LAW
    SHERYL N. HAMILTON, DIANA MAJURY, DAWN MOORE, NEIL SARGENT AND CHRISTIANE WILKE
    A rich collection of interdisciplinary essays, this book explores the question: what is to be found at the intersection of the sensorium and law’s empire? Examining the problem of how legal rationalities try to grasp what can only be sensed through the body, these essays problematize the Cartesian framework that has long separated the mind from the body, reason from feeling and...

    $1,320.00

  • SOCIETY, SCHOOLS AND PROGRESS IN INDIA
    JOHN SARGENT
    Society, Schools and Progress in India presents the systematic use of education to achieve, prosperity, security, and social well-being. This book provides a concise account of the historical events and the social, religious, political, and other influences, which have combined to create India. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the major events i...

    $970.00

  • CIVILIZING PEACE BUILDING
    WENDY M. SARGENT
    Highlighting the high price paid by the United Nations and international peace builders that under-utilize the reflexive new paradigm approach to international relations (IR), this study develops an overview of IR theory, relied on by governmental and diplomatic communities as a guide to peace building. Especially significant is the development of IR theory in relation to relig...

    $1,480.00

  • MATERIALS INFORMATION FOR CAD/CAM
    PHILIP SARGENT
    Materials Information for CAD/CAM addresses the problem of designing databases, expert system, communication systems, and decision support aids that can be integrated with manual and software-supported tasks in design and manufacture, in CAD and CAM. This book covers tasks of materials selection, materials process simulation, and materials modelling that involve access to mater...

    $425.00

  • SOCIETY, SCHOOLS AND PROGRESS IN INDIA
    JOHN SARGENT
    Society, Schools and Progress in India ...

    $970.00

  • GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES AND JAPAN
    JOHN SARGENT / RICHARD WILTSHIRE
    Describes the trends, diversity and differences in Japanese and British geographical studies. ...

    $1,420.00

  • VENUS OF SHADOWS
    PAMELA SARGENT
    A new generation steps up in the colonization and terraforming of Venus in the Nebula Award–winning author's "masterful SF trilogy" ( Publishers Weekly). The Venus Project calls upon the strongest and most courageous to create a prosperous world in the dismal wilderness of Venus. Those who demonstrate the skill and the passion to embark on this adventure must transform the barr...

    $119.00

  • THE SUDDEN STAR
    PAMELA SARGENT
    From a Nebula award-winning author, society turns to violence after a  strange celestial body appears in the sky in this dystopian sci-fi thriller.   When what appears to be a star turns its powerful and deadly glare toward earth, the entire planet becomes a living nightmare. Rape, murder and suicide become the norm, and fear grips at the heart of humankind.   One doctor goes a...

    $85.00

  • THUMBPRINTS
    PAMELA SARGENT
    Great science fiction looks outward toward the intricacy of the universe in order to look inward at the complexity of the human condition. In Thumbprints, Nebula and Locus Award–winning author Pamela Sargent brings together short stories from across her career, each filled with rich characterization and eclectic, fascinating plots. From Mongolia to Venus, from the distant past ...

    $119.00

  • VENUS OF DREAMS
    PAMELA SARGENT
    The first adventure in the Nebula Award–winning author's "masterful SF trilogy" about the attempted colonization and terraforming of the planet Venus ( Publishers Weekly). Iris Angharads, a determined, independent woman, sets herself one massive goal: to make the poison‑filled atmosphere of Venus hospitable to humans. She works day and night to realize her dream, with only one ...

    $119.00

  • RULER OF THE SKY
    PAMELA SARGENT
    A novel of the thirteenth-century Mongolian warrior, and the women who surrounded him, that offers "a panoramic view of the charismatic leader" ( Library Journal).   In 1167, in the harsh homeland of Mongol tribes, a child was born who was to change the course of human history. His father named him Temujin, but the world knows him as Genghis Khan. Set amid the barbaric splendor...

    $85.00

  • THE SHORE OF WOMEN
    PAMELA SARGENT
    A dystopian tale of a power struggle between the sexes in the post-nuclear future, perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin.   After a nuclear holocaust, women rule the world. Using advanced technology, they've expelled men from their vast walled cities to roam the countryside in primitive bands, bringing them back only for the purpose of loveless reproducti...

    $119.00

  • CLONED LIVES
    PAMELA SARGENT
    This debut sci-fi novel by the Nebula and Locus Award–winning author of The Shore of Women follows five human clones in an unforgiving world. Shock and outrage greet Paul Swenson's announcement of the success of his latest and most controversial scientific endeavor. Having taken advantage of a brief lull in legislative restrictions, the renowned astrophysicist and a team of bio...

    $119.00

  • CHILD OF VENUS
    PAMELA SARGENT
    The Nebula Award–winning author's "masterful SF trilogy" of human colonists terraforming the second planet from the sun comes to a stunning conclusion ( Publishers Weekly). Often compared to Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy, the three novels in the Venus saga— Venus of Dreams, Venus of Shadows, and Child of Venus—further establish the Nebula and Locus Award–winning...

    $119.00

  • CLIMB THE WIND
    PAMELA SARGENT
    Native Americans win the battle for the post–Civil War American West in a fascinating alternate history fantasy from "one of the genre's best writers" ( The Washington Post). Nebula and Locus Award–winning author Pamela Sargent "loads her Springfield and heads into the post–Civil War era with a rousing tale of what might have happened had the Indians united against white encroa...

    $119.00

  • THE ALIEN UPSTAIRS
    PAMELA SARGENT
    When a mysterious stranger appears in Sarah and Gerard's rural town, the two young lovers fighting a fervent battle to overcome America's depression and despair, are suddenly faced with a new realm of possibilities. But they find themselves questioning whether this handsome being was an angel sent to rescue them or a dark being bearing terrible dangers.  ...

    $119.00

  • EYE OF THE COMET
    PAMELA SARGENT
    Young Lydee had always known this strange comet-world to be Home. She had always felt the presence and control of the omnipresent Homesmind, an intelligence force that guides the fate of her world and the people in it. Struggling with her future, Lydee discovers the destiny she is meant for--the fate she will fulfill within her community. And it frightens her.... She will act a...

    $119.00

  • PLANTATION POLITICS
    CAROLINE SARGENT / STEPHEN BASS
    Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South. Plantation Politics is the first book to examine their rationale and purpose, exposing the misconceptions and myths that have surrounded their role, and describing the contribution they can make to sustainable development. At their best, industrial plantations can become a ...

    $1,480.00

  • SEED SEEKER
    PAMELA SARGENT
    An adventure in colonization and conflict from acclaimed SF writer Pamela Sargent Several hundred years ago, Ship, a sentient starship, settled humans on the planet Home before leaving to colonize other worlds, promising to return one day. Over time, the colony on Home divided into those who live in the original domed buildings of the colony, who maintain the library and techno...

    $229.00

  • CLEAN SWEEP
    DENNY SARGENT
    Let go and lighten up your life—includes over 100 exercises and rituals for banishing what's negative and harmful.   As a culture we are driven to acquire, amass, get, use, devour, taste, and try. And of course, it is never enough. Until we figure out that enough is enough, we will never lead a fulfilling life. Unless we let go of possessions, attitudes, emotions, old lovers, o...

    $251.00

  • THE VENUS COLLECTION
    PAMELA SARGENT
    The Nebula Award–winning author's "masterful SF trilogy" is a multigenerational epic of human colonists terraforming the second planet from the sun ( Publishers Weekly).   Often compared to Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy, the three novels gathered here comprise the complete Venus saga by the author of The Shore of Women, "one of the genre's best writers" ( The Wa...

    $279.00

  • THE WATCHSTAR TRILOGY
    PAMELA SARGENT
    The adventures of three brave young heroines in a telepathic dystopia, from the Nebula Award–winning author and "one of the genre's best writers" ( The Washington Post).   In Pamela Sargent's fascinating vision of a far-future, post-technological agrarian society, Earthfolk communicate with each other telepathically, can heal themselves, and fly at will, all by using their mind...

    $329.00

  • WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING
    BENJAMIN C. SARGENT
    The idea of determinate or single meaning in biblical interpretation has long been considered to be a purely modern idea, indissolubly wedded to the hermeneutics of historical criticism. At a time when historical criticism is increasingly viewed with theological suspicion, it must be asked whether determinate meaning has a future in biblical interpretation. Written for Our Lear...

    $479.00

  • A JOURNEY IN IMAGINATION
    JAMES E. SARGENT
    A Journey In Imagination offers the hope of an alternative to a world convulsed by hostility and violence. Through an imaginative journey into Bible stories, incidents, and verses, the possibility of reversing hostility in both personal and communal life is explored. Biblical hospitality is neither a head in the sand nor a pie in the sky pleasantry. Instead it is the daring and...

    $391.00

  • BEHIND THE EYES OF DREAMERS
    PAMELA SARGENT
    In an untamed garden, a woman discovers the price of freedom Aniya is a perfect creature. Using the power of the Net, she has banished all of her painful memories, allowing herself to live in a state of perfect contentment on a far-future Earth. In order to have companions, she creates two eidolons—living beings imprinted with all of Aniya's thoughts, feelings, and desires. Of ...

    $119.00

  • WATCHSTAR
    PAMELA SARGENT
    Alone in the desert, Daiya is faced with a dilemma that will determine her fate. If she can successfully resolve it, she will join the Net of her village, but if she fails, her life will be spent with the feared Merged Ones. Confused and torn between worlds near and far, Daiya harbors a secret of her people and must find a way to move beyond her discoveries to a safe place wher...

    $119.00


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